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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is demanding to see all communications between Democratic Party officials and the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission following the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, whose founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, is a prominent Democratic donor. "... [Y]ou must conduct a full conflict-of-interest review to ensure that Mr. Bankman-Fried’s status as a top donor to the Democratic Party did not insulate him from oversight and accountability," Hawley wrote in a letter Friday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler and Commodity Commission Chairman Rostin Behman....

GAINESVILLE, Saturday, Nov. 15, 1862. At the date of this letter it will be seen that Gen. SIGEL's headquarters are still at this place, and not further South, as many loyal people north of this hope and believe. No person connected with the Eleventh Army Corps is responsible for this; that burden rests entirely upon persons remote from the command, and who doubtless have reasons of their own -- whether sufficient or not -- for it. Indeed, It was expected by all here that we should have continued in the advance and enter Warrenton -- a place which for weeks...

Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate former president Donald Trump’s possession of classified information, was a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)’s infamous targeting of conservative non-profits, according to a 2014 report by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. On Oct. 8, 2010, Smith, then-Chief of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section at the time, called a meeting with former IRS official Lois Lerner “to discuss how the IRS could assist in the criminal enforcement of campaign-finance laws against politically active nonprofits,” according to testimony from Richard Pilger, then director...

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(Daily readings from the USCCB)Happy Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe! This is the last Sunday of the Church year which means we focus on the final and glorious things to come! It also means that next Sunday is already the First Sunday of Advent. When we say Jesus is a king, we mean a few things. First, He is our Shepherd. As our Shepherd He desires to lead us personally as a loving father would. He wants to enter our lives personally, intimately and carefully, never imposing Himself but always offering Himself as our guide. The difficulty...

Pictures were colorized and enhanced using AI optimization software. For the audio, I remastered it using noise gate, compression, loudness normalization, EQ and a Limiter. Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress. Our new music channel - Life in the Music: Classic Collections 2-hour videos of music from the 1600s-1900s https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC24p... Audio has been restored...

The company hired Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David to pitch crypto to potential investors as a sort of anti-spokesperson, admitting he knew nothing about digital currency. The commercial closes with David rejecting FTX, with a voice-over warning that said: “Don’t be like Larry. Don’t miss out on the next big thing.” ... Tom Brady’s FTX investment began when he and his wife, Gisele Bündchen, bought an undisclosed equity stake in FTX in June 2021.... But after news broke on November 3 that FTX could be facing a liquidity crisis, investors scrambled to withdraw their holdings, demanding withdrawals worth $6 billion....

Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942 and becomes America's first octogenarian president.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 14 John the Baptist Beheaded 14 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus, 2 and he said to his attendants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.” 3 Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, 4 for John had been saying to him: “It is not lawful for you to have her.” 5 Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of...

For those of us who have written about the Hunter Biden scandal and the family’s influence-peddling operation for years, it is routine to read media stories denying the facts or dismissing calls to investigate the foreign dealings. However, this weekend, the Associated Press made a whopper of a claim that there is no evidence even suggesting that President Joe Biden ever spoke to his son about his foreign dealings. I previously discussed how the Bidens have succeeded in a Houdini-like trick in making this elephant of a scandal disappear from the public stage. They did so by enlisting the media...

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A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, “The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies,” found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests – more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. “One hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted),” notes the report. “Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone.”

The Talk Shows November 20th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Senior political analyst for FOX News Channel Brit Hume; Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.); Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). Panel: Guy Benson, Josh Kraushaar, Jeff Mason and Marie “Party on, Wayne!” Harf.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Former VP Mike Pence. Panel: Peter Baker, Brendan Buck, Kimberly Atkins Stohr and Anna Palmer—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. It’s not even worth identifying these Socialist knuckleheads. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan...

Despite Kevin McCarthy's uniparty aspirations, a Republican House must begin investigating the Biden administration. At the Federalist, Jordan Boyd offers up a proposed agenda for the new House of Representatives. The Republicans have won a majority. How great is still to be determined. Officially the count is 218, but Lauren Boebert’s opposition, Adam Frisch, conceded. If the certification matches the ballot count that would make the total 219, and they are still counting two districts in California in which the Republican candidates are leading so the count may be as high as 221.Certification of results in at least one county...

To me, property tax explodes the myth of "property ownership". Every single one of you who "owns" a house, a piece of land-- even if you have paid off the usually lifetime debt it cost to "buy" it-- --rents it from "the king", the State, the Friendly Person who smiles and smiles (from June to November biennially or quadrennially) and is a villain (the rest of the time). Try not paying your "rent". A house or farm or whatever might have been in your family since 1854 (or longer), with the "title" framed over the fireplace built by hand by...

One of my favorite recordings. May not be everyone's cup of tea, but for those who like it...here it is.

1 CLICK EMAIL All Arizona Lawmakers and Elected Officials to STOP the Certification Process and Redo the Maricopa County Elections!

Donald Trump has been officially reinstated to Twitter but on Saturday afternoon the former president cast doubt that he would return to the platform. Trump posted on Truth Social, a social media service he has used since receiving a lifetime ban on Twitter in January 2021, that he would not be switching back over.

There has never been a more auspicious moment to bet on Donald Trump winning the next presidential election. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he is the most likely victor in 2024, and his odds will shorten as his recapturing the White House becomes more readily apparent. The bipartisan political establishment's self-serving narrative is Trump's chances of recapturing the presidency are dwindling. .... ...The evidence drawn from election results and reliable polling data tell a very different story. ...

Donning a chef’s hat while you cook Thanksgiving dinner is one thing, but sticking a tiny one on the end of each crispy turkey leg seems like it might be taking the holiday a bit too far. Over the years, these traditional paper coverings have been called many creative names, including turkey frills, turkey booties, and even turkey panties. And while they’ve fallen out of fashion in recent decades, they originally served a very specific purpose. According to 19th-century writer John Cordy Jeaffreson, paper trimmings gained popularity in the 17th century as a way for women to keep their hands...