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So what does "American-made" mean to the Biden administration as it hands out huge chunks of "free" taxpayer cash for its "green" infrastructure schemes?As Donald Trump used to say: "Chiii-na."According to Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon:President Joe Biden's Department of Energy is touting a grant to a lithium battery company as a move that would help herald the shift to green energy and ensure the United States is cultivating domestic sources of energy. It did not say, however, that the Texas company receiving the grant operates primarily from China and is under scrutiny from American financial regulators.The DOE...

The Twitter Files released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social media company decided to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. This was a woefully stupid decision. The New York Post’s account was suspended for two weeks for the offense of coming up with a scoop that we are still talking about and that will surely play a large role in upcoming GOP investigations into Biden family corruption. That’s the kind of thing that newspapers should get awards for; Twitter thought it should get punished for it. But the Twitter officials caught...

Welp, it certainly does seem to be raining crap all over President Biden and ‘the smartest man he knows’, aka his son, Hunter Biden. Elon Musk pulling the curtain back to show everyone what Twitter did to help suppress this fairly big story about Hunter’s laptop during the 2020 election was only the beginning … Tucker Carlson’s documentary drops today and from the trailer yeah, it’s gonna be LIT. Watch: Biden, Inc. Part 1. Tuesday. @FoxNation pic.twitter.com/8sl9CzKM3U — Tucker Carlson Originals (@TuckerOriginals) December 6, 2022 Guess Tucker is ok ‘messing with a Biden’. Remember when Biden said that? You never...

Leftist billionaire George Soros used his charities to build ties with hundreds of media organizations around the world involved in news and activist media. The journalism and activist media groups Soros supports mold public opinion on practically every continent and in many languages. They also insulate him from inquiry because reporters see him as an ally, not a target for investigation. The 92-year-old philanthropist’s multimillion-dollar efforts promoting his bizarre “open society” agenda encompass some of the most radical leftist ideas on abortion, Marxist economics, anti-Americanism, defunding the police, environmental extremism and LGBT fanaticism. His global media clout is massive. An...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday poured cold water on Democratic efforts to add language allowing banks to do business with state-approved marijuana businesses and permitting reform, a priority of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), to the annual defense authorization bill. McConnell called on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to strip the pot-related language and Manchin’s permitting reform proposal, which he dismissed as reform “in name only,” from the defense bill.

I got a new text scam that I nearly fell for - well, not quite. It claims to be the Post Office asking for an address to be corrected so they can deliver your package Really? How would the post office know my phone number if they don't know my address? Well, maybe the phone number was on the package - let's click on the link. It goes to usppaeckltc dot info, a somewhat convincing imitation of a Post Office web page. It might fool the average person, but not a skill Unix geek. Pulling up my trust Unix command...

In private messages, social media posts and public comments on Illinois Review posts , a theme is emerging from the IL GOP establishment to the hardworking, grassroots conservative freedom fighters: only rich, donor voices matter. It’s an elitist mentality – and for years, they’ve gotten away with it. But that’s now changing. As embattled IL GOP chair Don Tracy struggles to maintain his control of the party, and with new revelations that his family-owned business, where he is an owner, donated to Joe Biden in 2020 and ‘Never Trumpers’ in 2022, the small, but entrenched establishment is swinging back in...

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on Tuesday announced he’ll try for the appointment to replace outgoing Sen. Ben Sasse (R) and represent the state in the U.S. Senate, according to local outlets. “For me, it came down to a single question: How can I best serve the people of Nebraska and advance our conservative values? In Congress, we’re in a fight for the future of our nation, and it’s a fight we have to win. We must cut taxes, strengthen public safety and our national security, and protect our most sacred freedoms,” Ricketts said in a statement shared with The...

In a bid to offset the baleful effects of allowing violent offenders to remain free on their own recognisance, Supervisors in San Francisco voted 8-3 to deploy robots authorized to use deadly force against suspected criminals. Supervisor Connie Chan said she understood that "giving robots a license to kill, so to speak, sounds scary, but the alternative of having dangerous predators prowling our streets is also frightening. We think shifting some of the responsibility for public safety from human police officers to mechanical drones has its advantages." "For one, we'll save money," Chan pointed out. "Robots don't draw salaries, require...

Philadelphia gas station owner Neil Patel hired security guards with AR-15s to deal with all the “nonsense, drug trafficking, hanging around, [and] gangs” endangering his employees. Patel, who has a Karco gas station, hired “Pennsylvania S.I.T.E Agents clad with Kevlar vest and AR-15s or shotguns” to keep his employees safe, FOX 29 reports. “They are forcing us to hire the security, high-level security, state level. We are tired of this nonsense: robbery, drug trafficking, hanging around, gangs,” Patel said.

Second Week of Advent Matthew 18:12–14Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus asks: "If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?" Well, of course not! No self-respecting shepherd would ever think of doing that. If you were a shepherd, you’d cut your losses. That sheep is probably dead anyway if it wandered far enough away.But we are to understand that God is like that foolish shepherd. God’s love throws caution to the wind to seek out the lost sheep. We might...

Former national security adviser John Bolton said he will “seriously consider” challenging former President Trump for the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2024 if other GOP candidates don’t step in and stop him from winning again. Bolton said: “We’ve got perhaps a dozen or more potential presidential candidates looking to 2024. I think every one of them, before they declare their candidacy, should say, ‘Donald Trump was wrong. We repudiate him. He doesn’t belong in the Republican Party.’ “And, honestly, if they don’t, there’s one thing that would get me to get into the presidential race, which I looked at in...

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (FOX 2) - A man was charged with making antisemitic and racist threats to parents, young children and security at Temple Beth El; a preschool and synagogue in Bloomfield Hills. 35-year-old Hassan Yehia Chokr from Dearborn is charged with two counts of ethnic intimidation in connection to the threats made at Temple Beth El on Friday, Dec. 2. The Bloomfield Township Police Department said they started their extensive investigation on Friday. Temple Beth El, Jewish Community Security, and The Jewish Federation are sharing ongoing security and communication efforts according to police. The security director at Temple Beth...

Leaders of the New Black Panther Party announced they would be deploying armed guards to a number of polling places in the Atlanta area to monitor "white supremacist violence" as voters cast their ballots in the Georgia Senate runoff election. "No one will come and touch, harm, threaten, do anything to any person walking into that voting booth to exercise that right," Khallida Ramla Bastet said at a press conference on Monday. "This is a legal position that we are taking. We are in position so that if anything happens to anyone, we are here to offer you legal representation....

An all-time high for the #MarsHelicopter!Ingenuity completed Flight 35 over the weekend and set a new max altitude record, hitting 46 ft (14 meters) above the Martian surface. See more stats in the flight log:Flight: 35 Sol: 635 Date: Dec. 3, 2022 Horizontal Distance: 15m ~49ft. Max Altitude: 14m ~46ft. Max Groundspeed: 3 m/s ~6.7 mph Duration: 52.0 seconds Route of Flight: Airfield X***Flight Log Flights 35 (as of 12/3/22)Distance Flown 7,407 meters (~24,302 ft)Highest Altitude 14 meters (~46 ft)Fastest Ground Speed 5.50 m/s (12.3 mph)Flight Time ~59.9 minutes (3,591 seconds)

Impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure the southern border does not appear to have the support of the some Republican senators. As border patrol has encountered more than 2.3 million illegal aliens at the border, with over 230,000 migrant encounters in October, establishment Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) appear averse to holding Mayorkas accountable for the southern border invasion. “Someone has to commit a high crime or misdemeanor for that to be a valid inquiry,” Romney told Politico about impeachment standards. “I haven’t seen any accusation of that nature whatsoever.”

The U.S. seems to have changed its position with regards to Crimea. Blinken in August 2022: Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken - 16:46 UTC · Aug 23, 2022 United States government official In my remarks to the Crimea Platform Summit, I urged the international community to keep raising the costs and pressure on President Putin and his enablers until all Russian troops leave Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine. That was our position in 2014, and it remains in 2022. Embedded video --- Same dude, yesterday: Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Editor in Chief Matt Murray At The Wall Street Journal CEO Council...

Private Japanese company iSpace is sending its M1 lander carrying Rashid, a new rover from the United Arab Emirates.While the Orion spacecraft, a key part of NASA's Artemis I mission, is on its way back to Earth after going far beyond the moon, a new lunar lander from Japan and a small rover from the United Arab Emirates are set to blast off from Florida early Wednesday.The Hakuto R mission is led by the private Japanese company iSpace and will send its M1 lander, which is about the size of a chest freezer, to the surface of the moon...Hakamada added...

Why is the “secret” Brunson v Adams lawsuit officially scheduled for a US Supreme Court Hearing being met with defeating silence from America’s so-called media elite? This Civil Lawsuit was proactively hand-selected by the US Supreme Court in October of 2022, was written and filed by a band of brothers (an actual band of trumpet playing brothers) without attorney representation, and seeks the most historic and consequential judicial remedy in American history. Why no coverage? This video explores the WHY Questions that aren’t being asked - but should be. The links below provide factual “receipts” available for all to see...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Passage of a bill protecting federal recognition of same-sex marriages that has the support of both LGBT advocates and religious groups, has been delayed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill was initially expected to be debated and passed by the full House on Tuesday. It is now expected to be attached to an unrelated defense bill that is still under discussion by House and Senate negotiators.