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Incoming Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) announced the launch of the committee’s investigation into the origins of the Chinese coronavirus Tuesday by requesting interviews from Dr. Anthony Fauci and dozens of other virologists and government officials. Comer and committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who will also serve on the Judiciary Committee next year as chairman, launched their investigation by sending nine separate letters to various top officials, including Fauci and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, naming other individuals within those letters as well. 🚨BREAKING🚨@RepJamesComer & @Jim_Jordan are pressing senior Biden admin officials, EcoHealth, &...

Paris (AFP) – French prosecutors said Wednesday that they had searched the headquarters of President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party in their investigation into the use of consulting firms by the government since 2017. The Paris offices of US consulting giant McKinsey were also searched on Tuesday, the National Financial Prosecutors' Office said, confirming a report in Le Parisien newspaper. The use of consultants by Macron's governments came under the spotlight in March after a French Senate inquiry concluded that public spending on them had more than doubled from 2018 to 2021, during Macron's first term. "It's normal for the judiciary...

A prominent ally of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with unprecedented access to local authorities and reportedly under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct has died in what is being investigated as a suicide.Kent Stermon, 50, of Jacksonville, was found dead in a truck parked outside the Atlantic Beach post office around 8 p.m. Thursday, the Florida Times-Union reported.Stermon had been reported missing by his wife, Christie, after his heart monitor stopped earlier that day, the First Coast News reported.Shortly after the discovery of his body, police announced they were investigating his death as a suicide.Stermon was under investigation for alleged sexual...

EMBEDDED LINKS AT SITE...................... It is estimated that one in three Veterans had toxic exposures during their active duty. From burn pits and Agent Orange to nuclear waste and contaminated groundwater, these environmental hazard exposures can adversely impact Veterans’ health long after their service. The PACT Act, signed into law Aug. 10, 2022, expands VA health care and benefits for Veterans exposed to burn pits and potentially toxic substances. It is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed Veterans in more than 30 years. The act ensures Veterans exposed to toxins are screened and get the best...

Republican primary voters have high interest in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a potential 2024 presidential nominee and view him more favorably than they do former President Donald Trump, a new Wall Street Journal poll shows. In a hypothetical contest between the two, Mr. DeSantis beats Mr. Trump, 52% to 38%, among likely GOP primary voters contemplating a race in which the first nomination votes will be cast in just over a year. The poll found that Mr. DeSantis is both well-known and well-liked among Republicans who say they are likely to vote in a party primary or nominating contest,...

Claim: Wages have been rising faster than consumer prices for several months, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday. “And all of this means that, for the last several months, wages have gone up more than prices have gone up. Wages have gone up more than prices have gone up,” Biden said in remarks made at the White House. Verdict: False. Average hourly wages and average weekly wages rose in November by more than the rate inflation—but this was the first time they have done so significantly since August. In September and October, wages and inflation rose at almost the same...

The fire started at around 1:15 p.m. at Kreider Farms on the 1400 block of Mt. Pleasant Road in South Annville Township. According to Annville-Cleona fire Chief Philip Snavely, the fire caused $12 million in damages and has killed an estimated 250,000 chickens. Fire officials say the fire began in the middle of a poultry barn row. The middle barn became fully enflamed, but crews were able to keep the fire neutralized to the one building. Fire crews continue to work the scene of the fire as of 10:09 p.m.

One of the most important and under-reported struggles under the radar is the politicization of administrative agencies, and the effort to cement via those agencies policies that Congress will never vote for, but that once enshrined will be very difficult for any administration or Congress to overturn. One central part of that is the "whole of government" climate policy, centered around stopping fossil fuel development and subsidizing electric cars, photovoltaics and windmills. Never mind that large scale storage remains a pipe dream, never mind the lessons of Europe. SEC As reported by James Freeman in the WSJ the courageous Hester...

If you passed on getting the COVID vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash. Or at least those are the findings of a new study published this month in The American Journal of Medicine. During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers examined the encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults, 16% of whom hadn’t received the COVID vaccine. They found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash—in which at least one person was transported to the hospital—than those who were vaccinated. That’s...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JESUS CHOOSES HIS 12 APOSTLES ֎ Featuring 23 Paintings and 1 Tiffany Window ֎ L U K E CHAPTER 6* One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: 1 TADDEO DI BARTOLO "Christ and the Twelve Apostles" 2 DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO "Calling of the Apostles" 3 NICOLAS POUSSIN "Ordination" 4 JAMES TISSOT "The Exhortation to the Apostles"...

Chicago media companies are at odds with the city over a plan to encrypt live police radio transmissions. Those companies, including FOX 32, believe this action will put your safety at risk. Ahead of this encryption process, which has already begun by the way, we asked to meet in person with the city to address our concerns. Despite multiple attempts, Mayor Lori Lightfoot flatly refuses to even discuss the matter.

There are times when “I told you so” is unpleasant to say. This is one of those occasions. In May, the Martin Center reported on the appointment of a new dean, Raul Reis, at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism. Based on Reis’s previous work and his professed dedication to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), the Martin Center warned that this new hire might seek to remake the school in the image of DEI. That prediction, unfortunately, appears to have come true. On July 1, Reis began his duties as dean—and he’s been busy. Under his leadership, the journalism school released...

Apparently, the only thing as strong as the get-Trump attitude of the deep state is the protect-Biden stance of the federal government. ... For years, our federal government has quietly operated a protect-Biden racket. The public, however, has only recently — and haphazardly — learned of the lengths federal law enforcement officials and government employees have gone to safeguard the Biden family secrets. Here are eight times our government squelched scandals. 1. Censoring the Hunter Biden Laptop Story.. The most recent and most well-known example of the feds protecting the Biden family stems from efforts by intelligence agencies to squelch...

AUSTIN, Texas – Lone Star State residents rated President Biden’s overall performance for 2022, with a majority giving him a failing letter grade. "I don't really think that he's made strong decisions to progress our country forward in terms of our economy," a Texas woman who gave Biden an F or a D-minus told Fox News. But another woman who gave Biden a B said she was satisfied with the president, especially his push for federal student debt handout. "A lot of millennials and younger generations don't have access to housing or purchasing their own home or achieving certain financial...

Elon Musk revealed today that he will delete 1.5 billion user accounts from Twitter that have not been viewed in years or sent any tweets.To free up desired online handles and names is the official justification stated.However, I could only see that if these accounts were somehow taken over to boost follower numbers or like posts—they couldn’t have been used for other objectives. It’s possible that these accounts could have been utilized as automated user bots. I don’t think this adjustment will resolve Twitter’s pervasive bot problem, you know—the ones we argue with who appear to back every Biden idea;...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Tucker Carlson hits the bullseye in a late show segment discussing the framework of the Twitter social media company. Stunningly, Carlson is the first person to ask the question that we have outlined for years, it is the essence of how Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop evolved. {Direct Rumble Link} “It’s all pretty weird. Could it be that while the rest of us imagined that Twitter was a social media site … could it be that Twitter was actually, maybe primarily, a propaganda tool and intelligence gathering apparatus for a variety of intel agencies?” ~ Tucker Carlson Yes. Exactly this. Yes....

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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state’s 17 inmates awaiting execution, saying their death sentences will be changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining in office, said she was using her executive clemency powers to commute the sentences and that her order will take effect on Wednesday. “I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people — even...

Says here, quite clearly, that Israel admits that through an accident, its forces killed a teenage girl in Jenin. End of story? No. The Biden Administration, through its State Department, demands further investigations and “accountability.” Like what? Presumably, Biden demands hand-wringing sorrow for a Palestinian Arab girl who was on a roof, not the roof of her own home, next to a terrorist and crouching in the line of fire between the IDF and her brother terrorists. She may have been an “innocent” bystander. If we forget that they so frequently use children, girls, and women as fodder; human shields....