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The Biden White House is taking the offensive against incoming House Republicans and their plans to launch oversight actions once the next session of Congress starts, sending letters through a special counsel informing Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, that the administration has no plans at this time to respond to the records requests they have been making. Special Counsel Richard Sauber, in the letters obtained exclusively by Politico, said the requests are not legitimate under the Constitution because Jordan and Comer have not yet been delegated to head their committees. Sauber, a top oversight lawyer for the...

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...

With inflation pushing up the price of groceries, more people in Wisconsin are turning to food pantries for help. The cost of food at home has gone up 12.4 percent since this time last year, according to the Consumer Price Index. Suzanne Becker is the executive director of Feed My People Food Bank, which serves 14 counties in west central Wisconsin. Rising costs have many people turning to the food bank for the first time, she said. "Imagine if your family was just getting by before, and now all of a sudden, they're having to pay so much more to...

Fitness influencers and Twitter users blasted a TIME interview for portraying exercise as an activity with roots in White supremacy. "How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons?" the TIME article, titled "The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts about the History of U.S. Physical Fitness" asked. The article was heavily mocked on Twitter, with critics saying it was destroying the media's credibility. "Honestly, I want them to keep pumping articles like this out to eviscerate every remaining shred of their credibility and perceived legitimacy," British rapper Zuby tweeted. "It...

In a recent report by Eileen Guo from MIT Technology Review, it is revealed that a robot vacuum took photos of a woman on the toilet in her home. These private images were leaked and ended up on Facebook, violating iRobot’s strict non-disclosure agreement. In 2020, iRobot distributed “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consume products for purchase.” These special devices were reportedly labeled with a green sticker that reminded its users there was “video recording in progress.” It was the responsibility of the participants to “remove anything they...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced that the short form social posting platform will promote the 'reasoned' questioning of scientific data. On Wednesday, Musk, who can been especially vocal on the platform since assuming control in late October, wrote: 'New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science.' 'His Excellency is science,' continued Saad. To which Musk responded, 'Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist.' Musk then drove his point one step further by posting a meme mocking those who 'believe anything blindly.' On...

Collage of famous people and famous brand logos News stories come and go every year, but what we remember are the people at the center of them. News stories come and go every year, but what we remember are the people at the center of them. The Federalist staff has a few of those people in mind, for better or worse, who stood out in 2022. Here are our picks for the winners and losers of 2022. Jordan Boyd Winner: Detransitioners Detransitioners are the biggest winners of 2022 for drawing attention to the irreversible damage and harm that radical transgender...

Pilots are bravely stepping up to blow the whistle on the problem of myocarditis in U.S. airline pilots, and the lack of testing for what could be a deadly problem. They are also suggesting solutions, but unfortunately, those solutions have fallen on deaf ears thus far. What they are stating is nothing less than that U.S. aviation safety is at risk, and that the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) must take action before it is too late. On December 10th of this year, Dr. Kevin Stillwagon (Pilot and whistleblower) and Bruce McCray (FAA whistleblower) appeared on The Pete Santilli Show to...

(Reuters) - The United States will introduce incentives on Jan. 1 for delivery firms and other companies to switch to electric trucks as part of a broad push to get polluting, workhorse vehicles off roads and out of neighborhoods. The first-of-its-kind incentives, established under President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will offer tax credits of $7,500 or $40,000 depending on the size of the electric vehicle (EV). Delivery companies like FedEx and Amazon.com would qualify at the $7,500 level for many of their electric trucks. In a year marked by yet more floods, hurricanes and droughts linked to climate...

Uzbekistan’s government is to be radically streamlined under changes taking effect on New Year’s Day. A decree adopted by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will see the number of ministries and other units of government trimmed by half, from 61 at present to 28. Staff numbers will be reduced by 30 percent and many government buildings and assets sold off, leading to an estimated recouping of 2.8 trillion sum ($250 million), officials have said. This move to reduce the size of the government comes on the heels of a state of the nation speech delivered by Mirziyoyev in which the president offered...

If you listen to the liberal media, you would probably think that Trump is out, and down for the count.Two top Republican pollsters are saying this is flatly untrue.This isn’t a knock at Ron DeSantis or any other Republican, just a glimpse of where things are right now.The Washington Examiner reports:Don’t be fooled, Trump ‘strong as ever,’ say top pollstersYou’ve seen the polls, in Secrets and elsewhere, touting the emergence of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and others challenging former President Donald Trump, the only Republican who has announced a bid for the 2024 GOP primary so far.They come at a...

2022 was a harrowing year for the planet. Floods overwhelmed a stunning one-third of the nation of Pakistan, China saw the longest and most widespread heat wave in history, and here in New England, we were pummelled by heat and drought. As you reflect on the past year this New Year’s Eve, you might consider making a change to benefit the planet. If you’re stuck on what your resolution should be, we’re here to help. We asked five statewide climate leaders the question: What’s one climate-related New Year’s resolution you’d recommend Massachusetts residents make this year? * Hold your local...

Reviver Academy is a Muslim children’s private school based in Miami, Florida. The school is part of the North Miami Islamic Center (NMIC), which also includes a mosque whose imam, Fadi Kablawi, uses his pulpit to preach violence and target Jews, gays, Christians, women and fellow Muslims with the worst of bigotry. This same school/mosque receives taxpayer funded vouchers from the state of Florida to lower tuition costs for its students. Given the violent and hateful nature of NMIC, its educational apparatus should cease receiving school vouchers and be forced to give back those vouchers it received previously.Though Reviver and...

The Palestinian propagandists have just claimed that Israel is responsible for the death from cancer of an incarcerated terrorist. And this absurd charge was not too absurd to be taken seriously by some major news services. This is reported on here: “Media Parrots Palestinian Authority, Blames Israel for Cancer,” by Chaim Lax, Algemeiner, December 23, 2022:On December 20, 2022, the Israeli Prison Service announced that Nasser Abu Hamid (51) had passed away in custody as a result of lung cancer.Abu Hamid was one of the most notorious terrorists to emerge from the Second Intifada.One of the founders of the Al-Aqsa...

The New Jersey State Senate is considering joint resolution 105, which would make January “Muslim Heritage Month” in New Jersey. News12 in the Bronx was there to cover Madina Ouedraogo of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) speaking in support of resolution 105. News12 tells us:The goal is to increase awareness and appreciation of Muslim American communities in the state. The Council of American Islamic Relations testified on behalf of the new bill in Trenton.Ouedraogo said:If the state of New Jersey truly takes great pride in the religious and cultural diversity of its residents It is critical to pass...

While electric vehicle (EV) startups that once seemed promising saw their stock prices plummet far faster than the rest of the market, Ferrari managed to stay ahead of other automakers as the industry retracted, and is poised to post the smallest decline amongst major automakers in 2022, CNBC reported Wednesday. The FactSet Automotive Index, a measure of the economic health of the auto industry, is down nearly 39% year-to-date at time of writing, whereas Ferrari’s stock is only down about 19% trading at roughly $210 per share, according to Google Finance. With just a few days left in the year,...

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The campus war against Israel, now some decades old, has been unrelenting in its vicious assault against the Jewish state, led by such radical pro-Palestinian student groups as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) with some 200 chapters nationwide. The real intention of this pro-Palestinian activism, now encompassing a large swathe of academia, is, clearly, to exclude Israel from the community of nations and to prevent supporters of the Jewish state from even defending it or offering counterarguments to the falsehoods and lies that comprise so much of anti-Israel rhetoric and expression—the Palestinian “narrative” with little connection to history and...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted (and you yourself a sword will pierce) so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” Luke 2:33–35When something truly supernatural takes place, the human mind that grasps that supernatural event is filled with wonder and awe. For Mother Mary and Saint Joseph, their minds were continually filled with...

Russia detained at least 20,467 people for political reasons in 2022, according to end-of-year statistics published last week by OVD-Info, one of Russia’s leading independent human rights watchdogs. At least 19,478 of those were detained for speaking out against Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Other detentions occured at ecological and workers’ rights protests and protests against a November law banning “LGBT propaganda.” Women accounted for nearly 45% of all those detained for expressing an anti-war position, according to the watchdog. Russia passed a total of 22 new repressive laws in 2022, and there were just 29 days of the year...