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White House argues that Inflation Reduction Act will increase audits against millionairesA study of 2022 IRS tax audit data found that a taxpayer in the lowest income bracket is five times more likely to face an audit that would a member of the highest income bracket. "The IRS correspondence audit process is structured to expend the least amount of resources to conduct the largest number of examinations – resulting in the lowest level of customer service to taxpayers having the greatest need for assistance," National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins said of the report during an annual report to Congress....

House Republicans are set to probe President Joe Biden’s connections to foreign business partners under their new majority, James Comer, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, said Sunday. The committee, renamed from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold hearings on “Biden family influence peddling,” and will specifically look into the president’s role in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, Republican Kentucky Rep. Comer said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think any American who’s kept up with the political process over the past two administrations would agree. We need to know what is allowable and...

Members of the Biden administration pressured Facebook on not censoring a video of Tucker Carlson that was critical of vaccines in April of 2021, according to documents published Monday by Louisiana State Attorney General Jeff Landry. Facebook ultimately refused multiple calls to delete the video, despite one White House official insinuating that the company’s intransigence was responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, according to the documents.. “Throughout our case, we have uncovered disturbing collusion between Big Tech and Big Government,” Attorney General Landry told the DCNF. “Today’s reveal is yet another example of the ongoing coercive efforts by...

Unable to let go of the issue most have walked away from, our journalists prove they are only getting worse regarding January 6. Much like our own Susie Moore, it was well into Friday evening when I had to be reminded of the second anniversary of The Non-Insurrection Heard ‘Round the Journalism World.

BELLEVUE, WA – -(AmmoLand.com)- A federal judge in New Jersey has granted a temporary restraining order in a case brought by the Second Amendment Foundation and several co-plaintiffs in a challenge of that state’s new gun control law which criminalizes carry in a vastly expanded set of “sensitive areas.” U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb in Camden noted, “Plaintiffs have demonstrated a probability of success on the merits of their Second Amendment challenge to the relevant provisions” of the new law. SAF is joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, the New Jersey Second...

THIS is the shocking moment a plane door sprang open mid-air as panicked passengers feared they would be "blown out". The pilot of the Russian flight was forced to make an emergency landing in icy -41C conditions as luggage was sucked out of the Antonov AN-26. VIDEO AT LINK............. Hats belonging to the 25 passengers flew off heads and vanished into the bone-chilling air after the rear door popped open soon after takeoff in one of the world’s coldest regions. Footage shows the door wide open on the IrAero Antonov aircraft, which had taken off from Magan in the Siberian...

(CNN)The Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election has completed its work, according to a new court filing. "Given the special purpose grand jury's delivery of its final report, the undersigned's recommendation, and the Superior Court bench's vote, it is the ORDER of this court that the special purpose grand jury now stands DISSOLVED," Judge Robert McBurney, who has been overseeing the Fulton County special grand jury investigation, wrote in Monday's short court order. Special grand juries in Georgia are not authorized to...

Not long after Friday’s Employment Report multiple analysts and commentators were calling it a “goldilocks” report, by which they meant it showed that the economy was neither “too hot” nor “too cold,” but instead, “just right.” In turn, the theory goes, the Federal Reserve could stop raising short-term rates earlier and at a lower peak than previously expected, inflation would continue to cool, and the economy could pull-off an elusive “soft landing.” The biggest headlines from the Employment Report were definitely good news. Nonfarm payrolls rose 223,000 in December, beating the consensus expected 203,000. Meanwhile, civilian employment, an alternative (although...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro hospitalized in Florida with 'abdominal pain' 11:54 AM · Jan 9, 2023

It's raining water buffalos & hippopotami in Sacramento, political HQ for the Hollywood Soul Murder Inc. of the worldwide pornography export biz. "Somethings" want us to believe that God's not in charge. They want us to believe the false paganism of the Gaia goddess religion, that Climate Change is real, that we're a cancer on the world, that we're worse than microbes, that we should be wiped out. God just has to whisper a little puff of air to knock down their tower or Babel. But it's such a tragedy that most people's friendship with God is being disrupted, so...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced during a press conference on Sunday that he is requesting a state of emergency from the White House as another round of storms targets the Golden State this week. Severe storms in California knocked out power to over 560,000 homes on Sunday. Along with power outages, the state has faced several days of severe weather events and two more are scheduled to occur this week. The first storm is expected to begin Monday and go into the early morning hours on Tuesday, and the second storm will occur from Jan. 12-14. "We’ve been at this...

A Big Tech lawsuit and ‘The Twitter Files’ are showing Democrats used the same process against Trump in 2020 that they falsely claimed he had used to win in 2016. Cross-referencing new information from “The Twitter Files” and a state attorneys general lawsuit against Big Tech with what we know about Spygate from years of investigations reinforces and enlarges shocking conclusions about the corruption of American government. Those two illuminate further how the U.S. bureaucracy interferes in elections, in these cases by pushing communications monopolies to shut down discourse that undermines the administrative state. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s latest...

More than 7,000 nurses at two hospitals in New York City went on strike early Monday morning demanding better pay, better working conditions and more staffing. The strike began at 6 a.m. after nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Harlem failed to reach an agreement with hospital administration during a bargaining session Sunday night, according to the New York State Nurses' Association. [Snip] "Now they are faced with the added challenge of short staffing that has reached critical levels and could compromise their ability to provide the best quality care to their patients."...

Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The Swiss National Bank said Monday it was anticipating a $143 billion loss for 2022, the steepest loss in the bank's 116-year history. The bank said this is only a provisional calculation for 2022 performance. Though it took a hit last year, the bank said it was expecting a $4.5 billion profit from its gold holdings. Its positions in gold could be supportive during the new year, according to a research note from Denmark's Saxo Bank. Analysts there said precious metals in general are in vogue. "Gold's newfound resilience and momentum from December has been carried...

The liberal media like to depict Never Trumpers like Charlie Sykes as the voice of center-right reason and moderation. But in recent days, the founder of The Bulwark and MSNBC columnist has revealed a spiteful, vulgar streak. Last week, we caught him literally laughing as he reveled in Kevin McCarthy's sticky predicament in seeking the speakership, and pronouncing with malicious glee the names of George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene, as people McCarthy had to rely on. But that was tame compared to his spit take on Jonathan Capehart's Sunday Show. Now that McCarthy has secured the Speaker's gavel, Sykes...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined other lawmakers in calling for former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed Brazilian governmental offices Sunday, to not be allowed to stay in Florida. “Nearly 2 years to the day the US Capitol was attacked by fascists, we see fascist movements abroad attempt to do the same in Brazil,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet. “We must stand in solidarity with @LulaOficial’s democratically elected government. The US must cease granting refuge to Bolsonaro in Florida.”

Before we get started this week, I want to show you a chart:Now, if this chart showed the stock price of a company, would you want to invest in it?If it’s the price of a commodity, would you be a buyer?What if you were already heavily invested in this enterprise? Would you hold on and hope for better days ahead? Or would you look at that long downward slide and cut your losses, just walk away?Now, when I say “long downward slide,” I do mean long. Here’s a bit more information…The chart above includes data for over a century –...

It took 15 ballots and the full first week of the 118th Congress to finally elect GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House, but crossing the finish line doesn't mean the new speaker's work opening the new Congress is close to being done. The negotiations that took place on the margins of the public House floor spats between Republicans included several provisions that were worked into the House rules package — the document adopted at the beginning of each Congress that sets the ground rules for how the lower chamber will function for the next two years....

Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska resigned Sunday as he prepares for his next position as president of the University of Florida, which he begins Feb. 6. “thrilled to join Gator Nation in February — very excited about the work ahead,” he tweeted on Nov. 9 after the Florida Board of Governors confirmed him in a 16-1 vote. “Melissa and I have had the great honor of serving Nebraskans in the Senate these 8 yrs — I will finish out the upcoming lameduck session and resign in the first week of January.” “thrilled to join Gator Nation in February...

"INSPIRATIONAL HOLIDAY VIDEO" — A Bad Lip Reading of Joe Biden (Humor)Humor - President Biden delivers a moving heartfelt message during the holidays. Video Here