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Looks like we will finally get the full story on what really happened on January 6th. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Charlie Kirk today on Kirk’s radio show that the new Republican Congress will unveil the hidden J6 tapes. Gaetz told Charlie Kirk that releasing the tapes “would give more full context to that day rather than the cherry-picked moments of the January 6th committee.” He further explained this is one example of the deal made with Kevin McCarthy to provide the American people the truth rather than the lies propagated by the Biden Regime. VIDEO Here is the relevant...

With House Republicans having decided on the Speaker, one of their next items of business is one that is well overdue: the formation of a new subcommittee on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which would conduct a thorough investigation of abuses by federal law enforcement and national security agencies. According to a recent interview with Rep. Chip Roy, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has “committed to giving the subcommittee at least as much funding and staffing as the House special committee in the last Congress that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.”It’s about time. Of course, the very...

Violence in Mexico shows depth and danger of deadly trade; China’s ending of counter-narcotics cooperation exposes its hidden hand ... Fentanyl is the latest booming drug scourge. For several years, China has shipped by sea already-manufactured fentanyl to Mexico and also the ingredients used to make it. As early as 2015, the US Congress identified China as the primary source of fentanyl. For Sinaloa producers, the Chinese provided “ingredients to secret labs in Mexico run by drug cartels,” which “then smuggle pounds of fentanyl over the Southwest border,” according to a 2015 Congressional report In 2019 – under US pressure...

Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders introduced an executive order Tuesday, her first official day in office, that would combat Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools across the state. The Daily Caller first obtained the executive order that will empower the Department of Education to prevent indoctrination and CRT of Arkansas students that conflict with principles of equal protection under the law. The order will also prohibit employees and students from having to attend CRT trainings and orientations. CRT holds that America is fundamentally racist, yet it teaches people to view every social interaction and person in terms of race....

“The riots over the summer, you know, I could make a case that those riots were riots organic to an aggrieved community that perceived that they had various injustices throughout their life,” General Mark A Milley told the J6 Committee. “It was sheer, unmitigated anger that expressed itself in the form of mass violence and rioting. And, okay, I get it, it’s illegal, it’s wrong.” The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had previously justified the study of “white rage”, went on to defend the riots and the double standard at the heart of the J6 Committee. “I...

Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered remarks with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City. The three leaders met for the annual North America Leaders Summit. Joe Biden said he is actively working to make it easier for migrants from Latin America to come to the United States. “We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here – opening up the capacity to get here,” Biden said. Then this happened… The Mexican president thanked Joe Biden for NOT building a border wall. An obvious dig at President Trump. “You are the...

"Was he alone in possession of a memory?” wondered Winston Smith as he starts a diary in the novel 1984. ******************************************** I resonated to that line massively when I read it again in my umpteenth re-reading of George Orwell’s masterpiece. Yes, I know. Constantly referring to the Orwellian-ness of everything is just as bad as comparing every authoritarian who pops up to Hitler, but there is this feeling around the edges these days…of being stuck in an eternal present where no one knows anything about the past; that nothing’s very deep; that opinions are always binary and that there’s no...

Census Fidei? Methodological Missteps Are Undermining the Catholic Church’s Synod on SynodalityAs a social scientist, I have grave concerns about the methodological mess that has characterized this synod’s massive, unwieldy data-collection-and-analysis venture. “Synodality” is a confusing word that attentive Catholics are discussing these days, but its meaning is fairly mundane. “Synodality” refers to the active participation of all the faithful in the life and mission of the Church, while “synod” refers to a council or gathering of church leaders not unlike those in other Christian communions. In the Catholic Church, a synod is primarily composed of bishops, who deliberate about...

Joe Biden’s ties to China is a major conflict of interest. Donald Trump took to Truth Social to tie the story of the classified document found at the Penn Biden center to China. Truth Social: The amount was 54 Million Dollars that the Biden Think Tank received from China. That’s a lot of money. They saw the Classified Documents! He then asked, “How much more information has China been given?” Truth Social: Wow! The Biden Think Tank is funded by CHINA!!! Also, a V.P. cannot Declassify documents, which are covered by the Federal Records Act, which is Criminal and MUCH...

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is one of the most destructive and dishonest government officials in US history. Under his watch, the US logged in over 5 million illegal aliens crossing into the country through the open southern US Border. Alejandro’s response to the crisis of record human and drug trafficking has been to consistently lie to the American public about the seriousness of the situation. Mayorkas continues to lie about the open border with Mexico insisting the border is secure – a complete lie. But now Mayorkas may finally have to face up to this man-made disaster. House Republican Pat...

[H/T Bitt]Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to...

On Monday morning, a viral video began circulating of a man in San Francisco hosing down a woman sitting on the ground in front of Barbarossa Lounge on Montgomery Street. With a hose in hand, the man starts spraying her directly in the face as she shouts and tries to shield her body from the oncoming blasts of water in the video.

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Republican-controlled House investigating the Department of Justice and FBI is “like letting Al Capone investigate Elliot Ness.” Anchor Joy Reid said, “You have something about the ‘weaponization of the federal government,’ that’s Jim Jordan, who might actually be a subject of an investigation by the DOJ.” She asked, “It’s not the crime. It’s the cover-up. Is the goal here to prevent accountability for some of the crimes that may have been committed in the insurrection? Is that the bottom line?”

Here’s a funny video that gave us a chuckle. We’re not supposed to listen to the “haters” who like to point out the homicide rate in Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot won’t quit until Chicago is the safest big city in America. How long does she intend to stay in office?Forget the “haters” who claim that Democrats were the ones calling to defund the police and replace them with social workers — Lightfoot has put more police officers on the street. But we thought they were all racists.Seriously, what is this?

Robert Kennedy, Jr. joined Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night to discuss a lawsuit he filed against the Trusted News Initiative (TNI). TNI is a partnership of several big news outlets the AP, Reuters, the Washington Post aligned with big tech companies like Facebook and Google and founded by the BBC. TNI has admitted its mission is to stop “the title wave of unchecked reporting that’s being piped through mainly digital platforms.” As Tucker Carlson reported, “The initiative has censored an awful lot of people, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Whom history will vindicate completely.” On Tuesday night Robert Kennedy Jr.,...

At least $54 million has been donated by Chinese Communist Party-linked individuals or entities between 2014 and 2019 to the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington at the University of Pennsylvania, according to public records reported by the New York Post, where it was revealed this week that Biden had stashed a trove of classified documents. The University of Pennsylvania announced it would create the Biden Center in 2017, the same year then-Vice President Biden left the White House. Most of the anonymous donations were given to the Biden Center after the university announced the Penn...

LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Getting the design of a digital pound right is a bigger priority than a rapid launch, Britain's Financial Services Minister Andrew Griffith said on Tuesday. China has pushed ahead with piloting a digital yuan and the European Central Bank is studying a digital euro, piling pressure on Britain to do the same and keep abreast of advances in financial technology. The finance ministry is due to launch in the coming weeks a public consultation on the attributes of a digital pound.

[Catholic Caucus] Gänswein After Visiting Synodality-Francis: “Now I Have To Be Quiet”Archbishop Georg Gänswein is "embittered" because of “malicious” interpretations of his book, taken out of the context, reports the propaganda outlet Corriere.it (January 10).Francis received Gänswein on January 9. After that, Gänswein told friends that he spoke with Francis about the book, adding that, “now I have to shut up.”

Plans are in place to move Venezuelan asylum seekers, some sent from the Texas border to Chicago then to hotels in Des Plaines and Elk Grove, to a “congregant setting” in Chicago by the end of this month. State Sen. Laura Murphy (D-28th) of Des Plaines, the deputy state senate majority leader, representing parts of both Elk Grove Village and Des Plaines, said she attended a meeting late Tuesday with heads of the Illinois Dept. of Homeland Security, Illinois Dept. of Human Services, deputy governor, members of the Latino Caucus of the Illinois General Assembly, and other “interested parties” to...

This is a throwback TV show about a young family with two little girls and a little boy on the way. There is not one gender-deranged character in the whole ten episodes. Actually, there is a guy in a knitting group at the local cafe who probably is gay, but other than probably being gay nothing more is made of it and he is just another knitter who is nice to the newcomers in a small town. Joe's lifelong dream was to become a game warden in Wyoming. There is backstory to why he that is. His wife has a...