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After news broke last week that the Biden administration was floating new regulations on indoor air pollution from gas stoves, both sides of the very online culture warriors took their habitual corners. It was an annoying week-long discourse to be sure, but something worse than annoying also happened. Many corporate media news consumers, parents in particular, began taking the alleged threat of a gas stove in their homes seriously as they devoured and shared headlines like WaPo’s “Gas stove pollution causes 12.7% of childhood asthma,” and The New York Times’ “Your Gas Stove May Be Killing You. How Much Should...

Republican Rep. Rick Allen of Georgia suggested last week that he would support raising the Social Security retirement age—a policy change that would slash benefits across the board—because people have approached him and said they “actually want to work longer.” Confronted by an advocate in the Capitol Building and asked how the GOP plans to cut Social Security, the congressman responded, “We’re not going to cut Social Security.” But seconds later, Allen contradicted himself by expressing support for raising the retirement age, saying the move would “solve every one of these problems”—not specifying what the “problems” are from his perspective.

Reading Miranda Devine's book "Laptop from Hell" you get a good insight into how Joe Biden traded his office for benefits over the years. He used his positions in office for favor trading that turned into 3 mansions, and a Corvette. Thing is, three mansions cost a lot of money to keep up. Some habits are hard to break. Enter HunterHunter Biden complained that 'half' of his salary went to paying his father's bills while he was Vice President, casting doubt on the Joe's previous claims that he's never benefited from his son's business dealings.The bills included a $190-a-month AT&T...

Never judge healing by the flesh, because your flesh doesn't determine whether you are healed or not. What determines whether you are healed or not is God's word. God's word is the determining factor. Like in the case of Abraham before his name was changed God promised him he would have descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, but there were some problems as it says in Romans 4:19 his body was dead and his wife's womb was dead. But, in spite of that God told him in Genesis 17:4,5 As for me, behold, my covenant is with...

White House aides have reportedly admitted President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal will impact his expected 2024 campaign launch. Whether Biden’s mishandling of classified materials will permanently derail his reelection announcement or not is unclear amid media speculation. But according to CNN’s MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, Biden’s aides have acknowledged the scandal “will present a challenge… in anticipation of an expected announcement that he is seeking reelection” as early as February. “Behind the scenes, sources said Biden’s grown frustrated at how the saga has played out, particularly the way his administration’s handling of the story has overtaken what had...

The election for RNC Chairman on January 27 will be a referendum on two of the Republican Party’s foundational ideals: personal responsibility and accountability. After six years of losses and increasingly alienated voting and donor bases demanding change, our party needs fresh leadership, new vision, and fundamental changes to fulfill our promise to stakeholders. With over 35 years of service and success in the conservative movement, I’m running for Chair of the RNC because the GOP must change or be relegated to permanent also-ran status. I’m committed to redefining what we count as success – and it isn’t more attempted...

I have been repeatedly told, as I’m sure you have, that Donald Trump “was the worst President the United States has ever had.” Except for his “racism,” “Nazism,” “mean tweets,” and “all the stupid things he said and did,” I have never been told what specific accomplishments of his administration these folks don’t like. Granted, maybe the man is arrogant and narcissistic, but he isn’t the only such person who ever occupied the White House. Maybe he said some stupid things; I wonder how many human beings have never done the same. But only Donald Trump is guilty. Fairness and...

I came up in politics through the grassroots, where you learn first-hand that the single most important thing you can do in an election is knock on your neighbor’s door and have a conversation. As a suburban mom in Michigan, I got involved with my local party because I wanted to stand up for conservative values in my community. Thousands of conversations and doors knocked later, I was the Chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party when President Donald Trump shocked the pundits and won the White House in 2016. No one thought that Michigan would flip to the Republican column...

Authorities say other riders who witnessed an alleged sexual assault on a SEPTA train last week "should have intervened." Instead, police say some held up their phones in the direction of the attack. Fiston Ngoy, 35, has been charged with rape, aggravated indecent assault and related counts in the incident.

Tesla lowered prices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, following a series of cuts last week in Asia, in what analysts saw as a clear shot at both smaller rivals that have been bleeding cash and legacy automakers aggressively ramping up electric vehicle production...The U.S. price cuts on Tesla's global top-sellers the Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover SUV were between 6% and 20%, Reuters calculations showed, with the basic Model Y now costing $52,990, down from $65,990.Tesla also cut prices for its Model X luxury crossover SUV and Model S sedan in the United...

America’s infatuation with Ukraine and Zelensky (the Cocaine Comedian) is starting to wane, but most politicians and the public continue to believe the lie that Ukraine is an innocent country being bludgeoned by a communist Russia ruled by a dictator. Oh yeah. Don’t forget. Russia is suffering massive military and economic losses and just can’t live without U.S. investment and Europe’s technology. It is all nonsense, but if you are living in the United States and try to have a reasoned discussion with the fan boys and girls cheering for Ukraine, you would find more success talking to a brick...

Hunter Biden’s monthly rent of $49,910 matches a rental deposit at the House of Sweden related to the Biden family business venture with the infamous CEFC China Energy Co. Hunter’s $49,910 deposit also matches the amount of money he logged on a 2018 background check document unearthed by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine. In an email on October 13, 2017, Cecilia Browning, the general manager of House of Sweden, an office complex in Washington, DC, emailed Hunter about a lease that Hunter and his Chinese business partners were trying to terminate, according to emails unearthed from Hunter’s “Laptop from...

A military veterans group is launching a seven-figure campaign to inform Americans about U.S. involvement overseas and question the fairness within alliances such as NATO, the Washington Examiner reported. The Concerned Veterans for America Foundation (CVAF) plans to spend more than $1 million in the next year on digital, grassroots, and classroom-style programming, the Examiner reported. The goal is to promote a broader discussion about the nature of U.S. defense agreements toward advancing U.S. interests.

Indiana politics is probably, maybe, very important to...Indianans (Indians? Warrrenses?), but this sturdy Midwest flyover state is rarely the battlefield for an important fight for the direction of the GOP and the country. Today is an exception. With its current senator, Republican Mike Somebody, going home to be governor, the Senate seat will be open in 2024, and folks are gearing up to run. The race is important because who gets nominated and wins will help define the direction of the Republican Party. Will it be someone who knows what time it is or someone whose watch stopped about the...

A speaker at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, promoted the idea of cities where people could live “in harmony with nature” and not own cars Monday. “What’s important is for policies to change the rules of the game, so sustainability becomes [the] easier choice, not just for the people, but also for the companies,” Bastien Girod of the Swiss National Council, the lower house of Switzerland’s legislature, said during the event. “In Zurich, we have a lot of districts where you don’t actually need a car, because all the activities, school, buying something, everything you can do...

Could a Democrat, understandably concerned that a Biden 2024 reelection bid would be disastrous for the Democratic Party (not to mention the country and the economy), have leaked President Biden’s “filegate” scandal to the media? It’s plausible, given what we know – or at least what we think we know – about the sources of the information, the timeline and the widespread opposition to Biden running for president again. To begin with, we apparently don’t know who tipped off the press about filegate. CBS broke the story on Jan. 9. The initial report cited only “two sources with knowledge of...

Greenpeace slammed WEF attendees for traveling to Davos in 'ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets' The analysis – published late last week by Greenpeace and the environmental research firm CE Delft – showed that there was a significant uptick in private jet flights, many of which were short-distance, to airports near WEF's headquarters in Davos, Switzerland, during the 2022 summit. The group released the study ahead of WEF's 2023 summit, which is slated to kick off this week. "Davos has a perfectly adequate railway station, still these people can’t even be bothered to take the train for a trip as short...

Pope Francis ignored letters from nuns allegedly abused by Fr. Rupnik: reportThe Vatican has continued its policy of absolute silence on the matter of Fr. Rupnik and his alleged abuse, even as the disgraced priest's former Jesuit province announced it believes the accusations.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — As the revelations surrounding alleged abuser priest Father Marko Ivan Rupnik continue to appear, and the Jesuit’s own Slovenian province say the accusations against him are true, the Vatican still remains silent.As LifeSiteNews has extensively reported – HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE – Rupnik has been accused of psychologically and sexually abusing religious sisters...

If President Joe Biden taught us anything recently, it is that you should get your own house in order before criticizing others. A George Soros-backed group targeting Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis may soon get this lesson.

Ukraine claimed that Russia has lost close to 117,000 troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion last February — which is more servicemen than the US lost during World War I. There have been 116,950 enemy troops “eliminated” since Feb. 24, according to the latest tallies released by Ukraine’s Armed Forces Tuesday, which The Post could not independently verify. Kyiv reported that in the last 24 hours alone, 870 Russians had been killed in Ukraine. For comparison, the US lost 116,516 soldiers during World War I, of whom more than 63,000 suffered non-combat deaths mostly related to illnesses.