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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has pulled Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who tried to oust him as the Senate’s top Republican in a bruising leadership race, off the powerful Commerce Committee. McConnell also removed Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who supported Scott’s bid to replace McConnell as leader, from the Commerce panel, which has broad jurisdiction over a swath of federal agencies. The GOP leader insisted last year that he didn’t take the attempt to end his leadership reign personally, but the latest move sends a clear message to conservatives that challenging McConnell’s leadership carries a cost. “McConnell got to...

The steamer Columbia, with New-Orleans dates to the 25th ult., arrived last evening. Everything is reported quiet in that city, and nothing of moment had transpired. Gen. BANKS had been to Baton Rouge to visit the portion of his command at that place -- some 18,000 men, under the command of Maj.-Gen. AUGUR. He returned on the 22d ult. His visit was partially owing to the rumor that the rebels intended attacking our men there. They must be strong to attempt it, as most of the old troops of Gen. BUTLER are there, and have the advantage of knowing the...

Cuban and Haitian migrants who arrive in the United States under the new humanitarian parole program are eligible for financial aid. The two groups of migrants are eligible for around $400 a month, along with food stamps and Medicare for a period of eight months through the Administration for Children and Families' Office of Refugee Resettlement. The Biden administration announced on Jan. 5 that up to 30,000 people per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela would be admitted for two years with authorization to work.

NJ Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour fatally shot outside her home: reports New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was gunned down outside her home late Wednesday, crashing her car after being repeatedly shot while behind the wheel, officials said. Dwumfour, 30, was found dead in her white Nissan SUV after it crashed near the Camelot at La Mer apartment complex in Sayreville, NJ, ABC 7 News reported. The Republican councilwoman was found with multiple gunshot wounds, and pronounced dead at the scene, officials told the outlet. Some locals told RLS Media that the gunman was spotted racing off to the Garden State Parkway,...

The GOP House can stop the project and rein in a runaway bureau. The federal government is proceeding with plans to build a new FBI headquarters complex twice the size of the Pentagon building. Riveted into the colossal new project are woke regulations to ensure that the FBI center will comply with diversity, equity, LGBTQ+, and climate change political goals. The plan, unveiled last September, has received little attention. For years the FBI has sought to vacate its present headquarters, a brutalist concrete bunker on stilts and occupying two city blocks between the White House and the Capitol. Plans for...

The U.S. federal government is tracking people who decided not to get the COVID-19 vaccine injection, according to bombshell federal government records and video exclusively obtained by NATIONAL FILE. According to the shocking video, unvaccinated people are quietly tracked when they go to the doctor’s office or to the hospital due to a quiet new program proposed and implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ... The Committee made it clear that the new codes would be used to “track” unvaccinated people. At the time of the meeting, people who had adverse reactions to a past vaccine...

Wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says 'resistance' wouldn't be possible if wives and mothers of murderers didn't give their approval.

It was only six days ago, on January 26, when I wrote a post containing a list of proposals for Christopher Rufo and the other new trustees of New College of Florida to take back control of the institution from the insane left. In an uncanny development, as if they having been reading the Manhattan Contrarian blog, Rufo and his fellow trustees, along with Governor Ron DeSantis, have already implemented the first proposal, and are well along on implementing the second. How about all you other red states? Why can’t you do the same things? My first proposal was: “Replace...

Thursday 2 February 2023The Presentation of the Lord Feast Presentation of the Lord Catholic Church, Montgomery, Texas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).When a Feast of the Lord is celebrated on a weekday there is only one reading before the Gospel, which may be chosen from either the first or second reading.(This rule is not followed in the United States, so two separate readings are shown here).First readingMalachi 3:1-4 ©The Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his TempleThe Lord God says this: Look, I am going to send my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the...

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Every now and then, Skousen's book The Naked Communist and the Marxist goals needs to be posted to see how far we have come since that day in 1963 when the 45 Marxist goals were entered into the Congressional Record. I honestly didn't count how many of the 45 have been achieved, but from a glance it looks like most of them. The only one that I can see has changed is the dismantling and closing of the FBI.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s record on the COVID-19 pandemic is in the spotlight as speculation builds that he will mount a White House campaign. If he enters the race, DeSantis will pose the most serious threat to former President Trump’s quest for the GOP nomination. Trump has reacted angrily to the speculation around DeSantis. The former president and his supporters believe the Florida governor has become a media favorite and has not faced sufficient scrutiny. Team Trump argues this is particularly true of COVID, where DeSantis portrays himself as a ferocious defender of individual freedoms against government overreach. Over the...

Scientists say an outbreak on a Spanish mink farm and in UK foxes is the kind of ‘spillover event’ that could spark a human epidemic Early last autumn, dead seagulls and gannets began to wash up on the coast of Galicia, northwestern Spain. They were victims of the ongoing H5N1 bird flu pandemic that has killed millions of wild and farmed birds across the globe. Then in October, something unusual happened. At a fur farm just a few miles inland from the coast, thousands of mink started to die from the same “avian” virus.

Heterochromia cats, otherwise known as odd-eyed cats, are felines with different-colored eyes. Heterochromia iridum occurs both in humans and animals, especially cats. It is a condition in which the two irises are different colors. For example, an animal or a human may have one blue eye and one brown eye.

Eleven more U.S. airports plan to adopt a new way of landing planes that reduces both emissions and noise — all by having incoming planes turn off their engines and glide down to the tarmac like a paraglider. The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday that planes heading to Orlando, Fla.; Kansas City, Mo.; Omaha, Neb.; Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base; Reno, Nev.; and six airports in South Florida soon would make idle descents to runways. It's a method called “Optimized Profile Descent,” and more than 60 U.S. airports already have it in place.

Liberals have spent the last few years obsessing over systemic racism, and yet they are the ones perpetuating it. Over the past two decades, nearly 200,000 black New Yorkers moved out of New York City, a decline of 9% of its black population. The New York Times lists several reasons for the decline, including “concerns about school quality,” but one issue reigns supreme: Black people, especially parents, are simply being priced out of living in New York City.... So where does the “national trend of younger black professionals, middle-class families, and retirees leaving cities” lead to? It leads to those...

James Pethokoukis asks, “Does ChatGPT mean the Technological Singularity is near? How would we know?” To answer the second question first, we probably wouldn’t. One of the characteristics of a singularity is that you can’t tell when you’re entering it. (And by the time you figure things out, it’s too late.) But looking at Chat GPT and the various AI Art programs that are appearing, I can’t help but see an irony: The jobs that are coming under attack first are the jobs that up to now have resisted technological replacement. For decades, traditional manufacturing jobs were gobbled up by...

The House of Representatives is expected Wednesday to pass legislation requiring hundreds of thousands of federal workers to return to federal offices and shutter many of the telework arrangements permitted amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the measure is unlikely to be passed into law, the proposal raises new debate over whether telework by public employees is squandering taxpayer money or is preventing a shortfall of the civil servants needed to operate the sweeping U.S. government. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said services at the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration and Department of...

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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — It’s Groundhog Day and people are waiting to learn whether a furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town will predict an early spring or six more weeks of winter. People will gather Thursday at Gobbler’s Knob as members of Punxsutawney Phil’s “inner circle” summon him from his tree stump at dawn to learn if he has seen his shadow. According to folklore, if he sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of winter. If he doesn’t, spring comes early