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Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared skeptical about the legality of President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan, although questions remain as to whether the challengers have legal standing to sue. -snip- The justices could decide the case based on a legal argument made by the challengers that the Supreme Court has recently embraced called the “major questions doctrine.” Under that theory, federal agencies cannot initiate sweeping new policies that have a significant economic impact without having express authorization from Congress. The conservative majority cited the major questions doctrine last year in blocking Biden’s Covid vaccination or test...

Unfortunately, when Washington state’s far-left governor Jay Inslee killed his failing presidential campaign, his beyond radical concept of climate communism was given new life in the form of Evergreen Action. A “climate crisis” organization, Evergreen’s mission statement begins with the following: Since Evergreen was founded in 2020, we have successfully influenced the national climate policy landscape. The Biden administration has adopted significant pieces of the Evergreen Action Plan and we played a pivotal role in the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Last week, and without a hint of irony, Evergreen published a blog titled, “Climate Action Means Jobs:...

The US housing market faces a potential 19.5% correction, and more rate hikes from the central bank could make a crash even worse, Dallas Federal Reserve economists warned in a Tuesday research report. The global housing market has become frothy since 2020 as a result of the pandemic boom, according to authors Lauren Black and Enrique Martínez-García, and there's still a risk of a deep housing slide despite signs of easing home-price growth. Drawing parallels between the US and Germany, the economists added that some of the housing market froth can be attributed to the affordability crisis, though house-price-to-rent ratios...

The only tweet on the Twitter account of Ilan Ganeles, hy"d: "I think you're always going tonhave tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise." My heart burns for you, our brother Elan. pic.twitter.com/aGu7CIWIQ7— אברהם בנימין Avraham (@avrahambin) February 28, 2023

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weaponized research itself by putting out its own flawed studies in its own non-peer-reviewed medical journal, MMWR... public health officials actively propagated misinformation that ruined lives and forever damaged public trust in the medical profession. ... Misinformation #1: Natural immunity offers little protection compared to vaccinated immunity.. A Lancet study looked at 65 major studies in 19 countries on natural immunity. The researchers concluded that natural immunity was . ... Since the Athenian plague of 430 BC, it has been observed that those who recovered after infection were protected ... Most Americans who were...

As of noon, thermal imaging shows no leaks, but hazmat crews are still monitoring. No evacuation orders have been issued and there are no road closures at this time.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is facing charges after Memphis Police found him passed out in a car with 36 beers. On Sunday, officers responded to a drunk call in the 3000 block of Claudette Street in Parkway Village. Once on the scene, homeowners told them that an unresponsive man had driven into their yard. According to reports, after several attempts, officers were able to make contact with the suspect, Domingo Ticum-Tebalan. They found a 12-pack of Modelo bottles and a 24-pack of Modelo cans in the car. Memphis Police said Domingo had an odor, his eyes were bloodshot and...

A Fox News survey showing former President Trump leading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 15 points among Republican presidential primary voters is the latest cause for heartburn among Senate Republicans who don’t think Trump can win a general election match-up against President Biden. Predictions by key Senate Republicans that Trump would fade as the 2024 election approached are being upended, putting pressure on party leaders in Washington to consider embracing the former president once again. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republicans blamed the “chaos” surrounding Trump for the party’s disappointing performance in the 2022 midterm election. Some...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will make his debut appearances in three early presidential primary states in the next several weeks, according to two people briefed on his plans, selling his performance in his own state as he lays the groundwork for an expected presidential campaign. Mr. DeSantis is tentatively expected to appear in Iowa during the first half of March, making stops in Davenport and Des Moines, according to the people briefed on his schedule who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the plans publicly. Shortly after, he is expected to appear in Nevada, an early primary...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has become one of the main challengers to Donald Trump for leadership of the Republican Party in the wake of his landslide reelection victory last week over Democratic candidate Charlie Crist. While DeSantis is best known nationally for controversies over Covid and culture war battles, he has a foreign policy record from his years in Congress and even during his tenure as governor that also merits closer scrutiny. If he seeks the Republican nomination for president, as many now expect he will, voters should be aware of the foreign policy worldview that he brings with him....

This is the horrific moment a man casually loads a handgun and executes a homeless man on a St. Louis sidewalk.

Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson’s murderous “Family” who later testified against her fellow cult members, has died at the age of 73. Kasabian died on Jan. 21 at a hospital in Tacoma, Washington, and her body was cremated, as TMZ first reported Tuesday. Her cause of death has not been revealed.

A study led by Vinod Dasa, MD reports that a novel surgical pain management strategy following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), or total knee replacement, provided pain relief without opioids. The researchers also found that changing prescriptions for opioids at discharge from automatic to upon request dramatically decreased opioid use. "About 70% of opioid-naïve patients needed only Tylenol and anti-inflammatory medications to manage their pain," notes Dr. Dasa. "Opioid use in health care is improving but remains difficult to manage. Surgical pain was long thought to be unavoidable, requiring a large amount of pain medications. Creating innovative strategies to enhance surgical...

Michael Delaney represented the elite St. Paul’s school in a 2018 civil suit. He succeeded in pressing the court to unmask the identity of sexual assault victim Chessy Prout. ... When Chessy Prout sued the St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire for negligence after she was sexually assaulted in her freshman year, her attorneys made a simple request: that, as a minor facing death threats from fellow students and alumni, she remain anonymous during the course of the lawsuit. The attorney representing the $62,000-a-year boarding school, Michael Delaney, opposed that motion and overnight, the 15-year-old Prout became a public figure....

This week, the Board of Directors for Project Veritas voted to oust the organization's founder James O'Keefe. Board Member Matthew Tyrmand explained that "the IRS informed us that James' exposes have demonstrated an unacceptable bias against organizations, corporations, and individuals promoting leftist political causes. This has caused the IRS to threatened to revoke our tax-exempt status. Losing this status would mean that our donors could no longer deduct what they give us from their taxes. The bottom line is that without this tax-exemption donations would slow to a trickle." Tyrmand expressed optimism that "with James gone we can implement a...

This is the horrific moment a man casually loads a handgun and executes a homeless man on a St. Louis sidewalk. The incident occurred yesterday outside The Globe Building. Harrowing footage shared online shows the shooter standing behind the homeless victim as he sits on the sidewalk with his hands covering his ears.

Former President Donald Trump has taken a 30-point lead over his next closest possible 2024 GOP presidential primary competitor and now has majority support in a crowded field, a new poll from Emerson College released on Tuesday shows.The survey, taken entirely after Trump’s highly publicized visit last week to East Palestine, Ohio, shows Trump at 55 percent–30 points higher than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who is down at 25 percent — meaning Trump has now crossed the majority threshold in national GOP primary polling.###The Emerson College poll found that former Vice President Mike Pence got only 8 percent of...

This is it. This is pure MAGA. President Trump is announcing the big one… “Economic Agenda 47“This is the economic policy blade to drive a stake through the vampire heart of corporatism, globalism and the exploitation of the U.S. economy by multinational corporate interests. This “universal baseline tariff” approach, is the policy that slays the dragons of the World Economic Forum, destroys the Beijing dragon and simultaneously ends the EU Marshal Plan advantage. This is a big deal.President Trump makes the economic policy announcement today, and it is an incredible structure of trade and economic proposals that would be resoundingly...

VIDEO AT LINK...................... President Biden hosted another Black History Month event at the White House Monday night where he -again- claimed to grow up in the ‘Black Church’. “As my buddy from Delaware can tell ya, when you’re involved in the Civil Rights movement as a kid in High School, I used to go down to the Black Church. I went to 7:30 Mass, then I’d go to 10 o’clock. You think I’m joking, I’m not!” “I can’t sing worth a damn!” he added.

The Don Lemon-led CNN This Morning is set to end February with its lowest 25-to-54 age viewership since the show launched in November. CNN's ratings are on track to end its February viewership with the smallest audience in the 25-to-54 age demographic since June of 2014. The New York Post reports, "Under CNN boss Chris Licht, the network has slumped" and the Don Lemon-led CNN This Morning is set to end February with its lowest 25-to-54 age viewership since the show launched in November, after Lemon was ousted from his former primetime slot. In the first 24 days of February,...