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President Joe Biden’s administration was involved in the raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence through a “special access request,” according to documents obtained from the National Archives by America First Legal. On August 8, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided Mar-a-Lago on the grounds of retrieving alleged classified documents. According to the establishment media, Biden administration officials were “stunned” to hear of the unprecedented action. The Archives also claimed that it had “not been involved in the DOJ investigation.” But documents show the FBI obtained access to the records through a “special access request” from the...

This is Easter, a holiday commemorating a miracle. That is good, because we are going to need one. On Good Friday, I chanced across a photograph of the lower Manhattan skyline at night from Good Friday in April 1956. Three skyscrapers, dominating the space, feature certain windows illuminated to form gigantic crosses to commemorate that most solemn of Christian holidays. The year 1956 was not that long ago. But how much has changed in those 60-odd years! Can you imagine such a public display of Christian affirmation in New York today? Nor can I. That was then. Now things are...

Instead of my earlier idea of an on-line Jeopardy style tournament, I am rolling out this Never Ending Quiz. The rules and format are simple. I will start by posting a question (at the end of this post). First correct answer gets a +1 and the right to post a question. If you post an answer, and you are the first to post the correct one, I will alert you to post the next question. If you do post one, you should be prepared to check for answers within 5-10 minutes. This format will allow people to participate for as...

A Florida State University professor who focused on racial data and research in the criminal justice system has left his job after years of accusations that claimed his data was dishonest, resulting in many of his studies being retracted. The Florida Standard reports that Eric Stewart, a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, has had six studies retracted in recent years, after being accused of falsifying data first in 2019 by a professor named Justin Pickett from the University of Albany. Pickett, who worked with Stewart on a retracted 2011 study, claims that Stewart muddied the waters in his...

The enviro-doomsdayers, LGBTQAnons, BLM, Antifa, fake news, climate change wackos, and the femi-furies — anyone screaming about “equality” — are all the long-term projects of Marxists looking to topple the nation from within. Or so claims former Soviet propaganda chief — and defector — Yuri Bezemenov.Yes, the Founding Fathers wrote that “all men are created equal,” but it was meant in the sense that we should all have the same shot at success — the equal opportunity to excel. But the “equality” Bezmenov speaks of — the so-called “equality” of trans chicks to compete against women, the “equality” of trans...

The cartoonist who spent 65 years with Mad Magazine - mostly doing the "Fold-ins".

It’s no secret: TikTok gathers a ton of data on its users and sends the information straight back to the Chinese government. The app is a threat to your privacy and security even if you don’t have it installed. TikTok is not the only Chinese app ... A shopping app downloaded by millions of Americans comes with all sorts of sneaky tricks to keep an eye on you.Have you heard of Temu? People love Temu. It’s the second most popular shopping app right now, only surpassed by the mighty Amazon. Temu must be buying a ton of ad space because...

In an unexpected move, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has altered his Twitter name to “Harry Bōlz,” leaving his vast fanbase and followers curious and baffled. This development follows the temporary replacement of Twitter’s iconic blue-bird logo with the ‘Doge’ meme just last week, a prank reportedly orchestrated by Musk, which subsequently led to a 25% surge in the memecoin’s value. The most followed figure on Twitter, Elon Musk regularly utilizes his account to share thoughts, memes, and important announcements, boasting over 135 million followers on the platform. Musk’s online persona has often been described as “quirky” and...

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are trying to block ex-Vice President Mike Pence from testifying in a special counsel investigation of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, NBC News reported Monday. The latest move in the sealed court proceedings came less than a week after Pence said he would not fight a judge’s order for his testimony before the federal grand jury involved in the probe. Trump’s legal team has appealed that order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., NBC reported, citing a source familiar with the litigation. The notice to the U.S. Court of...

Negotiations on the recognition of the Taliban by Russia have entered the final stage. Most likely, official recognition will take place in the summer or early autumn of this year.

The United States Treasury Dept is planning to send officials to key parts of the globe to act as enforcers for western sanctions against Russia. Essentially, it’s a blackmail and extortion tour, where Liz Rosenberg and Brian Nelson will visit non-compliant nations and central Western banking hubs to threaten foreign nations against continued noncompliance.

WASHINGTON--House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on today's transcribed interview with Kathy Chung, who served as assistant to Joe Biden when he was Vice President: "I thank Kathy Chung for her cooperation with the Oversight Committee's investigation into President Biden's mishandling of classified documents. She provided startling information that undermines the Biden White House's narrative on the matter. "Today we learned that when Joe Biden left the vice presidency, boxes containing classified documents, vice presidential records, and other items were stored in three different locations around the Washington, D.C. area, including an...

California has changed and NOT in a good way! Wow!

President Joe Biden blamed Republicans in Congress for the mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday. A gunman fatally shot at least four victims and injured at least six others, including a police officer, at Old National Bank. Biden began his statement by expressing gratitude to the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officers “who quickly and courageously stepped into the line of fire to save others.” In his second paragraph, Biden blamed the mass shooting on Republican lawmakers not acting on gun reform. “How many more Americans must die before Republicans in Congress will act to protect our communities? It’s long...

The gunman who opened fire during a morning conference at the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky and killed four people has been identified as a employee at the bank. Authorities say Connor Sturgeon, 25, was responsible for the latest mass shooting on Monday at 8.30am when he entered the bank with an AR-15 style assault rifle and started firing. Police, however, said he was 23. Sturgeon's LinkedIn profile shows that he was employed for just one year at the bank as a syndications associate and portfolio banker after previously serving as an intern. It also shows that he...

The Jan. 6 shooting of first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner in Newport News stunned the community when police announced the child's actions were intentional. The mother of a 6-year-old boy who seriously wounded his teacher with a gun in January will face charges in the shooting, a local prosecutor in Virginia said Monday. A grand jury indicted Deja Taylor on charges of felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of recklessly leaving a loaded firearm so as to endanger a child, Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn said. The indictment comes a month after Gwynn said he would not seek charges...

More than two dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are urging the Department of Transportation to condemn the “unjust and discriminatory status quo” of traffic enforcement and implement reforms that will reduce racial inequities in traffic stops. In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 27 members of the CBC, including Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.), expressed a “grave concern for the wellbeing of Black drivers.” HOUSE Congressional Black Caucus presses Buttigieg to reform ‘racist traffic enforcement’ BY CHEYANNE M. DANIELS - 04/10/23 2:55 PM ET SHARE TWEET...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned a Russian missile strike that he said killed two people, including a child, in a Zaporizhzhia apartment building on Sunday. “Tonight, the Russian army shelled Zaporizhzhia with S-300 missiles. They hit a house, an apartment building. Three people were inside. A man, a woman and a child — a girl, her name was Iryna, she would have turned 11 this year. She died. The man died too,” Zelensky said in an address to Ukrainians, adding that the woman is in critical condition. “This is how the terrorist state spends this Palm Sunday. This is how...

Transgenderism is being portrayed as a progressive form of self-expression by the political, media, and business complex, but it is also damaging and marring—in many cases irreparably—the girls who come into contact with it. This series is exploring some of the cruelty experienced by people who have interacted with the “cyber-sect” of radical gender ideology, through testimony in their own words. _____ About 20 percent of Generation Z is likely to identify on the “LGBTQQIP2SAA” spectrum, and “LGBTQIA+” identification overall has become much more common in the United States in the past decade, according to 2022 polling by Gallup. Over...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referenced Monday’s attack on a Louisville, Kentucky, bank and pushed for gun storage laws, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and the ability to file suits against gun manufacturers. Jean-Pierre said President Biden is praying for the families impacted by the Old National Bank shooting. She then noted that Biden wants Congressional Republicans to work with Democrats to “ban ‘assault weapons’ and ‘high capacity’ magazines, to require safe storage of firearms, to require background checks for all gun sales, to eliminate gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability.” Jean Pierre described the proposed...