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Texas state legislators voted to advance a bill that would raise the legal age to buy certain semi-automatic rifles from 18 years old to 21 years old on Monday. State Rep Jarvis Johnson posted a video of the moment HB 2744 was passed out of committee. It will be scheduled for a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives next. HB 2744 passed with a vote of 8-5. The vote came two days after a mass shooting at a mall killed eight people, including children. Protesters, including families of Uvalde shooting victims, had filled the statehouse to support...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to send “thousands more” migrants to the Big Apple, Chicago and other sanctuary cities “in the coming days,” as the border is besieged ahead of Title 42 ending this week. Abbott, a Republican, slammed President Joe Biden for failing to act as states bordering Mexico prepare for the end of the federal policy which has allowed for the fast ejection of immigrants from the US since it went into place in 2021. Even before its end, the border has been swarmed with 81,000 people attempting to cross into the US in the last 10...

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER John 14:21–26Friends, we see in our Gospel reading that the Holy Spirit’s principal sign is love. The night before he died, Jesus told his friends the deepest truths. He spoke of himself, his Father, and the Holy Spirit.The Holy Spirit is the love that connects the Father and the Son. From all eternity, he is breathed back and forth between the Father and the Son, and hence he is nothing but love. When therefore he comes to dwell in you and me, he turns us to the path of love. “On that day you will realize...

President Joe Biden appointed the President of a non-profit organization linked to Hunter Biden’s corrupt business affairs in Ukraine to the Board of the U.S. Air Force Academy, War Room can reveal. The appointee, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, will serve a three-year term on the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Air Force Academy, which “advises the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, through the Secretary of the Air Force, and to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives,” according to a White House press release. Among...

America’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Moment Has Already Arrived, New IRS Data ShowIt’s not just high taxes that are driving people out of cities. There are other costs—moral, social, and cultural—associated with spurning property rights and celebrating looting.Last September, billionaire Ken Griffin announced he was pulling up stakes and moving Citadel—his gigantic hedge fund—from Chicago to Miami.The Windy City was out of control, he told Bloomberg, something that dawned on him after a colleague made a coffee run and was robbed by a thief who put “a gun to his head.”It’s no secret that Griffin’s exit is part of a much larger...

Prior to the termination of the Title 42 public health order, which helped prevent the entry of migrants into the United States, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the creation of a new Texas Tactical Border Force on Monday.We’re deploying the new Texas Tactical Border Force to border hotspots to repel illegal crossings.These elite soldiers will fill in the gaps in preparation for Title 42 ending this week.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted on Monday that 26,382 migrants crossed the border between ports of entry during the past three days. An additional 7,399 crossed and managed to avoid apprehension. Chief Ortiz’s tweet reports that approximately 11,260 migrants are known to have crossed the border per day during the past 72 hours. Of those, agents took 26,382 into custody (8,794 per day) while another 7,399 (2,466 per day) are classified as known got-aways.

I hope this may be of some general interest. My car's electronic panel says "engine oil has zero life" despite fact it was changed recently. In fact I got it changed about 1,000 km before sticker mileage and wonder if the previous owner somehow had that mileage programmed in, while my oil change service people did not know that and also did not program anything in (so the car's computer thinks I just passed a mileage requiring an oil change). The car runs fine, and I'm wondering if this bogus message can be erased by "restore factory settings" which seems...

VIDEOMost of us, including liberals, already know that the FBI raid o President Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 was entirely political. Of course, the liberals, until NOW, have never openly admitted this. So what liberal finally admitted this in public NOW? Ryan Grim on Breaking Points on May 8, 2023. He made the admission so low-key matter-of-factly that at first I thought I didn't really hear what I thought I heard. It wasn't until I rewound back to the admission that I confirmed he Grim really did admit the raid was political as you can read his...

Government investigators are reporting that Google co-founder Larry Page has disappeared after a subpoena was issued for his testimony in a Jeffrey Epstein underage trafficking case. Authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands issued subpoenas against Page and Google parent company Alphabet in the lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. bank. The lawsuit accuses JPMorgan, America’s largest bank, of playing a role in Epstein’s international child sex trafficking operation. However, a new legal filing reveals that investigators have been unable to locate Page since the subpoena was issued. Authorities have now been forced to ask Judge Jed Rakoff, who is overseeing...

New details about a possible corruption scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings came to light on Monday as investigations into the First Family heat up. Bud Cummins, a U.S. attorney-turned-lobbyist, wrote to the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan in 2018, sharing that Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko was willing to share alleged evidence of crooked behavior by Biden dating back to when he was vice president, according to emails reported by Just the News on Monday. The documents came to light days after House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced that...

New analysis by Greenpeace has ranked the affordability of public transport in 30 European countries, concluding that in most places prices are too high. Apart from Luxembourg and Malta, which have made domestic public transport free, only Austria, Germany and Hungary have introduced relatively affordable nationwide tickets, costing less than €3 per day, according to the data published on Thursday (4 May). Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Norway scored worst in the ranking, while Dublin, London, Paris and Amsterdam ranked worst in the list of capitals, offering tickets above €2.25 per day. In Amsterdam, for example, the price of a yearly...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised some questions Friday when he suggested that Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-created insurer, has “not been solvent” and may be unable to pay all claims from a major hurricane.The head-scratching comments came just hours before the Citizens board of governors voted to spend more than $170 million over the next three years on $500 million in reinsurance bonds.DeSantis made his statement at a news conference in Fort Myers, a city that took the brunt of Hurricane Ian last September, and where many homeowners are now complaining that they’ve received little or no payouts on...

The organizers of a women's running race in Spain apologized Monday after the winner was offered a food processor to take home, sparking accusations of sexism. The 7-kilometer Carrera de la Mujer women's race issued a statement on Twitter saying it hadn't considered the kitchen appliance -- donated by a sponsor -- would have sexist implications. SNIP The food processor controversy went largely unnoticed until Ángela Rodríguez Pam, Spain's secretary of state for equality, tweeted that the winner had received a food processor and others were given 0% fat products. "If you win: housewife and if not at least you'll...

The U.S. Federal Reserve has revealed that 722 banks reported unrealized losses exceeding 50% of their capital at the end of the third quarter of 2022. “Rising interest rates are creating significant unrealized losses in investment securities and in some cases depressing tangible equity,” according to the Fed’s Division of Supervision and Regulation. 722 Banks Reported Unrealized Losses of More Than 50% of Capital The U.S. Federal Reserve has revealed in a board presentation by the Division of Supervision and Regulation that 722 banks reported unrealized losses exceeding 50% of their capital at the end of the third quarter of...

I noticed Howie went off the air abruptly during his afternoon show a few minutes ago. Hope he's OK!

A transgender woman has been sacked by Starbucks after footage showed her berating a female customer and allegedly assaulting a man who filmed the incident. The clash broke out at a Starbucks branch near the ferry terminal of Southampton, Hampshire, on Sunday, April 30. The 56-second clip shows the employee on the same side of the counter as the customer, arguing with her. The person recording the incident said the woman had apparently said something 'transphobic' to upset the employee, who angrily refuses to serve her. Footage shows the female customer saying: 'You're rude, don't ever call me transphobic, ever....

Republicans in the Senate say that despite his legal woes, former President Donald Trump is increasingly likely to be the 2024 GOP presidential nominee.Since March 30, when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted him on multiple felony counts, Trump has doubled his lead in the polls over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, considered his closest rival.A RealClearPolitics national poll analysis found that Trump led DeSantis by an average of 16 points on the day of the indictment; by May 1, Trump's average polling lead had grown to nearly 30 points over DeSantis.Trump also has picked up several key endorsements in Congress,...

“The View” co-host Ana Navarro claimed that black and Hispanic people are “not immune” to becoming “white supremacists” while discussing the recent shooting at a mall in Texas on Saturday. The shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, left eight people dead and seven others injured. A police officer eventually stopped the shooter, local law enforcement said. “We all have to remember, the head of the Proud Boys, his name is Enrique Tarrio. The Proud Boys is a white nationalist group,” Navarro said. “Look, being Hispanic or being black or being anything does not make you immune from...

Moves by WHO and U.S. usher pandemic into new phase of disease monitoring, even as coronavirus kills thousands weeklyThe World Health Organization (WHO) today declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, days ahead of when a similar emergency in the United States is also set to expire. Both moves are likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19. WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference today in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee met yesterday and recommended ending...