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The Biden family attempted to hide more than $10 million in payments from foreign nationals through a web of privately-held companies, House Oversight and Government Accountability Committee chairman James Comer of Kentucky said Wednesday at a press conference. Since taking control of the House, Republicans have undertaken wide-ranging investigations into the Biden family’s business practices. While Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian and Chinese energy deals have been widely reported, the House Oversight Committee has looked at other family members, including the president’s brother James and sister Valerie. “In only four months since gaining subpoena authority, we have made astonishing progress,” Comer said,...

Hi all, Haven't posted much here because of my substack but some events in the last few days shouted out "FreeRepublic!" 1) The Trump/RDS "race." There is no race. This was over before it began. My estimate is that RDS will get Kasich (the Mailman) level delegates, if that. I think with him at the latest poll at 17% vs. Trump, and Vivek Ramaswamy at 5%, RDS is closer to Vivek than he is to Trump, and I won't be surprised if Vivek doesn't push him hard. (Bannon thinks Vivek has topped, RDS settles at 15%. I think Vivek can...

Former President Donald Trump previewed his Wednesday night town hall event with CNN by contending the network is “rightfully desperate” to get ratings up again. “I’ll be doing CNN tomorrow night, LIVE from the Great State of New Hampshire, because they are rightfully desperate to get those fantastic (TRUMP!) ratings once again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday, previewing the event. The former president said CNN “made me a deal I couldn’t refuse” and pondered if this could mark the beginning of a “New & Vibrant CNN.”

Yuengling has launched limited-edition red, white and blue cans to support veterans in a timely marketing move that positions the brand to scoop up Bud Light’s ex-customer base. In a statement released Wednesday, the Pennsylvania-based brewer announced the release of the patriotic can “with military nonprofit Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) as part of the brewery’s Stars & Stripes program” to honor the nation’s heroes. The cans, boasting a desert camouflaged print and Team RWB logo, made their debut on Yuengling’s Instagram page. “Our summer fit is back. Rock the Stars & Stripes with us,” the caption read.

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER John 15:1–8Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he is the vine and we are the branches who must remain in him. If we ourselves do not participate in who Jesus was, we miss the spiritual power that he meant to unleash.If John’s Gospel is any indication, Jesus does not want worshipers but followers, or better, participants: "I am the vine, you are the branches; live on in me; my body is real food and my blood real drink; the one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in...

Do not let these transparently corrupt political grifters like Republican strategist Steve Cortes raise your blood pressure; instead, mock them mercilessly wherever and whenever you see them.Former Trump ally Steve Cortes announced today he has taken a job with the Never Back Down PAC that supports Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. As a result, he is reversing all his prior points of advocacy to endorse Ron DeSantis for 2024.[Pictured left, Cortes with fellow grifting scumbags John Cardillo and Matthew Tyrmand (the architect of the Project Veritas attack on O’Keefe) as they attend a pro-Desantis effort earlier this year.]The shallow character of...

Attorney George Conway said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that he believes supporters of former President Donald Trump can’t admit that he could be guilty of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll because then they would “have to admit they’ve been essentially endorsing and enabling a monster.”Cooper asked, “Do you think the verdict plays a role in how he does in the campaign for the nomination? Do you think it affects that?”Conway said, “Like everything else involving Donald Trump, it cuts both ways. I think to the people who support him, they will simply dismiss it as a conspiracy led...

A photo of the suspected meteorite that hit a home in New Jersey on May 8, 2023. Photo courtesy Hopewell Township Police Department/Facebook The week started with a bang for a homeowner in New Jersey after a likely meteorite blasted a hole through a house early Monday afternoon. A metallic rock fell out of the sky and hit a house in Hopewell Township, N.J., located approximately 10 miles north of Trenton. The Hopewell Township Police Department responded to the incident and confirmed that the oblong-shaped rock damaged the building. "It penetrated the roof, the ceiling and then impacted the hardwood...

Former President Donald Trump has opened up a 41-point lead over the rest of the Republican primary field, according to Morning Consult, marking his largest advantage yet in the polling outfit’s weekly “2024 GOP Primary Tracker” poll.The poll published Tuesday, shows that a clear majority of 60 percent of potential Republican primary voters back Trump for the nomination, while Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) sits in second place at 19 percent. The gap between them grew a net seven points compared to last week when Trump held 56 percent support to DeSantis’s 22 percent. Moreover, the divide has widened 21 points...

There are many surplus and refurb chargers / adapters for powering laptop computers on the market these days. Ebay, for example, has loads of them at good prices. And adapters from good brand names like Dell and HP seem to be quite reliable. By their ratings, these would appear to be useful for other projects. However, I was curious as to how consistent the low or no load voltage output was vs. the voltage at rated output. In the case of my Dell DA130PE1-00, a 130 watt adapter, there is just the "simple" rating if 19.5 DC volts @ 6.7...

Seguin resident Selena Palomares and her family have been going to Taco Tejano for over 15 years. When her family tried to eat at the restaurant recently, they were turned away because of her children. Palomares shared her experience at the Seguin Tex-Mex restaurant on social media on May 3. It had been a few months since the family went to the Tex-Mex spot, which that day consisted of her 2- and 3-year-old daughters, her mother, and herself. Her mom entered the restaurant first to use the restroom. Palomares was getting her daughters out of the car while her mom...

Republican AG Candidate Abraham Hamadeh blasted Democrats for their hypocrisy when it comes to their mantra of ‘count every vote.’ On May 16, the Mohave County Superior Court will hear oral arguments on a motion for a new trial filed by former Arizona attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh and the Republican National Committee (RNC) over last year’s attorney general election. In their filing, Hamadeh and the RNC are arguing that not all legal votes have been counted in the former’s race against now-Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes and that once they are, the results will show Hamadeh as the legitimate...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a swing at Mayor Eric Adams Tuesday, saying that Jordan Neely — the homeless man who was choked to death on the subway last week — was “killed by the demonizing of the poor by many of our leaders.” Neely, 30, was having a mental episode and threatening straphangers when another subway rider, later identified as 24-year-old former Marine Daniel Penny, placed him in a chokehold, which killed him. Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday blamed the Big Apple’s leaders. “Jordan Neely was killed by public policy. He was killed by the demonizing of the poor by many of...

In hockey, fighting is an accepted part of the game. In baseball, there’s no penalty box but it’s within the unwritten rules that fighting is accepted in certain situations, most often retaliatory. Oklahoma Christian School and Bethel High School are two schools in the greater Oklahoma City area that faced off last weekend in the Oklahoma HS baseball playoffs. Oklahoma Christian was 26-9 this season (10-1 at home) and then went on to beat Bethel 6-5 and 5-2 on May 5th and 7th, respectively. This booted Bethel from the playoffs as Oklahoma Christian advanced to the regional finals. It was...

After months of warnings, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has officially set a deadline: If Congress fails to act by June 1, the United States will default on its debt. Hopefully, this blunt SOS will operate as the great Samuel Johnson once said, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates the mind wonderfully.” So far, though, instead of acting on the secretary’s numerous warnings, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has willfully forced the United States to stare down the barrel of impending default to leverage passage of the Freedom Caucus’s dead-on-arrival wish list of...

If you want to spend without any limit in perpetuity, just say so.“If you buy a car,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the other day, “you are expected to pay the monthly payment. … It’s that simple.”Is it? Now, obviously, those who argue that the president can cancel millions of student loans by decree aren’t in a position to offer lessons on personal responsibility. The deeper problem with Jean-Pierre’s analogy, though, is that there isn’t a bank on Earth that’s going to keep lines of credit open when a person is compounding unsustainable debt year after year.Speaking of...

It is sick out there and getting sicker. Chicagoans are living in a war zone. Over half the population has witnessed a shooting by age 40. The average age of the witnesses is 14. The average age for being shot is 17. Of those young people who were surveyed, 7% of blacks, 7% of Hispanics, and 3% of whites were themselves shot. This indicates that while so-called “black-on-black” crime may be at a higher level, a pathological percentage of young people are being subjected to the hail of bullets that has become a way of life in the Windy City....

Near as I can figure, Biden is a drug cartel asset. On May 11 the floodgates of hell open. Actually, they're already open. Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas are working hand in hand with the human traffickers and drug smugglers along the border. They have posted exactly what they intend to do and not do and where it will and won't be done. NEWS: Federal authorities will conduct an enforcement op in El Paso, Texas, targeting migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border and were not processed by immigration authorities, starting Tuesday, sources tell me + @RosaFlores, as the city grapples...

You are what you drink. Police in Kansas were surprised last week when they pulled over a DUI suspect, only to find the driver was dressed up as a Bud Light beer can. Deputies flagged down the culprit on May 5 after receiving reports about a possibly intoxicated motorist on Interstate 35, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said.

The California reparations task force created economic models for lawmakers to calculate the costs of racism in California. Try our interactive tool to see what an individual might be owed.