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“I’m not the deciding official.” Those five words, allegedly from Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, shocked IRS and FBI investigators in a meeting on October 22, 2022. This is because, in refusing to appoint a special counsel, Attorney Garland Merrick Garland had repeatedly assured the public and Congress that Weiss had total authority over his investigation. IRS supervisory agent Gary A. Shapley Jr. told Congress he was so dismayed by Weiss’s statement and other admissions that he memorialized them in a communication to other team members.Shapley and another whistleblower detail what they describe as a pattern of interference with their...

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the armed rebellion led by head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin showed “a crack in the strength of Vladimir Putin at home.” Klobuchar said, “This was really significant. It shows a crack in the strength of Vladimir Putin at home. It was a visible rejection of his war policy by a guy who had been his ally who had clearly gone insubordinate and took over a town of over a million people and brought his tanks to within 124 miles of Moscow. So it is...

VIDEOEEEEK! The White House Press corps is FINALLY starting to ask tough questions. And backup Press Secretary (because regular Press Secretary KJP is unable to handle the job) John Kirby can't deal with it. The result, as you can see in the closeups, are some really entertaining wincing on Kirby's pained face when confronted with the corrupt texts of the crack addict son of Joe Biden, Hunter.

The City of Fort Worth says it was targeted by a group of hackers because of the state's stance on gender-affirming care. City officials say the hackers stole information from a website used to track city work orders, but no sensitive information has been released. On Friday, June 23 the City's Information Technology Solutions Department was told about a post that said the City's website had been hacked. Staff found that data posted online came from an internal information system used to track work orders, not the City's public website. "The City of Fort Worth has confirmed that the posted...

Liberal crybaby and Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz deserves an Emmy nominee for her act at an airport after surviving a “dangerous” encounter with an unmasked passenger. The liberal complained via Twitter in a long-winded series of tweets that TSA agents at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York asked passengers to remove their masks before they stepped up to the security desk. Lorenz described the situation as “dangerous” and “insane,” causing her to hold her breath for several seconds as she approached security. Nevertheless, however, she survived the traumatizing experience. “I can’t believe they're doing stuff like this in...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus said to the Twelve: “Fear no one. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.” Matthew 10:26This line is spoken by our Lord within the context of preparing the Twelve for the persecutions that are to come. Prior to this passage, Jesus said, “But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans.” After saying much more about the persecutions...

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“Now is the time to say . . . ‘God is queer.’” Who spoke these blasphemous words, and what was the context of the statement?

Special Dispatches to the New-York Times. HARRISBURGH, Penn., Wednesday, June 24. The rebel cavalry advanced to Shippensburgh this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Telegraphic communication was suspended at that place. The operator retired to Newville, and at last accounts was at Graysonville, six miles above Carlisle and twenty-four from Harrisburgh. At the present moment the Eighth and Seventy-first New-York are at Carlisle. Gen. KNIPE is at that point. A train of cars with the engine fully steamed is in readiness to convey the troops hither in case the emergency should demand it. Gen. KNIPE has telegraphed to Gen. COUCH that he...

Attorney General Merrick Garland rebuffed suggestions that his Department of Justice has a "double standard" when it assesses how to treat persons suspected of wrongdoing. "We weigh each and every situation to determine how to proceed," he maintained. "Sometimes circumstances call for aggressive prosecution. Sometimes a more lenient approach is warranted." "Take the recent decision to go easy on Hunter Biden," Garland suggested. "Here we had an individual with no previous criminal record--a first time offender, so to speak. It was our determination that no useful public purpose would be served by putting this individual behind bars. Additionally, it would...

“I made it clear that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were in Durham’s crosshairs,” explains William Barr, the Attorney General who tapped John Durham to investigate the Russia collusion hoax against candidate and President Donald Trump. In One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, Barr also praises Robert Mueller and deputy attorney general Rob Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller to investigate Trump. “Few can appreciate the complexities Rod faced during that tumultuous time,” writes Barr, “and even fewer will know the important contributions he made to the administration and the country.” The allegedly heroic Rosenstein gets...

Greeks headed to the polls for the second time in less than two months on Sunday, with the conservative party in power a strong favorite to win with a wide majority after a campaign focused on economic growth and security. The vote is overshadowed by a major shipwreck just over a week ago that left hundreds of migrants dead or missing off the coast of western Greece. But the disaster is unlikely to significantly affect the overall outcome as Greeks are expected to focus on domestic economic issues. Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, is eyeing a second term as prime...

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. Jeremiah 23:24 (King James Version) There is an old saying in DC which says, “An honest politician is one who when he is bought, he stays bought.” This week marked another step in the gradual reveal of the coup which the DNC machine organized against President Trump and the American people. A coup so deep and sophisticated it encompassed every part of Gummit and media to make sure the mistake of Hillary's defeat would...

James Landis is widely credited with crafting the theoretical architecture supporting President Roosevelt’s radical reconstruction—and expansion—of the federal government. Landis shrewdly both established and legitimized the regulatory state, including Roosevelt’s creation of new federal administrative agencies, by offering the regulatory state as the solution to the problem of modern governance: the administrative state “is, in essence, our generation’s answer to the inadequacy of the judicial and legislative process.” The Landis premise took concrete shape through Roosevelt’s expansion of the regulatory state, and in doing so, it brought to fruition Woodrow Wilson’s progressive intellectual project: rule by experts, insulated from the...

I have been engaged in an ongoing dialogue with a physician who works in a major children’s hospital in a blue city. This physician has witnessed firsthand how transgender ideology has captured the medical profession and jeopardized the first commandment of the healing sciences: do no harm. He has now chosen to speak out, on condition of anonymity, because he is alarmed by the sudden corruption of the medical community. His colleagues, many of whom oppose transgender interventions, have so far chosen to stay silent. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Christopher Rufo: Please begin by setting...

Starbucks was ordered to pay $25.6 million in damages to a white employee it fired because of her race.

I can’t be the only one wondering what has happened to us. ... Here are just a few ways our current system exploits us and, in the process, continues to destroy our societal fabric and morality: Higher education is incredibly expensive. “Financial aid” allows people to take out loans they could not otherwise carry, breeding fiscal irresponsibility and disregard — 60% of students taking out loans they may never be able to repay. It lowers academic and intellectual standards and saturates the market with college graduates; when schools can get just about any price for tuition because the federal government...

There is an overwhelming consensus that humanity is returning to a preference for absorbing information through pictures and video rather than text, and that the millennia and a half where the written word reigned is ending. This might sound apocalyptic to some minority of us, but it's hard to deny, and in any case it didn't become apparent with the rise of YouTube and TikTok influencers but decades ago, when a rumpled Englishman who looked like he emerged from the wood paneling of a university library told the story of western civilization with a TV series. I feel like one...

It is truly a Fed Inferno! Money supply growth fell again in April from Jerome Powell And The Fed, plummeting further into negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. April’s drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. Yes, The Fed is printing money like it is going out of style! The war on Covid was similar to other wars fought where the US printed boatloads of money to pay for WWI. WWII, Korea and Vietnam wars. And the war against the...

I recently picked up Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court for the first time. Finding the plot rather amusing, I began relaying it to my father over the weekend. Because he had never read the book, I was rather surprised when he began asking informed questions about the story. In no time at all, he was the one schooling me on plot elements I had not yet reached.“Wait a minute,” I asked. “Are you sure you’ve never read this book?”“No, never have,” he replied, “but I saw a cartoon version of the story when I was younger...