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"Am I the Only One", a beautiful patriotic song by country superstar Aaron Lewis that just about sums up the state of our country.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bluntly told President Biden in a letter Monday he's not backing away from his aggressive border security efforts despite the U.S. Justice Department's threat last week to sue on grounds that the state is usurping federal authority. "You must fully enforce the laws of the United States that prohibit illegal immigration between ports of entry," the Republican governor told the Democratic president. "In the meantime, Texas will fully utilize its constitutional authority to deal with the crisis you have caused. Texas will see you in court, Mr. President.”

The Internal Revenue Service said Monday it is ending its decades-old policy of making unannounced home and business visits, in an effort to help keep its workers safe and to combat scammers who pose as IRS agents. Effective immediately, revenue agents will no longer make unplanned visits to taxpayers’ homes and businesses “except in a few unique circumstances,” the Treasury Department said in a statement. The agency will instead mail letters to people to schedule meetings. “Today’s announcement is the right thing to do, at the right time,” new IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel told reporters on a call Monday. The...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) offered an apology Saturday “for the appearance” of disrespecting children who died in the Uvalde shooting, after footage of the congresswoman discarding a tribute pin for one of the victims prompted a wave of harsh criticism. “If anyone thinks that I was disrespecting a child who tragically lost their lives at the hands of an evil, evil person, I want to apologize for the appearance of that. But that’s not at all what it was,” she said. In a video that circulated late last week, an activist appears to hand Boebert a pamphlet and a pin....

Crime in surging in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago, with carjackings in particular up 126 percent. “The number of carjackings is more than double what it was at this point last year,” FOX News reported. FOX: Another violent weekend in Democrat-run Chicago amid a massive rise in robberies, thefts, batteries, sexual assaults, and carjackings pic.twitter.com/NcdNA22vmA — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 24, 2023 FOX News noted that robbery is up 16 percent, thefts are up 14 percent, and sexual assaults are up five percent in Chicago.

Avatar Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Joe Biden is the most corrupt President in the history of the United States, which is being undeniably proven in the House of Representatives every single day. But with all of these horrible revelations and facts, why hasn’t Republican “leadership” in the Senate spoken up and rebuked Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats, Fascists, and Marxists for their criminal acts against our Country, some of them against me. How long does America have to wait for the Senate to ACT? Jul 24, 2023, 7:48 AM

Two prominent professors are urging President Biden to thwart US Supreme Court “MAGA’’ justices by instituting an “alternative intepretation’’ to some rulings — a proposal that critics claim would be dictatorship. Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin last week penned “An Open Letter to the Biden Administration on Popular Constitutionalism” to demand that Biden take action against what he has already deemed “not a normal court” because of some of its controversial recent rulings. “We urge President Biden to restrain MAGA justices immediately by announcing that if and when they issue...

A staffer for presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is being accused of retweeting a video showing the Florida governor surrounded by a Nazi symbol. The video, which was originally shared and later deleted by a DeSantis fan account, shows troops marching towards the conservative politician as Florida’s flag and a sunwheel are visible in the background. “The @desantiscams account just deleted this video after at least one campaign staffer RT’d it,” podcast host Luke Thompson wrote after sharing a copy of the video. “I wonder if this was also made in-house.” Thompson’s remark also points to an incident several...

Clandestine@WarClandestineFor those wondering why peace talks haven’t happened and why the Biden regime are sending more US troops to Russia; allow me to enlighten you.Russian MIL accused Biden himself of orchestrating bioweapons production via his biolab company operating in Ukraine, Metabiota.Biden cannot allow Ukraine to surrender and he cannot have peace talks with Putin, because Russia have presented evidence at the UN over the past 18 months, of biological weapon production by US funded labs in Ukraine, and Russia have demanded that a stipulation for peace would be a UN Security Council investigation of the US biological network in Ukraine....

A Donald Trump ally has turned over thousands of documents to special counsel Jack Smith related to efforts to find supposed voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election – including materials that haven’t been previously disclosed to investigators looking into events surrounding January 6, 2021. Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik was part of the team led by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani trying to uncover fraud that would swing the election in favor of Trump. For months, Kerik had tried to shield some of the documents from investigators, citing privilege. But in recent weeks, Kerik gave the documents to...

India's rice export ban has triggered panic buying at US supermarkets, causing the price of a 20-pound bag to surge from $16 to almost $50 in some stores. The south Asian country, which accounts for 40 percent of world rice exports, ordered a halt to its largest rice export category, non-basmati rice, on Thursday to calm domestic prices, sparking fears of global shortages. Videos and reports shared on social media over the weekend show Indian-Americans standing in long lines or panic-buying rice in Texas, Michigan, New Jersey Alabama, Ohio, Illinois and California. Some stores have hiked the price of a...

A team of researchers at Oregon State University blamed the "rise of online fascism" for students' sarcastic and mocking responses to their woke identity survey, according to a June paper published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. The researchers' paper, "Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interpreting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences," accused the students of "tamper[ing] with the study outcomes and/or harass[ing] the researchers" by submitting responses that allegedly included "slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team." . . . According to the research team, 50...

A top Florida police official shot himself in the head on the side of a highway Sunday after an argument with his wife and remains in critical condition, according to reports. Tampa cops responded earlier in the day to a “disturbance” at a local hotel involving Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez, who was in town for a sheriffs’ association conference, and his wife. After responding officers left the scene of the initial call, Miami-Dade’s top cop shot himself in the head on Interstate 75. The Florida Highway Patrol addressed the incident in a statement.

The Bureau of Land Management announced new rules that will greatly increase the cost of oil and gas development on public lands. Critics say if the rules become final, it will likely make oil and gas production in Wyoming uneconomical. The Bureau of Land Management has announced new rules that, if finalized, will increase bonding requirements, royalty rates and minimum bids for oil and gas drilling on public lands. Statements by the bureau on the proposed rules say they will lead to more responsible leasing and development processes. Critics say it’s just a step toward the elimination of oil and...

Shocking video has emerged showing a transgender man being pummeled and body-slammed to the ground by an LA County sheriff’s deputy earlier this year after he gave the officer the middle finger. Emmett Brock, who is transgender, said the altercation began when he drove past the deputy, who was having a heated conversation with a woman, and flipped him off, according to the LA Times. Seconds later, Brock said, he noticed he was being followed by a sheriff’s cruiser. Brock said he called 911, but a dispatcher allegedly said, “What is that you want us to do? If he hasn’t...

Human smugglers have been taking advantage of record heat at the southern border to sneak migrants into the US, believing that there will be fewer border officers to stop them, according to officials. A record number of dead migrants have been recovered at the border as temperatures soared above 100 degrees for 36 consecutive days, the US Border Patrol said. “We are currently recording a significant number of migrant deaths in New Mexico due to the desert terrain and extreme heat,” the agency told the Border Report. In the summer, smugglers at the border normally avoid the hottest hours of...

Six Romanian vessels were in the Ukrainian port of Reni during the Russian strikes on the night of 23-24 July.Source: Mediafax, reported by European PravdaDetails: Mediafax reported that during the drone attack, Romanian sailors saw and heard explosions in the port, which is located on the left bank of the Danube.It is noted that the sailors and their vessels were not injured or damaged, and after the strikes, they quickly left the port and reached the right bank, where the territory of Romania begins.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the House of Representatives could be moving in the direction of impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland "at a pretty quick pace," following testimony from two IRS whistleblowers before the House Oversight Committee. Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures to review the revelations from IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler. Host Maria Baritomo asked Jordan if he would impeach Garland based on his takeaways from the hearing. Jordan said it is up to the full conference of the House GOP. "I will tell you this the speaker...

Photos from Hunter Biden’s laptop show he was at then-Vice President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware the same day of his alleged "shakedown" messages to a Chinese business partner. President Biden recently shouted at a New York Post reporter when asked if he was with his son during the alleged WhatsApp discussion with Henry Zhao, CEO of Chinese asset management firm Harvest Fund Management, on July 30, 2017, during which Hunter said he was "sitting with" his father. Asked if Biden was with Hunter during the digital discussion, the president laughed at the question before yelling, "No!"

KYIV (Reuters) -Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River in a drone attack on Monday, targeting a vital export route for Kyiv in an expanding air campaign that Moscow began last week after quitting the Black Sea grain deal.Last week's attacks mostly struck the sea ports of Odesa but Monday's pre-dawn strikes hit infrastructure along the Danube, an export route whose importance has grown since the demise of the deal allowing Ukrainian grain shipments via the Black Sea."The Russian terrorists have again attacked the Odesa region overnight. Port infrastructure on the Danube river is the target this time,"...