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In an unexpected development, a third IRS agent who worked on the Hunter Biden case has come forward. In closed-door testimony that took place on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Michael Batdorf testified that U.S. Attorney David Weiss faced roadblocks from the DOJ in charging the president's troubled son.A third IRS official confirmed that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss faced roadblocks when attempting to bring charges against Hunter Biden, contradicting denials issued Wednesday by Attorney General Merrick Garland.IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf told the House Ways and Means Committee in a closed-door interview on Sept. 12 that he felt...

His name is immediately recognizable as being one of the evilest men to have ever lived. Find out who Adolf Hitler really was in today's epic new video that looks at the life of the mad Nazi ruler! His mother, his niece, his nephew, his drug use, sexual perversions, etc.

The Pentagon will exempt its Ukraine operations from a potential shutdown if lawmakers can’t agree on a deal to fund the government by the end of the month, allowing key training and other activities in support of Kyiv’s forces to move ahead uninterrupted, according to a Defense Department spokesperson. (snip)“Operation Atlantic Resolve is an excepted activity under a government lapse in appropriations,” Sherwood said, referring to the named operation for DOD’s activities in response to the Russian invasion. The move means that the U.S. military’s activities related to the war, such as training of Ukrainian soldiers on American tactics and...

Senators John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), Rick Scott (R., Fla.), Steve Daines (R., Mont.), Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), Eric Schmitt (R., Mo.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R., Miss.) joined Kansas’s Marshall in urging the “immediate withdrawal” of the DOJ’s rule, which would amend current Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulations. “This latest action by the Biden administration is yet another step in their campaign to attack law-abiding gun owners,” the group of U.S. senators wrote to U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland, who signed ATF’s notice of the proposed rule on August 30. Marshall and his colleagues further warn the...

(The Center Square) – Every man, woman and child in Illinois is on the hook for $37,000 for the state’s unfunded public pension liabilities, according to a new report. The seventh annual American Legislative Exchange Council's "Unaccountable and Unaffordable" report on public pension liabilities pegs the amount of debt across the nation at nearly $7 trillion. Illinois comes in second to last.

Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy swiped at former President Donald Trump on Thursday for failing to repeal and replace the health care overhaul championed by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama. “I am never somebody who will make a false promise,” Ramaswamy said at an event in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. “My friend Donald Trump promised us: repeal and replace Obamacare. Eight years later, did it happen? No, it did not. It is a false promise if it is contingent on Congress.” *** It was a rare dig at Trump by Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old businessman who is a fierce...

Two-thirds of people on weight-loss drugs ate fewer cookies and salty snacks Brands at risk of losing business include Oreo, Taco Bell, Burger King and Jell-O The rise of weight-loss drugs isn't only shrinking Americans' waistlines, it could also shrink food corporations' bottom lines. Some experts predict junk food companies - already battling a rise in health conscious customers - could face a tobacco-like demise due to drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, which reduce cravings and make people feel full longer. Big banks, such as Morgan Stanley, predict 24 million people, or seven percent of the US population, will be...

Joe Biden has seemingly wandered off the UN stage without shaking hands with Brazil's Lula at the end of a joint speech. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 77, looked visibly irritated after the two leaders shared a stage to speak about their initiative to improve workers' rights in each country. But their diplomatic meeting got off to a labored start when Biden, 80, shuffled into a seven-foot Brazilian flag, leaving it teetering as he approached the podium.

WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's attempt to restart his stalled spending agenda failed on Thursday when Republicans for a third time blocked a procedural vote on defense spending, raising the risk of a government shutdown in just 10 days. The House of Representatives voted 216-212 against beginning debate on an $886 billion defense appropriations bill, with five hardline conservative Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the measure.

Reloaded for my new subscribers, my non-political, historical examination of Hitler's normal speaking voice, a subject unfamiliar to many historians and students of WWII.

…A strong RTO push is likely to blunt the gains of the last two years — when U.S. women reached new highs in labor force participation and men a new level of unpaid household work. It was nowhere near equality, but we were heading in the right direction. … A 2016 analysis from …Australia found that men's applications for flexible work arrangements were twice as likely to be rejected as women's….Although such arrangements increased women's job satisfaction, they seemed to have the opposite effect on men, who said they had been stigmatized by upper management. One manager actually said it...

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has floated a proposal to reverse changes to the Senate dress code that permit members of the upper chamber to dress as they please. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer confirmed this week that senators, but not their staffers or reporters, would no longer be subject to dress requirements. The move appeared to accommodate Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who prefers to dress in athletic shorts and a hoodie.

'Trump has expanded his lead over DeSantis. DeSantis continues his backwards slide.' A new survey shows Ron DeSantis may be no threat to Donald Trump in Iowa, but the Florida Governor is at least holding on to the second-place spot. Otherwise, though, the pollsters note it’s a “very bleak picture” for DeSantis’ campaign. The survey of 500 likely voters, conducted Sept. 17-19 by the Trump-friendly Fabrizio Lee, shows DeSantis at 15%, 30 points behind Trump. It’s the second poll in recent days showing DeSantis at 15%. DeSantis has lost 3 points since the July administration of the poll, and he’s...

“Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday compared Ukraine’s fight for survival to that of a “drowning person” capable of bringing down those who try to help. “Ukraine is behaving like a drowning person clinging to anything available,” Duda told Polish journalists, the Financial Times reported. “A drowning person is extremely dangerous, capable of pulling you down to the depths … simply drown the rescuer.” Of course, Duda refused to meet with St Zelensky at the UN meetings, and Old senile Joe needs to prepare for “ Zelensky’s Revenge”, he has the “ goods” on not just senile Joe’s corruption, but...

Matthew 9:9-13 Friends, today’s Gospel celebrates the call of Matthew. Jesus tells the tax collector, “Follow me.”The call of Jesus addresses the mind, but it moves through the mind into the body, and through the body into the whole of one’s life, into the most practical decisions. “Follow me” has the sense of “apprentice to me” or “walk as I walk; think as I think; choose as I choose; see as I see.” Discipleship entails an entire reworking of the self according to the pattern and manner of Jesus.Upon hearing the address of the Lord, Matthew “got up and followed...

Jimmy Kimmel is a bit under the weather. "Well, Las Vegas, I got COVID, and sadly, we need to cancel this weekend's Strike Force Three show," he announced in an Instagram post shared on Wednesday, Sept. 20. "I could never live with myself if I got my hometown friends sick," Kimmel continued, as the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host lived in Las Vegas from age nine to 18, though he was born in Brooklyn, New York

Ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo urged New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to sue President Biden to recover the billions of dollars absorbed while grappling with the migrant “fiasco.” “The emperor has no clothes,” Cuomo said of Biden in the latest episode of his “As a Matter of Fact” podcast Cuomo repeatedly said the federal government headed by Biden is responsible for immigration and border enforcement, not New York City or the Empire State. “The states should sue the federal government for the entire fiasco,” he said. He likened Biden and fellow Democrats handling of the migrant crisis to “the army marching off...

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It's getting really crowded at the hog trough with the announcement that the Clinton Global Crime Initiative Foundation will muscle it's way to the Ukraine hog trough. The Clinton Global Crime Initiative Foundation has several decades of experience in milking humanitarian crises for hundreds of millions of dollars. The Foundation has turned grifting and money laundering into a veritable science. The Foundation and its Marxist State Media accomplice has been able to manipulate favorable public opinion of the Foundation while providing less than 10% of its proceeds to the humanitarian causes. The Foundation founder, Benghazi Clinton, stated you haven't seen...

The State Elections Enforcement Commission on Wednesday voted to open a sprawling investigation into Bridgeport’s recent Democratic primary and to subpoena all of the absentee ballots that were cast in the contest between seven-term mayor Joe Ganim and his challenger, John Gomes. The commission said it received at least four complaints from citizens and two referrals from the Bridgeport Police Department regarding possible misuse of absentee ballots, including the distribution of those ballots at senior housing complexes in the city. The commission intends to subpoena the city of Bridgeport for lists of all of the absentee ballot applications that were...