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Total Revenue from all sources for the US Government is down $437 Billion to $930 Billion from prior fiscal year ending September 30, 2022.(The Treasury Report contradicts itself on the first page as to the amount of prior year revenue, giving both $4.9 Trillion and $4.1 Trillion total revenue in 2022.) Total Revenue for the USA for the fiscal year ending September 2023 was $3.97 Trillion based upon the recently released financial statements by the US Treasury. Of that amount $1.48 Trillion was Social Security and Medicare taxes that are Trust Fund Taxes and not part of the General Fund....

House Session - October 17, 2023

On this date in 1817, Maggie Houghtaling (alias Peggy Densmore) was hanged in Hudson, N.Y. for infanticide. Houghtaling lived with the mother of 15-month-old Lewis Spencer. One awful day in August — just eight weeks before the consequent execution — the mother popped out of the house a few moments and left Lewis gnawing on a piece of bread under her roommate’s care. When the mother returned, she found the child “apparently in convulsions, its tongue protruded from the mouth, and covered with erosions — the inside of the mouth corrugated, and all the shocking symptons which may be supposed...

Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has burned up $11.1 million of the $11.2 million he raised across July, August, and September, with no progress in the polls to show for it and donors increasingly reluctant to throw good money after bad.New filings show a campaign running out of firepower, with almost $6 million spent in July, with a precipitous drop to $3.8 million in August, followed by a crash to $1.3 million in September.They also show DeSantis’s campaign operation, which once boasted by far the biggest staff in the GOP race, is still being slashed, with 90 people on the...

Special Counsel Jack Smith is still hiding the names of his prosecutors in violation of federal Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) law.The Jack Smith Special Counsel refuses to release the names of his team members. Why is that? We know they are most certainly ALL Democrats. We know they lack integrity and honor.

Last month I attended a meeting of the Virginia Grain Producer’s Association to learn more about how the vast majority of grain is produced. I had the pleasure of being accompanied by three other CGA members, and, inevitably, the topic of scale came up. The VGPA farmers think in thousands of acres; CGA producers may be working with 100 or less. One of the challenges of building up a regional food system of any sort is balancing supply with demand. So the calculators came out and numbers were crunched, and it made me realize I don’t have a good handle...

One of Facebook’s corporate media “fact checkers” has falsely suggested that no Israeli civilians were harmed when Hamas launched a terror attack at a music festival earlier this month. On October 7, Hamas terrorists used paragliders to fly into a music festival in Israel, slaughtering hundreds of innocent concertgoers, mostly young people and families. The terrorists also raped, injured, and kidnapped many more, as Slay News reported. Eyewitnesses recalled horrific scenes of terrorists murdering innocent people as they ran for their lives, in some cases, pulling them from their vehicles as they fled and shooting them at point-blank range. The...

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie slammed former President Trump on Monday for his “awful temperament” in response to his mounting legal challenges. Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed Monday to impose a “narrow” gag order prohibiting the former president from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and their families involved in his Jan. 6 election interference case. Asked about Trump calling the gag order “unconstitutional,” Christie told former White House press secretary Jen Psaki: “Look, this is the awful temperament of the guy who is currently the front-runner for the domination of my party.”

@heatherscope JEFFRIES in caucus this AM: “We have two clear objectives: stop Jim Jordan from becoming Speaker, and reopen the House of Representatives so we can get back to work,” he told Dems, according to sources in room. MORE from caucus: JEFFRIES floated idea of elevating Speaker Pro Tem McHenry Jeffries told Dems the “specifics” are less important right now than convincing Republicans who don’t like Jordan that Dems will actually work with them Jeffries also warned Dems would “tattoo” this vote for Jordan on every Republican who supports him today on the floor Dems only a handful of seats...

Californians are complaining about barely-clothed prostitutes roaming the streets in broad daylight, an issue heightened by Democratic Gov. Newsom signing Senate Bill 357, local officials say. SB 357, which was authored by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener and backed by the ACLU, decriminalizes “loitering with intent to commit prostitution.” Critics say the law effectively decriminalizes prostitution in California. National City Mayor Ron Morrison, an independent, recently criticized the law, telling Fox News that prostitutes are now “wearing less than what you would consider a scanty negligee” and “flaunting it in everybody’s face.” Morrison also said the law, which was signed...

Hamas international relations chief said the terrorist group’s plan was never to target civilians when its forces invaded Israel on October 7. Instead he expressed surprise at the human toll exacted by the invading forces as they embarked on mass rape, torture, kidnapping, and slaughter of Israeli innocents. “The chief commander of the Al Qassem Brigade, who initiated the operation, he gave clear instructions not to target civilians or not to harm civilians,” Dr Basem Naim told Australia’s ABC 7.30 report during an interview.

One of Hamas' top military commanders has been killed in a Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, according to a statement from Hamas. Ayman Nofal was a member of Hamas' General Military Council and the commander of a brigade, the group said. He is the highest-ranking Hamas death since the war began. The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Securities Authority confirmed the strike in a statement, calling Nofel "one of the most dominant figures" in Hamas and a close associate of Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’ military wing. "In the past, Nofal was responsible for overseeing the manufacturing and developing...

The councilwoman was booked later Friday on a Class E felony, police sources told The Post — which can carry up to two to five years behind bars. “It is unacceptable and unlawful for a civilian to ever bring a firearm to a rally or protest, and especially important for elected officials to model a respect for the law that is expected of all New Yorkers,” New York City Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams said Friday. “It is the responsibility of the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney to enforce the law in what is a criminal matter, and the...

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A report from the Heritage Foundation shows that homicide rates have been higher in Democrat-run "blue counties" than they have been in "red counties" since 2002 – contradicting a popular talking point recited by prominent liberals like California Gov. and billionaire George Soros. Newsom has publicly stated that "8 of the top 10 murder states are red" while liberal mega-donor Soros wrote in the Wall Street Journal last year that "violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors" and "murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis suggests the Synod is a continuation of Vatican II: ‘The Church has to change’Among the more striking changes advanced by Pope Francis is his recent encouragement of priests to bless homosexual unions, in contradiction to the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful acts.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — “The Church has to change,” argued Pope Francis in a recent interview, highlighting post-Vatican II changes which he said “must continue.”“Progress is necessary and the Church has to incorporate these novelties with a serious conversation from a human point of view,” declared the Argentine pontiff. In an...

No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt," King Abdullah said at a news conference following a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.

Nothing focuses the minds of American voters more than an economy gone sour.As voters watch their chances of living the American dream dwindle — the price of homes, gas, cars, food, and other necessities skyrocketing; good-paying full-time jobs disappearing; and layoffs spreading throughout the economy — they just want to make the pain go away.And the easiest way for citizens to rid themselves of this pain is to vote out of power its perceived cause: the sitting president and his party.Americans forced out of office Herbert Hoover in 1932 because they blamed him for the Depression. Jimmy Carter lost the...

Former President Donald Trump mocked President Joe Biden's lip service trip to Michigan, saying Biden is pandering to the United Auto Workers labor union bosses. Trump said that he wants to stand for the American worker and "economic nationalism" against Biden globalism."I put everything on the line to fight for you," Trump said in a campaign stump speech in Clinton Township, Michigan, which aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax. "I've risked it all to defend the working class from the corrupt political class that has spent decades sucking the life, wealth, and blood out of this country."That's why...

An Ohio man has been busted after a Jewish woman shared Ring footage of someone ringing her doorbell just to say, “You Zionist pigs are f–king disgusting.” Footage seen nearly 3 million times by Tuesday after being shared by StopAntisemitism showed a bearded man in a beanie, dark jacket and jeans leaning down to talk into the Ring camera in one of the incidents. Homeowner Debbie Meyer said she’s certain she was targeted because she had an Israeli flag outside.