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-snip- “As we’ve said for weeks, legislation that doesn’t include policy changes to secure our borders will not pass the Senate,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who has been one of the most ardent supporters of Ukraine. Republicans and Democrats have been discussing a change to tighten the initial asylum screening standard, but GOP lawmakers have said that change alone isn’t enough. They have broadened their demands to include a massive expansion of immigration detention for asylum seekers, the ability to send asylum seekers to other countries the U.S. deems are safe and limits on an immigration...

The Daily Wire, The Federalist, and the state of Texas joined on Tuesday in a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, alleging that the government agency funded censorship technology designed to bankrupt domestic media outlets with disfavored political opinions. The State Department is tasked with foreign relations and has no authority over domestic affairs, yet it took a government office designed for countering foreign terrorist propaganda, the Global Engagement Center (GEC), and unleashed it against Americans engaged in what it claimed was “disinformation,” according to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas on Tuesday night...

Biden Says Queen Latifah Earned a Goldman Globe and a Prime Time Enemy

Former President Donald Trump is the Republican candidate best placed to beat Joe Biden in the critical swing states of Arizona and Georgia, according to an exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll, but Nikki Haley can beat the Democratic candidate in Wisconsin. The results undermine one of the key arguments being made by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Haley: That they are more electable than Trump. All the results carry a 4.2 percent margin of error, but show that in at least two of the crucial battlegrounds how Trump is the strongest Republican challenger to Biden.

As more than 75% of Americans express concerns about the economy, recent holiday spending signals potential trouble ahead. Over 18 million Americans defied uncertainty, hitting stores during the Thanksgiving weekend, with a record-breaking 200.4 million consumers making purchases. Despite a surge in online shopping, worries persist as experts warn of a looming credit card debt crisis. The National Retail Federation reveals that 44% of consumers favored online platforms, emphasizing the shift towards digital transactions. “I buy a lot of stuff on TikTok and stuff like that, so I do believe people use their phones to buy stuff more than in...

Democrat Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown on Tuesday reinstated a member of his state’s hate crime task force who posted numerous antisemitic social media posts, including a claim that the babies murdered in the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas attack were “fake.” Zainab Chaudry, an anti-Israel activist who serves as the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Maryland office, was suspended from the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention on Nov. 21 after her posts surfaced. “Upon further review, it was determined that the law establishing the Commission directs the Attorney General to appoint members to a...

Around June of 2023 Gianna Novello decided to give shooting a shot. The native of north Jersey wasn’t looking to become the next Lara Croft, or dive too deep into the world of becoming a shootist, it was just something she committed to wanting to try. Novello went through some basic steps with her boyfriend on how to handle a firearm, then made it to the range. Novello’s story starts with her being uninitiated in firearms, to five months later owning three handguns, and having a valid New Jersey permit to carry. That’s a remarkable story. Coming from N.J., her...

Joe Biden’s America. There were 12,000 encounters with illegal aliens at the southern border in the last 24 hours. This is the largest number of illegal crossings ever recorded in a single day. Fox News reporter Bill Melugin referenced former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson who worked under Obama. Melugin said that 1,000 illegal crossings in one day is overwhelming and 4,000 in a day is a “crisis.” Bill Melugin reported from Lukeville, Arizona on Wednesday and showed a massive line of illegals at the border. Most of the illegals are military-aged single men from around the world including Africa and...

The film “Leave the World Behind” centers on the idea of mistrust and how easy it is for humans to lose empathy for one another when faced with a crisis. It is at once unnerving, misanthropic and bleak, and, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, it’s produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. Set to become available on Netflix on Friday, it is one of three films from Higher Ground that will be released within a month of one another on the streaming service. The others are “Rustin,” a biopic about a gay civil-rights-era activist, Bayard Rustin, and “American Symphony,”...

Watch the debate! Join the discussion! Tonight is the fourth 2024 Republican presidential debate now featuring Governor Ron DeSantis, Governor Chris Christie, Governor Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy. Tonight’s debate is held at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The moderators will be Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News host; Eliana Johnson, the editor in chief of The Free Beacon; and Elizabeth Vargas, a NewsNation anchor.

Democrat Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a far-left ’Squad’ member, called for allowing “incarcerated citizens” to vote in federal elections while referencing her support for permitting individuals as young as 16 years of age to cast a ballot. Pressley made the comments during a Wednesday press conference while introducing legislation alongside Democrat Vermont Sen. Peter Welch that would restore felons’ voting rights. “That’s why we’re here today, to introduce the Inclusive Democracy Act — a historic, brand new, first-of-its-kind bill that will end the stain of felony disenfranchisement in America and guarantee the right to vote for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated...

Nov 29, 2023 #TwitterFiles #1A Journalist and C.B.R. Chair in Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin Michael Shellenberger weighs in on his latest reporting on an "anti-disinformation group" called Cyber Threat Intelligence League.

Republican presidential primary candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is facing renewed criticism just before Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate because of a June TV interview, where she said the government should not intervene if parents decide to put their children through irreversible, life-altering “transgender” surgery. “The law should stay out” of matters involving troubled teens who demand sex-related medical treatments because “parents should handle it,” Haley told CBS. Watch Below: “What care should be on the table when a 12-year-old child in this country assigned female at birth says, ‘Actually, I feel more comfortable living as a...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated Tuesday that he flew on Jeffrey Epstein's plane twice, contradicting a previous claim by his spokesperson last month. Kennedy was asked if he had ever flown with the late Epstein, who had been widely suspected to have been involved in sex trafficking and child exploitation prior to his death, to which the presidential candidate said he had flown with Epstein in 1993 and again in 2012. The statement contradicts what Kennedy's spokesperson said in November when he said he had “flown one time on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane" with his then-wife Mary,...

UN's chief biased-with-a-vengeance like radical racist Arab Omar Shakir 'bigot with a vengeance'? Remember longtine anti-israel activist Omar Shakir, since at least 2010 as he called for the extinction of the State of Israel , who was expelled from Israel on 2019 and three years later abused the HRW to promote his "apartheid" slur (by misrepresenting facts and changing its original definition)? Described as a bigot with a vengeance. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/fact-sheet-on-omar-shakirs-bds-campaigns/https://www.stopantisemitism.org/antisemite-of-the-week5-1/antisemite-of-the-week-omar-shakir-bigot-with-a-vengeance__ Now, let's ralk about the UN. Not that the UN wasn't extremely biased against Israel for decades (hijacked by Arab Islamic large bloc, and more). But recapping the Oct 7...

President Joe Biden delivered his sternest warning yet to congressional Republicans balking at approving more aid to Ukraine: Pay up now or you'll pay more later, forced to send U.S. troops to fight Russian soldiers when an emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin moves in on a NATO member country. "Congress needs to pass supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday. It's as simple as that," Biden said at the White House as the GOP-led House mulled Biden's request for $106 billion in emergency spending, including foreign aid. "Frankly, I think It's stunning we have gotten to this...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) – Retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice E. Joseph Bleich has made a ruling in the election lawsuit filed by Caddo Parish sheriff candidate, John Nickelson. That ruling came down Tuesday, Dec. 5. The judge ruled the results of the Nov. 18 runoff election, in which Henry Whitehorn defeated Nickelson by one vote, are declared void. It was further ordered a new runoff election shall be conducted. Whitehorn’s team appealed that decision Tuesday afternoon. The ruling states “it was proven beyond any doubt that there were at least 11 illegal votes cast and counted” and that it...

December 6 is the feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra, later of Bari. Though known more commonly in modern times for his connection with “Santa Claus”, Saint Nicholas was considered a great saint in his day and numerous anecdotes relating to his acts of holiness, courage and generosity have come down to us from antiquity. Here is an excerpt from an anonymous history from the 4th century AD entitled, Praxis de Stratelatis (Act of the Generals). In it, we see Saint Nicholas doing what he does best: using his authority as bishop to rescue the innocent and speak the truth...

Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister, saying the government's emergency Rwanda legislation "does not go far enough". He said "stronger protections" were needed to end "the merry-go-round of legal challenges which risk paralysing the scheme". The government said the bill, unveiled earlier, made clear in UK law Rwanda was a safe country for asylum seekers. But it stops short of what some on the Tory right were demanding. In his resignation letter to the prime minister, Mr Jenrick said: "In our discussions on the proposed emergency legislation you have moved towards my position, for which I am grateful. "Nevertheless,...

Explanation: It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and inside a region known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillars' appearance is dominated by opaque brown dust even though it is composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. Even though some of the dust pillars look like torches, their ends are not on fire -- rather, they are illuminated by nearby stars. About 7,500 light-years distant, the...