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That headline isn’t our phrase. It comes from Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who like other Senate Democrats has been laying out in public the party’s tax strategy for the next Congress. Democrats are saying out loud that they plan to use the scheduled expiration of the 2017 tax cuts at the end of 2025 to insist on the largest tax increase in history. “The main goal here is this can’t just be a debate about the 2017 tax cuts,” Mr. Warner told Bloomberg. “This is going to be Tax Armageddon.” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, who runs the Finance Committee, on...

CLAIM: President Biden and his fellow Democrats claim crime is down based on an FBI report. VERDICT: False. Biden and his fellow Democrats do not mention that thousands of police precincts are not reporting crime data to the FBI. On June 11, 2024, Biden told an Everytown for Gun Safety gun control gathering: You know, the year before I came to the presidency, the murder rate was the highest increase on record. Last year, we saw the largest decrease of murder in the history of (inaudible). (Applause.) And those rates are continuing to fall faster than ever. Last year, we...

On Monday, the country marks two years since the Supreme Court overturned half a century of legalized abortion nationwide, a tumultuous two years that has held both wins and losses for the pro-life movement. Since the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision reversed Roe vs. Wade in June 2022, a total of 24 states have passed bans on abortion at 15 weeks or earlier. The Dobbs case dealt with a 2018 Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. Bans or restrictions on abortion are currently in effect in 21 states, namely Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina,...

The single greatest criminal fraud perpetrated by the DOJ/FBI, in conjunction with their conspirators in the mainstream media and the Hillary Clinton campaign, was the creation, utilization, and submission of the Steele Dossier for unlawful surveillance purposes. In June 2016, the Steele Dossier was commissioned by the Hillary Clinton campaign, using campaign dollars laundered through their law firm Perkins Coie. These funds were paid to Fusion GPS, which hired Christopher Steele—a former MI-6 operative—to create this fabricated dossier. Steele was simultaneously an FBI informant on the government payroll and on the Democratic Party’s bankroll. At the time, no one outside...

A California man who was arrested in Iowa with a carload of weapons and a hit list naming several high-ranking U.S. officials—including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Anthony Fauci—was sentenced to merely two years in federal prison and fined a nominal $100. Kuachua Brillion Xiong was arrested in December 2021 after he was stopped by law enforcement in Cass County, Iowa, “for driving aggressively, weaving in and out of traffic, and speeding on Interstate 80 East.” Upon investigation, authorities discovered an AR-15 rifle, ammunition, loaded magazines, body armor, and medical kits in his vehicle. A Secret Service complaint...

Daily Readings from the USCCBAll who heard these things took them to heart, saying, “What, then, will this child be?” For surely the hand of the Lord was with him. The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the desert until the day of his manifestation to Israel. Luke 1:65–66John the Baptist was formed by the hand of the Lord. Saint Thomas Aquinas goes so far as to say that John was sanctified in the womb of his mother, Elizabeth, as is written: “He will be filled with the holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb"...

More than 100 Big Apple residents and elected officials rallied outside Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field on Sunday, calling on city leaders to shut down a troublesome migrant tent city at the federal site. Fired-up locals draped in US flags converged on the massive site in a 90-vehicle long caravan and demanded that City Hall not renew a lease for the 2,000-bed migrant shelter that has been the focus of neighborhood complaints since it opened last year. “Illegals are being prioritized over New Yorkers and many, many New Yorkers feel that this crisis is just not debatable and there’s no end...

Hillary Clinton attacked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on his Christian faith in a recent interview, calling the conservative justice “scary” and “a fanatic” for his religious views. The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee made the remarks in April during a podcast interview with Democracy Docket’s Marc Elias. A clip from that discussion resurfaced on social media over the weekend. “You know, I was in the Senate when both John Roberts and Alito were nominated to the court by George W. Bush. Therefore, I had a chance, as you rightly say, to interview both of them,”...

VIDEOLeftist meltdowns can be unintentionally hilarious. Such was the case with these two recent meltdowns by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, and Kasie Hunt of CNN by way of MSNBC. What made AOC so funny was that she was screeching about taking this country back. Um, who has been in charge of the country, especially the Lawfare system, for the past few years. None other than her own CORRUPT Democrat party. Kasie Hunt acted like a Karen Hunt for insisting it is a grave sin to criticize Jake Tapper for daring to point out his more than obvious TDS. In Cable TV...

Joe Biden and First Lady Jill have been using their homes as an ATM, taking out multiple mortgages and refinancing their Delaware properties an astonishing 35 times, a DailyMail.com investigation has revealed. The president has lived in two houses in his home state since 1975, when he bought his first property in Wilmington that he later sold in the late 1990s. But records obtained by DailyMail.com show the couple have had a habit of negotiating a new mortgage or credit deal on both homes every 17 months

Traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is temporarily suspended late Monday morning as the Dali — a cargo ship that collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, leading to its collapse — makes its journey to port in Norfolk, Virginia. The Maryland Transport Authority (MDTA) said that traffic is temporarily paused on the Bay Bridge, as of 11 a.m. In an earlier statement, the Maryland Transport Authority (MDTA) said that “out of an abundance of caution,” it would be holding traffic on the Bay Bridge on Monday between 11 a.m. and noon as the marine vessel Dali passes beneath. The...

On Thursday, three Democratic senators introduced a bill to legalize the distribution of the abortion pill by mail. The abortion pill has become America’s most popular form of abortion, due to its lower cost and liability to the abortion industry. Yet a federal law known as the Comstock Act prevents the abortion industry from mailing the pills to women, outlawing the shipping of “every article or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion” via the U.S. mail. Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced a bill to repeal the abortion provision of that...

Just when you think things couldn’t get worse on the fiscal front, Washington once again manages to exceed expectations. One couldn’t help but get that impression from the latest update to the nation’s (poor) budget situation.The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released revised estimates of the nation’s budget and economic outlook over the coming years. While the prior version of the document, released in February, didn’t exactly show a fiscally responsible federal government, the intervening four months saw lawmakers digging taxpayers — that’s you and me — into an even deeper hole.More Spending by Congress and BidenOverall, CBO increased the...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff in a Sunday interview argued the significance of President Biden winning another term is so important, “the world depends” on it. Emhoff made the comments during an interview on CBS “Sunday Morning,” after being asked if he ever thought about how he and Vice President Harris could move back to California if the election were lost, and everything would be “just fine.” “We’re going to win this election. We have to win this election. Literally. Our country, and our world depends on us winning this election,” Emhoff responded. “That’s what’s gonna happen.” The top principals in...

The left-wing Labour Party may look to scrap government guidance telling schools to teach children that there are only two biological sexes, which would easily be overturned given the failure of the Conservative government to put the policy into law. Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said that if elected — as is widely predicted to happen — a Labour government would review guidance from Rishi Sunak’s government which told educators to refrain from teaching far-left gender ideology as a fact. This included the theory that people can somehow be born into the wrong body, can change their sexual identity, or...

CV NEWS FEED// On Wednesday, June 20, Bishop Michael Burbidge, on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a statement celebrating the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned the previous ruling of Roe v. Wade. As Bishop of Arlington and Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, Bishop Burbidge has been an outspoken champion of the right to life, calling abortion the “preeminent civil rights issue of our time,” as CatholicVote recently reported. In his statement on the anniversary of Dobbs, he urges American Catholics to continue defending life. He reminds Catholics...

Editor's note: NASA announced on Friday that Starliner's troubleshooting has been extended for a third time, meaning that the astronauts will stay aboard the International Space Station indefinitely until some time in July. Two NASA astronauts who rode to orbit on Boeing's Starliner are stranded in space aboard the ISS after engineers discovered numerous issues with the Boeing spacecraft. Teams on the ground are now racing to assess Starliner's status. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled to return to Earth on June 13 after a week on the ISS, but their stay has been extended for a...

In politics, it is usually discussed whether you are better off today than 4 years ago. Well, not if you are a renter or need to buy a home with mortgage financing. If you are a homeowner, you are better off in terms of home equty. With the Case-Shiller National home price index up 34% since Biden’s selection as President. That is the good news. The bad news? Property taxes are soaring and home insurance rates are up. The worst news? The 30 year conforming mortgage rate is up 147% under Biden. If you are a renter, you are worse...

A mayor in southern Mexico was found murdered in the back of van, just days after another politician was killed in the same region. Acacio Flores, who represents Malinaltepec, was found dead after the killing of Salvador Villalba Flores, another mayor from Guerrero state elected in June 2 polls. Prosecutors in Guerrero said Lores’ death had been ruled a homicide, and agents of the Ministerial Police were investigating. Flores was found with a bullet wound to the back of the head in the back of a van, a human rights campaigner told AFP. The rights activist said the politician was...

Private debt forgiveness is the only response to the country’s bleak economic situation, according to the broadsheet.With Kiev’s gloomy financial prospects showing no sign of improving, one British newspaper is insisting that Western bondholders must forgive a substantial portion of the country’s arrears. “Kiev was already in a complex debt situation going into the war, having restructured its private debt in 2015,” noted the Financial Times broadsheet in an editorial published Sunday. “The country must now balance borrowing to fund the war with managing old debt obligations.” “Doing so is a tricky juggling act,” the paper’s editorial board observed, claiming...