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The Republican-led House returns Monday to Capitol Hill with just 25 scheduled legislative days left before the November elections to obtain the audio tapes of Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur's 2023 interview with President Biden regarding his mishandling of classified documents. The House GOP has the transcript of the five-hour interview but has offered several arguments on why it wants the tapes – including that the federal criminal investigation ended this year with no charges against Biden in part because Hur concluded a jury would likely view the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

We have seen how quickly Western governments will use every ‘emergency’ to dispatch basic civil liberties. We also know what’s coming. Battered conservative syndrome is real! We have gotten clobbered over the head so many times during the last decade that we’re almost numb to the pain. Even worse, we’ve been conditioned to accept each new blow as if we somehow deserved it more than the last. We do not. We have seen how quickly Western governments will use every “emergency” to dispatch basic civil liberties. We have watched American political operatives rig elections with mail-in-ballot fraud. We have endured...

Larry Chavis is clinical professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC. He has taught there for 18 years on a renewable contract. He has now been told that his contract will not be renewed this year. The university has apparently acted in a totally legal way, but Chavis and his supporters are upset: Because of his long service, which seemed to promise some job security. Because a few of his lectures were apparently recorded, by built-in security camera. This arrangement is also apparently legal, though it seems tacky. As far as I know, the faculty...

A family in Concord NH have violent, armed vagabonds camping out on their property. These libtard parents refuse to protect their family and home, even after receiving death threats from these armed trespassers. (NH is a stand-your-ground state, so there’s no excuse for them not to use deadly force): Family calls cops 37 times, receives death threats from encampment of violent vagabonds behind dream home: ‘I can’t even use my backyard’ … Robin Bach and her husband spent years restoring their 19th-century dream home in Concord to raise their two children, ages 8 and 11 — but have been plagued...

Taxpayers are footing a hefty bill for New York City’s hotel industry, which has received over $1 billion to house illegal aliens in former luxury hotels, reported the New York Post on Saturday.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 103 people have been shot, 19 fatally, in gun violence across Chicago since Wednesday evening during the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, police said. Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Superintendent Larr y Snelling will hold a press conference Monday morning to address the violence. The latest shooting took place in the West Chesterfield neighborhood. Two people were shot, one fatally at about 11:51 p.m. in the 700-block of East 89th Place. Minutes before that, one person was shot an killed in the 200-block of North Central Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood.

Elizabeth MacRae, who played girlfriends of Gomer Pyle and Festus Haggen on television and a woman who seduces Gene Hackman‘s surveillance expert in The Conversation, has died. She was 88. MacRae died Monday in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she was raised, her family announced. MacRae showed up as Lou-Ann Poovie on 15 episodes of the CBS comedy Gomer Pyle: USMC during its final three seasons (1966-69). She was signed to work just one episode, “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” on the Jim Nabors starrer but impressed producers enough to stick around for more.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset relations at home and abroad. During a visit Sunday to Edinburgh, that he billed as an “immediate reset” with the regional governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Starmer said he would also seek to improve the U.K.'s “botched” trade deal with the European Union. “I do think that we can get a much better deal than the botched deal that (former Prime Minister) Boris Johnson saddled the U.K. with,” he said in reference to the pact negotiated after Brexit. […] Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Sunday on Sky News that...

Jane F. McAlevey, a fierce labor organizer and scholar who trained tens of thousands of workers across the globe in strategies for taking charge of and shaping their unions, died on Sunday at her cabin in Muir Beach, Calif. She was 59. Her stepbrother Mitchell Rotbert said the cause was multiple myeloma. Ms. McAlevey (pronounced MACK-a-leevee) dedicated her life to increasing working class power. She believed that worker-driven unions — led from the bottom up rather from the top down — were the most effective engines to combat economic inequality. In her writings, including for The Nation, as what the...

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Staffers for President Biden provide him instructions with large print and photos of venue interiors and his planned path of entry ahead of events the 81-year-old commander-in-chief attends, according to a report. Documents obtained by Axios on Sunday show how staff help guide Biden – including his specific path to a podium – when he appears at functions. The report comes as the Democrat faces relentless questions about whether he is fit for the Oval Office after an awful debate performance last month against presumptive GOP opponent, former President Donald Trump. “It surprised me that a seasoned political pro like...

Democrats trying to dislodge Joe Biden will first have to combat the proxy commander in chief: Hunter Biden — and that’s easier said than done. With the Biden family digging in behind Joe staying put, any staffers or party grandees deputized to strong-arm Joe Biden out of being their candidate in November had better not underestimate the first son. While the focus has been on four-time Vogue cover girl Jill Biden and her screeching assurances that Joe is hale and hearty and fit for another four years, the first son has flown under the radar. But Hunter is glued to...

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This year’s Easter Vigil was the busiest in years in France. Figures released last week by the bishops’ conference of France announced that 7,135 adults would receive the sacrament of baptism at the Easter Vigil. This is a 32 per cent increase on 2023 when 5,463 adults were baptised. …In 2024, an unprecedented 36 per cent of those receiving the sacrament are aged between 18 and 25. This demographic is also heavily represented in the 700 seminarists currently training to join the priesthood. Of this number, 83 per cent were born in France and 27 per cent are aged between...

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ransomnote: The continuously unsavory Biden Regime created an offensive meme in 2022 and has rehabilitated (memory holed) its past and is instead, bragging about the return of the Dark Brandon meme.First, the 'proud' Biden regime origins of the 'Dark Brandon meme'. Donald Trump Jr.@DonaldJTrumpJrSo Biden's Deputy White House Press Secretary, @Andrewjbates46, is posting literal Nazi memes on Twitter and our corrupt media is completely silent about it. I'm sure that if this was a Trump WH staffer, the media would treat it the exact same way and totally ignore it Jack Poso @JackPosobiec Aug 7, 2022 A Biden staffer tried...

Archaeologists have carried out new excavations at the site of the ship that was carrying one of the world’s oldest scientific instruments among its valuable cargo of marble sculptures, ceramic vessels, and other items from the east to Greece, according to a statement released by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG). The most extraordinary discovery the underwater team made was a portion of the ship’s hull preserved in excellent condition still in its original position from when the vessel sank in the first century B.C. “This allows us to better understand the ship’s construction characteristics that had remained...

Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge tied to the 737 Max crashes, months after a near-catastrophe in January prompted the Justice Department to revisit a 2021 settlement that protected Boeing from prosecution.

Roughly 99 percent of illegal aliens and border crossers are living freely across the United States as President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitors fewer than 1.5 percent of the nation’s illegal population, a report states.The federal data, compiled by the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) and circulated by several House and Senate Republicans, looks at the overall illegal population living in American communities — estimated at nearly 17 million today.Of those millions of illegal aliens and border crossers in the U.S., just about 1.34 percent are either in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention or monitored...

Originally published 3/7, updated 7/3 (oddly). Yale history professor Timothy Snyder shared a warning on X (formerly Twitter) about what will happen if presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump wins back the White House in the 2024 election. “Unless Trump loses, America ends,” he wrote in his first of a five-post thread.