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CHARLESTON, WV — Gov. Jim Justice delivered his final fiscal year-end report today, announcing that the annual revenue surplus will trigger another reduction in personal income tax rates.State revenue collections exceeded estimates by $826.6 million for Fiscal Year 2024, enabling a 3% or 4% personal income tax cut, as set by the trigger system in House Bill 2526, which the Governor signed in 2023."Today is truly a day for celebration in West Virginia," Gov. Justice said. "When I first took office, I promised you all a rocket ship ride, and look at us now. We've cut over a billion dollars...

Kamala Harris is qualified to be president. So why is Joe Biden holding her back? Despite our nation's progress in social equality, the systemic power held by older white men in America continues to obstruct the paths to success for younger Black women. The most current example? President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Members of Congress and other Democratic leaders have called on Biden to step aside as their party's presidential nominee − with some suggesting that Harris should take his place − after a devastating debate performance two weeks ago. But the president isn't backing down. On...

CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews – who was accused of sidelining white journalists and blocking an acclaimed correspondent’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop – is stepping down at the network, the company said Wednesday. The controversial news boss, who was named president just last August, is exiting after she made headlines in February over the firing of Catherine Herridge, a respected senior investigative reporter who had been doggedly covering the Hunter Biden laptop story for the network. At the time, media insiders speculated that Herridge’s exit was linked to her reporting that President Biden may have kept evidence that...

Paramedics Provide Advanced Life Support Carbondale, Illinois – On June 10, an employee called from Carbondale Planned Parenthood, located at 200 North Emerald Lane, to request an ambulance for a woman hemorrhaging after a procedural abortion. The Planned Parenthood facility was opened just days before Christmas in 2023 and has added surgical abortions since its opening. Operation Rescue has tracked this Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities that opened in Carbondale after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, making it a dangerous abortion destination. Mothers in southern states, where unborn babies are protected, are unfortunately directed to the southern Illinois...

Alex Soros, the son of billionaire Democrat activist George Soros, threw his support behind President Joe Biden on Wednesday and told his party to “knock it off” on calls for Biden to step down. “Let’s stop running against ourselves and run against the existential threat that is Donald Trump! Biden-Harris 2024!” he said on Wednesday. A quasi-Civil War has erupted in the Democrat Party this week between calls for Biden to step aside and calls for him to stay in the race. Nothing put that better on display Wednesday than when none other than actor/Democrat activist George Clooney penned an...

Marla Maples, Donald Trump’s ex-wife, revealed in a rare interview that she’s willing to help the former president’s 2024 campaign — and is even “open” to being his vice president. “I’m ready. I am available if needed and I’m not sitting back anymore,” Maples, who just turned 60, told The Evening Standard in her first interview in eight years. “I want to step out more, share more and not be afraid of positive or negative outcomes that come from speaking out,” she added. Maples, who shares daughter Tiffany Trump with the former commander-in-chief, said her willingness to help Trump’s second...

Amber Rose — a former stripper who has fiercely criticized Donald Trump in the past — will be a speaker at the Republican National Convention in support of the 45th president’s re-election. The Philadelphia-born Rose, 40, gained fame in 2008, after she appeared in the music video for rapper Young Jeezy’s single “Put On” and began dating Kanye West. In 2013, Rose married another rapper, Wiz Khalifa, and had a son by him before filing for divorce the following year. She is also the author of the book “How to Be a Bad Bitch,” has modeled for Louis Vuitton and...

A top ABC News executive was reportedly “furious” upon learning that George Stephanopoulos, a former Democratic operative, came off as biased against President Biden. Stephanopoulos, 63, was told by the network’s news division head, Debra O’Connell, that “he is a newsman who is expected to be objective,” according to Radar Online, after video footage emerged of the former Bill Clinton adviser telling a Manhattan passerby, “I don’t think [Biden] can serve four more years.” The candid clip of Stephanopoulos, published by TMZ on Tuesday, reportedly sparked an internal meeting at ABC, which resulted in O’Connell asking that the “Good Morning...

Last Friday, the National Education Association (NEA) abruptly cancelled its annual convention, scheduled for July 4-7, after just one day of official proceedings in Philadelphia. The shutdown of the Representative Assembly (RA) was in response to a strike by the union representing NEA staffers, the National Education Association Staff Organization (NEASO). Timing a three-day strike for the convention, NEA staffers based at the union’s Washington D.C. headquarters greeted delegates arriving at the Philadelphia Convention Center with picket lines. The NEASO contract expired June 30 and the staffers’ union staged the walkout as an unfair labor practices action. The NEA informed...

Interesting viral: "congrats. you're a Zionist" https://www.instagram.com/unifiedjewishvoices/reel/C80MRlfyOsk/ and a very short confrontation with a Middle Easterner. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ThZdY3-sS7w

George Clooney wrote a column for the New York Times calling for Joe Biden to drop out of the race, despite the fact that the actor just did a major fundraiser for the Biden campaign. The Biden campaign’s response to this is downright hilarious. They are trying to claim that Joe Biden has more stamina than George Clooney, because Clooney left the fundraising event before Biden did. When this point was made on CNN, Jake Tapper actually laughed out loud, saying ‘OK.’ The Wrap has details:

All rise, and please honor The First Lady of the United States of America, DOCTOR Jill Biden! You may genuflect, bow, curtsy, or kneel in proper homage to the woman who holds no office but is married to the president of the United States of America. She is a person for whom you did not vote but to whom you must pay homage, respect, and, indeed, worship because she married Joey from Scranton. And, it must be added, she now runs the country alongside her crackhead stepson. Please remove your hats and remain standing. In 2022, Jill Biden raised her...

A disturbing video shows the moment a pervert fled a Philadelphia Dollar Tree store after committing a lewd act on another customer. The unidentified suspect could be seen sprinting out the door and running through a parking lot, as the alleged victim yells after him, 'You go to hell b****!' in a viral video shared by Internet personality Collin Rugg. She then starts crying as the suspect flees the scene. ...... They say the suspect is known to frequent the shopping plaza and the nearby I-95 underpass, where he sometimes parks his vehicle. The suspect is described as a black...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

Voter identification rules are just like Civil War racist exclusion laws, according to Democrats who denounced and voted against the GOP’s SAVE Act bill on the House floor.“This is the 2024 version of the Jim Crow poll tax and we should vote against it,” claimed Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) as she denounced the bill, which requires people to prove their citizenship before casting a vote for Democrats or Republicans.In the 1800s until the 1960s, many people were denied the vote when they did not pay the flat “poll tax” on individuals living in a jurisdiction. But McClellan is determined to...

The commander of the Air Control and Flight Control School Lt. Col. Y. claimed that "around the protest there were quite a few reservists who were not fit for the task" • At a learning technologies conference at the Holon Institute of Technology he clarified that "the starting point for learning lessons is failure" • The IDF: " The operation of the Air Force was not affected on October 7 due to a competency problem." Since October 7, more and more voices have been heard linking the failures of the Air Force to the pilots' protest that followed the legal...

The mood among Washington Democrats is grim. Understanding that Joe Biden is headed toward defeat, they’ve also come to the conclusion that there’s nothing they can do about it — that unless Biden willingly steps aside, their side is doomed to failure. Three senators — including Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown, fighting to hold on in competitive elections this fall — said this out loud to their colleagues behind closed doors. The third, Michael Bennet of Colorado, was willing to say it publicly on CNN, even invoking the prospect of a “landslide” that results in…The mood among Washington Democrats is...

Should President Joe Biden decide to exit the presidential race, Wisconsin law creates another impediment to Democrats replacing him.Death is the only allowable reason for a candidate to drop out.According to the state’s ballot access procedures, “Any person who files nomination papers and qualifies to appear on the ballot cannot withdraw their name from the ballot after filing. The name of that person shall appear upon the ballot except in case of death of the person.”The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has identified states, such as Wisconsin, where Democrats could face legal challenges if they try to replace Biden.“We...

Nearly half of Jewish voters have felt at risk because of their religious identity while living in the Empire State — while more than a third said that New York is no longer a safe haven for their people, a shocking new poll reveals. The survey conducted for the pro-Israel New York Solidarity Network found that 44% of the 1,200 Jewish voters in New York City and other counties queried said they have felt unsafe, as did 67% of identifiable Orthodox Jews. More than a third — 35% — said they agreed with the statement: “New York is no longer...

You know that Joe Biden is beyond salvation by the infantilizing language used by the people around him. “Big Boy press conference” is how White House press secretaries John Kirby and Karine Jean-Pierre have repeatedly described the president’s rendezvous with the restive media Thursday. It’s hard to think of a phrase more condescending than “Big Boy” when referring to the 81-year-old commander-in-chief. Despite their lies and coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline, those who know the president best are inadvertently signaling to us what bad shape he is in. They use the same language and tone of voice that carers use...