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A group of Republican senators wants to know how President Biden’s Department of Labor severely overestimated the number of new jobs created over the past year — after the agency made its largest downward revision to US payroll figures since 2009. The revised figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), released last week, suggested that there were actually 818,000 fewer jobs during the 12 months ending in March than initially reported — an indication that the economy may be less robust than the White House is saying. That means that the actual job growth during that period was likely...

Fact checking the ads The ad that has aired the most — more than 45,000 times — is from Harris’ campaign and is heavy on her background. It echoes her convention speech, portraying her as growing up working class, was raised by her mom and points out that she worked at McDonald’s. It then pivots to health care and housing costs while criticizing Trump for his tax cuts that skewed toward benefiting the wealthy. The ad with the most money behind it — $25 million — is an anti-Harris ad from a super PAC supporting Trump, MAGA Inc. It attacks...

A violent Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua has spilled into Aurora, Colorado, despite the fact that the city wanted “no part” in welcoming so-called “asylum seekers” as a result of President Joe Biden’s open border policies. According to a report from the New York Post, Aurora has a population of 390,000 residents. Now, it’s become the base of operations for the gang, which has seized apartment complexes and instigated a crime wave. In February, the Aurora City Council reportedly passed a resolution 7-3 stating that it will not provide resources for illegal immigrants brought into the town...

VIDEOInterview. Interview! INTERVIEW!!! Don't panic Kamala. We know you have assumed Clamshell Mode since your unearned convention deification due to the fear of both the upcoming debate with Trump and especially your promised FIRST media interview by the end of August which also means by the end of this week. MSNBC can't be helping relieve the pressure on MIA Kamala Harris by focusing on her first INTERVIEW over and over and over again as you can see in this 11th Hour segment from Monday. But don't worry, Kamala. You can ease the pressure of facing your first INTERVIEW of the...

Former CNN host Don Lemon said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that many black voters think former President Donald Trump is on their side, and many did not know Vice President Kamala Harris. Lemon said, “It was certainly eye-opening to hear so many people, even people of color and women, saying they are going to support Donald Trump. I am not quite sure that the polls are accurate as it relates to the tightening of the polls and who will support whom. He continued, “Right-wing media, when I released my content, they said Don Lemon was shocked or surprised at the...

During the Monday forum hosted by the independent investigation into the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) raised the uncomfortable question surrounding the shooting: Did the Secret Service allow it to happen? Rep. Gaetz began the discussion with Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who suggested that the Secret Service, or even the American government at large, have not learned anything from the assassination attempt and noted that hypothetical perpetrators such as ISIS or Hezbollah would have done worse and succeeded in killing Trump. "I guess my question to you is, because this has been laid bare...

(Zero Hedge)—Two years ago Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to Joe Rogan that the FBI pressured Facebook into censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. Now he’s participating in a Congressional investigation. In a stunning Monday evening letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg admitted that senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook teams to suppress information related to COVID-19 that the platform would not have otherwise censored – and the administration ‘expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.’ Zuck now says that Facebook should not have compromised its standards “due to pressure from any...

The progressive left relies on the narrative that economics is a sophisticated discipline, full of complex theories, only grasped by “experts” and politicians, because that’s how they pass off their flagrant lies and ignorance. Of course, there’s nothing really that complicated about supply and demand, freedom of choice instead of forced commerce, gross versus net, attacking the affordable energy resource making the global economy move, cronyism, subsidies, debt, printing money out of thin air, and cold hard data. Thankfully, we conservatives have Andrew Puzder (I routinely lament over the fact that he was never our Secretary of Labor), who along...

Exposing False Shepherds: Should We Really Mind if Heretics Like Cupich Hide the Cross?“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (Matthew 7:15)In the wake of Blase Cupich’s invocation at last week’s Democratic National Convention, some Traditional Catholics have criticized the bishop for hiding his pectoral cross. While the impulse to criticize Cupich is seldom wrong, his scandalous behavior in this particular instance invites us to ask a question that may make us less censorious: do we really mind if heretics like Cupich conceal their supposed Catholic identity? To...

The American system worked for over two centuries because, for the most part, people played by the rules, which meant trying to make the more persuasive arguments that would result in honest election victories. However, socialism isn’t a “play by the rules” ideology. It is a “win at any cost” ideology. That brings us to Wayne County, Michigan (i.e., Detroit), which may be making up the rules as it goes along when it comes to poll watchers. Memorably, during the 2024 election, when Republican poll watchers tried to keep an eye on the ballot counting—which had shut down on election...

Two people were killed and another left seriously injured Tuesday after a Delta airplane tire exploded while it was being changed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A Delta employee and a contractor have been identified as the deceased. The incident in the maintenance area of the airport just after 5am, multiple news outlets report. ‘The Delta family is heartbroken at the loss of two team members and the injury of another following an incident this morning at the Atlanta Technical Operations Maintenance facility (TOC 3),” stated the airline as it confirmed the incident. “We have extended our full support to...

When a Confederate colonel called John Clem a "damned little Yankee devil" and demanded his surrender at the Battle of Chickamauga, John shot him — and became the youngest noncommissioned officer in U.S. Army history John Clem was barely four feet tall when he joined the Union Army during the Civil War In May 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sent out a national call for volunteers to fight for the Union Army. Many eagerly rose to the occasion, including one unlikely soldier: a nine-year-old boy named John Clem. Standing at just four feet tall, Clem first tried to volunteer for...

Democrats are increasingly bullish about their chances of flipping the House now that Vice President Harris, and not President Biden, will sit at the top of the ticket in November. Coming out of the party’s national convention in Chicago last week, a long list of lawmakers said the eleventh-hour roster change has led to a flood of new volunteers, a spike in campaign fundraising and a burst of new energy among base voters, all lending new hope that they’ll win back control of the lower chamber next year.

Iran Chamber of Commerce revealed that 12 million liters of fuel are smuggled daily from Iran to neighboring countries. But is this massive smuggling really done by border fuel carriers, or is there more to the story? Many border residents, especially from the Baloch ethnic minority in southeastern Iran, turn to fuel smuggling due to poverty and unemployment. Some of these fuel carriers don’t even have vehicles and carry fuel canisters on their backs. The Washington Post reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are at the center of this large-scale fuel smuggling operation. Hashem Oraei, President of the Energy Scientific...

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The worst president in modern history has passed the baton to an even worse candidate, Kamala Harris. Harris is calling for government control of all commerce -- though she calls her plan “price controls” rather than communism. Her running mate, Tim Walz, is considerably less nuanced. He endorses communism as “people sharing with each other.” Kamala Harris has failed at every job she has held. She was the top law enforcement officer in San Francisco. It’s now a cesspool of crime, drug abuse, and homelessness. Then she took her San Fransisco policies statewide as the California Attorney General. Now one...

Hundreds of former aides who served under Republican lawmakers endorsed Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, stating that “another four years” of a Trump administration would “hurt real, everyday” Americans.In a letter that USA Today obtained, a group of more than 200 former aides for former President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), and former Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) write that they are reuniting and joining with former staffers for former President George H.W. Bush to endorse Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat fewer servings, and the risk increases with greater consumption, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They also found that replacing red meat with healthy plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes, or modest amounts of dairy foods, was associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. The study was published on Thursday, October 19, in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “Our findings...

Former President Donald Trump said American artificial intelligence (AI) companies will need nuclear gas and nuclear power to beat Chinese competitors during an interview released Monday. In an interview with Shawn Ryan of the “Shawn Ryan Show,” Trump said that natural gas and nuclear power will need to expand in the U.S. to meet the surging electricity demand that tech companies are helping to drive with new, power-hungry data centers needed to enable AI technologies. Providing American AI innovators with cheap, reliable electricity will enable U.S. firms to compete with and potentially defeat Chinese companies in the race for dominance...

A woman who changed her style to wear 1950s style vintage clothing has revealed men now 'treat her differently' since transforming her wardrobe. Brooke Stretton, 24, from South Yorkshire, became fascinated fashion from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s after watching the classic film Grease.