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Donald Trump made a campaign promise to "immediately bring prices down" on his first day in office. Instead, egg prices have spiked. During her first White House briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed former President Joe Biden for hurting the egg supply and driving up costs. Egg prices are expected to continue rising due to a bird flu outbreak, which Biden's Department of Agriculture tried controlling early on by euthanizing infected chickens. Egg prices have risen in the short time since President Donald Trump took office — despite his campaign promise to "immediately bring prices down, starting on day one"...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from two dams in Tulare County, sending massive flows down river channels toward farmlands in the San Joaquin Valley. Federal records show that water releases from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Lake Success jumped early Friday morning. The sudden increase occurred four days after President Trump said on social media that the U.S. military had “entered” California and “TURNED ON THE WATER.” Trump also vowed during a visit to Los Angeles last week to “open up the valves and pumps” in California...

President Biden’s and President Trump’s pardons have generated a lot of controversy. But there are considerable differences between the two sets of pardons, with a two-tiered system of justice unfairly biased against Jan. 6 defendants. Last month, Biden pardoned his son, Hunter. And then, on his last day in office, Biden pardoned five family members. That same day, Trump pardoned 1,500 people who were convicted or facing trial for the Jan. 6 riot. The media’s coverage of these pardons has been dramatically different. Take the New York Times, which describes Biden’s preemptive pardons as a way to “guard” from a...

they CUT THIS PART OUT of the RFK hearing!

Frustrated travelers arriving at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport on Tuesday found it extremely difficult to rent a car. “I went to every counter upstairs, and nobody had cars. The last time I saw this before was during (COVID-19) when they sold off car fleets,” said car rental customer James Owen. At the car rental center, the aisles of many agencies were empty. At other counters, people stood in line, not knowing when or if they would get a car. “They just said they don’t have cars. I think what they said (is) there’s a truck coming to bring back cars....

MSNBC averaged only 63,000 demo viewers between the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET... MSNBC’s primetime lineup finished with its smallest January audience ever among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54. The news-heavy month featured an alleged terrorist ramming a truck through New Year's revelers in New Orleans, shocking video of a Tesla Cybertruck exploding in front of Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, President Biden pardoning members of his family and political allies on his way out the door, President Trump’s inauguration, the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel and other significant headlines as the Trump administration began with...

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the nation's oldest pro-Israel organization, spoke out Wednesday against a coalition of left-wing Jewish groups that protested against President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement.On Monday, a coalition of 88 left-wing Jewish organizations released an open letter to President Trump in which they objected to his ongoing pursuit of criminal illegal aliens through Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...The Zionist Organization of America strongly criticizes the mostly far-left wing Jewish groups who sent a letter to President Trump opposing deporting unvetted criminal aliens even though this morally necessary action protects Americans and American Jews from potential acts...

As someone whose father was in the aeronautics business — and who got passed on plenty of his wisdom from a young age — there are two things that I know, even as an unskilled observer, about airplane crashes. The first is that there’s never one single thing to blame for disasters, especially when it involves airliners; so much redundancy is built into the system that numerous things have to go wrong, either simultaneously or over a period of time, for a crash to happen. The second is that nobody — nobody — knows what caused the disaster in the...

Is the truth about to finally come out? We have been lied to about so many different things over the past several decades, but one of the biggest just might be the giant slush fund that is the US Treasury balance sheet and payments system. Have things not exactly been “above board”? We’re about to find out, but what I can report with 100% certainty is that David Lebryk, the highest ranking career official at the Treasury just announced his resignation: BREAKING: David Lebryk, the highest ranking career official at the Treasury has just announced his resignation. pic.twitter.com/lmJSgkaHDp — Ian...

The US Army helicopter involved in Wednesday's midair collision with American Airlines flight 5342 had been practicing for the event of an attack on the capital. Officials have confirmed that the three soldiers, who all perished, had been rehearsing a plan that involves the evacuation of the White House when their Black Hawk collided with the passenger jet just before 9pm on Wednesday night. Defense sources confirmed the nature of the training exercise to CBS News, after internet sleuths had floated a theory online that it was doing exactly what sources say. Theorists had flooded social media with claims that...

Tucker Carlson had already unearthed proof back in 2018 that the Obama administration had placed a new emphasis on diversity over traditional hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration. President Donald Trump suggested during a news briefing Thursday that the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., may have had something to do with the lowering of standards for air traffic controllers that occurred first during the Obama administration and later during President Joe Biden's time in office.

What kind of people are Democrats in terms of human decency? I blogged yesterday about about their execrable behavior to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at his Senate confirmation hearings for the Health and Human Services portfolio in the new Trump administration. They bellowed. They bloviated. They interrupted, while Kennedy remained the perfect gentleman in a setting no gentleman should ever have to endure. But they only got worse after I signed off on that piece. Here's what kind of creature Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is as he preens on the Senate floor, piously intoning "You frighten me": Imagine being such an...

The new federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Friday that taxpayers will see just over a $1 billion savings through the elimination of 104 diversity, equity and inclusion-related (DEI) contracts. As of Wednesday, DOGE had recorded the cancellation of 85 "DEIA" contracts from 25 federal agencies. By Friday afternoon, that number had grown to 104 contracts totaling $1,000,060,792, according to a DOGE news release. Of note, 21 Department of the Treasury contracts were canceled, saving a total of $25,247,783. In second place was the Department of Health & Human Services, which canceled 15 contracts worth $28,187,448. While the Office...

This video contains excerpts of Sam Altman's 9/15/16 interview with Elon Musk. They were the original Co-Chairs of OpenAI. Here, they openly promote the connection of AI and transhumanism (the merging of the human brain/mind with technology, as is being developed by Musk's Neuralink company). Elon Musk himself said that there's a "ten to twenty percent chance AI goes BAD." We are gambling with the future of every man, woman, and child on earth. At the very least, we should ensure that those who are involved in the Stargate Project are ethical and sensible human beings. There is a serious...

Former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve, John Harold Rogers, has been arrested on charges of leaking classified trade secrets to the People’s Republic of China, DOJ says. Rogers, 63, of Vienna, Virginia, served as a senior adviser in the Federal Reserve’s international finance division from 2010 until his retirement in 2021. During his tenure, he had access to confidential information, including proprietary economic data, deliberations on tariffs targeting China, and sensitive insights into the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) forthcoming announcements. According to the indictment, Rogers began exploiting his position as early as 2018, soliciting and transmitting trade-secret information...

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...

A drunk man's penis froze to the ground outside a bar in Canada while he was being restrained for fighting during a night out - but he hasn't lost his sense of humor. Blake McPhee reportedly got drunk and started arguing with other bar-goers at the East Village Pub & Eatery in Fort McMurray, Alberta on January 12. As the dispute spilled out onto the street - and into in sub-zero temperatures - things got physical and security guards attempted to restrain him. As he struggled against security, his pants fell down, causing him to become fully exposed to the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will become the first world leader to visit the White House on Tuesday when he holds meetings with President Donald Trump. A senior administration official confirmed the trip, but stressed that it was a 'working meeting' without the ceremony of an 'official visit.' DailyMail.com understands that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is also due to visit in February, along with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is also expected soon. Netanyahu's place at the top of the list lays down a marker for Trump's priorities in office, as he eyes the next step in a...

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[Catholic Caucus] Chinese bishop, victim of Vatican-China deal, celebrates ordination anniversary under house arrestCWN Editor's Note: Bishop Vincent Guo Xijin, the former bishop of Xiapu (Mendong), celebrated the 40th anniversary of his priestly ordination under house arrest. Pope Benedict XVI named Guo the (underground) coadjutor bishop of Xiapu in 2008; he acceded to the see in 2016. In the meantime, Xiapu had an “official” bishop, recognized by the Chinese government but not recognized by the Holy See: Bishop Vincent Silu Zhan, excommunicated because he was ordained a bishop without a papal mandate. In the wake of the Vatican-China agreement, Pope...