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Autopen pardons can’t possibly be constitutional. Why not test the theory on a few high-profile malefactors? Near the end of Joe Biden’s incompetence, corruption, and dementia extravaganza, thousands of pardons were issued — many for unstated crimes. Most weren’t done with a pen in a human hand, as our founders intended. The were done with an autopen — a machine that can imitate a human signature. Given Joey “SoftServe’s” mental state, there’s ample reason to question whether the machine-signed pardons were a valid reflection of the president’s will, such as it was. On December 2, 2025, after the magnitude of...

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It seems the smoke swirling around Dr. Anthony Fauci just keeps getting thicker. Every time the former government health czar slips out of sight, another revelation pops up about his questionable decisions, his political maneuvering, or his desperate attempts to protect himself from accountability. The latest twist came from a bombshell conversation shared by independent journalist Nick Shirley, who claims Fauci was frantically seeking a presidential pardon on the very morning Joe Biden shuffled out of the White House. According to Shirley’s interview with Pardon Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., Fauci’s lawyers were emailing feverishly to ensure their client secured...

French President Emmanuel Macron has shot down the idea of backing a collective European project to establish illegal migrant return hubs outside the bloc, after the EU Parliament paved the way earlier this week. Claiming that it is contrary to the supposed values of “Europe”, President Macron said that France will not agree to fund any EU migrant return hubs, nor will Paris seek to partner on an individual basis with a third-party country, as it will be allowed to under the new returns regulations passed on Wednesday in Strasbourg. Rather than allowing illegals to remain in EU nations while...

TALEA Beer Co used molasses-based recipe from Washington's Seven Years' War notebook to craft historic brew VIDEO AT LINK....... The New York Public Library (NYPL) is giving visitors a chance to "taste history" by recreating George Washington's beer recipe from the first president's 1757 military journal, which is housed in the library's research collections. The library collaborated with New York City-based TALEA Beer Co. to recreate the brew, along with a Liberty Lager to appeal to modern palates. "The initial response to [the library] reaching out was obviously awe," LeAnn Darland, TALEA co-founder and co-CEO, told Fox News Digital. "Just...

It’s not Israel. It’s not even Iran. Look closer to home. At this point, everyone is familiar with the 14 points of the Memorandum of Understanding between President Trump and remnants of Iran’s power structure. The document appears to use careful, ambiguous diplomatic language, but it actually serves as a raw political instrument. To decipher its true meaning, one must strip away the mannerly phrasing and read it in the plain political lexicon — the language of power, elections, and survival. Article 1 states that midterm elections in America will take place in November 2026. Article 2 specifies that they...

Mustafa Al-Muizzawi made antisemitic remarks on live television after Lionel Messi avoided punishment for a controversial tackle in Argentina’s win over Algeria, claiming ‘the Jewish lobby controls the world’.

Was Hitler a Christian? Historical evidence reveals his hostility toward Christianity and helps answer a common objection raised against the faith.Despite the fact that Adolf Hitler had a Roman Catholic background, he became adamantly anti-Christian and believed in evolution. As other dictators have done, he took over the churches and used their organizational structure to influence the citizens—though the teachings allowed were anything but biblical. William Shirer, who chronicled the Nazi regime, stated that “the Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany” and substitute paganism.Hitler’s vision for Germany was defined in a thirty-point program for the “National Reich...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/20/26)[Prayer]PersonalitiesRuth 1:19-22 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? 22 So...

Whether it's the mullahs, Fauci, or the Philly DA's office, everybody's lies come out eventually. IranReading the many and various takes on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran is like reading through a stack of inkblot interpretations. People see in it what they are inclined to see. I agree with Don Surber that David Limbaugh’s view is the most accurate: Maybe I’m too optimistic but the more time that passes the less I’m worried about the MOU because Trump has made clear that he knows what all lawyers know: an agreement to agree is not binding like a formal...

Britain may — very likely — soon have a new government under Andy Burnham. Amid the swirl of senior Labour figures vying for a place at the top table, one name keeps coming up: Ed Miliband. The energy secretary, who led the Labour party himself between 2010 and 2015 — when he was rejected by voters at the ballot box — is regarded by many MPs, as well as by bookmakers, as the frontrunner to be Burnham’s chancellor. The two men are longstanding political allies and have been in regular contact in recent weeks, including one-to-one phone calls about policy...

Tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents gathered Saturday in Paris for a demonstration that was supposed to be filled with historic symbolism: a city synonymous with revolution and resistance hosting a massive call for the oppressive regime in Iran to be toppled. Instead, French authorities banned the march. The result was a confrontation that transformed the annual gathering of the world’s largest Iranian dissident group into a debate about France and whether the government of President Emmanuel Macron yielded to security fears or pressure from Tehran. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, one of the central speakers at the rally...

The Talk Shows June 21th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Linda Graham (R-S.C.); Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.); Amos Hochstein, Biden admin Senior Advisor for Energy Security; Kevin Book, Managing Director, Research at ClearView Energy Partners, LLC. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Energy Secretary Chris Wright; Danny Danon, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations; Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Legal panel: Tom Dupree and Jonathan Turley. Panel: Richard Fowler, Mary Katharine Ham and Tiffany Smiley. MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen...

Roughly one in three students at one of the nation’s top law schools now carries a disability designation, a figure that stood at a fraction of that just five years ago. About 378 students at the UC Berkeley School of Law have enrolled in the campus Disabled Students’ Program as of spring 2026, according to the program’s annual data. Across the full campus, the program served 4,153 students in 2020-2021 and 5,711 by 2024-2025. Psychological and emotional conditions lead all categories at 2,443 students, followed by ADD/ADHD at 1,666, while physical disabilities such as mobility, hearing and vision trail far...

“The Social Security Administration recently gave us their annual report with a few blockbuster footnotes. We all know that Social Security as it is currently constructed will run out of money in the early 2030s. Social Security’s cost has exceeded its non-interest income since 2010. Since then, payments have been made out of the so-called trust fund. Except the trust fund does not hold cash. The money was borrowed by the rest of the federal government to cover other spending, and the government now owes it back.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton avoided directly answering whether she supported Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner when asked on Monday. “I feel about him the way I feel about any candidate,” Clinton said at 92NY. “I want to see what kind of candidate he actually turns out to be.” During her answer, she also appeared to downplay Platner’s ongoing scandals as “bumps on the road” for his character. “The bumps on the road that he has experienced and some of the things he has said…” Clinton said. “Bumps on the road?” The New Yorker editor David Remnick asked...

Members of Congress are calling for increased oversight and reform after a Haitian national in Florida was convicted in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that prosecutors said involved more than $58 million in false claims targeting Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers using a federal drug discount program. Prosecutors accused Jean Jethro Alexandre and his co-conspirators in 2025 of recruiting fake patients and offering them financial kickbacks if they accepted fraudulent prescriptions — primarily for HIV and AIDS medication — written by nurse practitioners involved in the operation, according to court documents reviewed by Fox News Digital. Alexandre would then cash in...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison lashed out when asked about his handling of the Minnesota fraud scandal following Vice President JD Vance's threat to refer him to the Justice Department, while pushing back on a widely cited $8 billion figure as only mentioned by those "aligned with the Trump Administration." "That is a false number," Ellison said. "The fact is, is that fraud is always wrong." "Why don't you give me a break, man?" he continued. The comments come as Vance, the head of the Trump administration’s new anti-fraud task force, threatened to press the Justice Department to open an...

Scandal-scarred Rep. Ilhan Omar and her hubby have gone from the penthouse to the poorhouse. The husband of the Minnesota “Squad” firebrand — who once valued his venture capital and wine empire at up to $30 million — now claims to be pocketing as little as $200 a year. The embattled socialist claimed hubby Tim Mynett made no income last year from his main business, Rose Lake Capital, according to her newly released 2025 financial disclosure report. The only money Mynett — who has nearly two decades of experience in DC — earned last year is a meager $200 to...

The famous atheist Richard Dawkins has confessed a rather unusual new faith, after becoming convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) is conscious. The biologist was converted to this new belief after just 72 hours of speaking with Claude, an AI chatbot created by Anthropic. Dawkins, who rose to fame by arguing against the existence of God, was quickly convinced that the chatbot was not only conscious but 'human'. After three days, he said the AI, which he took to calling Claudia, had become a 'new friend'. His experience even led the expert to question whether bots could be the 'next phase...