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Attorney John Thaler joined Brannon Howse with former Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem Friday night on Lindell TV to explain the alleged phony mortgage and real estate transaction scam used by the Sinaloa Cartel to bribe elected officials and control the state of Arizona. The Sinaloa Cartels and the treasonous Americans who work with them are destroying our country by flooding Arizona with dangerous drugs and crime. The Gateway Pundit reported that Tempe Police seized over 30 million lethal doses of fentanyl. In 2022, the DEA nationwide seized over 50.6 million deadly fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills and over 10,000 pounds...

Igor Danchenko, a main source for the details of the debunked "Steele dossier" of accusations created by Democrats against Donald Trump while he was candidate for president, and used even after he held office, was a paid FBI informant, according to new documentation, prompting fresh outrage from Trump.Danchenko is facing a trial on five counts of lying to the FBI during that relationship, and the court case is scheduled to be in federal court in a few weeks.But there are appearing new details about the situation in which he apparently fed faked information to former British agent Christopher Steele, who...

The experience of Venezuelans under the late President Hugo Chavez offers a cautionary tale to the United States about where packing the Supreme Court can lead. Last fall, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden refused to answer whether he would support adding justices to the Supreme Court and now has established a commission to review the proposal and other issues concerning judicial reform. One need look no further than Venezuela’s recent history for the devastating impact on liberty such a move could have. “In 2004, Chavez’s allies held a majority in Venezuela’s National Assembly (congress), passing a law that increased the number...

It’s a tuna takedown. On Thursday, the Justice Department announced that food company StarKist Co. could pay a fine of as much as $100 million after pleading guilty to fixing prices on canned tuna from 2011 through at least 2013. StarKist, which has agreed to cooperate with the investigation, is the second company to plead guilty in this case: Bumble Bee did so last year and was fined $25 million for participating in the fishy conspiracy. The extent of the conspiracy, and the effect on consumers, has not been disclosed, but that does not change this core truth: the scheme...

Stop us before we socialize medicine again When they’re not offering the lamest possible defenses of their horrible law, as Rob showed you earlier this morning, Democrats are coalescing around a rather novel talking point concerning the utter collapse of ObamaCare. Are you ready for this? The disastrous failure of a law shoved down an unwilling nation’s throat by Democrat votes - and only Democrat votes - over the loud and determined objections of every Republican in the country, is the fault of (drumroll) Republicans. Yep. Steven Waldman, writing in Fortune, pretty well encapsulates this hot new talking point: Obamacare...

The biggest program she oversaw there was foreign aid, which spent roughly $50 billion a year between 2009 and 2012. Mrs. Clinton stated in 2009 that “a lot of these aid programs don’t work,” lamented their “heartbreaking” failures, and promised fundamental reform at the Agency for International Development (AID). But “see no evil” was often the Clinton State Department motto regarding U.S. aid. The Ethiopian government received more than $3 billion in U.S. aid while Mrs. Clinton was secretary. ... Corruption has long plagued foreign aid and Mrs. Clinton claimed to be spearheading a global crusade against graft. But when...

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Almost 80 percent of people worldwide are perturbed about global warming and most want tough action to fix the problem, according to a new study that the United Nations touted as a spur to an international climate deal later this year. The report, based on consultations with 10,000 people in 75 nations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, also showed that 66 percent viewed measures to tackle warming, such as more wind or solar energy, as a chance to improve their quality of life. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said the findings were "important...

Michael Walsh linked to an excellent article on the inability of many millennials to fix the simplest of household devices. Walsh was joined by many of my Boomer/Gen-X friends in his comment that it’s usually cheaper to throw out and buy new, but speaking as one of those Gen-X/millennial crossovers, going shopping isn’t always the cheapest thing to do. Especially when you’re caught up in a lousy economy.Here’s where I praise my incredibly handy husband who grew up learning fractions via wrench set before he ever encountered them in school. When he lost his job shortly after the recession hit,...

US President Barack Obama has accepted "full responsibility" for ensuring the troubled healthcare website gets fixed. Speaking in Boston, he said he was "not happy" about the glitch-laden project, but made a full-throated defence of the broader 2010 healthcare law. Earlier, his embattled health secretary apologised to the American people over the botched website rollout. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the largest overhaul of the US healthcare system since the 1960s. Commonly known as Obamacare, it aims to extend health insurance coverage to the estimated 15% of the American population who lack it. But a key element...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is frustrated by the problems with the rollout of his signature healthcare reform and the administration intends to fix them. Fresh from the U.S. budget battles, Obama on Monday will turn his attention to convincing Americans that the healthcare program can be fixed, despite the initial problems. Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the administration was determined to repair the technical glitches in the online insurance exchanges that are a central part of the program known as "Obamacare," which launched on October 1. "I think that...

I know Newt's team reads FR and I have a message. Please read the following: What the hell is up your home page? I get how to look for navigating around it but to 80% of America it looks blank. You need a simple, clean and intuitive landing page and it isn't. Fix it! I'm arguing/persuading against many people who worked in the Reagan Administration and people who count on their opinion, for Newt amazing accomplishments and his new proposal for America. We will have a Majorities in both houses that will enable Newt to accomplish the bold and audacious...

With all of the past, present, and future "damage" that leftists, both within the U.S. and all over the entire world, have and will successfully create upon everybody, how can conservatives, from all over the entire world, successfully "fix" all of the short-term damage and all of the long-term damage on all of the issues and for always? This is the definitive question that seriously needs to be brainstormed to the best of abilities! It will definitely be much more difficult to even communicate with each other soon enough, after leftists successfully suppress all non-leftist activities for as long as...

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have extended their investigation into alleged oil market manipulation at BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research), probing trades going back an additional four years, a spokesman for the oil major said on Friday. BP said in a statement the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice were investigating aspects of BP's commodity trading activities, including crude oil trading and storage activities, in the US since 1999. The spokesman said BP had previously reported that regulators were only looking into crude trades from 2003. Regulators have also investigated BP for alleged propane markets...

SACRAMENTO -- A state Senate hearing not only confirmed Wednesday that the governor's administration purchased a fleet of alternative fuel vehicles that have yet to burn anything but gasoline, but lawmakers also suggested that the vehicles were purchased to benefit a specific automaker that has a cozy relationship with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: General Motors. Auto manufacturers and state officials confirmed that the contract specifications for the fleet purchases were dramatically changed two years ago in such a way that only GM cars met the requirements. "What they did was create a sole source contract," said Sen. Dean Florez, D-Bakersfield, who...

PHOENIX - Attorney General Terry Goddard launched an investigation Wednesday into the state's high gasoline prices. snip He specifically wants to see what each was charging the day before Hurricane Katrina hit and now. he called it "suspicious" that gas prices in California are lower than in Arizona Goddard's inquiry comes as two proposals were unveiled to cut gasoline taxes, at least temporarily. Sen. Thayer Verschoor, R-Gilbert, wants to suspend the state's 18-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax for up to 45 days to help motorists cope with the high cost of fuel. Verschoor said Arizonans could save about $2 million a day....

SACRAMENTO – As the Legislature sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a $117.5 billion state budget on a bipartisan vote yesterday, Democratic leaders said they are willing to talk about changes to keep future budgets in balance. The remarks were an encouraging sign for Schwarzenegger's attempt to negotiate a bipartisan compromise as an alternative to initiatives he has placed on the ballot for a special election Nov. 8. The Democratic leaders suggested that a plan to make midyear corrections, when the budget falls out of balance, could be a more limited alternative to the governor's sweeping spending-limit initiative. "Midyear corrections are one...

A year ago, California voters grew resentful enough of the state's fiscal condition to toss out Gov. Gray Davis. Arnold Schwarzenegger stormed into office on a promise to cure the state's fiscal ills. He did so in his first budget by proposing $15 billion in borrowing to cover the general fund deficit, which the voters approved, and with other budget practices that have become part of the budget-balancing process by his predecessors, such as taking from other, dedicated state funds. After considerable sound and fury, the current budget was enacted, and the state breathed a bit easier. Now comes the...

The latest issue of the AARP Bulletin http://www.aarp.org/bulletin is typical,filled with leftist, socialist, Democrat idiocy. For example, an article attacks the drug industry and suggests that companies producing drugs in countries with price controls do not have a problem, because they can negotiate prices with their government. Another article says that Medicare has been slow to recognize obesity as a "disease". Another suggests that Bush will cut VA benefits, when in fact VA spending has increased significantly under Bush. Another article points out how Superman (Christopher Reeve) had a hard time understanding Bush's position on stem cell research. As if...

<p>Politicians are loath to admit it when they make a mistake. So Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger deserves credit for reversing course on prisons. With the scandals in corrections mushrooming, the governor moved late last week to restore funding and independence for the Office of the Inspector General, the watchdog agency that he had originally planned to place under the thumb of the troubled Youth and Adult Correctional Agency it was supposed to oversee.</p>

Got milk? If so, you've got higher prices, bureaucratic meddling, billions of pounds of surplus dairy products, and complicated mathematical formulas that define how much farmers can charge for the nutritious white beverage. That's because the production and sale of milk has been regulated by the federal and state governments since the 1930s. And 70 years of regulation has created a bigger mess than 10 gallons of spilt milk on a shag carpet. Take Massachusetts, for example. In October 2002, the Bay State's Department of Food and Agriculture launched an investigation of Midland Farms, a small chain of grocery stores....