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Biden Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk highlighted the absurdity of the climate grift this week during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, when Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) couldn't get a straight answer out of him over the cost of going 'carbon neutral.'In a tense exchange, Kennedy repeatedly attempted to get Turk to give a straightforward answer to just how much American taxpayers will have to pay to achieve the Biden administration's goal of reaching US carbon neutrality by 2050.When Kennedy asked whether some of the "experts" Turk referred to earlier were correct in a $50 trillion estimate, Turk nodded his...

Takeaway from the video: The government doesn't know what we're dealing with at this time These objects are not new. They've been around a long time, at least since 2017 ("last week we were told 2019").Here's a quote from transcript at the 4:14 mark at youtube: "What I took away from from the briefing today more than so than the briefing last week is that this has been going on for a long, long time, at at least 2017 and last week we were told 2019, um, that's what I took away from today. Thanks guys appreciate it...LOCK YOUR DOORS...

VIDEOWhy was Tucker Carlson the only one in the mainstream media to come right out and boldly connect the dots of the CIA role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy? The answer is that they all are so worried about keeping their precious jobs that they shelter themselves in protective GroupThink which causes them to parrot an identical narrative to ward off uncomfortable facts. This applies not only to the Kennedy assassination but as we will soon see the revelations about what really happened on J6 as well as other inconvenient matters.

Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz rallied in front of a crowd of supporters Saturday night in Bucks County, PA, making his third stop in the Philadelphia region in five days as he targets a vote-rich portion of the state, though one where the GOP has struggled in recent years. After running from backstage to tend to a supporter who appeared to pass out during the pre-program, Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, spent much of his speech blasting the “radical left. (An Oz spokesperson said the woman had fainted and that he made a “preliminary assessment” as they waited for paramedics to...

The “surge” in IRS hiring is being compared to a military buildup by Republicans in Congress. The Inflation Reduction Act (sic) provides for an increase in IRS agents of 87,000 over a ten-year period, and a Republican study found that the additional agents will mean 710,000 more audits for taxpayers making $75,000 or less. Perhaps it’s appropriate to describe the “new IRS” in military terms. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Biden’s new “army” will be larger than the president’s hometown.

'my Lawyer Got This In The Mail': Congress ERUPTS as John Kennedy EXPOSED Biden’s Secret Documents

Akey senator says a top FBI official has been moved from his leadership perch in Washington after internal whistleblowers complained he was part of an effort to interfere in politically sensitive investigations, allegations Director Chris Wray now calls "deeply troubling." Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Just the News on Thursday that the FBI alerted him that Assistant Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault had been moved to another unspecified job. The transfer came after Grassley reported extensive information to the FBI and Justice Department inspector general that Thibault had expressed political bias in...

@mtracey Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on why he voted for the $40 billion Ukraine funding: Putin "has Stalin's taste for blood," and is "working with" China and Iran to dominate the world. "This is not just a fight for the people of Ukraine," it's a fight for "the freedom of Louisiana"

“Those Cuban-CIA men (Bay of Pigs vets) were as tough, dedicated and impetuous a group of soldiers as I’ve ever had the honor of commanding,” wrote legendary anti-communist mercenary “Mad Mike” Hoare, commander of the “Wild Geese,” in his book Congo Mercenary. ''This is the history of a failure,'' said the oddly frank opening lines of Che Guevara’s Congo Dairies. “I stood above Che Guevara, my boots near his head, just as Che had once stood over my dear friend and fellow 2506 Brigade member, Nestor Pino. ‘We're going to kill you all," Che said to Pino.’ Now, the situation...

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, who is the nominee to serve as a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, during a hearing about a previous comment she made claiming police kill unarmed black men every single day while at Princeton. "This is a really simple question, counselor. Do you believe that cops kill unarmed black men in America every single day? You said it at Princeton," he asked. "Senator, I said it in my role as an advocate," said Choudhury. "Oh, okay. You didn’t mean it," Kennedy replied....

I was listening, this afternoon, to one of the local conservative radio hosts here in Vegas and he played a clip of Sen. Kennedy who appeared on TV last night on, I believe, Newsmax. After the clip was played, the host stated that Kennedy would be his choice for VP under Trump (or DeSantis). The more I thought about it, the more I began to concur. Every time I hear Kennedy he seems to make a lot of sense, he has a great sense of humor and appears to be someone would would be an effective debater going up against...

Senate Judiciary Committee member Ben Sasse (R-NE) announced Friday night he will vote “no” on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, threatening the committee’s approval of the judge. If a majority of Judiciary Committee members do not vote to approve Jackson’s nomination, the vote may result in an 11-11 tie between Republicans and Democrats, forwarding her nomination to the Senate floor with additional procedural steps, meaning the nomination does not have the committee’s recommendation, which under other circumstances is often fatal. A full Senate vote could then mean moderate Democrats may oppose Jackson’s nomination because of her record of soft...

At the Senate Republican press briefing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) slammed Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. 'She Just Handed Vladimir Putin $18 Billion!': John Kennedy Rips Janet Yellen https://youtu.be/wHqa6seWSeA

VIDEOFor years, nominees for federal offices as well as witnesses appearing before the Senate were advised by their handlers to preface their answers to questions with "Thank you for the question, Senator." Was it be be polite? Not really because they frequently hated answering the questions. The real purpose of that reply was simply to burn up time so they could answer fewer of the questions. As a technique it worked... until recently when Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana absolutely DESTROYED that technique with a simple but obvious reply--- "You're welcome!"As a result anybody who tries to use that age-old...

Kennedy: No 'safe way' to smoke crack (video)

As Townhall reported yesterday, the Biden administration — with taxpayer funding from the American Rescue Plan — is funding grants that can be used to provide clean crack pipes under the guise of the president's "equity" agenda. The plan is, of course, nonsense given the rising number of overdose deaths claiming lives in the United States, a problem compounded by President Biden's open border and soft-on-crime policies. As only he can, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) offered his thoughts on the mind-numbingly absurd program and hints that the Biden administration might approve so-called "safe injection sites" for drug use. "There almost...

Manchin's hard 'No' on spending bill coBuffeted by a Russia scandal that proved false, Donald Trump ended the first year of his presidency on a high note with passage of historic tax cuts. In contrast four years later, Joe Biden's first year in office is ending with a stunning rebuke from a senator in his own party.On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) gave a resounding "No" to Biden's signature Build Back Better legislation, leaving an uncertain path for the Democrats' ambitious agenda despite the fact they control the Senate, House and White House.Their future is further complicated by an aging...

Must See Video! Senator John Kennedy asked a Biden nominee whether she would forgive a criminal act in the name of social justice. She simply would not answer. Mediaite reported: During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Kennedy repeatedly asked law professor Anne Traum, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, over the span of just over five minutes whether criminal acts should be forgiven “in the name of social justice.”

How total is Michael Steele's transformation from RNC chairman to Democrat sycophant? On today's Morning Joe, Steele, an MSNBC analyst and member of the disgraced Lincoln Project, slurred Republican judicial appointees while expressing his preference for Democrat nominees. Steele was commenting on Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana telling Biden judicial nominee Dale Ho that he found him, based on his social media attacks on Republicans and conservatives, to be an "angry" man. Said Steele: "Did Senator Kennedy take a look at some of the nominations that Donald Trump put before? There were people he voted for who never appeared...

At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) grilled Dale Ho, nominee to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, over his past statements.