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Friday, during an appearance on MSNBC, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed to be taking a proactive approach on the U.S.-Mexico border to enforce the law. Diaz-Balart also blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) partly for the problems at the border.

Billionaire George Soros is that rare megalomaniac who not only believes he’s a god but revels in behaving like one. “It’s a sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out,” he once boasted to The Independent. This god complex, combined with his downright amorality and bizarre ideas about society, makes the 92-year-old extremely dangerous to democracies, especially America. The warning comes loud and clear in Matt Palumbo’s recent book, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network...

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump “clearly” broke the law with his actions surrounding the 2020 presidential election. Anchor Jake Tapper asked. “Do you think, as a personal opinion and an attorney, that there are criminal offenses?”

President Joe Biden took to social media on Sunday to trash what he called the “MAGA agenda,” dismissing it and those Republicans who follow it as threats to the very fabric of America. He sneered on Twitter: “The MAGA agenda represents an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic. It doesn’t respect our Constitution. It doesn’t believe in the rule of law. And it doesn’t recognise the will of the people.”

Jean-Pierre: "The extreme MAGA agenda is a threat to the rule of law." https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1564339747962716169

Here's a hypothetical. Sometime after October 1, 2022, a civil bench trial (no jury) is taking place in state district court in Albuquerque. The judge will decide both the facts and the law. The only people in the courtroom are the judge; the court reporter; the bailiff; the plaintiff; the plaintiff's attorney, Mr. X; the defendant; and the defendant's attorney, Ms. Y. It's a routine creditor-debtor dispute, where the plaintiff is asserting that the defendant breached a contract and owes him money. One day has been allotted for the trial. It's just before noon, and attorney Mr. X is almost...

Recently, we have had to endure a series of reminders that “no person is above the law” from a batch of folks, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio. But that is not really true, is it? There are many, many people who are and have been, at least so far, above the law. Here’s a very short list: • Hunter Biden, and the “big guy,” aka President Biden, assuming he really did profit from whatever Hunter was doing with the communist Chinese, the Ukrainians or the Mexicans • The honorable...

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republicans were targeting law enforcement for doing their jobs for criticizing the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. Anchor Jon Karl asked, “I mean, obviously this defund the FBI is over the top. Are you about the way the country is divided on something like this? You these impassioned supporters of Donald Trump making these about allegations about our law enforcement?”

Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Attorney General Merrick Garland was not above the law while discussing the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. Turner said, “Well, we have a number of concerns. One is whether or not the raid was justified. We have this list from the FBI, but we don’t have conclusive as to whether or not this is actually classified material and whether or not it rises to the level of the highest classified material. On a bipartisan basis, Congress is saying, show us the goods.”

A special agent for the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms, and Explosives) in Colorado Springs has resigned after 18 years of service. In his resignation letter obtained by 13 Investigates, Brandon Garcia says he cannot support the way criminals are being handled by the current government. The ATF is a federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Justice. ATF has a field offices in Denver and Colorado Springs. ... Garcia, who according to his resignation letter has served in law enforcement for 18 years, has concerns about the over 5,000 ATF agents nationally. "The last time morale was...

This is a special edition of Rudy Giuliani's Common Sense.

London -- British-Indian prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak on Wednesday pledged a crackdown on Islamist extremism, the UK's most “significant terror threat”, with a widened government definition of extremism and strengthening existing terrorism legislation. The 42-year-old former Chancellor, who is seen closing the gap with opponent Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in the race to 10 Downing Street, also vowed to weed out organisations that promote extremism in the UK and refocus the “failing”. Prevent programme, a government tool intended to tackle Islamist extremism. “There is no more important duty for a Prime Minister than keeping our country and our people...

U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. blocked the Biden administration's rules forcing schools "to accept biological males who declare themselves transgender into female sports competitions." The Judge agreed with 20 state attorneys general plaintiffs that the Biden edict infringes on states' rights and was improperly imposed. Judge Atchley observed that "there is no power delegated to the President to require schools to abide by his preferences regarding so-called transgender persons. The rules regarding school athletics emanate from a congressional statute. This statute specifies that the executive branch must follow the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which governs the process by which...

The Secret Service may have violated federal records laws by failing to preserve data - including information related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack - after it had been requested by investigators, the House committee investigating the riot said Wednesday. The condemnation came after the panel subpoenaed the agency following an allegation from the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Secret Service, that it had “erased” the texts during a device replacement program. “We have concerns about a system migration that we have been told resulted in the erasure of Secret Service cell phone...

“If a 10-year-old became pregnant as a result of rape and it was threatening her life, then that’s not an abortion,” Foster said. “So it would not fall under any abortion restriction in our nation.”

The Pope said that 'the Church loses its pastoral nature' when Communion is denied to pro-abortion Catholic politicians and that 'it causes a political problem.'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has broken his silence on the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which grants states the power to outlaw abortion, saying that bishops must be “pastoral” with pro-abortion politicians. In a 90-minute interview with Reuters’ Vatican correspondent Philip Pullella, published Monday, the Pope said that while he respected the court’s decision to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling which imposed abortion on all 50 states, he cannot “speak...

Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh (sexual desires), but serve one another through love. Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. Galatians 5:17 For the desire of the flesh...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that a gun law passed by the Florida legislature following the Parkland school shooting was a “signal of what’s possible” when it comes to legislation that could be passed on the federal level. During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” moderator Jonathan Karl ran down the intentions of the bill, which included raising the minimum age in which a person can obtain a firearm to 21 and banned bump stocks, noting that it was passed by a GOP-led legislature and signed by a Republican governor. Karl asked Murphy if Florida’s state gun law could...

Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann is currently on trial for lying to the FBI about his role in pushing data pertaining to alleged communications between Trump and the Russian Alfa Bank. According to Special Counsel John Durham, Sussmann lied when he brought that data to the FBI’s General Counsel James Baker as part of the Clinton campaign’s efforts to trigger an FBI investigation of her opponent, Donald Trump. Specifically, Sussmann allegedly wrote Baker a text message claiming he was not representing anyone in providing the information when, in fact, he was representing the Clinton campaign. In a surprising move,...

HBO’s host John Oliver launched a vitriolic and profanity-laced attack on Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) over the state’s recently passed Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which makes it a felony to conduct surgery or provide puberty blockers and other hormone treatments to children under the age of 19.