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The Biden administration is banning certain natural gas water heaters from the market as part of its climate change agenda, a move critics say will jack up energy costs for low-income and senior households. The move in the final days of the administration will take non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters off the shelves by 2029 in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which climate change advocates and President Biden say cause global warming. The new rules will require new tankless gas water heaters to use about 13% less energy than today’s least efficient tankless models. The rules apply to...

Fines and reparations? In a more just world, those would be levied against the governments that try to punish the very entities that have done us the most good. The Washington Free Beacon recently reported that the Biden administration’s stunningly unjust Department of Justice “quietly weighed in on litigation pending before the Supreme Court this week, siding with liberal cities and states that are seeking to force the nation's largest oil companies to pay billions of dollars in damages for global warming.” Biden’s Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar, is pushing the Supreme Court to give its imprimatur to the notion that...

O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released FEMA Part 3: James O’Keefe snuck into emergency FEMA locations and exposed an empty disaster recovery center. Two months after Hurricane Milton ripped through Florida and the Carolinas and still so many Americans are without aid or proper shelter. “We don’t want to have an epidemic of people freezing to death,” a resident said during the Buncombe County Commissioners meeting, voicing frustration over the slow pace of disaster relief in North Carolina, OMG reported. Another resident added, “I’ve never seen the lack of public officials coming out and actually trying to help.” ... As...

Add religious persecution to the stain of political lawfare and double standards Joe Biden’s presidency will leave behind. As our taxpayer-funded universities became Jihadist boot camps and churned out aspiring Islamic terrorists for over a year, the Biden administration was too busy waging war on what they clearly believed to be a more dangerous threat: Christian institutions who refuse to transform their schools into woke re-education centers. While Christian institutions and career colleges make up less than 10 percent of America’s schools, a recent report conducted by the American Principles Project (APP) reveals they made up nearly 70 percent of...

They seem to think the company employee who was beaten by Tren de Aragua gang members should go back and clean up the illegals' trash. As if getting one's managed properties taken over by a foreign gang weren't bad enough, and then upon asking for help, watching the city look away, now the property managers of the Aurora, Colorado apartments are getting hit with selectively enforced code violations related to the gang's activity on their property. The CZB Management company, which put out this up-close-and-personal look at gang takeovers of their properties a couple weeks ago, now has put this...

McDonald's shares dropped in extended trading Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers has led to 10 hospitalizations and one death. The agency said 49 cases have been reported in 10 states from Sept. 27 to Oct. 11, with most of the illnesses in Colorado and Nebraska. "Most" sick people reported eating a McDonald's Quarter Pounder, the CDC added. One of the patients developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, which is a serious condition that can cause kidney failure. An older adult in Colorado died. McDonald's shares dropped about...

Senate Democrats attacked McDonald’s on Tuesday for price gouging while it continues to “grow” profits and serve the needs of customers. The letter, written by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), underscores the success of former President Donald Trump’s campaign stop on Sunday when he worked a McDonald’s drive-thru window in Pennsylvania. Images and video of the former president helping customers to McDonald’s finest foods nearly broke the internet. Many of Trump’s critics heralded the gesture as great retail politics and a stroke of political genius.

The most blatant attack on the 1st Amendment is currently happening in California and the perpetrators seem proud of themselves over it. California officials have rejected further rocket launches by SpaceX, a company owned by Elon Musk. Some of the officials have cited his posts on social media platform 𝕏, which he owns. According to the Los Angeles Times [emphasis added]: SpaceX’s plans to launch more rockets from the California coast were rejected by a state commission this week, with some officials citing Elon Musk’s political posts on 𝕏 and raising concerns about the billionaire’s labor record at his companies....

A dust storm of political madness is brewing in Phoenix as Grand Canyon University faces the continued threats of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Christians have watched as the Biden administration attacks biblical views left and right, with a particularly vehement disregard for the sanctity of life and marriage. As such, it can’t be too surprising that Cardona, a part of this leftist administration, has vowed to shut down America’s largest Christian university. In late October, Grand Canyon University was hit with “a $37.7 million fine brought by the federal government over allegations that it lied to students about the cost...

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — The oldest gas station in America still in operation, Reighard’s here in this Blair County city, got its start in 1908 when a local blacksmith decided to sell gasoline out the back of his shop when the Model T was introduced. It has been open ever since. While architecturally it is underwhelming, the service is good because the people who work there care about the work they do, whether it is pumping gas, washing your windshield, or doing minor fixes on your car. It is important to them that you return. While Reighard’s holds the title of...

Christians have watched as the Biden administration attacks biblical views left and right, with a particularly vehement disregard of the sanctity of life and marriage. As such, it can’t be too surprising that Cardona, a part of this leftist administration, has “vowed” to shut down America’s largest Christian university.In late October, GCU was hit with “a $37.7 million fine brought by the federal government over allegations that it lied to students about the cost of its programs,” AP News reported — an accusation GCU President Brian Mueller described as “ridiculous.” Around the same time, Liberty University, America’s second largest Christian...

A plan by President Joe Biden, called an “extortion attempt,” would shield more criminal illegal aliens from deportation as data shows his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has drastically cut interior immigration enforcement. Biden’s White House is threatening to cut deportations of even the most violent illegal alien convicts unless Congress approves billions in funding that passes through DHS before getting handed to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helping facilitate illegal immigration. RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told Breitbart News that the threat from Biden is echoed by the establishment media with claims that DHS needs...

NEW YORK — A federal jury ordered former President Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll when Trump in 2019 denied the longtime advice columnist’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her decades earlier. It marks the second time Carroll has won damages from Trump at trial, with the new total adding to a $5 million verdict last year finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her over a separate comment. Carroll’s latest trial became intertwined with the heat of the early primary contests, beginning the day after Trump’s historic win in the Iowa caucuses and...

Trump must pay $ 83.3 MILLION to E. Jean Carroll for defamation, a federal jury has ruled

In the name of “equity,” the Biden administration and state Democrats have declared war on the suburbs: The Biden administration and Democrats in New York, Connecticut and other states are fighting local zoning laws in order to build high-rise apartment buildings with “affordable” units in tree-lined, single-family neighborhoods. All in the name of equity, meaning everyone can live in a tranquil suburb, whether they’ve earned the money to pay for it or not. The Biden administration announced Jan. 19 that it will require all towns across the U.S. to submit “Equity Plans” showing how they will make it possible for...

When something this awful happens, something that affects the lives of millions of your fellow Americans, decent people step back for a moment. It's a moment that demands reverence and silence to consider what we've just seen and then the practical questions. People are suffering. How are they suffering? They don't have power. They don't have communications. How many homes were destroyed? You ask questions like that, and you try to assess what this means and the human cost of it. The one thing you don't do is immediately jump forward to score some sort of cheap and sleazy political...

"Fox News host Tucker Carlson weighs in on the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian and calls out liberals and lawmakers for blaming climate change on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKNIUWv3zFY

If the government could arbitrarily double the taxes of the unvaccinated, as Rhode Island Democrats recently proposed, there would be nothing it could not do. Though they subsequently backed away from the proposal, Rhode Island Democrats recently put forth a bill that would have punished the parents of children who were not vaccinated against COVID-19. Had the measure been enacted, it would have financially crippled these parents by doubling their personal income tax. As a further kick in the pants, it would have also required parents of unvaccinated offspring to pay a monthly fine of $50. State Senator Samuel Bell...

MainAll NewsInside IsraelMost Israelis back punitive measures against the unvaccinated Most Israelis back punitive measures against the unvaccinated New poll shows majority of Israelis back sanctions against those who remain unvaccinated against COVID. Tags: Arutz Sheva Staff , Oct 11 , 2021 3:00 PM Share COVID-19 vaccine COVID-19 vaccineiStock A majority of Israelis support punitive sanctions against the unvaccinated, according to a new poll. The poll, which was conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute, found that 59% of respondents support banning the unvaccinated from entering public areas. Nearly as many (57%) support charging the unvaccinated for any treatments related to...

President Joe Biden’s administration denied multiple President Trump-era aides their previously established maternity leave, some days before birth, reports Politico. Even though some Trump aides made arrangements for parental leave early in 2021 in advance of their children’s births, multiple federal employees were told shortly before or after their babies arrived that the benefits would no longer be extended to them after Biden and his team took office. Some families pleaded with the new administration to honor the previous agreements, one couple writing that they were counting on the leave to deal with “unforeseen complications” during the birth of their...