The White House launched a new website Tuesday for Americans to track all federal projects funded by the Biden administration. The website, Invest.gov, maps out tens of thousands of infrastructure projects across the country, including the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan.
Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.
Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been discreetly held at a separate venue alongside the security summit for several years, they said. The meetings have not been previously reported.
The U.S. was represented by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, the head of her country’s intelligence community, while China was among the other countries present, despite the tensions between the two superpowers.
Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and more than a dozen other GOP-led states are suing the Biden administration over a recent policy to address an expected surge of illegal migrants at the southern border, according to a statement from his office.
The Biden administration rule Miyares is contesting was implemented to mitigate an expected surge of migrants at the southern border when Title 42, a Trump-era expulsion order, ended on May 11 which made migrants ineligible for asylum if they pass through another safe country before coming to the U.S. Miyares, however, argues that the rule has many exceptions that allow migrants to enter the country, including using a phone app to book entry appointments, claiming they face imminent danger in their home country and having their asylum request denied in another country, the lawsuit argues.
There needs to be criminal charges and arrests made from the Durham Report!
Special counsel John Durham is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill in June following the publication of his report that strongly criticized the FBI for its handling of investigations pertaining to the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, reports said on Friday.
In May 2019, John Durham was appointed to investigate Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s 2016 investigation into Trump-Russia collusion, and associated matters.
In December 2020, former Attorney General Bill Barr granted Durham special counsel status to safeguard the investigation during the transition from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, “one of the darkest days in our history” and claimed “our temple of democracy was attacked by insurrectionists,” but far from appearing terrorized during what she has said was a “traumatic” ordeal, new security footage reveals that she, along with her daughter, Alexandra, who just happened to be at the Capitol filming a documentary about her mother, exited the building like a Hollywood boss through a secret safety corridor.
And doting Alexandra didn’t appear to miss filming a minute of it.
In “To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars,” Richard Lovelace (1618–1657) writes of a soldier who laments leaving the “chaste breast and quiet mind” of his mistress to embrace “a sword, a horse, a shield.” But he concludes the poem with this thought:
“Yet this inconstancy is such
As thou too shalt adore;
I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
Loved I not Honour more.”
Over 200 years later, Karl Maeser (1828–1901), founder of Brigham Young Academy, precursor to Brigham Young University, also spoke of honor. This quote, which comes from Brett and Kate McKay’s The Art of Manliness: Manvotionals, is long but deserves to be rendered in full:
“I have been asked what I mean by ‘word of honor.’ I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls—walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground—there is a possibility that in some way or another I might be able to escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never! I’d die first.”
On Wednesday, House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) took significant action to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.
"[Rep. James Comer] threatens to initiate contempt of Congress proceedings if FBI Director Christopher Wray continues to defy his subpoena," the House Oversight's official Twitter account posted. "The FBI has failed to produce the unclassified record that alleges a criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. This record is two weeks past due."
The man who put his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk got 3.5 years in jail.
A western Michigan man who pleaded no contest to shooting an 84-year-old woman campaigning against abortion rights at his home was sentenced to community service Tuesday.
Richard Harvey, 75, was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service. Judge Suzanne Hoseth Kreeger also gave him a suspended jail sentence of two months and a delayed sentence of one year on probation.
Harvey pleaded no contest last month to felonious assault, careless discharge of a firearm causing injury and reckless discharge of a firearm.
Kreeger also must pay $347.19 in restitution and cannot have any contact with the woman he shot, 84-year-old Joan Jacobson.
Jacobson was shot Sept. 20 at Harvey’s home in Odessa Township, a community about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. Jacobson told investigators that she was asking a woman at the home to vote against a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion in the state when she was told to leave. The amendment later passed.
Harvey has said the shooting was accidental, but Jacobson has maintained she believes it was intentional after she had argued with Harvey’s wife, Sharon Harvey.
Jacobson was treated at a hospital for a shoulder wound.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), the chairman of the conservative Senate Republican Steering Committee, is threatening to use “every procedural tool” at his disposal to slow down Senate passage of a bill to raise the debt ceiling if it doesn’t include “substantial” reforms.
Lee could drag out the floor proceedings on a bill for days, something that negotiators could now have to factor into their timeline as they scramble to reach a deal before the nation defaults.
“I will use every procedural tool at my disposal to impede a debt-ceiling deal that doesn’t contain substantial spending and budgetary reforms. I fear things are moving in that direction. If they do, that proposal will not face smooth sailing in the Senate,” Lee tweeted Thursday morning in response to media reports that White House negotiators and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are getting closer to an agreement on spending levels.
Lee has an array of tools at his disposal to bog down any debt limit deal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 25, 2023) – NFIB applauds today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. The Court determined the EPA and the Department of the Army had overstepped the federal authorities granted under the Clean Water Act. NFIB filed an amicus brief in the case arguing against the Ninth Circuit’s ruling.
“Today’s decision in Sackett v. EPA provides long-needed clarity for small business owners and landowners,” said Beth Milito, Executive Director of NFIB’s Small Business Legal Center. “The ever-changing standard and definition of ‘waters of the United States’ has disproportionately impacted small businesses, including farmers, ranchers, home builders, and contractors. The Supreme Court’s ruling today affirmed the limits set by Congress and will rein in the extreme interpretation of the Clean Water Act.”
The case questioned whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit set forth the proper test for determining whether wetlands are “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. When a wetland is deemed to be a “water of the United States,” and thus subject to EPA’s jurisdiction, landowners can expect both bureaucratic and financial obstacles to improving their lands. Today’s decision narrows the number of situations in which the EPA will have jurisdiction.
In December, NFIB opposed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) and the Department of the Army’s final rule on the waters of the United States.
The NFIB Small Business Legal Center protects the rights of small business owners in the nation’s courts. NFIB is currently active in more than 40 cases in federal and state courts across the country and in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Debt ceiling negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans took on a new, harder tone this week after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy signaled that he was not willing to compromise with Democrats over a list of GOP demands.
Instead, McCarthy’s deputies say they view a vote to raise the debt ceiling — and to avoid a potentially catastrophic U.S. debt default — as a concession to Democrats, and potentially the only one they plan to make. Given the havoc a default could wreak on the global economy, increasing the borrowing limit is typically a formality, often structured as a companion bill that gets tacked on to unrelated legislation.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, of North Carolina, a chief GOP negotiator, was asked Tuesday night what concessions Democrats were getting as part of a potential compromise with the White House to win both Republican and Democratic votes.
“The debt ceiling,” he replied.
“That’s what they’re getting,” added Rep. Garret Graves, of Louisiana, another GOP negotiator.
“The propaganda press was basically able to sustain an image that things were going all right for a few years, and now the wheels are just coming off the train,” said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway. “People are understanding the problems caused by the economic management by the Biden administration.”
“I don’t even think they necessarily think that Biden is the one running things,” Hemingway told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. “The people who are running things are running things into a ditch. There’s no escaping that, no matter how much corrupt media you have.”
Controversy about immigration in America is as old as the nation itself. The Declaration of Independence presents as one of the “Facts…submitted to a candid world” that “the present King of Great Britain” intends to establish “an absolute Tyranny over these States” because he has obstructed “Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither.”
The Declaration had proclaimed that “the Laws of nature and of Nature’s God” entitled the American people to assume, “among the Powers of the earth,” a “separate and equal” sovereign nation. This nation would be based on the “consent of the governed” and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” The clear message conveyed by the Declaration was that a sovereign nation-state has plenary power over matters of citizenship and immigration.
Natalie Winters is hands-down the best investigative journalist of her generation. True, very few of her contemporaries have anything approaching the experience, let alone the reportorial accomplishments, of the woman who is now, at twenty-something, the Executive Editor of Steve Bannon’s War Room.
Mostly Natalie stands out, however, for her relentless exposure of what the Chinese Communists call the “elite capture” of many of this country’s leaders in finance, business, the academy, Hollywood, the media and government.
For example, on Tuesday she broke the story that the House Oversight Committee will reveal today its documentation of a million dollars in bribes paid by a Romanian oligarch while Joe Biden was Vice President.
Obviously, Joe must go. The question that now deserves investigation, by both Natalie Winters and congressional committees, is who else in the Obama-Biden administration’s first two terms knew of his corruption?
This is Frank Gaffney.
Democrats have long played upon imaginary fears to instill unity in the ranks before launching a major policy push.
The left doesn’t hide its goal of running our elections in secret. After all, democracy today effectively means “rule by Democrats.” The first step in transforming a free republic into a dictatorship is to brand the party’s enemies a security threat to the regime. The objective is to establish a police state built on terror with the power to arrest its critics on the pretext of national security.
New legislation would do exactly that: empower Democrats to bar poll watchers, brand Trump voters domestic terrorists, and use the Justice Department to remake local law enforcement into tools of the security state.
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation released a draft outline of a report to the Los Angeles Times proposing that most traffic enforcement duties be performed by unarmed civilians.
The draft report, which has been in the works for three years, outlines a plan to reduce traffic deaths and safety concerns by means of narrower streets, more bike lanes and using civilians instead of cops to enforce traffic violations. It also called for the reduction of “pretextual stops,” which are stops made for minor traffic violations in search of larger crimes, such as searches for guns or drugs, the Los Angeles Times reported.
