The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to end a Department of Defense policy to fund interstate travel for servicemembers to obtain an abortion should they be stationed in a state that does not allow the procedure.
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From January 6 Informants to FISA Abuses, FBI Boss Had Few Answers to Congress’ Most Pressing Questions
FBI Director Christopher Wray declined to answer direct questions from lawmakers on several hot-button issues at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing.
The performance on Wednesday generated frustration on both sides of the political aisle, and a rebuke from FBI alumni.
Read MoreOmar Says There’s ‘No Way in Hell’ She Will Attend Israeli President’s Congressional Address
Rep. Ilhan Omar says there is “no way in hell” that she will attend Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s joint address to Congress and that he should not even be invited to speak.
“There is no way in hell I am attending the joint session address from a President whose country has banned me and denied @RashidaTlaib the ability to see her grandma,” Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, tweeted Wednesday.
Read MoreDems Attempt to Ram Through New Constitutional Amendment with Creative Legal Maneuver
Congressional Democrats are attempting to add the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution about fifty years after states failed to ratify it by introducing legislation stating that it has, in fact, been ratified, according to The New York Times.
Congress passed the ERA in 1972 with a seven-year deadline for ratification, but only 35 states ratified it by 1982, falling short of the required three-quarters of states. Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush introduced a proposal Thursday which ignores the deadline, states that the ERA has already been ratified as the 28th Amendment and urges the National Archivist to certify and publish it immediately, according to the NYT.
Read MoreFar-Left Sec of Labor Nominee Julie Su Loses Key Senator Support, Others Shaky
The California Globe Julie Su’s rough road to becoming the next Secretary of Labor just got even rougher – and narrower. West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin jumped off the Su fence and landed squarely on the “No” side Thursday afternoon, announcing he cannot support her nomination “I believe the…
Read MoreDonald Trump to Host ‘Sound of Freedom’ Screening with Jim Caviezel, Tim Ballard at Bedminster Club
Breitbart Former President Donald Trump will host a screening of the recently released movie Sound of Freedom at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with the movie’s star Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard set to attend. In an announcement Thursday, the 2024 Trump campaign said the Sound of Freedom screening will take place July…
Read MoreNew Morning Consult Poll Shows Trump Dominating, Ramaswamy Rising
Former President Donald Trump continues to crush the competition, but political outsider Vivek Ramaswamy is swiftly rising in the crowded field of Republican presidential candidates, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
Read MoreGOP Mark Green Outlines Strategy to Impeach Mayorkas
Breitbart News The GOP chairman of the House’s homeland security panel has a five-point strategy for successfully impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief. “You have to you have to do it in a methodical way that educates the American people along the way,” chairman Rep. Mark Green…
Read MorePoll: Trump Leads DeSantis by 24 Percent in New Hampshire Primary, Ramaswamy in Fourth Place
Among likely primary voters in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump holds a 24-point lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. In this month’s poll, Trump received 39% of the vote down from 44% in June. DeSantis was at 12% in June but bounced up slightly to 15% this month.
Read MoreSecret Service on Friday to End Probe Without a Suspect on Cocaine Found at White House
The Secret Service said Thursday that they did not find fingerprints or DNA on the bag of cocaine that was found in the White House last week, and that a review of the surveillance camera footage did not identify a suspect.
Read MoreNobel Prize-Winning Physicist: ‘I Don’t Believe There is a Climate Crisis’
Lifesite News A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has criticized alarmist climate predictions and said that he does not believe that there is a climate crisis. During his speech at the “Quantum Korea 2023” event, Dr. John Clauser said, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis,” according to a report by Seoul Economic Daily that…
Read MoreNobel Prize-Winning Physicist: ‘I Don’t Believe There is a Climate Crisis’
Lifesite News A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has criticized alarmist climate predictions and said that he does not believe that there is a climate crisis. During his speech at the “Quantum Korea 2023” event, Dr. John Clauser said, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis,” according to a report by Seoul Economic Daily that…
Read MorePhysicians Criticize CDC ‘Guidance’ on Biological Men ‘Chestfeeding’ Babies
Doctors are reacting with shock and horror at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “guidance” on how biological men who identify as women can “chestfeed” their babies.
Internationally-known physician Peter McCullough, M.D., wrote at his Substack column Courageous Discourse Tuesday that CDC has become a “laughing stock” over its “chestfeeding” guidance, “plunging to new lows” with its “ridiculous” statement.
Read MoreFBI Refuses to Disclose Documents Regarding Agency’s Targeting of Catholics
The FBI responded on Friday to a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group and claimed that the group is “not entitled” to records regarding the agency’s targeting of Catholics in a memo from January, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Catholic Vote (CV) filed a lawsuit in April against the agency after it failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) requests regarding the FBI’s targeting of Catholics. The FBI issued a seven-page response to the lawsuit and rejected CV’s assertion that the organization has a right to know about the FBI’s records regarding Catholics and a January memo that targeted Roman Catholics as potential domestic terrorists, according to documents reviewed by the DCNF.
Read More‘Real Wage Destruction’: Small Business Leader Reacts to Latest Inflation Report
An economist says “American families are having to eat the rotten fruit from the tree of government overspending” after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday that the consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, rose 0.2% in June.
“It’s great news for the consumer that inflation has slowed dramatically from 40-year highs, but we’re still in terrible shape,” EJ Antoni, a research fellow for regional economics in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in a written statement. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.)
Read MoreBorder Patrol Agents: June Southwest Border Apprehension Data Is a ‘Shell Game’
Apprehension and gotaway data for June, which was significantly lower than previous months, is deceptive, a Customs and Border Patrol agent as well as the former acting CBP Chief and former Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan told The Center Square.
They spoke in response to lower numbers reported for the month by Border Patrol agents that total over 135,000, which is significantly lower than previous months even though large numbers of people are still coming through.
Read MoreAudit Indicates Virginia K-12 Schools Underfunded
A report released Monday indicates Virginia’s K-12 education system has received inadequate state funding for years — and Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the results.
The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission staff reviewed Virginia’s K-12 funding formula – the mechanism used to determine the state’s education budget – upon being directed to do so by the 2021 General Assembly and shared its findings and recommendations in the report.
Read MoreCommentary: America for Sale
The dollar’s status as the sole transaction and reserve currency of the world gives America’s federal government unique privileges. International demand for dollars enables federal budget deficits. It also creates an incentive for trade deficits, because incoming investments effectively collateralize American currency. To perpetuate this multi-decade debt binge, America’s real estate and corporate assets are for sale to any foreign investor with surplus dollars.
Read MoreBiden Administration Opposes Merit-Based Military Promotions in Favor of Race Quotas
The Biden Administration has publicly voiced its opposition to a measure in the annual defense spending bill that would mandate promotions based on merit and forbid promotions based on race.
As the New York Post reports, the provision in question is one of eight measures in the overall proposal that was officially opposed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as it would essentially undo many of the pro-DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) initiatives that the Biden Administration has been pushing for since first taking power.
Read MoreBiden Administration Expands Parole Program to Millions from Four More Countries
Despite a federal judge in Florida ruling more than once that the Biden administration parole program is illegal, the administration has expanded it and created another parole program to allow even more people into the U.S.
Read MoreCommentary: GOP Field Braces for Tucker Carlson Iowa Inquisition
More than one Republican presidential campaign expressed surprise, even trepidation, when RealClearPolitics broke the news in March that Tucker Carlson would moderate a presidential forum hosted by the Family Leader.
In the spring, several candidates accepted Bob Vander Plaats’s invitation to address his influential group of social and religious conservatives. None knew Carlson would be waiting for them on stage in the summer. “This isn’t prepping for an interview,” said a senior aide to one presidential candidate. “It’s an interrogation.”
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