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August 13, 2022

Commentary: In the Swamp Everyone Finds a Way to Win

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said this week that raising taxes during a recession was a “special kind of stupid.” He’s not wrong, of course, but don’t be fooled. The high-fiving and devilish cackling over the Democrats’ latest spending bonanza isn’t just in...

August 13, 2022

D.C. Mayor Pleads Again with Pentagon to Deploy National Guard for Bused Illegal Migrants

Democrat Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser asked the Pentagon Thursday for a second time to deploy the National Guard to support illegal migrants arriving from the southern border.

August 13, 2022

Two Democratic Lawmakers Cast 10 Proxy Votes Each on House Floor in Favor of $740 Billion Spending Bill

One Democratic lawmaker, Virginia Rep. Don Beyer, cast 10 proxy votes on the House floor on Friday in favor of the Democrats' $740 billion climate and healthcare spending bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.

August 13, 2022

Trump Describes Process of How He Declassified Documents Found at Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump's office told Just the News on Friday that the classified materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate were declassified under a "standing order" while he was president that allowed him to take sensitive materials to the White...

August 13, 2022

Democrat House Passes $737 Billion Climate and Healthcare Package Without Full CBO Score of Cost

The Democrat-led House passed a climate and healthcare spending bill on Friday without a full Congressional Budget Office score of the legislation's cost.

August 13, 2022

IRS Job Posting for Criminal Investigation Agent: ‘Be Willing to Use Deadly Force, If Necessary’

Amid spreading alarm about the Internal Revenue Service stockpiling ammunition and Senate Democrats' passge on Sunday of a spending bill that would fund the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents, the tax collection agency is listing a job opening for...

August 13, 2022

Renacci to Host Pro-MAGA Forum Series Starting in Medina, Ohio

Jim Renacci, a Republican former Ohio gubernatorial candidate who now chairs the pro-Trump American Greatness PAC, announced Friday he will host a series of forums across the Buckeye State this fall to foster conservative unity on political strategy. The first...

August 12, 2022

Policy Group Questions Incentive Packages for Ohio’s Intel Plant

When President Biden signed the CHIPS Act into law Tuesday, it most likely meant a third round of government incentives for Intel and it’s planned $20 billion semiconductor plant in central Ohio, leaving some concerned with the amount of taxpayer...

August 12, 2022

Two House Democrats Ask Their Voters to Support Liz Cheney in Primary

Two Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives are publicly asking Democratic voters in Wyoming to vote for Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in her upcoming primary, as she faces likely defeat at the hands of a pro-Trump challenger. According...

August 12, 2022

Commentary: The FBI Is Turning into a Rogue Security Service

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI’s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former...

August 12, 2022

Another Pro-Impeachment Republican Loses in Primary Race

After over a week of counting the votes, another of the ten pro-impeachment Republicans in the House of Representatives has lost their primary to a challenger backed by President Donald Trump. Fox News reports that Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) conceded...

August 12, 2022

Illegal Migrants Deny Being ‘Tricked’ into Getting on Buses to D.C., NYC

Illegal migrants bused from the southern border to Washington, D.C, denied that they’re being “tricked” into boarding the buses, several of them told the Daily Caller News Foundation, contradicting claims made by the mayors of D.C. and New York City.

August 12, 2022

ACLU Demands That the U.N. Force America to Pay Reparations

The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called on the United Nations to demand that the United States hand out reparations to African-Americans over past issues such as slavery. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the ACLU, along with several other...

August 12, 2022

COVID-Era High School Graduates Face Uncertain Futures in College

After nearly two years of unprecedented lockdowns, mandates, and other restrictions on daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of graduating high school students are preparing to head off to college without having learned nearly as much as...

August 12, 2022

Commentary: Washington’s Incurable Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome

Like Shakespeare’s King Lear, Donald Trump is a “man more sinned against than sinning.” Trump’s enemies invariably exceed him in excesses. They accuse him of dictatorial behavior even as they seek to turn America into a left-wing authoritarian regime. The...

August 12, 2022

Preliminary CBP Apprehensions Data Shows 232,809 Gotaways at Southern Border in July

Preliminary data obtained by The Center Square from a U.S. Border Patrol agent show apprehensions and gotaways at the southern border total 232,809 in June. This includes 188,787 encounters/apprehensions and at least 44,022 gotaways.

August 12, 2022

1,000 Families to Sue World’s Largest Pediatric Gender Clinic, Lawyer Says

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock, the largest pediatric gender clinic in the world, will be sued by about 1,000 families of children who were allegedly rushed onto puberty blockers at the U.K.-based clinic, attorneys told The Times.

August 12, 2022

Obama, Clinton District Court Judges Appointed Magistrate Judge Who Signed Mar-a-Lago Raid Warrant

Judge Bruce Reinhart, who on August 5 signed off on an unprecedented search warrant for the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump, was appointed by a gaggle of left-wing judges. Federal District Court Judges, in this case Judges in...

August 12, 2022

Corporate Media Shifts Blame to Facebook After Mom Allegedly Performs Late-Term Abortion on Teen, Hides the Body

News outlets inaccurately suggested a 17-year-old girl was being prosecuted for obtaining an illegal late-term abortion in recent headlines about a Nebraska case. Numerous outlets covering the story emphasized Facebook’s role in the prosecution of this abortion-related case and highlighted...

August 12, 2022

Armed Suspect Attempts to Breach Cincinnati FBI, Chase Ensues

The FBI's Cincinnati Field Office confirmed that an armed suspect attempted to breach its Visitor Screening Facility on Thursday morning, resulting in an exchange of gunfire and a subsequent chase.

August 11, 2022

Attorney General Garland Says He Personally Approved Trump Search, Will Release Warrant

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday he personally approved the search of Donald Trump's home this week and has filed a motion to unseal the warrant authorizing the raid of Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

August 11, 2022

Ohio Congressional Hopeful Used City Council Office to Coordinate with Wife’s Company

Ohio's 1st Congressional District Democrat nominee Greg Landsman used his official office to coordinate and introduce a partnership with a company where his wife works as an executive. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Landsman coordinated and introduced a...

August 11, 2022

Commentary: Democrats’ IRS Expansion Would Empower Ruling Elites to Target Americans

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” Those were the words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, referring to the depredation of...

August 11, 2022

Biden Signs Funding Bill for Veterans Exposed to Toxins

President Joe Biden signed the veterans health care bill known as the PACT Act Wednesday, expanding health care benefits for veterans exposed to toxins. After a short struggle between Senate Democrats and Republicans, the PACT Act has been signed into...

August 11, 2022

Commentary: Senator Josh Hawley Is a True National Conservative

In a vote of 95-1, the United States Senate approved the expansion of NATO (North American Treaty Organization) by allowing membership to two new nations Sweden and Finland. The only Senator to vote “no” was Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO). Senator...

August 11, 2022

Commentary: The Media Plays Along as FBI Undercounts Armed Citizen Responders to Mass Killers

The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall on July 17 drew broad national attention because of how it ended – when 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, carrying a licensed handgun, fatally shot the attacker.

August 11, 2022

Harvard University Denied Tax Cut After Lobbying to Senate Democrats

Harvard University’s request for an endowment tax cut was denied despite frequent lobbying to Senate Democrats for its inclusion in the Inflation Reduction Act. The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 with tax increases on corporations and energy...

August 11, 2022

Justice Department Charges Iranian IRGC Member with Plotting to Murder John Bolton

The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced charges against a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for allegedly plotting to murder former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

August 11, 2022

Survey: 80 Percent of Americans Believe U.S. Has Two-Tiered Justice System

A new poll by a highly respected and accurate pollster indicates that nearly 80 percent of Americans believe there is a two-tiered system of justice in the United States. According to The Daily Wire, the poll, formally titled the “National Issues...

August 11, 2022

California Teacher with Antifa Ties Paid Thousands to Resign

A California teacher connected to Antifa is receiving a massive payout from the school district for resigning, according to the Sacramento Bee. Project Veritas posted a video of Natomas Unified School District school teacher Gabriel Gipe saying he was working to push...

August 11, 2022

Food Prices Rise at Fastest Rate Since 1970s

Despite slowing inflation in July, food prices have continued to rise at historic levels, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. “The food index increased 10.9 percent over the last year, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1979,”...

August 11, 2022

Ohio Republican Party Condemns FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search

Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Paduchik this week condemned the search of former President Donald Trump’s residence at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, FL that the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed on Monday. Many in the ex-president’s party have...

August 10, 2022

Judge Who Authorized Mar-a-Lago Search Previously Recused Self from Trump-Clinton Lawsuit

The federal magistrate judge who authorized this week's FBI raid on Donald Trump's home and office in Florida six weeks earlier recused himself from the former president's lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and other Democrats in the Russia collusion scandal, citing...

August 10, 2022

Trump Pleads Fifth at Deposition with New York AG

Former President Donald Trump appeared for a deposition with the state attorney general of New York on Wednesday and pleaded the Fifth when confronted about his family's business practices. In a statement, Trump said he decided to invoke protection against self-incrimination...

August 10, 2022

Ohio, Michigan Charter Schools Sue Biden Administration

A group of Ohio and Michigan charter schools sued the Biden administration today, claiming a new rule that requires charter schools to prove public schools are over-enrolled is illegal. The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the...

August 10, 2022

Ohio Governor DeWine Declares August 9 ‘Dolly Parton Day’

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a proclamation declaring August 9 as honorary “Dolly Parton Day” to commemorate the success of Parton's Imagination Library of Ohio. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio mails kids one book each month until their fifth...

August 10, 2022

Biden Admin Scraps Another Trump-Era Policy

The Biden administration has ended a program used to expel migrants to Mexico as they await immigration proceedings, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Monday. The Trump-era policy, which is also known as “Remain in Mexico,”...

August 10, 2022

Commentary: A History Lesson for President Joe Biden

A nation emerging from a significant pandemic and an economic downturn awaited President Joe Biden in early 2021. President Warren G. Harding inherited a similar situation after winning the 1920 election in a landslide. But Harding overcame it by getting...

August 10, 2022

Top 10 Tough Votes Democrats Had to Take During Vote-a-Rama for Massive Spending Bill

During a "vote-a-rama" on their $739 billion reconciliation spending bill that has hundreds of billions for climate and health care programs, Democratic senators had to take a series of uncomfortable votes on hot-button issues — particularly tough for those representing...

August 10, 2022

Fed Study: Ending Pandemic Unemployment Aid Connected to ‘Substantial Rise’ in Employment

States that ended pandemic unemployment aid saw "a substantial rise" in employment, according to a recent working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The study, which used data from 46 states and Washington, D.C., found that "in the three...

August 10, 2022

Commentary: Unprecedented FBI Raid; Trump Calls It ‘Weaponization of the Justice System’

Mark the date 8/8. The American Republic became a Banana Republic on Monday in the eyes of many conservatives in the same way many liberals imagined the nation averting such a fate on 1/6.

August 10, 2022

Ex-Intel Chief Urged Trump to Fire FBI Director Wray in 2020

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell is warning that the FBI is facing a "real crisis" from partisan tampering with investigations, revealing he actually urged then-President Donald Trump to fire Director Chris Wray back in 2020 when such...

August 10, 2022

Kevin McCarthy Vows DOJ Investigation After FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy vowed to investigate the Department of Justice should Republicans secure the House majority in the November midterms following the FBI raid on Mar a Lago.

August 10, 2022

Commentary: Associated Press Injects Woke Ideology into Its Stylebook

Since 1953, the AP Stylebook has been a go-to manual for journalistic grammar and style at most media outlets. It lays out basic rules about grammar, punctuation, phrasing, and the like, intended to have universal applicability. In the past, it...

August 10, 2022

Report: Labor Productivity Dropped Most Since 1948

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new economic data Tuesday showing the sharpest quarterly decline in labor productivity since 1948. BLS reported a 4.6% decrease in labor productivity in the second quarter of this year as the economy shrank...