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There is no doubt that life has become harder for Americans over almost four years of a Biden-Harris administration. While interest rates climb, food prices remain on an upward trajectory, and inflation still surges far higher than the 1.4% inflation handed to President Joe Biden by former President Donald Trump after he left office in January 2021.

But just how much have the worst leadership duo in U.S. history spent since taking office? The answer is sadly not shocking in the slightest – over $7 trillion in taxpayer money has been blown by Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris in less than four years.

Currently, the U.S. has reached over $35 trillion in federal debt – with $30.71 trillion added since 1993 according to USAFacts.org. Over the past year, the debt increased by approximately $2.41 trillion, which equates to around $6 billion per day.

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'It is my promise to everyone here that when I am president, we will continue our fighting for working families of America, including raising the minimum wage and eliminating taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers'

President Donald Trump's idea, announced weeks ago during the 2024 presidential race, not to impose a tax on tips is so good that Kamala Harris, the candidate hand-picked by the Democrat party's elites to be their candidate this year, is using it.

Plagiarized. Stole. Endorsed. Supported. Choose your description.

But a Newsweek report explained Harris as "endorsed" a plan to eliminate taxes on tips for hospitality and service workers, "echoing a tax proposal originally put forward by former president Donald Trump just months ago."

Harris's announcement that she likes Trump's plan came during a weekend campaign rally.

"It is my promise to everyone here that when I am president, we will continue our fighting for working families of America, including raising the minimum wage and eliminating taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers," Harris promised, coming in second to Trump with such a plan.

She said at the same time she doesn't have her economic policy platform in place yet.

Trump came out with his plan for tax protection for tip recipients at a rally in Las Vegas in June, when he said, "To those hotel workers and people who get tips, you are going to be very happy because when I get to the office we are not going to charge taxes on tips, people making tips. We're going to do that right away, first thing in the office."

Harris's decision to join that campaign came after a survey found that 67% of Americans do not believe tips given to service workers should be taxed, the report said.

A report at HeadlineUSA openly accused Harris of plagiarizing Trump's plan.

The report noted that under the Biden-Harris administration, the IRS launched a scheme to crack down on underreported tips by service workers.

Harris was the one who cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate that implemented the policy in the first place, and then she later bragged about her vote to do so on her official X page in March.

Now, however, she wants to push back against the policy she supported.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Even after leftist 'fact-checkers' have admitted his claims about Trump's 'very fine people' comment are all wrong

Along with the other failures of his administration – an inflation-ridden economy, an open southern border, and the national security threat that involves, his transgender and abortion ideologies – Joe Biden is handing down his "Charlottesville lie" to Kamala Harris, freshly picked by the Democrat party's elite as their candidate for 2024.

In a Harris-promoting email dispatched from a joebiden.com return address on Monday, Biden wrote, "Today we mark seven years since white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia. The hate summoned on that day is forever etched in my memory."

He cited the violence from a confrontation between protesters objecting to sanitizing American history and the leftists who planned it and said, "In that darkest of moments, a stunned nation looked to Donald Trump. And do you remember what he said? 'There were very fine people on both sides.'"

He then handed it off to Harris, stating, "We can't allow hate to be given safe harbor on our shores. We can't let the MAGA movement succeed at ripping away our freedoms and destroying our democracy. I know that Kamala and Tim can finish the job we started together."

But Biden's claim about what Trump said is a lie.

Trump said:

But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did — you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status, are we gonna take down — excuse me — are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay good. Are we gonna take down the statue? Cause he was a major slaveowner. Now are we gonna take down his statue? So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people — and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits, and with the helmets, and the baseball bats, you got a lot of bad people in the other group too.

Even the leftists in the so-called "fact check" industry agreed.

But actually, Biden has repeated that lie many, many times.

One of the more recent times was during the Republican National Convention just weeks ago and Biden was being interviewed.

For no apparent reason, he chose to repeat the Trump-is-like-Hitler.

LESTER HOLT: "You were in – in Delaware when this happened. What was your first reaction?"

JOE BIDEN: "My first reaction was, 'My God. This is – look, there's so much violence now and the way we talk about it. I mean, the whole notion that there is this – there's – there's no place at all for violence in politics in America. None. Zero. And – we've reached a point where it's – it's become too commonplace, not assassinations, but to talk about it.

"For example, you know, the January 6th – you know, the attack on the Capitol, the – I – I – Lester, I got in this race early on in 2020 – for the 2020 race. I wasn't gonna run again because I'd lost my son. I didn't – you know? And – until I watched what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"Those folks coming out of the woods with torches, carrying swastikas, singing the same Nazi bile that was accompanied by this Ku Klux Klan, and a young woman was killed. And – and it was a bystander. And – the president – then president was asked, 'What do you think?' He said, 'The very fine people on both sides.' Not fine people on both sides. No excuse. Zero."

Biden also had his "Charlottesville lie" in his acceptance address when the Democrats officially made him their presidential nominee in 2020.

Commentator Larry Elder addressed the fact that Biden won't let the lie die.

"In March, President Joe Biden, in Brussels, Belgium, repeated the lie. At a press conference, ostensibly about Ukraine, Biden told the world that Trump's alleged racist response to Charlottesville inspired Biden to enter the 2020 presidential race: 'I had no intention of running for president again, and – until I saw those folks coming out of the fields in Virginia carrying torches and carrying Nazi banners and singing the same vile rhyme that they used in Germany in the early '20s or '30s. …,'" Elder wrote.

Harris, herself even has used the lie.

During the 2020 campaign, WND reported, "Among numerous false statements by Kamala Harris in the vice presidential debate Wednesday was the oft-repeated and easily refuted 'Charlottesville lie' that Joe Biden says was the catalyst for his decision to run for president."

Her false claim was that regarding a clash over a Robert E. Lee monument Trump called neo-Nazis and other white supremacists "fine people."

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A British government official has threatened to arrest anyone, anywhere in the world, if they violate his interpretation of what speech is allowed in the public – or not.

And he's getting a vicious scolding from Americans who have reminded him that there was a revolution, and he's not in charge.

But a constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University and a popular commentator on constitutional issues who has testified before Congress on its impact, is warning that a Democrat administration in the United States actually could collude with such extremists.

The dispute is over the recent comment from a police commissioner in the United Kingdom, Mark Rowley, who issued the threat.

"We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you're in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield, we will come after you."

He envisions even extraditing people from other nations to face his courtroom antics on issues such as what has happened in the U.K.

Turley explained, "The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a 'leprechaun.' Yet another was arrested for singing 'Kung Fu Fighting.' A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a 'cult.'"

Now police there are "moving to arrest those who are repeating false claims or engaging in inflammatory speech," he reported.

Rowley expanded his comment: "Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities."

Turley noted, "The message is chilling because free speech has been in a free fall in the United Kingdom as well as other Western countries."

He noted the U.K. has adopted many laws criminalizing speech, using vague terms that allow for police to arrest anyone they want. All the behavior has to be is considered by police to be "threatening, abusive, or insulting."

He pointed out, "Ordinarily, one would expect the U.S. government to push back on the suggestion that these laws could be used to arrest and extradite its citizens for the use of free speech. However, the Biden-Harris administration has been a proponent of censorship and blacklisting for years. At the same time, leading Democrats have called for European-type laws to be adopted or enforced against U.S. citizens for their views on social media."

He noted that in the past, "Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton called on foreign countries to use or pass censorship laws to prevent Elon Musk from restoring free speech protections on Twitter. The effort of these politicians would allow free speech to be reduced to the lowest common denominator as countries export their anti-free speech laws. When Clinton called upon Europeans to censor Americans, this is precisely what such actions would look like. These foreign countries could force Americans to curtail their speech under the threat of ruinous financial penalties or even arrest."

A report at BizPacReview pointed out the insults actually being hurled at Rowley over his agenda.

Unleashed were many comments, many of them using harsh language, to scold Rowley.

"He's not going to do a f****** thing about other people expressing themselves freely in other countries, especially Americans," said one, describing Rowley and his agenda as "the rest of the racists."

Another pointed out that "you British f***s lost the war!! We AmeriCANS speak freely!! We are sovereign!! We are FREE!!"

Yet another scolded, "Thanks to our revolution, we have free speech, and remember we started that revolution over a tax on tea…"

Another offered a lesson in American government, specifically the 2nd Amendment, if Rowley would "try to do something to us…"

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A stunning new video has appeared online and already has collected nearly a million views, of Minnesotans talking about their governor, Tim Walz.

He's the extremist who's been caught in a cloud of accusations about "stolen valor" for lying about a military record and pushing the Midwestern state to the left so far residents have been moving out of state.

He's also Kamala Harris' pick to be her vice presidential candidate.

Their comments?

"I won't forget being forced out of my job at the V.A. for 20 years because of the vaccine mandate."

"I won't forget when you decided which businesses were essential and which ones weren't."

"You shut down stores, malls, zoos, everything and we couldn't even go outside."

"I will remember when you sent COVID-positive patients back to the nursing homes."

And, "I won't forget to vote in November."

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'Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough' – is likewise branded as problematic because it implies 'people of color are lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder'

The common concept – in America's business community for decades – that the best person for the job should get it now is being labeled racist by a major university's journalist teachings.

The agenda at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been documented by the Goldwater Institute.

The report cites the leftist ideologies being imposed on students – in blocks of 2,000 hours during the recent Fall 2023 semester alone.

"Avoiding 'microaggressions.' Checking your 'cisgender privilege.' Developing a marketing campaign for a hypothetical popstar who uses 'they/them' pronouns. It's all mandatory at Arizona State University's (ASU) Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication," the organization confirmed.

"This government-run institution is requiring its students to invest their time and tuition dollars into learning the nuances of progressive identity politics as part of a 'Diversity and Civility at Cronkite' course."

Goldwater's documentation shows that course readings "statements such as 'America is a melting pot' as examples of offensive 'microaggressions.' Other statements – such as 'I believe the most qualified person should get the job' or 'Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough' – are likewise branded as problematic because they imply that 'people of color are lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder.'"

And it's discrimination if someone objects to a man using a women's restroom.

"More than 400 students were required to take this class in the Fall 2023 semester alone, with more than 2,000 hours of class time spent on what may as well be called Trendy Topics in Progressive Politics 101. The Cronkite School is supposed to be one of the country's preeminent training grounds for journalists; instead, it's forcing cultural and political indoctrination down students' throats," the report said.

The organization has documented some 100 classes at ASU in the Spring 2024 semester's catalog that feature "diversity," "equity," "inclusion" and the like.

The report charges that if the state's public universities are to return to their education missions, they need to eliminate those "politicized" courses and agendas.

JERUSALEM – It is now more than 10 days since the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound in Tehran, and the promised Iranian retaliation has still yet to materialize.

Part of this is a deliberate Iranian strategy. Their intention is to create doubt – even complacency – in both the minds of Israeli decision-makers and the wider populace; the latter of which has lived in a state of tension due to the seemingly imminent threat of Iranian reprisals in response to the abject failure of their security services and the attendant humiliation for Haniyeh's elimination.

It is possible it also wants to provoke Israeli miscalculation. There have been growing calls within Israel's political establishment that it should consider at least one, and possibly two, pre-emptive strikes – one against Hezbollah and the other directly on Iran itself.

The rationale for this line of Israeli thinking is when an enemy – which has proven it is prepared to strike directly at your civilian population centers – think the unprecedented ballistic missile and drone attack of April 13/14, which miraculously caused no loss of life – and threatens to do it again, then they should be believed.

Iran has continued to ratchet up the pressure through a series of carefully cultivated leaks of information to the world's media over the last few days. One of the first was a report about the appearance of Russian-made aircraft batteries in Tehran as long as a week ago. Such a delivery is usually accompanied by Russian military personnel, although on this occasion it was not clear whether they were also in the Iranian capital.

Reports also surfaced late last week about a NOTAM, or notice to airmen, to avoid airspace over Tehran; this was updated Sunday to advise the airspace would be closed from Aug. 11 until Aug. 14. It should be noted that prior to the April attack on Israel, a similar order was given, because the airspace was reserved for missile launchers. This would suggest at least an Iranian attack could begin on Wednesday. Some have suggested an attack would start on the most solemn day of the Jewish Calendar – the Ninth of Av – which this year falls on Tuesday – the day when the Jewish people the world over mourn calamities, which have befallen them over the centuries.

It is also highly likely Hezbollah – which started firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel on Oct. 8 – will also seek retribution for the killing of senior leader Fuad Shukr. Whether it will go it alone or be the tip of the Iranian retaliatory spear remains to be seen. If Tehran does order a coordinated attack – it is thought the threat will last "three or four days" and will include its Shiite proxy in Lebanon – effectively another arm of the IRGC – as well as the Houthi in Yemen and other proxies in Iraq and Syria.

"Iran's aerial operations against Israel could last three to four days," said Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission, Iran International reported on Saturday night, citing an interview published by 'Iran Watch.' Ardestani also claimed Iran would be prepared for the consequences of such an attack, and would be ready for any subsequent developments.

It is unclear how much damage Israel is willing to absorb in the event Iran and/or its proxies attack the Jewish state. It is worth noting what appeared to be a muted response to Iran's hyper-aggressive attack in April; in response to the hundreds of projectiles fired at it, some days later Israel responded with taking out a radar station utilizing a weapon the Iranians had no knowledge of and no way to counter. Iran – both directly and via its proxies has not wavered from its ambition to annihilate the Jewish state and everyone – not just the Jews – within it. Israel has attempted to modulate its replies with coded warnings about its capabilities – both military and intelligence.

F-22 Raptors

The situation is still very tense – although Israelis are largely going about their daily routines as much as possible – and the potential for miscalculation on both the Israeli and Iranian side are great. For its part, the United States, worried about a possible escalation leading to regional war – which would obviously be catastrophic for the people of the Middle East – would likely to be disastrous for America's lame duck President Joe Biden and the Democrat's chances of getting Vice President Kamala Harris elected.

It is the one thing they have been assiduously trying to avoid – and yet by projecting weakness, indecision, and distraction – it might be the very thing they end up getting. Still, there are two U.S. aircraft carriers in the Eastern Mediterranean and a squadron of F-22 Raptors on standby.

For his part, Biden, from whom we have heard precious little in the intervening weeks since his defenestration as the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidential election, reiterated his one-word warning to Iran over the weekend. On being asked by reporters if he had a message for Iran, Biden almost inaudibly said, "Don't."

If the last 10 months or so have shown us anything it is that both Israel, Iran and its proxies are not overly deterred by the soon-to-be-former president's words. It should be remembered his "Don't" in October was also a warning to Israel to not go down the path of attacking Hezbollah, as some in the defense establishment, including Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant thought about doing.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, the IDF carried out an airstrike on the "Al-Taba'een" school complex in Gaza City, which it said served as a Hamas military headquarters, and in which it used three small missiles to eliminate some 19 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) operatives. Almost immediately, Hamas counter-claimed, alleging the strike killed some 90-100 people – the majority non-combatants.

On Sunday, the IDF in tandem with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) released the names and photos of the terrorists it said were holed up at the school. The global reaction to this incident has been similar to other incidents – most infamously the Al-Ahli hospital "strike" which the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry within minutes of its taking place reported some 500 people having been killed. Again the Hamas-run "civil defense agency" claimed "more than 90 killed," while Egypt and Qatar registered their consternation at the supposed loss of life.

The White House said it was "deeply concerned" about the airstrike and was seeking further details. It said far too many civilians continue to be killed in the Gaza war. A subsequent National Security Council spokesperson acknowledged the obvious fact about Hamas using schools to operate command centers from, but again stressed Israel's need to take measures to "minimize civilian harm."

"Yet again, far too many civilians have been killed," Kamala Harris told reporters separately on Saturday while also reiterating calls for a Gaza ceasefire. Further condemnation of Israel flowed from Turkey, which accused Israel of "another crime against humanity," U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese – who has a long and ignominious history of rank anti-Semitism said Israel was "genociding [sic] the Palestinians, and both U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy and French President Emanuel Macron denounced the attack, also calling for an immediate ceasefire.

The IDF was very precise in its explanation about using "three small munitions" to carry out the strike – the implication being it was enough to carry out the limited attack it had planned. It argued the ordnance used could create neither the physical nor human destruction it is alleged to have caused.

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The United States government and the Chinese Communist Party see "national security" in two very different ways – and that includes food security.

Historically, the CCP has been known to weaponize its food supply, which it has done against millions of its own citizens, resulting in mass starvation and suffering. But today, it appears the communist government is stockpiling food, indeed, making it a major national security priority for its people. Why?

Tommy Waller, president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Center for Security Policy, says most Americans do not understand that "food security is national security". And that currently, the safety of American citizens is, indeed, being jeopardized by the U.S. government. The retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, in an interview with WND, explained that "at the federal level, our nation has catastrophically failed to prioritize food security while all of our adversaries, both hostile nations and globalists, have had their crosshairs on food for quite a while."

For example, Waller said, in stark contrast to "having no problem starving its own people," the Chinese government has an entire agency called the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration. It is largely responsible for laws and regulations that oversee grain and material reserves of the East Asian country.

In statistics often touted by members of the Chinese regime, Waller said, "China's grain inventories are so abundant that the stock-to-use ratio is well above the international grain security threshold."

"The U. S. government has not put a major priority on food security or preparedness," Waller warned. In contrast to the Chinese regime's prioritizing strategic reserves of food, he told WND, "under the Biden administration, the USDA and FEMA have transitioned from a culture of preparedness to priorities of diversity, equity and inclusion – DEI – and climate change."

What's more, he said, the Biden administration has incentivized many farmers to reprioritize the use of their land away from cultivating it for food production. Through the Conservation Reserve Program, he explained, "farmers are getting paid more to get their land into the program as opposed to farming it." While he conceded there are some benefits to the program, he also pointed out that farmers are producing less food as a result, and this diminishes America's food security.

"Less than two percent of our population produces food for everybody else in this country," Waller noted. "The average American isn't prepared to go without food for any duration, so you can see the importance of keeping our farmers farming."

"Take away farming and you take away food," he said starkly, while warning that the average person is extremely unprepared for shortages of food. "They just take it for granted, and it's understandable because we've always had it very easy in this country," Waller said, but warning about one scenario in which Americans could find themselves hungry right away: "That number one scenario is a loss of electricity caused by widespread electric grid blackouts."

Waller's interest in food security, he said, steadily grew due to his work to secure America's electric grid. "All of the infrastructure we have is dependent upon electricity," he said. "When considering the second and third order effects of electric grid outages, you can see how food becomes a very significant item of importance."

"Most Americans don't think twice about paying for home insurance, automobile insurance, life insurance, but for whatever reason, they don't think about food insurance," Waller told WND. "They don't think about stocking up."

While the federal government may be failing to stress the importance of preparedness, Waller attests that food security "is the one area where individual people and their communities could actually enhance national security," adding that the lack of preparedness is "a fixable problem, if we are smart about our policies and more."

In a 41-page report, the Center for Security Policy has published recommendations to bolster food security at the federal, state, local and individual level. With little action at the federal level, he said, it is important for Americans to do what they can at the state and local, as well as individual levels.

For example, the Center, which has a 20-year track record of helping state governments shape policies to bolster national security, is actively supporting numerous lawmakers seeking to outlaw agricultural land from being owned by foreign adversaries. The security-oriented nonprofit also promotes the concept of community-supported agriculture and the importance of citizens purchasing their food from local farmers. "By helping sustain their work," Waller told WND, "it's going to create more resilience at the community level."

"Everything the Center for Security Policy does is for the public interest," Waller said. "We exist to provide uncompromised analysis, unflinching leadership and unconventional solutions to keep Americans safer," he explained, adding that "there are no corporations behind what we are doing." He shared that CSP can also "provide threat briefings at the county level for emergency managers and law enforcement".

Ultimately, as Waller explained, "food security is national security, and everyone – from citizens to lawmakers – can do their part to increase both."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

The records of a police department scheme to stop travelers and seize whatever cash they might be carrying with them have been uncovered by the work of the Institute for Justice.

The organization confirmed it has obtained records about cash seizures, drug seizures not involving cash, and other cases.

The fight, a "prolonged" dispute the organization, said involves an annual search-and-seizure blitz on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

The institute said it requested records from the series of seizures just days after the 2022 campaign, but it took until now, and a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, to get them.

The lawsuit over the 2022 events were filed by lawyers Adrianne Turner and Jake Erwin.

Spartanburg County responded to the lawsuit by releasing 262 pages of records it had previously attempted to withhold, the institute explained. "The documents, which include all available incident reports from Oct. 2-6, 2022, show a systemic program of pretextual traffic stops. Since these operations began in 2006, the search-and-seizure machine has ensnared potentially thousands of innocent drivers."

"Operation Rolling Thunder turns traffic enforcement into a ruse," explained institute lawyer Rob Johnson said. "The primary goal is not road safety, but to pull over and search as many vehicles as possible to find drugs and cash. When law enforcement found cash, they seized it – whether they had evidence of wrongdoing or not."

The report from the institute pointed out that the Supreme Court, in a 2000 ruling, said "mass enforcement schemes like this are impermissible under the Fourth Amendment."

"Although individual pretextual stops are permissible, the Supreme Court has held the opposite when it comes to a systematic program of roadside stops," Johnson said.

The records now reveal, the institute said, that "When claiming probable cause for a search, officers frequently guess wrong. More than 70% of vehicle searches produced nothing illegal."

Further, "Officers rely heavily on speculation and innuendo. If people look nervous or avoid eye contact, the police count this as evidence of guilt. One officer faulted a driver for simultaneously talking too much and not enough. 'While being vague about his trip, [the driver] would overexplain other things,' the officer wrote."

And the participating agencies refused to keep records of every search, confirmed by the fact that officers searched 144 vehicles but generated only 42 incident reports.

The institute confirmed, "Officers stopped and searched as many as 45 commercial buses. The precise number is unavailable due to the lack of recordkeeping. Officers found drugs on 11 buses and identified six criminal suspects. Yet the police treated all bus passengers—potentially hundreds—like criminals."

The fact is that carrying "any amount" of cash is actually legal, but officers treated any currency "as contraband," the report said. In every case officers found money, they confiscated it, and then pressured the owners to sign "roadside abandonment forms," in which they would give up their right to reclaim it.

"The police treat law enforcement like a competitive sport when they rush to pull over and search as many vehicles as possible within a set timeframe," Johnson said. "This is not how policing should work."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

For a married California couple with $200,000 in income, seeing Kamala Harris installed as president would cost nearly $9,000.

That's $9,000 in money would disappear into the vast hole that is the federal government.

It's because she wants to trash President Donald Trump's tax cuts, which he wants to continue,

A Florida single with $100,000 in income would lose nearly $4,200.

A Missouri single with $75,000 in income would lose $3,400.

A New York head of household with $400,000 in income would say goodbye to more than $2,800.

At this link, check your own prospects.

The website address first was reported by the Daily Mail, which said it comes from a large PAC supporting President Trump's campaign.

Variables include income, state, marital status, age and number of children or dependents.

And it accuses Harris of an "assault on the Trump tax cuts."

Harris, meanwhile, is known for being in favor of much more spending as long as it's the government doing the spending. She cast the necessary tiebreaking vote to approve Joe Biden's mis-named "Inflation Reduction Act," which spent trillions of dollars but essentially ignored inflation.

The report noted, "In the 2020 Democratic primary race, Harris called for a complete repeal of the Trump-era tax reform law passed in 2017."

She said, "On Day One, we're going to repeal that tax bill that benefited the top 1 percent and corporations."

The economy and inflation remains the top concern for voters heading into November's election.