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Bill Clinton, one of the Democrat Party's go-to names for advice and guidance, leadership and fundraising, and more, is on video explaining how to fix the catastrophe Joe Biden has allowed at the border by canceling all of President Donald Trump's security plans.

Biden did that upon taking office, and since then, millions of illegals have simply walked up to the border and crossed. Many of them now are dependent on benefits from American taxpayers, prompting even Democrat officials in "sanctuary" cities to call for a halt.

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Cyberattacks can shut down banking procedures, online communications, corporation systems, and more.

And now they can threaten lives by infiltrating a system allowing the dispensing of prescriptions to patients.

The Business Insider reported the attack this week on UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare system and the American Hospital Association was urging healthcare facilities to disconnect from the system.

Change Healthcare itself said a number of its systems and services were hit by the cyberattack starting Wednesday.

The company said the problems were from "a suspected nation-state associated cybersecurity threat actor."

The corporation delivers prescription processing services and is part of United Health's Optum division, working with more than 67,000 pharmacies.

The company said it was "experiencing a cyber security issue" and it was working on it.

"Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect our systems to prevent further impact," it reported.

One report, in the Daily Mail, bluntly labeled the situation, as an attack from a "foreign nation."

Another published report from Fox said a restoration of services was expected imminently.

But it said the nature and origin of the attack were unclear.

One pharmacy chain said the problem was not with getting the prescriptions, but with billing them to insurance plans.

"If you can wait a day or so to pick up your RX that would be great. If you need it today we can do our best to accommodate individual needs," the chain said.

CVS officials told Fox its systems were unaffected.

"We are aware that Change Healthcare is experiencing a network interruption that is impacting certain business operations, as well as the operations of other companies nationally," an official. "There is no indication that CVS Health’s systems have been compromised."

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Amid Democrat claims that recent elections have been the safest and most secure ever, one contest now is scheduled for a do-over because of fraudulent activity that made the results unreliable.

report from Just the News explains the mayoral election for Bridgeport, Connecticut, begun last fall, is set to conclude at the end of the month.

"A 'Do-Over' mayoral election was ordered by a judge in November after a video was posted online that appeared to show a supporter of incumbent Democrat Mayor Joe Ganim stuffing stacks of papers into an absentee ballot drop box during the September Democratic mayoral primary election," the report explained.

Such actions have been documented widely across the nation, as Democrats took advantage of the COVID pandemic that hit America just before the last presidential election to change voting regulations and rules to allow massive dumps of mail-in or absentee ballots.

Those, of course, are more susceptible to fraud than voting-in-person procedures.

Surveys have shown that those changes, sometimes done in violation of states' laws, did result in illegal activity. One assessment showed that one in four ballots cast under those systems involved some sort of fraud, by the admission of the voters themselves, and without that fraud, Joe Biden almost certainly would have lost the election.

In the Connecticut case, ballot harvesting is illegal in the state, as only a designated family member, police officer, election official or caregiver can deliver voters' absentee ballots.

The requirement for a do-over came on an election challenge filed by Ganim’s Democratic opponent, John Gomes, against the mayor claiming absentee ballot abuse.

"Ganim has acknowledged that campaign workers violated election laws but denied being aware of it at the time," the report said.

In that original count, Ganim lost when the voting machines counted ballots, but won with the margin in absentee ballots, which numbered more than 2,600.

The general election re-do is scheduled for Feb. 27.

Before the primary process started for a second time, Connecticut Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas told voters to vote in person.

On the ballot now are Ganim and Gomes, running as an independent, along with Republican David Herz.

Multiple other investigations also have been launched into complaints about failings in the Bridgeport election process.

The city was required to provide a "do-over" in a Democratic primary for state office in 2022.

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The fallout from the report by special counsel Robert Hur on Joe Biden's decision to willfully take and keep classified government documents in unsecured locations like his private office, home, and even garage continues.

Hur concluded there was lots of evidence that Biden did mishandle government documents, but he wasn't recommending charges because a jury likely would perceive Biden as an elderly man (81) who had diminished mental capacity.

In support, he cited Biden's inability to identify when he was vice president and when his son, Beau, died.

To which Biden lashed out angrily, challenging why Hur even would ask THAT question.

According to a report from Laura Ingraham, Hur didn't. It was Biden who brought that up, and then couldn't remember.

Fox reported Ingraham aimed "rescue" efforts to save Biden's campaign.

"Sources are telling NBC News that it was Biden himself who raised his son's death when trying to recall when he discovered classified docs at the rental home. Well, Biden brought up the timing of Beau's death, then he couldn't recall the year. The first lady even sent out a fundraising appeal decrying the use of their son's death to score political points," she explained.

"Now this is all absurd. Either Biden forgot the details of his interview with the special prosecutor, or he is being purposely deceptive in trying to make money off of a craven, false storyline. Whatever the truth, the old dog can't learn new tricks and won't answer for anything."

She said, "There's an audiotape of the special prosecutor interview, we understand. Release it, Mr. President, as Trump released his Ukraine call when questions arose about that. But Biden doesn't answer real questions because he literally can't. He makes none of the major decisions, not about Ukraine, not about China, not about the border, not about the economy.

"The entire white House is run by some, I don't know, some amalgam of Jill Biden, a few key staffers, and, of course, the campaign. Of course, one way to alleviate the concerns about Biden's mental condition would be for him to just submit to a basic cognitive test. But the White House, they already nixed that to shift the narrative away from Biden's feeble condition."

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A new and astonishing report from the American Center for Law and Justice reveals Katie Hobbs, then-secretary of state in Arizona and now governor, used government resources during the last election to coordinate censorship of her critics.

The ACLJ said the confirmation came in response to a public records request the organization pursued in Arizona.

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U.S. senators in Washington have adopted a scheme to send tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine, to pay for whatever that government says it wants.

But they were unable to come up with anything that would help secure America's southern border and reduce the known potential for terrorists coming across the border with the intent of killing Americans.

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One part, a large one, of President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" effort was to teach Americans and others around the globe that America should be looking out for America's interests … first!

Part of that was his opposition to international "global warming" deals that put an excessive burden on Americans while leaving other nations cashing in on those schemes.

Economically, he wanted the U.S. to look out for U.S. interests first, and level the playing field when interests with foreign allegiances wanted to take profits from Americans, and out of America.

Another issue was international stability, through organizations like NATO.

That international coalition, now numbering 31 members with one application pending, long has been supported with huge dollar amounts by American taxpayers. Trump worked hard during his first term in the White House to raise the stakes for other countries.

For example, in 2021, the U.S. accounted for 69% of the total defense spending of all NATO countries.

That was some $800 billion-plus. Total defense spending was up 24% from 2014 to a total of $1.2 trillion.

The members agreed on a benchmark of 2% of annual national budgets to be spent on defense, and through Trump's pressure on other national leaders, nations raised the spending by percentages often in the double digits.

At this point, some NATO allies are at that level, though there remain many with progress still to be made.

As part of his push for others to have a financial stake in their national security, Trump at one point told a national leader whose country was "delinquent" in its funding to pay up.

According to Reuters, the exchange happened some years ago, with an unidentified foreign leader, who asked whether his nation would be protected anyway.

"Well sir, if we don't pay, and we're attacked by Russia – will you protect us?" he said.

"I said, 'You didn't pay? You're delinquent?' He said: 'Yes, let's say that happened.' No, I would not protect you. I would encourage them (Russia) to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay," Trump recalled saying.

The encounter was related by Trump himself at a recent campaign rally, and the world's media, which often leans far to the left politically, erupted as if Trump was encouraging Russia to attack.

Reuters itself complained, "Trump raised a storm of criticism from the White House and top Western officials for suggesting he would not defend NATO allies who failed to spend enough on defense and would even encourage Russia to attack them."

Even that report, however, noted that Trump had a point in his comments.

"Other U.S. administrations have also accused Europeans of not spending enough on defense, but in less strident terms," the report said.

The report notes that there are "common funds" that NATO uses, but much of the spending is each nation's defense budget, providing for a military that logically would be used against a foe should NATO be attacked.

"Most" NATO nations are not meeting the 2% spending goal to which they agreed, the report said.

NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg reacted as if the statement was new, and there was an actual threat to ignore the NATO alliance.

"Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the U.S., and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk," he claimed.

It was PBS that explained it was "Fact-checking Trump's comments urging Russia to invade 'delinquent' NATO members."

The article charged that either Trump doesn't understand NATO or was "distorting" it for "political gain."

Joe Biden, whose declining mental capabilities were confirmed in the past few days in a report from special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden's taking and keeping classified government documents and said he wouldn't recommend charges because of Biden's diminished mental capacity, claimed the recollection of a years-ago conversation was an "admission" that Trump would "give Putin a green light for more war and violence."

But the PBS statement did concede that back in 2014, even Stoltenberg admitted: "Members needed to invest more in their militaries."

The BBC reworded the issue, claiming, "The Republican said he had told allies he would 'encourage' Russia to attack any NATO member that failed to meet the alliance's target of 2% of their GDP."

But that report even admitted the scenario was "hypothetical."

NBC put the entire issue in the present: "Trump says he'd let Russia do 'whatever the hell they want' to NATO countries that don't pay enough.'"

One report brought the issue back closer to reality, with the Guardian explaining that Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, pointed out Trump was "simply ringing the warning bell."

"NATO countries that don't spend enough on defense, like Germany, are already encouraging Russian aggression and President Trump is simply ringing the warning bell," he said.

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If all of the existing headaches for those pushing expensive electric vehicles on resisting American consumers could vanish, there's still a big one that may have no ready solution.

Already, it appears the U.S. could end up dependent on unfriendly nations for materials for all those batteries. Then there's the fact that the nation's grid simply can't support all that recharging – California already has been sending out advisories for owners not to charge. And then there's the limited range, and extended recharging times, both worsened by bad weather.

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A former teacher who reportedly likes to dress in drag is facing a long list of charges, including multiple counts of child pornography as well as distributing and exhibiting that material and soliciting via computer.

A report from the Journal-News explains the Jefferson County, West Virginia, sheriff's office announced the charges against Edgar Conn, formerly a Jefferson High teacher.

The report said was arrested over the weekend for being a fugitive and is facing eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child in Cobb County, Georgia.

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Studies have shown that for years, even decades, the number of those in America who believe and follow the Bible's guide to a moral life has been dropping.

Now it's reached a crisis, according to a new book, "Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing your child's heart, mind and soul," by George Barna.

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