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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.
Clinton, offering his solution more than two decades before Biden abandoned his words and created the disaster, said, "All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
"The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use imposes burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more, by hiring a record number of new border guards, deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens."
He added, "In the budget I will present to you we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the work[p]ace as recommended headed by the commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we also are a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years. And we must do more to stop it."
The video first was shared by Ronna McDaniel, who officially announced her resignation as RNC chair on Monday, effective March 8.
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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.
A 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.
It sought records of Hobbs' communications with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more.
The latest documents provided, the ACLJ reported, include an email from the person who then was communications director for Hobbs to Google, confirming how people should report "dis/misinformation."
The email stated: " This is Murphy Hebert, the comms director for the Arizona Secretary of State, We are putting together our materials for the volunteers monitoring Twitter on Election Day. I have these protocols from the last cycle: If you see dis/misinformation on Google or YouTube, please get a screenshot and then send it, a link to the issue, and a description of what is inaccurate to all of the following people: Erica Arbetter (redacted)@google.com; Joe Dooley [redacted]@google.com; John Ruxton [redacted]@google.com; and Andrea Holtermann [redacted]@google.com. Are there any updates?"
The ACLJ explained, "Shockingly, you have the government official charged with overseeing free and fair elections – and who is also running for higher office – using government resources to organize a 'volunteer' army to target free speech surrounding her own election and colluding with social media giants to censor it."
The report continued, "As we have detailed before here – the self-appointed, supposedly objective 'fact checkers' who police this material too often share the political biases of the radical Left. Consequently, information that is both true and fair is often categorized as mis-, dis-, or malinformation to censor legitimate free and political speech, especially when that speech expresses the corruption and failures of the radical Left. Time and again the 'noble' motives of Deep State bureaucrats are revealed to be a façade to advance self-serving and authoritarian ends."
The report pointed out that the FBI even has admitted "in their internal emails that they believe the private industry is their 'most valuable asset' in censoring free speech. Leftist political campaigns seem to have taken the same tactics, including employing armies of volunteers to remove politically inconvenient details freely disseminated in the public square online. While we have now uncovered Hobbs’ use of government resources to violate First Amendment rights, there is significantly more digging to do to determine how and in what ways this was used to sway the electorate before and during the election."
The tactic apparently has become common for Democrats like Hobbs. It was during the 2020 election that the FBI interfered in the presidential race by warning media companies to suppress accurate reporting about a trove of information uncovered in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden.
The computer contained information about multiple scandals involving the Biden family, including information about the family's alleged "influence peddling" operations in which members took in millions of dollars by selling access to Joe Biden as vice president, then president.
The buyers often were individuals who would be considered enemies of America.
A polling after the election showed that had that information about the Bidens been ordinarily reported, enough voters would have withheld their support for Biden in the election that he likely would have lost multiple swing states – and the race – to President Trump.
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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.
When the issue of more money for Ukraine, demanded by Joe Biden, came up, the GOP members said they would move in that direction only when that spending was accompanied by some ways of addressing the catastrophe that has been created at the southern border by Biden's decision to drop literally all of the security measures instituted by President Donald Trump.
Now, according to Fox News, some two dozen GOP senators joined with Democrats to abandon the need for border security and instead hand out $95 billion. Most, some $60 billion, would go to Ukraine while the rest would go to Israel and Taiwan.
However, the plan's success in the House remains uncertain.
Fox reported, "The final vote was 70 to 29, with 22 Republicans voting yes. Democratic Sens. Peter Welch and Jeff Merkley, plus independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, voted no."
Fox explained the package contains no "border security provisions and comes as the national debt soars above $34 trillion."
Multiple GOP members participated in filibuster efforts, but the agenda eventually was adopted.
An earlier plan, involving $118 billion for aid and border security, failed when Republicans concluded it would make the situation in which Biden has allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the country worse.
The House speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson, has said the Senate plan won't survive in the House. He said members will draft their own plan … that includes border security.
"The mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America’s own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world," Johnson said. "It is what the American people demand and deserve. Now, in the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters. America deserves better than the Senate’s status quo."
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told senators before the final vote that they were giving "the finger" to American taxpayers.
"This bill gives the finger to all of America — this bill is Ukraine first, America last," he said.
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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.
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.
"Strength, not weakness, deters aggression. Russia invaded Ukraine twice under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, but not under Donald Trump."
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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.
But now a report in the Washington Times explains that those batteries are heavy, and EVs can weigh up to 50% more than internal combustion motor vehicles.
And that weight damages roads, bridges, and parking garages, with those vehicles easily plowing through safety guardrails while posing a higher danger to other drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists traveling the same routes.
"The problems associated with EVs are poised to grow as more consumers purchase the cars under the Biden administration’s plan to eliminate gas-powered vehicles and the tailpipe emissions that come with them," the report explained.
It explained engineers writing recently for Structure Magazine suggested construction companies, and building codes, need to make accommodations for the higher weight.
Parking garages, they said, should be redesigned to hold more weight.
That's because some hold hundreds of vehicles, and just one EV. A Ford truck weighs in at 8,240 pounds, nearly a ton more than the gas-powered version of the same pickup.
"Significantly increasing passenger vehicle weights combined with recently reduced structural design requirements will result in reduced factors of safety and increased maintenance and repair costs for parking structures," the engineers wrote. "There are many cases of parking structure failures, and the growing demand for EVs will only increase the probability of failure."
Then there are those guardrails, installed to minimize damage when traffic goes awry.
They are installed between lanes for traffic moving in opposite directions, between lanes and edge drop-offs, and more.
That concern comes out of a procedure at a test facility in Nebraska, where examiners took a 3.6-ton Rivian R1 and sent it into a metal guardrail at 62 mph, first head-on, then at an angle.
Both times it "ripped through" the guardrail and continued into what would have been lanes for oncoming traffic, the report revealed.
The conclusion was simple: making vehicles much heavier means "a lot more force" is required to redirect the vehicle.
University of Nebraska professor Cody Stolle, told the Times, "We found these guardrail systems don’t have great compatibility with these [electric] vehicles yet."
The heavier vehicles also could cause more damage to other vehicles in collisions.
The report said an insurance institute expert confirmed the weight provides more protection to those inside the EV but at the expense of anyone in another vehicle involved in an accident.
Joe Biden has insisted over and over that consumers should be buying the much more expensive and often less reliable electric cars the government programs subsidize.
The weight differences are significant. The report said the Tesla Model Y is more than 4,400 pounds while the similar size gas-powered Honda Accord is 3,300. Kia makes multiple SUVs, with the gas model weighing 3,900 pounds and the EV unit nearly 6,500.
Residential roads already are not engineered to handle the heavy weight on highways, and the lifespan of bridges could be reduced with much heavier traffic, the report said.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., recently said, "EVs are typically much heavier compared to similarly sized, gas-powered vehicles, which will put additional strain on America’s transportation infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers warns that an increase in EVs could substantially reduce the lifespan of roads and bridges, necessitating further investment in infrastructure."
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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.
Jefferson County Sgt. Joe Forman also got an arrest warrant for Conn that accuses him of distributing and exhibiting material depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, soliciting a minor via computer, and distributing and displaying to minors of obscene matter.
The case was developed after a juvenile in Georgia told authorities he had sent sexually explicit images to an adult in Jefferson County.
Authorities explained the 17-year-old boy believed he was communicating with an adult female named "Megan."
Investigators confirmed they obtained a search warrant for Conn's smartphone and a forensic examiner reported discovering text messages that substantiated the allegations.
Conn was being held in jail pending a preliminary hearing.
At the Geller Report was the stark admonition, "Get your children out of government schools."
The report said school officials removed Conn from his teaching duties as soon as the case became public.
"JCS immediately notified the West Virginia Department of Education for the purpose of licensure review and nationwide notification purposes to prevent the former employee from being able to teach," the school said.
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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.
He's the director of the Cultural Research Center and a professor at Arizona Christian University. He's also the author of dozens of books.
He now addressed the spiritual decline in America's children.
"Children are intellectual and spiritual sponges in their preteen years. They are desperately trying to make sense of the world, their identity, their purpose, and how to live a meaningful and satisfying life," he said in an announcement about his new book.
"Parents, in particular, have a duty to focus on and invest in the development of their child’s worldview, which is simply their decision-making filter for life. If parents do not fill that vacuum, other sources—such as the media, the schools, and even the child’s peers—will influence that worldview construction.
"The child’s worldview will inevitably develop. The critical questions are who will shape it and what worldviews will be most forcefully and consistently proposed."
He cites results from the CRC's research, including that among American preteens "only 60% have read even a part" of the Bible, and only half said it holds information about how to lead a good life.
"A mere one out of four (26%) consistently consult the Bible when trying to determine right from wrong," he explained.
"Even fewer (21%) believe turning to the Bible is the best way to distinguish right from wrong."
He noted only a "minority," 46% of adults, endorse that, and "worse, only half as many young people 25% agree that the Bible is the true words of God and provides value as a guide for life."
CRC reported, "While a robust 97% of 8- to 12-year-olds believe that there is an identifiable difference between right and wrong, a paltry one out of five (21%) believes that absolute moral truth exists. That is slightly less than the norm among adults (25%)—and indicative of the direction in which the nation is moving.
"One out of every three preteens (36%) believes that the means to eternal salvation is by confessing their sins and asking Jesus Christ to save them from the consequences of their sin. That is the same proportion as found among adults (35%). The fact that 8- to 12-year-olds display a higher likelihood of acknowledging Jesus Christ as the only means to eternal life than do teenagers (21%) raises the probability that the current percentage will decline as today’s adolescents' age unless there is a concerted effort to prevent such a drop."
Barna explained, "If you follow the data, you learn that we have had a decreasing percentage of Americans embracing a biblical worldview since we started tracking this in the early 1990s. We have endured more than 30 years of consistent decline, with a very limited response by the church. The incidence of biblical worldview among adults has dropped to just 4%, and among parents of young children it’s just 2%. You cannot get much lower."
He continued, "Because of the strong correlation between biblical worldview and genuine Christian discipleship, we are on the precipice of Christian invisibility in this nation unless we get serious about this crisis and invest heavily in fixing what’s broken. The worldview development of children is the existential challenge facing the American Church today."
The book, Barna’s 60th, is based on two years of research with preteens, teenagers, parents, pastors, and other adults.
CRC warned, "The foundational beliefs held by today’s 8- to 12-year-olds have them on track to abandon biblical Christianity in record numbers.":