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The sacking of Rome in A.D. 410, the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, Pearl Harbor in 1941, the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of 9/11, and the October 7 raid by Hamas into Israel in 2023, all share a common element – victims were lulled into a false sense of security by aggressors. Historically, it was when the victims – believing a danger to be non-existent – failed to see what was developing, that the aggressors methodically implemented their sinister plans.
Nowhere among America's institutions has more success been achieved in implementing just such a sinister plan than in the education of our children. While we have been concentrating on outside dangers, we have taken our eyes off the danger within. It is one represented by a national school system that brainwashes our children to hate all for which America stands.
An African proverb states, "It takes a village to raise a child." The proverb conveys the message that it requires many people working together "to provide a safe, healthy environment for children, where children are given the security they need to develop and flourish, and to realize their hopes and dreams." In America, that means not only preparing students to contribute to society by providing them with the mental tools to do so but also by providing them with the proper foundation to understand and respect the values that have made our country great.
What we have lost sight of is that these values are not being taught in many of our school systems. Instead, children are being taught an ideology, permitted by irresponsible school boards and embraced by naive teachers, totally anathema to our capitalistic system. Yet whether taught as socialism, communism, or Marxism, it is being placed upon an ideological pedestal by which young people are promised all-inclusive equality. Public rather than private ownership of the multitude of ways for making money may sound good to these young minds, but such education ignores the historical perspective of such ideologies having failed miserably.
While many "villagers" are guilty of ideologically misguiding our students in this manner, one billionaire, Elon Musk, claims that another billionaire "wants to erode the fabric of civilization" as he basically "hates humanity." This civilization fabric eroder is the Hungarian-born and radical leftist billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
Musk warns that "Parents don't realize the Soviet level of indoctrination that children are receiving," with such indoctrination allegedly funded by philanthropists like Soros. It is such funding that ultimately and negatively influences school board members to adopt a capitalism-unfriendly agenda.
Ryan Girdusky is one person who has closely monitored the evolution of this process within the national school system and is doing something about it. He is the founder of the 1776 Project PAC. The mission of his PAC – the first of its kind built from the ground up – is to take the fight locally in getting conservatives elected to school boards. So positioned, such conservative members can then lead the fight to purge school curricula of their Marxist-oriented classes such as Critical Race Theory.
The 1776 Project PAC has attracted several conservative supporters, including Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham. Shapiro notes, to its credit, that the PAC has already successfully shifted over 100 school board races to conservatives in just the past year.
Unlike Pearl Harbor and 9/11, which provided us with no warning, Girdusky is sounding the alarm about our school systems. We would do well to heed what he has to say before it is too late to recover from the damage already done.
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A new, and wild, claim has been reported coming out of publications run by the Egyptian government:
That Israel and the United States, the two most common targets of Islamist terrorist organizations, set up those Islamist terror organizations.
A report from the Middle East Media Research Institute said that the government-published articles claim, "the U.S. and Israel are the ones who established the Islamist terrorist organizations al-Qaida, ISIS and others like them, and that these countries are responsible for instigating terrorism throughout the world."
One such claim came in the government daily Al-Ahram from Egyptian journalist Sa'id Shalash, who said the failure of ISIS and other Islamist organizations to assist Gaza by targeting Israel "is not surprising and in fact strengthens the suspicion that these organizations were created by and are operated by the U.S. and Israel."
Joining the claims, the report said, was journalist Muhammad Hassan al-Banna, a columnist for the government daily Akhbar al-Yawm.
He said the Jews and the Americans are responsible for producing terrorism and terrorists worldwide.
Perhaps reviewing what already has happened, he suggested that the terror groups eventually will turn against Israel and the U.S.
MEMRI explained, "It should be noted that the Egyptian government press is completely subordinate to Egyptian intelligence and that articles of this type are published under the direction of the Egyptian regime and Egyptian intelligence."
The claim from Shalash suggested that the terrorists are "not assisting Gaza in its war against Israel" because of those heretofore unknown relationships.
"When the barbaric Zionist-American-Western aggression against Gaza started, the scope of the slaughter, the devastation and the destruction, which have been ongoing for nine months, led some people to think that ISIS and other takfiri organizations would carry out operations against the occupying entity [i.e. Israel] on its territory, and against its interests abroad, as an expression of support for Gaza, for Palestine and for Al-Aqsa – but that did not happen."
He explained he expected them to refrain from acting "because I believe that these organizations are nothing but mechanisms established by the U.S. and the occupying entity. It is [Israel and the U.S.] that dictate their policy and supply them with funds for weapons, media and religious rulings from sheikhs [who promote intra-Islamic] discord. That is why, instead of directing their attacks toward support for Gaza and Palestine, [these organizations] intensified their terrorist attacks against positions of the Syrian Arab Army and against the resistance factions that support it in the Syrian Desert and in the Al-Tanf area in northeastern Syria, where the American occupation forces are deployed – [forces] that train and arm these [terrorist] organizations and use them in their ongoing attacks against the Syrian armed forces in their attempt to divide Syria."
He claimed the circumstances revealed "proof that [these terrorist organizations] are an American-Zionist product. A statement issued by ISIS in 2016, reflecting its position on Palestine, asserted that the Palestinian cause does not take precedence over the other jihadi causes, saying, 'If we look at the reality of the world today, we will find that it is completely ruled by polytheism and its laws, except for the regions where Allah made it possible for the Islamic State [i.e., ISIS] to establish the religion [of Islam]… Therefore, jihad in Palestine is equal to jihad elsewhere, without distinction.'"
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"Ten Little Indians" is a 1965 British crime mystery film. The plot involves a group of 10 strangers invited to a party in the Alps who, expecting entertainment, quickly discover otherwise. Greeted by a recording from the absent host, they are told each one of them has been responsible for someone's death. One by one, just like in the children's nursery rhyme of the same name, the number of "Indians" dwindles as guests turn up dead while surviving members try to identify who their host is before they suffer a similar fate.
The film comes to mind as members of another group – formed by members of Congress and known as the "Squad" – seem to be experiencing a similar fate as their political lives, one by one, are being terminated.
The group initially consisted of four women who won congressional seats in the House in 2018. They included Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who all banded together to form the far-left wing of their political party. Since then, they have been joined, in 2020, by Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Cori Bush, D-Mo., and, in 2022, by Greg Casar, D-Texas, Summer Lee, D-Pa., and Delia Ramirez, D-Ill.
The Squad, which boasted "Nine Little Progressives" by 2022, has repeatedly endorsed socialist policies that burden taxpayers with providing freebies, such as tuition-free college, for supporters. Their advocacy has also brought them into conflict with members of their party who prefer to see these progressive policy beneficiaries put some skin into the game. Various Squad members have been supported by the Justice Democrats PAC and Democratic Socialists of America. Their appeal seems to be to a younger political generation.
But 2024 has not been kind to the Squad. In June's Democratic primary election, Bowman became the first member to lose his seat to a more moderate candidate. Only two months later, a second Squad member, Bush, suffered a primary defeat as well.
Bush's defeat was undoubtedly helped by her strong position against Israel in the Gaza war, which earned her opponent the financial support of the pro-Israel group AIPAC. Bush did not take her loss gracefully, threatening to work against AIPAC when she left Congress.
As a Squad member, Bush also naively promoted the effort to defund police, spending campaign funds to hire her security. It will be interesting to see once she loses access to those funds if she will continue to hire private security or choose to rely on the diminished police coverage she helped promote for the rest of us. Bush also became the subject of a Department of Justice investigation in January for using those same funds to hire her husband as part of her security team.
Just like fate took its toll in "Ten Little Indians" as group members were held accountable for their transgressions, so too are Squad members being held accountable for theirs. They have promoted outrageous policies that have negatively impacted the average citizen. Although Omar won her recent primary, we can only hope Minnesota voters in her district come to their senses for the general election.
Meanwhile, of the "Nine Little Progressives," now there remain but seven. Like the last survivors in the film, we can take some comfort in knowing they are rightfully fearing for their political survival.
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U.S. House Rep. Laurel Lee, R–Fla., slammed the Biden administration for attempting to shift the blame for the crisis at the southern border onto the GOP and former President Donald Trump.
At the Democratic National Convention, President Joe Biden implied during his address that the border crisis was Trump's fault because Trump called senators to nix his bi-partisan border bill.
During an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Fox News host of "Mornings with Maria," the congresswoman stated it was the Biden-Harris administration that allowed the crisis to happen in the first place when they ended Trump-era policies.
"The person who is lying about the reality on the southern border, is very clearly President Biden, and the American people see this. They understand that it's the last three and a half years, and the lawless policies of the Biden–Harris administration that have led us to this day," Lee told Bartiromo.
Lee noted that Biden put an end to Trump's "Migrant Protection Protocols," also known as the "Remain in Mexico" policy.
"So, there are two things that are important here, the first is that Joe Biden immediately upon taking office, suspended the policies that we know were working from the Trump administration, remained in Mexico, and this absolute corruption of the asylum system is what led us to the chaos that we see at the southern border."
In 2020, there were 20,000 migrants processed under the Remain in Mexico program. By the end of 2021, the U.S. Solicitor General told the Supreme Court that the Department of Homeland Security processed more than 671,000 migrants under the traditional process.
"He designated Kamala Harris as his border czar and put her in charge of getting control of what was happening down there. And the American people know what happened next, the millions of people crossing, the known people from the terror watch list, the human trafficking, fentanyl, the absolute disaster in his failure of leadership, and his failure to respect the law," Lee said.
Bartiromo added Biden said on Day One in office that he was going to stop all deportations. Lee responded by saying Biden is now trying to shift the blame for the border to House Republicans and Trump.
"Well, I think what he's doing now is trying to shift blame to House Republicans and President Trump, and that is an absurdity. So in addition to the power that he had to act by executive order, House Republicans sent the strongest border bill in a generation over to the Senate, where Senate Democrats failed to act," Lee said.
According to a 2021 report from Fox News, Customs and Border Patrol data show assault and domestic crimes committed by illegal migrants shot up by 400%, while homicides or manslaughter convictions committed by illegal migrants increased by 1,900% over the previous year of 2020.
"The American citizens, these innocent people who have been victims of crime, as a consequence of our absolute failure to vet and control the type of people who are coming here. This administration doesn't even know who they are, or where they are, and they've produced no plan for identifying these people or for keeping Americans safe," Lee said.
Lee is on the House Judiciary Committee, and the Homeland Security Committee, and said through her experience on those committees, she is expecting an uptick in gang violence if Harris wins the election this November.
"What we know is that when we fail to secure our border, the Mexican drug cartel will take control, and that is exactly what has happened. We know of over 400 people from the terror watch list who have entered this country. That's just the ones we know about. It poses a grave threat to our domestic security in America," Lee said.
Lee added the only solution to this problem is to reelect Trump.
"We've allowed them to come in, we failed to keep track of where they are, so absolutely, there is a grave threat to the security of our country, and it is one that they have not got under control. We need to put President Trump back in the White House, and return to those policies that will keep our border secure," Lee said.
Biden made a plethora of false claims during his DNC speech, and repeatedly called Trump a liar, despite the data proving otherwise.
"I never thought I would stand in front of a crowd of Democrats, and refer to the president as a liar so many times. No, I'm not trying to be funny, it's sad. Trump continues to lie about the border. Here's what he won't tell you, Trump killed the strongest bi-partisan border deal in the history of the United States," Biden said, "That we negotiated with the Senate Republicans in four weeks. Once it passed, they never acknowledged those expansive border changes in American history. He called senators to say 'Don't support the bipartisan bill,' he said it would help me politically, and hurt him politically. My God."
Biden took credit for the recent drop in encounters, however, the executive order he enacted in June, is very similar to Trump's remain-in-Mexico policy – the same policy Biden ended on his first day in office.
"Typically Trump once again putting himself first, and America last. I had to take executive action, and the result of the executive action I took was – that border encounters have dropped by over 50% there are fewer border crossings today than when Donald Trump left office, and unlike Trump, we will not demonize immigrants, saying they're the poison of blood of America. Poison the blood of our country. Kamala and I are committed to strengthening legal immigration, including protecting DREAMERS and more," Biden said.
A report from the Homeland Security Committee published in May 2024, details how the Biden administration officials are on track to hit 10 million illegal migrant encounters by the end of the fiscal year.
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Joe Biden on Monday night at this year's Democrat party convention delivered what is expected to be his farewell to the 2024 presidential race, his party's support and much, much more, including a political career that has spanned decades.
But like myriad earlier speeches, he couldn't get by without telling a falsehood, or two. Or more.
He criticized "political violence," but didn't address the lawfare his party has launched, with multiple court cases against President Donald Trump, including one about possession of classified documents – an offense Biden also committed but for which he faced no charges. But Trump was charged with a long list of counts.
Then he trotted out his story, which is false, about the race violence that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He said, "Extremists coming out of the woods carrying torches. Their veins bulging from their necks. Carrying nasty swastikas. Chanting … antisemitic bile … white supremacists, neo-Nazis."
He said those people saw President Donald Trump as an ally.
"President was asked what he thought…'There are very fine people on both sides.' MY GOD…. That is what he said and what he meant."
Trump didn't of course, and even leftist fact-checkers have documented how Biden's often-used story is a fabrication.
Biden many times has 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's already handed that lie off to Kamala 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."
The fact is that 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.
Biden also had brought out his lie during the recent Republican National Convention.
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 literally 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."
Biden also issued a long list of claims about his accomplishments, with statements the truth of which remains questionable, such as the "500,000" electric vehicle charging stations.
The not-true statements started early in the evening, with the Harris campaign claiming Project 2025 was President Donald Trump's. It's not. He's rejected any affiliation with it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., claimed on Jan. 6, 2021, five people died in the protest-turned-riot at the Capitol. Not true. There were some officers who weeks later committed suicide.
He claimed Trump "tried to destroy millions of votes," but that wasn't true either. Trump, in fact, faced headwinds from Democrats because he wanted to find MORE votes.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, talked of the "two impeachments" of Trump. But both failed. "Listen, y'all, he's only looking out for one person," she claimed, and then waited for a response to her applause line, which came, eventually.
The Trump campaign was monitoring the lies, with the statement:
"Speakers lied about Kamala Harris' record as San Francisco's District Attorney. Murders skyrocketed under Kamala Harris. She protected illegal immigrant drug dealers and 'gave lenient plea deals to murderers, domestic abusers as DA.' Democrats repeatedly said that 'we're not going back.' Back where? Back to low inflation and secure borders? Polling shows that a majority of Americans say they were better off under President Trump. Democrat after Democrat is lying about President Trump's manufacturing record. President Trump presided over a manufacturing boom, delivered for American autoworkers and ended the disastrous NAFTA trade deal, replacing it with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Kamala Harris opposed the USMCA and American autoworkers. The Associated Press noted in 2023 that since its enactment 'vehicle and parts manufacturers have actually added nearly 90,000 jobs.'"
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear claimed Harris has moved beyond "division," when the one single goal of the Biden-Harris administration has appeared to be division, dividing Americans into those who promote abortion and those who want to deprive women of "their rights." Between those who are green ideologists and those who apparently want to destroy the world.
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock boasted about his own election in Georgia and how his then-82-year-old mother picked her youngest son "to be a U.S. senator."
Almost every speaker explained how Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sent to the White House in 2020.
Warnock talked about the COVID-19 vaccinations, which many times were mandatory, and now are known to have inflicted massive injuries.
He talked about the "Big Lie," which Democrats say was Trump's allegations about election irregularities. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg turned over $400 million to mostly leftist elections officials who often used the cash in hand to recruit voters from Democrat districts. Further, the FBI and CIA interfered on behalf of Biden in the election by claiming that the Biden family scandals found in a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden were Russian disinformation, when they were in fact true.
Just this week, a House report confirmed that Joe Biden had been running an influence-peddling operation for years, collecting some $27 million for his family from foreign enemies.
Warnock also quoted numerous Bible verses, but did not address "Thou shalt not kill" regarding abortion. He claimed to want to "Give every child a chance."
And he spent much time praising Joe Biden, who isn't on the ballot.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons asked, "Are there any Democrats in the room tonight?"
He praised Biden for faith, love of family, determination to restore the "soul" of the nation. Then he thanked Biden for "elevating" a leader like Harris.
Ashley Biden, Joe Biden's daughter who wrote in a now-disclosed diary that she took childhood showers "probably inappropriate" with her father, talked about remembering the eve of her eighth birthday. Her dad returned from Washington. "Dad hugged me and said he had to get back to work." Off he went "to D.C."
She related her thoughts about her father.
And, she said she sees, "one of the most consequential leaders EVER in history."
Jill Biden talked about Joe reading his children bedtime stories, and "all he's accomplished in the name of something bigger than himself."
After all, he received the Medal of Freedom "with humility."
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Famed Christian evangelist Billy Graham, one of the best-recognized names literally around the globe, also is known for his offering advice to a long list of presidents of both parties.
Those private conversations almost never made it into the public arena, but the public record shows every U.S. president since World War II met with him.
He was offered government posts by Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and politely said no.
Harry S. Truman not only met with Graham, he received him as his Independence, Missouri, home. Dwight Eisenhower asked him about sending troops into Little Rock during a time of civil unrest. John F. Kennedy met with Graham before he was inaugurated.
Graham was invited to the Johnson family ranch multiple times, and spent more than 20 nights in the White House during his presidency. Graham had known Nixon for years, and the president often asked Graham to pray with him. Gerald Ford explained, "I've heard the comments from some sources that Billy mixes politics with religion. I never felt that and I don't think that thousands and thousands of people who listen to him felt that."
Jimmy Carter was an honorary chair of an Atlanta Crusade by Billy Graham back in his day, Ronald Reagan once said, "It was through Billy Graham that I found myself praying even more than on a daily basis … and that in the position I held, that my prayers more and more were to give me the wisdom to make decisions that would serve God and be pleasing to Him." George H. W. Bush called Graham "an inspiration in my life."
Bill Clinton credited Billy Graham with refusing to racially segregate a crusade audience. George W. Bush said a turning point in his faith came during a private talk with Billy Graham in 1985. Graham said he was pleased to have had Barack Obama visit in his home.
Now a leftist organization called EvangelicalsforHarris is using an image of Billy Graham in an ad supporting the leftist candidate being supported by Democrats.
Which drew a pointed response from Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son and now chief of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as well as Samaritan's Purse.
He said, "The liberals are using anything and everything they can to promote candidate Harris. They even developed a political ad trying to use my father Billy Graham's image to help promote her—or rather to try to make Donald J. Trump look bad.
"They are trying to mislead people. Maybe they don't know that my father was a firm supporter of President Trump in 2016. He appreciated the conservative values and policies of President Trump, and if he were alive today, my father's views and opinions would not have changed.
"President Trump isn't perfect—none of us are—but I believe he has changed over the years. This recent assassination attempt has had a huge impact on him—and I thank God that his life was spared."
A report by Fox News said a statue of Billy Graham was installed in the U.S. Capitol just months ago.
The ad juxtaposes footage of Billy Graham with Trump's own comments.
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Joe Biden has, in the past, stated flatly that he did not share any classified information with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer while he was helping the Democrat assemble a book that was released some years ago.
But that now has been contradicted by evidence: Joe Biden's own words in a transcript of his conversations with Zwonitzer.
"There do exist written transcripts of President Biden's interviews with his ghostwriter where they discuss classified material, and that Special Counsel Hur relied upon those written transcripts in coming to his conclusions [that Biden was a 'well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory']," explained Kyle Brosnan, counsel to the Oversight Project, in an interview with Fox News.
The revelations about the documents were made during a court hearing on the organization's freedom of information case involving the federal government.
The confirmation came from the Justice Department, which told the court the documents were found.
The case is pursuing records from Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Joe Biden's mishandling of classified government documents. Those documents were found in Biden's private offices, in his home, and in his relatively unsecured garage stashed next to a collectible car.
Biden repeatedly has denied any such conversations, but the whole issue has taken on a political perspective since no charges were recommended by Hur against Biden – who cited Biden's status with a diminishing mental ability – but the same federal laws were used to trigger a long list of charges against President Donald Trump for his possession of government documents.
The cases were not, in fact, identical. Trump held the power as president to declassify what he chose; Biden, as senator and vice president then, did not.
The DOJ confirmed it had found 117 pages of transcriptions.
"The ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, was previously subject to a March subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee, which sought any documents, contracts and recordings of interviews and conversations with Biden," the report said.
"However, Oversight Project counsel Kyle Brosnan said on Wednesday this particular revelation is both new and further animates the need for transparency with questions about Biden's competency."
Brosnan pointed out that the discovery of the documents has been the subject of discussion with the DOJ over the next step in the process.
Federal officials earlier had claimed that there was not a verbatim transcript of those recordings, which now are being pursued by GOP members in Congress who say they are needed to continue their review of Biden's' mental competency, and whether impeachment is the proper remedy to the problem.
Trendingpoliticsnews explained, "The investigation stemmed from a 2022 discovery of classified documents found in the garage of President Biden's Delaware home and came shortly after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in search of equally top-secret documents in former President Donald Trump's possession. Trump for months has called the incident an example of hypocrisy by a two-tiered Biden Justice Department. Last month U.S. Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Trump case citing problems with the unlawful appointment of special counsel Jack Smith."
Smith, however, is insisting that an appeals court overlook questions about his suspect appointment and restore his case against Trump.
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A reporter for a legacy publication in Washington, D.C., is wondering what the White House can do to censor the social media statements of President Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president this election.
A report by Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, cited the comment by Washington Post writer Cleve Wootson Jr. at a White House press conference.
He said, "I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue … it's an American issue."
Then he lobbed a "softball" at Biden press secretary Karine Jean Pierre, with, "What role does the White House or the president have in sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of intervening in that? Some of that was about campaign misinformation, but, you know, it's a wider thing, right?"
The advocacy for censorship came on the heels on President Trump's two-hour long conversation with X chief Elon Musk on social media, which has attracted the attention of billions who have watch at least part of that. This is at a time when Democrat hopeful Kamala Harris is avoiding the press, declining to make her policy positions known, similar to Joe Biden's hide-in-the-basement scheme during the 2020 election.
Turley, who has written widely on free speech and recently released a book on the topic, said, "In my new book on free speech, I discuss at length how the mainstream media has joined an alliance with the government and corporations in favor of censorship and blacklisting. The Washington Post, however, appears to be taking its anti-free speech campaign to a new level with open calls for a crackdown. The newspaper offered no objection or even qualification after its reporter, Cleve Wootson Jr., appeared to call upon the White House to censor the interview of Elon Musk with former President Donald Trump. Under the guise of a question, Wootson told White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that censoring its leading political opponent is 'an America issue.'"
Turley explained how Wootson's question "was really a political statement. Wootson begins by stating as a fact that Musk and X are engaging in disinformation and it is a threat to the country."
He continued, "Let's recap. The Washington Post used a White House presser to call for censorship of one of the leading candidates for the White House and then demanded to know what the White House would do about it."
And he pointed out how the publication itself, which has become "one of the most hostile newspapers to free speech values," was silent. "No correction. No qualification."
And he noted how the Post previously as "stood by" other false reports, the "Lafayette Park protests, Hunter Biden laptop and other stories."
In fact, there now exists "a danger of a de facto state media in the United States," he warned, not by government coercion but "by consent" of the media.
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Both Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and her VP pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, appear to live out their faith.
That would be social issues, progressive ideologies, activism for same-sex marriage and "reparations" for blacks who never were slaves, editing the Bible on an as-needed basis, promoting abortion and transgenderism and provoking racism by campaigning for "anti-racism" programs that often are racist themselves.
It is the Washington Stand that has reviewed the church attended at times by Harris, as well as the community in which Walz participates.
"For spiritually active, governance engaged conservatives (SAGE Cons), who know firsthand the formative role a church can play, a candidate's church background is an important issue that often receives little coverage in the mainstream media," the report explained.
To fill in that gap, the publication cited several facts about Harris's faith organization, Third Baptist Church in San Francisco.
A typical "black" Baptist church, the report said it has a pastor who has been there nearly five decades, a veteran of the civil rights era. In fact, Amos Brown Sr. has used his church for an "array of social programs" concerning refugees, addictions, free lunches and the like.
Brown was "deeply shaped by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. He grew up in Mississippi only an hour away from Emmett Till, a black teenager about Brown's age who was lynched and murdered in 1955 after he was accused of offending a white woman," the report said. He was with the NAACP for years and as recently as weeks ago was citing his great-great-grandfather's experience with slavery and related a story "of a KKK ambush against a young black pastor."
He worked against Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court, and testified to the Senate against Thomas when Joe Biden was the chairman of the committee reviewing that nomination. He criticized the U.S. for abandoning a conference promoting anti-Semitism and implied America was culpable for triggering the 9/11 attacks, the report said.
He promoted same-sex "marriage" when that dispute was raging in the state, endorsed cash payments to black Americans who never were slaves. And he's used his pulpit to promote Harris, as during an Aug. 4 sermon said, "We better stop this culture war that's going on in America, about whether or not a woman can lead this nation. This has got to stop, this culture war about where the woman belongs. For I heard Sojourner Truth said, a long time ago, 'Ain't I a woman? I can pick up a pail of water. I can move a log. I can do anything a man can do.'"
The publication, describing Walz's Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul, said it is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which is a group of "liberal" congregations that thinks the Bible gives room for people to come to differing conclusions.
The organization's lead preacher is Jen Rome, who recently encouraged the congregation to "free themselves from the 'garbage' of societal norms."
"We humans love to make systems or hierarchies, whether that's government, or religion, or gender, or race. We just live in all that stuff. We breathe it in, and the dynamics just circulate around in ourselves," she said.
Its service includes varying liturgy and highlights "contemplation" as well as "Celtic Contemplative Communion and Contemplative Prayer from Nordic and Other Lands."
It has modified the Lord's Prayer to fit its political stance, editing it to say, "Our guardian, our mother, our father in heaven, hallowed by thy name …"
It promotes the LGBT identity and lifestyle and like Harris's organization, promotes "anti-racism" campaigns.
One of its stated goals is to "overcome white supremacy."
It has its own "reparations" fund, and a variety of other "social justice" endeavors. A recent bulletin included prayer requests such as "the people of areas torn by war and violence, including Gaza and Ukraine," "refugees," "victims of gun violence," "our government" "climate events, "creation," "the LGBTQIA+ community," "our Native, Asian, Latino, and black siblings," and "our Muslim and Jewish" siblings."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
'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.