In a letter to President Joe Biden last month, the NSBA insisted that the classification of parents’ disruptive actions at school board meetings “could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” calling on Biden to direct the Justice Department to apply the Patriot Act “in …
Read More »FBI raids Washington house of Oleg Deripaska, once Russia’s richest man, reports say, as clips show officers cordoning off scene
Clips posted by NBC correspondent Laura Strickler from outside the palatial residence, said to be belonging to Deripaska, show officers wearing masks and FBI windbreakers standing guard at the perimeter. In 2018, Deripaska was targeted by the US Treasury Department sanctions after officials claimed he acted as a proxy for …
Read More »Vaccine mandates ‘good for the economy’, White House claims, chalking up Southwest flight cancellations just ‘a little hubbub’
During a Tuesday briefing, Psaki was asked if vaccine mandates are negatively affecting the workforce, the question coming on the heels of Southwest recently canceling thousands of flights not long after they began enforcing the requirement. “I know world-renowned business, travel, and health expert Sen. Ted Cruz has made that …
Read More »‘Such a creepy administration’: Biden’s ‘illusionary’ White House set leaves viewers shocked & confused
As Biden spoke to the nation on Wednesday and pushed his ‘Build Back Better’ agenda, viewers became distracted by his surroundings. The president was not sitting in the West Wing, but rather in a set his team constructed for video conferences and interviews. Biden sat at the desk with the …
Read More »‘Self-regulation is not working’: White House uses Facebook whistleblower, outages to target Big Tech behemoth
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki added her voice to a flurry of critics targeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he deals with what has already shaped up as a very bad week. On Sunday evening, a former data scientist, Frances Haugen for the company came forward as the whistleblower …
Read More »Instead of policing the rule of law in other countries, the US should get its own house in order
Roy Cohn, Senator Joe McCarthy’s legal pitbull, famously proclaimed, “Don’t tell me what the law is, tell me who the judge is.” Cohn, speaking back in the 1950s, was opining that the US does not have a rule of law, but instead a rule of men and women who decide cases …
Read More »House passes landmark abortion rights bill, Republicans accuse Democrats of trying to legalize ‘murder’
The Women’s Health Protection Act passed the House on Friday, in a largely party-lines vote of 218-211, with only one Democrat, Henry Cuellar of Texas, joining the unanimous Republican opposition. The bill would enshrine the right to have an abortion, criminalizing attempts by states to hinder terminations, whether by banning …
Read More »US House passes bill allocating $1 BILLION to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome system after its battering during recent Gaza conflict
The bill was passed by 420 votes to 9 on Thursday, a day after the legislation was introduced. The measure needed a minimum of 260 votes to become law. The $1 billion in funding to replenish the reserves of the defense system was initially incorporated into a must-pass bill that …
Read More »‘This is not normal’: Jen Psaki blasted for suggesting UK PM blindsided White House by taking questions from the media
On Wednesday evening, CBS journalist Ed O’Keefe asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki to explain an incident on Tuesday which saw journalists escorted out of the Oval Office as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden discussed pertinent issues in front of the press. The leaders …
Read More »US House Democrats curtail GOP minority’s ability to seek investigations of Biden administration: media
Since March, House Democrats have been “slipping language” into House rules to essentially strip Republicans of their ability to use a so-called “resolution of inquiry” to formally request information from the executive branch, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing public documents. A resolution of inquiry is one of the few tools …
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