In a largely symbolic vote illustrating the legislative cross-currents that will roil Congress for the next two years, House Republicans on Monday voted to claw back $71 billion of the $80 billion in funding a Democratic-controlled Congress bestowed upon the Internal Revenue Service last year. The bill passed the House...

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Sean Connery, as police officer Jim Malone in 1987's "The Untouchables," once accused a would-be assailant of being so dumb that he brought a knife to a gunfight. (OK, technically he accused him of being so Italian that he brought a knife to a gunfight -- but the implication was...

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- a designated terrorist organization which is also branch of the Iranian armed forces -- neither forgives nor forgets, apparently. In January 2020, you may recall, the IRGC made headlines because then-President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed the head of the organization,...

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The dumpster fire that is Joe Biden's failed presidency rages on, as the 80-year-old career politician committed another embarrassing gaffe at a public event. On Sunday, Biden appeared to confuse a Salvation Army officer for a Secret Service agent while visiting a migrant services center in El Paso, Texas. This...

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Casting blame far and wide for the dismal showing of Florida Democrats in November, state Democratic Party chair Manny Diaz resigned Monday. November saw Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis charge to a 19-point victory over Democrat Charlie Crist as the GOP built a supermajority in the state Legislature and gained ground...

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In the past two months alone, the U.S. Navy has intercepted three illegal shipments of "lethal aid" from Iran destined for Houthi rebels in Yemen. The most recent incident occurred when the USS Chinook boarded a fishing vessel in international waters and discovered six Yemeni nationals smuggling 2,116 AK-47 rifles....

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Two Texas veterans have found common ground after a devastating tragedy. Volunteer firefighters responded to the scene of a serious house fire in Terrell, Texas, earlier this month, according to KDFW-TV. The home belongs to Navy veteran Larry Hickson. Everything inside the Kaufman County home had been destroyed by the...

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President Joe Biden on Monday studiously ignored a question about the discovery of classified documents relating to his time as vice president in the Obama administration in an office he used before being elected president. The 2-month-old discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement...

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GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska officially vacated his seat in Congress on Sunday to take a position as president of the University of Florida. Sasse was among the seven Republican senators who voted to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion in his...

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An 18-year-old woman died unexpectedly during a basketball game Thursday in The Bahamas. The teen had not complained about her health or feeling poorly prior to her collapse, local police told The Nassau Guardian. Observers were described as "visibly shaken" by the incident. Some were "wailing and sobbing" at the...

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More than 7,000 nurses went on strike Monday at two New York City hospitals. Pay and staffing levels were the two major issues that compelled around 3,600 nurses to walk off the job at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Another 3,500 nurses went on strike at Montefiore Medical Center in...

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The establishment media viewed the 15 votes required to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House as evidence of a dysfunctional Republican Party. The talking heads repeatedly misrepresented that heroic battle as a personality conflict, or a fight for certain members to be appointed to certain committees. However, it...

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The latest release of the "Twitter Files" exposed actions taken by Pfizer board member and former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb to suppress debate over the necessity of COVID vaccines for those with natural immunity. The findings were revealed by independent journalist Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter,...

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The sudden and tragic death of one of former President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters is prompting some rather sickening responses from leftists on Twitter. On Monday, it was announced on social media that Lynette Hardaway, better known as "Diamond" of "Diamond & Silk," had tragically passed away. "Diamond &...

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In the woke world of American academia, things aren't looking so rosy. U.S. Census Bureau data shows enrollment at America's institutions of higher learning is down 13 percent over the past decade -- and this was before COVID-19 hit and many schools went to online instruction while still demanding the same...

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Nikki Fried is not a read-the-room kind of gal. On Jan. 3, Fried left office as the last Democrat elected to statewide office in Florida. Not that it was a major job -- she was the state's commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, which is more responsibility than I have...

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Finally, it appears that President Joe Biden has been convinced that walls work. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to have been enough to change his mind about securing the U.S. border with Mexico, which remains as unsecure as ever despite his recent visit there. His administration has, however, begun work on...

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We’re still waiting for the release of the highly anticipated “Twitter File” focusing on Dr. Anthony Fauci, which had been forecast for the end of last week but is taking a little longer to be made public. But before that, another one dropped, this one from independent journalist Alex Berenson....

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Another prominent Democrat has said goodbye to the Democratic Party. South Carolina state Sen. Mia McLeod, who ran unsuccessfully for governor last year, said that she was leaving the party "because it no longer espouses the values my constituents and I hold dear." In an email to supporters Tuesday morning,...

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Newly-minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to make good on his vow to kick Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both of California, off the powerful House Intelligence Committee and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. After House Democrats stripped GOP Reps. Paul Gosar...

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