Republican Sen. Mike Lee's reaction to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday was perhaps the most relatable moment of the night. Naturally, when Biden gets a chance to speak, anyone in earshot can expect a gaffe, a half-truth or an outright lie. Tuesday was chock-full of each as...

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If you just listened to the first 10 or 20 minutes of President Joe Biden's rambling State of the Union speech on Tuesday, there was plenty to loathe -- although it was a pretty pro forma affair. The quick version: Spending. Infrastructure. Spending. Infrastructure. Spending. Manufacturing. Spending. Inflation isn't my...

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President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address Tuesday night in which he glossed over a number of extremely important topics and left others to back end. We're nearly an hour into this and not a single word about the Border Crisis!#SOTU — Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) February 8,...

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In the farrago of pipe-dream promises and blame-placing that was President Joe Biden's Tuesday State of the Union speech, you may have missed the part where he sneakily seemed to back a ban on roughly 40 percent of handgun sales in the United States. He didn't come right out and...

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President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday was host to a heated conversation between two Republican lawmakers. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was caught on camera in an elevated discussion with New York Rep. George Santos, a freshman congressman under fire for misrepresenting his credentials during his campaign. Footage...

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If you tuned in to the first half of President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, you may have heard a lot of prattling from Biden about raising taxes on corporations and higher-income Americans to fund his multifarious programs. The logic, now as ever, is that it's...

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If you tuned into President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday, you unsurprisingly noticed a lot of horn-tooting. Surprisingly, this was about both the economy and COVID-19 -- two interrelated subjects that Biden hasn't exactly handled well. Even before he gave the speech, Fox News' Tucker Carlson...

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President Joe Biden appeared to catch one Democratic senator off guard Tuesday night with his post-State of the Union agenda. After the speech, Biden was making his way through Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. Adam Schiff of California and Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey. “Bob, I gotta to talk to...

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At first, it was just a Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. airspace that we couldn't shoot down because of the risk to people on the ground. But don't worry, President Joe Biden's administration told the world: We're getting more data from it than it's getting from us, so it's...

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Joe Biden's failed presidency took another turn for the worse on Tuesday when the gaffe-prone octogenarian inexplicably went off-noscript during his State of the Union address and committed another cringeworthy blunder. While addressing the United States' increasingly unstable relationship with ascendant superpower China, Biden angrily declared, "Autocracies have grown weaker,...

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President Joe Biden strayed from the facts more than once during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, according to multiple fact-checking websites. The Washington Post took issue with 13 claims made by the president. For example, Biden claimed, “In the last two years, my administration cut the deficit by more than...

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A young, Christian woman in the Pakistani city of Karachi became the victim of a grisly crime after she refused marriage to a Muslim man. Sunita Masih was on her way to work on the morning of Feb. 1 when her neighbor, Kamran Allah Bux, threw acid onto her face,...

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Elon Musk’s actions after taking over Twitter, while not perfect, have advanced the cause of free speech. Outsider Musk stopping at least some censorship on such a prominent social media platform was the first major crack in an increasingly totalitarian alliance between Big Tech and big government. By allowing journalists...

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The parents of a California 14-year-old are furious after he was the victim of an after-school beating that took place on the grounds of Patriot High School in Jurupa Valley, east of Los Angeles, on Feb. 1. Angel Payan said he was angry that after his son was kicked and...

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A young father in Washington shot and killed a man who was reportedly acting “erratic” and had “threatened” his child on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened at a dog park in the city of Yakima and occurred after the protective dad made multiple attempts to de-escalate the situation, The Yakima...

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An Oregon firefighter died last week after suffering a medical emergency during training. The Gresham Fire Department announced the death of Brandon Norbury on Facebook. “We are saddened to share the sudden passing of IAFF Local 1062 Gresham Firefighter Brandon Norbury. Firefighter Norbury died in the Line of Duty on...

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LeBron James celebrated making NBA history on Tuesday night by dropping an F-bomb on live television and in front of fans, following a loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. James' Los Angeles Lakers lost a home game to the Thunder in overtime. But during the shootout, he became the NBA’s...

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Police in New York City have arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing an off-duty police officer. According to ABC News, police found 38-year-old Randy Jones at a motel in Nanuet, New York, on Monday. Two days prior, Jones had shot 26-year-old officer Abeed Fayaz, who had gone with...

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A California exterminator was surprised to find a mother lode inside one of his customer's homes. This wasn't a colony of termites or bedbugs, though. Exterminator Nick Castro found more than 700 pounds of acorns inside the chimney of a vacation home in December, according to The Press Democrat. The...

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Ratings-challenged CNN brought HBO’s Bill Maher into its Friday night lineup last week and still managed to get crushed by Fox News host Greg Gufeld. The network had been weighing the addition of a “comedian” to liven things up as it continues to struggle with its declining presence in the...

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