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TWO-TIERED JUSTICE IS NO JUSTICE! J6 Operative Ray Epps was sentenced on Tuesday to NO JAIL TIME! Ray Epps, the only January 6 protester who actually told people to go into the Capitol, has been officially sentenced to one year probation.

With David Weiss' promotion to special counsel, the future of the Hunter Biden probe appears unclear. Charges have been officially dropped in Delaware as part of a stated plan to charge the president's son in another jurisdiction. That begs the question of why the charges were ever in Delaware in the first place if they supposedly don't belong there now. If it feels like the DOJ is hoping to draw a less-skeptical judge to rubber stamp yet another sweetheart plea deal, that's probably because that's what appears to be happening. A recent leak revealed that while the FBI believes it...

Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal blew up epically. That now leaves everything on the table in terms of charges, as well as looking into Joe Biden’s connections to the scandal. We saw that on Monday as the House Oversight Committee interviewed Hunter Biden’s former partner Devon Archer. Archer confirmed Joe Biden was talking on the speakerphone into meetings, and that was the “big guy.” He also revealed information about another Chinese connection and the bizarre comment Hunter made about the Biden name and “handsome Aryan godlike men.” We will likely find out more about what he said, particularly when the...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine woman who grew up as the neighbor of the future Pope Francis says she was very briefly the object of his affections when they were just 12 years old. Amalia Damonte is now 76, just like the pope, and she still lives in a house just four doors down from where Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up in the Flores neighborhood of Buenos Aires. clear from the start that he was thinking about dedicating his life to God. Damonte especially remembers a handwritten letter he left for her, because it got her into a lot...

It’s so difficult to know what to give her. Every Valentine’s Day, I struggle with the decision. She knows I love her. That is not a question. I tell her how much she means to me nearly every day. But on Valentine’s Day, she deserves something special, something tangible that conveys the depths of my feelings for her. I often ask other guys for suggestions, but none of their ideas seem to be what I’m looking for. I’ll tell you what she likes. She likes it best when we just go for a long walk together. Just the other evening,...

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), who allegedly received a sweetheart real estate deal in exchange for securing a Bill Clinton presidential pardon for one of his associates, among other allegations, will leave the U.S. Senate in January free from investigations or prosecution. A public-interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption reported on Wednesday that on December 20, 2010, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics -- commonly known as the Senate Ethics Committee -- dismissed a Judicial Watch ethics complaint filed against outgoing Senator Christopher Dodd. Judicial Watch's complaint alleges that Senator Dodd assisted a longtime friend and associate, Ed...

Rank-And-File Falling Away From DoddBy Dick Ahles Published on 5/24/2009 Senator Christopher Dodd's campaign to win back the hearts and minds and especially the votes of his Connecticut constituents in time for next year's election is being waged on many fronts. He is working hard to be seen as the champion of the consumer and the bane of some of his most generous big-business supporters as he shepherds long overdue credit card industry legislation through the Congress. He is becoming a frequent visitor to Connecticut. And he has won the coveted endorsement of Sen. Joe Lieberman. Who could ask for...

Mortgage deal may hurt Dodd in 2010By JOSH KRAUSHAAR | 2/17/09 4:38 AM EST Is Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) really in trouble? **SNIP** A 56 percent majority of Connecticut voters said they were less likely to vote for him because of the mortgage controversy. Fifty-four percent of respondents said they were not satisfied with Dodd's explanation of allegations that he received preferential mortgage treatment. “Sen. Dodd is vulnerable. His approval has sunk to a new low. More voters disapprove than approve of the job he is doing for the first time in 15 years of polling,” said Quinnipiac Poll Director...

The walk down the aisle yesterday was only a matter of yards. Yet for Martyn Compton it meant everything. Indeed, his determination to make the distance was matched only by that of the beautiful young woman he was about to marry. And when he falteringly held out his hand for her to slip the gold ring on his finger, they both finally fulfilled the dream they had fought desperately against all the odds to make a reality. It was so nearly destroyed when, two years ago, Martyn, a Lance-Corporal in the Household Cavalry, was badly burned in an ambush in...

In the second TV appearance since his election victory, Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad spoke in praise of "the art of martyrdom" as volunteers continued to mobilize for suicide squads aimed at U.S., British and Israeli forces. The day after the appearance, the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a report about the new leader's spiritual advisor, Ayatollah Mohammad Misbach Yazdi, who told Iranians how to volunteer for the regime-sponsored "martyrdom squads," according to the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI. The report mentioned an Iranian women's volunteer group dedicated to carrying out martyrdom operations against U.S., British,...