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  • People Aren't Signing Up for Those New IRS Jobs

    03/18/2024 10:15:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jazz Shaw
    Back when the Biden administration passed the hilariously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a significant debate broke out over a provision that would funnel massive amounts of money to the Internal Revenue Service. The funds would supposedly go to hire an army of new agents who would diligently work to ensure that everyone was "paying their fair share" of taxes and that government revenue was predicted to increase. Conservatives pushed back hard against the plan, but most of the IRS funding survived. Yet the anticipated benefits have still yet to show up. The reason for this, according to a new...
  • Supreme Court chief justice denies ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro's bid to stave off prison sentence

    03/18/2024 9:13:00 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 19 replies
    AP ^ | March 17, 2024 | LINDSAY WHITEHURST
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He had asked to stay free while he appealed his conviction. Navarro has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege. Lower...
  • Chinese Auto Executive: ‘Bloodbath’ Coming for American Auto Industry

    03/18/2024 8:12:42 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 18 Mar 2024 | John Binder
    He Xiaopeng, the CEO of XPeng Motors, predicts a “bloodbath” against America’s auto industry with the help of cheap China-made electric vehicles (EVs).Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump was campaigning in Andalia, Ohio, when he warned that without fierce new United States tariffs on China-made EVs, the American auto industry will face “a bloodbath for the country” with jobs lost and industry offshored.“We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected,” Trump said. “Now if I...
  • Trump attorneys file to disqualify Fani Willis from election fraud case despite prosecutor stepping aside

    03/18/2024 6:56:20 PM PDT · by bitt · 8 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | 3/18/2024 | Social Links forRonny Reyes
    Former President Donald Trump’s defense team filed a motion on Monday seeking to dismiss and disqualify embattled Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election fraud case. Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in the case, asked the court to immediately remove Willis. The filing comes days after the judge overseeing the case ruled she could stay on as long as special prosecutor Nathan Wade stepped aside, following the revelation of their romantic relationship. Sadow claims in his motion that action does not go far enough and is asking to appeal the decision. “President Trump and seven defendants have...
  • Report Criticizes ‘Catastrophic Errors’ of COVID Lockdowns, Warns of Repeat

    03/18/2024 6:51:37 PM PDT · by lightman · 13 replies
    epoch times ^ | 17 March A.D. 2024 | Kevin Stocklin
    It was four years ago, in March 2020, that health officials declared COVID-19 a pandemic and America began shutting down schools, closing small businesses, restricting gatherings and travel, and other lockdown measures to “slow the spread” of the virus. To mark that grim anniversary, a group of medical and policy experts released a report, called “COVID Lessons Learned,” which assesses the government’s response to the pandemic. According to the report, that response included a few notable successes, along with a litany of failures that have taken a severe toll on the population. During the pandemic, many governments across the globe...
  • The battle for America’s soul

    03/18/2024 5:44:13 PM PDT · by Islander7
    Laurel Leader Call ^ | 3/18/2024 | Crhris McDaniel ( MS State Senator)
    Somewhere along the way, we forgot our reason for being, the Republic’s raison d’etre. And it’s the authoritarians from both parties who are leading the charge to disaster, those ego-obsessed busybodies who keep increasing the strength and size of government to empower themselves at the expense of the people. America’s purpose is not simply the grandeur of our flag, the beauty of our Capitols, breathtaking landscapes, the solemnity of our monuments, or even the might of our armed forces that define us, though these are all aspects of our national identity. There’s so much more at stake.
  • Fatal vulnerability: Stunned reporter films Ukraine's tank debacle

    03/18/2024 5:37:36 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 13 replies
    The Limited Times - News RND News Aggregator ^ | March 18, 2024 | Patrick Mayer
    The Ukrainian army is losing tank after tank as Vladimir Putin's Russian troops advance. The example of a Challenger 2 tank is alarming. Donbass - Little by little they are left behind on the battlefield of Ukraine: Western tanks that the treacherously invaded country received for its defensive battle against Russia. Weapons for Ukraine: Challenger 2 main battle tanks have major weak points The inventory of British Challenger 2 main battle tanks is also suffering seriously in the Ukraine war. According to various media reports, as of mid-March, only seven of the steel giants are still operational. To put it...
  • Graham meets with Zelensky in Ukraine

    03/18/2024 5:14:03 PM PDT · by McGruff · 16 replies
    The Hill ^ | March 18, 2024 | Miranda Nazzaro
    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday as further funding for the war-torn country remains in limbo amid divisions in Congress. Zelensky hosted Graham in Kyiv, where the two discussed aid for Ukraine, the Ukrainian army’s needs and the Eastern European nation’s eventual integration into NATO, the Ukrainian leader wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Graham’s visit comes just weeks after he voted against a $95 billion defense and foreign aid package in the Senate. The bill included $60 billion for Ukraine, including $19.85 billion to restock U.S. military weapons provided from the...
  • A Ukrainian soldier said that Ukraine's losses are so heavy where he's fighting that they struggle to recover the bodies

    03/18/2024 5:05:12 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 30 replies
    Business Insider ^ | March 18, 2024 | Mia Jankowicz
    A Ukrainian soldier fighting near the country's northern front line has described the menace of Russia's bombardment, telling the Times of London that they are "losing so many people, there are so many bodies we can't even bring them all back." A major factor in the current Russian offensive is glide bombs, which Russia has stepped up the use of in the last three months. These are Soviet-era bombs tricked out with guidance systems and wings enabling long-distance strikes. As of last month, Russia was using them intensely around three flashpoints of the war: Kupiansk, the eastern city of Bakhmut,...
  • What hope does Ukraine have to hold out against Russia if the US keeps struggling to send weapons?

    03/18/2024 4:53:55 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 31 replies
    MSN - ABC News Australia ^ | March 18, 2024 | Annika Burgess
    Starved of ammunition and losing ground, Ukraine has gone months without receiving weapons from the United States. The crucial flow of military support paused in December after the Pentagon announced it had run out of money to replenish stocks. Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umerov has said troops are in a state of "shell hunger" and reports have emerged of forces rationing as few as 15 artillery shells per day. For every 10 shells Russia fires, Ukraine can only shoot one, Kyiv security officials have said. The firepower shortage was a contributing factor in the recent withdrawal from Avdiivka.
  • Sen. Joni Ernst Slams Biden Admin for Funneling $2.8M for ‘High-Risk Pathogens’ Research in Guinea

    03/18/2024 4:39:16 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 18, 2024 | Josh Christenson
    The Biden administration shows no signs of stopping research on “pathogens of pandemic potential” abroad through a controversial US nonprofit, Sen. Joni Ernst said Monday, as the Pentagon will complete a $2.8 million grant this year for experiments on “high-risk pathogens” in Guinea. The Department of Defense began funding Georgetown University in September 2021 for a three-year project out of its Defense Threat Reduction Agency focused on “reducing the risk of pathogens causing fever” in Guinea, a grant database shows. EcoHealth Alliance has received subgrants as part of the project — despite concerns from lawmakers and scientific experts that the...
  • ‘We’re So Sick of It’: Northern Border Crisis Gets Worse

    03/18/2024 4:33:21 PM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | Allan Stein
    Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the northern U.S. border have jumped from 916 in fiscal year 2021 to 10,021 in fiscal 2023.. HIGHGATE, Vt.—At dawn or dusk, Kristy Brow used to enjoy alone time walking in the woods on her 21-acre property in Highgate, Vermont, a small rural town near the U.S.–Canada border. Lately, however, she’s cautious—she’s worried about potential encounters with illegal immigrants along the remote logging trail. “I don’t go out by myself anymore—especially at night,” said Mrs. Brow, who runs a dog obedience business from her home. “It’s unsettling. You can’t feel relaxed anymore,” she...
  • SCOTUS denies stay of sentence for ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro

    03/18/2024 4:16:28 PM PDT · by CFW · 41 replies
    ABC news ^ | 3/18/24 | ByDevin Dwyer
    Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison on Tuesday as scheduled, after the Supreme Court on Monday denied the stay of his sentence. Chief Justice John Roberts, in a short opinion, wrote that he saw "no reason to disagree" with lower courts, which also rejected Navarro's request. Navarro's appeal on the merits remains pending, but he will have to begin serving his sentence in the meantime. Navarro was ordered on March 11 to report to prison in Miami on Tuesday, to serve a four-month sentence. He was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of...
  • Trump, co-defendants request to appeal Georgia judge’s ruling keeping Fani Willis on case

    03/18/2024 3:45:23 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 18, 2024 5:18pm EDT | Brooke Singman
    Former President Trump and several of his co-defendants are asking Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee for permission to appeal after he ruled against dismissing the case and disqualifying District Attorney Fani Willis. McAfee last week denied a full dismissal of the case against Trump and Willis’ disqualification. Instead, he demanded that Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade resign from the case. McAfee warned that without Wade’s withdrawal, Willis would be disqualified from prosecuting Trump. Wade withdrew within hours of the judge's order.Four co-defendants had accused Willis of having an "improper" affair with Wade, whom she hired to help...
  • Supreme Court extends block on Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants

    03/18/2024 3:25:19 PM PDT · by CFW · 65 replies
    ABC News ^ | 3/18/24 | By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
    The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely extended its block on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely extended its block on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out. The one-page order signed by Justice Samuel Alito did not set a deadline, instead extending the stay “pending further order.”...
  • Supreme Court delays Texas deportation law for a second time

    03/18/2024 3:16:39 PM PDT · by packagingguy · 4 replies
    Houston Chronical ^ | March 18, 2024 | Benjamin Wermund
    The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely delayed a Texas law that would empower state authorities to arrest and deport migrants, an effort by Republican legislators to give the state immigration enforcement powers long left solely to the federal government. For the second time, Justice Samuel Alito extended a stay halting the law, known as Senate Bill 4. The order was released minutes after a 4 p.m. deadline, prompting initial confusion over whether the court decided to let the law stand. Alito offered no explanation in the single-page order and did not set a deadline on the latest extension, blocking the...
  • Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Is The Fake News Media’s Latest Hysterics Over ‘Guy’ And ‘Sir’

    03/18/2024 3:06:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    The Federalist ^ | MARCH 18, 2024 | EDDIE SCARRY
    The media have been pseudo-analyzing Trump to impart dark meaning to his every word. Sometimes a metaphor is just that.Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. But if it involves Donald Trump, the news media for various reasons insist it’s definitely a penis.We’re in the middle of another round of gravely serious media analysis about what Trump meant when he said something in public, this time that there would be a “bloodbath” if he didn’t win the election. Anyone who saw the remarks at a campaign rally Saturday in Ohio knew Trump was talking about the economic fallout of a...
  • Trump Lawyers Say Posting $464 Million Bond ‘Impossible’ in NY Fraud Case

    03/18/2024 2:54:43 PM PDT · by NYer · 53 replies
    Epoch News ^ | March 18, 2024 | Catherine Yang
    Attorneys for former President Donald Trump urged a New York appeals court again on March 18 to remove or lower the $464 million bond President Trump must pay in less than a week as he tries to appeal a more than $350 million judgment from a civil fraud case.“Enforcing an impossible bond requirement as a condition of appeal would inflict manifest irreparable injury on Defendants, and ‘defeat or impair [this Court’s] appellate jurisdiction,’” they argued.The New York Attorney General’s office, which brought the civil fraud lawsuit, argued the appeals court had no authority to do so, while the defense pointed...
  • Jake Sullivan Makes Antisemitic Claim Israel Interferes in American Politics

    03/18/2024 2:17:19 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made the antisemitic claim Monday in a White House press briefing that Israel interferes in U.S. politics. He provided no evidence of his claim, while admitting that it had nothing to do with the question he had been asked, about policy differences between the U.S. and Israel in the ongoing war against Hamas. Sullivan was asked to respond to Netanyahu’s claim that he had the support of the majority of the Israeli people in his plans to attack Hamas’s final stronghold in the city of Rafah, and whether Biden could speak directly to Israelis. Netanyahu’s...
  • Biden Summons Israel for Talks; Says Netanyahu’s Position on Hamas Is ‘Nonsense’

    03/18/2024 2:03:00 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 85 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House on Monday that President Joe Biden had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oppose Israeli plans to attack Hamas in the city of Rafah. Sullivan added that the president had asked Netanyahu an “interagency” team of military, defense, and humanitarian officials by “the beginning of next week” to meet with U.S. officials in Washington and negotiate over a Rafah operation. He said that the Biden Administration might approve limited, targeted strikes in Rafah, but would refuse a broader Israeli invasion of the town, saying that such an...