Media chatter suggests that Vernon Jones could soon drop out of the Georgia gubernatorial race, but the candidate gave no indication of that on either his Facebook page or his Twitter feed Thursday. Jones did not return The Georgia Star Newsâ request for comment. FOX News reported this week…
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Commentary: Don’t Watch the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
In December, the United States, United Kingdom and Australia all announced diplomatic boycotts against the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and since then, several other nations around the world have joined the boycott.
A diplomatic boycott means that government officials from those nations will not attend the Olympic Games. This sent an important message to the citizens of those countries that attending the games even as spectators is immoral and at odds with the spirit of their own nation.
The Chinese Communist Party knew this, and in a preemptive attempt to avoid the embarrassment of empty bleachers, it made a decision on Jan. 17 not to sell spectator tickets to people from outside Chinaâs mainland, and invite in controlled groups instead.
Read MoreSchweizer: Yale, Other U.S. Institutions of Higher Learning Fail to Report Millions of Dollars From China, Chinese Nationals
The investigative reporter and author of the new book âRed-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Winâ told The Star News Network that U.S. colleges and universities, such as the case with Yale University and Joseph Tsai, are not complying with federal reporting laws in regards to their gifts from China and Chinese nationals.
âSection 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 is very explicit,â said Peter Schweizer, the founder and president of the Government Accountability Institute and the host of âThe Drill Downâ podcast. âIt says that if U.S. colleges and universities take in foreign donations, theyâre required to report those to the federal government.â
Read MoreCommentary: States Have the Power to Restore Faith in Our Electoral System
The faith, trust, and confidence in our election process has been in steep decline for decades. Concerns over hanging chads and dimpled ballots from 2000âs presidential election may now have been replaced with questions about photo ID and drop boxes â but the overall result is the same: The American people simply donât trust the outcome of elections.
In fact, recent polls show only 57% of voters believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected in 2020. Similarly, just 61% of Americans believe Trump legitimately won in 2016.
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter Shuts Down Fundraising After Blue States Threatened to Sue
Black Lives Matter (BLM) removed fundraising features from its website Wednesday after California and Washington threatened to hold the groupâs leaders personally liable for its missing financial records, the Washington Examiner reported.
BLM hasnât had a known leader managing its $60 million bankroll since May 2021, the Examiner reported. California demanded that BLM cease all fundraising activities Wednesday due to the BLM Global Networkâs failure to report on its 2020 finances, and the state said it would hold BLM leaders personally liable if they do not submit information about the organizationâs finances within 60 days.
Read MoreJohns Hopkins Study: COVID Lockdowns Had ‘Little to No Effect’
A newly-released study from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University revealed that the sweeping lockdowns in response to the Chinese coronavirus had âlittle to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.â
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the study was conducted through an analysis of 24 different studies that all focused on government mandates ordering the closure of various aspects of everyday life, including school and business shutdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and stay-at-home orders, among others.
Read MoreStudy: Women Less Likely to Pursue STEM Careers in All 80 Countries Surveyed
Young women were five times less likely than young men to aspire toward STEM careers in 80 different countries, according to research and a report from the Institute for Family Studies published in late January.
Women preferred âpeople-orientedâ careers such as nursing or teaching, while men preferred âthings-orientedâ careers generally falling into STEM or blue-collar categories, researchers reported.
Read MoreSen. Hawley Wants the U.S. to Abandon Its Pledge to Let Ukraine Join NATO
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri called on President Joe Biden to abandon NATOâs pledge to accept Ukraine as a member of the organization.
âIt is not clear that Ukraineâs accession would serve U.S. interests,â Hawley wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. âIndeed, deteriorating conditions in the global security environment caution otherwise.â
Read MoreISIS Leader Dies After Blowing Up His Family During U.S. Special Operations Raid
A U.S. operation lead to the death of the leader of the Islamic State in northwest Syria late Wednesday evening, the Pentagon said.
The mission resulted in the death of its target, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the known leader of the terror group ISIS, according to the Department of Defense. There were no American casualties and all U.S. forces were safely evacuated.
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter at School âWeek of Actionâ Teaches Kindergartners to Replace Nuclear Families with âVillagesâ
Elementary and high schools throughout the country this week are having children participate in Black Lives Matter at Schoolâs âWeek of Action,â using lesson plan âresourcesâ based on the activist organizationâs core principles that seek to disrupt Western family structure, and teach children to affirm the âtransgenderâ and âqueerâ lifestyles.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) at School has provided a toolkit for schools and teachers with a curriculum that features a movie for different grade bands matched to âthe 13 guiding principles of the BLM movement.â
Read MoreCommentary: Russian Appeasement Was a Left-Wing Monopoly
One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama Administration policy of âresetâ with Vladimir Putinâs Russia is to recall two iconic incidents.Â
The first was the 2009 âreset.âÂ
Read MoreU.S. Army to Begin Discharging Unvaccinated Servicemembers
On Wednesday, the United States Army announced that it will begin the process of discharging any soldiers who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine effective immediately.
As reported by ABC News, the Army is the last branch of the United States military to fully discharge those who do not comply with the strict vaccine mandates; the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps have already discharged all personnel who refuse the vaccines, from active-duty members to entry-level members at boot camps.
Read MoreFacebook Parent Company to Lose $200 Billion in Market Value After Stocks Drop 20 Percent
Facebook parent company Meta is on pace to lose roughly $200 billion in market value as shares plummeted early Thursday.
The companyâs shares dropped as much as 23% in pre-market trading which, if the losses hold, would lose Meta roughly $200 billion in market value.
Read MoreAnti-Defamation League Redefines Racism for the Second Time Since Summer 2020
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) redefined racism again on Monday with what it called an âinterim definition.â
Racism is now defined by the group as occurring âwhen individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity,â according to Professor Robert Livingston of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University.
Read MoreGwinnett County Resident Arrested at School Board Meeting Speaks Out Against Superintendent
In an interview with The Georgia Star News, a Gwinnett County resident arrest at a Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) spoke out against the measures taken by the school district against parents who wish to protest the district’s mask mandates and teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT).Â
“At our school board meetings, we have 30 School Resource Officers (SROs) plus about 15 or so additional staff members, metal detectors, bag searches, video cameras and wands,” Brenda P. Stewart told The Star News. “It is a blatant attempt to violate the First Amendment rights of parents. Fear is being used to silence us. It is fundamentally wrong. We currently have about 75 to 100 visitors at school board meetings, so basically one staff member for every two or three citizens. It is insane.”
Read MoreChild Psychiatrist: Toll on Childrenâs Mental Health During Government Response to Pandemic Is âUtterly Devastatingâ
Though children are least likely to experience severe illness from COVID-19, the level of mental health distress many are exhibiting during the governmentâs response to the pandemic is âutterly devastating,â child psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald said in a recent interview.
The Los Angeles-based clinician expressed his concern during a late November podcast for the Unity Project, an organization working to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthy children in grades K-12.
Read MoreCommentary: Keep on Truckin’
Very odd things are happening in Canada, not the least of which is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fleeing the capital city for security reasons, or so officials say. Canadians are a notoriously compliant, unquestioning, deferential lot. But this hasnât stopped thousands of them from gathering near the parliament buildings in Ottawa to effectively shut down the central part of the city.
The trigger for this unprecedented protest is a vaccine mandate for long-haul truckers, whose big rigs now line the streets, horns blaring between a variety of protest chants, some of which are more printable than others (âTruck Trudeau,â and variations thereof, has been a common refrain). Last week, as the convoys moved toward and converged on the capital from the east, west, and southânumbers are disputed, but it seems certain they formed the longest convoys in historyâit became clear that the list of grievances had grown to include just about everything associated with some of the most enduring, draconian, and nonsensical COVID restrictions in the world.
Read MoreFBI Director Says China Is Bigger Threat to U.S. Than Any Other Nation
On Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray declared that the greatest foreign threat to the United States is the country of China, adding that the nationâs recent escalation of tensions regarding the country of Taiwan are âmore brazenâ and âmore damagingâ than anything seen in recent history.
The New York Post reports that Wray made his remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California. Just days before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Wray said that China poses a threat âto our economic security and to our freedoms: Our freedom of speech, of conscience, our freedom to elect and be served by our representatives without foreign meddling, our freedom to prosper when we toil and invent.â
âIâve spoken a lot about this threat since I became FBI director,â Wray continued. âBut I want to focus on it here tonight because in many ways itâs reached a new level â more brazen, more damaging than ever before, and itâs vital, vital, that all of us focus on that threat together.â
Read MoreAttorney General Schmidt: Kansas Sees Large Spikes in Fentanyl Seizures, Drug Overdoses
Record amounts of fentanyl and other drugs are being seized in Kansas after theyâve made their way north from Mexico and the state’s attorney general, Derek Schmidt, said he is trying to stop it. He joined a coalition of other Republican attorneys general at the Texas-Mexico border to see first-hand how the Biden administrationâs open border policies are contributing to crime in Kansas.
In one briefing with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the AGs learned that Texas state troopers alone had seized enough fentanyl last year to kill over 200 million people. They also arrested more than 10,000 illegal immigrants for committing state crimes, including for child trafficking and drug smuggling, seized over five tons of methamphetamine, and over $17 million in cash as part of Operation Lone Star, Texasâ border security initiative.
While itâs âgood news that theyâre seizing more, thereâs no reason to think that thereâs less of it eluding seizure at the border because the borderâs wide open in large swaths,â Schmidt told The Center Square. âI donât think itâs a good news number. I think itâs an indication of the increased volume coming across the border, not an indication of increased success in stopping it at the border.â
Read MoreTom Cotton Freezes Confirmation of DOJ Nominees over Failure to Address Antifa Riots
At least eight of Joe Bidenâs nominations for the Department of Justice have been placed on hold by Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), due to the Departmentâs failure to answer Cottonâs questions about its inaction over the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.
As reported by Fox News, Cottonâs criticisms have focused specifically on the DOJâs failure to properly defend a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, which ended up under siege by far-left domestic terrorists on a daily basis throughout 2020 and even into 2021. Cotton has already sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland pointing out that, on top of letting the courthouse itself be attacked, the DOJ has not offered any legal assistance to several U.S. Marshals who have been sued for defending the courthouse against rioters.
âThese courageous officers were attacked by left-wing street militants with weapons such as mortar fire, ball bearings, and blinding lasers,â Cottonâs letter reads in part. âA refusal to represent these Deputy Marshals would violate the Departmentâs long-standing practice â not to mention its moral duty â to defend law-enforcement officers when theyâre sued for actions in the line of duty.â
Read MoreRussia Cuts Off Key Gas Pipeline to Europe Amid Rising Tensions
The flow of natural gas through a key Russian-controlled pipeline suddenly stopped Wednesday as tensions continue to increase between Russia and the West.
The Yamal-Europe pipelineâs liquified natural gas (LNG) flows, which are operated by Russian state-run firm Gazprom and have usually been pumped westward from Russia to Germany through Poland, were halted early Wednesday, European data showed, according to Reuters. The sudden stoppage reportedly represented a setback after leaders expected the pipeline to return to its normal flow pattern.
In December 2021, Gazprom slowed the pipelineâs gas flows, which represent 10% of the regionâs supply, and the company reversed the flow direction from westward to eastward. The sudden reversal sent natural gas prices, which had already spiked amid a European energy crisis, even higher.
Read MoreU.S. to Send 3,000 Additional Troops to Europe Amid Tension at Ukraine Border
President Joe Biden plans to send another 3,000 troops to Europe amid continued tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week. The president is also moving about 1,000 soldiers based in Germany to Romania, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing administration officials.
âThey are trained and equipped for a variety of missions during this period of elevated risk,â a senior defense official told the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreCommentary: Feds Spent over $550 Million to Add Cost-of-Living AdjustmentsâEven When They Weren’t Necessary
The federal government, like many private companies that have offices in different locations, has provisions to adjust employeesâ pay based on their location. Itâs called locality pay.
For example, an employee in San Francisco, Calif. has a significantly higher cost of living than an employee in Casper, Wyo. San Franciscoâs locality adjustment is an additional 41.44% of base pay.
Read MorePostal Police Officers Association Chief: Government Defunded Postal Officers While Mail Crimes Soared
“The Postal Inspection Service data revealed that mail theft reports soared by 600% over three years, from about 25,000 in 2017 to roughly 177,000 through August of 2020,” Frank Albergo said. “But when asked to explain the apparent explosion in mail theft, the Inspection Service backtracked and said the figures might be inaccurate.”
Read MoreMusic Spotlight: Teddi and Bobby Cyrus
NASHVILLE, Tennesee- Before you ask, yes, Bobby Cyrus is related to Billy Ray Cyrus. Bobby Cyrus is Billy Ray Cyrusâ younger cousin. They both hail from the same region around Louisa, Kentucky where bluegrass music was a prominent part of their heritage. Their grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher and church music was an integral part of their upbringing.
Read MoreNew Iowa Bill Would Allow Parents to Watch Kidsâ Classrooms
An Iowa representative introduced Tuesday a bill that would allow parents to watch live footage of their children in public school classrooms.
âI think we need to showcase the great work our teachers do,â Rep. Norlin Mommsen, R-DeWitt, a farmer, told The Center Square in a phone interview Tuesday.
He said that through the COVID-19 pandemic, parents learned they wanted to be more involved, and this is a mechanism of facilitating parental involvement.
Read MoreConnecticut Slow in Job Growth, Won’t Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels Until 2023
Although Connecticut will add 60,000 jobs this year, the state won’t be back to pre-pandemic levels of employment until 2023, industry groups say.
“The inability to grow jobs at the national average or even at the top of the Northeast means that Connecticutâs economy is going to continue to grow slower than the rest of the country and the Northeast,” Chris DiPentima, president and CEO of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, told The Center Square. “The slow job growth means that businesses are not meeting the customer demand that they have. Connecticut, in turn, is not realizing the stateâs total economic growth potential. Most businesses are hopeful that the state will put some policies in place to fuel growth and the jobs added each month will increase. This will help recover the jobs that weâve lost before the end of this year.”
Read MoreCommentary: Ilhan Omar Heads Down the Road to Islamofascism
I had a junior high social studies teacher who was fond of saying that if it reached its logical conclusion, liberalism would eventually become fascism. He was long dead before Ilhan Omar hit the scene, but he would be gratified to see his prediction in action.
Omarâs Combating International Islamophobia Act passed the House of Representatives on a narrow party line vote recently. If it becomes law, it will mandate a new State Department bureaucracy to report on anti-Islamic activity as a human rights violation. English is Omarâs second language, and the wording of the bill shows it. Its definition of Islamophobia is not precise. An example of the text includes âacts of physical violence against, or harassment of, Muslim people, and acts of violence against, or vandalism of, Muslim community institutions, including schools, mosques, and cemeteries, and instances of propaganda in government and nongovernment media that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people.â
Read MoreVernon Jonesâ Most Recent Social Media Remarks Suggest Heâs Uncertain If Heâll Remain in Georgia Governorâs Race
Republican Vernon Jones commented Wednesday about his status as a Republican gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, but the messages he sent seemed unclear and came across as mixed. This, after media outlets speculated that Jones might suspend his campaign and seek another office, per the supposed wishes of former President Donald Trump. Trump, in December, endorsed Republican David Perdueâs campaign to unseat incumbent GOP Governor Brian Kemp.
Read MoreCNN President Zucker Resigns, Citing Undisclosed Relationship with Senior Executive, Reports
CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker has resigned from the company due to an undisclosed relationship with his “closest colleague.”
In a memo to employees, Zucker wrote, “As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years. I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today.”
Read MoreMajority of Americans Oppose Choosing Supreme Court Justices by Race and Gender: Poll
President Joe Bidenâs commitment to only nominate a a new Supreme Court justice who is a Black female does not have broad support, a newly released poll suggests.
The ABC/Ipsos poll found that 76% of surveyed Americans say Biden should consider “all possible nominees” to fill Breyerâs seat while 23% say Biden should âconsider only nominees who are Black women, as he has pledged to do.â
Biden promised several times during the campaign to nominate a Black female justice, saying he is âlooking forward to making sure thereâs a Black woman on the Supreme Court.â
Read MoreCommentary: 2022 Shaping to Be a Rough Year for Sanford Bishop and Georgia Democrats
Itâs only January and 2022 is already giving us an idea as to what can be expected in this yearâs midterms.Â
Democrats were delivered a body blow in last yearâs elections. They suffered a historic loss in Virginiaâs gubernatorial race and failed to secure victories against Republican-backed mayoral candidates in Georgiaâs suburbs.
Read MoreSchweizer: McConnell Linked to Chinese Communist Party Through Wifeâs Family
Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, author of the new book âRed Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,â told The Star News Network that the leader of Senate Republicans, Kentucky’s Sen. A. Mitchell “Mitch” McConnell, is tied to the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party through his wife’s family.
âWhen Mitch McConnell married Elaine Chao, he married into a family with very substantial connections on mainland China and the Chinese Communist Party,â said Schweizer, who is also the president of The Government Accountability Institute.
Read More25 States Urge Biden to Rescind Fed Nominee over ‘Radical’ Climate, Social Views
A large coalition of state financial officers announced their opposition to one of President Joe Bidenâs top nominees for the Federal Reserve over her âradicalâ policy positions.
Sarah Bloom Raskin would put U.S. financial and economic stability at risk to achieve her âpreferred social outcomesâ if confirmed, the top financial officers of 25 states wrote to Biden in a letter Monday. Raskin, the former deputy secretary of the Treasury Department during the Obama administration, has taken particular aim at addressing climate change through aggressive financial policies.
âAs State Treasurers, Auditors, and financial officers, we write to express our strong disapproval of Sarah Bloom Raskin as your choice for Vice-Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank. We urge you to withdraw her nomination,â the letter stated.
Read MoreâExtreme Left-Wing Positionsâ: Bidenâs âActivistâ Fed Nominee Lisa Cook Once Supported Reparations
President Joe Bidenâs nominee to regulate the banking industry has previously expressed support for economic reparations to black Americans, Fox Business reported Monday.
Lisa Cook, a professor of international relations and economics at Michigan State University, has an extensive history of supporting ârace-specificâ financial compensation âbecause the injury was race-specific,â Fox reported. Cook was nominated on Jan. 14 to serve on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
âEverybody benefited from slavery. Everybody. So, I think that we absolutely need some sort of reckoning with that,â said Cook on the EconTalk podcast in September 2020. âOne thing I do support is H.R. 40 ⊠I think thatâs absolutely what needs to be done,â said Cook in a March 2021 talk at Berkeley Haas, referencing a bill that would establish a commission to study and develop reparation proposals.
Read MoreTeachers Unions ‘Hold the Education of Kids Hostage,’ Worker Rights Group Says
A worker rights group is calling out two powerful teachers unions, claiming that they âhold the education of kids hostageâ in a press release.
Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF), told the Daily Caller News Foundation that teachers unions like the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are taking advantage of a labor law provision passed in the 1930s for the private sector.
âIn several states across the country, union officials, specifically teachersâ union officials, have been granted a really unique privilege called exclusive monopoly bargaining,â Mix said, adding that former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt opposed granting such privileges to public-sector unions while in office.
Read MoreCommentary: New Washington Post National Editor Recused from FBI Coverage
The Washington Post has recused its new national editor, Matea Gold, from the news organizationâs coverage of the FBI and Justice Department over a personal conflict of interest. A month before Gold was promoted, her husband, Jonathan Lenzner, was named FBI chief of staff.
A Post spokeswoman told RealClearInvestigations that the paper’s managing editor, Steven Ginsberg, will be overseeing coverage of the Justice Department and the FBI. Kristine Coratti Kelly, the paperâs chief communications officer, said the decision does not reflect on Goldâs objectivity or credibility.
“We have every confidence in Mateaâs professionalism and high standards,â Kelly said. âShe has recused herself from this area of coverage to avoid even the appearance of partiality.â
Read MoreCommentary: The Russia Time Bomb
The crisis on the Russian-Ukrainian border has been a surreal spectacle for some weeks. This is not how invasions occur and wars begin. The potential aggressor does not mass large forces on the border of a possible target country before full international view and issue continuous statements to the international media about its intentions. And the senior military officials of great powers do notâas Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley ( leading man of the Afghan debacle) and some of his colleagues have doneâpublicly speculate on the psychology and likely intentions of the leader of the country implicitly threatening to start a war. Whatever Milleyâs talents may be, there is no reason to believe that mind-reading is among them. It is, in any case, not part of his brief to give regular bulletins on what he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putinâs intentions may be.
This is Gilbert and Sullivan warmongering.Â
If Putin intended to invade Ukraine he would do so as he did with Crimea in 2008 and attempt to achieve some element of surprise. Instead he has made an international public spectacle of amassing six to 10 divisions on the Ukraine border, which every informed person in the world knows is inadequate to defeat and dominate a resistant country of 40 million people. This is theater: Russia pretends to threaten to be going to war; America pretends to react strongly, the NATO allies send forces to neighboring countries that are not under threat while asserting that they will on no account deploy forces into Ukraine, but will apply sanctions to Russia; some even propose preemptive sanctions against Russia although it has not actually done anything objectionable. (Russia could never be more than moderately inconvenienced by sanctions, especially if China and Germany ignore them.)Â
Read MoreCommentary: Biden Needs to Decide If COVID Is Still a ‘National Emergency’
The omicron variant may be nearing its peak in some states, but across the country itâs produced a dizzying array of conflicting signals on whether the nation should remain under a COVID national emergency or move on to an endemic ânew normal.â
Comedian Bill Maherâs âI donât want to live in your mask-paranoid world anymoreâ monologue went viral last week, just days after the Atlantic, the standard-bearer journal for the liberal intelligentsia, ran a story headlined: âCOVID Parenting Has Passed the Point of Absurdity.â Accompanying the article was a black-and-white photo of a woman frozen in a more desperate and primal state of panic than the subject of Edvard Munchâs âThe Scream.â
Omicron, for most people without co-morbidities, produces much milder symptoms than do the coronavirusâs previous variants, but itâs far more infectious, racing through schools, shutting down classrooms and forcing parents to consult their districtâs ever-shifting COVID âdecision treesâ on a seemingly daily basis.
Read MoreFormer President George W. Bush Donates to Pro-Impeachment Republicans
Former President George W. Bushâs most recent donations to Republican candidates included maximum contributions to the campaigns of two Republicans who voted in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump.
Politico reports that the only donations made by the 43rd president in the year 2021 were to the campaigns of Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). Bush gave the maximum possible amount of $5,800 to Cheney in October, while also giving $2,900 to Murkowskiâs campaign. According to FEC filings, Bush had also previously donated to Cheneyâs first campaign for the House of Representatives in 2016; Cheney is the daughter of Bushâs former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Both represent small portions of each candidatesâ respective war chests, with Cheney finishing the year with $1.9 million and Murkowski raising $4.7 million; but the symbolism of the former president only donating to Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump speaks volumes about the ongoing divide between the previous generations of Republican leadership and the rising âAmerica Firstâ movement, led by Trump.
Read MoreU.S. Truckers Plan Their Own Freedom Convoy from California to Washington, D.C. to Protest Authoritarian COVID Mandates
Inspired by their Canadian brethren, American truckers have decided to form their own nationwide âConvoy to DCâ in protest of the Biden regimeâs authoritarian COVID policies.
The groupâs Facebook page, Convoy to DC 2022, already has over 131,000 thousand followers.
âWe are part of many large groups who believe in our founding fathers. We believe everyone has a voice. We support our freedom. Help us spread the word about this group and together we all can make it a better place. God Bless America,â the page reads.
Read MoreNSA Inspector General âConcernedâ About Surveillance of Americansâ Communication Devices
On Monday, the office of the Inspector General at the National Security Agency (NSA) released a report showing that the agency failed to follow basic internal guidelines and court-ordered procedures in its surveillance of American citizensâ communications.
According to CNN, the report showed that the agency abused a loophole in Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). While Section 702 allows the government to collect such communications of foreign citizens on foreign soil without a warrant, it prohibits the government from doing so with American citizens. The loophole allows the NSA and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use this section to collect American communications without a warrant if they believe âa query is reasonably likely to return foreign intelligence information.â
The inspector generalâs report ârevealed a number of concerns involving [U.S. person] identifiers used as query terms against FISA Section 702 data.â Furthermore, some of these NSA queries âdid not always follow NSA procedural and policy requirements.â Among other discrepancies, information gathered on âselectors,â or particular search terms in an investigation, were not properly documented; in addition, the NSAâs internal query tools designed to automatically prevent the processing of queries involving any Americans associated with the selectors ultimately failed to do so, thus allowing Americans to be investigated and monitored.
Read MoreAnalysis: Coming to Grips with the Facts About Masks
Allegations that âmasks workâ and âdonât cause harmâ have been enforced by governments and corporations around the world for more than 18 months through arrests, firings, censorship, fines, and denial of access to schools, supermarkets, hospitals, streets, and other public spaces. This has made it virtually impossible for many people to live without complying with mask mandates.
In recent weeks, however, more medical scholars and media outlets are coming to grips with facts about masks that Just Facts has been documenting for more than a year and painstakingly compiled in a September 2021 article sourced with more than 50 peer-reviewed science journals. Hereâs a sample of people who are speaking up about the facts and their implications:
Dr. Vinay Prasadâan associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Franciscoâhas written an article that examines the scientific evidence for masking children and concludes that:
Read MoreMigration from Blue States to Certain Cities Spikes Cost of Living There
The cost of living is skyrocketing in certain âmigration destinationâ cities where those fleeing mostly blue states are landing, according to a newly released report.
Redfin released the analysis, which shows that cities like Atlanta, Phoenix and Tampa have seen higher rates of inflation than the country overall. According to the report, those increases are âdouble the inflation rates in San Francisco and New York, places people are moving away from.â
âMigration into those places is one reason for rapidly rising prices of consumer goods and services,â Redfin said. âBecause of high inflation, including rising home prices, the financial advantage of living in what are now relatively affordable places is likely to diminish.â
Read MoreRNC Members Push Resolution to Expel Cheney, Kinzinger from House GOP Conference
A Republican National Committee member and former Trump adviser is asking the party to vote Thursday on a resolution demanding that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy expel Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from the House GOP conference for their participation on the Democrats’ Jan. 6 investigation committee.
Read MoreGeorgia Gubernatorial Candidate David Perdue Launches Statewide Tour, Promises Big Reforms
ALPHARETTA â Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue on Tuesday launched a statewide tour to communicate his priorities to voters, and they include reforming the stateâs election system and overhauling the way the state government collects taxes. Perdue launched his tour in Alpharetta. He said the Republican Party is currently divided. Perdue mentioned that former President Donald Trump endorsed him and added that Trump does not dispense such endorsements lightly.
Read MoreSenate Committee Advances Minnesota Sen. Klobucharâs Legislation to âRein in Big Techâ
Sen. Amy Klobuchar appeared on Fox Newsâ Special Report Thursday night, primarily to promote an antitrust bill aimed at reforming laws that govern Big Tech and increasing competition.
A bipartisan U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance the legislation â The American Innovation and Choice Online Act â as bipartisan lawmakers seek to curtail the power and influence of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and others.
In short, the bill would prevent companies from âunfairly preferencing their own products and servicesâ on their platforms while prohibiting âspecific forms of conduct that are harmful to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and consumers.â
Read MoreGeorgia Gubernatorial Candidate David Perdue Launches Statewide Tour, Promises Big Reforms
ALPHARETTA â Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue on Tuesday launched a statewide tour to communicate his priorities to voters, and they include reforming the stateâs election system and overhauling the way the state government collects taxes. Perdue launched his tour in Alpharetta. He said the Republican Party is currently divided. Perdue mentioned that former President Donald Trump endorsed him and added that Trump does not dispense such endorsements lightly.
Read MoreBiden Boomerang: Newly Released State Memos Undercut Democrats’ Ukraine Impeachment Story
Just months before Joe Biden forced his firing, Ukraine’s chief prosecutor was told by U.S. State Department officials that they were “impressed” with his anti-corruption plan and fully supportive of his work, according to newly released memos that cast doubt on a key Democrat impeachment narrative.
During former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial two years ago, House Democrats alleged that Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired in March 2016 because State officials were widely displeased with his anti-corruption efforts and not because Shokin’s office was investigating the Ukrainian gas firm that had given then-Vice President Biden’s son Hunter a lucrative job.
Read MoreSchool Choice Helps Achieve the American Dream, Says Georgia U.S. Senate Candidate Herschel Walker
U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, in an opinion piece for Fox News, detailed that school choice will help individuals achieve the American Dream.
In the piece, the former NFL star detailed his struggles with speaking while he was a child. Because of help from educators and determination, Walker became more confident and improved academically.
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