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"One of the unique blessings of living in America is freedom of speech," she said. "Moms for Liberty both champions this freedom and exemplifies it. In a very short time since our founding... we and our moms have been making a difference."

"To be clear, our critics also enjoy freedom of speech," she continued. "However, when they lie and when they use those lies to whip others into such a frenzy that they begin sending death threats to the membership of Moms for Liberty and our children, we have to act. And I assure you, we are acting."

"We'll have more to say about this in the near future after we complete our analysis of the entire situation and submit our evidence to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies," she added. "For now, know this: Moms for Liberty calls ourselves 'joyful warriors' for a reason... If someone is demonstrably harming our children, we are going to come together to fight them."

Parental rights group Moms for Liberty to present evidence of threats to FBI, cofounder says

"One of the unique blessings of living in America is freedom of speech," she said.

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Ex-GOP Governor Blasts Biden’s Student Loan Bailout As ‘Biggest Vote-Buying Scheme Ever Undertaken’​

“Forty million people get 20,000 bucks,” he said. “I’ll vote for you to give me 20,000 bucks. And that’s what it is about. That’s what it’s still about. That’s why they’re trying to reform it so they can keep this idea that they’re going to give this huge tax break, this income to all these folks going into the next election.”

“If the Congress wants to give away $20,000 per person to 40 million people and put the rest of the country at risk and increase the debt, and they have the right to do that,” he later added. “But you can’t do it from the executive branch because the executive branch doesn’t have that right under a constitution. And this is just power politics trying to buy votes. It’s that simple. It ought to be called out for what it was.”

 

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A Century of Impotency: Conservative Failure and the Administrative State​

This essay is adapted from "Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay," edited by Arthur Milikh (Encounter Books, 328 pages, $32.99)


James Landis is widely credited with crafting the theoretical architecture supporting President Roosevelt’s radical reconstruction—and expansion—of the federal government. Landis shrewdly both established and legitimized the regulatory state, including Roosevelt’s creation of new federal administrative agencies, by offering the regulatory state as the solution to the problem of modern governance: the administrative state “is, in essence, our generation’s answer to the inadequacy of the judicial and legislative process.” The Landis premise took concrete shape through Roosevelt’s expansion of the regulatory state, and in doing so, it brought to fruition Woodrow Wilson’s progressive intellectual project: rule by experts, insulated from the popular will

Landis believed the “the administrative process” for which he advocated would “spring from the inadequacy of a simply tripartite form of government to deal with modern problems” because modern problems were simply too large and complex to be entrusted to the system based on the separation of powers instituted by our nation’s founders. Landis framed this innovation as consistent with separation of powers principles because he believed the separation of powers called both for separation but also coordination among the branches, and he saw the administrative state as essential to creating that coordination:

If the doctrine of separation of power implies division, it also implies balance, and balance calls for equality. The creation of administrative power may be the means for the preservation of that balance, so that paradoxically enough, though it may seem in theoretic violation of the doctrine of the separation of powers, it may in matter of fact be the means for the preservation of the content of that doctrine.

What the tripartite branches could not coordinate among themselves directly, Landis believed administrative agencies could coordinate as a substitute. Landis then aimed to create administrative agencies that themselves combined the three aspects of government. Years later, the Administrative Procedure Act codified this three-branches-in-one-agency approach to administrative power, defining not only rulemaking authority for federal agencies (a quasi-legislative power), but also adjudicative authority (a quasi-judicial power).

 

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That cocaine was brought into the White House is a huge deal, and the administration is clearly treating this as a political story that it hopes it can quickly sweep under the rug rather than a security problem, which is very telling. Perhaps the reason is that it is unlikely that anyone other than a member of the First or Second Family would be able to get cocaine into the White House, because, as former secret service agent Dan Bongino noted, family members bypass the security checkpoints that other visitors must go through.

So while the administration is quickly trying to bury the story, it looks like the House Oversight Committee isn’t going to let it pass by, so we’ll see how that goes. One thing is clear: Republicans aren’t going to let this scandal go. In fact, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) responded to the scandal on Saturday in a way that only he can.

During an appearance on Fox News, Kennedy was discussing Bidenomics, during which he made an epic quip about Cocainegate.

“He’s a nice guy, but when it comes to economics, President Biden is like a hog on ice,” Kennedy said. I would argue that a “nice guy” wouldn’t deny the existence of one of his own grandchildren, but I digress.

Sen. John Kennedy Responds to Cocainegate in a Way Only He Can

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If you want a good indication that conservatives are, at long last, scoring a few actual victories these days, look at the apoplexy it’s causing those on the left.

A prime example is a piece written by Jill Lawrence, a former editor at USA Today, which posted on July 4 on MSNBC and carried the scary title: “Seeing the erosion of our freedoms makes it hard to celebrate this Fourth of July.” It is a remarkable display of fearmongering, incoherence, and illogic.

“The Supreme Court, conservative governors and gerrymandered state legislatures are racing to shrink fundamental rights and freedoms,” Lawrence writes. “The result is that tens of millions of Americans are being deprived of rights that other Americans have. The scale of the disparity is frightening and growing.”

Ok. So, how about some examples?

Well, the “marquee setback,” according to Lawrence, was the Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

But wait, that ruling actually restored a right — the right of the people to decide through democratic means how the lives of unborn children should be treated. It also upheld several of the founding principles Lawrence claims are being attacked, such as the “right to life,” and “equal protection” — unless, of course, you assume that the unborn have no such rights.

Never mind that. To Lawrence, abortion is “a right so significant it was until recently a constitutional right.”

Really? This right is “so significant” that it wasn’t discovered (or, more accurately, invented) until 186 years after the Constitution was ratified?

Lawrence cites other examples of threats to what she describes as “America’s most sacred promises”:

• The Supreme Court’s ruling that a web designer can’t be forced to create products that violate the basic tenants of her faith.
• The Court’s decision banning the use of race in college admissions.
• The fact that some states are restricting puberty blockers and sterilization procedures for gender-confused children, removing pornography from public school libraries, and forbidding teachers from “transitioning” children behind their parents’ backs.

And here we thought that religious liberty, equal protection, and parental rights were among America’s “most sacred promises.”

Here’s How You Know Conservatives Are Winning

Look at the apoplexy it’s causing those on the left.

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Biden's Joint Chiefs chairman nominee accused of 'race-based' hiring in military by conservative group​

"All of us have to seek out those diverse candidates to bring them in. And that's what we're trying to do in the Air Force," Brown said in a 2020 interview with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. "It's – you almost got to purposely manage some of this. You can't let it – if you do it by happenstance, we won't change."

"I mean, I get so much out of it. I purposely build my office, my front office, and my team with [diversity], and I hire for diversity because they all bring a different perspective," Brown said.

Those comments, which were obtained by AAF and shared with Fox News digital, are one of many examples in which Brown has voiced support for diversity-focused hiring in the military.

"The things I think about is not only having diverse, you know, slates of candidates for some key positions, but it's also that you have to select some of those individuals into those key positions," Brown said earlier in the interview.

 

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Another request is to have the Department of Justice (DOJ) appropriations bill contain language “prohibiting retaliation against FBI whistleblowers,” including prohibiting taxpayer dollars from going toward the salary of any official found to have retaliated against a whistleblower.

In order to protect free speech online, Jordan said the judiciary panel as well as his “Weaponization of the Federal Government” subcommittee want appropriations bills that explicitly block taxpayer funds from being used for censorship and to classify speech as “so-called ‘mis-, dis-, or mal-information.'” In addition, there is a request to “eliminate taxpayer dollars” going to the State Department’s Global Engagement Center and “other governmental and non-governmental entities” that Jordan said are “engaged in speech suppression.”

The final request made by Jordan focused on the Second Amendment: “The Committee is also examining the Biden Administration’s attacks on fundamental Second Amendment rights at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). In two recent regulatory actions, the ATF has circumvented the will of Congress and flouted the Second Amendment. Accordingly, we recommend prohibiting taxpayer funds from being used to implement ATF radical regulations concerning pistol braces or so-called ‘ghost guns.'”

The chairman closed out his letter with what he called an “initial list of suggested priorities” for fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills, including a bid to stymie money used to “implement a policy that discourages United States Marshals Service employees or personnel from fully enforcing 18 U.S.C. § 1507,” a section of U.S. Code meant to prohibit the intimidation of judges, jurors, court officers, and witnesses by protesters. In addition, Jordan proposed stopping any funds for “politically sensitive” investigations until the Department of Justice establishes a policy requiring non-partisan career staff to oversee them.

Jim Jordan Unveils Budget Wishlist To Fight ‘Weaponized’ Federal Agencies

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) released on Tuesday a series of government funding recommendations that he says will hold the Biden administration “accountable” and protect civil liberties. The wishlist of reforms came in the form of a letter to House Appropriations...

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Republicans subpoena Antony Blinken for documents to find out if Secretary of State 'obstructed' sanctioning China after spy balloon incident​

• Foreign Affairs Chair is subpoenaing documents related to State Department 'obstruction' of sanctions for China after the spy balloon incident
• Michael McCaul alleges Antony Blinken failed to implement planned sanctions and export controls because he wanted to continue engaging with the CCP
• China's surveillance balloon was shot down by U.S. Military after it flew over sensitive military sites in North America earlier this year

 

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Glenn Greenwald Torches Wray For Failure To Define ‘Disinformation’






“The evidence shows that you, your agency, the people that directly report to you, suppressed conservative-leaning free speech about topics like the laptop, the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin, the effectiveness of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines, speech about election integrity in the 2020 presidential election, security of voting by mail, even parody about the president himself, negative posts about the economy,” Johnson said.

“The FBI made the social media platforms pull that information off the internet if it came from conservative sources,” he continued. “They did this under the guise that it was ‘disinformation.’ Can you define what disinformation is?”

Wray evaded the question, saying, “What I can tell you is that our focus is not on disinformation, broadly speaking …”

Johnson pushed back, but Wray insisted that the only “disinformation” being addressed came from “malign foreign actors” — and still failed to provide a definition of the word.

 

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GOP Senators Hold Scathing Press Conference on Big Tech Censorship​

A trio of prominent Republican senators zeroed in on the plot by Big Tech companies and the government to violate the First Amendment.

GOP Sens. Bill Hagerty (TN), Eric Schmitt (MO) and J.D. Vance (OH) held a press conference on Wednesday in which the trio commented on a recent preliminary injunction in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit which banned the Biden administration from colluding with Big Tech platforms to censor free speech.

The fired-up Republican trio delivered scathing responses to the Federal government's involvement in censoring the American people online and rallied behind legislation to permanently prohibit the federal government from violating First Amendment in censorship of online free speech.

 

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Boebert says after Secret Service briefing drugs discovered three times at White House since 2022​

"The cocaine caper is going to be concluded without any outcome. No suspects, no resolution," the South Carolina lawmaker said after the briefing, "which is frustrating, because every time there's something unsavory happening on the president, the White House's administration, we never get an answer. And it's just ironic and interesting and frustrating."

Boebert said the drug found twice before in roughly the past year was marijuana and that she thinks the Secret Service closed the investigation without a suspect "because everything in this administration is about covering up for the Biden crime family."

"This is the third time that drugs have been found on the White House property since 2022, and we did not even hear about the marijuana," she also said. "I certainly did not hear about the marijuana that was found in 2022, two times, and now there's cocaine on the property. So everything they do is to move along to the next story. They know there will be another Biden crime crisis.”

 

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Probe opened into FBI targeting of House Intelligence committee staffers during Russia probe​

The letter from Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to FBI Director Christopher Wray was prompted by reporting in Just the News and the New York Post revealing that Kash Patel, the chief investigator on then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' team, had his email seized from Google back in late 2017, just before the release of a report that identified significant failures and abuses in the Russia collusion scandal.

Patel and a second unnamed committee investigator were not notified until 2022, five years after the seizure, Just the News reported.

"The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)," Jordan wrote Wray in a letter obtained by Just the News. "In 2017, Google reportedly received subpoenas for private emails and records belonging to two Republican staffers of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) while HPSCI was investigating the FBI’s misconduct.

"These subpoenas only came to light in 2022 due to Google’s policy of alerting customers five years after law enforcement takes such action," Jordan added. "The timing of these subpoenas raises questions about whether the subpoenas were in retaliation for HPSCI’s oversight of the FBI."

The letter, which demands records be turned over by the FBI by the end of this month, comes after special counsel John Durham told Congress earlier this summer he corroborated many of the abuses that Patel, Nunes and his team first found in the Russia probe.

 

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Republican senators say they’re worried that conservative populism, though always a part of the GOP, is beginning to take over the party, becoming more radical and threatening to cause them significant political problems heading into the 2024 election.

GOP senators are saying they’re being increasingly confronted by constituents who buy into discredited conspiracy theories such as the claim that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election or that federal agents incited the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Growing distrust with government institutions, from the FBI, CIA and Department of Justice to the Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health, make it more difficult for Republican lawmakers to govern.

Republican senators believe their party has a good chance to take back control of the White House and Senate, given President Biden’s low approval ratings and the favorable map of Senate seats up for reelection, but they regularly face political headaches caused by populist members of their party who say the rest of the GOP is out of step with mainstream America.

GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism

Republican senators say they’re worried that conservative populism, though always a part of the GOP, is beginning to take over the party, becoming more radical and threatening to cause them signifi…

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Lisa Murkowski Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats, Several Republican Senators Including Thune, Romney, Cornyn and Young Agree​

July 17, 2023 | Sundance | 294 Comments

For those of us who have been trying to awaken people to the true nature of Republicans in the senate, aka “the Decepticons”, the latest self-admissions are very welcome.

According to interviews conducted by The Hill, several Republican senators are now saying they just cannot be members of the Republican Party if they are forced to represent the interests of the base voter. These very specifically named Republicans have always been members of the UniParty in DC; however, now they are saying “populism” amid the commonsense, America First voting base is not going to be acceptable.

The senators are openly warning that if putting American interests first is going to be demanded by the voters, these Republicans will just become Democrats. There is no reason for Americans to distrust the institutions the Republican senators support, and there will be no compromise or discussion.

 

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I don't know what kind of legislation he is proposing but he must take care.
Stopping Smith may interfere with the criminal charges that should come up on Joe Biden.

Still the unprecedented charges against Trump are without doubt being used to destroy his chances of going to the White House again.
It's a bit like the Mafia could have attacked Elliot Ness way back when.
They are attacking Trump to protect themselves. They know another trip to the White House for Trump means the cleansing of the Deep State they belong to.

 

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GOP Senators Thune, Kennedy, Tillis and Paul Push Back Against Impeachment… Because Emails, Bank Statements, Whistleblowers, Audio Recordings, Photos, a Laptop Computer, $5 Million Bribes, Are Not Enough Proof of Wrongdoing​

Senator Thune and Senator Paul need to see more evidence before they support impeaching Joe Biden. They are upstanding citizens.

FOX News later reported that Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) were also against impeachment. They too are honorable Americans.

“I’ll wait to see what evidence they present,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said. “But we’ve got to do the homework. They cheapened the process the last two impeachments, and we don’t want to repeat that mistake.”
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said there are serious lingering questions about the Biden family, including what the president knew about his son Hunter’s overseas business dealings and if Biden got any money from those deals. However, Kennedy said mere political disagreements should not be grounds for an impeachment.
“No one should be impeached, certainly not a president, unless there is substantial evidence that the president has committed a high crime or misdemeanor,” Kennedy said. “I’m not going to support — and I’m not suggesting this is what Kevin has suggested — but I’m not gonna support impeaching somebody just because I don’t like their politics.”

We now have evidence of Joe Biden’s criminal and impeachable offenses. We have emails, FBI 1023s, numerous bank statements, IRS whistleblowers, audio recordsings, photos, and a laptop computer filled with hundreds of criminal acts.

It’s not enough. It will never be enough. The country is under a Marxist assault and Republicans are too weak to act.

 

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GOP Senators Thune, Kennedy, Tillis and Paul Push Back Against Impeachment… Because Emails, Bank Statements, Whistleblowers, Audio Recordings, Photos, a Laptop Computer, $5 Million Bribes, Are Not Enough Proof of Wrongdoing​

Senator Thune and Senator Paul need to see more evidence before they support impeaching Joe Biden. They are upstanding citizens.

FOX News later reported that Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) were also against impeachment. They too are honorable Americans.



We now have evidence of Joe Biden’s criminal and impeachable offenses. We have emails, FBI 1023s, numerous bank statements, IRS whistleblowers, audio recordsings, photos, and a laptop computer filled with hundreds of criminal acts.

It’s not enough. It will never be enough. The country is under a Marxist assault and Republicans are too weak to act.

What they need get them across the line is the audio recordings the Russian/Ukrainian allegedly has. Joe's voice is supposed to be on those.