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By Kristinn Taylor In an appearance on CNN on Sunday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared to issue a threat to Justice Clarence Thomas if he does not recuse himself from participating in Supreme Court cases involving President Trump over efforts to remove him from the 2024 presidential election due to the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. When asked by CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash if Thomas should recuse himself from Trump election cases because of his wife Ginni Thomas’ activism in support of Trump’s efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, Raskin said, “He absolutely should recuse himself.  The question is, what do we do if he doesn’t recuse himself? ” Congress has no constitutional role in deciding which justices hear cases on the Supreme Court. Raskin’s question can only answered by extra-judicial means. Bash did not follow-up to ask Raskin what he meant. In the past few years Conservative...

By Streiff The US, Britain, and possibly one European state are planning to launch air and missile strikes against Iran's Houthi proxies. According to a source within  Britain's defense ministry , a statement will be released in the "coming hours" warning the Houthis to cease and desist in their attacks on maritime traffic in the Red Sea or face the consequences. Ahead of the statement, Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, said: “If the Houthis continue to threaten lives and trade, we will be forced to take the necessary and appropriate action.” The Whitehall source said the statement was a “last warning” and if the  Houthis failed to stop the attacks , the response would likely be “limited” but “significant”. It is believed allies are currently trying to persuade other European countries to work with the US and the UK to stop the attacks amid fears there could be disastrous economic implications if shipping transiting through one of the world’s most important mar...

By Tyler Durden Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times  (emphasis ours), A recent preprint co-authored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) U.S. Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Network Investigators finds that  repeat annual influenza vaccines are associated with an increased risk of influenza infection. The preprint authors initially wondered if vaccination timing and influenza infections in prior seasons may have contributed to repeat vaccinees’ increased risk of infection. However, they concluded  these factors “cannot fully explain the increased infection risk in repeat vaccinees compared with non-repeat vaccinees.” Repeat Vaccinees More Likely to Contract 1 Type of Flu The study  followed patients who had presented themselves with respiratory diseases at one of the designated clinics between the 2011 and 2019 seasons. Over 55,000 clinical visits were analyzed, and vaccine status was further examined. Repeat vaccinees, when compared ...

By Tyler Durden A byproduct of President Biden's radical open-border policies is the rapid deterioration of the southern border. Footage from Friday shows an intense firefight involving cartel members and the Mexican military, occurring down the street from the Lukeville, Arizona, Port of Entry. "Reports are coming in about a large firefight south of the Lukeville POE in AZ between the cartel and the Mexican military. Gunfire can be heard, and a small explosion. Possible vehicles are on fire. It is unusual for this type of direct contact between the cartel and GOM in that area," former ICE field director John Fabbricatore wrote in an X post on Friday.  Reports are coming in about a large firefight south of the Lukeville POE in AZ between the cartel and the Mexican military. Gunfire can be heard, and a small explosion. Possible vehicles are on fire. It is unusual for this type of direct contact between the cartel and GOM in that… — John Fabbricatore (@JohnE_Fabb) Decem...

By Kevin Downey Jr. I'm disappointed in myself for not predicting this one.  One day the leftoids are uprooting Confederate statues like ingrown hairs before prom night, ostensibly because all things antebellum are a sign of white supremacy. But then they turn around and try to boot their boogeyman, Trump, off the ballot, just like ten out of 11 Confederate states did with that rascally, slave-savin' Republican Abe Lincoln in the weeks before the 1860 election. FACT-O-RAMA!  The only Southern state that did not remove Trump -- oops, I mean Abraham Lincoln -- from the ballot was Virginia. The real punchline here is that the Marxists controlling the Democrat Party have tripped over their Crocs trying to tie Trump to some phantom "white supremacy" that wickedly looms in the shadows throughout the nation, especially down south where Democrats have peppered the land with statues of Confederate generals and common soldiers alike.  The Democrats, in an attempt to distanc...

By Mike McDaniel The fuse is burning  ever closer to a catastrophic detonation in 2024: President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that the agency is developing a program that will provide border crossers and illegal aliens released into the United States with photo ID cards. For more than a year, Breitbart News  has chronicled  how DHS is planning to roll out a pilot program that will give border crossers and illegal aliens  photo ID cards , similar to a driver’s license, upon their  release  into the United States interior from the southern border. This, knowing there is no way to confirm the identity of most, if not all, illegal immigrants.  They’ll be giving official government ID to military-aged males from enemy countries, establishing false identities for them.  Unless government can be certain of the identification of these cardholders, data entry, storage and retrieval will be chaotic at best....

By Tyler Durden Authored by Ella Kietlinska and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times  (emphasis ours), Documents recently provided by a whistleblower  reveal offensive tactics used by government and outside organizations to counter and preempt the spreading of undesirable information, said independent journalist Matt Taibbi. Mr. Taibbi and journalists Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag recently exposed a new set of documents from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), an “anti-disinformation” group that waged an aggressive information operation on the public. The new documents, dubbed the “CTI files,” analyzed tactics used against foreign terrorist groups,  such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS, that can now be applied domestically to prevent unwanted information from being published, Mr. Taibbi said in an interview for EpochTV’s “ American Thought Leaders ” program. The CTI files referred to these tactics with the military term “left of boom action” and justified their us...

Grassroots conservative activist Scott Presler with Noah Formica door knocking for GOP registrations in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.   By Jim Hoft Earlier this month the Republican Party under the absent leadership of Ronna McDaniel announced they had “flipped” Beaver County Pennsylvania from blue to red. The GOP  announced , “ Big news! Beaver County, PA has officially flipped from blue to red. There are now more registered Republicans than Democrats! Together with  @PAGOP   our data-driven ground game has been in Pennsylvania registering voters since 2016 and has never left! On to November! In response to this tweet by the GOP, DC Draino  accused  Ronna McRomney and the Republican Party of stealing credit for Scott Presler’s voter registration efforts in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Thank you, Rogan. Last weekend, I spent 20 hours over 3 days registering voters & shaking hands at a gun show in Pennsylvania. W/ the help of 20 volunteers, we reache...