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‘The public deserves answers for how this Executive Order is being implemented, particularly as VP Harris becomes the new nominee,’ Rep. Bryan Steil said. //
President Joe Biden may have left the presidential race, but “Bidenbucks” lives on.
And you can bet your federal tax bill that the Biden administration will be revving up the taxpayer-funded, get-out-the-vote machine for not-so-accidental candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I think they definitely will,” Hans von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission and manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told me in an interview this week. “I think what they’re doing is an unlawful use of federal taxpayer dollars, and I don’t think any president has the right to do it.”
Documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project expose federal agencies working with left-wing activist groups in targeting traditionally Democrat voters to cast mail-in ballots for Biden’s No. 2 in November’s election. And there appears no slowdown in the constitutionally suspect initiative now that Biden has withdrawn from his reelection run and endorsed his leftist lieutenant.
Despite talk of ’emergency abortions,’ there is never a circumstance in which the mother’s health would benefit from the death of her unborn child. //
Recently the Association for American Physicians and Surgeons filed a suit after multiple doctors were targeted by credentialing boards and the U.S. government for their anti-abortion stance post-Dobbs. Public ignorance and confusion over a “necessary” abortion continues to permeate political language and Biden’s rule is yet another coercive attempt to install national abortion “must-haves.”
An anonymous Food and Drug Administration committee determines “arbitrary safety standards” and what defines “emergency use” and “necessity,” said John Seeds, former department chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and can then utilize those standards to hide and mislead the public on the point of abortion.
Seeds testified in favor of a bill in Virginia that would change Health Department standards for abortionists, requiring providers to report any significant complication of an abortion. //
Since the legalization of abortion 50 years ago, huge strides have been made in maternal and perinatal care, with viability improving from 27 to 22 weeks gestation, said Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist who now runs Tepeyac OB-GYN, the largest pro-life OB-GYN practice in the nation.
“What these ‘emergency abortion’ laws are saying is if there’s another medical approach to the situation, like real medical treatment or stabilization to closely follow the course of disease in the patients … you still have to provide an abortion if a woman wants it,” Bruchalski said.
The two primary situations when a pregnancy must be induced before viability to save the life of the mother, first-trimester hemorrhaging and ectopic pregnancy, have clear treatments that do not require an abortion, Bruchalski said.
“In [catastrophic uterine bleeding] you’re targeting the placenta and its removal because that is the cause of bleeding, the preborn child is not your target,” Bruchalski said.
In the case of an ectopic pregnancy, an OB-GYN removes the diseased segment of the fallopian tube containing the embryo.
“This is intellectually and scientifically not a direct abortion,” Bruchalski said. “The definition and the intent of an elective abortion is to terminate the life of the fetus. The intention and truth matter not only to the profession and the doctor but to the patient.”
In the vast majority of cases of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages, the preborn child has already died due to the disease, Bruchalski said. In either situation, targeting the child is never the intent and is therefore not an abortion, but abortion practitioners deceive physicians and patients by saying ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, and elective abortions are all the same.
“This coercion is based on fundamental lies and half-truths, from beginning to end,” Bruchalski said. //
“There are sometimes reasons for early induction that require additional support for the baby, as the baby is not ‘ready’ to be born, but it’s essential for the well-being of the mother,” Johnson said. “However, there is never a circumstance that the mother’s health would benefit from the death of her unborn child. Even in true crash C-sections where mom has to be in the OR [operating room] literally within minutes, there is never a reason to end the baby’s life in the hope of saving mom.”
“The whole discussion of ER abortion of a healthy pregnancy is bogus,” Seeds said.
J.P. Cooney cultivated a politically toxic environment, disseminated baseless conspiracy theories, and engaged in unprofessional conduct, a report says. //
Cooney is mentioned (as the “Fraud and Public Corruption Section Chief”) a whopping 394 times in the 85-page report released from the Justice Department’s inspector general on July 24.
A new whistleblower is revealing another agency failure by the Secret Service two weeks after former President Donald Trump was shot. //
On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., posted a letter on X addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlining the new allegations brough forward from an anonymous whistleblower.
“According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,” Hawley wrote. “This means that the technology was both available to [U.S. Secret Service] and able to be deployed to secure the site.”
The Secret Service, however, “said no,” and the whistleblower “further alleges that after the shooting took place, [U.S. Secret Service] changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack.”
Dem Rep. said FEC chair’s presentation of federal law might “sow misguided doubt and confusion about the state of the presidential election.” //
The Trump campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday challenging the transfer of funds and reportedly calling it “the largest campaign finance violation in American history.”
In the complaint, Trump campaign General Counsel David Warrington reportedly contended that the $91.5 million in campaign funds originally raised by Biden’s presidential campaign cannot be transferred to Harris, who has yet to be named the official Democrat nominee.
Biden and Harris are “flagrantly violating the [Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971, as amended] by making and receiving an excessive contribution of nearly one hundred million dollars, and for filing fraudulent forms with the Commission purporting to repurpose one candidate’s principal campaign committee for the use of another candidate,” Warrington reportedly wrote in the complaint.
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The obvious question is: Why are they underfunded? Why was security so understaffed here, why was law enforcement "caught off guard" on Jan. 6, why were they so unprepared for the takeovers of so many of our nation's college campuses?
The answer is actually simple: The left wants this chaos. You don't have to go far to find proof: //
Under Biden, the Democrats have passed bills like the ludicrously named "Inflation Reduction Act" that cost billions upon billions, yet I bet most Americans cannot name a single thing these things have done to improve their lives. In fact, the profligate spending has caused one thing: skyrocketing inflation, which has hit every citizen in the pocketbook and decreased the quality of life for virtually everyone.
So, with all this money being spent, how is it possible that the Park Service has inadequate resources to deal with a riot that was almost as predictable as the rising sun?
It's because the left wanted this, and they will continue to endorse and enable it until—God willing—we and the rest of America’s voters send them packing. //
Cafeblue32 Tommy
2 hours ago
What no one realizes on the D side is that bitching about things and deconstructing them is all they know how to do. They have shown repeatedly since the Russian Revolution that leftists are only reformers, but they have no abilty to reform anything to a better condition. They build nothing, create nothing of value, contribute little, take much, and for some reason are smug and arrogant about how smart and awesome they are. They graduate and go right into government where they can start exercising their own wills and exert control. Since the left can create nothing that works, and can only rework things that already exist and didn't need reworking, they then have to force everyone to comply with their failure it until it does.
That's why all they do is whine about the problems. Fixing things that don't need fixing is their idea of progress.
Biden Appears Confused As He Finally Meets With Netanyahu, Israeli PM Gets the Last Laugh – RedState
Netanyahu was polite despite the earlier diss from the Biden team, although what he said about Biden knowing every Israeli prime minister for 50 years was a nice way of emphasizing how old Biden is. Biden tried to rebut that with a joke, claiming he was only "12" then. No one laughed. //
853 OKG
5 hours ago
PM Netanyahu is smiling because he's meeting the real president at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow.
The Original John Doe 853 OKG
2 hours ago
Exactly. And Biden initially refused to take this meeting. Biden only agreed after Trump agreed to meet Netanyahu. The Trump meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday night immediately after he addressed Congress (according to the Times of Israel). However, after Biden wanted to meet Thursday, Netanyahu asked Trump to move their meet to after the meeting with Biden so he can tell Trump what Biden said.
anon-fr0d The Original John Doe
41 minutes ago
Yes, FJB is always a day late and 10% short. //
flguy
4 hours ago
I love how Bibi called Biden a 'Zionist,' guaranteeing more Muslims vote for Trump, or at least do not vote for Harris in November. I think that was highly intentional.
MRC NewsBusters @newsbusters
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Now that Joe Biden is out of the race, the media are pretending Kamala Harris was never the border czar.
Even though they had no problem calling her that before Biden dropped out.
4:24 PM · Jul 24, 2024 //
Viscount Montgomery of Arkansi
3 hours ago
Why would Kamala not want to be recognized as the Border Czar? According to the MSM the border is secure.
Alexa Henning @alexahenning
Remember: the people telling you Kamala is a great candidate...
Were the ones telling you Biden was fit for the job last week
8:29 PM · Jul 24, 2024
That is an absolutely undeniable fact. //
The other thing to remember in all of this is that these same people who are proclaiming Kamala Harris has what it takes to be the leader of the free world are the same people who are now basically saying she had no real responsibilities as vice president:
T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams
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It will be interesting to watch her supporters thread the needle of: "Ignore her Senate record and look at the VP record, but also she wasn't responsible for anything as VP."
Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann
I like that the media's defense of Kamala has become "she actually wasn't in charge of anything"
5:51 PM · Jul 25, 2024
Bobby Burack @burackbobby_
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Wow.
A Democrat lawmaker confirmed to FOX that Dems have received a piece of paper with talking points/lies about how to discuss Kamala Harris' role at the Southern border.
They are already using the exact lines.
https://outkick.com/analysis/democrat-lawmakers-receive-talking-points-how-talk-about-kamala-harris-role-border
1:18 PM · Jul 25, 2024. //
Mollie @MZHemingway
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The propaganda press working so hard to erase the fact that Kamala Harris was put in charge of the border shows not only what a vulnerability her role in the border is but also what a huge vulnerability her general incompetence is.
10:05 AM · Jul 24, 2024
The Secret Service reportedly didn't have drones of their own flying over the site -- the only drone reported so far was from the shooter, Thomas Crooks. As we previously reported, the Trump detail had had requests for more resources turned down, and there were reports that resources were delegated to Jill Biden's dinner instead of the much larger rally, as well as that Jill Biden had 12 post-standers as opposed to Trump being given three. That was insane given the potential threats against Trump and the size of the rally.
Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge
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NEW:
“According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally.”
Via @HawleyMO
2:37 PM · Jul 25, 2024
After episodes of Axios and GovTrack retroactively changing their reporting, we are in uncharted territory where we are in Soviet style rewriting of history, not just media bias.
there’s a joke that I saw on Twitter today, which was that in the Soviet Union, the future was always written, but it’s the past that kept changing. And what they were talking about is Stalin and other Soviet leaders had a habit of changing history. And they would do it in many ways. And one of the ways they would do it as featured in this image. //
Axios wrote an article today saying that’s not true. She was never called the Border Czar. And then people found from 2021 articles in Axios calling her the Border Czar because she doesn’t want to now take responsibility for the border problems.
So Axios just reinvented it, wrote an addition saying, oh, we were wrong back then. We used it improperly.
No, they didn’t. They used it in context at the time because that’s what she was called. And just like the Soviets go back and airbrush people and rewrite things, that’s what Axios did today. //
GovTrack had rated her in 2019 as the most liberal senator in the Senate. That means to the left of Bernie Sanders. That’s a problem for Kamala Harris, and that is something that Republicans are hitting her on.
And in completely Soviet style. GovTrack simply took down her page and posted a notice saying that they’ve reconsidered things. And their whole methodology that they used in 2019, not just for her, but for everybody, was now wrong. And they removed the page much like the Soviets would remove pages from the encyclopedia. //
4fun | July 24, 2024 at 9:34 pm
I think this is the Soviet joke you were looking for.
The past is rewritten so fast that you don’t know what will happen yesterday.
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Epimetheus_Secundus said:
Genetically there are three speeds to processing/eliminating caffeine from the bodyFast - body clears it in 45 minutes. These people can drink coffee before bed
Med - body clears it in 4 hours. Don't have coffee after dinner. Most people are this - call it "normal"
Slow - body clears it in 14-16 hours. Don't even botherI got the slow gene, so I just don't bother.
My heartfelt condolences. But there is good news. While caffeine metabolism is about 80% genetic, the target enzymes are the cytochrome p450 system in the liver. So even if you have poor natural clearance, you can increase the p450 system by taking up cigarette smoking. o_O
Sixty-two percent of likely voters are concerned that the 2024 election will be marred by cheating, a new survey finds.
The Secret Service is ‘encouraging’ the Trump campaign to halt the large-scale events his supporters have grown accustomed to. //
The Secret Service did not return an email from The Federalist requesting comment. So it’s not clear whether the agency has made the same requests of Vice President Kamala Harris, ... //
Sean Davis @seanmdav
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This is a direct threat from the regime to Trump: if he doesn’t stop trying to win, they’ll make sure the next attacker doesn’t miss. We all know what they’re doing.
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8:40 PM · Jul 23, 2024 //
The Post devoted several column inches to what a burden Trump’s outdoor rallies have been for an agency that glaringly failed its mission to protect him. The Post’s narrative is anything but subtle: Trump — and his penchant for massive campaign rallies — is to blame for his near-assassination.
“The rallies have long been viewed as onerous by the Secret Service because they include complicated outdoor venues with thousands — if not tens of thousands — of people,” the Post’s Josh Dawsey writes. “Most other former presidents rarely appear in public, and when they do, they usually appear in settings such as conferences and restaurants with fewer people. Trump requires a much larger security footprint than other past presidents because he holds so many large events.”
But Trump isn’t merely a former president showing up to a haughty cocktail party with D.C. elites. He’s the GOP’s candidate for president, whether the Post and their Democrat pals like it or not.
Was the assassination attempt a failure because Trump survived? Or was it a failure because he was shot in the first place? //
The FBI and the Department of Justice failed to take Trump down through the Russia hoax. Then the intelligence state failed to bring Trump down through impeachment with a hoax on aid to Ukraine. Then congressional Democrats failed to keep Trump down with another hoax surrounding the capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. As the DOJ’s lawfare campaign to imprison Trump with a series of charges brought by prosecutors of the incumbent regime began to derail this summer, the Secret Service naturally became the agency of last resort through which Trump’s opponents could finally execute their “insurance policy” against another Trump presidency.
Trump’s shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, might not have deliberately coordinated with deep state security to pull the trigger on the Republican presidential nominee. But the string of security lapses in the former president’s detail clearly left the door open for any number of the crazies who wish to carry out an assassination, including even a deranged 20-year-old, to succeed just once.
On Wednesday, the FBI confirmed Crooks had been able to fly a reconnaissance drone just roughly 200 yards from the rally fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, only hours before the event. The news had already been leaked to The Wall Street Journal, which reported a programmed flight path “suggests Crooks flew the drone more than once as he researched and scoped out the event site.”
Several law enforcement officials were apparently stationed inside the building from which Crooks was able to fire off eight gunshots in under six seconds, injuring two rallygoers and killing one. According to the disgraced ex-Secret Service director, however, the rooftop from which the gunman fired was left vacant because it was “sloped.” A former roofer explained in a column for The Federalist why Cheatle’s “‘Sloped’ Roof Excuse Is Total Nonsense.” //
The courageous commitment of front-line agents to take a bullet for the former president was on clear display at this month’s rally, but the leadership within the upper echelons of the federal security agency obviously carries no such mandate. The Secret Service director who finally stepped down was also an appointee of First Lady Jill Biden’s, whose own detail was apparently beefed up while Trump’s team was stripped down. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denied the Trump campaign’s requests for additional security “time and again,” and yet Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas still hasn’t joined Cheatle in resigning.
On Tuesday, the Secret Service requested Trump forgo any more outdoor campaign rallies right after Republicans wrapped up one of the most successful conventions to propel the party into the fall election. //
Even if Trump’s assassination attempt wasn’t a government plot to kill an ex-president, it’s obvious to Americans that the Secret Service was yet another hostile agency prone to the corrupt impulses of far-left ideologues in the capital who grandstand on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. If the Secret Service had been weaponized to block Trump’s triumphant return to the Oval Office, the events might look very similar to those of the last two weeks.
Kintsugi, meaning “golden joint” or “golden repair,” is a Japanese method lacquer masters use to remake broken teaware. The lacquer seals the pieces back together, then gold powder accentuates the cracks between pieces rather than hiding them. Tea families would even keep fragments for generations, seeking a master who could put them together into something more beautiful than before. It is a challenging and meditative craft.
What we love about this practice is its emphasis on maintaining the fragmentation. Or as we like to call it in our line of work, the wounds. Kintsugi considers how something that was broken, no matter how badly, can be put together into a creation that is even stronger and more striking. //
This idea of “new creation” is also central to Restoring the Soul’s mission because it reflects Jesus’ journey on the cross and post-resurrection appearance. He chose to be a wounded human, appearing to his disciples with nail marks in his hands still showing. As Isaiah 53:5 says, “By his wounds we are healed.” His wounds created a path to restoration for us, no matter how shattered we are. Through Jesus, we are kintsugi pieces, new creations: ourselves, but even more beautiful than before.
Jesus accepts and loves us with all our flaws, imperfections, and painful experiences. He offers you an opportunity to be created anew, filled with rivers of gold — to be as valuable to yourself as you are to God.
The Hafele–Keating experiment was a test of the theory of relativity. In 1971,[1] Joseph C. Hafele, a physicist, and Richard E. Keating, an astronomer, took four caesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world, first eastward, then westward, and compared the clocks in motion to stationary clocks at the United States Naval Observatory. When reunited, the three sets of clocks were found to disagree with one another, and their differences were consistent with the predictions of special and general relativity. //
Hafele, an assistant professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, was preparing notes for a physics lecture when he did a back-of-the-envelope calculation showing that an atomic clock aboard a commercial airliner should have sufficient precision to detect the predicted relativistic effects.[11] He spent a year in fruitless attempts to get funding for such an experiment, until he was approached after a talk on the topic by Keating, an astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory who worked with atomic clocks.[11]
Hafele and Keating obtained $8000 in funding from the Office of Naval Research[12] for one of the most inexpensive tests ever conducted of general relativity. Of this amount, $7600 was spent on the eight round-the-world plane tickets,[13] including two seats on each flight for "Mr. Clock." They flew eastward around the world, ran the clocks side by side for a week, and then flew westward. The crew of each flight helped by supplying the navigational data needed for the comparison with theory. In addition to the scientific papers published in Science,[5][6] there were several accounts published in the popular press and other publications. //
Presently both gravitational and velocity effects are routinely incorporated, for example, into the calculations used for the Global Positioning System.
Our beloved NTP protocol appears to work in a deep space environment (as tested in a simulation with a 4 hour RTT):