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Washington DC, Democrats in Congress last week proposed legislation to increase the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 13, but most voters oppose the so-called “court-packing” plan. Not sure of the point the court has clearly given up its constitutional duties and is no threat to the democrat agenda.
Continue reading 55% of Voters Oppose Supreme Court Expansion, But Most Democrats Support It
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Washington DC, The Department of Justice has received reports that fraudsters are creating fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine surveys for consumers to fill out with the promise of a prize or cash at the conclusion of the survey. In reality, the surveys are used to steal money from consumers and unlawfully capture consumers’ personal information.
Continue reading Justice Department Warns About Fake Post-Vaccine Survey Scams
Find the perfect apartment can seem like torture. Finding one that fits your budget, location, personal taste can be a real headache. There are things you should consider when looking for an apartment, especially in DC.
Continue reading Looking For an Apartment in Washington DC? Check this Out!
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Washington DC, When Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended lockdown restrictions on businesses earlier this month it was with a certain swagger. “I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%” he announced. “EVERYTHING.”
Continue reading Texas Ended Lockdown Restrictions, Sees COVID Cases Drop to All Time Low
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Washington DC, the FBI and ATF are offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the location, arrest, and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the placement of pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on January 5, 2021.
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WASHINGTON DC, after the catastrophic security failures at Capitol Hill on January 6th , Department Homeland Security Issues “Non Specific” National Terrorism Advisory :
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Washington DC, a Capitol Police officer has died after he sustained injuries during the riot at the U.S. Capitol Thursday. Brian D. Sicknick, 42, the youngest of three sons, was from South River, New Jersey. He graduated in 1997 from Middlesex County Technical Vocational High School and joined the New Jersey Air National Guard that year.
Continue reading Officer Who Died in Capitol Hill Breech Native of New Jersey
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Washington DC, President Trump signed a memorandum yesterday to hold local politicians accountable for refusing to protect their communities from ongoing riots, lootings, and mass property destruction.
Per the memo, Federal agencies will identify what funds are provided to Seattle, Portland, New York City, and other jurisdictions that have allowed violence, lawlessness, and property damage to persist. Agencies will also determine what authorities are available to withhold these funds if and when necessary.
Where permissible, the Administration will restrict eligibility for certain Federal grants until these jurisdictions take the necessary steps to protect their residents.
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Washington DC,President Trump said he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, the leader of the women’s suffrage movement who was arrested for violating male-only voting laws in 1872, the pardon comes 100 years to the day after the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote, was ratified.
Anthony, a strong anti-slavery pioneer who died in 1906, had been arrested in 1872 for violating laws that had permitted only men to vote in the presidential election. She was then indicted, tried and convicted for voting illegally and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and court costs. Ever the dramatic flare, the historic New Yorker described her two-day trial in June 1873 as “the greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded,” according to The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Washington DC, on a call earlier today the president told governors earlier that many of them were appearing “weak.”
National Guard troops were deployed near the White House Monday evening hours after President Donald Trump said he wanted a military show of force against violent protests gripping the nation. Shortly after, Trump came to the White House Rose Garden to call himself the “law and order” president, saying “domestic terrorism” was to blame for the unrest. “We will it end it now,” Trump said, calling on governors to “dominate the streets.” Saying we are a nation of laws, the President repeated hat he would deploy the United States active duty military if governors failed to use the National Guard more forcefully.
Continue reading BREAKING: President Trump mobilizes ‘heavily armed’ military to stop protests
SUMMER SENATE PAGE EXPERIENCE
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Riidgewood NJ, at the November 18th BOE meeting RHS Student Representative Laurence Fine recounted his experience as a student page on the US Senate floor this summer. The program was established in 1829; it involves delivering documents and facilitating business by assisting the senators. The slide portion of the presentation may be viewed here.
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Washington DC, Village of Ridgewood Mayor Ramon Hache was hosted by Rep. Josh Gottheimer along with other 5th Congressional District Mayors at a meeting in Washington D.C. To Meet with FEMA, Department of Transportation, Department of Defense and USDA and to discuss government programs and grants that could benefit our community including funding for sidewalks, other quality of life improvements, natural disaster preparedness and surplus equipment for Police and Fire.
the Left’s perspective seems warped by cognitive dissonance. Trump’s task is herculean. The world’s biggest stable is filled to the rim with horse dung and someone, presumably not you, needs to do something about it. Emotions are important but at some point they need to be put to the side in favor of effective action. Your mileage may vary, but you might want to cut Trump a little slack and not try to drag him down to your level. Detraction is a sin we should all work to avoid, particularly when it is directed toward political leaders like Trump who are so clearly working in good faith toward the improvement and betterment of our nation.
Just look what Trump accomplished, against all odds? Why? Because people are desperate for some common sense which we can’t get from the today”s politicians. Securing our borders; better vetting for refugees and people from terror grown countries; a focus of jobs; deregulating finance/EPA and repairing our infrastructure are all good, common sense things our country is in desperate need of. Where was the outrage when Obama made policy changes that affect Cubans? Is the left anti-Cuban? The left look like idiots fighting and protesting to make it easier for terrorists and illegals to come to our country. So stupid. Why aren’t the majority Muslim countries taken in all these refugees but only majority Christian countries are, tell me why?
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July 5 2016, 3:58 p.m.
Secrecy is a virtual religion in Washington. Those who violate its dogma have been punished in the harshest and most excessive manner – at least when they possess little political power or influence. As has been widely noted, the Obama administration has prosecuted more leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined. Secrecy in DC is so revered that even the most banal documents are reflexively marked classified, making their disclosure or mishandling a felony. As former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden said back in 2000, “Everything’s secret. I mean, I got an email saying ‘Merry Christmas.’ It carried a top secret NSA classification marking.”
People who leak to media outlets for the selfless purpose of informing the public – Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Drake, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden – face decades in prison. Those who leak for more ignoble and self-serving ends – such as enabling hagiography (Leon Panetta, David Petreaus) or ingratiating oneself to one’s mistress (Petraeus) – face career destruction, though they are usually spared if they are sufficiently Important-in-DC. For low-level, powerless Nobodies-in-DC, even the mere mishandling of classified information – without any intent to leak but merely to, say, work from home – has resulted in criminal prosecution, career destruction and the permanent loss of security clearance.
This extreme, unforgiving, unreasonable, excessive posture toward classified information came to an instant halt in Washington today – just in time to save Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations. FBI Director James Comey, an Obama appointee who served in the Bush DOJ, held a press conference earlier this afternoon in which he condemned Clinton on the ground that she and her colleagues were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” including Top Secret material.
Comey also detailed that her key public statements defending her conduct –i.e., she never sent classified information over her personal email account and that she had turned over all “work-related” emails to the State Department – were utterly false; insisted “that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position . . . should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation”; and argued that she endangered national security because of the possibility “that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.” Comey also noted that others who have done what Clinton did “are often subject to security or administrative sanctions” – such as demotion, career harm, or loss of security clearance.
The 7 Scariest Uses of Your Tax Dollars in 2014
Sen. Tom Coburn’s annual “Wastebook” chronicles the most outrageous government waste—spending that is so frightening that it taxpayers ought to be scared.
Halloween is upon us, so what better way to document some of the wackiest examples than with the short horror flick above. https://dailysign.al/1sMxeNT
“Only someone with too much of someone else’s money and not enough accountability for how it was being spent could come up some of these projects,” the Oklahoma Republican said when releasing the book earlier this month.
