'...One picture captured the moment, prompting comments from around the country. A federal worker bragging on Instagram: “My office for the next hour” -showing himself teleworking in the bathtub. The employee? A team leader in charge of scheduling for the Atlanta Veterans Administration, which has some of the worst wait times in the country. ...'
'The Biden administration has issued a new directive to all government employees to travel by train or electric car, or electric Uber or Lyft, when traveling on official business. ...In an announcement, the Biden administration is directing all federal agencies to prioritize the use of sustainable transportation for official and local travel, both domestically and internationally. This includes using electric vehicles, either renting or options for taxis or ride-share services such as Lyft or Uber. However, there is one caveat: as long as you don’t rent an EV that is at a higher rate than the “most affordable comparable vehicle available.” (I suppose it’s a safety buffer against backlash on overspending taxpayer money as we enter an election year.) '
'...The Left invokes “democracy” to justify its use of power, even if it means abusing judicial power to remove a candidate from the ballot based on spurious legal grounds. SCOTUS should reverse....'
'...The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is warning Georgia not to move forward with its plan to become the first state to allow pharmacies to distribute medical marijuana. DEA officials told pharmacies that dispensing medical marijuana would violate federal law. The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission, which oversees the state’s medical marijuana industry, said it cannot override the federal ban despite state law allowing pharmacies to sell the products. ...Recreational marijuana is legal in 24 states across the country, while another 23 allow some form of medical cannabis, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.'
'...Polls show voters believe former President Trump can handle the border better than President Biden...'
'...So far this year, 169 individuals with positive terrorism watchlist matches tried to cross the southern border into the United States. ...a “tenfold increase” from the fiscal year 2021 numbers. ...the Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from Biden on a number of border-related questions, including: • What proactive moves are underway to bolster the security'
'...The National Archives has informed House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer that it'll provide unredacted access to 1,799 Joe Biden emails 62,610 pages from his time as vice president. This is in response to Comer's letters on Aug. 30 and Sept. 6 requesting the information as part of the House probe of Biden and his role in son Hunter's foreign business dealings. ...Biden has reportedly used Robert Peters, Robin Ware and JRB Ware, pseudonyms that Republicans say he used to discuss dealings with energy giant Burisma when Hunter Biden was a board member of the Ukrainian firm. Also among the trove of emails: communications with Eric Schwerin and/or Devon Archer, former business associates of Hunter Biden. The House Ways and Means Committee released documents showing Biden communicated with Schwerin using the “Robin Ware” alias, including 50 emails around Biden’s trip to Ukraine in June 2014. ...'
'Tuesday’s report from the Labor Department said the consumer price index rose just 0.1% from October to November. ...core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.3% from October to November, slightly faster than the 0.2% increase the previous month. Measured from a year ago, core prices rose 4%, the same as in October. The Federal Reserve considers core prices to be a better guide to the future path of inflation. ...'
'...Attacks by Iranian-backed terrorists against U.S. forces in the Middle East increased late this week as U.S. officials have grown frustrated by President Joe Biden’s lack of a forceful response to deter future attacks. Approximately a dozen attacks have been launched against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria over a roughly 48-hour span...'
'Any national security package has to begin with the security of our own borders,' the speaker insisted in a news conference on Capitol Hill...Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation's border security laws,' Johnson wrote in a letter to the White House...'
'...'It is extraordinarily dangerous because, first of all, as you point out, we have people from China coming here.
'We also have people on the known terrorist watch list who are coming across the border. And so there's extraordinary dangers, calls to our country by Biden's open border policies,' Abbott told Fox News on Sunday.
'And obviously, Biden is doing nothing about it. And that's why Texas has to step up and apprehend as many of these people as possible to make sure that they're not posing a threat to our country,' he added.
'But this is a very serious existential threat to our country caused by Joe Biden. And that's exactly why Texas is taking extraordinary steps to try to crack down on it.'...'
'FBI director Christopher Wray has warned that the United States is facing the highest risk of a terrorist attack in years...His comments come at a time when U.S. forces are being subjected to a barrage of strikes in the Middle East and with Jewish and Muslim communities being targeted at home. ...There have been at least 74 attacks on U.S. bases and troops...I've never seen a time where all the threats, or so many of the threats, are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.''
'...A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Texas must take down its buoy barrier on the border with Mexico in the Rio Grande, citing threats to navigation and human life. ...'
'...The Biden administration is poised to force every recipient of federal grants into transgender policies. ...The proposed rules would also delete existing language requiring all federal grants to adhere to the Constitution in “protecting free speech, religious liberty, public welfare, the environment, and prohibiting discrimination,” according to the Center for Political Justice (CPJ). If such rules pass, they would license government discrimination against religious Americans, which is unconstitutional. ...'
'...More than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the preceding 10 years combined. ...'
'I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.'
'...'the goal was just to block the door in non-violent civil disobedience.' But a House Democrat who was present at the DNC, along with Jeffries and other leaders, told Axios: 'It scared me more than January 6.'...The comparison to January 6 is a strong one considering participants who rioted at the Capitol are still faces legal repercussions and former President Donald Trump continues to face lawsuits over whether he engaged in an insurrection that day.' ...He detailed: 'Was just evacuated from the DNC after pro-terrorist, anti-Israel protestors grew violent, pepper spraying police officers and attempting to break into the building.'
'Leroy Brown was just about to start his career with the United States Postal Service. His first day: Dec. 31, 1955. ...He's still going strong, working in the Los Angeles International Service Center, a USPS processing center. The 90-year-old is in his 70th year of service to the federal government, including a two-year stint in the U.S. Army...Retirement doesn't seem to be in the nonagenarian's plans. He's healthy, he's active, he loves being around other people and, well, he's not really sure what he'd do anyway. "I don't want to turn into a couch potato," Brown said. "I don't just want to sit around in one place."...'
