"Joe Biden began his presidency with a series of lies about his son Hunter's business dealings: the laptop was Russian disinformation, the family didn't get China money and the future president never consorted with influence-seeking associates.

And he is ending his tenure in the White House with a stunning broken pledge.

After months of the White House and Joe Biden personally insisting there would be no pardon, the 46th president granted clemency Sunday night to his son that erased his federal gun and tax convictions.

The bookends to a major political scandal left Republicans who investigated tens of millions of dollars in foreign payments to the first family crying anew about a dual system of justice."

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"Wishing you and yours a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!"

"It looks like President-elect Donald Trump decided to start celebrating Thanksgiving early by choosing to put a turkey in his cabinet: Late Friday, he tapped Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to head the Labor Department.

The Oregon Republican-in-name just lost her bid for re-election after a single term in the House, where she routinely toed the Big Labor line, co-sponsoring the radical PRO Act and opposing school choice -- cause Trump has fervently embraced.

If she had her way, she’d eliminate right-to-work laws (which guarantee no one can be forced as a condition of employment to join or pay dues or fees to a labor union) in 27 states, nearly all of which voted for Trump."

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"As Israel defeats its enemies on the battlefields in Gaza and Lebanon, the intifada has gone global. The fronts of the war against the Jewish state encompass America's cities, the United Nations, the U.S. Senate, and the International Criminal Court. Marches, resolutions, embargoes, arrest warrants -- these are the tactics by which Hamas sympathizers worldwide intend to isolate Israel diplomatically, undermine Israel's war against terrorism, and intimidate the Jewish people.

"Only one response is appropriate. America must stand in the breach. America must provide Israel with the cover and support it needs to cripple Hamas and Hezbollah and restore deterrence to the Middle East.

"These are perilous times. The president is a lame duck. The vice president is nowhere to be seen. The next administration does not take office until January 20. Thus Israel's adversaries -- and America's -- sense an opportunity."

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"Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that their brand-new government efficiency panel will identify 'thousands' of regulations for President-elect Trump to eliminate, which they argue will justify 'mass head-count reductions' across government.

"The pair, who were named co-chairs of the panel last week, laid out their plans for the 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE) in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

'"The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings,' they wrote. 'We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws.'

"Musk and Ramaswamy pointed to several recent Supreme Court decisions that have taken aim at the power of the administrative state, arguing that a 'plethora of current federal regulations' exceed agency authority and could be on the chopping block."

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"The Biden-Harris administration on Monday unveiled sweeping , just days after it awarded another $230 million in taxpayer funds to the Palestinians. The back-to-back announcements signal that diplomatic relations between Israel and the outgoing White House will continue to sour until President-elect Donald Trump retakes office next year.

"The new sanctions are the broadest to date, imposing unprecedented punitive measures on three Israeli organizations the administration accuses of fomenting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. They were leveled just days after a coalition of nearly 90 congressional Democrats petitioned the Biden administration to ramp up sanctions on Israel before leaving the White House.

"The sanctions were announced just three days after the Biden-Harris administration awarded another $230 million in funding for humanitarian projects in the West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The American government has now sent more than $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Palestinians since Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree on Israel -- even as critics warn this cash is keeping Hamas on life support."

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"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sided with the campaign of Republican businessman Dave McCormick in ordering an immediate end to the deliberately unlawful vote-counting efforts of local officials counting votes in McCormick's hotly contested U.S. Senate race.

"Openly flouting a clear, earlier ruling of the state high court, officials in four counties had been tabulating ballots that lacked signatures or dates required by law.

"The court's new decision to block the officials was made 7-0 on the merits and 4-3 on procedural matters, with Justice David Wecht, a liberal with no love lost for the GOP, writing in concurrence:

"'It is critical to the rule of law that individual counties and municipalities and their elected and appointed officials, like any other parties, obey orders of this Court. As Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote: 'If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. ... The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance.'"

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"'People violate laws any time they want.'

Those words, shrugging off an alleged unlawful move last week, did not come from some Chicago gangbanger or Washington car thief. Those words of wisdom came from Democrat Commissioner Diane Marseglia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

They came in response to the fact that the Democratic majority on the election commission had decided to ignore a binding state Supreme Court ruling in an attempt to engineer the election of Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).

Rather than prompting a degree of introspection, the loss of both houses of Congress and the White House has had a curious effect on many Democrats, dropping any pretense of protecting democracy over partisanship."

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"On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would head the 'Department of Government Efficiency.' That same day, the Treasury Department released a report showing why this effort is so desperately needed. ...

This week, the Treasury Department released its first report of the new fiscal year, which began in October.

What it found was that in just the first month, the federal government ran a deficit of $257 billion. That compares with a deficit of $66 billion in October 2023.

The massive jump is the result of a $76.6 billion drop in revenues compared with last year and a $114 billion hike in spending."

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"The latest global climate conference opened Monday in Azerbaijan. The timing is excellent. Any doubt regarding the wisdom of the next Trump administration's likely pullout from such meetings should be dispelled by the conference photos alone. Here are tens of thousands of well fed, well-dressed members of the global elite -- activists, employees of lavishly funded NGOs, armies of government bureaucrats, hundreds of heads of state -- who have all travelled via jet and private plane to this remote corner of the Earth and who expect that every minute of their day will be supported by abundant, magically available energy. None has sacrificed a single personal comfort to save the planet. They assume that their smartphones will draw on an invisible web of transmitters and that they will be able to search the Internet and run AI queries at will, notwithstanding that doing so requires voracious energy use from a growing archipelago of server farms. They expect their PowerPoints to be well lit and their conference and hotel rooms to be heated or air conditioned as needed. They're never without their bottled water, which is carried thousands of miles by carbon-emitting trucks and planes and kept sterile by plastic containers whose manufacture requires petrochemicals and plenty of energy. They do not wait on the sun to shine or the wind to blow to light their rooms, run their elevators, or power up their devices; they want energy now and without interruption.

"You don't have to be a 'climate denier' to see that climate-change politics have become the largest global grift in history, one that grows in proportion with each new conference. It was just a matter of time before Third World basket-case countries exploited the First World's virtue signaling. This year's UNFCC COP 29 conference in Azerbaijan (COP stands for Conference of the Parties) features the demand that developed countries fork over billions, if not trillions, more dollars to the Global South, ostensibly to help it adjust to climate change. Those billions will follow all previous foreign aid into the same sinkhole of corruption and incompetence."

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