"Electric regulators and utilities across America are sounding the alarm on grid reliability, yet the Biden administration keeps on hitting the snooze button.

"The newest warning comes from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) biennial 'Reliability Risk Priorities Report.' For the first time, energy policy is listed as one of five key risk profiles, joining grid transformation, security risks, extreme events, and critical infrastructure interdependencies. This is significant because it singles out bad energy policy as a major threat to the grid.

"The report is no surprise. When I was secretary of Energy, grid reliability is what kept me up at night, even with our all-of-the-above approach. But those days are long gone. While President Biden's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency are doling out dollars as fast as they can in the name of climate change, some regulators understand the vulnerabilities in our grid."

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"John Fetterman's Senate legacy is now set -- he's the guy who made it possible to dress like a slob.

"What the Missouri Compromise was to Henry Clay, what the Second Reply to Hayne was to Daniel Webster, what the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was to Lyndon Johnson, Carhartt sweatshirts and baggy shorts will be to John Fetterman.

"The Pennsylvania senator is the poster boy -- if self-indulgent sloppiness is your thing -- for his chamber dropping a dress code that required senators to dress in business attire when appearing on the Senate floor."

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"With financial losses and now a historic labor strike, the auto industry is feeling the brunt of its Democrat-pressured transition to electric vehicles (EV).

"Ford President and CEO Jim Farley even suggested last week ahead of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against the Big Three automakers that his company couldn't pay workers what they wanted because of the cost of the EV transition.

"Ford announced this summer that they expect to lose a staggering $4.5 billion on electric vehicles this year, raising its estimate from $3 billion earlier in the year."

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"On the 22nd anniversary of the worst terror attacks in America's history, the Biden Administration notified Congress that it had just released $6 billion of frozen assets to Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terror, and would release five Iranians detained in the U.S. in exchange for five American hostages. We should all be happy for the families of these five Americans and be thankful that they are finally receiving good news about their loved ones -- as Secretary of State, nothing was more rewarding than bringing home Americans held hostage in foreign countries.

While our goal should always be to bring every American home, we must also negotiate to ensure we don't incentivize the taking of hostages in the future. But this is the worst deal ever. Paying for Americans wrongly detained by Iran will only make Americans less safe in the long run and provides more funding for the brutal Iranian regime. These were lessons we learned long ago, but that Joe Biden refuses to learn."

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"After weeks of bombshell revelations and contentious debate, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy crossed a political threshold of no return and set significant stakes for both Congress and the Biden White House heading into a tumultuous presidential election year.

"The first-term leader of the House on Tuesday authorized an official impeachment inquiry against America's 46th president. He did it without having to hold a formal vote on the House floor, in part because his predecessor Nancy Pelosi changed the tradition during the Donald Trump era.

"But as the ramifications of the decision were settling in and both sides girded for battle, McCarthy sent a letter to colleagues that explained the rationale for such an inquiry at this moment, summarizing it in six succinct words: 'Public offices are not for sale,' McCarthy declared."

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"Congress, the presidency, the FBI, the judiciary, the media, colleges and universities, big business, churches, scientists, technology companies, labor unions, public health leaders. What do all these institutions have in common?

"Answer: Americans don't trust them any more.

"In the last 30 years, we have witnessed something unprecedented and perilous to the very survival of American democracy -- a collapse in public trust in the nation's leaders and institutions.

"If there is one phenomenon that captures better than anything else what's gone wrong with America in the last few years it is this: we live in a culture of mistrust."

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"Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has paid massive sums to private sector attorneys for their services, and a portion of those relate to investigating and prosecuting former President Donald Trump, according to county records.

"Nathan Wade, Willis's lead prosecutor in the case, has raked in more than half a million dollars from the Fulton County District Attorney's Office from January 2022 to August 2023, according to a payment history.

"Christopher Campbell, Wade's colleague at Wade & Campbell Firm, has been paid $116,670 from April 2021 to August 2023, the same records show.

Terrence Bradley, a former colleague of Wade's, was paid $74,480 from May 2021 to June 2022, according to the records.

"Wade, a defense attorney who can bill by the hour, was hand-picked by Willis roughly two years ago to serve as special prosecutor in the Trump case. Wade is a former Cobb County judge who ran for Cobb County Superior Court and was defeated in 2012, 2014, and 2016. Willis chose Wade over career prosecutors who work on salaries, and while the legalities of that have not been questioned at this stage, some, like Phil Holloway, an Atlanta-based attorney for more than two decades, have found the use of Wade to be 'unorthodox.'"

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"Never forget: They think we're idiots.

"That's the main takeaway from Wednesday's announcement by faux Special Counsel David Weiss that, by month's end, he intends to indict Hunter Biden on a felony gun charge -- the very same gun charge Weiss tried to make disappear just six weeks ago. By both regulation and performance, Weiss is unqualified to be a special counsel -- which, naturally, is why Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed him.

"Lest you think Weiss has suddenly grown a prosecutorial spine, think again. He made the indictment announcement because he had no choice. He'd still love to bury the gun charge, the same way he has buried the significant aspects of the probe he's been trusted with -- namely, the Biden family business of cashing in on Joe Biden's political influence. But he was cornered by Judge Maryellen Noreika."

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"As Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith struggled this summer to fill vacancies in his small department, he warned the town's City Council that unless pay and benefits improved, finding new officers would never happen.

"When nothing changed, Smith quit. So did his few remaining officers, leading the Minnesota town of 1,300 residents to shutter its police force in late August.

"America is in the midst of a police officer shortage that many in law enforcement blame on the twofold morale hit of 2020 -- the coronavirus pandemic and criticism of police that boiled over with the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and turning over police work to their county sheriff, a neighboring town or state police."

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"Sustained deficit spending by the U.S. government helped push the national debt up to a jaw dropping $31.38 trillion in 2023, according to U.S. Treasury data. Fiscal watchdogs are now predicting that the interest alone on that debt will soon eclipse both entitlements and defense spending as a major component of the annual budget.

"At the same time that the national debt is at a record high, interest payments in mid-2022 stood at just under $600 billion, according to a report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB).

"The report, which outlines the challenges that face the next administration, projects that such payments will exceed the combined costs of Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in late 2023, though it varies depending on interest rates.

"Debt service is projected to exceed defense spending either later this year or in 2026, again contingent on interest rates. The CRFB report further pointed to the significant hike in interest rates under the Biden Administration. A 10-year Treasury note, which in 2021 came with just over a 1% interest rate. That figure now sits at 4.3%."

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