"Democrats and commentators reacted dismissively to the conclusion this week of a long-awaited investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion inquiry, with some critics of special counsel John Durham citing a 2019 inquiry to claim the matter had already been settled.

The Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, did indeed examine FBI conduct in the Russia investigation during the Trump administration. Horowitz's findings were highly critical of the FBI and came with a list of recommendations for sweeping changes to the bureau, many of which its leaders adopted.

But the media, and even people involved in the Russia investigation itself, have recast the 2019 inspector general report as an exoneration of the FBI in light of the far more aggressive allegations leveled at the bureau by Durham."

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"New migrants pouring into the U.S. after the Biden administration let a COVID-19 restriction called Title 42 expire last week will not break the nation's stretched court system. The system is already shattered, according to several former judges, immigration experts, and Department of Homeland Security data.

"The average wait time for a 'Notice to Appear' before a judge at one of the nation's 66 immigration courts is now four and a half years. In some cities it is much longer. In New York City, new migrants do not have to appear in court until 2032. This growing backlog creates an incentive for more people to cross the border and request asylum as each new case pushes assigned court dates further into the future. In the meantime, many migrants are permitted to live and work in the United States.

"'It's well past broken,' said Art Arthur, a former immigration court judge and now a resident fellow at the conservative Center for Immigration Studies. 'The courts weren't set up for this. When you don't do anything at the front end, the back end just collapses. Everybody who shows up now knows the chances are 90 percent or better you're going to be here indefinitely or forever.'"

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"The FBI was instrumental in perpetrating the Russia hoax. The bureau never had any plausible evidence or verified intelligence when it wrongfully launched a dilating and damaging investigation of Donald Trump. Nothing was ever vetted or corroborated. Indeed, the FBI knew it was a pernicious lie from the outset. That is the conclusion to be drawn from Special Counsel John Durham's final report released to the public on Monday. ...

"The FBI discovered almost immediately in the summer of 2016 that the claims of Trump-Russia collusion had been manufactured by Hillary Clinton and her confederates. The damning fiction constituted what is surely the dirtiest trick in American politics, and it triggered the greatest mass delusion in history."

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"In the run up to the gas stove ban, and subsequent to it, the Biden administration has unleased the biggest, most comprehensive, strictest regulatory onslaught ever on home appliances. As the Washington Times documents, 'President Biden's green energy goals have resulted in an array of new efficiency rules for a slew of household appliances,' including microwaves, air purifiers, and even toothbrush chargers. Also among the appliances soon to be regulated out of existence or fundamentally altered are, gas furnaces, air conditioners, lightbulbs, refrigerators, clothes washers, and gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.

"How bad will the impact on consumer choice be? Only about 4% of stoves currently on the market would remain for sale under Biden's new rules. And, the new washing machine regulations would remove 98% of existing top loading machines from the market. Do you like your microwave to have an internal light and a clock? Too bad, because those features use too much energy according to Biden's 'ban 'em-all' cronies at the U.S. Department of Energy. Pick your favorite appliance and watch it disappear from the market under Biden's new rules."

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"The Biden family and its business associates created a complicated web of more than 20 companies, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee -- a system, GOP lawmakers say, that was meant to conceal money received from foreign nationals.

"Sixteen of the companies were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden's tenure as vice president, the committee said in a press conference on Wednesday. The Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received more than $10 million from foreign nationals and their related companies, the records show. These payments occurred both while Biden was in office as vice president and after his time in office ended."

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"President Joe Biden's polling numbers continue to deteriorate. According to a recent ABC News poll, just 36% of voters approve of the president's performance.

"The people are angry about inflation. Lower-income households are disturbed that they cannot afford a new vehicle. That is particularly true for electric vehicles, where the price of the battery alone costs about $10,000. Biden, of course, isn't a fan of non-electric cars.

"More broadly, the public fears that Biden is driving the economy over the cliff. Yes, the employment market remains resilient. But employment growth has clearly slowed. Wage inflation remains elevated, too high to be consistent with 2% inflation which remains the Federal Reserve's inflation target. Indeed, wage inflation is running at over 5%. Productivity growth over the pandemic period is expanding at just over 1%. To achieve the Federal Reserve's 2% target, wage inflation must fall toward 3%. Wages and prices will converge."

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"Critics are sounding the alarm that a new federal office to shield U.S. public opinion from purported threats of foreign disinformation is a thinly veiled reboot under a new name of the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, the Homeland Security Department office abandoned after being defined in the public mind as an Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth.'

"Housed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the new Foreign Malign Influence Center was launched with little public notice but is already provoking fears that it will use overstated foreign threats as a pretext to interfere in domestic political debate or will duplicate other federal efforts, especially a controversial State Department unit that tries to squelch populism abroad."

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"In the span of a few weeks, the Biden administration has proposed regulations that would effectively ban gas stoves, force a massive shift to electric cars, sharply raise the cost of dishwashers, increase loan costs for frugal borrowers, regulate puddles as 'navigable waters,' and limit hunting and fishing across the country. It will soon release a proposed rule targeting power plants with hugely expensive carbon capture mandates.

"This is just the tip of the spear."

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"Tens of thousands of migrants are massing at the southern border, waiting for next Friday when President Joe Biden has promised to end the Title 42 health policy that has been used to deny migrants entrance into the country.

"Even before Title 42 expires, the border is being flooded with migrants from around the world, and a vast additional reservoir is gathering in Mexico, waiting for the dam to burst. Biden's policy will be to release them into the country where they will be allowed to stay as long as they want on condition that they claim they are afraid to return home.

"In anticipation of this humanitarian crisis, Biden has ordered an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the border where, according to legal limitations, they will act as bureaucrats rather than police. They are to assist the 2,500 National Guard troops who are already there helping U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process migrants into the country as quickly as possible.

"The new troops won't be enough. Biden could send a million men and women to the border, and the crisis would still only get worse. What is about to happen isn't due to a lack of manpower but bad policy. As long as this president lets migrants who claim asylum into the country indefinitely, more will come."

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"Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema saved the filibuster and cut down President Joe Biden's agenda, delighting Republicans. Now they're breaking with Democrats on the debt limit, and Republicans hope they keep it coming.

"The two centrists, who spent Biden's first two years in office at odds with the left, are glaring outliers on the debt drama in the party's 51-member Senate caucus. While their Democratic colleagues insist on no negotiations until the debt ceiling is lifted, Manchin and Sinema are not only pushing for a bipartisan deal but positioning themselves as potential players in any future Senate talks on a way out of the crisis.

"The Arizona independent and West Virginia Democrat have communicated that message in their own ways. Manchin has urged Biden to work directly with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and regularly puts out statements pushing for bipartisan talks that show up in GOP press releases. Sinema has quietly dined with McCarthy and signaled her hopes for a negotiated solution to GOP senators."

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