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Democrat North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper, former governor of the state, has a catastrophic record of soft-on-crime judicial appointments throughout his tenure, which resulted in the release of thousands of criminals, many of whom went on to reoffend. Cooper’s administration released roughly 3,500 criminals back onto the streets during the coronavirus pandemic after being sued by the leftist ACLU and the NAACP, and as Breitbart News reported, many went on to reoffend. One of the criminals released, for instance, Lucas Shayne Scronce – who was serving time for drug trafficking and possession charges, fraud, and possession of stolen goods –…

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith says he won’t get behind the GOP’s next budget reconciliation bill if tax provisions aren’t included. “I won’t support it unless tax is in it,” the Missouri Republican said in an interview Tuesday morning — a potential warning to GOP leaders who can’t afford defections given their razor-thin majority. As House Republicans prepare to follow last summer’s tax and spending megabill with passage of a party-line immigration enforcement package as soon as Tuesday night, conversations have turned to what the GOP would put in a third filibuster-skirting reconciliation measure. House GOP leaders have…

President Joe Biden’s age is prompting internal party doubts and struggles with the nation’s youth, as he embarks on a reelection bid. But it actually may be helping him with a critical cohort of the electorate: older voters. The latest example of this tradeoff came this week. A new Harvard Youth poll out this week showed Biden with a 38 percent approval rating among voters under the age of 30, despite that cohort’s overall liberal lean. But despite Biden’s struggles, he has remained resilient with older voters. A Fox News poll, also released this week, showed 49 percent of voters…

The interim “president” of Venezuela, former Nicolás Maduro henchwoman Delcy Rodríguez, held an in-person meeting with Islamist Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday, seeking expanded investments in the impoverished socialist country. Rodríguez, who took over following Maduro’s arrest in an American law enforcement operation in January, arrived in Turkey after traveling to India where she met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is seeking to expand Venezuelan sales of crude oil to the country, which has one of the world’s most robust oil markets and expansive refinery infrastructure but few domestic crude resources. Conversely, Venezuela is home…

Trump’s Hidden Trade Deficit Revolution The best kept secret in American politics and economics right now is that President Trump’s tariffs are working to reduce the trade deficit. The goods and services trade deficit narrowed slightly by 1.2 percent to $55.9 billion in April, down from a revised $56.6 billion in March, as exports rose 2.6 percent to a record $327.1 billion and imports climbed 2.0 percent to $383.0 billion. The trade deficit is down about 7.3 percent from a year ago. But those figures conceal some almost geological shifts that have been occurring in global trade. First, there is the…

A former Mighty Ducks actor and cryptocurrency mogul is giving a $1 million reward to people who can prove credible instances in which election fraud has taken place in California. Brock Pierce, who played a young Gordon Bombay in the Mighty Ducks films, launched an initiative called Cure The Vote, which is described as providing “a secure and independent avenue” for people to “submit credible evidence” regarding election fraud, the New York Post reported. Any information submitted by people “will be reviewed by independent attorneys,” and “election-law experts.” “Cure The Vote is designed to provide a secure and independent avenue…

Twenty House Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson to help pass a Democratic-led bill Tuesday aimed at making it easier for workers to form unions, widening the divide between a bloc of pro-labor Republicans and GOP leaders. Democrats successfully used a discharge petition to sidestep Johnson and force the vote with the help of a handful of House Republicans, including Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Nick LaLota of New York. “It’s passing,” Fitzpatrick said before the vote when asked about Johnson’s efforts to whip Republicans against the bill. The Faster Labor Contracts Act aims to…

A former Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice as part of its investigation into the plot to overturn the 2020 election, is currently serving on the House committee overseeing U.S. elections. The House Administration Committee’s employment roster shows Thomas Lane is earning a $155,000 salary in his role as elections counsel. His LinkedIn page confirms his employment began a few months ago. Lane worked at the Republican National Committee in addition to assisting the Trump campaign’s efforts in Arizona and New Mexico in 2020. After the election, the FBI subpoenaed him for his records at…

Germany and France have pulled the plug on a joint jet project that never got off the ground The long-delayed €100 billion ($116 billion) project to develop a fully European next-generation fighter jet for NATO members has been formally abandoned.Despite citing the need to counter a perceived threat from Russia and strengthen Europe’s military, France and Germany have failed to overcome years of industrial and political disagreements over a project intended to reduce Europe’s reliance on US-made military hardware.Was the cancellation of the project a surprise?Not really. The fate of the Future Combat Air System, or FCAS, had been uncertain…

The Pentagon has added Chinese tech giant Alibaba, electric vehicle (EV) titan BYD, and search engine Baidu to its list of companies that cannot secure U.S. defense contracts because they are linked to the Chinese military. The Department of War began maintaining a list of “Chinese military companies” in 2021 known as the 1260H list, named after the section of the defense authorization act that created it. Companies on the list are known to provide services to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), although they are not explicitly state-owned firms. The list is supposed to map out the extensive coordination between…