Author: Frank

Rep. Lauren Boebert wore a black suit with gold lettering on the back that read “Drill Baby Drill” to President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union speech. Gas costs have reached a seven-year high, prompting the outfit. Notably, Biden has blocked new oil and gas leases indefinitely and canceled the development of the Keystone XL pipeline. Senator Ted Cruz obviously supports Boebert since he posted a photo of her wearing the outfit on his Twitter. As a result of Russia closing in on Ukraine’s capital, oil prices rose on Tuesday, hitting their highest level since June 2014,. CNBC News…

Members of Congress were no longer be obliged to wear masks while attending the State of the Union. The decision reduces the likelihood of a deadlock with Republicans who have been vocal in their opposition to wearing masks. According to Brian Monahan’s memo, Congress’ physician, individuals will get to choose if they want to wear masks or not. Attendees were obliged to cover their faces and nose with masks that were FDA-authorized, preferably N95 or KN95, according to a February 17 memo from the House sergeant at arms. The memo stated that anyone who refused to comply could be ejected…

Jim Jordan, an Ohio congressman, has compiled a list of investigations that House Republicans must lead if they are to retake the majority in the midterm elections in November. Jordan told Just The News that a prospective GOP-controlled House of Representatives should focus on three questions. Jordan, the leading Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, stated that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s misinformation and alleged lies about the COVID pandemic should be investigated, said report. Jordan has long argued that the coronavirus was made in a lab in Wuhan, China. A new study published in The New York Times on Saturday shows…

Hunter Biden’s former business partner was sentenced to more than a year in prison on Monday for his part in a conspiracy to swindle a Native American tribe of $60 million in bonds. Judge Ronnie Abrams of Manhattan sentenced the defendant, Devon Archer, to one year and one day in federal prison, saying the offense was too heinous to let him go free. The Oglala Sioux, who were scammed, is one of the poorest tribes in the country. Archer will also be required to pay a forfeiture of more than $15 million and restitution of more than $43 million alongside…

As Russian soldiers aim to take control of Ukraine’s capital, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, has broadcast recordings from the streets of Kyiv to encourage civilians to keep fighting. He turned down a US evacuation offer and stated he would stay in Kyiv, according to a tweet from Ukraine’s embassy in the United Kingdom. According to the tweet, Zelenskyy informed the US that what he needed was ammunition, not a ride. In a video he broadcast on social media, he remarked that the fighting continued and that Ukraine had managed to repel enemy strikes. He went on to say…

During an appearance at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, ex-President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden and pledged to restore the Republican Party back to power in Washington in 2024. Trump said that all globalists, Marxists, socialists, and communists who were attacking civilization had no clue about the sleeping giant they had awakened. Starting from November 8, they would find out the hard way, and even more so in 2024. Trump said that the fight would be successful for the third time as it was two times before. In front of a noisy and enthusiastic hotel ballroom of around…

According to a straw poll issued on Sunday, 59 percent of attendees at the CPAC conservative conference held in Florida wanted former Republican President Donald Trump to become the party’s presidential nominee in 2024. At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Trump’s closest competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, received 28 percent of the vote, underscoring Trump’s unrivaled hold on the Republican base. CPAC tends to attract members from the Republican Party’s more conservative wing, and its surveys aren’t always accurate predictors of the final nominee. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, for example, won a straw poll in Texas in…

After President Joe Biden announced his nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, Republican Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn criticized him as he had done that in the middle of the crisis in Ukraine. Blackburn, who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the approval of judicial appointments, criticized Biden on Twitter, for attempting to pivot away from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and caving to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. “President Biden’s announcement just days after an unprovoked full scale invasion by Russia is extremely inappropriate. Once again, Biden is putting the demands of…

President Joe Biden wanted Florida National Guard troops to travel to Washington DC for the State of the Union address, but Gov. Ron DeSantis denied the president and said no members of their guard will be sent to Washington. DeSantis made the decision to reject Joe Biden’s request public on a tweet, saying: “Last week, the Biden Administration requested the assistance of State National Guards to deploy to Washington D.C. I have rejected this request — there will be no @FLGuard sent to D.C. for Biden’s State of the Union.” When it comes to the Capitol, the fencing has returned…

As per the Washington Post-ABC News poll, President Joe Biden’s approval rating sinks to a staggering 37%, so it appears that voters have more trust in Republicans than Democrats. Ahead of Biden’s State of the Union address, this survey showed the president with a 37% job approval, with 55% disapproving. 50% of registered voters said they’d prefer Republicans to be in control of Congress, while 40% prefer Democrats, with 49% saying they’ll support a GOP candidate in the midterm elections and 42% saying they’ll go for the Democratic candidate, as reported. Here are some other results the poll found out:…

A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Wednesday that two prosecutors involved in an investigation of ex-President Donald Trump and his firm, the Trump Organization, have resigned. Carey Dunne, a veteran in mafia prosecution who was recruited to help with the investigation, has left the office, as has Mark Pomerantz, who championed the legal battle to get the former president’s tax returns and tax-related documents all the way to the Supreme Court twice and won. Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg’s spokesperson Danielle Filson stated that the investigation will continue and that they were grateful for the services.  The Manhattan…

Harriet Holman, a former Army lieutenant colonel and member of a local South Carolina council, is abandoning the Democratic Party and campaigning for reelection as a Republican. Holman stated in an interview with “Fox & Friends First” that there were several things with which she no longer agreed. Apparently, she is pro-life now, a capitalist, and a supporter of police funding. Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are likely to be unhappy with Holman’s move to the Republican Party. Holman continued to say that she believed Republicans would grow their numbers in communities where African-Americans were the majority. Holman stated…

Matt Gaetz, Florida Congressman, has claimed once again that he tried to convince Donald Trump that, if the GOP retakes the majority in the 2022 midterms, he should serve as a speaker of the House. Gaetz said that he has once more discussed the possibility with Trump. “I told him you don’t even have to be speaker for the whole day. You could do it for like three or four hours, give us a great speech, make a few structural reforms to the institution and then you could resign and we could have another election for speaker,” said the Florida…

The 87-year-old Republican of Oklahoma, Jim Inhofe, is likely to announce his retirement, which will almost certainly result in a special election this fall. According to a source familiar with Senator Jim Inhofe’s plans, he is anticipated to announce his retirement in the days ahead, sparking a special election to replace him. He’s already announced his resignation. Inhofe is likely to serve out the rest of this Congress before announcing his retirement on Monday. He’s been a leading Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee for a long time. Source adds that GOP senators are expected to try to persuade…

The White House announced on Friday that President Joe Biden had picked Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, creating history by appointing a Black woman to this important role. Jackson, 51, has long been considered a front-runner for the position, especially after Biden promoted her from the trial court to the appeals court, which is second only to the Supreme Court in terms of power. According to a White House statement, Jackson boasted a unique understanding of how important it was for the judicial system to be…

Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who avoided the death penalty after killing two people at a demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is intending to sue LeBron James for allegedly defaming him on social media, according to sources. According to TMZ, Rittenhouse revealed plans to sue a slew of celebrities and media sources earlier this week but has since added James to the list after the sports legend mocked him on Twitter during the trial. After being cleared of the accusations, Rittenhouse retaliated against James in December, claiming that he used to be an admirer of the pro basketball player, per report. Rittenhouse…

According to a recent poll, 62% of people questioned believe that Russia’s Vladimir Putin would not have attacked if Donald Trump were still president. The report stated that “a new Harvard Center for American Political Studies (CAPS)-Harris Poll survey released Friday found that 62 percent of those polled believed Putin would not be moving against Ukraine if Trump had been president. When looking strictly at the answers of Democrats and Republicans, 85 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of Democrats answered this way. However, 38 percent of all Americans polled believed that Putin would have invaded Ukraine even if Trump…

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President announced that he would give weapons to anyone who wanted to defend the country from the full-scale Russian invasion. The invasion launched at approximately the same time that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a “special military operation” was underway. While Putin told Ukrainian soldiers to give up and go home, he also has threatened the U.S. and NATO that if they intervene “Russia will respond immediately, and you will have consequences that you never have had before in your history.” “We will give weapons to anyone who wants to defend the country. Be ready…

For almost a year and a half, John Durham has been a special prosecutor, which is not a long time, but enough for a drumbeat to begin that he was showing small progress against his orders to examine the origins of the debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative that convulsed a presidency. His few indictments so far have been feeding a fear among Donald Trump’s supporters that elites higher up the stack are going to get away with their chicanery, as they have been directed against peripheral players. These perceptions were providing the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) with increasing political top…

Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager, cleared of all charges in the deadly shooting of two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday. He announced plans to sue individuals and the media for spreading lies about him. In the summer of 2020, Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha with an assault weapon and killed two protesters. Rittenhouse and his legal team have started the Media Accountability Project to sue media and individuals for the lies they stated about him, according to Rittenhouse. He specifically cited Whoopi Goldberg of The View and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, although he…

One of Morning Consult’s newest polls showed that the majority of rural voters disapproved of the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections. Poll results showed that 65% of rural voters had a bad opinion of the Democratic Party, while only 29% had a positive opinion. 1,525 self-identified rural voters were polled between the 14th and 16th of January. After a more detailed examination of the opinions of those who fell within the 65 percent who said they had a negative opinion of the Democratic Party, 48 percent indicated their opinion was extremely negative. The majority of rural voters are…