"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed off President Joe Biden's concerns and criticisms, vowing to move forward with Israel's military occupation in Gaza.

"Biden insisted on Saturday that the Israeli leader's strategy for the country's war against Hamas is 'hurting Israel more than helping.' When asked about Rafah, he added, 'It is a red line,' attempting to put pressure on Netanyahu to do more to protect Palestinians.

"Netanyahu was asked the following day whether Israeli forces would push into Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip and a refuge for millions of Palestinians. 'We'll go there. We're not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that Oct. 7 deosn't happen again,' he said, referring to Hamas's brutal massacre that killed about 1,200 Israelis and triggered the conflict. 'Never hapens again.'

"The prime minister said he had the implicit backing of some Arab leaders, according to Politico. 'They understand that and even agree with it quietly,' he said. 'They understand Hamas is part of the Iranian terror axis.'"

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"Back in 2020, Joe Biden addressed concerns that he would be the oldest president in history. 'Look,' he said, 'I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else.' Four years later, as Biden delivered his election year State of the Union address, I found myself pondering where, exactly, Biden's bridge leads. ...

"The passage on Israel and Hamas revealed the true purpose of this year's State of the Union. Biden's emphasis on aid to the Palestinians in Gaza, and on pressuring Israel to conduct a just war according to an impossible double standard, was a panicked response to divisions on his left. Indeed, the whole speech was a panicked response to divisions on his left. The Biden high campaign must believe that its problem is the Democratic base -- and that the way to boost turnout among the Democratic base is through progressive messaging.

"I have no doubt that Democrats will be pleased with the result. But I am also skeptical it will persuade independents and working-class men and women of all races that Biden has the answers to Aemrica's problems. And if something doesn't change for Biden soon, he will be the bridge from one Trump term to another."

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"Joe Biden is up to his usual tricks, spinning false narratives and blaming others for the damage done by his wrong-headed policies.

"People are angry that the cost of everyday food items like potato chips (up 29 percent) and ice cream (up 20 percent) have gone through the roof since Biden took office. The president's response? Accusing food companies of price gouging, which, as I show below, is simply not true.

"Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, are up about 21 percent since Joe Biden became president; in 2022, Americans spent 11.2 percent of their disposable income on food, the most in 30 years. The cost of feeding a family, especially for low-income Americans, is a struggle -- which could explain why in a recent poll more than two-thirds of voters with incomes below $50,000 disapproved of Biden's handling of the economy.

"The White House is panicked that high food prices will jeopardize Biden's reelection (it's still the economy, stupid), so they've launched a new pitch."

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"Efforts by open-border Democrats to blame the growing big-city migrant crisis on Texas and its program of busing illegal immigrants north are being upstaged by a new investigation showing that President Joe Biden has secretly flown hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Latin American airports to 43 U.S. cities.

The unusual program, kept from the public, involved at least 320,000 illegal immigrants the administration admits are 'inadmissible' immigrants, far more than previously reported.

Despite facing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the Center for Immigration Studies, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refused to identify the 43 airports it is dumping immigrants at after direct flights from Latin America."

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"The debt load of the U.S. is growing at a quicker clip in recent months, increasing about $1 trillion nearly every 100 days.

The nation's debt permanently crossed over to $34 trillion on Jan. 4, after briefly crossing the mark on Dec. 29, according to data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. It reached $33 trillion on Sept. 15, 2023, and $32 trillion on June 15, 2023, hitting this accelerated pace. Before that, the $1 trillion move higher from $31 trillion took about eight months.

U.S. debt, which is the amount of money the federal government borrows to cover operating expenses, now stands at nearly $34.4 trillion, as of Wednesday. Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett believes the 100-day pattern will remain intact with the move from $34 trillion to $35 trillion."

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"Mitch McConnell changed the direction of the world. He stopped the destruction of the Republican Party by opposing, delaying and weakening and ultimately defeating the drive for 'campaign finance reform' that would have left union bosses as the sole power in America. Senator McConnell herorically sculpted the present Supreme Court and saved the second amendment, religious liberty and free speech. An amazing and lasting legacy."

"Significantly more Americans name immigration as the most important problem facing the U.S. (28%) than did a month ago (20%). Immigration has now passed the government as the most often cited problem, after the two issues tied for the top position the past two months. The government ranked first each month from January through November 2023.

"In the latest poll, 20% of Americans name the government as the most important problem, followed by the economy (12%) and inflation (11%). Immigration is the only issue that has shown meaningful change in the past month."

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"A nursing student bludgeoned to death near a tranquil Georgia college campus. A developmentally disabled person raped in Boston. A mother and son killed in a head-on crash in Colorado. New York's finest assaulted in the heralded Times Square.

"The roll-call of victims violated by Joe Biden's border policies is rising as fast as the hotel and welfare tabs for sanctuary cities, thrusting an American society that long revered its immigrant heritage into a crisis of epic proportions driven by more than 8 million illegal border crossers since the 46th president took office.

"That total surpasses the individual populations of more than half the republic's states. And the impact by state and city becomes more staggering by the day."

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"'The Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it. But that didn't stop me.'

"Those aren't the words of some banana republic strongman like Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro or Russia's Vladimir Putin. Those are the words of President Joe Biden speaking from a library in Culver City, California, where he announced the transfer of $1.2 billion in wealth from taxpayers to a handpicked set of college graduates.

"Specifically, Biden canceled the debts of more than 150,000 college graduates who borrowed less than $12,000 to pay for their degrees. Each of the bailout recipients had been enrolled in the Department of Education's Saving on a Valuable Education plan, which enabled borrowers to lower or even eliminate their monthly student debt payments based on their current household income. Biden just chose to accelerate the implementation of the plan in time for this year's election.

"This $1.2 billion boondoggle is far less than the $400 billion that Biden initially tried to pay his constituents but was shot down by the Supreme Court. Undaunted, Biden is now back, again testing the outer limits of executive authority, all for the transparent purpose of delivering cash to those who are most likely to vote for him."

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"James Biden altered his story during a closed-door interview with lawmakers on Wednesday after congressional investigators presented him with evidence directly contradicting his claims, according to a source familiar with the interview.

"Joe Biden's younger brother, in closed-door testimony to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, initially told his interviewers that he was not part of a business deal involving Hunter Biden and several of his associates, according to a source familiar with the interview. However, after investigators showed him an agreement that featured his signature alongside those of Hunter Biden and his business partners, James Biden then told legislators that he did not remember signing the agreement.

"The deal in question was a proposed joint venture involving an entity known as SinoHawk and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied CEFC China Energy Limited energy firm, according to a source familiar with the interview."

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