"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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"President Joe Biden has staked so much on his claim that he's 'created' 13.5 million jobs since taking office that it's worth asking if his Labor Department is now goosing job growth figures to help him out.

"On Friday just before the holiday weekend, Labor released its estimates for job growth in August -- which it said worked out to 187,000, beating economists' forecasts.

"But at the same time, the government cut the job growth numbers for the previous two months by a total of 110,000.

"As a matter of fact, Labor has quietly cut its initial job growth estimates for every month this year."

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"After years of helping unions take credit for every worker gain and offering unionization as the answer to every worker complaint, that effort has escalated under 'union man,' Joe Biden. Now, his Treasury Department has released 'its most comprehensive ever look at the role that labor unions play in the American economy,' just before Labor Day. Included near the top of its cheerleading litany of the supposed advantages to unions is that higher union wages 'means workers at nonunionized firms see increased wages too,' which is central to their assertion that unions benefit all workers, not just union workers.

"However, that claim is false."

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"House Government and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer on Wednesday formally accused Joe Biden of abusing his power as vice president by allowing his son to travel aboard Air Force Two to help score foreign business deals, formally demanding the National Archives turn over all flight records from such trips.

"'The Committee seeks unrestricted special access under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) to certain records related to then-Vice President Biden's foreign travel with his family on Air Force Two and Marine Two,' Comer and fellow committee member Rep. Byron Donald, R-Fla., wrote in a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration.

"It has long been known that Hunter Biden took trips aboard his father's government jet during the Obama administration, including one in late 2013 to Beijing in which Joe Biden met with one of his son's prospective business partners in a major investment fund in China. Fox News recently reported there were at least 15 such trips during the Obama era."

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"Mention progressive antitrust in Washington, and the discussion turns to Lina Khan -- who rose in half a decade from Yale Law School student to become the most powerful, and controversial, Federal Trade Commission chair in history.

"After courts tossed out four major FTC antitrust cases in a row, Rep. Kevin Kiley, a California Republican, asked Khan, 'Why are you losing so much?' When the Biden administration rejected the standard that antitrust cases are about consumers, and instead reoriented enforcement along social justice lines, former FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson wrote that Khan was in the thrall of Marxism.

"Almost wholly unnoticed amid these fireworks is Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, which shares the antitrust portfolio with FTC. While Khan taunts and dodges like a rodeo clown, Kanter operates with low-key effectiveness. Where Khan fits Washington's idea of 'hipster antitrust,' Kanter tells podcast journalists that if they could see his hairline, they'd know he's no hipster. Where Khan was a star student at Yale Law, Kanter shined at the solid Washington University law school in St. Louis.

"In large measure due to Kanter's leadership, antitrust has become one of the five pillars of the president's economic platform."

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"Unfazed by data, scientific research, or common sense, the maskaholics are back. In response to an uptick in Covid cases, they've begun reinstating mask mandates. So far, it's just a few places -- a college in Atlanta, a Hollywood studio, two hospitals in Syracuse -- but the mainstream media and their favorite 'experts' are working hard to scare the rest of us into masking up yet again.

"Never mind that at least 97 percent of Americans have Covid antibodies in their blood as a result of infection, vaccination, or both. Never mind that actual experts -- the ones who studied the scientific literature before 2020 and drew up plans for a pandemic -- advised against masking the public. Never mind that their advice has been further bolstered during the pandemic by randomized clinical trials and rigorous observational studies failing to find an effect of masks and mask mandates. Scientific evidence cannot overcome the maskaholics' faith."

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"Smash-and-grab robberies are happening in broad daylight at stores throughout California and no one seems to be doing anything to stop them. ...

"California's criminal-justice system is broken and state voters helped to break it.

"But voters had help from deceitful activists and politicians who tricked them into thinking they were voting for greater public safety.

"One of those deceivers is George Gascon, now district attorney of Los Angeles County, where nearly 10 million residents in 88 cities are living with the full consequences of the 2014 initiative Gascon co-authored, Proposition 47.

"The authors named the proposed law The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act."

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"Ghoulish scold John Kerry, the White House's climate hobgoblin, has repeatedly warned that the world is not on track to contain a 1.5-degree Celsius increase in global temperature above the pre-industrial level, and this means disaster is looming. Others have made the same point, and the media just goes along for the ride. Their predictions are worthless, though. We know this because the United Nations told us so.

"The rock-solid, undeniable fact is that it's impossible to make long-term climate predictions, because our climate is ever changing and volatile. It says so in the Third Assessment Report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:

"'The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.'

"And it has said this since 2001, when that report was put together."

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