"While Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi go all out to protect Ukraine's national sovereignty, at the same time they are orchestrating a clandestine invasion of America across the southern border.

"Two million illegal immigrants from dozens of countries crossed over from Mexico last year, and the Biden administration is facilitating the cartels' people-smuggling operation -- at taxpayer expense.

"Under cover of darkness, every night the federal government is transporting illegal migrants as fast as it can away from the border on secret charter flights into unsuspecting communities around the country. Officials have lied and obstructed the few journalists who have tried to reveal the truth."

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"In 2022, Berlin offers the linchpin of Putin's strategy against the West. It is Europe's most powerful economy, which sets the tone of appeasement and undermines NATO's credibility.

"The new government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz has somehow made itself even more sympathetic to Putin than that of Scholz's predecessor, Angela Merkel. Scholz is ignoring the calls of his foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, to pledge that Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline won't pump any gas if an invasion of Ukraine occurs. Scholz's obstinate dedication to the pipeline matters greatly. Nord Stream 2 is the centerpiece of Putin's interest in ensuring Europe's long-term dependency on Russian energy exports. Putin intends to translate that energy dependency into extorting Western Europe into political concessions on other matters -- matters, that is to say, such as Ukraine and the security of the Baltics.

"Germany's challenge to NATO gets worse. Scholz refuses to increase defense spending from the paltry 1.5% of gross domestic product that Germany currently invests. (The NATO target expenditure is 2% of GDP.) Instead, the socialist-minded chancellor begs Putin for a meeting and dialogue on a 'qaulified new beginning.' One assumes this will come after Ukraine receives its unqualified ending.

"But the impact is clear: Facing the most preeminent threat to European security, Europe's most powerful economy would prefer to abandon its allies rather than lose its access to Putin's favor and his cheap gas. The risk is that what now affects Ukraine might one day soon affect all of Europe."

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"The Department of Justice has awarded crime-reduction grants to some groups that back the same anti-police, soft-on-crime policies implemented by George Soros-funded district attorneys that critics argue have unleashed a surge in urban crime.

"Those policies -- including the defunding or restructuring of police departments, bail reform, less incarceration, decriminalizing and deprioritizing a broad range of criminal offenses -- have been linked to skyrocketing criminal violence in many Democrat-led cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York City."

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"By so many measures, Joe Biden's presidential administration falls at the bottom of the scale. But there is one metric by which Biden is tops -- in fact, the very tops in all of history. That is the regulatory costs his administration has imposed on the nation in a single year.

"The American Action Forum, a conservative think tank that tracks government regulation, has tallied up what government agencies estimate their regulations cost. The Biden administration has now imposed $201 billion in regulation -- more than three times the cost that President Barack Obama's very left-wing administration imposed on families and businesses in its first year.

"What's more, Biden's new regulations are forcing more than 100 million hours of annual paperwork on the nation, far more than either the Obama or Trump administration.

"For a presidential administration that has basically failed in every important area -- on COVID, on the border, on Afghanistan, on the economy -- Biden certainly knows how to succeed when it comes to imposing new costs.

"The single most expensive rule change, by far, is a requirement that automakers meet an unrealistic 55 mile per gallon fleetwide average by 2026. But this is only one of many expensive new rules that stand to sap the bank accounts and energy of entrepreneurs and families."

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"The Biden administration is endangering U.S. athletes who plan to travel to China for the 2022 Beijing Olympics amid a new warning from the Chinese Communist Party that it will punish foreigners for making political statements, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley told the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday.

"'No one should be the least bit surprised that China is threatening our athletes and warning them against criticizing their communist government,' Haley said. 'President Biden's diplomatic boycott means nothing to a regime that's timprisoning activists and committing genocide without consequences. Our athletes are at risk, and yet we've heard nothing from the administration on what they plan to do to protect them.' Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, has emerged in recent months as one of the most prominent critics of the Beijing Games and has repeatedly laid into the Biden administration for capitulating to China.

"Haley's comments to the Free Beacon come after a top CCP official warned on Tuesday that foreign athletes who travel to the communist country, including Americans, will face punishment if they engage in political speech during the games. This would include criticism of the Chinese government's ongoing genocide against the Uyghur ethnic minority, as well as its surveillance and police state.

"'Any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against Chinese laws and regulations, are also subject to certain punishment,' Yang Shu, deputy director general of international relations for the Beijing Organizing Committee, was quoted as saying at a press conference."

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"Exactly a year after President Joe Biden took office, his administration desperately needs a reset. It will help if he begins governing as he promised during his campaign. ...

"To save his presidency and better serve the country, Biden must do after just one year what former President Bill Clinton did after two: tack to the center. Recognize that his party holds only the barest of congressional majorities. Press procedural reforms that really can be bipartisan rather than ones seeking obvious partisan advantages for Democrats. Break mammoth bills into bite-sized chunks and do the hard work of building bipartisan supermajorities for them. ...

"There was a time when, despite his other flaws, Biden at least knew how to make political shifts to follow public opinion. Even if only to provide for the defect of better motives, Biden should still be pure politician enough to see that his political viability lies near the center, not the angry Left, of today's political world."

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"With drama and fury, President Joe Biden declared to the nation on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that state laws requiring voter ID or banning mass mailing of absentee ballots amounted to an 'assault on our freedom to vote,' especially for minority Americans.

"Four days earlier, a poll in Michigan told a different story: Three-quarters of the battleground state voters supported ballot ID requirements, with black voters expressing the highest support at 79%.

"Those findings have been confirmed in national polls as well, exposing a dilemma for Democrats in Washington who are making a last-ditch effort to pass legislation gutting many state and local controls of elections in favor of federal standards.

"Those standards -- like banning voter IDs, imposing no excuse absentee voting and making it harder to clean outdated voter rolls -- are not what the majority of Americans are seeking.

"'A recent national survey found that four key election reforms are supported by more than 80% of voter,' pollster Scott Rasmussen recently wrote in an article highlighting the disconnect. 'These include removing people who have died or moved from voter registration lists; requiring all voters to show photo ID before casting a ballot; wanting all ballots received by Election Day; and, having all voting machines made in the United States."

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"According to the election calendar, Joe Biden has three years remaining in his term. According to political reality, his presidency is over, kaput, finished.

"It ended last week because of an accumulation of serious wounds, most of them self-inflicted. The final blow came from a boomerang after the president who campaigned as a decent man and uniter declared his opponents traitors and racists.

"Included in that category were Democrats as well as Republicans, leading even members of his own party to concede Biden had gone too far. ...

"This is not a drip-drip-drip. This is a fast-paced hemorrhage of support, and there is no reason to believe Biden is capable of turning things around."

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"Now Schumer is up for re-election in 2022. He can't be a Senate Majority Leader who manages like he has a tied Senate because he has upstart progressives like AOC nipping at him in New York. If he manages the Senate as he should, they would primary him and might just defeat him. So he has to manage the Senate like he is part of the Squad and it is about to cost him the Majority Leader position he coveted. He'll lose his precious to the filthy hobbits of the GOP because he cannot manage the Senate responsibly and run for re-election.

"Chuck Schumer literally has to force a vote on the filibuster that he knows he will lose in order to save face with progressives who will otherwise work to make sure he really loses.

"He wanted the job. He got it. And now he's on the verge of losing it because to keep it he'd have to manage it in a way that would cost him his seat. Damned if he does. Damned if he doesn't.

"I pity the man, but oh my gosh I find it all hilarious."

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"Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser is set to require photo identification and a vaccine passport to dine out or work out in the nation's capital -- even as her party vows parliamentary scorched earth to power through a national ban on requiring photo ID -- or any documentary proof of identity -- to vote absentee.

"Effective Saturday, Washington, D.C. institutes one of the most restrictive COVID-19 mandates in the nation, requiring all patrons over the age of 18 to show photo identification, while ages 12 and up must show proof of vaccination before visiting most indoor establishments.

"The D.C. photo ID requirement comes into effect just as President Biden has endorsed scrapping the Senate filibuster so that his party can force through on a party-line, 51-50 vote election overhaul legislation outlawing requirements 'to submit any form of identifying document as a condition of obtaining or casting an absentee ballot.'"

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