Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar Under Fire over 2019 Video: ‘Be More Fearful of White Men’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Ilhan Omar’s statement from 2019 against white men has drawn criticism once again from prominent Republican commentators and Twitter personalities, accusing her of promoting divisiveness.

During the infamous interview with Al Jazeera, Omar, D-Minn., bluntly claimed, “I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.”

While the video is from 2019, conservatives have rallied behind the infamous video once again. Leading the charge, political commentator Tim Young condemned Omar’s remarks, stating, “First of all, racist. If I said that about any other race, you switch it out, I would be banned from every platform right away and I would never be a member of Congress like her.”

Republican commentator Gunther Eagleman echoed similar sentiments, calling Omar “race baiting trash who doesn’t deserve a seat in Congress.”

Political strategist Joey Mannarino criticized the apparent double standard, saying, “If I said that about her people, I would be cancelled and deplatformed. But since I’m not a racist, I never would.”

Mannarino also questioned Omar’s hypocrisy over her marriage to a white man “who only fundraises for Democrats ONLY” and added, “Not all white men are dangerous, just one. JOE BIDEN.”

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt made a personal attack against Omar’s husband, saying, “Imagine the level of simp Ilhan Omar married […] she prob makes him ask for permission to pee.”

Kyle Becker, the founder of Becker News, rejected arguments about racism being dependent on power disparities, stating, “Ilhan Omar is a Congresswoman. (Somehow.) She has more power than me and 99.9% of the public. Now, shut the f*** up.”

This is not the first time Omar’s remarks have faced scrutiny. Her previous antisemitic remarks led to Republicans to oust her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Omar apologized, claiming ignorance, during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, saying, “I might have used words at the time that I didn’t understand were trafficking in antisemitism. When that was brought to my attention, I apologized. I owned up to it.”

Feminists Use ‘Barbie’ Movie to Check If Their Boyfriends Are Woke Enough

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Feminist women started using the new Barbie movie as a test to make sure that their boyfriends truly hate themselves by supporting the ideology that has been oppressing men for decades.

Man-hating women all around the world started encouraging one another on social media platforms to test whether their boyfriends and husbands “understand, or are at least receptive to” the movie’s “feminist messaging,” NBC News reported.

One of these feminists is Nicole Hoefler — a 32-year-old from Cologne, Germany — who called it the “Barbie test.”

Senators Denounce Biden’s ‘Unserious’ Border Policy

(, The Center Square) – Seven Republican U.S. senators, led by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced a joint resolution to condemn a federal policy created by the Biden administration through a federal agency rule-making process called the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Rule.

They did so as the Biden administration has held fast to its plan to facilitate the migration of and release into the U.S. of as many people as possible from all over the world. Biden spoke of the plan in January, which was devised in cooperation with other world leaders and publicly announced two years ago.

The rule created additional ways to funnel illegal immigrants “into unlawful parole programs that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has set up without Congress’ consent,” the senators said in a joint statement. It went into effect May 11, the same day the public health authority Title 42 ended.

Joining Cornyn are Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Ted Budd of North Carolina, Steve Daines of Montana and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Missouri.

“The Biden administration’s rule is an unserious attempt at resolving the border crisis and is full of loopholes that the cartels will easily exploit to continue moving unlawful migrants into the United States and overwhelm our Border Patrol,” Cornyn said. “Rather than stop unlawful migration, President Biden is using this rule to funnel the migrants into unlawful parole programs, and this resolution would put an end to this shell game to hide an unprecedented level of illegal immigration.”

Among other things, the rule created a new parole program to allow up to 30,000 citizens each from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Cuba to enter the U.S., or an additional 120,000 every month.

The parole program has since expanded to include citizens of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

At the same time, the administration announced it was coordinating with the governments of Mexico, Canada, Spain, Colombia and Guatemala to expand entry to the U.S. “through a combination of expanded lawful pathways.”

Through the rule, DHS also launched the new CBP One mobile app, which a federal court in California just held is illegal. The administration has instructed foreign nationals to use the app to make appointments at CBP processing centers at land ports of entry before they arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Once they apply through the app, they arrive at their appointment, undergo a background check, and are released into the U.S., with some exceptions. They are given court dates to meet with an immigration official three to four years in the future. They are also given work authorization papers to begin working in the U.S. while they wait years for a court hearing to determine if they are allowed to legally remain in the U.S.

DHS and the State Department also opened processing centers in other countries for the first time in U.S. history, beginning in Columbia, Guatemala and Mexico. Citizens of these countries use the app to make appointments with an immigration specialist to help expedite their application before they ever leave for the U.S.

To facilitate the expanded parole program, DHS allocated $15 million to a new Case Management Pilot Program to provide voluntary case management and other services to noncitizens to increase compliance with court dates and accelerate processing times to help them stay in the U.S.

The rule allows foreign nationals to claim asylum at any place or time even after they’ve been denied asylum in a different country prior to their arrival in the U.S., the senators point out.

“The first two of these three pathways constitute an abuse of the DHS Secretary’s parole authority,” they said, “which under our immigration law is only to be used on a true case-by-case basis.”

The rule, which is full of loopholes and easily exploitable, they argue, “is not a serious attempt at resolving the crisis on the southern border, and it does nothing to deter migrants from unlawfully migrating to the U.S.”

While deterring migration to the U.S. may be the goal of the senators, it is not the stated goal of the Biden administration. At a summit in Mexico City on Jan. 10, Biden said, “We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here, opening up the capacity to get here.”

In his remarks in January, Biden said he’d previously agreed with world leaders to facilitate more people coming to the U.S. at a North American Summit in Washington, D.C. in 2021. The agreement, which has the support of 21 countries, was formalized in the 2022 Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection.

Exploding E-Bikes Erupt in Far-Leftist Cities

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Lithium-ion batteries have sparked hundreds of fires across the leftist cities of New York and San Francisco in 2023 while injuring and killing multiple people.

The number of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries has “grown exponentially every year since 2021″ in New York, Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said during a public safety briefing on July 21, the Epoch Times reported.

“We are now, unfortunately, seeing more and more of these kinds of extremely fast-moving, very powerful fires with some regularity in the city,” she said.

“As of this week, there have been 131 fires, 76 injuries, and 13 deaths caused by these lithium-ion batteries.”

In 2021, there were 79 injuries and four deaths from such fires. Since then, there was a significant jump in both injuries and deaths, with 2022 having 142 injuries and six deaths and 2023 exceeding the death toll of those past years combined.

Fires from multiple lithium-ion batteries have made headlines in 2023. A 63-year-old man was killed and 10 more people injured after a fire from a charging e-bike spread through a home in Queens on Jan. 20.

Another incident also happened in Queens when a teenager and a 7-year-old child died in a home because of a fire that erupted from an e-bike in April. Next month, four people died from a lithium battery fire that blazed through an apartment building in Upper Manhattan on May 7.

However, New York is not the only city that suffered from lithium fires, with San Francisco facing this problem too. Two people had to jump out of an apartment in the Tenderloin neighborhood on July 17 because an overheated e-scooter battery started a fire. One of them was taken to a hospital due to serious injuries.

Capt. Jonathan Baxter, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Fire Department, stated that it was the 24th time when a fire in the city this year was linked to rechargeable batteries.

San Francisco has seen 202 battery fires since 2017, which injured eight people and killed one. Of these fires, 58 fires broke out in 2022, which is up from just 13 in 2017.

Congress still Divided over Spending Going into August Break

(Headline USA) Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete.

Congress has until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to act on government funding.

They could pass a budget, spending bills to fund government agencies into next year, or simply pass a stopgap measure that keeps agencies running until they strike a longer-term agreement.

No matter which route they take, it won’t be easy.

House Republicans, many of whom opposed the debt-ceiling deal and refused to vote for it, are desperately trying to make the government spend responsibly.

GOP leaders have teed up bills with far less spending than the Biden/McCarthy agreement allows, in an effort to win over members who insist on rolling back spending to fiscal year 2022 levels.

House Republicans are also adding scores of social policy add-ons to leverage “the power of the purse.” There are proposals to reduce access to abortion pills, bans on the funding of hormone therapy and sex changes for veterans, and a prohibition of DEI training for employees of the Federal Government.

At a press conference at the Capitol this past week, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction within the House GOP, said that voters elected a Republican majority in that chamber to rein in government spending and it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.

“We should not fear a government shutdown,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. “Most of the American people won’t even miss if the government is shut down temporarily.”

Even though the debt ceiling agreement passed with a significant majority of both Republicans and Democrats, conservative opponents of the bill were so unhappy in the aftermath that they shut down House votes for a few days, stalling the entire GOP agenda.

Shortly thereafter, McCarthy argued the numbers he negotiated with the White House amounted to a cap and “you can always do less.” GOP Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, followed that she would seek to limit nondefense spending at 2022 budget levels, saying the debt agreement “set a top-line spending cap — a ceiling, not a floor.”

The decision to cut spending below levels in the debt ceiling deal helped get the House moving again, but put them on a collision course with the Senate, where the spending bills hew much closer to the agreement.

In all, there are 12 spending bills. The House has passed one so far, and moved others out of committee. The Senate has passed none, though it has advanced all 12 out of committee.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Congress Investigating IRS’s Destruction of Millions of Tax Documents

(, The Center Square) — Lawmakers are looking for answers on the destruction of 30 million tax documents by the Internal Revenue Service in March 2021.

Congressman David Schweikert, R-Ariz., and Congressman Jason Smith, R-Mo., of the House Ways and Means Committee, wrote a letter to IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel on Tuesday asking for the memorandum that explained the recommendation for the “unprocessed, paper-filed informational returns.”

“Let’s say, you know, it’s a couple years from now and you need to go back and say, ‘I need to get copies of what I filed.’ It doesn’t exist anymore,” Schweikert told The Center Square. “I need to make sure that we want to do an amended form or we want, you know, all sorts of things that these tax records are used for and they don’t exist anymore. And we’ve never been able to get a satisfactory answer from the IRS of why this was done, and [what] is that policy that allowed it to happen? Is there a way to make sure this never happens again?”

When asked if the documents were primarily from individuals or from companies, the congressman said that it is likely ones impacting individuals.

“We’ve been told that was mostly sort of residential, but that when you’re talking, you know, that many potentially millions of individual documents, we’re trying to get a much better understanding of what is it,” he said.

The committee is looking for the memo by August 8, but the tax agency has not complied with previous requests for additional information. For example, the committee asked for the memo on May 17, 2022, but the IRS said on May 18, 2022, it would be too risky and declined to provide it, according to the letter.

A major goal of seeing the memo is to better understand not only what documents were destroyed but also why.

“This is one, we sort of wait till we get sort of the formal response back with a lot more explanation. Instead of an explanation saying, “Oh, we screwed up, we’re sorry.” It’s okay. You screwed up. You’re sorry. I understand that. Now walk us through what it was, why it was, and how we make sure this never happens again, and then also how do we indemnify all the taxpayers whose documents have now disappeared,” Schweikert said

Poll: 70% of Americans Believe in Angels

(Headline USA) About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

American’s belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79%). Fewer U.S. adults believe in the devil or Satan (56%), astrology (34%), reincarnation (34%), and that physical things can have spiritual energies, such as plants, rivers or crystals (42%).

The widespread acceptance of angels shown in the AP-NORC poll makes sense to Susan Garrett, an angel expert and New Testament professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky.

It tracks with historical surveys, she said, adding that the U.S. remains a faith-filled country even as more Americans reject organized religion.

But if the devil is in the details, so are people’s understandings of angels.

“They’re very malleable,” Garrett said of angels. “You can have any one of a number of quite different worldviews in terms of your understanding of how the cosmos is arranged, whether there’s spirit beings, whether there’s life after death, whether there’s a God … and still find a place for angels in that worldview.”

Talk of angels, Garrett said, is often also about something else, like the ways God interacts with the world and other hard-to-articulate ideas.

The large number of U.S. adults who say they believe in angels includes 84% of those with a religious affiliation — 94% of evangelical Protestants, 81% of mainline Protestants and 82% of Catholics — and 33% of those without one. And of those angel-believing religiously unaffiliated, that includes 2% of atheists, 25% of agnostics and 50% of those identified as “nothing in particular.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Congress Blocks Relief for Victims of Military’s COVID Vaccine Mandate

(, The Center Square) – Three Republican U.S. senators helped defeat an amendment to the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would provide remedies to members of the Armed Forces who were discharged or faced adverse action under the Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Amendment 421, proposed by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was defeated by a vote of 53-46 with three Republicans joining all Democrats.

U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, voted against providing relief to service members.

Last year, Congress passed, and President Joe Biden signed into law, the 2023 NDAA terminating the DOD COVID-19 vaccine mandate, an ultimatum Republicans made in order to pass it.

The 2023 NDAA didn’t help service members who’d already been punished, demoted and discharged after their religious accommodation request (RAR) exemptions to the mandate were denied. Those who weren’t discharged still faced “cruel and unusual punishment,” demotion and dishonorable discharge, according to attorneys with Liberty Counsel representing service members who sued over the mandate.

Members of the Coast Guard are still seeking relief in a lawsuit filed by Thomas More Society, who two years later are still being denied promotions because they wouldn’t comply. TMS Senior Counsel Steve Crampton told The Center Square, “The hypocrisy of those leading the military and the continued discrimination against those with deeply held religious beliefs is that people who want to serve their country are being railroaded out of the services.”

In a separate example, a former Marine who was discharged after his RAR was denied was charged $17,878.23 by the USMC, the remaining balance of a bonus he was given for reenlisting, and is still requiring him to repay it.

Last year, over 60,000 National Guard and Reserve soldiers were told by the U.S. Army that they’d lose pay, benefits and face “adverse administrative actions, including flags, bars to service, and official reprimands,” if they didn’t comply.

Even after the mandate was rescinded, all four military branches continued to deny RARs, according to reports filed in Liberty Counsel’s case.

Cruz and U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, R-North Carolina, who filed a similar measure in the House, sought to change that.

After his measure was defeated, Cruz said his amendment “would have allowed service members who were dismissed over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate to be reinstated or have their discharge status rightfully changed.

“This shouldn’t be controversial. The military is struggling with recruitment, yet it kicked out over 8,400 service members over Biden’s vaccine mandate. We must right this wrong.”

A similar amendment to the NDAA last year failed, also because of a vote by Cassidy. He told The Daily Signal at the time he voted against remedying adverse effects to these service members because “it is not Congress’s place to intervene in the chain of command and set a precedent for military personnel to ignore direct orders.”

After the DOD mandate was rescinded and Liberty Counsel’s case was dismissed, its founder and chairman, Mat Staver, told The Center Square the organization was urging Congress to provide relief: reinstate those who were discharged, restore their personnel records, and issue back pay among other remedies.

“How they’ve been treated by the Biden administration is shameful and appalling. And as hard as they’ve fought for us, we will continue to fight for them,” he said.

Pentagon Employees Indignant Over Congressional Hearing on UFOs

(Headline USA) A top Pentagon official has attacked this week’s widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to employees who are investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. government investigation.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s letter, published on his personal LinkedIn page and circulated Friday across social media, criticizes much of the testimony from a retired Air Force intelligence officer that energized believers in extraterrestrial life and produced headlines around the world.

Retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch testified Wednesday that the U.S. has concealed what he called a “multi-decade” program to collect and reverse-engineer “UAPs,” or unidentified aerial phenomena, the official government term for UFOs.

Part of what the U.S. has recovered, Grusch testified, were non-human “biologics,” which he said he had not seen but had learned about from “people with direct knowledge of the program.”

A career intelligence officer, Kirkpatrick was named a year ago to lead the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, which was intended to centralize investigations into UAPs. The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies have been pushed by Congress in recent years to better investigate reports of devices flying at unusual speeds or trajectories as a national security concern.

Kirkpatrick wrote the letter Thursday and the Defense Department confirmed Friday that he posted it in a personal capacity. Kirkpatrick declined to comment on the letter Friday.

He writes in part, “I cannot let yesterday’s hearing pass without sharing how insulting it was to the officers of the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community who chose to join AARO, many with not unreasonable anxieties about the career risks this would entail.”

“They are truth-seekers, as am I,” Kirkpatrick said. “But you certainly would not get that impression from yesterday’s hearing.”

In a separate statement, Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough denied other allegations made by Grusch before a House Oversight subcommittee.

The Pentagon “has no information that any individual has been harmed or killed as a result of providing information” about UFO objects, Gough said. Nor has the Pentagon discovered “any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”

Kirkpatrick wrote, “AARO has yet to find any credible evidence to support the allegations of any reverse engineering program for non-human technology.”

He had briefed reporters in December that the Pentagon was investigating “several hundreds” of new reports following a push to have pilots and others come forward with any sightings.

Kirkpatrick wrote in his letter that allegations of “retaliation, to include physical assault and hints of murder, are extraordinarily serious, which is why law enforcement is a critical member of the AARO team, specifically to address and take swift action should anyone come forward with such claims.”

“Yet, contrary to assertions made in the hearing, the central source of those allegations has refused to speak with AARO,” Kirkpatrick said. He did not explicitly name Grusch, who alleged he faced retaliation and declined to answer when a congressman asked him if anyone had been murdered to hide information about UFOs.

Messages left at a phone number and email address for Grusch were not returned Friday.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

GRACIA: South Texas a Missed Opportunity for Genuine Hispanic Engagement

(Bianca Gracia, Headline USA contributor) In the political landscape of South Texas, a promising opportunity has been missed.

This region’s vibrant Hispanic community played a pivotal role in the 2016 and 2020 elections, thanks to the diligent work of Latinos for Trump. Our engagement efforts then were not merely to garner votes, but to cultivate understanding, to educate and to build lasting relationships.

Fast forward to now: The Republican Party, led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has bypassed this organic, grassroots connection. Instead, the GOP has opted to recruit Hispanic women candidates who may not necessarily represent the community, but who align with their agenda.

While the presence of these candidates has been effective for fundraising, their ability to secure a significant victory in their own backyard is yet to be seen. The issue here isn’t the capability of these women to lead, but rather the top-down approach that has overshadowed the need for a genuine relationship with the Hispanic community.

South Texas has repeatedly shown its Democratic leanings, but we firmly believe that this isn’t due to an intrinsic alignment with Democratic policies. Instead, it’s a result of an information deficit.

Our recent outreach initiative, a coffee meeting with local moms, proved this point. Most attendees were unaware of the full extent of the Biden administration’s actions or the controversial events taking place in their own towns.

The challenge here is not necessarily political, but educational. And unfortunately, the local news and current political efforts are not meeting this challenge head-on.

The decision by McCarthy to once again ask Mayra Flores to run, despite the slim chance of victory, points to a strategy that seems to prioritize fundraising over genuine community engagement. The fear is that the money raised might be funneled away from South Texas and into other districts.

Meanwhile, Monica De La Cruz, the Republican candidate who couldn’t rally enough support in her own district, is being presented as a staunch Republican representative despite her record of voting with Democrats. The community sees through this. They are cognizant of the political game being played, and it’s a turnoff.

While the situation in South Texas may seem disheartening, it’s not irreversible. However, it demands a fundamental shift in approach. The Hispanic community needs genuine engagement, educational outreach, and candidates who truly represent their values and needs.

As of now, neither Trump nor DeSantis has a comprehensive plan for Hispanic engagement. If this doesn’t change, flipping District 34 and others like it might remain a distant dream. Hispanics represent a vital and influential demographic, and their voice is essential to the future of American politics.

It’s time for the GOP to move beyond mere fundraising and token representation. It’s time to invest in education, genuine community engagement and the cultivation of local leaders who truly represent the communities they serve. Only then can we hope to see a political shift in regions like South Texas.

Bianca Gracia is the co-founder and president of the Latinos for Trump Organization, and the founder and executive director of Latinos for America First PAC. She previously worked as Statewide Hispanic Engagement Director for the Republican Party of Texas and State Director for the Faith and Freedom Coalition. She is also President of Leaderes de la Comunidad, President of Americanos Conservative United, and was a former State Director and Advisor for Blexit Texas.

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