Biden Regime Thwarted Marine Sniper from Killing Suicide Bomber Who Killed 13 US Service Members

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Biden Regime Thwarted Marine Sniper from Killing Suicide Bomber Who Killed 13 US Service Members

(Headline USA) A U.S. Marine who survived the deadly bombing in Afghanistan’s Kabul airport during the U.S. military’s withdrawal from the region told lawmakers this week that he was ordered not to kill a suspected terrorist, who he believes was responsible for later killing 13 U.S. service members.

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday and recalled how his team tracked a man who officials believed was a suicide bomber “throughout the entirety” of the day leading up to the deadly explosion, reported the Gateway Pundit. The man was an “anomaly in the crowd,” Vargas-Andrews said. He “handed out small cards to the crowd periodically,” and at one point appeared to be coached by an older man.

“Over the communication network, we passed that there was a potential threat and an idea attack imminent,” Vargas-Andrews said. “This was as serious as it could get.”

Vargas-Andrews said he requested permission to kill the suspected terrorist, but the Marines were told not to shoot because “leadership did not have the engagement authority for us.”

Afterwards, “psychological operations individuals came to our tower … and confirmed the suspect met the suicide bomber description,” the Marine said. But despite the overwhelming evidence of the suspect’s intentions, the battalion was unable to take action.

“Eventually the individual disappeared. To this day we believe he was a suicide bomber,” Vargas-Andrews said.

Vargas-Andrews ended up losing an arm and a leg after the suicide bomber detonated explosives near the Kabul airport. At least 45 other troops were injured in the explosion, and 13 died.

“We were ignored. Our expertise was disregarded,” he said. “No one was held accountable for our safety.”

The Marine went on to add that no one in the upper levels of government, including in the NCIS and FBI, cared about his report.

“The withdrawal was a catastrophe, in my opinion, and there was an inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence,” he said. “The 11 Marines, one sailor and one soldier that were murdered that day have not been answered for.”

Doc Jill Confuses Biological Male w/ ‘International Women of Courage’ Award

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Doc Jill Confuses Biological Male w/ ‘International Women of Courage’ Award

(Headline USA) First Lady Jill Biden presented an “International Women of Courage Award” to a biological male on Wednesday.

During a ceremony held at the White House, Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken honored Alba Rueda, a man who identifies as a woman, who served as Argentina’s Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Rueda was one of 11 “extraordinary women from around the world who are working to build a brighter future for all,” the State Department said.

The State Department praised Rueda, specifically, for campaigning “to change the name of the National Women’s Conference to the ‘Plurinational Conference of Women and Lesbian, Cross-Dresser, Transgender, Bisexual, Intersex and Non-Binary Persons’ to include diverse, dissident, and racialized identities.’”

Conservatives blasted the Biden administration.

“It’s International Women’s Day — a good time to remember that Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is,” Arkansas GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted.

Conservative commentator Dana Loesch accused the Bidens of encouraging “the diminishment of women.”

“Erasing women is abusive,” she added.

The Biden administration has been aggressively pushing the transgender agenda over the past couple of years. Last March, the Department of Health and Human Services released guidance encouraging gender-confused minors to seek out sex-reassignment surgeries and hormone treatments. 

Two of the endorsed physical reconstructions include: “‘Top’ surgery – to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts;” and “‘Bottom’ surgery – surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or other procedures,” according to the guidance.

“Medical and psychosocial gender affirming healthcare practices have been demonstrated to yield lower rates of adverse mental health outcomes, build self-esteem, and improve overall quality of life for transgender and gender diverse youth,” the HHS said.

Rep. Darin LaHood Says FBI Spied on Him

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Rep. Darin LaHood Says FBI Spied on Him

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., said Thursday that he has been the target of warrantless surveillance by the FBI.

LaHood’s revelation come on the heels of a newly in released government audit, which said that the FBI searched a U.S. congressman’s name in data obtained via Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“I have had the opportunity to review the classified summary of this violation, and it’s my opinion that the member of Congress was, in fact, me,” LaHood said Thursday.

FISA’s Section 702 allows the U.S. government to target foreigners outside the U.S. for intelligence purposes. This often results in the collection of Americans’ communications.

The FBI’s warrantless surveillance of LaHood was discovered by the non-profit watchdog Demand Progress. The organization said in a statement that the FBI’s actions were “all the more stunning considering he sits on one of the committees that oversees the intelligence agencies—and has been designated by congressional leadership as the intelligence committee’s point person in charge of the 702 reauthorization.”

“If the administration wants to see this authority reauthorized at all, it must embrace a complete overhaul of privacy protections for all Americans—members of Congress and beyond,” Demand Progress said.

Despite being spied on, LaHood said Thursday he still supports reauthorizing Section 702, subject to privacy reforms. He is part of a working group to reform Section 702.

During Thursday’s hearing, FBI Director Chris Wray said many reforms have already been made. The audit about the surveillance of LaHood is for the period from Dec. 1, 2019, to May 31, 2020.

“No violations are defensible … But what’s important to note about that is all the audit predates significant reforms,” he said.

A report last year from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that the number of searches conducted by the FBI of Americans’ communications doubled from 2020 to 2021.

According to the report, the FBI used its Section 702 powers to search the data of roughly 3.4 million U.S. people in 2021—up from 1.3 million a year before. The report only provides statistics for 2020 and 2021.

Wray said Thursday that the number of searches of Americans has since decreased by about 93%. A report on the FBI’s use of Section 702 is set to be released next month.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Democrats Smear Twitter Files Journalists, Pressure them to Reveal Sources

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Democrats Smear Twitter Files Journalists, Pressure them to Reveal Sources

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “Elon Musk’s public scribes,” “so-called journalists,” and “a direct threat” were a few of the slurs Democrats lobbed at two journalists who testified Thursday at the House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing on the Twitter Files.

The journalists at the brunt of these attacks were Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, both self-described liberals. Shellenberger said he voted Biden in the 2020 election, and Taibbi voted for Clinton in 2016 while declining to cast a ballot in 2020.

The two reporters have put aside their political affiliations to break numerous accurate stories about the Twitter Files—a trove of internal documents released by new company CEO Elon Musk, showing internal censorship decisions on the social media platform.

They both said during Thursday’s hearing that their investigations aren’t aimed at exposing an anti-conservative bias at Twitter or within government. Rather, they’re showing how government agencies are violating the First Amendment by pressuring social media platforms to censor protected speech.

Despite this, Democrats on the Weaponization Subcommittee—which was ostensibly formed to investigate the weaponization of federal government—viciously attacked Taibbi and Shellenberger.

“Chairman Jordan called before us two witnesses who pose a direct threat to anyone who opposes them,” said ranking committee member Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, referring to the witnesses as “so-called journalists.”

Taibbi clapped back at this remark, citing his numerous accolades and accomplishments over his 30-year career.

“Ranking Member Plaskett I’m not a ‘so-called journalist.’ I’ve won the national magazine award, the IF Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I’ve written 10 books,” he said.

But the attacks continued. Plaskett later asked Taibbi who gave him the Twitter Files—a question the journalist refused to answer on the grounds that it would reveal sources and methods.

Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, again attempted to coax Taibbi and Shellenberger to reveal sources, asking them, “When did Musk first approach you about writing Twitter Files?”

“I can’t give you a date because this is a question of sourcing,” Taibbi responded.

Shellenberger also declined to provide sources, though he said he was first offered a chance to report on the Twitter Files by his friend and fellow journalist Bari Weiss.

Plaskett later denied that she pressured journalists to reveal their sources, but the Weaponization Subcommittee released the footage of her doing just that.

The Democrats’ attacks on journalists comes on the heels of them releasing a report that smeared FBI whistleblowers who have brought information to the Weaponization Subcommittee.

Thursday’s hearing was the third Weaponization Subcommittee meeting.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Boston’s Dem. Mayor Sued for Discrimination against White, Italian Businesses

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Boston’s Dem. Mayor Sued for Discrimination against White, Italian Businesses

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Several Boston-based restaurant owners are suing the city’s Democrat mayor, Michelle Wu, for alleged discrimination against Italians and white people.

According to the Daily Mail, owners filed the suit in late 2022 after a mayoral order that restaurants in the majority-Italian neighborhood pay $7,500 for outdoor dining licenses for the 2022 summer season. The fee did not apply to the rest of the city.

As a result of the heightened charge, the city collected nearly $800,000 from restaurant owners.

In other neighborhoods, restaurants pay monthly feeds ranging between $199 and $399. Restaurants with liquor licenses generally pay more.

A statement from the mayor’s office, which specified that only restaurants with “adequate” sidewalk width would allow outdoor dining and banned on-street dining, spurred the initial suit.

“It is commonly known that the traditional owner of a restaurant in the North End of Boston is a white male of Italian descent, and the North End is generally regarded as the last true ethnic Boston Italian neighborhood,” the lawsuit reads.

The owners suing the city include Jorge Mendoza, owner of Vinoteca di Monica; Carla Gomes, owner of Terramia Ristorante and Antico Forno; Christian Silvestri, owner of Rabia’s Dolce Fumo; and Patrick Mendoza, owner of Monica’s Trattoria.

“It’s upsetting for us to be discriminated against. It’s a flaw to Italians,” said another restaurant owner, Frank DePasquale, who is lending his support to the suit.

The group points to the city’s All Inclusive Boston Campaign as evidence for the mayor’s bias against Italians and whites.

On the campaign’s website, the advertisements for the North End do not feature any Italian Americans, and only includes white players for the Boston Red Sox. They also allege that there was no section for the North End on the site when it went live.

The city’s official statement on outdoor dining in the North End indicates that they attempted to work around the neighborhood’s narrow streets and dense street plan.

Wu made a bitterly-toned attempt at a joke about white business owners at the annual St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in 2022, saying she’s “getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive and white,” then went on to claim she was talking about “snowflakes, snowstorms.”

Kansas and Georgia to Protect Kids from Genital Mutilation

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Kansas and Georgia to Protect Kids from Genital Mutilation

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Kansas and Georgia are considering legislation to prevent minors from undergoing sex-change operations and prohibiting other gender-altering ‘treatments’ for children, according to Breitbart News.

The Kansas bill is known as Supplemental Senate Bill 223. If passed it would create “the Kansas Child Mutilation Prevention (act),” per the text of the bill. The bill passed through the Kansas Senate easily and is expected to pass through the Kansas House, according to KSNT Topeka.

This bill would instruct licensing officials of Kansas to revoke a physician’s license if the physician performs a sex change on a minor or provides a minor “puberty-blocking medication to delay, hinder, stop or reverse normal puberty.”

The law stipulates that the illegal drugs are “supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to females; or supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males.” “Supraphysiologic” means “pharmacologic dosage regimen that produces blood concentrations greater than the accepted range for a child’s age and sex.”

The Georgia bill is Senate Bill 140, which prohibits sex changes, but does not prohibit puberty blockers.

“This is simply saying this is a pause and we’re asking that children be 18 years old before they make this decision that will alter their lives forever,” said the bill’s sponsor, Georgia state Republican Sen. Carden Summers.

Georgia Sen. Ben Watson, R-Savannah, who is also a physician, explained why the Senate did not ban hormone blockers.

“We’ve adjusted and refined this bill until I think we’ve threaded the needle and we made a good bill,” Watson said.

Kansas and Georgia’s effort to protect women, children and men from gender ideology is part of a national backlash against transgenderism.

Oklahoma is considering a ban on all sex-change surgeries and hormone blockers for all people while prohibiting men from competing in women’s sports and prohibiting classifying children as transgender.

Tucker Carlson’s Huge Ratings Show America Hungry for J6 Truths

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Tucker Carlson’s Huge Ratings Show America Hungry for J6 Truths

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) As drama unfolds surrounding Tucker Carlson’s release of Capitol footage from the J6 protest-tourist rally, Fox News ratings at primetime have dwarfed numerous other mainstream outlets.

Fox News, from 8:00-10:00 PM, secured more viewers from ages 25 to 54 than the woke corporate establishment at MSNBC, CNN, Newsmax & NewsNation combined. Fake News mainstay CNN was among the hardest hit, with FOX attracting six times the audience in the primetime Tuesday slot.

 

Some pundits credited Carlson’s fiercest critics for fueling the ratings bonanza. The high-profile lashings have drawn public interest to see the evidence for themselves.

The success of Fox’s show has sent leftist media hacks like late night “personality” Stephen Colbert into jealous tantrums.

“Fox News doesn’t believe a word they say ― and neither should you,” Colbert declared earlier this week in a monologue.

Colbert has been joined by the equally insufferable Jimmy Kimmel, who has spent the better part of his on-air time mocking Fox News and its millions of viewers who have been declared domestic terrorists by their own President.

“Whenever they get cornered, they turn to an old friend to distract: Artificial outrage,” Kimmel said.

Ratings reveal that the outrage is anything but artificial, and that it is shared across demographics.

Fox’s strong primetime performance was anchored by Carlson’s show, according to Mediaite. Carlson’s show with its J6 video bombshells landed 4.14 million total viewers. Fox primetime doubled MSNBC’s average of 1.49 million total viewers, while CNN’s primetime average tanked at 451,000 total viewers.

“This is probably a large part of why Democrats were so panicked about Tucker getting his hands on the videos. They knew that he would have a massive audience for the shows,” wrote Gateway Pundit’s Mike LaChance.

“This is obviously also one of the reasons why so many liberal networks demanded access to the footage only after Tucker got it. They also knew that he was going to demolish the competition in viewers.”

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

Nine Boxes of New Biden Docs Taken from Boston Office

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Nine Boxes of New Biden Docs Taken from Boston Office

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In an update from the United States National Archives, nine boxes of classified documents were removed from President Joe Biden‘s Boston, Massachusetts office, Fox News reported.

Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, prompted the reply by submitting a letter to Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall requesting more information regarding the quantity and substance of the classified documents in question.

“We request that NARA provide full transparency regarding its involvement, knowledge and role with respect to the existence of these classified and unclassified documents,” they wrote, adding that such information is necessary for Congress to “perform an independent and objective review of NARA’s involvement in this matter.”

According to Wall, the Archives reached out to Biden’s lawyers last November, when it first learned about the illicitly removed documents.

“When NARA [National Archives and Records Administration] contacted President Biden’s personal counsel on November 3, 2022, to arrange to pick up boxes from the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., they informed NARA that Mr. Moore had moved other boxes from the Penn Biden Center to Mr. Moore’s law firm in Boston,” the letter states.

“NARA staff retrieved nine boxes from Mr. Moore’s Boston office,” Wall continued, which, according to the Fox report, had not been previously known.

Unfortunately, however, the NARA has not even started looking through the classified documents.

“NARA has not reviewed the contents of the boxes found at Mr. Moore’s Boston office,” Wall noted.

So, while the Trump classified document investigation was rammed through as theatrically and sensationally as possible, NARA and the Department of Justice have dragged their feet on the Biden investigation, which has moved only insofar as Republicans in Congress press the matter.

GOP Gov. Sanders Scores Giant Win for School Choice in Ark., Shuns Leftist Grooming Agenda

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GOP Gov. Sanders Scores Giant Win for School Choice in Ark., Shuns Leftist Grooming Agenda

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a universal school choice bill into law on Wednesday that bans grooming students with radical leftist agendas and hyper-sexualized materials, while giving parents more rights.

The law, known as Senate Bill 294 or the Arkansas LEARNS Act, mandates the start of a school choice program by the 2025-2026 school year, and gives pay raises to public school teachers across the board. Students with disabilities, precarious home situations, failed out of school the previous year or have parents serving in the military are able to receive vouchers for the next school year.

According to the Christian Post, the vouchers, or “Educational Freedom Accounts,” are going to be available to qualifying students as soon as the 2023-2024 school year.

The bill also prohibits topics such as critical race theory, which the bill argues clashes with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.”

The newly-signed law also forbids public school teachers from discussing gender ideology and sexual orientation to elementary-aged students.

“A HISTORIC WIN for parents, teachers, and students that will set the education model for the nation, I’m ready to sign it into law tomorrow and end the failed status quo,” Sanders tweeted. “Every kid will soon have access to a quality education and path to a good paying job and better life, right here in Arkansas.”

The bill is not without its critics. President of the Arkansas Education Association, Carol Fleming, argued that there was not enough deliberation around the bill, and too few opportunities for parents and teachers were denied the opportunity to ask questions.

Sanders disagreed and said it was past time for the state to move up from the bottom of the education pile. The bill raises minimum teacher salaries by 39% to $50,000 and provides for every teacher to receive at least a $2,000 raise in the coming school year.

“We’ve seen how the status quo condemns Arkansans to a lifetime of poverty,” Sanders said in a signing ceremony in the state Capitol. “We’re tired of sitting at the bottom of national education rankings.”

Biden’s Budget Stuffed w/ $5T in Tax Hikes, 5.2% Pay Increase for Feds

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Biden’s Budget Stuffed w/ $5T in Tax Hikes, 5.2% Pay Increase for Feds

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden presented a tax plan specifically targeting wealthy individuals and corporations, fueling nearly $5.5 trillion in new taxes that he claimed will reduce the U.S. budget deficit by nearly $3 trillion over the next 10 years.

In the same conference, Biden announced a 5.2% pay raise for federal employees in 2024, in one of the largest boosts since the Carter administration.

According to Government Executive, the massive wage hike still falls short of Democrat and union expectations.

In previous comments regarding the matter, Biden claimed that the deficit would only fall by “making the wealthy and big corporations… pay their fair share.”

He also pledged to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 annually.

Biden has set the stage for a battle on Capitol Hill, as many Republicans promised fierce opposition.

“You know the president’s budget is replete with what they would do if they could — thank goodness the House is Republican — massive tax increases, more spending,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said.

McConnell also stated that the “American people can thank the Republican House” that the proposed tax increases “will not see the light of day.”

Democrats will likely fight back, as many of them are in favor of a 4.7% across-the-board raise along with an 4% increase in locality pay, totaling at an average 8.7% raise.

The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association argued that the more substantial increase is necessary to keep government employees from shifting into the private sector for increased pay.

“Keeping up with private sector pay growth is essential to maintaining the federal government’s ability to recruit and retain a highly qualified and effective workforce,” NARFE National President William Schackelford said. “While pay rates for public servants will still trail private-sector rates, a proposed average raise of 5.2% would ensure they will not fall further behind.”

The budget plan has little hope of passing with the Republican-controlled house and Speaker Kevin McCarthy beginning to make deliberations on the debt ceiling.

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