Biden’s Beach House Wall Cost Taxpayers $500K, as Southern Border Remains Open

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Biden’s Beach House Wall Cost Taxpayers $500K, as Southern Border Remains Open

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Instead of spending money on defending the southern border from a deadly invasion of illegal immigrants, President Joe Biden decided to blow through hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer dough for a wall around one of his vacation enclaves in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Images obtained by the Daily Mail showed the entire side of Biden’s beach home covered by tall white fencing and gray stone pillars, while workers continued building Biden’s fortress.

The hypocrisy of Biden barricading his vacation home with a wall while refusing to build one at the southern border, where his policies have led to a deadly and massive influx of illegal aliens, did not go unnoticed.

“President Biden is more focused on securing his luxurious beach home than America’s borders,” wrote the Republican State Leadership Committee. “Don’t expect the crisis on our southern border to improve anytime soon with this failure of leadership.”

“Interesting how Trump never took a salary or had tax payers fund a wall around Mar-a-Lago when he was president with all the threats against him at the time!” noted i24News field journalist Debbie Aldrich. “Biden builds taxpayer-funded wall around Delaware beach house despite opposing border barriers.”

The Biden administration recently stopped Arizona from defending its border by placing double-stacked metal shipping containers along it, which Biden ordered removed. During the president’s quick trip to Texas, where he visited a sanitized safe zone along the border, Mexican President Andres Obrador praised Biden for his porous policies, according to Breitbart.

“You, President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built, not even one meter, of wall,” Obrador said. “In that, we thank you for that sir. Although some might not like it, although the conservatives don’t like it.”

Republicans slammed Biden for using his first-ever trip to the southern border on Sunday as a ‘photo op’ next to Donald Trump’s famed wall, instead of actually addressing the problems that America faces at the border.

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

National Pediatrics Academy Wants to Put Fat Kids under the Knife

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National Pediatrics Academy Wants to Put Fat Kids under the Knife

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After decades of saying that radical decisions to make fat kids thinner should be made only after children go through puberty to see if bodies normalize, the American Academy of Pediatrics now says that it is okay to put children through the “early and aggressive” treatment — a surgical or medical intervention.

The organization suddenly thinks that obese children can now undergo surgery at the age of 12, or pump themselves with medical drugs at the age of 13 to help them lose weight, according to Timcast.

“Long stigmatized as a reversible consequence of personal choices, obesity has complex genetic, physiologic, socioeconomic and environmental contributors,” the AAP said in its new guidance.

“Because obesity is a chronic disease with escalating effects over time, a life course approach to identification and treatment should begin as early as possible and continue longitudinally through childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, with transition into adult care,” the guidance stated.

In 15 years, this is the first time the AAP has updated its guidance when it comes to childhood obesity.

“Waiting doesn’t work,” Dr. Ihuoma Eneli, the co-author of the new guidance, said. “What we see is a continuation of weight gain and the likelihood that they’ll have (obesity) in adulthood.”

Other lifestyles interventions, like diet and exercise, will be offered.

The organization stated that 14.4 million American children and teenagers are considered to be obese.

“… weight loss pharmacotherapy and metabolic bariatric surgery are evidence-based obesity treatment modalities that should be available and offered to patients” because of the “complex nature of obesity management,” according to the AAP’s research.

The organization also claimed that health insurance should cover such surgeries that, according to the AAP itself, results in 15% of minors experiencing complications, such as postoperative nausea and dehydration, after a surgery and about 8% of patients saying that they experienced major complications within 30 days of the surgery.

Fake Republican Adam Kinzinger Spars on Twitter w/ Jew-ish George Santos

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Fake Republican Adam Kinzinger Spars on Twitter w/ Jew-ish George Santos

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) As Democrats continued a blitzkrieg attack on embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., the feisty freshman lawmaker fought back, potentially endearing himself to diffident Republicans who remained wary of him amid allegations that he faked much of his résumé to get elected.

Most notably, Santos took a Twitter dig Wednesday at ex-Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger, who recently accepted a job as a CNN correspondent after retiring last year in the face of certain defeat ahead of the 2022 primary election.

Santos—who became one of the few openly gay GOP lawmakers when he succeeded in flipping a historically blue New York district—has acknowledged that he misrepresented aspects of his background.

In one such case, he defended himself by denying that he had claimed to be Jewish, but rather that he said he was Jew-ish, the New York Post reported.

He explained that although he was raised Catholic, he had Jewish relatives on his mother’s side.

Kinzinger, the weepy-eyed RINO who served alongside ex-Rep. Liz Cheney as the two non-Democrats on the House’s sham Jan. 6 committee, had previously called on Santos to resign.

He slapped back at Santos with his own barb, telling him “Cries are better than lies, FRAUD.”

But given Kinzinger’s own history of lying, the retort seemed a bit insincere.

Not only did Kinzinger misrepresent himself as a Republican, but he also became notorious for spreading disinformation related to both the Jan. 6 hearings and Ukraine’s war with Russia.

Most notoriously, as part of the pro-Ukraine propaganda effort, he tweeted a picture from 2016 and misleadingly implied that it was more recent by failing to provide the proper context.

Kinzinger also was suspected of faking a death threat and suggesting it was from disgruntled Republicans.

He will be right at home on CNN, which was caught openly acknowledging its role as an anti-Trump propaganda outlet under the stewardship of ex-network president Jeff Zucker and cost itself precious credibility by failing to report accurately on what proved to be a long series of hoaxes.

Santos, meanwhile, has continued to push back against his critics and issued a statement Wednesday that he had no intention of resigning.

Newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., stood by him for now, rebuffing an MSNBC reporter’s effort to trap the GOP leader with a gotcha question.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., likewise brushed off a question while assuring concerned media that it was “being handled internally.”

Many have parried back against Democrats’ cries of foul play by noting a litany of leftist lawmakers who also have shamelessly lied about aspects of their past, including President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Behar, Reid Vie for Title of TV’s Dumbest ‘Joy’

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Behar, Reid Vie for Title of TV’s Dumbest ‘Joy’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) As they descend deeper into obscurity, the two leftist Joys, Reid and Behar, appear to be vying for the title of “television’s dumbest Joy.”

To begin with, Joy Behar recently commented on the China-related classified documents that President Joe Biden kept from his time as vice president during the Obama administration.

“We all know that Trump is a liar and a thief,” Behar said to laughter and applause, noting that she and her leftist media comrades plan to give Biden a free pass.

“We know that. So it’s not that big a jump to say that he obstructed and he lied. We don’t think Biden is a liar and a thief, so we give him the benefit of the doubt.”

“That’s probably what’s going on,” she continued, adding that the Right-wing media will likely demonize Biden for his carrying of sensitive documents out of the White House.

“No matter what the truth of the matter is, they will spin it… the lie gets out there and people believe it just like that Donaldson person.”

Behar also took shots at Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., for his role in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

In an equally embarrassing moment, Joy Reid was exposed by Donalds on the question of Social Security.

“It’s actually not true,” she repeated 12 times, interrupting Donalds as he tried to explain his claim that Social Security would soon be insolvent.

Reid also attempted, unsuccessfully, to get Donalds to commit to privatizing social security.

“What the Tea Party have proposed is privatizing social security which would actually subject social security to winds of the market,” she said.

“Just to be clear, you’re in favor of privatizing social security,” she pressed, ultimately unable to secure any commitment from the congressman.

USC Bans the Word ‘Field’ Due to Its Racist Connotations

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USC Bans the Word ‘Field’ Due to Its Racist Connotations

(Headline USA) The University of Southern California’s school of social work announced this week that it will no longer use the word “field” in its curriculum due to its “racist connotations.”

USC’s Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work shared a letter with students and faculty on several steps the school plans to take to advance “anti-racism.” One step is replacing the word “field” with “practicum,” according to the letter, which was dated Jan. 9.

“This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that would be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language,” the letter said.

The letter continued: “Language can be powerful, and phrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ maybe have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.”

USC said its “anti-racist” policies are part of a larger effort by universities across the country to “honor and acknowledge inclusion and reject white supremacy, anti-immigrant, and anti-blackness ideologies.”

“We are committing to further align our actions, behaviors, and practices with anti-racism and anti-oppression, which requires taking a close and critical look at our profession — our history, our biases, and our complicity in past and current injustices,” USC said in the letter.

Interim dean of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Vassilios Papadopoulos, clarified that the university “does not maintain a list of ‘banned’ or discouraged words,” but does seek to “create a more inclusive and welcoming environment for all.”

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has also banned the term “field worker” in its official documents for the same reasons.

“Recently, staff and stakeholders have raised concerns about the use of the term ‘field worker’ and its implications for descendants of enslaved black and brown individuals,” the department said in a memo. “While the widespread use of this term is not intended to be harmful, we cannot ignore the impact its use has on our employees.”

Dem. Rep. Calls House Committee on China ‘Hateful, Xenophobic Rhetoric’

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Dem. Rep. Calls House Committee on China ‘Hateful, Xenophobic Rhetoric’

(Headline USA) A House Democrat claimed this week that a newly-formed special congressional committee investigating China and its influence is “xenophobic” and racist.

House Republicans and Democrats voted on Tuesday to form a new panel that will focus on the economic and technological challenges China poses to the U.S. and its national security. It will be chaired by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc.

“It is time to understand the urgency of the threat. It is time to reclaim our economic independence in key areas,” Gallagher said in a statement. “The select committee will expose the [Chinese Communist Party]’s coordinated whole-of-society strategy to undermine American leadership and American sovereignty while working on a bipartisan basis … to identify long-overdue, commonsense approaches to counter CCP aggression.”

Most Democrats agreed that the committee is an important step toward combatting China’s influence. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., for example, expressed her support for the committee on the House floor, saying Congress needs a “full, holistic look at Chinese competition and our economic security, and our national security.”

Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga., however, blasted the committee as yet another “platform to elevate hate.”

“House Republicans’ new select committee on competition with China isn’t about rational policy – it’s another platform to elevate hateful, xenophobic rhetoric. I stand against hate in all its forms, so I voted against the creation of the committee,” she tweeted.

One other leftist voted against the establishment of the select committee: Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Even though several other caucus colleagues supported the committee, Jayapal warned that it could “go in an extreme Republican direction.”

Conservatives blasted Williams for embracing Chinese propaganda.

ANOTHER Batch of Classified Documents Discovered in Separate Biden Office

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ANOTHER Batch of Classified Documents Discovered in Separate Biden Office

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A second batch of classified documents from the Obama administration was discovered in a different office that President Joe Biden used after completing his tenure as vice president, NBC News reported.

There were sparse details on the new bombshell discovery—including how many, when or specifically where the new batch was discovered, although the report cited a White House statement claiming it was a “small number.”

Biden and his surrogates have struggled to get in front of the development following a CBS News report Monday that about a dozen documents had been discovered on Nov. 2 in Biden’s Washington, D.C., office of the Penn Biden Center—a foreign policy think–tank through the University of Pennsylvania that happened to receive some $54 million dollars in donations from anonymous Chinese investors.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a barrage of questions about the classified materials durin a briefing on Wednesday insisting that the review into the mishandling was an “ongoing process,” according to Fox News.

“We talked about the revelation of the documents, obviously, but about the documents itself, that is something that the president doesn’t even know,” she claimed. “And I’m going to leave it there.”

Biden himself claimed Tuesday that he was “surprised” by the discovery, even though the information about it had been buried for two months since his lawyers initially reported the documents to the National Archives.

The scandal is exacerbated by the fact that Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, appeared to weaponize the Justice Department prior to the November election by raiding former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate over a similar complaint of mishandled classified documents.

Unlike Trump, Biden did not, as vice president, have the authority to declassify any materials.

Even so, Democrats desperately tried to downplay Biden’s offense and draw arbitrary distinctions between the two cases to insist that only Trump committed a crime.

Trump remains under investigation by partisan special counsel Jack Smith, while it is unclear whether any such probe of Biden’s offense is under consideration.

Several Republicans reacted to the news of the new batch of documents by calling for Garland to appoint a special counsel in Biden’s case as well.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

New Oversight Chair James Comer Launches Long-Awaited Probe into Biden Family

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New Oversight Chair James Comer Launches Long-Awaited Probe into Biden Family

(Headline USA) House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, wielding the power of their majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former Twitter executives as they lay the groundwork for public hearings.

“Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming,” Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement.

Comer told reporters there are “troubling questions” specifically about the business dealings of Hunter Biden and one of the president’s brothers, James Biden, that require deeper investigation.

The Republican-led committee sent a series of letters requesting financial information from the Treasury Department about financial transactions by members of the Biden family that were flagged as suspicious activity.

Those reports are routine, with larger financial transactions automatically flagged to the government, and are not evidence on their own of misconduct.

When paired, however, with the evidence from Hunter Biden’s laptop—and a previous report compiled by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa—those transactions may help paint a fuller picture of corruption that the Biden administration and its deep-state allies have sought for years to conceal and stonewall from the public.

Republicans have discussed issuing congressional subpoenas to foreign entities that did business with Hunter Biden, and they recently brought on James Mandolfo, a former federal prosecutor, to assist with the investigation as general counsel for the Oversight Committee.

Lawmakers also requested testimony from multiple former Twitter executives who were involved in the company’s handling of an October 2020 story from the New York Post about Hunter Biden, the president’s younger son.

Recent evidence released by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the FBI pressured media and social-media companies to suppress the damning bombshell ahead of the presidential election that November for fear of harming Biden’s election chances.

Not unlike the politically explosive probes that House Democrats used to target the Trump administration after taking power in 2018, Comer’s investigation sets up a likely showdown with the White House that could shape the contours of the 2024 race for the White House.

Both Joe and Hunter Biden are said to have lawyered up in anticipation, and the White House sprung to launch its own pre-emptive offensive strike, claiming the GOP priority was little more than a witch hunt—even using it to deflect blame for Biden’s policy failures.

“In their first week as a governing majority, House Republicans have not taken any meaningful action to address inflation and lower Americans’ costs, yet they’re jumping out of the gate with political stunts driven by the most extreme MAGA members of their caucus in an effort to get attention on Fox News,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said in a statement.

The Treasury Department declined a request for comment.

Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work are already under federal investigation, with a grand jury in Delaware hearing testimony in recent months.

His membership on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, and his efforts to strike deals in China have long raised questions about whether he traded on his father’s public service, including reported references in his emails to the “big guy.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

RFK Jr. Sues Media ‘Cartel’ for Colluding to Crush Competition

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RFK Jr. Sues Media ‘Cartel’ for Colluding to Crush Competition

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and a group of independent journalists and health experts have filed a lawsuit against major media corporations for colluding to censor accurate information and crush competition.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Texas federal court, takes aim at the so-called “Trusted News Initiative”, an agreement between several major media outlets and tech firms to purportedly tackle misinformation. TNI members include Google/YouTube, Twitter, Reuters, Meta and the Washington Post.

In fact, TNI’s purpose is to “stamp out” and “choke off” online news competition, according to internal TNI memos obtained by Kennedy, who described the scheme as a “cartel.”

“By their own admission, members of the [TNI] have agreed to work together, and have in fact worked together, to exclude from the world’s dominant Internet platforms rival news publishers who engage in reporting that challenges and competes with TNI members’ reporting on certain issues relating to COVID-19 and U.S. politics,” the lawsuit said.

“While the ‘Trusted News Initiative’ publicly purports to be a self-appointed ‘truth police’ extirpating online ‘misinformation,’ in fact it has suppressed wholly accurate and legitimate reporting in furtherance of the economic self-interest of its members.”

According to the lawsuit, TNI carried out its censorship efforts by adopting a “fast alert” system in which members would alert one another to items of supposedly “unreliable” information that had appeared online. Tech firms working with TNI would act on those alerts by censoring, shadow banning and de-platforming purveyors of so-called misinformation, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit listed more than 20 topics that TNI deemed to be misinformation, including claims that COVID-19 was manmade, claims that COVID is no more dangerous to some populations than the seasonal flu, and claims that a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden was found at a computer repair store in or around October 2020 or that the contents reportedly found on that laptop, including potentially compromising emails, videos, and photographs, were authentic.

The defendants listed in the lawsuit are the Washington Post, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Associated Press and Reuters. Big Tech companies were excluded from the lawsuit because plaintiffs would have had to sue them in California, explained Mary Holland, president of Children’s Health Defense—one of the plaintiffs in the case.

“Northern California is Silicon Valley. It’s their turf,” Holland said in a written statement. “And so, we decided, in order to be able to file in a jurisdiction that we believe will be more neutral on these issues … we elected to file in Texas just against the legacy media.”

But Big Tech could still be held liable, Holland said, “because the conspiracy between legacy media and Big Tech will incorporate all of them, if there is a conspiracy [found], they’re all liable, not just those who were named as defendants.”

Along with Kennedy and Children’s Health Defense, plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Creative Destruction Media, Trial Site News, Ty and Charlene Bollinger (founders of The Truth About Cancer and The Truth About Vaccines), independent journalist Ben Swann, Erin Elizabeth Finn (publisher of Health Nut News), Jim Hoft (founder of The Gateway Pundit), Dr. Joseph Mercola and chiropractor Ben Tapper.

All of the plaintiffs allege they were censored, banned, de-platformed, shadow banned or otherwise penalized by the tech firms partnering with the TNI, because the views and content they published were deemed “misinformation” or “disinformation.”

Defendants have not yet responded to the lawsuit.

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

AOC Gets Burned after Failed Dig at Gas-Stove Users

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AOC Gets Burned after Failed Dig at Gas-Stove Users

(Headline USA) Social media ripped apart Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., this week after she claimed gas stoves are linked to brain damage.

Responding to a report that the Biden administration is considering banning the future sale of gas stoves due to several studies that found they could lead to negative health effects, Ocasio-Cortez seemed to express her support for the move.

“Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance,” she wrote on Twitter.

Critics blasted Ocasio-Cortez, with many pointing out that she herself owns and uses a gas stove.

However, Ocasio-Cortez continued to double down, urging people to look into assistance programs that could help them make the switch from gas to electric.

“The way we are handling it in NYC isn’t to force people to switch what they already have. Folks can keep their appliances, and new buildings in NYC will have gas-free stoves. As for federally, any proposal from the CPSC would go through a quite lengthy review and input process,” she wrote.

Bloomberg reported this week that the Consumer Product Safety Commission is mulling an outright ban on the future sales of gas stoves following studies that showed emissions from the appliances can cause health and respiratory problems.

“This is a hidden hazard,” CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told the outlet. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”

The studies cited by the CPSC linked gas stoves to respiratory illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer and other health conditions.

The news faced immediate backlash, including from restaurant owners who warned banning gas stoves would destroy the food industry.

“So let me explain it to you,” Stratis Morfogen told Fox News. “We lose 40% productivity by using electric,” he said.

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