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Over the last ten years, energy production has become cheaper and more efficient, Americans and Britons have started to consume fewer resources even as their standards of living increased, and greenhouse gas emissions have decreased. Contrary to the fearmongering of radicals like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Grow Yucca in NYC), life has gotten better for humans and the environment in the past decade.

Writing for Britain’s Spectator magazine, Matt Ridley explained that the 2010s have seen “the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world�s population for the first time. It was 60 per cent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging as Africa and Asia experience faster economic growth than Europe and North America; child mortality has fallen to record low levels; famine virtually went extinct; malaria, polio and heart disease are all in decline.”

News often focuses on the tragedies � horrific mass shootings, poverty in Venezuela, war and civil strife in the Middle East � while ignoring the broad positive trends in living standards. Tragedies have been a fact of life for as long as humans walked the earth, but the increasing living standards are new and less shocking.

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A video clip of leading Democrat presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden talking about �our European culture� not being �imported from some African nation or some Asian nation� at a New Hampshire campaign stop on Monday stirred up controversy when it was posted online Wednesday.

Democrats and liberals in the media claimed Biden was taken out of context and was not celebrating but criticizing America�s cultural heritage. The clip from an ABC News Facebook video was posted by an anonymous Twitter account.

Biden said, �Folks, this is about changing the culture. Our culture, our culture. It�s not imported from some African nation, or some Asian nation, it�s our English jurisprudential culture, our European culture that says it�s alright.� The video clip is clipped at the beginning and the end. Whether that is a fair edit or not is being debated.

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Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe admitted he misled investigators about his role in a media leak and apologized for it, according to transcripts of his interviews with investigators released Thursday.

The transcripts were released by the Justice Department�s inspector general in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

An unidentified FBI investigator detailed his frustration with Mr. McCabe over the time he spent investigating the leak, only to discover the leak came from the former deputy director himself, according to the transcripts. Mr. McCabe had repeatedly denied he was the source of the leak, but later confessed and apologized when the investigator confronted him, the transcripts said.

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We reported in March 2017 that Obama�s Defense Department Official Evelyn Farkas admitted Obama was spying on the Trump campaign, transition team and Presidency.

Former Assistant Defense Secretary under the Obama administration, Evelyn Farkas admitted that the Obama administration was trying to collect as much intelligence as possible on the Trump administration:

Evelyn Farkas: ��Frankly speaking the people on The Hill..get as much information as you can. Get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy�

Ummm that the Trump folks if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with Russians that they would try to compromise the sources and methods meaning that we would no longer have access to that intelligence.�

Hannity later covered this as well:

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Democrats sure love their dead voters so Judicial Watch is doing the heavy lifting to clean up dirty voter rolls as we head into the 2020 presidential election.

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch found MILLIONS of extra registrants on voter rolls in 5 states and sent 19 counties notice-of-violation letters warning them to comply with the law and clean voter rolls within 90 days, or face a federal lawsuit.

California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado were among the states with voter roll issues.

Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Virginia are very important states that are in play in 2020 so it is imperative their voter rolls are purged of �extra� registrants.

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Do Republicans win elections by preventing minorities from voting? The Left says yes, but the data says no.

In the latest short video from Prager University, Jason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, settles the argument with hard evidence, separating fact from fiction.

See the video here..

This month, the first person to obtain a legal “non-binary” sex designation has successfully petitioned the court originally responsible for his “non-binary” status to order that the sex on his birth certificate be restored to “male.” In documents exclusively provided to PJ Media, James Shupe’s petition described his “non-binary” designation as a “psychologically harmful legal fiction.” He told PJ Media he hopes this decision will prevent a woman currently seeking “non-binary” recognition from following the same lies.

“The charade of not being male, the legal fiction, it’s over,” James Shupe told PJ Media on Tuesday. “The lies behind my fictitious sex changes, something I shamefully participated in, first to female, and then to non-binary, have been forever exposed. A truthful accounting of events has replaced the deceit that allowed me to become America’s first legally non-binary person.”

“The legal record has now been corrected and LGBT advocates are no longer able to use my historic non-binary court order to advance their toxic agenda,” he added. “I am and have always been male. That is my biological truth, the only thing capable of grounding me to reality.”

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Earlier this month, the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordered the FBI to re-verify all previous warrant applications involving the FBI attorney who falsified evidence against the former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. However, Fox News has learned the court did not order the FBI to double-check warrant applications involving other officials who made key omissions and errors in warrant applications as the bureau sought to surveil Page.

The FISC’s failure to request a comprehensive evaluation of previous submissions has stunned court-watchers who have questioned whether enough is being done to deter future misconduct by the FBI. In the past, the FISC has gone so far as to prohibit some FBI agents from appearing before the court after finding impropriety.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-courts-review-leaves-out-key-players

Most Republicans in Congress want the Supreme Court to make abortion illegal as it prepares to hear its first major case on the issue since President Trump appointed two conservative justices to the bench.

More than 200 members of the Senate and House of Representatives – all but two of them Republicans – want the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision which made abortion legal in the United States.

Thirty-nine senators and 168 House members submitted an amicus brief to the court as it prepares to hear the case of June Medical Services LLC v. Gee.

The case is an appeal filed by a Louisiana clinic challenging a state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

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A former EMP Commission chief of staff believes a number of Obama-holdovers and “deep state” operatives could undermine America’s ability to protect itself from viable threats to the electric grid.

The latest defense bill � the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) � was signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 20, 2019. The bill incorporates the president’s previous EMP Executive Order.

Although the law is binding upon all departments and agencies, Dr. Peter Pry � executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security � says it has the potential to be undermined if the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is under-estimated by those inside the U.S. government.

Those responsible for an under-estimation of the EMP threat, Pry argues, would include “Obama-holdovers and Deep Staters” working for Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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