Devon Archer told congressional investigators that Hunter Biden used then-Vice President Joe Biden as "defensive leverage" to send "the right signals" to his foreign business partners, while selling him as "the brand" that offered "capabilities and reach," as well as a "unique understanding of D.C."
Archer’s comments came during a transcribed interview before the House Oversight Committee on Monday. Fox News Digital obtained the more than 140-page transcript of Archer’s interview, which took place behind closed doors.
1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250.
1861 - The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872.
1914 - The first electric traffic signal lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
1964 - U.S. aircraft bombed North Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1991 - An investigation was formally launched by Democratic congressional leaders to find out if the release of American hostages was delayed until after the Reagan-Bush presidential election. They were proven to be liar...wrong.
2011 - Standard & Poor's Financial Services lowered the United States' AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus. Obama was president.
Around 19 minutes into the "Tucker Carlson Tonight" interview, which is being released by the National Pulse piecemeal, Sund says, "If people were reporting the intelligence correctly, if I was allowed to do my job as the chief ... we wouldn't be here. This didn't have to happen," stressing, "I'm a little pissed off."
"Everything appears to be a cover-up," continued Sund. "Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. ... I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack for 71 minutes."
Biden Is Banning Nearly All Generators That You’ll Need For His Man-Made Blackouts
The old joke in which one fellow asks what the socialists used for lighting before candles and the other fellow answers “electricity” could use some updating.
Substitute “socialists” for “U.S. Democrats.”
But it won’t be just the Democrats using candles, it’s going to be all of us...
“Just months after a Biden-appointed regulator teased a ban on gas stoves, the administration is working to enact a rule that would prohibit the manufacturing of nearly all portable gas generators on the U.S. market,” the Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this week...
The federal judge assigned to former President Donald Trump's criminal case, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, is a leftist Obama appointee whose history of ruthlessly hammering Jan. 6 defendants, fighting the Trump administration, and rubbing shoulders with Biden donors might be of some concern for the Democratic incumbent's top political rival.
The families of several Americans killed or injured by Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front have filed a legal claim against cement maker Lafarge over payments the French company made to extremist groups.
Last year Lafarge became the first company in American history convicted of bribing a foreign terrorist organization after it admitted paying the two groups to allow it to keep operating in Syria.
The plaintiffs include the family of Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who was raped and murdered, as well as the families of journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, who were both beheaded by IS on camera in 2014. Read More
...However, it seems that the punitive measures introduced without any impact assessment have been seriously misguided, especially on the part of the EU.
Rather, the EU has punished itself by foregoing cheap Russian gas and being forced to buy expensive U.S. natural gas.
Strange as it may sound, the Brussels officials knew exactly that this would be the consequence of the sanctions they imposed....
Three days later, we dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
The Japanese warlords still voted 3-3 on surrendering.
Intervention by the emperor ended the war and the Japanese told the allies it planned to surrender, which it did on September 2. With the new movie Oppenheimer’s debut last month and the end of the teaching of American history in a positive light, lefties have resurrected the argument against using the A-bomb to end World War II. The Atlantic published the first and perhaps only rebuttal you need to read to this daft argument in December 1946.
Written by Karl T. Compton, an atomic physicist and president of MIT, one of the many people involved in the development of these two bombs, the article addressed the argument against the bombings. Compton wrote, “About a week after V-J Day I was one of a small group of scientists and engineers interrogating an intelligent, well-informed Japanese Army officer in Yokohama.
We asked him what, in his opinion, would have been the next major move if the war had continued.
He replied: ‘You would probably have tried to invade our homeland with a landing operation on Kyushu about November 1. I think the attack would have been made on such and such beaches.’ “‘Could you have repelled this landing?’ we asked, and he answered: ‘It would have been a very desperate fight, but I do not think we could have stopped you.’ “‘What would have happened then?’ we asked. “He replied: ‘We would have kept on fighting until all Japanese were killed, but we would not have been defeated,’ by which he meant that they would not have been disgraced by surrender...
As a Nazi officer pointed out, his other options were to become a Social Democrat or a communist, and the Nazis didn’t care for these people. Social Democrats were sent to camps, and communists were shot.
Matis’ duty was to patrol his small town, unarmed, with other Lithuanian Rifles and report back to the Nazis. He didn’t like Nazis, but he hated communists, and being a Lithuanian Rifle was better than a camp or a bullet.
Besides, Germany was the land of art and science. Germans were civilized, and the communists were animals.
Good riddance to the Stalinists who now found themselves under the gun.
Also, Germany was winning the war. Months after enlisting as a Lithuanian Rifle, Matis, in his mid 30’s, married and father to three children, began to hear insane rumors that the Germans were rounding up Jewish men and teens in nearby towns and shooting them in the forest. It can’t happen here Matis and his friends refused to believe the rumors.
Germans were cultured and sophisticated.
They led Europe in engineering.
Germany was home to some of the world’s best composers, like Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven. Germans built cities. Soviets, not Germans, were feral.
Stalin’s men deported thousands of ethnic Lithuanians out of Vilnius, and they were never seen again...
Facebook took steps to suppress true information or mere opinions about vaccines to avoid a "vaccine negative environment," according to internal company occupations viewed by Fox Business.
On a July 2021 call between Facebook employees and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's Office, a Facebook employee explained they were combating misinformation, but also working to contain information they admitted was "not false."
The Washington Post‘s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, gave President Joe Biden four Pinocchios for lying about his son Hunter Biden not making money in China.
Kessler documented two instances where Biden denied his son had made money in China...
1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."
1790 - TheRevenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.
1914 - Britain declared war on Germany. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.
1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.
1958 - Billboard Magazine introduced its "Hot 100" chart, which was part popularity and a barometer of the movement of potential hits. The first number one song was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool."
1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the Department of Energy.
1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.
A report from the Financial Times revealed that a company's environmental, social, and governance score has "little to no relation" to its carbon emissions, noting that high-rated firms pollute just as much as low-rated firms.
Felix Goltz, a research director at Scientific Beta, told the Financial Times, "The carbon intensity reduction of green [ie low carbon intensity] portfolios can be effectively cancelled out by adding ESG objectives."
Stopping Looters: We Ain't Gonna Take It, Any More By Ward Clark "It appears some people aren’t going to put up with brazen looters any more. The 1976 film Network had one iconic moment, where Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch, started a social phenomenon by declaring during a live broadcast that his viewers should all shout, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”
Looting of retail establishments has become a far worse pandemic than COVID was.
Thieves boldly walk in, stuff bags and boxes full of merchandise and stroll out, knowing nothing will be done.
Stores are resorting to all sorts of counter-measures, anything except actually apprehending and arresting the looters.
And let’s be clear; this isn’t what Americans usually consider shoplifting...
These people are looters, pure and simple.
They aren’t hungry, their motive is profit, and in lots of places, they’re just allowed to get away with it...
"Coors Light and Miller Lite are now 50% bigger than Bud Light by total industry dollars," Hattersley said. "Last year, Bud Light was bigger than both. Retailers are making space for our brands as demand increases."
The old joke in which one fellow asks what the socialists used for lighting before candles and the other fellow answers “electricity” could use some updating. 
