States See Spike in Gas Tax Heading Into July 4th Weekend

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Ahead of the upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend, several states have imposed an increase in state gas taxes.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, gas prices in the U.S. have continued to rise with the national average currently set at $4.842, according to data from AAA. In comparison, on the same day last year, the national average gas price was listed at $3.123.

Several states, such as Indiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Maryland, Virginia and California have increased their state gas tax effective Friday, July 1.

The increase in state gas tax across these different areas comes ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, where millions of Americans are expected to travel via car. AAA recently estimated that 47.9 million people will travel via car over the upcoming holiday weekend, driving at least 50 miles. It’s not just gas that’s increasing though. Some of your favorite July 4 foods have increased prices, too. (Read more from “States See Spike in Gas Tax Heading Into July 4th Weekend” HERE)

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Poll: Trump’s Lead on Biden Increases in Hypothetical Matchup

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Former President Trump’s lead on President Joe Biden increased over the last month, an Emerson College Polling survey released Friday found.

Biden’s approval rating is underwater, down 13 percent as 40 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove of his job performance. However, that reflects a two-point uptick in approval since last month.

Despite that, the survey found former President Trump increasing his lead in a hypothetical match-up against Biden. According to the survey, 44 percent choose Trump in a hypothetical 2024 presidential matchup, compared to 39 percent who said the same for Biden. Another 12 percent indicated they would vote for someone else, and five percent remain unsure.

Trump’s five-point lead reflects an increase from May’s results:

(Read more from “Poll: Trump’s Lead on Biden Increases in Hypothetical Matchup” HERE)

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Marvel to Introduce Gay Spider-Man

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Marvel Comics will introduce a variant character of a gay Spider-Man with a “fearlessly femme” identity.

The writer of one of the Spider-Man comics revealed the name of the gay Spider-Man and some character costume designs on his Twitter account Thursday.

“Something I realized immediately when conceiving Web-Weaver is that he can’t — and shouldn’t — represent ALL gay men. No single character can,” said Steve Foxe in the tweet.

“His fearlessly femme identity is central to who he is, but it’s not the STORY— which you can experience for yourself in September!” he added.

Foxe later protected his tweets so that only his followers could access them. (Read more from “Marvel to Introduce Gay Spider-Man” HERE)

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Vasectomies Soar After SCOTUS Overturns Roe

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Younger men who either don’t want or fear having children, no longer confident that the women in their life can abort their babies because of the SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade, are surging in their desire for vasectomies.

Urologists and staff at medical offices around the country have noticed an increase in demand for vasectomies.

“A vasectomy is permanent male sterilization,” Dr. Puneet Masson, Assistant Professor of Urology and Director of the Male Fertility Program at Penn Fertility Care, stated. “That being said, life changes—it’s a very dynamic process.”

“Dr. Alex Shteynshlyuger, director of urology at New York Urology Specialists in Midtown Manhattan, estimated that calls about vasectomy procedures to his office have soared by more than 500 percent this week with many consultations booked for July and younger men jumping on the bandwagon,” the New York Post reported.

“Staff at medical offices told The Post that they have been stunned by the number of childless, younger men asking about the procedure during which the tubes that carry sperm are cut or blocked,” the Post added. (Read more from “Vasectomies Soar After SCOTUS Overturns Roe” HERE)

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GOP Governor Says He Won’t Support Trump in 2024

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[RINO] Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Friday he will not support former President Donald Trump if he decides to run again in 2024 due to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Hutchinson said the former president’s attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election was a “threat to our democracy” and “institutions of government.” However, he does not believe the January 6 committee has made a criminal conduct case against Trump.

“That’s not the kind of behavior we want to see in a responsible president,” he told the CBS Mornings co-hosts.

CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked Hutchinson to clarify if he agrees with Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney that Trump is a “danger to the nation.”

“Everybody phrases it in a different way, I would not be supporting him for 2024,” he added. “He acted irresponsibly during that time. Was he a risk to the nation? Absolutely.” (Read more from “GOP Governor Says He Won’t Support Trump in 2024” HERE)

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The Jan. 6 Committee Is Causing Never Trumpers to Lose Their Minds

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Something is very wrong with the supposedly right-of-center media outlets and commentators treating the Jan. 6 committee like something other than the appalling Stalinesque show-trial that it is. In particular, the Washington Examiner and National Review both ran embarrassing, delusional op-eds about the hearings this week. The Examiner even ran an editorial declaring, “Trump proven unfit for power again.”

Why is Trump “unfit for power”? Because of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony on Tuesday. It was hailed by the corporate press as “explosive” and “damning,” featured on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, and replayed ad nauseum on all the cable news shows.

Before we get to the Examiner and National Review, we need to talk about the Hutchinson testimony. Hutchinson, who was billed as a star witness for the committee, did indeed make a number of explosive claims on Tuesday. The problem is that she didn’t actually witness anything. Her hearsay claims were blown to pieces almost as soon as they appeared, in some cases because people with firsthand knowledge immediately came forward to dispute them, and in other cases because the claims themselves were ridiculous on their face.

Perhaps the most outrageous accusation from Hutchinson was that on Jan. 6 an enraged President Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential vehicle and lunged at his security detail when he was told he could not join the protesters marching from the White House to the U.S. Capitol after his rally.

(Read more from “The Jan. 6 Committee Is Causing Never Trumpers to Lose Their Minds” HERE)

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Voters Are Frustrated with Biden’s Ongoing Border Crisis

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. . .A poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports found that 73 percent of Americans consider immigration a critical issue for the U.S.

Fifty-two percent of voters believe the problem of illegal immigration is getting worse by the day.

They’re not wrong. Since the beginning of 2021, the number of illegal aliens crossing the border has increased tremendously, reaching over 200,000 encounters per month on several different occasions, according to the Washington Examiner.

Sixty-seven percent of respondents said that Biden has done a “poor” job of handling the immigration issue, citing that they don’t believe it will be better any time soon.

This comes after Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling allowing the Biden administration to abandon a Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy. (Read more from “Voters Are Frustrated With Biden’s Ongoing Border Crisis” HERE)

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Quarter of Voters Getting Ready to Take up Arms Against the Government; Majority Say its Rigged and Corrupt

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More than one in four Americans have so much disdain for the government that they believe it may be necessary “at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government,” according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

Just days before Independence Day, the poll shows that 28% of voters hold such a belief, including one in three Republicans, roughly one in three independents and one in five Democrats.

A majority of Americans also said the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me,” including two-thirds of Republicans and independents, and about half of Democrats. (Read more from “Quarter of Voters Say They May Soon Have to Take up Arms Against the Government, Poll Says” HERE)

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Biden to Award Highest Civilian Honor to…First COVID Vaccine Recipient?

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Ahead of the long Independence Day weekend, the White House announced a new round of Medal of Freedom recipients — the nation’s highest civilian honor — citing President Joe Biden’s belief in the “possibilities” of America. The recipients — 17 total — will be awarded on July 7th in a ceremony at the White House.

In addition to decorated veterans and leaders from Democrat special interest groups, there are a few eyebrow-raising selections. John McCain, a close friend of Biden’s during their time together in the U.S. Senate seems like an obvious choice, as does Gabrielle Giffords, the former congresswoman who was shot while hosting a constituent event in her district. Steve Jobs, Simone Biles, and Denzel Washington round out the star power of Biden’s list, and the inclusion of civil rights, labor union, and social justice leaders makes sense for a Democrat administration.

But then there’s Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse from New York City — a jurisdiction where Democrat leaders botched their response to COVID and made the situation for frontline health care workers even worse. As the White House release explains, Lindsay “was the first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials.”

Where’s the medal of freedom for those who stood up to the Biden administration’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate? You know, real *freedom* fighters. What about a border agent that’s dealing with an unprecedented assault on the U.S.-Mexico border by illegal immigrants, drugs, and weapons? Like, maybe, the mounted border agents that Biden has falsely smeared. (Read more from “Biden to Award Highest Civilian Honor to…First COVID Vaccine Recipient?” HERE)

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Biden Tells Americans Angry About High Gas Prices That They’ll Have to Pay up ‘as Long as It Takes’ to Defeat Putin in Ukraine; WH: Put Up With High Gas Prices for ‘the Future of the Liberal World Order’

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By Fortune. Americans will endure high gas prices “as long as it takes” to quell Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion, U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday.

Did he check with Americans before saying that?

A reporter at a NATO summit press conference in Madrid asked Biden how long it’s fair “to expect American drivers and drivers around the world to pay that premium for this war,” referencing Ukraine.

“As long as it takes, so Russia cannot, in fact, defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine,” Biden said.

National average gas prices have topped $5 a gallon this month—a new record, despite Biden’s historically large release of national reserves earlier this year. Biden has called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months to help alleviate the economic burden to consumers, but has encountered resistance from his own party. (Read more from “Biden Tells Americans Angry About High Gas Prices That They’ll Have to Pay up ‘as Long as It Takes’ to Defeat Putin in Ukraine” HERE)

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WH: Put Up With High Gas Prices for ‘the Future of the Liberal World Order’

By Breitbart. Thursday, during an appearance on CNN’s “Newsroom,” National Economic Council Director Brian Deese defended President Joe Biden’s remarks earlier in the day, claiming Americans may have to deal with higher prices as the world grapples with an aggressive Russian President Vladimir Putin setting his sights on Ukraine.

Deese called Biden’s remarks a claim about what was at stake, which he called the “future of the liberal world order.”

“What you heard from the president today was about the stakes,” he said. “This is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm. But at the same time, what I’d say to that family, to Americans across the country is, you have a present administration that is going to do everything in its power to blunt those price increases and bring those prices down. Good news, over the last two weeks, we’ve seen the price at the pump come down about 20 cents, but it is still unacceptably high.” (Read more from “WH: Put Up With High Gas Prices for ‘the Future of the Liberal World Order’” HERE)

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