U.S. Texas Has Seized More Than 422 Million
Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Since 2021, Governor Says
Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/23/2023 3:31:32 PM
Texas officials have seized more than 422 million lethal doses of fentanyl since the launch of the state’s Operation Lone Star program in March 2021, governor Greg Abbott announced on Friday. “Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott’s office said. “Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden’s open border policies.” Abbott said in a statement that the program has also led to 394,200 illegal-immigrant apprehensions and 31,300 criminal arrests.
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Talk about being sold a bill of duds.
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“Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?”
That’s an observation by Richard Fernandez on Twitter, and he has a good point. There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days.
But for the most part it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom.
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WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 rioter who repeatedly struck a police officer with a flag pole as the officer was being dragged down the steps of the Capitol was sentenced Monday to more than four years in federal prison.
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IRS to End ‘Most’ Unannounced Home
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after Alleged Abuses 12 replies
Visits, Reversing ‘Decades-Long Practice’
after Alleged Abuses 12 replies
The IRS announced Monday that it will “end most” unannounced home visits in a move that “reverses a decades-long practice.”
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Stop the insanity, please
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Am I insane to think that one of the key foundations of any civilization is the ability to communicate clearly? A shared language and history matter.
Politics, science, economics, family life, education…they all rest on our ability to find common ground in communication. Without language, all we can do is point and grunt.
Precision in language is especially important in things like science and law. And the current assault on our language is particularly troubling and acute in both these areas. What you can say and how you can say things are being circumscribed, and the very meaning of terms we all used to understand are being altered beyond recognition.
U.S. Texas Has Seized More Than 422 Million
Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Since 2021, Governor Says 7 replies
Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Since 2021, Governor Says 7 replies
Texas officials have seized more than 422 million lethal doses of fentanyl since the launch of the state’s Operation Lone Star program in March 2021, governor Greg Abbott announced on Friday.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp contacted by Justice
Department special counsel in 2020 election probe 7 replies
Department special counsel in 2020 election probe 7 replies
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The Decline of DEI
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unborn babies in massive federal family
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A Leading Climate Scientist Expresses
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Doubt About the Veracity of the Global
Warming Movement 14 replies
A new book by a leading climate change scientist gives reason for hope that the light of truth is shedding a few rays into the dark, dystopian, ideologically driven pseudoscience known as global warming.
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