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menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
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Elon Musk Has ‘Cracked the Code’ on Government Secrecy Matt Margolis “The problem is, for decades, as we know, we haven’t been able to do that job well, because even though we requested the data and requested the insight, it was hidden,” Johnson explained. “How many of you know that bureaucracy was not forthcoming? Right? They’re not transparent. That’s the whole point. That’s the problem. That’s the Deep State we talk about.” “So they were hiding from Congress. We didn’t know that USAID was funding drag shows in Peru or whatever, you know, transgender operas in Colombia or whatever. You know, it’s madness. But Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies,” Johnson continued. “He’s created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data. And as he told me in his office, the data doesn’t lie.”  The Fight to Fix Higher Ed Is Just Beginning – Here's the Hard Road Forward Post Editorial Board In the first flush of wins like the Supreme Court ruling against racial preferences in college admissions and the Trump administration’s moves to stop men from competing in women’s college sports, it’s tempting to assume that total victory over wokeness in the academy will come just as swiftly. But a new Manhattan Institute report brings the necessary reminder that the fight will take far longer – witness the fact that at Barnard the administration is still encouraging pro-Hamas thuggery – but can be won. |
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| Trump Signs Executive Order Making English Official Language of U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order making English the official language of the U.S. The order revokes an executive order issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000, "Improving Access Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency," that required federal agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers. However, Trump's order notes it does not "require or direct" any change in services provided by any agency... The U.S. is one of just a few countries without an official language. About 180 of the 195 countries across the globe have made the distinction. | Executive Order |
| Elon Musk Exposes Soros ‘grift’ to Secure Billions in Federal Funding for NGOs Elon Musk’s latest appearance with Joe Rogan didn’t pull punches on GEORGE SOROS, dark money and the “alternate reality” of corporate media. Surprising no one, the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency to expose waste, fraud and abuse had garnered intense, coordinated pushback from the establishment which included politicians, pundits and union allies. “GEORGE SOROS is like a system hacker…He is a genius at arbitrage,” Musk said at one point of the Open Society Foundations founder. “He figured out that you could leverage a small amount of money to create a nonprofit, then lobby the politicians to send a ton of money to that nonprofit so you can take what might be a $10 million donation…and leverage it into a $1 billion NGO.” |
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| Soros-Backed NGO Filling GOP Townhalls with Fake Republicans A new report revealed that protesters posing as constituents are targeting Republican town halls in a coordinated effort against the Trump administration and DOGE. “Pushing fake outrage will backfire on them,” posted Elon Musk, who is the left’s current top enemy as he heads up President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Musk was reacting to a post noting: “The fake outrage at DOGE at GOP townhalls is being coordinated by a Soros-backed NGO called Indivisible.” |
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| Dems Fight Bill to Stem Fentanyl Flow Over Border, Grieving Parents Want to Know Why Democrat lawmakers are under fire for opposing a bipartisan bill that aims to stem the flow of fentanyl smuggled by drug traffickers. The HALT Fentanyl Act, aimed at permanently classifying fentanyl analogs under Schedule I, faces resistance from a drug policy nonprofit supported by GEORGE SOROS, which argues that the legislation would worsen mass incarceration and hinder research into these opioids. Democrats like New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker have echoed these concerns while attempting to delay the bill’s progress through amendments and procedural tactics, Fox News reported. |
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| Mexico Sends 29 Major Drug Capos to U.S. As Trump Tariff Threat Looms Mexico on Thursday handed over major figures in the country's criminal underworld to U.S. authorities, part of a surprise extradition of nearly 30 jailed convicts or others accused of ties to violent drug cartels. Some are aging gang leaders who reigned over international trafficking rings decades ago focused on cocaine and heroin. Others are much younger leaders engaged in moving large quantities of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. more recently. |
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| State Department Completes Foreign Funding Review, Identifying 15,000 Grants Worth $60 Billion for Elimination President Donald Trump's State Department completed its review of U.S. foreign aid, identifying nearly 15,000 grants worth $60 billion for elimination, an internal memo reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon shows. The review pertained to foreign aid that flowed from both the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Within the State Department, auditors reviewed more than 9,100 grants worth an estimated $15.9 billion. It identified 4,100 of those grants worth $4.4 billion for elimination. | |
| Former USAID Exec Says Over 95% of Staff Are Dems, Over 95% of Funding Went to Far Left NGOs Former COO of USAID Max Primorac had a shocking admission about USAID’s staff and funding recipients. President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have received a lot of grief from the left over its treatment of USAID, and after hearing what Primorac had to say, it’s no surprise Democrats are acting this way. It turns out, the vast majority of the money being disbursed by USAID was going to the left and left-leaning organizations. |
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| DOGE Reveals Most Savings at Dept. of Education with Nearly $1B Cut The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is claiming to have saved the most money at the U.S. Department of Education out of any federal agency through cuts in wasteful spending. Earlier this week, DOGE launched an ”Agency Efficiency Leaderboard” that ranks government agencies based on how much wasteful funding has been cut. The Department of Education is currently ranked in first place. | |
| Researchers Discover Sen. Ruben Gallego Benefited from ‘Smurfing’ Contributions Some election integrity researchers are expanding their investigation of politicians who benefited from questionable “Smurfing” campaign contributions and discovered that Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) received many of them. Smurfing refers to using straw donors to make campaign contributions; usually, elderly and unemployed people are unaware their identities are being used for money laundering. Many contributions are made under one name, sometimes thousands of them, and they are usually small amounts, often around $10 each, to escape detection. Peter Bernegger, one of the key researchers who discovered the Smurfing phenomenon, posted on X on Tuesday, “Arizona @SenRubenGallego caught Smurfing, i.e. criminally laundering money into his campaign! Note that this is just the tip of the iceberg. | |
| DOGE Says Texas Nonprofit with Former Biden Transition Member Reaped Millions Operating Empty Facility The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract with a nonprofit that was paid millions each month to operate a Texas overflow facility that sat empty, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a social media post, DOGE said a former U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021, where they helped the organization secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities. "As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023, the post states. | No Malarkey |
| Gabbard: Biden Regime Ignored ‘Highly Inappropriate’ Perv Chats for Years; DEI Possible Reason Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard confirmed Wednesday that Biden administration officials had been fully aware of all the filthy, explicit chats happening on the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) chat server. “I’ve had whistleblowers come forward just in the last few days who work in the NSA and who said, ‘Hey, we saw this, and we reported it through official channels under the Biden administration,’ and essentially they were told this is no issue, step aside,” she told Fox News. |
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| Israel to Resume War in Gaza and ‘Eradicate Hamas,’ Cutting Off Aid and Bombarding Strip with Troops Israeli decision-makers plan to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks with overwhelming force, sending in tens of thousands of troops to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas. Incoming military chief of staff Eyal Zamir has, at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz, started developing the plan, according to several current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of high-level discussions. Under the plan, Israel will deploy more troops to Gaza than it has to this point in the war – over 50,000 – before relocating the civilian population to humanitarian zones and waging a ruthless ground campaign against Palestinian terrorists across the rest of the strip. | |
| Pro-Israel Influencer Says Bibas Memorial in NYC 'brought out the worst' in Antisemites Pro-Israel influencer Zach Sage Fox has gone undercover in the West Bank, where he interviewed a freed terrorist, yet he says he saw "some of the worst antisemitism" while filming in Times Square. In the middle of New York City’s famous Times Square, Fox set up a memorial site for Ariel and Kfir Bibas with pictures of the two boys, orange balloons, orange flowers and a crib spray-painted orange. Orange has been used often to represent the Bibas children, both of whom were redheads. | |
| Dem Bid to End Trump Energy Emergency Squashed After Forced Senate Vote Democrats in the Senate failed to pass a resolution that would have reversed President Donald Trump’s executive order on "Unleashing American Energy" in a 53-47 party-line vote. The White House argued that scrapping the emergency would endanger nearly 900,000 jobs and have a negative $3.6 trillion impact. The order encourages domestic energy production on federal lands and nixed a Biden-era push to strive for more electric vehicles on the road. |  |
| Trump's Health Care Cost Transparency Order: What to Know Gabe Whisnant, Katherine Fung President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday mandating price transparency in some health care costs, calling it "one of the biggest things that can happen to reducing costs in health care." The order directs three federal agencies, the Treasury, the Labor Department and the Health and Human Services Department, to enforce the regulations he rolled out in his first term. The order mandates hospitals to publicly post online prices for some of their most common services, including MRI scans and C-section deliveries. Trump has long pushed for greater transparency to prevent patients from being blindsided by unexpected medical bills. | Naturally, hospitals and insurers strongly opposed the rule |
| Ethics Watchdog Flags Outspoken Dem Senator for Helping Wife Rake in Millions for Nonprofit Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is being accused of violating ethics rules after backing laws that financially benefited his wife's environmental organization. The Democratic senator and climate hawk voted for key laws that provided funding for grants to the environmental non-profit group that works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and pays her through a consulting firm. |
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| Dem Rep Ripped After Telling Musk to F--- Off in Viral Clip: 'Classy As Ever' Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett caused a social media firestorm after telling Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk to "f--- off" in the latest example of her public opposition to the newly formed agency’s push to cut government waste and spending. "F--- off," Crockett told reporter Joe Gallina outside Capitol Hill on Tuesday when asked what she would tell Elon Musk if she could tell him anything. Crockett’s reaction immediately drew blowback from conservatives on social media, who took issue with the liberal firebrand’s tone. |
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| The Fall of the USS Gettysburg Kevin Eyer  At around 0300, on Sunday, 22 December, the Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) shot down an F/A-18F preparing to land on USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75) while operating in the Red Sea. The Carrier Strike Group to which each of these units was assigned was an element of the U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian, assigned to protect Red Sea merchant traffic from Yemen-based Houthi attacks. |
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| Trump Says He's Terminating Chevron's Venezuela Oil Agreement Trump detailed the decision in a lengthy post on Truth Social, stating that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had not upheld his end of the bargain. "We are hereby reversing the concessions that Crooked Joe Biden gave to Nicolás Maduro, of Venezuela, on the oil transaction agreement, dated November 26, 2022, and also having to do with Electoral conditions within Venezuela, which have not been met by the Maduro regime," Trump wrote. "Additionally, the regime has not been transporting the violent criminals that they sent into our Country (the Good Ole’ U.S.A.) back to Venezuela at the rapid pace that they had agreed to," he added. |
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| Lebanon Seizes $2.5M Destined for Hezbollah After Stopping Man at Airport in 'unprecedented' Bust A man allegedly carrying $2.5 million in cash destined for the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah reportedly was detained Friday at Beirut’s airport in a bust that an expert told Fox News Digital is "unprecedented." "The detainee and the seized funds will be handed over to the investigation division at the General Directorate of General Security," Lebanon's finance ministry said in a statement obtained by Reuters, which cited sources saying that the man had been traveling from Turkey. "We are seeing indications that the terrorist Hezbollah group funded by the Islamic Republic is still committed to rearming and rebuilding its decimated infrastructure." | |
| Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, and There's One in the Next 11,000 Years Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today. What triggers these periods of glaciation, or ice ages, is difficult to pin down, though for some time researchers have strongly suspected quirks of Earth's orbit around the Sun are involved. New research has demonstrated the precise relationship between past ice ages and each wobble, tilt, and angle of the planet's path, unlocking a new tool for predicting the future fluctuations of our global climate. | |
| More Video Unearthed of Jake Tapper Covering up Biden’s Decline John Nolte More video has been uncovered of CNN’s Jake Tapper actively engaging in the conspiracy to cover up Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline. The backlash against CNN’s Jake Tapper and the bubbled arrogance that led him to write a book about the cover-up of Joe Biden’s obvious unfitness to be president has been both fierce and glorious. |
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| Tennessee Bill Blocks Doctors from Asking About Guns A new bill introduced in the Tennessee Legislature will prohibit healthcare providers, if passed, from asking patients whether they own or possess firearms or related items. Not only would HB 0387 defend Tennesseans from being asked an annoying and irrelevant question, but the law would come with some teeth, by way of a $1,000 fine and more if they do choose to pry. Representative Ed Butler introduced the bill and has previously sponsored measures dealing with education, taxes, and infectious disease. HB 0387 prohibits any inquiry into a patient’s ownership, possession of, or access to firearms, ammunition, or accessories, including the denial of treatment based on knowledge of the aforementioned circumstances. |
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| Understanding the Human Trafficking Crisis: Trump’s Policy Response In 2022, the National Human Trafficking Hotline documented over 10,000 cases, yet this figure represents merely the tip of the iceberg, as fear and coercion silence countless others. Traffickers reap massive profits from this $150 billion criminal industry, underscoring the urgent need for stronger prevention, prosecution, and survivor support. Awareness and action are critical to dismantling this pervasive threat. |
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| More Trans Terror? Texas Police Thwart 'Mass Casualty' Plot An apparent "transgender"-identifying homeless man allegedly plotted to carry out a "mass casualty" attack on police in Texas, targeting white officers specifically, similar to the 2016 shooting that a black extremist perpetrated against Dallas police. According to a Corpus Christi Police Department (CCPD) press release, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s local field office was tipped off about 21-year-old Seth Gregori a.k.a. "Andrea" Lozano making terroristic threats against CCPD personnel, white officers in particular. | |
| Martina Navratilova Takes Shot at Gavin Newsom Over California's Trans-Athlete Policy Tennis legend Martina Navratilova criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s policies regarding transgender participation in girls' sports as another issue appeared to arise. A triple-jump record was broken in California girls high school track and field last weekend, sparking the latest debate about trans-inclusion in girls' sports. The issue came as California bucked President Donald Trump’s executive order keeping biological males out of girls’ and women’s sports. Navratilova, who has championed fairness in women’s sports, took a shot at Newsom on X. |
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| Girl, 15, Who Refused to Compete with Biological Boy Target of ‘Bullying’ Probe The radically left-wing state of Washington is reportedly investigating a 15-year-old teen girl who refused to compete against a biological boy. The story began on Feb. 6th, when Tumwater High School (TSD) basketball player Frances Staudt refused to play because the opposing team featured a so-called “transgender” player named Andi Rooks. According to a legal complaint against the school filed on Staudt’s behalf by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR), when she realized that a boy was playing on the other team, she raised concerns with principal Zach Suderman and athletic director Jordan Magrath. |
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| The NCAA’s Transgender Policy Has a Massive Loophole Colin Wright Shortly after President Trump signed his executive order banning males from competing in female sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association president Charlie Baker announced that he and the NCAA Board of Governors would convene to align their policy with the directive. On February 6, the NCAA released an updated “Participation Policy for Transgender Student-Athletes,” which Baker described as a new “national standard” that “brings much needed clarity as we modernize college sports for today's student-athletes.” While the new policy might seem reasonable at a glance, a closer look reveals a giant loophole that could be used to defy the clear intent of Trump’s executive order. In fact, the updated protocols could make it easier for males to compete in women’s sports. | |
| Women Athletes Don't Compete vs. Transgender in Team USA Track Event, Giving Default Victory to Trans Athlete Transgender track and field athlete Sadie Schreiner took first place at the USA Track and Field (USATF) Open Masters Championships in the women's 400-meter dash in New York Saturday. The other participants in the event, Anna Vidolova and Amaris Hiatt, have no recorded times and are listed as DNS, did not start. Schreiner is 21 years old, while Vidolova is just 17, and Hiatt is 16. | |
| AG Bondi Dismisses DEI Lawsuits Brought Against Police, Fire Departments Under Biden Administration The Department of Justice has dismissed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) lawsuits brought against various police and fire departments across the country under the Biden administration, which deemed aptitude tests in certain cases as discriminatory. The lawsuits, which the DOJ said did not show evidence of intentional discrimination, were filed in efforts to require race-based hiring after statistical disparities between applicants of different races and genders. |
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| U.S. Launches 'End DEI' Portal for Public Complaints About Diversity in Schools The administration of Republican President Donald Trump has attempted to dismantle DEI initiatives since taking office on Jan. 20. Trump has issued executive orders targeting DEI in the federal government and private sector. Earlier this month, the Trump administration warned of cuts in federal funding for academic institutions and universities if they continued with DEI programs. A two-week deadline for educational institutions to end DEI practices outlined in that February 14 letter nears its end. A teachers union sued the Trump administration over that letter. |
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| Ex-Vikings Player Calls Tim Walz 'Disgusting, Disgrace to Football' for Letting Trans Athletes in Girls Sports Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer will be joining conservative activist Riley Gaines for a rally in his home state Monday to lobby for a bill to ban transgender athletes in women's sports. The "Preserving Girls' Sports Act" passed in the state's House Education Policy Committee Feb. 20 and will be voted on in the House of Representatives Monday. If it passes there, it will go to Gov. Tim Walz's desk, where it is expected to get vetoed because Walz is a strong advocate for transgender rights. |
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| How DOGE Could Take Down the Department of Education Christopher F. Rufo Since January 20, the president’s cabinet has pursued decisive action on virtually every political front. But the most high-risk, high-potential initiative has been Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Established in the shell of former President Obama’s U.S. Digital Service, DOGE was charged with eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in an effort to remake the federal government. For anyone else, such an initiative would have seemed quixotic. But for Musk, who has revolutionized multiple industries and thrives in high-conflict management scenarios, a cautious hope seemed appropriate. |
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| The Insanity In
Washington I & I Editorial Board We’ve noted before that Democrats and progressives are, with some exceptions, of course, mentally imbalanced. What we’ve seen in the first month of the Trump administration, though, is appalling. The political left in this country needs an intervention before it goes completely mad. We say this because: |
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| Trump Admin to Slash 1,600 USAID
Positions Just Before Midnight The Trump administration is eliminating over a thousand positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while also placing the majority of the remaining staff members on administration leave globally, just before midnight Sunday. The Associated Press reported that it learned from the Trump administration that 1,600 posts would be eliminated after reviewing notices that were sent to USAID workers. |
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| Hamas Linked to UNRWA, Aid Went
Straight to Leaders, Recordings Reveal Jerusalem Post Staff The humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip at the beginning of 2024 reached Hamas leaders instead of Gaza citizens, according to recordings of communications between Hamas operatives revealed by Channel 12 on Sunday. Israel presented the recordings to the U.S., Channel 12 claimed; however, the Biden administration was adamant that 250 trucks of aid enter Gaza on a daily basis. The recordings further revealed the close connection between Hamas and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). |
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| Hamas Holds Deranged Rally to
Celebrate Handover of Bibas Family Bodies Although Hamas claimed that the four bodies released to Israel on Thursday included Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, an Israeli forensics team announced late Thursday evening that the body believed to be Shiri’s was not, in fact, Shiri Bibas. Specialists at Abu Kabir Forensic Institute determined that Ariel and Kfir were “brutally murdered by terrorists” in November 2023 and that “the additional body received” was not Shiri’s. The specialist confirmed the identities of Ariel, Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz, a retired journalist. |
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| Congress Unmasks Perils of 'Beijing
Biden' Era: China's Expanding Mass Espionage Efforts The revelations made two years ago that Joe Biden’s family sought to cash in on communist China with millions in payments immediately raised concerns about what Beijing got in return. Now, new evidence unearthed by the U.S. House suggests America’s main adversary may have succeeded in launching a mass espionage blitz on the last administration’s watch. The House Homeland Security Committee last week painted the contours of China’s surveillance surge, documenting more than 60 espionage operations in 20 states during the Biden administration that unmasked the breadth of Beijing’s efforts to steal America’s intellectual property and the tools of its military might. |
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| Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Make
Plans for Major Budget Cuts to Align with Trump DOGE Priorities Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the agency to develop plans to slash 8% from the Department of Defense budget in each of the next five years to align with President Donald Trump's priorities, specifically to achieve peace through strength, officials said. Hegseth is asking for plans in an effort to identify offsets from the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget that could be realigned from low-impact and low-priority Biden-legacy programs, a statement from Pentagon spokesman Robert Salesses said. Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be drawn up by Monday, according to a memo. |
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| New FBI Director Kash Patel Will
Also Be Named Acting Head of the ATF New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday. Patel could be sworn in next week, the official said, putting Patel in charge of two of the Justice Department's largest agencies in an unusual arrangement that raises questions about the future of the bureau that has long drawn the ire of conservatives. |
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| HHS Splurged More Than $22B on
Grants for Migrants – Including Cash for Cars, Home Loans and Startups The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ramped up grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024 — which included cash assistance to buy cars, homes and even build credit for startup businesses, according to a shocking watchdog report that found taxpayers were left on the hook for $22.6 billion. HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) – which came under fire last year for having lost track of 32,000 migrant kids in the U.S. – handed out the high sum to a host of nonprofits, effectively acting as a “giant magnet” for those crossing the U.S. border and claiming asylum, auditors from the money monitor OpenTheBooks revealed exclusively to The Post. |
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| Biden’s Zombie DOJ is Still
Undermining Anti-Trust Law Thaddeus G. McCotter During Attorney General Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearings, pearl-clutching Democrat Senators ascribed the sins of the departed Biden administration onto the entering Trump administration: specifically, the weaponization of the Department of Justice against one’s political opponents. Blissfully inured to their mendacity and hypocrisy, these Democrat Senators were urging that the Golden Rule not be applied by AG Bondi. For over the past four years and more, these same august partisans were gleefully cheering ex-AG Merrick Garland as he stomped his left boot on the once sacrosanct scales of impartial justice to persecute their party’s opponents. |
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| Did a Senate Democrat Just Call for
an Insurrection? Matt Margolis Do you remember when Democrats accused former President Trump of incitement for telling his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” march to the Capitol to make their voices heard? Well, fast forward to today, and we have a sitting senator engaging in rhetoric that does far more than make a call for peaceful assembly. Earlier this week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) advocated for “revolution” while standing outside in snow-covered Boston, a site steeped in revolutionary history. “Massachusetts is where revolutions are born,” Markey began. “And the revolution against Donald Trump and Elon Musk starts here.” |
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| Let's Go Privateering! An Old Idea Gets New Enthusiasm. Glenn Harlan Reynolds  Time
to go a’privateering? We’ve heard a bit about letters of marque and
reprisal recently. Sen. Mike Lee has proposed bringing back letters of
marque in a thread on X, suggesting them as a tool for going after
Mexican drug cartels. Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, the private
security company (it’s rude to call them “mercenaries”) has also
weighed in in favor of this approach. This isn’t a new idea, really.
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| Kathie Lee Gifford Says Trump Saved
Her from 'Psychopathic Murderer' After She Received Death Threat During a recent interview on "The Sage Steele Show," the 71-year-old TV personality became emotional as she recalled the incident 31 years ago. Gifford said she and her baby daughter Cassidy were on their way to Atlantic City, where Gifford was to host the "Miss America" pageant, when her late husband, Frank Gifford, was notified she had received a death threat. "The FBI called my husband, and they said, 'Mr. Gifford, we have a problem. There's this guy. This is a very, very bad human being. [He] was a psychopathic murderer – a rapist and murderer. And he's coming to get your wife," she shared. |
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| 70 Christians Beheaded in African
Country by ISIS-Aligned Militants, Groups Say; World Mostly Silent Seventy Christians have been beheaded with machetes or large knives, according to multiple groups that monitor terrorism and persecution, by Islamist militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – and yet the world remains mostly silent. The 70 Christians were first rounded up by Islamist rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces, a group affiliated with the terror group Islamic State, or ISIS, according to Open Doors U.S., which monitors Christian persecution around the world. The Christians, reportedly all from the Lubero district, were forced out of their homes allegedly early in the morning of Feb. 13, with the rebels shouting, "Get out, get out." |
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| Nikola Goes Bankrupt, to Sell
Assets in Latest EV Market Turmoil Nikola said on Wednesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and would pursue a sale of its assets, the latest electric-vehicle maker to stumble after grappling with tepid demand, rapid cash burn and funding challenges. The development ends a challenging journey, which included several leadership changes, plummeting share values and short-seller allegations. EV startups that went public during the pandemic, promising to revolutionize the sector, such as Fisker, Proterra and Lordstown Motors have filed for bankruptcy in recent years as funding for their capital-intensive operations dried up due to high interest rates and flagging demand. |
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| What Really Sets the Global Climate
State? Kirby Schlaht What really does set the global climate state? The Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), has been underway for several years, preparing to drill the oldest continuous ice core record from Antarctica. The project is a major element in the Australian Antarctic Program, led by the Australian Antarctic Division and other national and international collaborators to answer that very question. Now, in 2025, the Australian Antarctic Division is leading one of the most ambitious and challenging scientific projects undertaken in Antarctica – the quest to drill an ice core containing over a million years of Earth’s climate and atmospheric history. |
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| MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid's Lefty Show As Network Makes Major Shakeup MSNBC liberal mainstay Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report. The 7 p.m. program hosted by ardent Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders. |
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| Brown Medical School Prioritizes
DEI Over 'Clinical Skills' in Faculty Promotions Brown University Medical School values a commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) over actual “clinical skills” when it comes to promoting faculty members. The promotion guidelines classify a “[d]emonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion” as a “Major Criterion” for promotion for several positions. More specifically, it entails pushing for DEI in “Research,” “Teaching,” “Clinical care,” and “Service.” On the other hand, several positions list “excellent” or “exceptional clinical skills” as a “Minor Criterion” – placing it lower than the “Major Criterion” of promoting DEI. |
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| Education Department Ends $600
Million in Grants for DEI, Critical Race Theory Trainings On Monday, the Trump administration terminated $600 million of federal grants to institutions and nonprofit organizations that were teaching left-wing ideologies to education agencies and teachers. The Department of Education announced the end of the grants and listed examples of how they taught critical race theory, social justice activism, “anti-racism,” diversity, equity, and inclusion, and other progressive concepts that hyper-fixate on race. |
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| New Report Exposes Botched
Procedures, Poor Conditions At Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics Planned Parenthood workers shared horror stories of working for the nation's largest abortion provider in a new report as the organization faces renewed calls to cut its federal funding. In a bombshell report by the New York Times published Saturday, over 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants and medical staff from affiliates alleged they worked under poor conditions with "rock-bottom" salaries, even as the national organization raked in hundreds of millions in donations after the fall of Roe v. Wade. |
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| Maternal Acetaminophen Use May
Alter Placental Gene Expression, Raising ADHD Risk In Children Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Maternal acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy is associated with a higher likelihood of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study led by the University of Washington. Acetaminophen (also called paracetamol) is widely used during pregnancy, with an estimated 41–70% of pregnant individuals in the United States, Europe, and Asia reporting its use. Despite its classification as a low-risk medication by regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, accumulating evidence suggests a potential link between prenatal APAP exposure and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including ADHD and autism spectrum disorder. |
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| In a 'Boy-Friendly' School, Boys Get More Time to Play, Socialize, Choose Activities Joanne Jacobs Boys are doing poorly in school compared with their female classmates, reports Education Week. Boys score half a grade level lower in reading in third grade, nearly a year lower in eighth grade. Meanwhile, girls are catching up to boys in math. In high school, boys earn lower grades and take fewer advanced classes. They'll be less likely to go on to college and less likely to earn a degree if they do. What works for boys? As part of Ed Week's series on boys' struggles, Elizabeth Heubeck reports on an all-male Baltimore private school that's redesigned itself to be more "boy-friendly." That includes more opportunities for "unstructured play, in-person socializing and choice" about social activities. |
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| Transgender Politician Who Defeated
12-Year-Old Girl in Marathon Defends Trans Inclusion in Women's Sports Nathanielle Morin, Canadian advisor to the Federal Minister of Women, released a statement this week defending the advisor’s participation in women’s marathons as a transgender biological male. Morin referenced President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that prevents trans athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports in the statement. "I am aware that my participation in so many competitions will be talked about because of my medical history. The situation in the United States and the comments of certain politicians do not help either," Morin wrote. |
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| Trans-Identifying Male Athlete Wins
Maine State Title in Girls' Pole-Vaulting That thing that never happens has happened again. An 11th-grade trans-identifying male high school athlete won a Maine state title in girls' pole-vaulting, defeating the closest competitor by more than six inches. Katie Spencer, as the trans-identifying male is now known, is a member of the girls' track and field team at Greely High School in Cumberland, Maine. Spencer captured first place with a pole vault of 10-feet, 6-inches on Monday at the Class B state indoor meet. Spencer defeated two girls from Freeport High School, who tied for second, with their equal 10-foot vaults. |
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| Former SJSU Coach Targeted After Opposing Transgender Athlete on Women's Volleyball Team The private residence of a former San Jose State University (SJSU) volleyball coach was recently vandalized. The coach, Melissa Batie-Smoose, had been critical of SJSU’s biologically male women’s volleyball player, Blaire Fleming. The vandalism occurred on Feb. 10, according to The Post-Millennial. Batie-Smoose, who had filed a complaint against the university for keeping Fleming on the team, was let go by the school after her contract expired in January. |
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| ‘You Better Comply’: Trump
Confronts Maine Governor Over Refusal to Protect Women’s Sports President Donald Trump briefly quarreled with Maine Governor Janet Mills on Friday after announcing that the Democratic-run state will not receive any more federal funding until it complies with his recent executive order barring men from competing in women’s sports. Trump directly asked Mills whether Maine will abide by federal law when it comes to protecting women’s sports. Mills responded she is “complying with state and federal laws.” Trump shot back. “We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t.” |
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| The Genius of the DOGE
Exposures William F. Marshall The American people have rightly been appalled at the outrageous expenditures Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been exposing at USAID, which not only demonstrates the striking wastefulness of our government but also an ingenious public relations strategy by the Trump administration. When Americans learn that their tax dollars are going to fund egregious projects around the world, it lays a foundation for the public relations framework needed by the Trump administration to bring American public opinion along on the necessary journey of restructuring the government. It makes people’s blood boil. |
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| How Trump Can Dismantle the
Department of Education Christopher F. Rufo There is a tingle of fear in any corporation whenever the words “restructuring,” “merger,” “acquisition,” or “hostile takeover” spread through the office. Employees work on their resumes, whisper about projected layoffs, and assess their options. We’re seeing the same phenomenon unfold right now in our nation’s capital. Since taking over last month, President Trump has promised to blitz through federal departments to roll back waste, cut ideological programs, and return fiscal sanity to American governance. While Republican presidents have long promised to “reduce the size of government,” they have usually failed to do so – the bureaucracy always wins. This time might be different. |
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| The Democrats Doth Protest Too
Much, Methinks I & I Editorial Board The Democrats’ reaction to the Department of Government Efficiency’s necessary mission might seem a bit excessive. But it is understandable. Their taxpayer-funded slush fund has been exposed. Rather than joining with Elon Musk, who is leading DOGE to root out federal waste and fraud, and improve the transparency of the murky federal leviathan, the Democrats are attacking him. At a rally a week ago outside the Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley, chanted “Elon Musk must go” along with a rabble that seems eager to do harm to the South African billionaire. |
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| EPA Chief Exposes Biden Admin’s
$50,000,000 Gift to ‘left-wing advocacy group’ The new administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, said he has canceled a Biden-era $50 million environmental justice grant to an organization that believes "climate justice travels through a Free Palestine." "Just earlier today, I canceled a $50 million grant to an organization called the Climate Justice Alliance," he said. "They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine. I think that the American taxpayer wouldn't want $50 million going to this left-wing advocacy group. It’s canceled." |
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| Trump and Vance Aren’t Defying the
Constitution, They’re Following It John Yoo and Robert Delahunty Under the Constitution, “the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion.” For his decisions, “he is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.” His choices cannot be questioned in court because “the subjects are political. They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive.” Who penned these outrageous words? Democrats and many pundits might answer Vice President J.D. Vance. Over the weekend, Vance provoked an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges “aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” |
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| Senator Reveals 'crazy' USAID
Threatened Her When She Tried to Curb Its Spending Last Year Sen. Joni Ernst is accusing USAID of intimidating and threatening her team in a brazen effort to obstruct congressional oversight. Speaking with DailyMail.com, the Iowa Republican tore into the agency, which has been effectively shuttered by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk. The senator said that the agency stonewalled her last year when she tried to investigate its cash flow. |
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| Liberal Analyst Warns Dems:
'Suicide' to Defend USAID Ed Morrissey I'd bet you could guess the identity of the liberal analyst within three guesses, even before I mention the name. Why? Because at the moment, the number of liberal commentators with any sense of the moment at all can be counted on one hand, with a finger or two left over. These days, the best of the potential guesses would be Bill Maher, James Carville, and Ruy Teixeira, all of whom tried to warn Democrats to get out of the Academia faculty lounge for the past several months. This time it's Teixeira, writing at the always-interesting Free Press, warning his allies that they are marching themselves off a political cliff with their all-in defense of USAID's unaccountable spending: |
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| Goodbye to the Roaring Twenties of
Regulation? A Cost Roundup Competitive Enterprise Institute The final Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations from the Biden administration appeared January 15. Here at the middle of this second decade of the 21st Century, the transition between Biden and Trump offers an opportunity to take stock as Trump tees up a ten-for-one operating mandate for rulemaking... What we can say now is that, by official estimates, 116 rules issued so far in the second decade of the 21st Century add $77 billion in annual regulatory costs... Among these rules are familiar examples like vehicle fuel efficiency, building energy conservation, industrial admissions standards, COVID-19 paid leave, as well as certain savings from the first Trump term that appear as negative values in the table above. |
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| Trump Goes for the Jugular with NGO
Funding Review, Imperiling Dem-Journo-Activist Cabal After decades of failure in its efforts to conserve American culture and rein in the federal bureaucracy, the GOP under President Donald Trump has finally struck at the heart of the progressive advocacy cabal by reviewing government funding of non-government organizations (NGOs) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) oversight into the latter this week revealed deep financial links between the federal government and left-wing journalism outlets that repeatedly push narratives supporting Democrats and progressive causes while demonizing Republicans and their objectives. |
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| Incompetent or Crooked? Elon Musk Exposing Washington's Rotten System Glenn H. Reynolds Democrats have their panties in a wad over the work that Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to control government spending. But despite all the hoopla, what’s actually going on is straightforward stuff that most people probably – but wrongly – assumed the government was doing all along. Musk went on to express disbelief that more than $100 billion worth of entitlements every year are going to “individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.” “When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!” he exclaimed. |
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| Billionaire-Funded Lawfare Takes
Another Big Hit in New Jersey David Blackmon Things are just not going well for the leftwing activist groups, billionaire-funded NGOs, and trial lawyer firms who have recruited a growing number of state and local government entities to sue U.S. oil and gas companies involving specious claims for damages caused by climate change. In recent months, the lawfare campaign, coordinated mainly from the offices of one San Francisco-based firm, has suffered a series of adverse judicial decisions in what appears to be a rising consensus in the nation’s courts. Just two weeks after suffering a major setback in a decision involving Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the pushers and funders of this lawfare campaign were tossed out in a case targeting ExxonMobil in New Jersey. There, Superior Court Judge Douglas H. Hurd dismissed the Garden State’s lawsuit with prejudice based on the same federal primacy arguments which prevailed in recent decisions in New York City and Baltimore, as well as in the Anne Arundel case. |
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| Border Czar Homan Sets DOJ Probe of
AOC in Motion Over Webinar on How Illegals Can Avoid ICE Border Czar Tom Homan made it clear that he’s not playing when it comes to impeding President Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration. During an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Homan referred to Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’ recent webinar where the Squad member gave a seminar on how to avoid deportation and apprehension. The border czar said he contacted the deputy attorney general to decipher if AOC is in legal trouble for breaking the rules. |
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| Missouri AG Sues Starbucks for DEI
Hiring Practices That Forced Workforce to Be ‘more female and less white’ Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) sued Starbucks for DEI policies that he charged led to unlawful discrimination. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) protocols adopted by Starbucks had the coffee chain prioritizing sex and race in its hiring practices while subjecting employees to segregated training and benefits, a lawsuit filed by Bailey on Tuesday alleges. |
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| Cancel Your Museum Trip. The Fauci
Exhibit Has Been Axed. Robert Spencer In comparison to the massive waste and fraud that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already uncovered, this is just a drop in the bucket. It is not so much a matter of money saved, however, as it is of rolling back the left’s sinister and destructive practice of forcing the celebration of its key figures as heroes. Anthony Fauci is no hero, and he doesn’t deserve a museum exhibit. Axing this exhibit is a step toward reclaiming the culture from the sinister authoritarians who have dominated it for far too long. |
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| Egg Prices Hit New Highs as Flocks
Wiped Out Over Virus Egg prices in the United States have never been higher. They likely will drop back to a more typical level, but no one can say exactly when. Various experts who spoke with The Epoch Times said the average price a consumer paid for a dozen eggs rose to more than $7 per dozen in early February. Americans in some regions are paying more than $8 a dozen, a record high. |
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| World Becomes Brighter as Trump
Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Leslie Eastman President Donald Trump has spent another day reversing Biden’s efforts to limit consumer choices over products that limit their options and hinder their quality of life. In the name of efficiency, Biden’s bureaucrats banned incandescent light bulbs, normal-flowing toilets, and effective shower heads. Trump has just instructed his Environmental Protection Agency administrator to bring them all back. |
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| Teacher on Leave After Anti-Trump
Unhinged Tirade and Verbal Assault on Student Was Caught on Tape A teacher at a Staten Island all-boys Catholic high school has resigned in disgrace over his anti-Trump ranting and raving. The unnamed teacher was recorded last week at Monsignor Farrell High School trash-talking President Donald Trump, calling him a dictator, and eventually cursing out what appeared to be one of his pro-Trump students. The ranting and raving reportedly started after the pro-Trump student brought up politics (presumably from a pro-Trump stance). This inspired the teacher to go off about Trump’s executive order releasing billions of water in California to fight the ongoing wildfires. |
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| Hospital Staff Suspended After
Video Shows Them Claiming to Have Killed Jewish Patients Two Sydney nurses who threatened on camera to kill an Israeli man and other Jewish people in their care were identified and immediately suspended from practicing. The Australian Department of Health and Aged Care announced in a statement on Thursday that the Nursing and Midwifery Council of New South Wales (NSW) suspended the registrations of registered nurses Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, effective immediately. Nadir and Lebdeh, who initially claimed they were doctors while donning scrubs, threatened Israeli influencer Max Veifer on an international video chat website called Chatrouletka. |
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| Judge Issues Restraining Order
After Trump Blocks Federal Funds for Youth Sex Change Operations A judge in Washington state has issued a temporary restraining order over President Trump's executive order that withholds federal funding to health care providers who prescribe youth puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or who perform surgeries for gender dysphoria. Judge Lauren King, in the Western Washington District Court, issued the order on Friday, two weeks after Trump signed the order, called "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation," on Jan. 28. |
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| UCLA Students for Justice in
Palestine Suspended After Harassing UC Regent and His Family, Vandalizing Home The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of California, Los Angeles was recently suspended after members of the group vandalized a regent’s home and harassed him and his family. University Chancellor Julio Frenk announced the development in a statement on Wednesday, saying the school will suspend both the SJP and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine after their attack on the home of Jay Sures, who sits on the University of California Board of Regents. Frenk related that, on Feb. 5, members of both groups “harassed Mr. Sures and members of his family outside his home.” |
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| Pakistani Immigrant Allowed to Stay
in Britain Despite 'Preying on Barely Pubescent Girls When His Wife Wouldn't Have Sex' A Pakistani immigrant has been allowed to stay in Britain despite preying on “barely pubescent girls” when his wife would not have sex with him. The paedophile, who has been granted anonymity for his own protection, was caught in August 2022 for messaging decoy children he believed were young girls online. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting three counts of attempting to cause a child under 16 to engage in a sexual act. |
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| Texas University on Edge As Police
Hunt Campus Sexual Assault Suspect Who Was Arrested, Released University of Houston students protested Wednesday amid a campus crime wave, following reports that a man accused of sexually assaulting and robbing a woman on campus was released shortly after his arrest, prompting police to now look for him. Eric Latroy Brown, 40, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon after he allegedly approached a woman in a parking garage on UH's campus and sexually assaulted her in her car at knifepoint on Feb. 7 around 5:30 p.m. |
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| Welfare for Colleges? NIH 'slush
fund' Allegedly Stiffs Research to Fund Administrative Bloat The sky is falling for the nation's wealthiest medical research institutions and their allies in government-subsidized media in the wake of the National Institutes of Health ratcheting back the extra money they receive for "indirect costs" as a percentage of research grants. The Association of American Medical Colleges portrayed the cut on "facilities and administrative" cost reimbursement as an attack on research grants themselves that will harm "every American" with "slower scientific progress, longer waits for cures, fewer jobs." |
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| Spoiling for a Fight:
Why Challenging Birthright Citizenship May Be a Win-Win Strategy for Trump Jonathan Turley This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright citizenship as absurd. Yet the administration seemed not only undeterred, but delighted. There is a reason for that euphoria: They believe that they cannot lose this fight. The legal case against birthright citizenship has always been tough to make, given the long-standing interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment in federal courts and agencies. Many in academia and the media have shown unusual outrage toward anyone questioning the basis for birthright citizenship as a legal or policy matter. |
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| Climate Warriors’ Legal
Woes a Win for the Country Jason Isaac Climate lawfare is an urgent threat to our high quality of life, but recent court decisions offer an encouraging sign for consumers and energy providers. In recent months, three judges in Maryland and New York have dismissed outlandish lawsuits that demand billions of dollars from energy companies over climate change. If successful, these lawsuits would empower far-left cities like San Francisco or Boulder, Colorado, to set energy policy for the entire country. |
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| DOGE Has Their Next Target, and
Libs Are Bound to Freak Out Matt Vespa The Department of Government Efficiency has been on a tear in DC. They’re acting like they have a mandate from the 2024 election, and they do. They’re uprooting, exposing, and shining light on the numerous pipelines of government waste and left-wing extremism that’s infected DC. They’re also clearing up many administrative issues, like worthless leases on barely used government offices. The DC bureaucratic class has tried to fight back. They can’t win. Those who stand in DOGE’s way are put on administrative leave. Give them access to the systems or else. Treasury, USAID, and the Small Business Administration are undergoing renovations, but the Department of Education is reportedly the next target for a dressing down (via WSJ): |
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| Trump Removes Antony Blinken,
Letitia James, Alvin Bragg's Security Clearances Among Others President Donald Trump decided Saturday to remove security clearances for several Democrats, including former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both of whom are vocal Trump critics, Fox News has learned. "Bad guy. Take away his passes," Trump told the New York Post of Blinken, Biden's Secretary of State. James and Bragg were involved in prosecuting Trump in New York last year and James' office filed a lawsuit on Friday on behalf of 18 other Democratic state attorneys general over the Department of Government Efficiency's access to the Treasury Department's payment system. |
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| Elon Musk Slams 'mean' Podcast
Hosts for Calling DOGE Employees 'Arrogant Little Pr---s' Among Other
Things Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk slammed podcast hosts and frequent CNN "experts" Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway via X Saturday, claiming the pair are "cruel, mean and deceitful human beings" who are "threatening" young DOGE professionals. Tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU professor Scott Galloway, who host the podcast "Pivot," said in a recent episode they want to see Democratic governors arrest DOGE employees, claiming the team is attempting a coup. While acknowledging DOGE has the authority to conduct actions ordered by President Donald Trump, Swisher said she didn't like that the team included many young professionals, whom she called "children" and "arrogant little pr---s." |
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| 'Swindled the American Taxpayer': New House GOP Internal Memo Rips Dem USAID Uproar An internal memo being circulated to House Republicans is urging lawmakers to argue that President Donald Trump’s handling of foreign aid is "already paying dividends" and that the Biden administration spent that money on initiatives like "a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department." The three-page document, obtained by Fox News Digital through a House GOP source, is being sent to members of Republican leadership as well as lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It includes two pages of recommended talking points, including, "America is spending $40 billion in foreign aid annually. Much of those aid dollars are not even reaching the intended recipients and are instead propping up an NGO industrial complex that has, for years, swindled the American taxpayer." |
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| USAID
Staffer Reveals Moment DOGE Arrived the Team Scrambled to Hide Pride Flags and Incriminating Materials Kevin Haggerty As increased exposure facilitated the GOP smackdown of waste in the federal government, an establishment-tied USAID employee detailed efforts to conceal “incriminating” materials. At once arguing the money spent by the U.S. Agency for International Development was vital but also a paltry sum of little concern, leftist lawmakers had little recourse but to seethe and cope as the Department of Government Efficiency shone a [light] on the obscene waste of American taxpayer dollars. |
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| 'Losing Their Minds': Dem Lawmakers
Face Backlash for Invoking 'Unhinged' Violent Rhetoric Against Musk Several Democratic lawmakers drew the ire of conservatives on social media after showing up at a rally against Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts and riling up the crowd with disparaging comments about the Tesla CEO, including calling him a Nazi. "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby, a godless lawless billionaire, who no one elected," Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said at a rally outside the Treasury Department where protesters were speaking out against DOGE. "Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the American people," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said while shaking her fist alongside Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. "We are here to fight back." |
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| Lawmakers Propose Legislation to
Revoke District of Columbia's Home Rule Act U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn. have introduced the Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident Act, or BOWSER Act, named after the district’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser. The lawmakers argue the legislation comes in response to the “mayor and city council’s failure to prevent violent crime, corruption, and voting by non-citizens.” The District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973 was enacted by Congress and ratified by D.C. voters. The act gave the district residents limited autonomy over local affairs, allowing them to elect local leaders, including mayors and council members. |
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| Pro-Trump Influencer Will Take
Legal Action Against New York Magazine Over ‘Despicable’ Cover Story  CJ
Pearson is taking legal action against New York Magazine
after its "despicable" cover story that he feels falsely painted
pro-Trump conservatives as racist. New York Magazine
writer Brock Colyar warned that a new generation of "casually cruel
Trumpers" are "conquering Washington" in a cover story headlined, "The
Cruel Kids’ Table." The glossy feature has since come under fire for
cropping Black attendees out of the cover image while quoting an
attendee who complained "the entire room is White." Pearson has not yet
filed a lawsuit but provided a formal notice to the magazine that he
plans to sue. |
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| Why Is the U.S. Not Vaccinating
Poultry Against Bird Flu? As bird flu wreaks havoc across the United States, with devastating consequences for birds, dairy herds, and even humans, the decision not to vaccinate poultry has increasingly come under scrutiny. While other countries have used vaccines as part of their strategy to control outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, the U.S. remains on the sidelines, citing trade concerns and logistical challenges. Vaccines for H5N1 bird flu have been available for years and have shown effectiveness in reducing infections and disease transmission in poultry. |
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| Trump DOJ Targets Blue County
Sheriff for Releasing Illegal Immigrant Criminal in Home of Cornell Univ. Emil Bove III, a former member of President Donald Trump’s personal legal team who was named acting deputy attorney general last week, said that the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York was looking into the "failure" of Tompkins County Sheriff Derek Osborne, a Democrat. "Yesterday, despite the warrant, a defendant with no legal status and a history of violence was released into the community," Bove said in a release on Thursday, Jan. 30. "Federal agents risked their safety and pursued the defendant in unsafe conditions." Bove noted "the U.S. Attorney’s commitment to investigate these circumstances for potential prosecution," shining a spotlight on the nationwide battle between federal agencies and local sanctuary policies, which have been embraced by the city of Ithaca, the seat of Tompkins County. |
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| LA Mandating Low-Income Housing in
Palisades Rebuild Could Be Unconstitutional, Experts Say A prominent public-interest law firm is warning that Los Angeles’ apparent requirement that older apartments be replaced with income-restricted low-income housing is an “unconstitutional taking” that, if applied to homes destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire, would add “insult to injury.” Last week, The Center Square reported on a newly passed Los Angeles ordinance that could require a large portion of apartment units lost to the Palisades Fire to be replaced with low-income housing. |
Using a fire disaster to advance social adgenda |
| Border Chief Homan Says Raid on
Tren de Aragua Gang Was Leaked, Vows Accountability Border czar Tom Homan promised on Feb. 6 to find those responsible for leaking the details of a raid targeting members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang and hold them accountable. “This isn’t a game,” Homan told reporters outside the White House. “When operations get leaked like that, it puts our officers at great risk.” The Venezuelan gang has become increasingly active in the United States amid a years-long surge in illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. It is one of several high-threat groups the Trump administration has prioritized for deportation. |
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| Prominent Pundit Wonders If Left
Wing 'nuttiness' Has Damaged Democratic Party Beyond Repair Prominent mainstream media journalist and author Joe Klein savaged the Democratic Party, claiming that its recent Democratic National Committee meeting proves the party’s "intellectual corrosion is comprehensive." In a new article for his "Sanity Clause" Substack series, Klein pointed out the various gender rules that the DNC rolled out during its meeting last week as proof that the party may be damaged beyond anything he’s ever seen. "Yes, friends, still crazy after all these years…and the encroaching dementia is not benign. Can this party be saved? I have my doubts," Klein wrote after quoting multiple articles detailing the complex gender rules established at the meeting. |
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| House Passes Bill Blocking Future
Presidential Bans On Hydraulic Fracking A bill preventing future presidents from unilaterally banning hydraulic fracking is on its way to the Senate after passing the House 226-188 Friday. Sixteen Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the Protecting American Energy Production Act, which will block future bans on hydraulic fracking without congressional approval, if enacted. “When President Biden took office, his administration took a 'whole of government' approach to wage war on American energy production, pandering to woke environmental extremists and crippling this thriving industry,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, said on X following the vote. “My legislation that passed today is a necessary first step in reversing Biden’s war on energy.” |
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| Denver: 2 High School Basketball
Coaches Fired for Antisemitism and Pro-Hamas Flags Toni Airaksinen  A
Colorado School is facing backlash after their Palestinian baseball
coach refused to shake hands with Jewish students on the opposing team,
and another staffer also showed up to the Jewish school and decked out
the rafters with keffiyehs and Palestinian flags with him. The
basketball game happened on the 22th of January, and many of my readers
in the Denver area sent the story to me. Their – “Coach O”, also known
as Samir Omar – arrived in a Lotus School uniform and keffiyeh has been
fired (as well as Sami Jabai, another coach who wore a keffiyeh). |
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| Israel Set to Ban Hamas-Infested UN
Agency UNRWA Israel is set to ban the United Nations’ Palestinian aid agency (UNRWA), as a law barring the Hamas-infested agency takes effect on Thursday. The ban comes after Israeli intelligence exposed the identities of hundreds of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists on the UNRWA’s payroll, with several of them taking part in October 7 atrocities. “Israel, with the backing of the Trump administration, will cut ties with UNRWA from Thursday,” the British newspaper Guardian reported Wednesday. |
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| Judge Calls Out University for
Making Jewish Students Hide in a 'Proverbial Attic,' Allows Lawsuit to Proceed The judge said that Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a small private four-year college located in Lower Manhattan, must face charges for neglecting to help Jewish students who had to lock themselves in a library during an anti-Israel rally on Oct. 25, 2023. "Title VI places responsibility on colleges and universities to protect their Jewish students from harassment, not on those students to hide themselves away in a proverbial attic or attempt to escape from a place they have a right to be," U.S. District Judge John Cronan wrote Wednesday in the opinion. |
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| Trump Order Banning ‘Chemical and
Surgical Mutilation’ of Children Is Already Saving Kids Jack Montgomery President Donald J. Trump’s executive order banning the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of American children through irreversible transgender medical interventions is already bearing fruit, with many institutions canceling or pausing all so-called “gender-affirming care.” The White House has produced an illustrative list highlighting various jurisdictions and institutions where poorly evidenced transgender treatments have been curtailed: |
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| Many Medical Providers End
Transgender Youth Procedures After Trump Order Late last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting “transgender” procedures on youth, including puberty blockers and surgeries such as mastectomies and penile reconstruction. In response, many medical providers including some of the top in the nation for performing them have announced they will comply with the EO. The EO states that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.” |
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| NY AG Letitia James Tells Hospitals
to Continue Sex-Change Procedures for Minors Despite Trump’s Executive Order New York Attorney General Letitia James warned local hospitals Monday that they will be in violation of state discrimination laws if they comply with President Trump’s executive order aimed at outlawing sex-change procedures for minors. “Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws, including those that prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their membership in a protected class, such as sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, military status, disability, or marital status,” James wrote in a letter to New York healthcare facilities. |
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| Not Kidding: Michigan Bi-sexual
State Rep Says She Sterilized Herself to Protest Trump  A
Democratic Michigan state representative told protesters Wednesday that
she underwent voluntary sterilization to avoid becoming pregnant during
President Donald Trump's second term, a left-wing media outlet
reported. "Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that
I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump's America,"
Rep. Laurie Pohutsky told anti-Trump protesters gathered Wednesday
outside the Michigan Capitol, according to a piece published by the
Michigan Advance. "I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an
administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate." |
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| 'Lost City' Deep Under the Ocean Is
Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before on Earth Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle sent to explore. They range in height from tiny stacks the size of toadstools to a grand monolith standing 60 meters (nearly 200 feet) tall. This is the Lost City. |
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| What We Know and What We
Don’t About January 6 John Daniel Davidson Just hours after his inauguration on January 20, President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people convicted of offenses related to the events of January 6, 2021. He commuted the sentences of fourteen additional people whose cases for a full pardon are still under review. Earlier that morning, to less fanfare, President Biden had issued “preemptive pardons” -- a type of presidential pardon with no historical precedent -- to all the members and staff of the House Select Committee on January 6 and to all the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before that committee. What could better illustrate that what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has become a political Rorschach test on which Americans remain deeply divided? |
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| The Tragedy of DEI Nate Jackson The utterly insidious result of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is that it politicizes virtually every staffing decision and leaves Americans arguing over racial divisions, even when tragedy strikes. Democrats believe this benefits them politically, which is why they’ve focused on race for as long as there’s been a Democrat Party. “You have to be a slave because of your skin color.” –Democrats, 1828-1865. “You can’t do this job because of your skin color.” –Democrats, 1866-1964. “Employers have to hire you because of your skin color.” –Democrats, 1965-present. That’s a gross oversimplification, perhaps, but it illustrates the racial obsession that has been a fundamental part of Democrat politics for 200 years. |
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| Mike Lee Proposes Issuing Letters
of Marque Lincoln Brown I haven't talked to Mike Lee in years. He is one of my senators, and I occasionally fire off a missive to his office, but we haven't had a one-on-one conversation since my radio days. Lee has never been at a loss for a quip or a novel idea, and let's be honest: the drug cartels south of the border have no intention of going away, no matter how many planes we send to Colombia. So why not think out of the box? Lee has proposed that the government return to issuing letters of marque. For those of you not versed in pirate lore (meaning anyone who does not have the same weird fascination with it as I do, which is likely everyone), a letter of marque was a document issued by a government to privateers to loot and plunder ships belonging to enemy nations. The crews or, more likely, the owners got a cut of the take. Many privateers also engaged in piracy, although one of the most famous pirates in history, Henry Morgan, despised being called a pirate and considered himself a one-time privateer and a loyal subject to the British crown. |
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| Musk Rips 'fraudulent' Treasury
Handouts As Reports Mount DOGE Has Access to Federal Payment System Tech billionaire Elon Musk ripped alleged "fraudulent" Treasury payments on Saturday as reports circulated that the Department of Government Efficiency has gained acces to the federal government's payment system as the second Trump administration continues cutting what they say is government fat and overspending. "The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once," Musk, the chair of DOGE, posted early Saturday morning to X. |
Treasury spends $6 TRILLION per year on payments for federal agencies. |
| 'Essential to Our Nation's
Sovereignty': Noncitizen Voter Crackdown Led by GOP Ahead of 2026 Midterms Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced the bills this week, with four lawmakers co-sponsoring the entire package and various other members supporting specific pieces. The three pieces of legislation are a bill to prohibit noncitizen residents of Washington, D.C., from voting in local elections, a bill to block noncitizens from helping administer elections and a constitutional amendment to prevent noncitizens from voting. It is currently illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Though the law does not apply to state and local elections, there is currently no state in the U.S. that allows noncitizens to vote in statewide elections. Some areas, however, allow for noncitizens to vote in local-level elections – including Washington, D.C. |
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| CBS News to Hand Over Transcript of
Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ Interview to FCC Amid $10 Billion Trump Lawsuit CBS News announced it would comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) demand that it turn over the transcript of a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that is the subject of President Trump’s lawsuit against the company. The FCC, led by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, sent a letter of inquiry to the news company on Wednesday, requesting the "full, unedited transcript and camera feeds." "We are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do," a CBS News spokesman said in a statement on Friday. |
Playing fast and loose with the truth - FAFO |
| NY Dems Working to Keep Stefanik's
House Seat Vacant for Months in Latest Scheme Against Trump "We still haven't seen the final proposal from the Democrats in Albany, but there's no doubt that Tammany Hall corruption is alive and well in the state capital," Republican New York Assemblyman Matt Slater, who represents the state's 94th district in areas of Putnam and Westchester counties, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive Zoom interview on Sunday morning. "It is just blatantly corrupt for the New York State Democrats to keep changing the rules of engagement simply out of self-interest. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are struggling in so many different ways. U-Haul just gave us our worst migration rating ever because there's so many New Yorkers who are fleeing this state. So they can get things done, but they only do it when it benefits them," Slater continued. |
This is the crap that turns the public off on politics generally and the Dems specifically |
| Trump Envoy Richard Grenell Secures
Freedom for 6 Americans Following Meeting with Maduro in Venezuela Following a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to discuss, in part, the release of Americans being held in the country, Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions announced on X Friday night that he was returning to the U.S. with six of them. "They just spoke to @realDonaldTrump and they couldn’t stop thanking him," Grenell said in his post without identifying the six men, four of whom were dressed in light-blue Venezuelan prison outfits. |
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| FAA Diversity Hiring Under Renewed
Scrutiny After Deadly DC Air Disaster Despite direct links between the air disaster in Washington, D.C. and federal hiring practices remaining unclear, the deadliest crash in 15 years has returned to the forefront of concerns about aviation industry safety, including past efforts to prioritize diversity over merit in the air traffic control profession. After the crash, newly inaugurated President Donald Trump called out past efforts during the Obama and Biden Administrations to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) hiring practices, including for important air traffic control specialist roles, and issued an executive order requiring a review of government hiring in the industry. |
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| Dropping a Bomb on DOD DEI Nate Jackson  During his Senate confirmation hearings, newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promised he would dump the Left’s social engineering via DEI and return the military to a meritocracy. He and his boss, Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump, are off to a good start. “Our standards will be high,” Hegseth told the Senate, “and they will be equal (not equitable, that is a very different word).” Over the weekend, he posted on X, “The President’s guidance (lawful orders) is clear: No more DEI at [the Department of Defense]. The Pentagon will comply, immediately. No exceptions, name-changes, or delays.” |
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| Iron Dome Is a Big Deal Douglas Andrews You could practically hear the snickers on the Left when, on June 18, 2018, President Donald Trump directed the Department of Defense to begin the process of establishing a new military branch called Space Force. “Our destiny, beyond the Earth,” he said, “is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security.” Nobody’s laughing now. On Monday night, Trump continued his shock-and-awe strategy by signing yet another executive order – this one to create a next-generation missile defense shield he calls “Iron Dome for America.” |
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| U.S. Kills Key Figure in Syrian
Terrorist Group Linked to al-Qaida, CENTCOM Says U.S. forces launched an airstrike in northwestern Syria this week that killed a high-ranking member of a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaida, according to U.S. Central Command. Muhammad Salah al-Za’bir was a senior operative in Hurras al-Din, CENTCOM said late Thursday in a statement, which added that the fatal strike had occurred the same day. The strike was part of U.S. forces’ ongoing efforts to disrupt terrorism in the region, especially as Syria transitions to a new government following the ouster of longtime strongman Bashar Assad. |
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| Trump Says He Ordered Airstrikes
Against ISIS in Somalia President Donald Trump on Saturday said he ordered military airstrikes in Somalia against the Islamic State or ISIS, which were aimed at a terrorist attack organizer and others from the terrorist group. "These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians." |
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| How Trump's Team Will Break Down
the Woke Bureaucracy Tyler O'Neil Americans are unifying behind President Trump far more than we did in 2017. Eight years ago, cries of “not my president” resounded through Washington, DC, but this year, it seems the hard-left “resistance” has gone out with a whimper. Unfortunately, that’s not the case inside the federal government. A new poll from Napolitan News showed that 64% of the federal bureaucrats who work in DC and voted for Kamala Harris vow not to implement a lawful order from Trump if they consider it bad policy. |
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| California’s Policies Drive Up
Residents’ Energy Costs, But Experts Say Impacts Go Nationwide “It's almost impossible for a refiner to do business now in California, and I don’t think a lot of them are going to stay,” Michael Miche, University of Southern California professor and management consultant, told Just the News. Much of the U.S. military guarding the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii relies heavily on petroleum products from California’s refineries. This includes Air Force assets in California, Nevada and Arizona, as well as the Pacific Fleet and Third Fleet, which is based in San Diego. “They're all dependent on California refineries providing aviation fuel, diesel fuels and gasoline for their operations,” Miche said. |
No Gouging! Data reveals net profit margin of $0.09/gal. |
| Large Solar Plant in Mojave Desert Appears Headed for Closure 11 Years After Opening A massive solar plant in the Mojave Desert, Ivanpah Solar Project, appears headed for closure 11 years after its opening. According to ABC News, the plant has been struggling to stay competitive against cheaper solar technologies on the market such as photovoltaic solar. Earlier this month, Pacific Gas & Electric said it is ending its contract with the Ivanpah solar power plant, which launched in 2014 using concentrated solar. |
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| DNC Lambasted for 'Beyond Parody'
Leadership Vote That Included Singing, Gender Rules: 'Can’t stop laughing' The DNC voted to elect Minnestota Democrat Party leader Ken Martin as its chair on Saturday, after eight candidates vied to succeed Jaime Harrison. Following the Democratic Party's losses in November, when Republicans reclaimed the White House and Senate and retained control of the House, the DNC's chair vote serves as a fresh slate for the party as they ramp up strategies and fundraising for the next election cycle. Conservatives and critics took to social media over the weekend to highlight what they viewed as the most out of touch speeches and comments from party leaders, including the election of left-wing activist David Hogg as one of its three co-chairs. Hogg is an outspoken gun control advocate... |
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| ICE Nabs 7 Illegal Immigrants By
Bringing Back Tactic the Biden Admin Stopped Using U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted a worksite raid at a car wash in Philadelphia that led to the arrest of seven illegal immigrants, the agency announced. The agency said that ICE agents encountered, interviewed and arrested seven illegal aliens for immigration violations, who were later detained pending removal... ICE has arrested more than 7,400 people in nine days across several states amid its aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration since the new Trump administration came into office. |
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| Pentagon Pulling Gen. Milley's
Security Detail and Clearance 'immediately,' May Face Demotion in
Retirement Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is "immediately pulling" retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News. The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to "undermine the chain of command" during President Donald Trump's first term, officials say. |
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| Jury Nullification in New York Stephen I. Siller Wake up, New York! Did you pay attention to the Trump trials? Did you realize how your rights as a citizen have been abrogated by the New York legal system? Please read the post-trial Trump jury charge and watch the New York juror orientation video. In past years, Chief Judge Judith Kaye’s orientation video depicted the 1735 John Peter Zenger case, which New York schoolkids learned about in pre-woke days. That video told jurors of our inalienable right to find a defendant not guilty if jurors thought the law in the case was immoral, wrong, wrongly applied, or just plain unjust. Jurors could nullify a judge’s jury instruction, which would otherwise give the jury no choice but to find the defendant guilty. |
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| Nearly 80% of Americans Don’t Want
Men Playing in Women’s Sports Surveying nearly an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, a poll taken by the New York Times and polling company Ipsos showed that the majority of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men in women’s sports. Of those surveyed, 79% answered that men “should not” compete in women’s sports when posed with the following question: “thinking about transgender female athletes – meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female – do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women's sports?” |
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| DEI Oaths in Taxpayer-Funded
Medical Schools Draw Legal Threats, Bump Against Trump Orders Public universities are still testing the legal limits of what they can force students to say, even if it's not clear what they expect students to do, prompting confrontations with free-speech groups and likely the second Trump administration, which has wasted no time invoking executive power against all forms of diversity, equity and inclusion. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a legal warning letter Friday to the University of Connecticut School of Medicine for apparently requiring freshmen to recite what FIRE called an "ideologically-charged version of the Hippocratic Oath" at their "white coat ceremony" last summer, which kicks off their medical education. UConn Med has been stonewalling FIRE since a staff member in the admissions office told FIRE in a Jan. 7 phone call the oath is mandatory, which would violate SCOTUS precedent dating to World War II, the letter says. |
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| Two U.S. Service Academies End
Minor in Diversity and Inclusion West Point Military Academy and the Air Force Academy have both ended their “Diversity and Inclusion Studies” minors. As late as Jan. 8, West Point, based in New York, offered its DEI minor, while as of Jan. 9 the Air Force Academy, based in Colorado, still offered its DEI minor, according to internet archives. Currently, a minor in “Diversity and Inclusion Studies” is no longer listed on either service academy’s website. Around the same time the DEI minors disappeared, President Donald Trump ended all DEI programs in federal agencies via an executive order. |
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| Gender-Mutilation Whistleblower
Finally Vindicated Samantha Koch Among the many bold moves and statements that President Donald Trump has made during his first 10 days in office, countless Americans felt a huge sigh of relief as he declared in his inaugural address the official national stance on gender. “As of today, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.” Parents can finally see the light at the end of the gender-madness tunnel, looking forward to regaining the right to guide the moral path of their own children. Normal non-woke teachers hope they can return to providing an actual education. That also goes for many throughout the medical field, in both the mental and physical health areas of care, who look forward to being able to reject the pressure to psychologically and physically “transition” their patients, upholding their pledge as doctors and surgeons to do no harm. |
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| President Donald Trump to Deport
Hamas Sympathizers on College Campuses, Defund CRT with New Executive Orders President Donald Trump ordered a law enforcement crackdown on antisemitism on college campuses, including removing pro-Hamas activists with student visas from the country, Fox News has learned. Trump's directive gives all federal agencies a 60-day window to identify civil and criminal authorities available to combat antisemitism and deport anti-Jewish activists who broke any laws. "It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence," the order reads. |
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| FDA Escalates Walmart Broccoli
Florets Recall to Highest Threat Level: Risk of 'Death' A recall over Walmart-sold broccoli florets has been escalated to Class I, the highest threat level, as consumers are warned to discard the food products over potential contamination. Braga Fresh has been recalling some packages of its ready-to-eat 12oz Marketside Broccoli Florets since Dec. 27. The FDA announced the recall on Dec. 31 and recently upgraded its classification. Class I recalls, which are the most serious category of FDA food recalls, refer to "situation[s] in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death." |
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| It’s Morning in America,
Again I & I Editorial Board When Donald Trump takes the oath of office today, he will do something no president has managed in modern times. He’s getting a second chance to make a first impression. Today, Trump is like a breath of fresh air after a long, dark, and dreary winter. The team he’s assembled is completely new, bursting with top talent eager to kick reforms into high gear. Where incumbents usually take their second terms leisurely, riding on their successes, Trump’s second-term agenda is more aggressive and wide-ranging than his first. |
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| Trump’s Merit-Based DEI
Executive Order Is a Sledgehammer William A. Jacobson I previously wrote how Trump Signed Executive Orders Rescinding Biden’s “Racial Equity” Agenda and Eliminating DEI Throughout Federal Government. Those executive orders rescinded Biden’s 2021 and 2023 “Racial Equity” executive orders, and also banned DEI within federal agencies and programs. That was big. Pursuant to those executive orders, federal DEI staffers were put on leave and DEI offices ordered closed starting at 5 p.m. today. But that was nothing compared to the Executive Order signed last night, January 21, 2025, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (the “Merit-Baed EO”), which targets discrimination done in the name of DEI. |
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| Trump Strikes Back with Retaliatory
Measures Against Colombia for Rejecting Deportation Flights "I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people," Trump wrote on social media. "Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures," Trump continued. |
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| JD Vance Clashes with CBS Anchor,
Margaret Brennan, Over Unvetted Refugees – Birthright citizenship She specifically asked whether he stood by his past comments that the U.S. should not "abandon anybody who's been properly vetted." "Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants, or all these refugees have been properly vetted," Vance said. "In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks in our country. That happened during the campaign, if you may remember. So, clearly, not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted." ... "This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers," Vance said. "But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that, 240 years later, that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world. No country says that temporary visitors, their children will be given complete access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship." |
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| Democrats Sure Do Have a Lot of
Criminal Friends I & I Editorial Board In their latest email, our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, which has become an indispensable daily source of valuable information and sharp commentary, included a chart of presidential pardons going back to Harry S. Truman. Until Joe Biden, pardons were almost entirely reserved for people who had actually been convicted of crimes, but even without those pre-crime pardons, Biden leads the pack by an eye-popping margin, with 8,064 in his four years. Nobody comes anywhere close. Trump pardoned just 237 in his first term.  |
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| Coast Guard Commandant Terminated
Over Border Lapses, Recruitment, DEI Focus Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, 61, has been terminated by the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman, the official said. These include the failure to address border security threats, insufficient leadership in recruitment and retention, mismanagement in acquiring key acquisitions such as icebreakers and helicopters, excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and an "erosion of trust" over the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor, which was the Coast Guard's internal investigation into sexual assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy. |
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| "YOU'RE FIRED!": Trump Boots 4
High-Profile Biden Appointees Including Mark Milley Tyler Durden "Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again," Trump wrote on Truth social just after midnight Tuesday. "Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon,” Trump said before listing off the four officials in the post that ended with “YOU’RE FIRED!" |
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| Secretary of State Rubio Hails
Release of U.S. Prisoner in Belarus As Controversy Hangs Over Nation's Election Crediting President Donald Trump's leadership, Rubio said in a post on X that "Belarus just unilaterally released an innocent American, Anastassia Nuhfer, who was taken under Joe Biden!" No further information was immediately released about Nuhfer or her release, as some social media users marveled about not knowing an American had been jailed in Belarus during former President Joe Biden's administration. |
Biden admin kept public in the dark about prisoner |
| New CIA Boss Ratcliffe Says
Biden-Era Report Backing Lab-Leak Theory Released to 'restore' Trust The CIA's decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story marks a step toward transparency with the American people, newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News on Sunday. Speaking in his first interview since being confirmed as the agency's director last Thursday, Ratcliffe spelled out the insights he made public shortly after taking over the post and affirmed the importance of restoring trust in American institutions. |
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| Feds
Round Up 50 Tren De Aragua Members at 'makeshift nightclub' in Denver
As ICE Raids Bust Child Rapists and Suspected ISIS Terrorists Federal agents rounded dozens of members of Tren de Aragua in an overnight raid on a “makeshift nightclub” in Denver – after the vicious Venezuelan prison gang terrorized the city and the suburb of Aurora. The DEA said agents in Colorado interrupted an “invite-only party” where dozens of the gangbangers were cutting lose in Adams County – just outside Denver city limits. The busts netted cash, weapons, guns and drugs – including Tusi or “pink cocaine,” a powerful narcotic that the gang has played a major role in distributing across the U.S. |
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| Trump Says He May Send Nearly
90,000 Newly Hired IRS Agents to Border After Issuing Indefinite Hiring Freeze President Trump said Saturday he is considering sending nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service agents to guard the southern border, just days after he issued an indefinite hiring freeze on the federal agency. The 47th Commander-in-Chief told a boisterous crowd of supporters that he could also fire the IRS employees, many of whom had salaries funded by $72 billion provided for the federal agency under the Inflation Reduction Act. |
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| Trump Rapidly Fortifies U.S.
Borders with Plans for 10,000 Troops, Immediate Deportation of Illegal Crossers Welcome to President Trump’s fortress America. In just three days, the commander in chief has moved to dramatically beef up security at the border – with plans to send in 10,000 U.S. troops and summarily detain and deport any illegal border crossers. The sweeping changes underway are meant to help U.S. law enforcement agencies to stop illegal migrants from entering the country, and make it easier to send back the ones who are already here. |
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| Stefanik Calls United Nations
'antisemitic,' Will Review Funding Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., called the United Nations "antisemitic" on Tuesday during her confirmation hearing to become the U.S. ambassador to the international organization, adding that she will review the funding of UN programs. Stefanik, speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was asked to describe the UN in one word, and responded, "antisemitic," the New York Post reported. Stefanik said that the U.S. must change the UN's antisemitism by being "a voice of moral clarity on the UN Security Council and at the United Nations at large for the world to hear the importance of standing with Israel," according to The Post. |
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| Canadian Leader Ready to Work with
Trump to Resurrect Keystone XL Pipeline Thomas Catenacci Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, Canada, said Tuesday that she would like to restart conversations with Trump administration officials about reapproving the Keystone XL oil pipeline or permitting additional Canada-United States oil pipelines. Smith is prepared to leverage her own authority and work with President Donald Trump on the issue, she told the Washington Free Beacon in a Tuesday interview. Her government is seeking to double its oil and gas production, she said, which means the province will need additional pipeline infrastructure to transport that product to its destination. |
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| The Big Reversal Robert Bryce It took the re-election of a battered Republican candidate – and a milestone rejection of the Democratic Party’s climate and energy policies by the American electorate – to stop the years-long assault on rural America, our landscapes, and our wildlife by Big Wind and its many allies. But yesterday, in a landmark executive order, President Donald Trump ordered that all federal agencies must immediately assess “the environmental impact of onshore and offshore wind projects upon wildlife, including, but not limited to, birds and marine mammals.” For over a decade, Big Wind has dodged and weaved, and denied responsibility for its impact on everything from eagles to North Atlantic Right Whales. |
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| Trump’s Moratorium on Offshore Wind
Development Gives Wind Industry’s Opponents in Blue States Hope Kevin Killough Among the plethora of executive orders President Donald Trump signed after being inaugurated Monday was a withdrawal of all offshore areas for wind leasing. For the dozens of coastal grassroots community groups opposed to offshore wind, the order is welcome news... "The Biden administration rammed them through the approval process without proper oversight, transparent lease agreements, or a full understanding of their devastating consequences. They are an economic and environmental disaster waiting to happen,” Rep. Jefferson Van Drew, R-N.J., said. |
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| Trump Must Reject USPS Electric
Boogaloo David Williams  The
United States Postal Service is bleeding red ink. America’s mail
carrier lost an astounding $9.5 billion in fiscal 2024 and expects to
lose an additional $60 billion to $70 billion by 2030. It certainly
hasn’t helped that the agency is spending $9.6 billion on a vehicle
procurement plan that includes 66,000 electric vehicles. These vehicles
are two to three times more expensive than their conventional
counterparts, but that has somehow not deterred the USPS. Agency
leadership has even convinced Congress to spend $3 billion of taxpayer
money on this nonsensical “deal.” Fortunately, USPS EVs may not be long
for the roads. According to a report by Reuters’
Jarrett
Renshaw and Alexandra Ulmer, incoming President Donald Trump, “is
considering canceling the U.S. Postal Service’s contracts to electrify
its delivery fleet, as part of a broader suite of executive orders
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| This Biden Pardon May Already Have
Caused Innocent Deaths Paul J. Larkin and Dakota L. Wood Former President Joe Biden’s last-minute clemency decisions included pardoning his son Hunter, Joe Biden’s siblings and their spouses, and commuting the capital sentences of almost every federal prisoner on death row. They have drawn a boatload of public attention and justified criticism. Indeed, some will likely cost people their lives. That is clear in the pardon Biden issued to arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Last October, The Wall Street Journal reported that, in August 2024, the Houthis in Yemen sent emissaries to Moscow to purchase $10 million in automatic weapons. There, according to the WSJ’s sources (which included a European security official), the Houthi agents met Viktor Bout, an infamous arms trafficker responsible for perhaps hundreds of thousands of deaths. |
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| Senate Dems Block Born-Alive
Abortion Survivors Protection Act Senate Democrats blocked on Wednesday legislation that aims to protect babies born alive in botched abortions. By a 52-47 vote along party lines, the Republican-led upper chamber failed to invoke cloture on the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” A two-thirds majority was needed for consideration of the legislation to commence. The chamber’s two newest members, Sens. Ashley Moody (R-FL) and Jon Husted (R-OH), who were appointed to replace Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, respectively, cast their first vote in favor of the bill. |
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| Washington State Bill Would Make
‘Gender Expression,’ Illegal Immigrants Protected Classes in K-12 A Washington bill introduced this legislative session would add new protected classes to a state law regarding nondiscrimination against students in the public school system, including “gender identity” and illegal immigrants. Although proponents of the legislation say it is needed to ensure certain students are treated equitably, critics testifying at the bill’s Tuesday public hearing argued the definitions are not only confusing, but would put Washington’s K-12 system at risk of losing federal funding due to President Donald Trump's executive order in which the federal government only recognizes male and female sexes. |
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| K-12 Education Is Mediocre Because Teaching Colleges Set Mediocre Standards Prof. Nicholas Giordano Would you trust a surgeon who was never required to pass anatomy or board a plane with a pilot who didn’t have to demonstrate flying proficiency? Of course not. So why are millions of students forced into classrooms with underqualified teachers and professors who lack the skills, subject matter expertise, and training necessary to provide a quality education? New Jersey’s recent announcement that it will eliminate basic reading, writing, and mathematics proficiency exams for aspiring teachers is a symptom of a much broader problem. The real crisis is the failure of our education colleges to maintain high standards. |
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| Cruz Introduces Bill to Expand
Tax-Deferred Educational Savings Plans U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has introduced the Student Empowerment Act to expand a tax-deferred education savings plan previously expanded under the first Trump administration. The three-page bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit kindergarten through grade 12 educational expenses to be paid from a 529 account. A 529 account is a tax-advantaged savings account originally created as a way to help parents save money to cover colleges expenses. It allows for tax-exempt withdrawals at the federal level and in some states for qualified education expenses. |
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| Up to 250,000 Children Born to
Illegal Migrants in 2023: Preliminary Report The birthright citizenship debate exploded back into the national discourse this week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning it. Trump's ban was slated to take effect on Feb. 19, but a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked the order. Some experts believe the issue will eventually be settled by the Supreme Court. Should the ban eventually go into force, it would likely impact tens of thousands of children born to the parents of illegal immigrants. |
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| West Point Appears to End Its
Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor “West Point has ended its ‘Diversity and Inclusion Studies’ minor,” wrote former Department of Education Press and current spokesperson from the Defense of Freedom Institute Angela Morabito in a Wednesday X post. Morabito, a former fellow at Campus Reform, posted side-by-side pictures of the West Point website from Jan. 8 and Wednesday, showing that the DEI minor is no longer present on the academy’s “Majors and Minors” page. “The web page for the minor program has been scrubbed, too,” she added. |
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| Can Trump Make America
Safe Again? Heather Mac Donald Upon being nominated in 2021 to head Joe Biden’s Justice Department, Merrick Garland announced that the DOJ’s top priorities would be “ensuring racial equity” and “meeting the evolving threat of violent extremism.” The U.S. had just lived through race riots, mass looting, and the largest annual homicide increase in the country’s history. Americans were getting robbed at gunpoint while eating in restaurants; thieves were smashing trucks and SUVs into storefronts to make off with merchandise, cash registers, and ATMs. But when Garland and his boss referred to violent extremism, they were referring to white supremacists. |
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| No, CNN and BBC, 2024
Wasn’t the ‘Hottest Year on Record’ When ALL of the Available Evidence Is Considered Anthony Watts A number of mainstream media outlets have uncritically echoed the proclamation of 2024 being the “hottest year on record,” such as, CNN with a story titled, “2024 Confirmed as World’s Hottest Year on Record”, and the BBC with a headline that declared, “2024 Confirmed as Hottest Year Ever Recorded.” When these media reports are examined in long-term historical context of the available global temperature data, it becomes clear that the claims lack the certainty their headlines proclaim and are likely false or exaggerated. |
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| Appeals Court Deals Blow to
Obama-Era Amnesty for Dreamers A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy that provides amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. as children. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled unanimously that a new version of the policy issued by President Biden in 2022 overstepped the executive branch's authority. The decision by two Republican-appointed judges and one Democratic-appointed judge is the latest blow to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in a string of legal challenges that has kept 500,000 so-called Dreamers waiting for a resolution for more than a decade. |
Once again a Biden fantasy deals cruel blow to illegals used as political pawns |
| Biden’s DOJ Offers MS-13 Gang
Leader a Sweetheart Deal After at Least 7 Murders. Why? Vivek Saxena An MS-13 gang leader responsible for at least seven murders has been granted a veritable sweetheart plea deal by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ). Instead of receiving either the death penalty or life in prison, gang leader Jairo “Funny” Saenz, 28, received only 40 to 60 years in federal prison, according to the New York Post. He was reportedly all-smiles during the sentencing hearing. |
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| Weiss Report: Hunter’s Drug Use
Can’t Explain Away Not Paying Taxes on Money Earned by 'Last Name' "As a well-educated lawyer and businessman, Mr. Biden consciously and willfully chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over a four-year period. Weiss wrote in his final report, which was released Monday. "Mr. Biden made this money by using his last name and connections to secure lucrative business opportunities, such as a board seat at a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate, Burisma Holdings Limited, and a joint venture with individuals associated with a Chinese energy conglomerate. He negotiated and executed contracts and agreements that paid him millions of dollars for limited work," Weiss continued. |
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| One of Joe Biden’s Last Acts in
Office Laced with Cruel Irony John Loftus | Daily Caller News Foundation One of President Joe Biden’s last acts in office is laced with a terrible irony. On Monday, Biden honored one of the most incompetent and harmful presidents in American history. The president who was responsible for the Iraq invasion, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, who ripped apart American families and scarred veterans, who expanded the surveillance state and eroded civil liberties, all while throwing away trillions and trillions in tax dollars: George W. Bush. |
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| 'Make Greenland Great Again':
Trump's House GOP Allies Unveil Bill to Authorize Country's Purchase President-elect Donald Trump's House GOP allies are clearing the runway for him to make good on his vow to acquire Greenland. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is leading a bill to authorize Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark over purchasing Greenland, a territory located in North America but with longstanding cultural and geopolitical ties to Europe. The bill is titled the "Make Greenland Great Again Act," according to a copy of its text obtained by Fox News Digital. |
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| Chicago Official Slams Mayor's New
ICE Guidelines: 'Who is the mayor trying to protect?' Johnson on Friday released guidelines for how to handle ICE visits on city property, while reaffirming his administration's "commitment to the welcoming city ordinance." Bracing for a change in federal administration, the mayor’s office assured the city would continue to comply with the 2017 Illinois Trust Act, which prohibits local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration enforcement. |
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| Michael Rapaport Goes Ballistic On
Gavin Newsom Over LA Fires: ‘Trump-Proofing California? Try
Fire-Proofing' Actor Michael Rapaport went off on California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a video on Tuesday, telling the Democrat "there’s no more mistakes for you, you’re done!" The "Only Murders in the Building" actor said that "Gavin with the good hair Newsom" was talking about "Trump-proofing" California when he should have been focused on "fire-proofing" the state. "You’re talking about Trump this, Trump that. He’s not even president," the 54-year-old said in a video he posted to Instagram as the Southern California fires, which have burned thousands of homes, entered their second week. |
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| Fire, Snow and a Storm of Climate
Nonsense I & I Editorial Board It never takes long for the foolish to break out and Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t disappoint on Wednesday when he tweeted: “80,000 people told to evacuate. Blazes 0% contained. Eight months since the area has seen rain. The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable. Climate change is real, not ‘a hoax.’ Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is.” Unfortunately, he speaks for the many who are uninformed and naive, as well as those who want to use the man-made global warming narrative as a means to fundamentally change this country – and the West – into a political society run by leftists who, to borrow an applicable phrase, have difficulty resisting their authoritarian impulses. |
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| Shameless Kaine His Hypocrisy Is Worse Than You Know. John A. Lucas Virginia Senator Tim Kaine gave one of the more disgraceful performances in Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, and that’s saying something because he had some stiff competition. But you don’t know the half of it – his hypocrisy is worse than you know. |
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| Stacey Abrams Group to Pay Largest
Fine for Campaign Violations in Georgia History A voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams will pay $300,000 for illegally supporting her 2018 gubernatorial campaign – the largest fine ever assessed for violating Georgia campaign finance laws. Under a consent order approved by the State Ethics Commission on Wednesday, the New Georgia Project admitted it raised and spent millions of dollars to support Abrams’ unsuccessful campaign without registering as an independent political committee and disclosing its activities, as required by state law. |
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| Republican Congressional Members
Outraged Over Biden Plan to Remove Cuba from State Sponsor of Terrorism
List A high-level source U.S. government source with direct knowledge about Cuba confirmed to ADN Cuba that the Biden administration will remove the communist regime from the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. The source also stated that the decision came directly from the Democratic administration at the White House, not the State Department. The decision comes just six days before President Biden will relinquish power and President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in on Jan. 20 and has outraged prominent Republican members of the U.S. Congress. |
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| Can This Huge Oil Discovery Revive
the Bakken Oil Boom? Charles Kennedy – Oil Price.com North Dakota’s claim to oil fame has long been the Bakken shale, one of the top shale plays in the country. The Bakken is considered a rather mature play, but now, studies by researchers with the state’s Department of Natural Resources have opened up the prospect of a second life for the Bakken. It is called Three Forks – a reservoir that lies within the Bakken shale play and may contain as much as 250 million barrels of crude as of yet untapped. And that oil is not too deep in the ground either, the researchers determined. |
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| CNN Defamation Trial: Losing Case
Was Expected but Still a Bad Bruise for the Network, Insider Says "Being found liable for defamation and dishonesty is a bad thing," the employee said bluntly in a message to Fox News Digital. Navy veteran Zachary Young successfully alleged CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the "black market" during the Biden administration's military withdrawal from the country in 2021. Young believes CNN "destroyed his reputation and business" by branding him an illicit profiteer who exploited "desperate Afghans" during the Nov. 11, 2021, report that first aired on CNN’s "The Lead with Jake Tapper." |
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| The Post Adopts
a New Mission Statement John Sexton Yesterday we learned that hundreds of Washington Post staffers are begging Jeff Bezos to step in and possibly save them from looming decline after recent layoffs and several reporters leaving for other outlets. No word on whether Bezos will respond to that request for a meeting signed by 400 employees. But we do know that the paper is trying to convince employees they are not circling the drain but about to expand dramatically. The paper's official slogan remains "Democracy Dies in Darkness" but behind the scenes they are trying out something less goth: Riveting Storytelling for All of America. |
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| Texas A&M Cancels
Conference Trip Excluding White and Asian Students After Governor Backlash Texas A&M University pulled the brakes on an upcoming conference trip after Gov. Greg Abbott, R., discovered that only applicants of a particular race could attend. On Monday, conservative activist Christopher Rufo posted an image of the university promoting the PhD Project’s Annual Conference in Chicago. The application specified that the conference is "designed for historically underrepresented individuals considering business doctorial studies," and only Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic American or Native American/Canadian Indigenous students were eligible. |
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| Biden EV Road Trip Stunt Was Worse
Than First Thought I & I Editorial Board When Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her staff of clowns bungled a four-day ramble in 2023 to show off the wonder of electric vehicles, the lasting impression would be the report of her advance team blocking an open charger so she wouldn’t have to wait for one. A federal report, however, reveals details that cast the entire charade in an even worse light... |
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| AOC Mocked for Hysterical Rant
Defending Trans Athletes in Girls' Sports: 'Trans girls are girls!' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was once again the subject of a viral roast campaign after an unhinged rant on the House of Representatives floor on Tuesday. Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in a two-minute tirade that included both false and unsubstantiated claims. Her speech ended with an unexplained claim that "CEOs love this bill" as it relates to the ongoing California Wildfires. |
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| Teachers Union Webinar Encourages
Teachers to Oppose Trump, Make Students in U.S. Illegally 'Feel Less Afraid' The National Education Association hosted a webinar on Wednesday encouraging teachers to oppose President-elect Donald Trump on immigration reform, saying their goal is to make students who are in the country illegally "feel less afraid." "Right now, there are laws on the books that prohibit immigration agents from venturing on to school grounds, and so various people in the Trump administration would like to roll that back," Jennifer Berkshire, author of The Education Wars, said. |
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