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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
—Thomas Jefferson

“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error.
It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”
—Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

“Immigrants soon find their place in urban life, they soon adopt, externally, town manners and opinions, but for a long time they remain foreign to civic thought. One cannot make a social philosophy one’s own as easily as a new costume. . . More menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture, but not in thought.”
—Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, p. 38 (1922)

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics
doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”
—Pericles, Greek statesman, 495–429 BC

“I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of
individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.”
F. A. Hayek, Economic Freedom and Representative Government (1973)

Truth is always stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.
— Mark Twain

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
— H. L. Mencken

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance.
The one thing it cannot be is moderately important." — C.S. Lewis

To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil,
and in some small way to become evil oneself. —Theodore Dalrymple 


"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward,
an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative,
by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction.
The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
—Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand

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The Liberals’ License: How the Left Finds Release in an Age of Rage
Jonathan Turley
“We should replace our piece of crap Constitution.” Those words from author Elie Mystal, a regular commentator on MSNBC, are hardly surprising from someone who previously called the Constitution “trash” and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of “all voter registration laws.” But Mystal’s radical rhetoric is becoming mainstream on the left, as shown by his best-selling books and popular media appearances. There is a counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country. And although Mystal has not advocated violence, some on the left are turning to political violence and criminal acts. It is part of the “righteous rage” that many of them see as absolving them from the basic demands not only of civility but of legality.

Supreme Court slapdown of Judge Boasberg Sends Message to Federal Judges on Overreach
Ben Whedon
The Supreme Court decision reversing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s block on President Donald Trump’s deportation of gang members under the Alien Enemies Act sent a stern message to federal judges nationwide that overreach and venue shopping won't be tolerated. The Trump administration has witnessed a record number of temporary restraining orders (TROs) against its policies, with lower-level federal judges imposing sweeping blocks on executive actions, notably those involving immigration. The Department of Justice has repeatedly urged the Supreme Court to narrow the scope of federal injunctions or to clarify the extent of lower court judges’ authority to interfere in executive branch operations.

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Week ending 13 April 2025

How “Tesla Takedown” Activists Fool the Public
Christopher F. Rufo and David Reaboi
Last month, a wave of more than 200 protests targeting Tesla properties erupted across the United States. The media portrayed this movement, officially branded the “Tesla Takedown,” as a spontaneous grassroots backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s role in dismantling waste and fraud in the U.S. federal bureaucracy. Each of these demonstrations appears to have been sparsely attended, but both the number of protest sites and the timeline of events suggest a coordinated effort. A closer look suggests that Tesla is the latest target of an activist and organizing ecosystem that the Left has built over decades. That infrastructure manufactures, amplifies, and strategically uses protests and “direct actions” to force concessions or policy change. ...The goal is to bypass the normal channels of democratic decision-making, obtaining desired ends through minoritarian pressure campaigns.
Hardly a grassroots movement
Jonathan Turley on Why the Left Began Hating Musk
David Strom
By now there are a ton of reasons why the left hates Elon Musk. His role in DOGE and defunding the illicit and evil NGOs and threatening the sinecures of leftists like Stacey Abrams tops the list, but Musk turned into their Emmanuel Goldstein long before Elon hooked up with Trump. Jonathan Turley, whose current project is reclaiming free speech for all Americans, hits the nail on the head when he points out that Musk's ultimate sin in the eyes of the left was his purchase of Twitter and his release of the Twitter Files.
Trump Goes Gangbusters on Coal Power and Coal Mining to
Supply AI Energy Demand

JoNova
In the last twenty years 770 coal turbines have been switched off in the U.S.,  and Donald Trump wants to turn as many back on as he can. Any moment now President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will boost coal mining, keep old coal power stations running and restart shuttered coal plants. The word is that the U.S. government will define coal as a “mineral” which allows him to use presidential wartime authority to speed up approvals for coal mines, and to bypass environmental red tape and even prioritize exploration and mining on federal lands.
Don't be a "wowser"
U.S. to Screen Immigrants’ Social Media for ‘Antisemitism’
Dave DeCamp
On Wednesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would begin screening the social media activity of immigrants for “antisemitism” as part of the Trump administration’s broad crackdown on pro-Palestine speech. The USCIS, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said it would start considering “aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.”
Sanctuary Cities Shielded Over 20K Criminals, Expert Testifies
Catherine Salgado
Leftist sanctuary states and cities have reportedly actively thwarted arrests of 25,000 criminals between October 2022, during the open borders Biden-Harris administration, and early February 2025, just after Donald Trump took office. Democratic mayors, sheriffs, governors, and other officials from California to Illinois to Arizona have vowed to continue to protect dangerous migrant criminals, illustrating how truly sick and anti-American they are. Democrats want to use floods of illegal aliens to rig the Electoral College and Congressional apportionment in their favor.
America Has a Robed Politician Problem
Frank Ricci
Injunctions are hard-fought and not often won – unless, it seems, you’re trying to handcuff the Trump administration from fulfilling its constitutional duty under Article II. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s bill – the Judicial Relief Clarification Act – aims to quell the flames. He writes that these injunctions “have become a favorite tool for those seeking to obstruct Mr. Trump’s agenda,” and the numbers prove it: over two-thirds of all universal injunctions in the last 25 years targeted Trump’s first term... When unelected judges usurp the executive’s authority, they don’t balance power – they subvert it.
House Passes Bill Restricting District Court Judges from
Issuing Nationwide Injunctions

The House on Wednesday passed a bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions in a move that would vastly diminish the ability of courts to block President Trump’s policies. Dubbed the No Rogue Rulings Act, the legislation from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would limit judges to providing relief only to parties directly involved in the suit. The bill passed in an 219-213 vote.
No Rogue Rulings Act
Why Government Reform May Hinge on Ending Federal Unions
Sean Higgins
President Trump’s executive order ending collective bargaining for a wide swath of federal cabinet agencies and other government entities is a laudable attempt to end the failed experiment with federal government unions. Federal workers were first granted collective bargaining rights under Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, thanks to then-President Jimmy Carter. Section VII of the law, which deals with labor-management relations, states: “The President may issue an order suspending any provision of this chapter with respect to any agency, installation, or activity order, located outside the 50 States and the District of Columbia, if the President determines that the suspension is necessary in the interest of national security.”
Bombshell Report Exposes Biden's Massive Chinese Spy Cover-Up
Matt Margolis
Biden w-XiThe Biden administration has been caught red-handed prioritizing Beijing's feelings over American national security. In a shocking revelation, we now know that Biden officials engaged in secret discussions with Chinese counterparts about their spy balloon before bothering to inform the American public that our sovereignty had been violated. According to a report from Fox News Digital, Internal State Department documents reveal that on Feb. 1, 2023, while a Chinese surveillance balloon was floating across our nation collecting intelligence, Biden officials were more concerned about how exposing this breach would affect our "relationship" with China. Seriously?
DOGE Official Confirms What We've Known All Along:
Illegal Immigrants Are on Medicaid and Voting

Becky Noble
Democrats love to portray themselves as the compassionate ones. They just want to help people, especially the poor and downtrodden. When you ask them about illegal immigration, they will tell you that these are just poor people looking for a better life for themselves and their families. That's why they were perfectly okay with a wide-open southern border and letting millions of people into the country. It was all about compassion. However, as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to dig into the twisted story of America's finances, we are finding out that the compassion ruse is just that, another Democrat party scheme.
DHS Officials Ask IRS to Use Tax Data to
Locate Up to 7 Million Immigrants
Federal immigration officials are seeking to locate up to 7 million people suspected of being in the United States unlawfully by accessing confidential tax data at the Internal Revenue Service, according to six people familiar with the request, a dramatic escalation in how the Trump administration aims to use the tax system to detain and deport immigrants. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security had previously sought the IRS’s help to locate 700,000 people who are subject to final removal orders and had asked the IRS to use closely guarded taxpayer data systems to provide their names and addresses.
GOP Senator Turns Tables on Dem Narrative About
Social Security and Medicare: 'Get Fraud Out of There'

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is clapping back against accusations from Democrats that Republicans are trying to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits for seniors. "The message to seniors is really pretty simple. We are going to strengthen Social Security. That is our goal. And one of the ways we're doing that is by rooting out waste, fraud, abuse," she told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview, saying the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been an effective tool for doing so. The senator is touting the RETIREES FIRST Act, which would raise the income bar for somebody to be required to pay federal taxes on their Social Security payouts.
DOGE Uncovers Massive Unemployment Fraud
Under Biden Administration
The depths of incompetence and potential fraud under the Biden administration seem to know no bounds. The DOGE team has uncovered yet another bombshell that should have every American taxpayer seeing red: the government paid out millions of dollars in unemployment benefits to people with birthdays in the future. Yes, you read that right. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt teased a "horrible" and "incredible" discovery earlier this week, and now we know why. The DOGE team's investigation into unemployment insurance claims revealed a level of absurdity that even Elon Musk had trouble believing at first.
Happy Tax Day April 15!
Jasmine Crockett Faces FEC Complaint Over ActBlue Donations
A conservative group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) over ActBlue donations that allegedly violated federal election law. The complaint, filed with the FEC late last month by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, accuses the congresswoman’s campaign of failing to properly disclose a contributor’s identity and accepting contributions in the name of another. ActBlue, a fundraising platform used by Democrats and Democrat-aligned groups, has been under intense scrutiny in the past year over allegations of donation fraud and “straw donors.”
Conservative Group Aims to Countersue After SPLC Dragged It
Through 9 Years, Demanded $200B in ‘Frivolous Lawsuit’

A conservative Christian law firm is gearing up to countersue the Southern Poverty Law Center after the left-leaning firm attempted to bankrupt it with a “frivolous lawsuit” that demanded $200 billion in damages. The SPLC represented a woman who dragged Liberty Counsel through nine years of legal purgatory, all based on a lie. The SPLC did not originally represent the woman, but joined the case after she sued Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian law firm the SPLC has branded an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.”
A different kind of lawfare
Christian Nationalism Simply Means Homesickness for America
Stella Morabito
“Christian nationalism” is the bad penny that keeps turning up in media propaganda. Over and over and over again. It’s an obvious trope that often conflates fascism with a very natural love of homeland. Nationalism is very connected with a sense of identity and the hardwired human need for a sense of belonging. If Americans (as well as other peoples) have more consciously embraced it, I think that’s because many have felt like displaced persons adrift in a sea of wokeness.
Illinois Democrat Minimizes Violent Acts
Committed by Illegal Immigrants As Just 'a few crimes'

Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, D- Ill., appeared to dismiss illegal immigrants attacking and murdering Americans as simply "immigrants committing a few crimes" Wednesday. Garcia made his remarks at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing where he feigned surprise that Republicans were "scapegoat[ing] immigrants once again." "Republicans have lifted up some tragedies that involve immigrants committing a few crimes," Garcia said, claiming Republicans were being "dishonest and cruel."
Gov't Climate Propaganda Agency Caught Raking in
Billions to Push Gov't Climate Propaganda

Charlie Martin
There's a common term in Washington, D.C. – "beltway bandit." A beltway bandit is any of the thousands of consulting and services firms whose essential business model is to exploit political connections to obtain government contracts. A lot of that business depends on having the customer's confidence that any reports resulting from those contracts will do two things. First, the reports will say exactly what the customer agency thinks is in their best interest, and second, that the contracting agency's goals can only be met if it receives substantially increased funding.
USGCRP is awarded about $5 billion in the 2025 budget
Police Report Exposes Black Suspect’s Motive in
Fatal Stabbing of White Teen
Law enforcement authorities have released the arrest report of Karmelo Anthony, the black man accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf – a white college teen with a 4.0 GPA – over a seat dispute at a California track meet earlier this month. The report, released by the Frisco Police Department and shared Monday on X by journalist Sarah Fields, contradicts the left’s casting of Anthony as the real victim of the seat dispute on April 2. According to the report, Anthony threatened Metcalf before fatally stabbing.
The Italian Lesson: Why Trump Needs to Break Columbia University
Ian Oxnevad
In the age of Trump, Columbia University and American higher education are in crisis. That crisis is a familiar one to Italy. Today, the United States is confronting something in higher education that Italy confronted decades ago when its university system birthed an era of unrest, mayhem, murder, and terrorism in the form of the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse). Columbia University’s commitment to race-based “diversity, equity, and inclusion” politics, ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), faculty with ties to terrorism and Iran, and its rabid anti-Semitism should all serve as warnings for what universities can produce.
GOP Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into
High Ivy League Tuition Prices

Top Republican lawmakers launched an investigation into Ivy League universities’ tuition costs this week, alleging potential violations of antitrust laws. Led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, the probe asks the eight universities to produce documents “regarding their apparent collusion to raise tuition prices,” a news release states.
Maine Stepped in It Big Time
Casey Ryan
President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon have spent the past few months undoubtedly working hard to eliminate radical gender ideology from America’s schools. Despite their best efforts to ensure our academic institutions provide a proper education to students, Maine has adamantly defied them at every turn, in an apparent attempt to overtake California as the woke capital of the United States. Maine’s defiance began in February when Trump held an annual dinner for the nation’s governors. As the president discussed his executive order to prohibit men from participating in women’s sports, he called out Maine’s Democrat Gov. Janet Mills and said her state would lose federal funding if she did not comply. Mills responded that she would see Trump in court.
Protecting the Playing Field:
GOP Urges Governors to Take Action on Women’s Sports

Brooke Singman
Republican Sens. Jim Risch and Tommy Tuberville are urging governors across the country to adhere to President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep men out of women’s sports while also demanding state-level action to ensure female athletes "receive the same assurance of fairness nationwide." In February, Trump issued an executive order titled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports and affirmed the position that the U.S. "must preserve fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for female athletes."
Disney Editing Blunder: This Uighur Concentration Camp
Can Be Clearly Seen in the Background of 'Mulan'

Every movie has mistakes, except The Princess Bride. But Disney made a particularly embarrassing blunder with its recent release of Mulan, which was filmed in China. During editing, the filmmakers failed to notice that a Chinese concentration camp where Uighurs are kept was left in the background of the film. Oops-a-daisy! Someone's getting reamed for this one!
Disney Blunder

Week ending 6 April 2025

Judge Boasberg Is Not My President
Don Surber
The question before the court now is if the Elections Have Consequences Rule applies now or only when we have a DEI hire as president because if a president needs the permission of a judge to do his job then he is not the president; the judge and 676 other district judges are because now they are somehow empowered to stop any and all acts of the president. But the twigs are not the tree. We shall see if the justices agree. On Friday, President Trump filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of District Judge Boasberg’s unprecedented and unconstitutional order to stop enforcing immigration law, this time through the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as amended in 1918 to include females. Two years before American women got the right to vote, non-American women got the right to be tossed into prison and deported.
Trump Starts Undoing JFK’s Worst Mistake
I & I Editorial Board
While Democrats were busy hyperventilating over the nothingburger “Signal scandal,” President Donald Trump quietly took an action that could do more to drain the swamp – and Democratic Party finances – than any other action he’s taken to date. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that ends collective bargaining rights for most federal workers, a move that “is a magnitude of tenfold on what they’ve done so far on their attack of the federal workforce and the labor movement,” Cathy Creighton, director of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab, told the Washington Post. Actually, it is the first step toward righting a wrong committed by President John Kennedy in 1962 when he signed an executive order allowing federal workers the right to collectively bargain.
Musk Derangement Syndrome Has Dems Rejecting
Everything They Claim to Stand For

Jonathan Turley
In this age of rage, it is common for people to become the very thing that they despise in others, jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate. Since the election, Democrats have shown that very self-destructive quality of rage in adopting anti-immigrant, anti-free speech, anti-labor, and even anti-environmental positions to get at Donald Trump or his supporters. It consumes every part of a person. It is addictive, and it is contagious. What these rage addicts will not admit, however, is that they like it; they need it.
'Bad Faith' James Boasberg Too Conflicted to
Judge Trump Deport Case – Recuse Yourself, NOW!

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Federal Judge James Boasberg is ablaze with righteous anger, accusing the Trump administration of acting in “bad faith” over his order to stop deportation flights carrying killers, rapists and thugs to El Salvador. As is usual with the Trump-deranged, Boasberg is projecting. He’s the one acting in bad faith by taking up this case (or any other Trump-related business) at all. His daughter, Katharine Boasberg, works at a pro-crime nonprofit called Partners for Justice, which receives millions in taxpayer bucks and is headed by a leftist opponent of the Laken Riley Act (i.e., someone who wants more rape and murder by border-jumpers, not less).
Judge Boasberg’s Brother Has
Cushy State Department-Backed Job in Singapore

The brother of Judge James Boasberg – currently the de-facto face of the judicial activism threatening to thwart the MAGA agenda – has long been a critic of President Donald Trump and previously pushed for the hiring of illegal aliens into U.S. schools. He now heads a Singaporean school promoted by the State Department. Conservative provocateur Laura Loomer exposed Saturday that Judge Boasberg’s brother, Tom Boasberg, has deep ties to the anti-Trump movement, dating back to Trump’s first term in office. Loomer suggests that this raises serious questions about the judge’s partiality as he oversees cases involving the Trump administration.
Yes. One would wonder!
Chuck Grassley Lays Out Plan to Rein in
Wayward Judges Putting ‘Unnecessary Stress’ on Courts

Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has introduced the Judicial Relief Clarification Act of 2025, which would place limits on federal courts by preventing them from issuing injunctions that apply to parties who are outside of the relevant case. Grassley has a large group of Republican co-sponsors but there aren't any Democrats supporting the bill yet. "When a national injunction is put in place, it affects all the other 92 district federal district courts, I should say, court districts throughout the country. It becomes national," Grassley said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast.
The Cover-up of Biden's Cognitive Decline
Was Even Worse Than We Thought

Matt Margolis
Let’s put this into perspective, shall we? While White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor claimed that “President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” Kamala's team was maintaining spreadsheets of federal judges who could swear her in as president at a moment's notice... This isn't just about an aging president's decline; it's about a massive deception perpetrated on the American people. While Harris's team was drawing up contingency plans for scenarios ranging from pre-primary departure to death in office, the administration was gaslighting the public about Biden's capabilities.
CA Fails Audit of Federal Programs,
66% of COVID Unemployment Benefits in Question

California did not materially comply with the requirements for seven of the 22 federal programs the state auditor examined, including “pervasive” noncompliance in its unemployment benefits program, which could put essential federal funding at risk... “While Gavin Newsom chases the national spotlight, Californians are left with an administration that can’t accomplish the basic functions of government,” said California State Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher to The Center Square. “The federal government is right to take a look at this spending and decide if it’s appropriate to keep throwing resources at an administration that treats it like Monopoly money.”
California Funnels $18 Million Into the Left’s
Dark Money Network Under Gavin Newsom

California under Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has funneled around $18 million to the Tides Center, a dark money nonprofit that directs donor cash to various leftist projects, The Washington Free Beacon reported. The San Francisco-based Tides Center and its sister nonprofits, the Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy, direct money to in-house projects known as “fiscal sponsorships,” alongside separate nonprofit entities. This enables Tides to cloak which projects receive the money. ... California officials told the Free Beacon that the database is missing information from some departments, meaning total payments to the Tides Center likely add up to more than $18 million.
The NGO Complex Is Irredeemably Corrupt
David Strom
Imagine those commercials with Sarah McLachlan music playing, with children and puppies, and the nonprofit execs pleading for just one more dollar to save one more life. It is all BS. NGOs don't exist to do the things they advertise, although they often do some of the work they say as a cover for their real purpose. That purpose is to skim off the top and employ politically connected people. Hide behind a good cause, and you can do whatever you want. Look at Gavin Newsom's 10-year plan to eradicate homelessness, almost 2 decades in and billions have been spent, thousands employed, and the homeless problem is greater because that is how you keep the money flowing.
CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, earned $721,000 in total compensation in 2022
The Feds are Hiding the Eagle Death Data
David Wojick
Bald EagleImagine there is an industry product that is killing thousands a year and the number is growing. The government is tracking it closely, while keeping the data secret in order to protect The Product. Outrageous, right? But that is exactly the case with wind power killing eagles. Every wind-killed eagle found at an industrial wind site is quickly reported to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Every year each site also submits an annual kill report to FWS. None of this data is publicly available. The FWS eagle kill data is all a big government secret designed to protect the wind industry from public outrage. This has to stop.
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Solar Developers Battle Rural Opposition in Ohio Where
State Law Protects Local Permitting Agency

In 2021, the Ohio legislature passed a law granting local entities the authority to approve or reject large renewable energy projects within their jurisdiction. Local opposition has become such a formidable force against the build-out of wind and solar that several states have passed laws limiting local authority or are considering such legislation. Ohio’s unique law, known as Senate Bill 52, has made the state a hotspot for renewable rejections by local authorities. According to the Renewable Rejection Database, a project maintained by energy journalist Robert Bryce, 789 wind and solar projects have been rejected in the U.S. since 2013. Of those projects, 197 of them, or 25% of the total, were rejected by local governments in Ohio. Only five of those projects were rejected prior to 2021.
Many Democrats Deny Biden Ever Made War on Oil, but a
New Report Documents His War Effort

Kevin Killough
The American Energy Alliance (AEA) has been keeping a tally of actions that Congress and current administrations have taken that impact the production of oil and gas in the U.S. The report starts with President Donald Trump signing 200 executive orders, including a declaration of a national energy emergency, an end to former President Joe Biden’s pause on liquified natural gas export permits, and an order to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. The list also includes Congress passing the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act’s methane fee and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s plan to review 31 regulations the Biden administration rolled out. “In just over 60 days, President Trump and Congress have already taken over 50 actions to reverse the damage.
Ancient European Floods Were Much Worse
Than Anything in the Last Century

JoNova
All that stuff about a 1 in 100 year flood, they have no idea!
It turns out the worst flood on the Rhine was not in 2024 but in 1374.  On the Severn, in England the worst year for “climate change” was 250 BC. Obviously neither of them were due to man-made oil and gas. A thousand news headlines have said modern floods were unprecedented, or were 1 in 1000 year events, or were caused by “climate change” and they were all based on just 120 years of data (or less), and they were all wrong.
Trump Cancels Biden Grants to China-Tied Think Tank Behind
War on Gas Stoves
The first grant was worth about $5.3 million and designed to fund the Rocky Mountain Institute's pilot project retrofitting a 120-unit building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with green energy technology. Then-energy secretary Jennifer Granholm said in March 2022 the grant funding proved the Biden administration was "in an all-out sprint to beat the climate crisis" while Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) said it would help protect the country "from upheaval caused by the global fossil fuel market." The second was a $1.5 million grant to fund research into the viability of electric vehicle carshare programs. The research, according to the Department of Energy, would assess business models in the United States for resilience and "equity."
Shed No Tears for Fired Federal Workers
I & I Editorial Board
Estimates about how many jobs have been cut so far differ. The press claims DOGE has eliminated around 100,000 federal jobs. Challenger, Gray & Christmas says 62,530 were let go in January and February. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a net loss of only 6,700 federal jobs in February... The reason all this is such a shock to federal workers is that they assumed that their gravy train would go on forever. They don’t deserve anyone’s sympathy.
The Inconvenient Truth About H-1B Visas
Americans are told that mass immigration will bring the
world’s geniuses to our country. The numbers tell a different story.

Hayden Ludwig
President Donald Trump's mandate from the voters undoubtedly gives him wide latitude to close the border to illegal aliens, which he has done. Border crossings are down 90 percent and more illegal aliens were arrested in Trump’s first 50 days than across Joe Biden's final year in office. Now, many in the America First movement are asking, “What about reducing legal immigration?”
UN Official Reappointed Despite Accusations of Antisemitism
Controversial United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese has been reappointed to the position for another three-year term. Multiple countries and organizations have condemned Albanese over her history of antisemitic remarks. However, a committee tasked by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with reviewing complaints about Albanese was convinced by her "detailed explanations" that she was not an antisemite. "We’re talking about one of the world's most blatant legitimizers of Hamas terrorism, who says literally that Israel does not have a right to defend itself," UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital. "It's a horrible statement on the state of the UN today."
Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social Security Numbers
Can Scam America
Beth Brelje
When Elon Musk and his DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias showed a Wisconsin audience how non-citizens get Social Security Numbers (SSNs), their presentation painted the clearest picture yet of the long-term damage former President Joe Biden’s open border policy will have on the United States. Standing in front of a huge chart, they showed how the number of SSNs issued to new non-citizens spiked in 2024. The total SSNs issued in 2021 was roughly 270,000; in 2022 it climbed to 590,000, and in 2023, there were 964,000 SSNs issued to new non-citizens. But in 2024 it more than doubled to over 2 million.
Florida, Kansas Senators Intro LEDGER Act After DOGE
Uncovers $4.7 Trillion in Untraceable Treasury Payments

Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) announced the introduction of the LEDGER Act – new bill aimed at bringing much-needed transparency and accountability to federal spending. The legislation follows a bombshell discovery by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that $4.7 trillion in U.S. Treasury payments were unmarked and untraceable. The Locating Every Disbursement in Government Expenditure Records (LEDGER) Act would require the U.S. Department of the Treasury to implement a system that tracks all government outlays and disbursements, ensuring that every tax dollar spent is clearly recorded, categorized, and available for review.
Trump Shares Video of Houthi fighters' Deaths in U.S. Strike on
Yemen "They will never sink our ships again!"

U.S. President Donald Trump shared a controversial video on Friday, purportedly showing the deaths of dozens of Houthi fighters following an American airstrike in Yemen. The black-and-white footage, posted on Trump's Truth Social network and other social media platforms, was captioned with the comment "oops." The video, resembling footage captured by military drones or loitering aircraft, shows several dozen human figures from a near-vertical angle. "These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack," Trump wrote in the accompanying text, using an alternate spelling for the Yemeni rebel group.
Embalmers Issue Chilling Warning as 'Horrifying Fibrous Clots'
Found in 27% of Covid-Vaxxed Corpses

Embalmers and investigators have issued a chilling warning after uncovering new evidence regarding surging reports of “white fibrous clots” found in the corpses of people who received Covid mRMA “vaccines.” During 2024, embalmers reported that the clots were discovered in 27% of Covid-vaccinated corpses. The staggering discovery has prompted a team of experts to investigate the surging reports of “white fibrous clots.”
Nashville Police Downplay Religious and
Transgender Elements of Covenant Shooting in Final Report

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) in their final report on Wednesday appeared to downplay the role that religion and gender played in the 2023 Covenant School shooting. Shooter Audrey Hale, who was born female but identified as male, fatally shot six people at a Christian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023. Three of the victims were elementary aged students. Hale was killed by police shortly after the massacre. Hale notoriously slammed white privilege, women, and Christianity in writings prior to the attack, with the shooter stating in one passage that they wanted to "kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f*gg*ts w/your white privlages [sic]." Hale was also "hoping for a high death count."
Trans Teacher Performs Sexual Dance Inside Classroom for ‘Visibility’
A troubling video making the rounds online is the latest example of why home schooling is increasingly becoming the only option for many parents. The footage was shared on a TikTok account that has gone private and features what appears to be a man imitating a woman while dancing in a classroom. The caption identifies the man as a trans teacher and while it’s not clear who the individual is, the footage is disturbing nonetheless. “Trans teacher films a video of himself doing a s*xually suggestive drag dance in his classroom. These are the people teaching your kids,” opined the highly popular Libs of TikTok X account.
Here’s Why America Has a Home-Schooling Revolution
It gets little media coverage, but the reality is that millions of American parents have given up on the public education system and joined the home-schooling movement. But there is so much more to the reason home-schooling is exploding, including the fact the on-going failure of the public schools is entirely predictable if you know the European roots of public education. [Read the Comments]
Pro-life Activist Left Covered in Blood After Being
Sucker-Punched During NYC Street Interview on Abortion

Arrest the bitch
A pro-life activist in New York City was sucker-punched in the face while doing a street interview about abortion, leaving her bloodied and requiring stitches, viral video shows. Savannah Craven Antao, a 23-year-old reporter for advocacy group Live Action, was conducting a man-on-the-street interview in Harlem on Thursday, discussing the topic of Planned Parenthood with an unidentified pro-abortion New Yorker.
Savannah Antao
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Missouri’s Top Cop Suggests Planned Parenthood Veering
Toward Crime by Helping Minors Get Abortions
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has vowed to fight Planned Parenthood as the abortion giant argues it has the right to help minors cross state lines to obtain abortions in violation of state law. Voters narrowly approved a right to abortion access within Missouri during the November elections, though lawmakers retained the ability to restrict abortion after fetal viability. The state still requires parental consent and notification for a minor to obtain an abortion.
The Foundation That’s Bankrolling Radical Activists in Higher Ed
John D. Sailer
At Columbia University, the Racial Justice and Abolition Democracy Project created a curriculum to help college students imagine a “society without jails and prisons.” At Morgan State University, the Black Queer Everything initiative developed “transformative pedagogies” about “racism, inequality, and injustice.” And at UCLA, the Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses program promoted using “tribal critical race theory” to interpret precolonial history. Beyond their radical bent, these programs have one thing in common:
Nurses Punished for Warning Friend About Transgender Surgery, Criticizing 'Transgender Activists'
Express the wrong view related to gender identity, even privately, in Canada's British Columbia and you may be fined $10,000 or lose your professional license and career. The silver lining: The creator of one of the most lucrative media franchises in history might help you fight back. Human rights and professional misconduct tribunals sent a chill through the Pacific Province in recent weeks through rulings against a woman who questioned her transgender friend's medical plans to resemble the opposite sex and another who expressed her fondness on a billboard for Harry Potter creator and gender-critical activist J.K. Rowling.
Masked ‘Antifa’ Goons Destroy TPUSA UC Davis Campus Event,
Mass Assault Conservatives While Cops Do Nothing

Campus police and the University of California, Davis, are being slammed for doing nothing to stop a mass assault against conservatives. “They stole the canopy, ripped down banners, smashed foam boards, and even tried to steal the iPad and laptop of a [TP USA student] field rep,” TPUSA reported on Thursday. “TPUSA students were shoved and had objects thrown at them – while police did nothing,” the group added in a post on X. “Only after the damage was done did law enforcement finally form a perimeter. This is the reality of free speech on campus.”
Trump Admin Freezing $510 Million in
Federal Funding to Brown University

The administration intends to withhold $510 million in federal funding to Brown University while it reviews the Ivy League School’s response to alleged cases of antisemitism on its Providence, R.I., campus, as well as the institution’s  Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies, a White House official confirmed Thursday. Brown University Provost Frank Doyle told faculty and staff in an email Thursday that he was “aware” of the “troubling rumors emerging about federal action on Brown research grants” but that he had “no information to substantiate” a potentially imminent funding pause.

Week ending 30 March 2025

The Nadir of the Climate Change Movement
Steven F. Hayward
It is possible that the Trump Administration is going to deal the death blows to the long-running climate change hysteria and government hostility to fossil fuels, not just in the United States but around the globe. The Trump Administration has moved well beyond merely supporting increased oil and natural gas production. It has also launched steps to dismantle the foundations of anti-energy climate policy, in particular, a proposed reversal of the so-called "endangerment finding" that gave the EPA jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gases, which were never explicitly included in any of the various Clean Air Acts passed over the last 50 years. Trump's EPA is also proposing to revise the EPA's flawed "social cost of carbon" analysis, which is used to justify costly green energy schemes.
The Tide Is Turning Against the
Fantasy Economics That Prop Up Net Zero

Matthew Lynn
For most of the last decade, corporate leaders have insisted that the transition to a carbon-neutral economy was win-win. We would save the planet and get richer at the same time. But hold on. The Australian airline Qantas has just broken ranks, admitting that flying may soon be the preserve of only the privileged, while a wealth of research is making it clear that environmental goals have hammered the economy. In reality, bosses are starting to admit what has been obvious for some time. Net zero is making us poorer – and that means we have to rethink the way we go about reducing carbon emissions.
Why Did The Atlantic’s Goldberg Wait 13 Days to
Notify Waltz About ‘Massive Security Breach’?

Craig Bannister
On Monday, The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg confirmed with the Trump Administration that national security was breached by his accidental inclusion in a text message group initiated by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz – 13 days after he first suspected his inclusion was a mistake. Instead of immediately addressing the national security threat by asking Waltz if his addition to a Signal text messaging app group was a mistake, Goldberg apparently waited nearly two weeks – all the while suspecting that national security was being breached – before bothering to contact Waltz and other high-ranking officials to question his inclusion in the group. Two hours after his inquiry on Monday, the Trump Administration replied, confirming he was added to the group inadvertently. Goldberg, then, promptly published his story, titled “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”:
Trump Says He Won't 'Fire People' Over Signal Flap
President Donald Trump on Saturday made his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen. “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker. He also said that he had confidence in Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, and Pete Hegseth, his Pentagon chief.
Plaintiffs Challenging Trump DEI Order Are Playing Judicial Games
Margot Cleveland
A group of plaintiffs asked a federal judge on Saturday to vacate the injunction he had previously entered in their favor against the Trump Administration that halted the implementation of the president’s directives to end DEI initiatives. The plaintiffs’ move came after a federal appellate court stayed the injunction, signaling a likely reversal of the injunction on appeal and a win for Trump. This motion represents the second effort within as many weeks by litigants to game the judicial system to avoid losing to the president on appeal. The courts should refuse to play along, including in this case by denying the motion to vacate the injunction.
New Dirt on Judge Boasberg Raises More Questions
Matt Margolis
The district court judge who recently blocked President Donald Trump's efforts to deport illegal alien gang members attended a suspiciously partisan legal conference just months before his ruling, according to a judicial ethics report. Judge James Boasberg, who serves on the D.C. District Court, participated in what appears to be nothing more than a Democrat strategy session masquerading as a legal conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The conference’s agenda items, “Judges in a Democracy” and “State of Democracy,” sound eerily similar to the Democrats’ tiresome 2024 campaign rhetoric about “saving democracy” – which, of course, has become the justification for their using the courts to obstruct Trump’s agenda.
The Case for Removing Judge Boasberg's Security Clearance
M Dowling
Mike Davis called for President Trump to remove Judge Boasberg’s security clearance. No one, not Congress or the Supreme Court, is doing anything about Boasberg. Boasberg wants those Tren de Aragua back in the country. He won’t remove the TRO because he said the domestic terrorists marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win. He claims they are entitled to individual hearings and due process. Attorney Mike Davis explained that he did not have the power to do what he was doing. It’s not the proper court. Davis also presents an excellent case for removing Judge Boasberg’s security clearance.
White House Office Moves to Limit
Union Rights for Federal Employees

The memo cites authority issued under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, which Trump is also using to end collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that represent agencies with national security missions, per a White House Fact Sheet. The order impacts all agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the General Services Administration, and more.
Follow the Money: Is This the Real Reason the
Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education?

Tyler O'Neil
Randi WeingartenJudging from the Left’s responses to President Trump’s order to wind down the Department of Education, you might be forgiven for thinking the president had just started World War III. These people know, of course, that eliminating the Department of Education doesn’t actually mean “declaring war on America’s students” or demolishing the “public education system.” (Even school choice, which may weaken public schools by allowing tax dollars to follow students to home schooling and other options, will only introduce competition for public schools, not destroy them.) President Trump didn’t order the demolishing of schools – he ordered the Department of Education to begin the process of turning its functions over to state education departments and to other federal agencies.
You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS Was Funding
Catherine Salgado
Do you want your taxpayer dollars funding studies on preventing pregnancy in “transgender boys” or HIV stigma in Thailand? Fortunately, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary also considers that a waste, so he’s cutting numerous idiotic woke studies. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Trump’s new agency heads have uncovered billions of dollars of egregious fraud and waste, including the previously unknown agency whose employees lived “like kings” and the Social Security funding for 150+ year olds. Now HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is looking to streamline the massive, unwieldy, unconstitutional, and harmful federal healthcare agencies. It’s time to cure the woke mind virus. Read on for mind-blowing craziness.
Trump Declassifies FBI's Russia Investigation
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the declassification of FBI files connected to the inquiry into his 2016 campaign's potential ties to Russia, The Hill has reported. The memorandum calls for the declassification of "all files related to Crossfire Hurricane investigation," White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, who added that "we believe that it's long past time for the American people to have a full and complete understanding of what exactly is in those files."
Biden Bailout Fallout:
VA Budget Bungling Led to Veterans Affairs Crisis Last Year

President Joe Biden's dramatic emergency request to bail out the VA last year was rooted in massive bureaucratic bungling and resulted in Congress appropriating money that was not needed, the agency’s internal watchdog concluded. The inspector general report published  Thursday confirms that a $2.9 billion supplemental request went unused because the agency failed to account for “prior-year recoveries” in its budget planning. Had the agency taken into account those recovered funds, the inspector general found, its projections “would have shown a reduced risk of a shortfall by year-end.”
Emergency budget request was akin to a type of political extortion
Confirmed: Biden Was Given the Press Questions In Advance
David Strom
Biden doing the work of 3
Imagine if the Donald Trump for President campaign demanded that questions directed at Trump were pre-scripted and that the campaign would get the right to pre-approve quotes derived from those interviews. We would hear nonstop about propaganda, suppressing the truth, First Amendment concerns, and be treated to a media freakout that would go on for days or weeks. Now look at how the same Pravda Media responded to demands by the Biden administration's demands for the same privilege: mute compliance.
The Democratic Party Died but the
Autopsy Results Are Being Ignored

John Sexton
Politico Magazine published a story today looking at the current state of the Democratic Party. The news is not good if you're a Democrat. It's not just people outside the inner circle, i.e. the base and the voters, who are angry, it's also people much closer to the action. The story picks up with a gathering to decide who should lead the DNC into the future. “How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’ defeat?” asked MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart. Every candidate raised their hand. “That’s good,” he added. “You all pass.” Later, a DNC member asked, in reference to party positions: “Will you pledge to appoint more than one transgender person to an at-large seat?” Only one of eight contenders kept their hand down.
Sweeping Trump Order Overhauls
U.S. Elections, Including Citizenship Requirement

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day. The order,  titled "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections," stated the U.S. has failed "to enforce basic and necessary election protections" and called on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes.
With Federal Election Looming, Liberal Canadian PM
Accused of Plagiarism While Studying at Oxford

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing allegations that he copied parts of his 1995 doctoral thesis at Oxford University without proper credit. The report comes as he's seeking election to remain the country's PM next month, when Canadian voters head to the polls on April 28. The National Post reviewed Carney’s thesis, "The Dynamic Advantage of Competition," with three university experts, who found at least 10 instances of apparent plagiarism.
Youngkin Pushes to Strip Funds from 'sanctuary' Localities
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is renewing his push to end so-called "sanctuary cities" in the commonwealth by proposing a budget amendment that would strip state funding from local governments that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The policy appears in Youngkin's proposed budget amendment presentation, which includes a requirement for local law enforcement to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
BOMBSHELL: Anti-Israel Groups in U.S. Had Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack, Lawsuit Alleges
Rick Moran
A lawsuit brought by the families of victims of the October 7 attacks in Israel alleges that several pro-Hamas and anti-Israel groups in the United States aided and abetted the Hamas attack. Some groups reactivated their dormant social media accounts just prior to the attacks, according to the lawsuit. Among the groups being sued is Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), whose leader, Mahmoud Khalil, sits in an ICE detention center in Louisiana awaiting deportation. “Defendants in this case are Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus,” the suit states.
U.S. Halts Financial Contributions to WTO, Trade Sources Say
The Trump administration is retreating from global institutions it sees as at odds with his "America First" economic policies. It plans to quit some, such as the World Health Organization, and has cut contributions to others as part of a broad review of federal spending. The WTO has already been hobbled by a U.S. move in 2019 during Trump's first term to block new judge appointments to its top appeals court, which left its key dispute settlement system only partially functional. Washington had accused the WTO Appellate Body of judicial overreach in trade disputes.
Rep. Catches NPR CEO Denying She Read
‘Reparations’ Book She Bragged About Reading

Craig Bannister
At a House hearing probing why American taxpayers should have to fund the biased propaganda of her organization on Wednesday, National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher got called out by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) for making a false claim. “Radical leftist @NPR CEO Katherine Maher claims she never read ‘The Case for Reparations’ Yet publicly tweeted about reading it. Was she lying then or is she lying now?” Rep. Gill asks in a social media post including a video clip of the exchange. Rep. Gill was grilling the NPR CEO about a host of her past social media posts, which exhibited blatant political bias and voiced support for controversial, far-left views, when the subject of the book came up:
Las Vegas Judge Declines to Release Suspect in
Tesla ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Attack

A federal magistrate judge declined Friday to immediately release the man accused of setting fires at a Tesla collision center, citing her concerns of returning him to the community without his mother’s supervision. Las Vegas Metro police arrested Paul Kim, 36, on Wednesday night on charges including arson and possessing an explosive device, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. U.S. Marshals later took Kim into custody on federal charges. During a detention hearing Friday before Magistrate Judge Elayna Youchah, prosecutor Jacob Operskalski called Kim a “flight risk” and said the Department of Justice considered his alleged actions “domestic terrorism.”
6 Unbelievably Scammy Federal Practices
DOGE Staff Reveal in Fox Interview

On Thursday evening, Elon Musk and some of his Department of Government Efficiency team sat for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on “Special Report.” The nerd dream team includes a former rocket scientist, a Houstonian who ran five successful businesses, and the billionaire co-founder of Airbnb. Musk said he thinks the team can cut the federal deficit by $1 trillion within 130 days. He and the other DOGE engineers gave some eye-popping examples of how scam-ridden federal programs have become.
Another Day, Another Lefty Scam Organization Exposed
Lawrence Person
The ongoing DOGE revelations prove that leftists feel absolutely no compunction about stealing money from taxpayers. Given that, and the revelations of where all those #BlackLivesMatter dollars ended up, perhaps it’s not surpirsing that more and more obviously feel no compunction about stealing from their own organizations.
Report Warns of Major
Wireless Shortfall by 2027, $1T+ in Costs

A Thursday report from IT consulting firm Accenture, commissioned by wireless trade association CTIA, warns of a projected spectrum shortfall that could see demand overwhelm existing infrastructure by next year and cause substantial outages by 2027. "The U.S. faces a spectrum crisis, with long-term negative implications for U.S. economic growth. Rising demand on networks and constrained supply is pushing networks to their limit," the executive summary opened. "By 2027, the U.S. is expected to face a critical spectrum deficit, where the available spectrum will not be able to support connectivity demand in high-traffic areas during peak hours."
CA Lost 173K Private Jobs,
Added 181K Government, Largely Part-Time Jobs

California has lost 173,000 fully private sector jobs since January 2023, offset by a gain of 181,100 largely part-time government and government-supported jobs. Thirty-eight percent of these new government and government-supported jobs are from elderly or disabled individuals using state funds to pay household members and others minimum wage for part-time care and assistance. The report also found that while hourly wages are up, average hours worked are down, suggesting employers are cutting hours to reduce labor costs, such as those imposed by the state’s sector-based minimum wages.
Way to go, Gavin!
NJ Gov. Hopeful Defends Nation of Islam After Video Surfaces of
Him Applauding Violent Rhetoric by Louis Farrakhan

New Jersey gubernatorial candidate and Newark mayor Ras Baraka (D.) defended the Nation of Islam and accused critics of trying to silence him after a video surfaced showing him applauding racist and violent comments from Louis Farrakhan, the group’s notorious anti-Semitic leader. While serving as Newark’s deputy mayor in 2004, Baraka hosted Farrakhan to celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa. The Nation of Islam minister encouraged the mostly black audience to "break his neck" if "the cracker hit you on the jaw," called white people "the devil," and praised Baraka’s father. Baraka, for his part, called Farrakhan a "role model" whose teachings helped him "become a man" as a college student.
Black City Official Charged with Putting a Noose on
Her Own Desk and Faking a “Hate Crime”

LaTarsha BrownA black city official in Pennsylvania is charged with faking a racist threat that triggered outrage from activists and a response from the FBI. Allentown, Pennsylvania school board member LaTarsha Brown allegedly planned[sic] a small noose on her own desk in Allentown’s City Hall in January before telling authorities she was targeted, police said Monday in a press release Brown previously filed workplace discrimination claims against City Hall but now faces possible jail time over the noose incident, which prompted cries of rampant bigotry from figures such as Democratic city council member Ce-Ce Gerlach, local media reported.
Why Libs Should Want to Shut Down the Department of Education
Don Surber
President Trump’s destruction of the federal Department of Education is overdue because the states, not the president, should decide education policy. Once the federal DOE is gone, we should get rid of the state DOE’s and let local school boards set the policies. Once the state DOEs are gone, we should have a beer and chill. Of course there is too much money involved for this to happen. The money does not go to the classrooms but to six-figure school superintendents, contractors, union featherbedding, bureaucratic featherbedding and the like. Education is the perfect place for scoundrels because no one follows the money and any proposal not to increase spending by at least the rate of inflation is reported by the media as anti-education. Hamas terrorists hide behind children. So do the educrats.
You gotta read this!
Cornell Reinstates DEI Hiring Statement After Temporary Removal
Micaiah Bilger – Assistant Editor College Fix
As it turns out, Cornell University is not ending its commitment to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in its hiring practices. On Friday, the Ivy League institution added back DEI language to its Equal Education and Employment Opportunity Statement after removing it earlier this month, The Cornell Daily Sun reports. A university spokesperson said the removal of the DEI language was a “clerical error.”
University of Michigan Ends DEI Office, Cracks Down On
$250M DEI Campaign After String of Controversies

The University of Michigan has announced significant cuts to its $250 million Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including abolishing its DEI office, following a string of controversies surrounding the school’s promotion of the ideology. The university announced on Thursday that it would immediately shutter its “Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion” and end the “DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan.” The school administration will now “shift resources to increase investments in student-facing programs, such as financial aid, mental health resources, pre-professional counseling and other efforts.”
Watch this doesn’t return under a different guise!
House Passes DETERRENT Act to Boost Transparency on
Foreign Funding in Higher Education

The House of Representatives passed legislation on March 27 that would require American colleges and universities to disclose all foreign gifts and contracts from countries of concern, as part of an effort to increase transparency and curb foreign influence in U.S. higher education. The bill, H.R. 1048 – formally titled the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act – passed on a bipartisan 241–169 vote.
U. Washington Affirms Commitment to Ending Antisemitism
After Trump Warning

The University of Washington, following a year-long surge of anti-Israel protests on campus, reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the Jewish community in response to a recent warning letter from the Trump administration. The public university was one of 60 that received letters from the U.S. Department of Education this month, warning that the federal government could pull their funding if they “do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus.”
Trump Pauses Federal Funds for Planned Parenthood
The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.
Colorado State University paid Women’s March Organizer
Linda Sarsour $7,000 for Speaking Engagement

Colorado State University paid Linda Sarsour, a controversial anti-Israel activist who has been accused of anti-Semitism, $7,000 for a 2024 speaking engagement, a document obtained by Campus Reform shows. The university paid the $7,000 to Sarsour to be the keynote speaker for an April 3, 2024 speaking engagement, as shown in a university contract obtained by Campus Reform.

Week ending 23 March 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson Reveals Why the
Autopen Scandal is a Big Deal

Jim Davis
The Autopen is a fascinating device. Developed to allow celebrities to mass-produce autographs for hordes of swooning fans, it was never intended to enable a Muppet to serve as president of the United States. But that seems to be exactly what happened. Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after his first few days in office – every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) – was signed with not one, but two Autopens.
Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?
Victor Davis Hanson
Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal -- and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished.
Stop Valorizing Campus Protesters
People Like Mahmoud Khalil Aren’t Heroes

Charles Fain Lehman
Mahmoud Khalil – the green-card holder and Columbia-based Hamas sympathizer whom ICE detained last week – has overnight become a martyr for free speech. Advocates for his release, from Rep. Gerry Nadler and Sen. Chris Murphy to academic nonprofits, have framed Khalil’s detention as a violation of his speech rights. In this version of the story, he is an innocent campus protester caught up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on dissent. These arguments don’t stand on firm First Amendment footing. As even the most Khalil-sympathetic legal scholars have acknowledged, the relevance of free-speech law in the case is at best unclear.
A Revolution Against Regulation
John Berlau
One of the great threats to freedom in the United States today is what we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute call “Regulation Without Representation.” Increasingly, laws are effectively made by unelected regulatory agencies in the administrative state instead of the people’s representatives in Congress. The phrase “regulation without representation” also connotes the battle that George Washington and other American patriots fought against taxation without representation.
Trump Declares Biden’s Pardons of
January 6 Committee ‘Void, Vacant’ Due to Autopen

President Donald Trump said former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons for members of the January 6 Committee are “void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” citing the pardons having been given via an autopen. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” President Trump said in a Sunday night Truth Social post.
The Autopen Scandal
Were Biden’s ‘autopen’ Pardons Legal?
Trump Says Question Should Be ‘up to a court’

Kaelan Deese
President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the legality of autopen-signed pardons should be decided by the courts, questioning whether former President Joe Biden’s final clemency orders, including controversial preemptive pardons, are valid. In a Truth Social post, Trump said Biden’s pardons, including those granted to members of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee such as former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), along with former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, were “VOID” because they were allegedly signed using an autopen, a mechanical device that replicates a signature.
The Autopen Scandal
Biden’s Autopen Scandal Just Got a Whole Lot Worse
Matt Margolis
Earlier this month, we reported that virtually every document bearing Joe Biden's signature during his presidency was signed by an autopen. The presidential autopen has been in use since the 1950s, with its legality debated for years. In 2013, Barack Obama became the first president to sign a bill into law using an autopen while vacationing in Hawaii, relying on a Bush-era legal memo stating a president’s presence wasn’t required if he had authorized the signature. The key issue with Biden, however, is whether he actually authorized the use of the autopen – or if someone else was running it without his knowledge.
The Autopen Scandal
Is This the Aide Who Abused Joe Biden's Autopen?
Matt Margolis
The latest scandal for the former Biden administration has exploded into the spotlight thanks to Trump’s declaration Sunday night that Biden's pardons are "VOID, VACANT, AND NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT" because they were signed via autopen, and Biden may not have authorized them. The lingering question, of course, is who may have been using the autopen on Biden’s behalf without his knowledge or consent. An explosive New York Post report revealed a disturbing pattern of potential power abuse within the Biden White House, centered around the controversial use of the presidential autopen.
Smearing Trump’s Cabinet on Wikipedia
It’s discouraging to consider the continuing influence of Wikipedia, especially given that the rank leftism of the online encyclopedia was exposed years ago. Now, for those too dull to know better or too lazy to look elsewhere, Wikipedia has trained its sights on Donald Trump’s cabinet members. The website’s entries for FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were “updated” recently to call attention to their confirmation battles and the negativity that those battles entailed.
The Postal Service Is Bleeding Cash,
But the DOGE Can Stop the Hemorrhaging

Ross Marchand
The Department of Government Efficiency is teaming up with the U.S. Postal Service, and it’s a good thing. Last week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he had reached an agreement with the DOGE to root out inefficiencies and help the service address “big problems” – most of which are financial. As an initial cost-cutting gesture, the USPS is reducing its workforce by 10,000 through a voluntary early retirement program. The DOGE certainly has its work cut out for it. The USPS lost an astounding $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 and is projected to lose an additional $60 billion to $70 billion by 2030. However, most of this spending is wasteful – not essential – which positions the service, through proper reforms, to recover and once again deliver for taxpayers and consumers.
DHS Boss Noem Vows to 'hunt' Down Those
Making Swatting Calls Targeting Conservative Media

Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined FBI Director Kash Patel in the fight against swatting calls targeting members of the "conservative new[s] media," announcing Wednesday her department will "hunt these cowards down." Patel recently confirmed a rise in swatting incidents, when someone tries to send armed police to another person's house under false pretenses, aimed at media figures and their families. The act, she said, puts the lives of the victims and responding officers in danger.
Dozens of Wikipedia Editors Colluded on Years-Long
Anti-Israel Campaign, Bombshell ADL Report Claims

More than two dozen Wikipedia editors allegedly colluded in a years-long scheme to inject anti-Israel language on topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Anti-Defamation League claimed in a bombshell report released Tuesday. The rogue editors, at least 30 of them, flooded one of the world’s most popular sites with “anti-semitic narratives, anti-Israel bias, and misleading information,” according to the report by the ADL’s Center for Tech and Society. The alleged bias also extended to pervasive “pro-Hamas perspectives” across Arabic-language Wikipedia content, the report claimed.
Doxing Website That Shows Personal Details of
Tesla Owners Has Molotov Cocktail As Cursor

The site, called “Dogequest,” reportedly reveals the names, addresses and phone numbers of Tesla owners throughout the US using an interactive map – and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor. The site’s operators, who also posted the exact locations of Tesla dealerships, said that they will remove identifying information about Tesla drivers only if they provide proof that they sold their electric vehicles, according to 404 Media.
AG Pam Bondi Announces Domestic Terrorism Charges
Against Suspects in 3 Firebombing Attacks on Tesla


U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced charges of domestic terrorism against three people accused of firebombing Tesla vehicles and charging stations. Liberal protesters have targeted Tesla vehicles and company locations in order to punish Elon Musk for his role in implementing President Donald Trump's policies. Some vehicles and locations have been vandalized in what is suspected to be politically motivated violence. Trump had promised to seek domestic terrorism charges against violent Tesla attackers, and Bondi made good on that promise Thursday.
The Battery Backlash Is Real, It's Global, and It's Growing
Robert Bryce
The battery business is on fire. According to the Energy Information Administration, 10.3 gigawatts of battery capacity was added to the U.S. electric grid in 2024, and the EIA expects another 18.2 GW of capacity to be added this year. By comparison, the agency expects no new nuclear capacity, no new coal, and only 4.4 GW of new natural gas-fired capacity to be built in the U.S. in 2025. Subsidies are a key driver behind that new capacity. Under the Inflation Reduction Act [the Biden admin's deceptively named program], corporations can use the investment tax credit to recover as much as 50% of a battery project’s cost upfront. Furthermore, as I will explain momentarily, under Joe Biden, the Department of Energy handed out more than $26 billion in loans for battery projects. Between 2021 and 2024, that sum constituted more than a quarter of the $99 billion in loans the DOE handed out over that period. The battery sector is getting tens of billions more per year in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act. Despite all the cash, all is not well in battery land.
Renewable Rejection Database
The New York Times Makes a
Stunning Admission About the Democrats

Matt Margolis
Liberals are in full-blown panic mode over President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Democrats in Congress are hysterically crying “constitutional crisis,” while unhinged activists are lashing out at Tesla vehicles and showrooms – all because Elon Musk dares to support cutting government waste. Conservatives have long suspected there’s a deeper reason why the left goes berserk over efforts to rein in reckless spending. Now, the New York Times has accidentally said the quiet part out loud – the left’s political machine is fueled by your tax dollars.
Everything You Say to Your Echo
Will Be Sent to Amazon Starting on March 28

Amazon EchoIf that's not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems.  ...  Voice ID enables Alexa to do things like share user-specified calendar events, reminders, music, and more. Previously, Amazon has said that "if you choose not to save any voice recordings, Voice ID may not work." As of March 28, broken Voice ID is a guarantee for people who don't let Amazon store their voice recordings.
NYC’s Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote Is Dead
As State’s Highest Court Shuts It Down

The Big Apple’s controversial law allowing noncitizens to vote in city elections was struck down by the state’s highest court Thursday. The New York Court of Appeals ruled 6-1 that the law – passed by the City Council in late 2021, with the support of current Democratic mayoral candidates Adrienne Adams and Brad Lander – violated the state constitution. “Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens,” the opinion states.
Peter Navarro: Virtually All New Jobs Under Joe Biden
Were Taken by Illegal Immigrants

Peter Navarro, the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing for President Donald Trump, tells Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that virtually all new jobs created during the Biden administration went to newly arrived migrants who poured across the United States-Mexico border. During an exclusive sit-down interview with Marlow at the White House for The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Navarro explained mass immigration’s close relationship to free trade, where the cost of labor plummets, dragging down Americans’ wages.
Nuclear-Generated Electricity Saves an Electricity-Starved World
Ronald Stein P.E. | America Out Loud News
Only a few wealthy countries have spent hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing what they call “renewable energy” in the name of “carbon-free electricity” that is unreliable and weather dependent. Yet, despite picking our pockets through taxes and borrowing to support humongous subsidies for wind and solar, our direct costs are rising for electricity, our electric grid is becoming more failure-prone, and we still live with a monopolistic system called utilities of marketing electricity.
Average Planned Parenthood CEO Earns $350K
The American Life League has released a report on Planned Parenthood CEO pay. “In the U.S., the average salary for a nonprofit CEO is roughly $117,000 a year,” says the report. However, the average Planned Parenthood CEO salary has increased from $317K to $352K since 2020. That’s a strong incentive to keep the abortion business booming. Pro-life advocate Lila Rose reports that awards are being given for exceeding abortion quotas. In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received $699.3 million in federal funding, about 34% of its annual revenue. Taxpayer money isn’t supposed to pay directly for abortions, so lavish salaries are one place to fudge that money.
Report
(8-pg PDF)
White House Hails Recent Drops in Egg and Gas Prices
The White House on March 17 announced a drop in egg and gasoline prices, calling it a win for the Trump administration’s economic agenda. "Americans are continuing to see the benefits as the economic agenda of President Donald J. Trump and his administration comes into focus,” the White House press office said in a statement. The average wholesale price per dozen of eggs has dropped to $3.10, down 47 percent from $6.55 per dozen from Jan. 21, 2025, the White House said.
Insane New Jersey Hospital Asks Parents
If Their Newborn Babies Are Straight, Gay or Trans

A New Jersey hospital system has absolutely lost its mind and jumped the shark with extreme gender ideology. Inspira Health is asking new parents about their babies' sexual orientation. A photo of the form Inspira gives out at hospitals went viral on social media, titled "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questionnaire." And it's just as insane, if not more, than it sounds. "What sex was your baby assigned at birth?" It continues: "Which of the following best describes your baby? Lesbian or gay; straight or heterosexual, bisexual, questioning/unsure, prefer not to answer."
New Jersey Hospitals Exemplify Why Democrats Are Unpopular
Elon to 'Fire Pull' Bowman: Get Ready for a 4-Alarm Lawsuit
Ed Morrissey
At some point, Jamaal Bowman will learn not to pull fire alarms. Right? Right? Maybe? What happens when you go on national television and call the world's wealthiest man a "Nazi" and a "thief" because you dislike his politics? You get to meet a lot of his attorneys is what happens. Unlike when Bowman was in Congress, the Speech and Debate Clause no longer applies, and moments like this become actionable – theoretically, anyway:
Seventy-Seven Retired Generals and Admirals
Call for Supporting Israeli Attack on Iran

Frontpage Mag
Seventy-seven retired generals and admirals have written a letter calling for the United States to support Israeli military action that prevents a nuclear Iran. The letter was issued by the Jewish Institute for the National Security of America on March 4. ... What Israel needs most from the U.S. that it doesn’t have already in its arsenal are those 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs), a huge precision bunker buster specially designed to penetrate very deeply buried and fortified targets. This bomb would enable the Israeli Air Force to destroy the nuclear facilities deep underground at Natanz and deep inside a mountain at Fordow, as well as other nuclear facilities that may not yet have been publicly identified, but that the IDF is well aware of.
WNBA Champ Natasha Cloud Says Fan Outrage
Over Fouls on Caitlin Clark Amounts to 'racism'

WNBA champion Natasha Cloud took aim at the sport's new fans who were critical of fouls committed against Caitlin Clark last season. During an interview on the "Pivot Podcast" with Ryan Clark, Cloud weighed in on the debate that rocked the WNBA last year when several illegal hits against Clark prompted outrage from many of her fans. Cloud, who said she lost a tooth from a hit earlier in her career, insisted the outrage on behalf of Clark was rooted in "racism."
Say anything negative about a black player and it's racism
Federal Investigation Opens Into Illinois Schools
Over Transgender in Girls’ Locker Room

Illinois education authorities were hit with a federal probe over a mother’s report that her middle-school daughter and other girls were required to change clothes in the same locker room as a biological male who identifies as female. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened investigations Thursday into the Illinois Department of Education, Chicago Public Schools District 299, and Deerfield Public Schools District 109 over complaints that their gender-identity policies violate Title IX.
Pro-trans UPenn Funding Paused
“Promises made, promises kept,” Donald Trump posted on Wednesday after his administration froze $175 million in federal funds for the University of Pennsylvania. The reason for the action was tied to Trump’s executive order banning males from competing in female sports. Trump officials further warned that UPenn is under investigation and is “still at risk of losing all its federal funding” over potential Title IX violations related to its having allowed transgender-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas to compete on its women’s swim team. A White House official explained that UPenn’s action resulted in “overturning multiple records hard-earned by women, and granting the fully intact male access to the locker room.”
New Mexico Teens, 13 and 15, Charged with Murder in
Hit-and-Run of Bicyclist Posted on Social Media

Police in New Mexico said a 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder, took an 11-year-old into custody and are searching for a 15-year-old boy in connection with the deadly hit-and-run of a bicyclist that was recorded on video from inside a stolen car and circulated on social media. Albuquerque police said the 13-year-old and 15-year-old have both been charged with an open count of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, leaving the scene of an accident involving great bodily harm or death and unlawful possession of a handgun by a person.

Week ending 16 March 2025

Now We Know Biden's Role in the
FBI's Witch Hunt Against Trump

Matt Margolis
The FBI's relentless witch hunt against Donald Trump has taken yet another bizarre turn. New revelations show the bureau secretly obtained Trump and Pence's government phones from Biden's White House in May 2022, as part of their “investigation.” “The Biden White House turned over government cellphones belonging to President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence to the FBI in May 2022 as part of a bureau probe into the aftermath of the 2020 election, tying Trump to that investigation without sufficient predication,” Fox News Digital reports.
UN Pushes Awful Green Deal Policies
While Also Spreading Eco Lies

Bjorn Lomborg
The United Nations is at a crossroads. President Trump pulled out of the World Health Organization, cut funding for the UN’s Climate Convention, and more withdrawals are likely in the pipeline. He calls the UN an “underperformer,” suggesting it is a swamp to be drained. At this critical juncture, one could reasonably assume the UN would justify its existence by sharpening its focus on peace and prosperity through sound, data-based advice. Instead, it is boldly working to suppress open debate on climate change while pushing prosperity-wrecking policies.
Biden’s Autopen Was a Mighty Big Sword
Jeff Crouere
On Friday, in his address to the Department of Justice, President Trump said the Biden autopen controversy was “a big deal.” He said, “you don’t use (an) autopen. Number one, it’s disrespectful to the office. Number two, maybe it’s not even valid because, you know, who’s getting him to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing.” Sadly, Biden was oblivious to what was happening around him, but key staffers in his White House were certainly aware of his cognitive decline and they exploited his weakness to enact the most radical leftwing agenda in American history. In the process, crimes were possibly committed in a scandal that makes Watergate look like child’s play.
Trump Announces 'Decisive and Powerful' Airstrikes Against
Houthi Terrorists in Yemen

President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to a fiery Truth Social post published on Saturday. In the post, Trump wrote that he had "ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen. They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones," Trump wrote.
Iran and the MAGA Response
Brian Mark Weber
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he inherited a hot mess. To name a few of the fires, runaway inflation, rising consumer prices, widespread crime, and an open southern border all plagued our nation. Amongst the plethora of problems Trump inherited are hotspots around the world where regional conflicts could turn into global war. One of these hotspots is Iran, a country whose desire to become a nuclear power was thwarted for many years, only to have American presidents pave the way for their nuclear ambitions. Instead of putting pressure on Iran’s leaders, Barack Obama and Joe Biden gave them a nuclear deal and ransom money for hostages to boot.
Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics for Defamation
Misled Jury, Judge Says

Nick Pope
University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann and his attorneys presented misleading information to the jury in his defamation case against critics of his work, according to a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Mann won his defamation suit against conservative writers Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg, both of whom criticized Mann’s signature “hockey stick” climate model as shoddy work, in February 2024 after litigating the issue for more than a decade. However, D.C. Superior Court Judge Alfred S. Irving sanctioned Mann and his attorneys on Wednesday for conduct “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent” during the trial and stated in his filing that Mann knew that he and his team provided the jury with false information about how much grant funding he truly missed out on due to the alleged defamation.
$375 Billion EPA Slush Fund
Thomas Gallatin
How much of the climate cult is really just about money? “Get the money out as fast as possible before they [the Trump administration] come in. … It’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge,” former EPA advisor Brent Efron was caught saying in an undercover video captured by Project Veritas. That statement, which Efron’s lawyer quickly dismissed as him simply expressing his “personal views,” adding that his client “had nothing to do with" how EPA funding was administered, is nonetheless proving to be accurate. At least $20 billion of what amounts to an EPA slush fund went to a number of suspect nonprofit organizations that appear to have been created simply for the purpose of receiving the funding.
Trump Administration Unveils Sweeping Environment Rollbacks
President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced a wave of environmental rollbacks targeting Biden-era green policies, including carbon limits on power plants, tailpipe emissions standards and protections for waterways. The 31 actions are part of what Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin called "the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history," as he promised to "unleash American energy" and "revitalize the American auto industry." Among the most significant of them is revisiting a 2024 rule that requires coal-fired plants to eliminate nearly all their carbon emissions or commit to shutting down altogether, a cornerstone of former Democratic president Joe Biden's climate agenda.
Jeffries Says Dems Have the GOP ‘On the Run’
Douglas Andrews
GOP on the run. Yeah, right!
Hostage videos are among the ugliest, most inhumane of things, and we know them when we see them -- the poor video quality; the unidentifiable backdrop; the pale, bloodless face; the fearful, sleepless, deer-in-the-headlights eyes; the enemy flag placed prominently nearby; and the utter lack of conviction in the words being uttered: I’m being treated well. My captors’ cause is just. We have the Republicans on the run. Such was the case with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently, who apparently felt the need to not just stand there but do something.
No Lessons Learned!
Dems Exposed Regurgitating Same Script, AGAIN!

As reported last week, Democrats seem perfectly willing to scrap the notion of making their own authentic arguments for positions they supposedly believe in, in exchange for scripted rhetoric that can be mindlessly parroted to the masses. “IT HAPPENED AGAIN! The people behind Democrats in Congress sent the script to *every* member and they are now posting THE EXACT SAME THING IN UNISON!” Florida Voice News Assistant Director Eric Daugherty posted on X.
Trump ICE Unleashes on Biden Admin
After Arrests Surpass All 2024 Data: 'Cooking the Books'

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests since President Donald Trump took office are already outpacing arrests made in all of 2024, the agency said Wednesday – while saying the Biden administration had been "cooking the books" on its numbers. "We have uncovered that the previous administration… was cooking the books on ICE data," acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told reporters. "They were purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests."
Trump Orders the Dismantling of Government-Funded,
'propaganda' – Peddling Media Outlet

President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of news agency Voice of America, the U.S.'s state-funded media outlet that Trump has railed against for promoting biased media reports. "Voice of America has been out of step with America for years. It serves as the Voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now," a senior White House official told Fox News Digital.
“government funded ‘giant rot’”
USAID, State Failed to Monitor NGOs to
Ensure They Weren’t Funding Taliban, IG Says

A government inspector general on Wednesday sounded the alarm about problems with the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and underscored how “non-government organizations” receive billions of dollars from the United States in corruption-prone regions with limited accountability. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in a new report that “since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the U.S. government has spent billions of U.S. taxpayer funds on projects intended to provide for Afghans’ basic needs.”
Newsom's Ties to CCP Under Microscope in New Book
Exposing Alleged Corruption: 'Fleeced American Citizens'

A new book sounding the alarm about corruption in California spends a chapter focusing on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s history with a nonprofit organization that the authors say served as a major "gateway" for corrupt CCP-aligned corporations to flood into the state. In their book, "Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All," authors Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree write extensively about Newsom’s relationship with the Chinese community in the Bay Area and his ties to CCP businesses.
Tesla, Musk Derangement, and Civil Terrorism
Douglas Andrews
Somewhere out there, there’s a meme telling you to go back and find your 2016 self and let him know that Donald Trump just bought a Tesla and that the ecofascist Left is firebombing the dealerships of the world’s most climate-friendly car manufacturer. Strange days, indeed. Donald Trump did just buy a Tesla – very publicly – as a show of support for his friend Elon Musk, the “heretic” whose efforts to root out government fraud, waste, and abuse via the Department of Government Efficiency have earned him the unmitigated enmity of the Left. As Musk told Joe Rogan recently, “At this point, I think I’m at the top of the list for a lot of homicidal maniacs. They’re doing the same thing to me that they did to Trump, which is that they’re making it sound like if you kill me, you’re a hero.”
Since when are death threats and firebombs considered “protest”?
Alleged Transgender Tesla Vandal, 42,
Lives with Mom and Calls Himself ‘Baby’

Details about one of the alleged Tesla vandals spoke to the “emotional problems” of the dress-wearing man who referred to himself as “baby.” Aligning with the hyperbolic rhetoric from leftist leaders, activists appeared to heed their marching orders against Elon Musk by targeting Tesla dealerships across the country. Among those who had been arrested was one Lucy Grace Nelson, 42, of  Lyons, Colorado, a man who considers himself a woman living in his mother’s home.
Lucy Grace Nelson
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Planned Parenthood Kills 18-Year-Old Girl in Botched Abortion
Operation Rescue has launched a full investigation into the death of Alexis “Lexi” Arguello, an 18-year-old Colorado girl who died from abortion complications on February 6, after delayed emergency transport from the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood. “Our team has been gathering information on this death for weeks, slowly piecing together exactly what happened,” said Sarah Neely, Chief Operating Officer of Operation Rescue. “On March 12, however, testimony during a hearing with the Colorado Committee of Health and Human Services confirmed everything we have been investigating, including Planned Parenthood’s suspected failings.”
Iowa's Caitlin Clark Snubbed in Ridiculous Ranking of
Best Women's College Basketball Players Ever

Caitlin Clark scored more points for Iowa than any other Division I basketball player, whether a man or a woman, has ever scored. That apparently means nothing to ESPN's women's basketball crew, which named the top-five women's college basketball players of all time on Sunday and didn't include Clark. Here's how ESPN ranked the top-five women's college basketball players ever:
Virginia Teen Track Runner Who Bashed Opponent's Head with
Baton Charged with Assault and Battery

The Virginia high school track and field athlete who was seen bashing an opponent's head with a baton during a race has been charged with assault and battery, Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Office confirmed to Fox News Digital. I.C. Norcom High School student athlete Alaila Everett was seen smashing her baton on the head of Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker during a championship meet last week. Footage of the incident went viral in the following days, prompting national controversy and backlash against Everett.
Runner suffered a concussion and possible skull fracture
Trans Ideology Could Cost Blue State Schools $10 Billion
Victoria Manning
Three Democrat-run states are risking $10 billion in federal funding to continue allowing boys in girls’ bathrooms and sports teams on schoolchildren, and the Trump administration is cracking down. On February 25th, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent warning letters to California, Maine, and Minnesota for defying federal anti-discrimination laws. All three blue states still require girls to compete against boys in sports, a violation of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972. Bondi vows to sue or seek termination of federal funding to states refusing to comply with the law.
Trump Education Department Investigates
45 Colleges Over ‘Race-Based’ Programs

The Department of Education has opened investigations into 45 colleges, including some of the nation's most prestigious institutions, over their alleged refusal to end racial preferences in PhD programming. According to federal education officials, the schools may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with “The PhD Project," an organization that gives doctoral students insight and networking opportunities toward obtaining a Ph.D. but limits eligibility based on race.
Trump Administration Slashes Millions More in Grants to Columbia
The Trump administration on Friday slashed additional grants to Columbia University totaling approximately $30 million, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The administration is in the process of reviewing the totality of Columbia’s $5 billion in federal funding, and the fresh round of cuts comes on the heels of the administration’s decision to cancel $400 million in grants and contracts to the Ivy League school announced earlier this month. At the time, the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism said the initial cuts constituted "the first round of action" and that additional cuts were expected to follow as the review continued.

Columbia Activist Who Endorsed Hamas's 'Anticolonial Liberation Movement' Self-Deports After Trump Admin Pulls Visa
A Columbia University doctoral student who expressed support for the "anticolonial liberation movement in Palestine" used the Trump administration’s revamped "CBP Home" app to self-deport to Canada about a week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian national and doctoral candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation was "involved in activities supporting Hammas [sic], a terrorist organization," according to the DHS announcement.
Columbia activist
Colleges Are in Trouble and Suddenly Realizing They Have Few Allies
John Sexton
Columbia University is just the start of a long-brewing backlash. On Monday of this week the Trump administration's Department of Education put 60 schools on notice that they will lose federal funding if they don't do more to crack down on antisemitism on campus. “The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws.”
U.S. District Judge Boasberg Orders Trump Administration to Halt Deportation of Illegal Aliens and Narcotrafficking Gang Members
It will not come as a surprise to CTH readers to hear the name Judge James Boasberg associated with efforts to protect the institutional interests of a corrupt DC deep state.  Boasberg has a long, very long, and well documented history of protecting the DC apparatus. On Saturday, without giving the Trump administration any time to respond, Judge Boasberg issued an immediate temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking DHS, Customs and Border Patrol and ICE from deporting illegal aliens and narcotrafficking gang members belonging to Tren de Aragua (TdA), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Week ending 9 March 2025

Could a Bombshell Discovery Render
All of Biden's Presidential Actions 'Null and Void'?

Matt Margolis
 The Biden presidency might have been the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the American people. A shocking investigation by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project has revealed that virtually every document bearing Joe Biden's signature during his presidency was signed by an autopen – except for one. What makes this revelation particularly damning is that the only document confirmed to have Biden's actual signature was his letter announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. Let that sink in for a moment. Remember when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) revealed his discussion with Biden when Biden couldn't recall signing the executive order halting LNG exports? Now we know why – he probably didn't. The real question is: Who did? Who was running the country while Biden was not all there?
More on the Autopen
Stunned Biden
We Can't Afford Timidity in Revamping Medicaid
Sally Pipes
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid. Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed unease about that possibility. But the hand-wringing about Medicaid cuts is misplaced. The program is bloated and rife with fraud and waste, and it has veered significantly from its original intent of caring for the poor and disabled. It's long overdue for paring.
Biden's 'autopen signature' Appears on Most Official Docs,
Raising Concerns Over Who Controlled the WH

"WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN
CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY"
The majority of official documents signed by President Joe Biden allegedly used the same autopen signature, reinvigorating concerns over the former president’s mental acuity and if he "actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents," a report published by an arm of the Heritage Foundation found. "We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year. Here is the autopen signature," the group claimed on X, accompanied by photo examples.
Build, Build, Build – Trump’s Strategy to
Make America a Maritime Nation Once Again

James E. Fanell
The President’s announcement of the creation of the Office of Shipbuilding is a visible reflection of the existential threat that the PRC’s 30-year naval and maritime modernization program represents to America’s national security. Since the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Crisis, where the U.S. dispatched U.S. Navy aircraft carriers to the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese Communist Party has been executing a maritime modernization program that has transformed the PLA Navy from a coastal defense force into the largest navy on the planet.
We're Pathetic Scandals, the Bubblegum Pink Resistance,
and Lawfare

Clarice Feldman
The unveiling of the USAID’s scandalous misappropriation of money continues. This week, MSNBC tried to toss a lifesaver to Stacey Abrams, asking her to explain the $2 billion allotted to her pop-up nonprofit by the EPA when she lacked all experience for managing so much money. Didn’t work. In fact, her own words underscore that this was a Democrat party grift.... More on lawfaring.
Perhaps the secret behind the flurry of lawsuits against the Administration for working to remove resistance fighters in the government and reduce waste and fraud is that there is in place an agreement, previously secret, among 14 blue states, left-wing groups, and NYC law firms to “conduct coordinated lawfare against DOGE and Elon Musk.”
More Evidence – From Space! – That Joe Biden
Was a Tiny, Petty, Vindictive Prez

Stephen Green
I've written before that Presidentish Joe Biden is "easily the worst human being to hold the office of president of the United States of America," but would you believe he might also be the smallest, pettiest, and most vindictive? Of course, you would. Here's the headline: NASA's stranded astronauts finally snap as they appear to let slip who's to blame for leaving them there. I watched the video and nobody "snapped" or let anything "slip." Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were asked a direct question and Butch gave an honest and thoughtful answer.
Climate Doomsday Predictions That Flopped Spectacularly
Andrew Stiles
It’s been almost six years since the delinquent child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist’s warning that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels” by 2023. The scientist in question, Harvard University professor James Anderson, also predicted “there will be no floating ice remaining” in the Arctic Ocean by 2022 absent a “Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years.” That didn’t happen, but climate activists are still warning that the Arctic could be ice-free at some point between 2035 and 2067.
Lawmakers Reveal Several House Members' Mental Faculties
So Diminished They Can't Do Their Jobs

Nick Arama
One of the worst things of the four years in which Joe Biden occupied the White House was that Democrats covered up and didn't care about his cognitive condition – until it was a threat to their control. The problem wasn't just Biden... Part of the problem is that people need to step aside at a certain point, but for many members of Congress, it's become a lifetime job that they don't want to let go. That's why you get people like 84-year-old Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and 86-year-old Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).
Meet Sandra Whitehouse, Whose Husband's Votes
Funneled Millions Into NGO That Pays Her

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has emerged into the spotlight amid a new ethics complaint due to his voting in favor of laws that ultimately funded millions in grants to a nonprofit climate group that pays his wife's consulting firm. But who is his wife, Sandra Whitehouse? ... According to tax documents, Ocean Conservancy has paid Whitehouse a total of $2,686,800 either directly or through her firm since 2010. This was cited in last month's complaint to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., from ethics watchdog the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT).
Trump Could Sell Off Around 450 Gov’t Buildings,
Including FBI Headquarters

The headquarters of agencies like the FBI could be on the chopping block after a list proposing the sale of nearly 450 federal buildings to slash government waste was compiled. As the Department of Government Efficiency’s savings climbed toward hundreds of billions of dollars, leaving an increasing number of swamp creatures crying, wasteful programs and bloated workforces weren’t the only targets to trim spending. Having already canceled leases on scores of vacant or underutilized buildings, the General Services Administration (GSA) cleared the way for an estimated $430 million in annual savings with a list of “non-core assets” around the country.
Colorado Bill Looks to Expand SNAP to
Allow Restaurant Food Purchases

Colorado lawmakers have proposed bipartisan legislation to expand food assistance benefits to allow recipients to use them to buy meals from restaurants. As of June 2024, nine other states have already adopted this program. The program would allow eligible Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to purchase hot or prepared foods at participating restaurants. SNAP is a federal program that provides food benefits to low-income families.
Dems just love spending money
The Sneaky Way DC Got Its Awful Reparations Bill
Past Republicans in Congress

Tyler O'Neil
Washington, D.C., is not a state, and Congress has the authority to block its laws, but the district pulled a fast one on the Republican majority in Congress to get its “reparations” bill past its oversight. The Reparations Foundation Fund and Task Force Establishment Act of 2023, which passed Washington’s City Council in January, was listed as the “Insurance Database Amendment Act of 2024” when it appeared before Congress.
All HHS Workers Given $25,000 Voluntary Buyout Offer
A source familiar with the situation told CBS News that all employees in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were notified Friday of the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for a $25,000 payment. The department-wide email offered a “voluntary separation incentive payment,” the source said. Employees have until March 14 to reply. Friday’s offer is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the size of federal workforce and shrink the government’s budget through mass layoffs and financial cuts.
DOGE Slashes One Federal Agency Down to a Single Person
During President Donald Trump’s address Tuesday, Democratic Party lawmakers seethed as the GOP leader highlighted examples of the billions of dollars of waste that had thus far been exposed by DOGE. Earlier in the day, the organization had served up another reason for grifters to gnash their teeth as the Inter-American Foundation’s workforce, averaging six-figure salaries, was reduced to one State Department official, Peter Marocco. Detailed in a post on X from DOGE, “The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue foreign grants ($60M budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee).”
The EPA Demands an Accounting of the $20 Billion Climate Fund
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency sent letters of inquiry to the eight nonprofit recipients chosen by the Biden administration to receive grants from the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in April 2024. The letter asks, among other things, what exactly the nonprofits plan to do with the money. The letters were sent on the same day that a Free Press investigation revealed that the $20 billion was shoveled into around 129 Citibank accounts in the interregnum between President Trump’s election and his inauguration. Currently, $16.9 billion remains in those accounts, which have been frozen by Citibank. The Free Press investigation also uncovered connections between the nonprofit CEOs and executives and the Biden and Obama administrations.
Wrong, PBS, Real-World Data
Doesn’t Show That a Climate Crisis Is Happening

Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett
The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) recently published article by Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press (AP), titled “Scientists say EPA just needs to look around the world to see the growing dangers of climate change,” which says that proof of catastrophic climate change is found in obvious “growing dangers” evident for all to see. This is false. Borenstein’s story, which PBS didn’t bother to verify or even question, paints a false picture of an impending climate catastrophe, citing everything from worsening wildfires to supposed ocean acidification, all while conveniently ignoring the very real benefits of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The Resistance to Climate Alarmism Grows
I & I Editorial Board
The end is near. That’s what we’ve been told since the beginning. The doomsdayers have cited a variety of cataclysms that will do us in, from asteroids to resource exhaustion to a dying sun. But they all have one thing in common: So far, they’ve all been wrong. Same with the climate alarmists. And the public is catching on. A study, published by the Stanford University School of Sustainability, no less, found that “resistance to climate action has become a global movement that strengthens after governments implement climate-related policies.” “We found that counter climate change organizations tend to emerge after pro-environmental policies are institutionalized in government,” said the study’s senior author.
MSNBC Is a ‘Money-Losing Operation’
Victor Davis Hanson
I’d like to talk about some hypocrisy that’s been in the news lately. And it tends to be mostly on the Left and mostly by very elite people that we wouldn’t expect because we were told, of course, they were populists and men and women of the people. Let’s take Rachel Maddow. She’s on MSNBC. Her audience has declined drastically. She typically works one day out of five, per week. I think, after the election, she was coming in a little bit more often and that’s going to terminate and she’ll go back to her one day. She took a pay cut from $30 million to $25 million.
DHS Ends Collective Bargaining for the TSA
Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Transportation Security Officers, which has constrained TSA’s chief mission: to safeguard our transportation systems and keep Americans safe. Eliminating collective bargaining removes bureaucratic hurdles that will strengthen workforce agility enhance productivity and resiliency, while also jumpstarting innovation... Gaps in benefit programs, including non-verifiable Family and Medical Leave, are being exploited by a select few poor performers, placing greater burden on TSOs at the expense of American travelers and taxpayers.
Whistleblower: Armed Congressional Staffer
Was at Capitol on Day of Trump’s Address

Former Capitol Police officer Tarik Johnson said Saturday that a congressional staffer with a gun gained entry into one of the House office buildings that leads to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday – the same day as President Donald Trump’s congressional address. According to Johnson, the staffer was arrested. “This is the fourth instance of a gun being brought in a building policed by USCP Chief J Thomas Manger since Trump was elected President,” Johnson said. “What is frightening to me is that both dates that President Trump attended events at the Capitol it was on a date where a gun made it in one of the buildings and I’m told one of the guns made it in a room where President Trump was actually in and only feet away from him.”
Trump Announced Taiwan Chip Giant Plans New Investments of $100B
in Arizona for Chip Manufacturing On Top of Planned $65B

Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to invest $100 billion in the United States, President Donald Trump announced Monday as he appeared with the company's head at the White House. TSMC, the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer, produces chips for companies including Apple, Intel and Nvidia. The company had already announced plans to invest more than $65 billion in the U.S., including three plants in Arizona after the Biden administration offered billions in subsidies. Its first factory in Arizona has started mass production of its 4-nanometer chips.
A Major Karen Bass Narrative Might Have Just Imploded
Matt Vespa
Something is going on with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. She’s deleting her text messages. The Los Angeles Times reported that the besieged mayor had deleted her texts. It gets worse: the purported messages she was sending to officials on the ground when the wildfires engulfed the county were never saved. Bass was partying in Ghana during its presidential inauguration when the wildfires erupted, despite a promise never to leave the country during her tenure as mayor.
Trump Slashes ALL South Africa Aid,
Cites Anti-White Government Policy

Ben Bartee
The communists who’ve run South Africa into the dirt since the end of apartheid – increasingly brazen in their genocidal anti-white rhetoric and deeds – may have not expected any real pushback on their illiberal racism. And why wouldn’t they expect immunity? They had gotten away with it for decades under all previous U.S. presidents, even while they touted the “international rules-based order” that is neoliberalism. But we’re in the Golden Age now.
Palestinian Authority Pays February Terror Salaries As Usual
The Palestinian Authority on Thursday morning paid out February stipends from its “pay-for-slay” fund that rewards terrorists and their families for their attacks, the Palestinian Media Watch NGO reported, citing an official announcement by the P.A.’s postal bank. “Palestine Post announces the beginning of payment of the monetary allowances tomorrow morning, Thursday, March 6, 2025, at the main post offices and through the ATMs,” Ramallah’s announcement read.
Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The Trump administration is cutting off $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University, claiming it has failed to take steps to confront antisemitism on campus after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the Free Press has learned. The cuts represent the federal government’s first round of grant cancellations for Columbia, according to the administration’s newly formed antisemitism task force, which is leading the effort. Columbia has over $5 billion in active federal grants that are being reviewed by the government. Leo Terrell, the head of the DOJ’s antisemitism task force, said the funding cuts are “only the beginning.”
UN 'Human Rights Committee' Censors American for
Mentioning Hamas Atrocities

Justine Brooke Murray
Anyone who believes the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is actually a council for human rights at this point, let alone thinks the UN is legitimate organization, has been woefully fooled. The council hosted a one-sided “Interactive Dialogue,” addressing a report published by their High Commissioner that calls Israel “Occupied Palestinian Territory” and claims their defensive war against Hamas is a human rights violation. It only took seconds for the “dialogue” to devolve into a verbal struggle session that only allowed terrorist sympathizers and Jew-haters representing the U.N. to have the floor.
Chuck Todd Blasts Biden over the ‘Mythology’ He Is a Family Man
Former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd ripped into former President Joe Biden on a recent episode of Steve Schmidt podcast “The Warning.” “You know that Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place,” Todd told Schmidt with regard to his presidency. Todd proceeded to recall when he read the transcript of Hunter Biden’s trial and was appalled with the former president.
Two Illegal Aliens Murdered a Good Samaritan in
Sanctuary City Los Angeles

Deportations are going strong and the border invasion seems to have slowed to a trickle ever since President Donald Trump was inaugurated, but the nation’s problems with illegal aliens are still ongoing. This is most apparent in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles where a hideous crime was caught on camera. Two men suspected of murdering a good Samaritan who attempted to stop them from stealing a catalytic converter in Los Angeles were in the United States illegally, according to authorities.
Trump Encourages Farmers to Grow More Food for
U.S. Consumers As April 2 Tariffs Loom

On Monday, President Donald Trump pushed for U.S.-based farmers to start growing more products for those in the country, citing his tariffs that are slated to go into effect on April 2. Trump posted on Truth Social, "To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!"
Morning Coffee Is Best for Health
Dr. Mehmet Oz, M.D. and Dr. Mike Roizen, M.D.
Coffee is ALWAYS the answer
More than half of Americans agree with the statement, "Coffee is pure pleasure to me." So it’s no wonder one-third of people drink an estimated three to five cups a day. While they love it as a pick-me-up, a source of warmth, and a morning ritual, they may not know what it’s doing when it gets inside them.
Huge Study Says Transgender Surgery Doubles Depression Rates
Transgender surgery raises the rates of depression, suicidal impulses, anxiety, and drug addiction, a huge new study says. Yet the study’s authors concluded that governments should just spend more on the “mental health” of patients to offset the damage of transgender therapies. The study is another blow for transgender activists and friendly judges who insist that transgender medical treatments be funded by taxpayers because the treatments are supposedly life-saving forms of self-expression. That argument is fundamental in the activists’ fight against current efforts by the federal government and state governments to protect children and youths from transgender advocacy.
Sanctuary Schools Must End
David Harris
What do a windswept town on the plains of North Dakota and a sandy beach hamlet in Florida have in common? Aside from the fact they’re both in the U.S., they only require students to show proof of identification, residency, and an up-to-date vaccine card to enter their schools. With the exception of some states that allow for vaccination waivers, this policy has led to an unprecedented number of illegal migrant children gaining admittance to public schools across the country. Though statistics on these demographic movements have been difficult to find, what is available suggests that the number of children of illegal immigrants attending publicly funded schools is staggering.
A Simple Tax-Code Change Would Protect Academic Freedom
Michael Lachanski, Jonah Davids
Every year, donors give billions of dollars to American colleges and universities. Some give for social or sentimental reasons, but most do so because they want to aid exceptional students, faculty, and research. Yet, far too often, these donations disappear into administrative costs and ideological projects that do little to advance real scholarship. At the same time, scholars who challenge the consensus within their fields, or simply hold opinions unpopular with their colleagues, frequently find themselves without support from their department or institution. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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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.
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.”
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.”
NGO has $11.7M warchest
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.
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.
Tariff threats yield results
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.
No wonder the left is screaming!
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.
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.
Tim Kaine
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.
Uncle Sugar’s Checkbook Is Closed,
But They’re Too Poor to Take His Place
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.
The Fall of the USS Gettysburg
Kevin Eyer
USS Gettysburg cg-64
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tampon Tim Walz

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