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menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture,
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Deport Millions, Finish the Wall, Tax Remittances, and End Birthright Citizenship Victor Davis Hanson I want to talk about illegal immigration. You know, this is the point in our history that we’ve never been before. We have not a porous border, but no border at all. We’ve had somewhere between 10 [million] to 12 million illegal entrants since the Biden administration began. There is no real corpus of immigration law. It’s been destroyed. We’re at a historical period in our country, where 55 million people, never such a large number of people born outside the United States, that are residing here. In terms of percentages, almost 16% of the population was not born in the United States.  In LA Fire Horror, California Elites Face the Consequences of Blue Misrule Karol Markowicz The vivid, heartbreaking images from this week’s Los Angeles wildfires called urgent attention to California’s longtime decline. But this time, those affected by its bad policies and bad governance include a demographic rarely touched by them: the rich. Over the last several years, California’s net out-migration numbers set records. |
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| Why We Must Expose the Criminal Fraud of Those Behind Biden's Disastrous Presidency Martin Gurri January 20 will see the conclusion of the most extraordinary episode in the history of the American presidency. For the last four years, the supposed president, Joe Biden, has been the man who wasn’t there. Bloody and historic events – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ pogrom in Israel and the subsequent five-cornered Israel-Iran war – have shaken the world, yet Biden wasn’t there. Millions of non-Americans of every description, including terrorists, criminals, and members of the Cuban Communist Party, have swarmed over the Mexican border and flooded into our urban centers, costing billions of taxpayer dollars to support – and still Biden wasn’t there. |
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| America Just Averted Another Potential Disaster, Union Boss Gives ‘full credit’ to Trump, NOT Biden It looks like America will avert a near disaster and the leader getting “full credit” is a slap in the face to the Biden administration. The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), the group representing ship line and terminal operators and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) reached a tentative deal on Wednesday that otherwise would have port workers go on strike on Jan. 16, CNN reported. ILA President Harold Daggett is calling President-elect Trump the “key” to helping his members “secure the greatest contract.” But the good news doesn’t end there. | |
| The Top 10 Lies of Liz Cheney and the January 6th Committee Tristan Justice Disgraced ex-Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was awarded one of the highest civilian honors last week after House Republicans referred the vice chair of the since-disbanded Select Committee on Jan. 6 to the Justice Department for criminal charges. In December, however, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., released a nearly 130-page review of the Jan. 6 Committee’s work, concluding Cheney should face a criminal investigation for “witness tampering.” |
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| Climate Change Isn’t Responsible for Disastrous Wildfires Susan Crockford Extended periods of hot weather and drought create ideal conditions for hard-to-fight forest fires. Although climate models predict that such weather conditions generated by human-caused global warming will increase the incidence of wildfires, recent wildfires cannot be blamed exclusively – or even primarily – on global warming: Weather-driven conditions conducive to forest fires have existed for millennia as a result of naturally occurring climate cycles. | |
| How Years of Corruption and Mismanagement Led to LA Running Out of Water in the Middle of the Palisades Wildfire As Los Angeles firefighters faced down the most destructive blaze in the city’s history, they ran out of water. “The hydrants are down,” a firefighter said over the radio, according to the Los Angeles Times. Another chipped in: “Water supply just dropped.” Fire crews were forced to watch as entire blocks of the Pacific Palisades – one of the most scenic and celeb-packed neighborhoods in LA – were incinerated in a matter of hours late Tuesday and early Wednesday.  Los Angeles Wildfires Death Toll Rises to 16 As Gavin Newsom Faces New Firefighting Funding Scrutiny The LA Department of Water and Power is sticking to its narrative that all hydrants in Pacific Palisades were working just fine before the fires – even though a major reservoir was taken offline beforehand. Now the organization is facing further scrutiny after the county's $750,000-a-year water chief, Janisse Quinones, said her work is guided by an "equity" lens. Quinones said in a July interview with KBLA radio that the importance of putting an "equity lens" to the DWP was "the number one thing that attracted me to this role." California Fires: Multiple People Accused of Arson As Firestorm Rages in LA [Global Warming?!] As fire crews continue to work to extinguish deadly wildfires across Southern California, at least two people have been arrested in recent days, accused of trying to start fires in the area. The massive firefight began on Tuesday, Jan. 7 with the Palisades fire breaking out on the west side of Los Angeles. Since then, several other major fires have broken out in Los Angeles County, including the Eaton Fire in the Altadena and Pasadena area and the Kenneth Fire in West Hills. |
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| LAFD Asst. Chief's ‘disqualifying’ DEI Remarks Draw Fury: 'Criminal Negligence' Los Angeles Fire Department Assistant Chief Kristine Larson ignited fierce criticism when a self-promoting clip touting her ability to serve her community despite being a woman went viral. The beginning of the P.R. video shows Larson explaining how fire and medical victims want to be rescued by people “who look like” them, presumptively, if not ignorantly, claiming it puts the victim more at “ease.” Larson went on to defend her stance as a woman firefighter by answering concerns she’s presumably been pressured about: “Is she strong enough to do this?…. You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire,” she used as examples. “My response is,” Larson explained, “he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” |
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| LA Times Owner Reminds Voters ‘Competence Matters’ When Electing Leaders Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong declared that “competence matters” when electing state and local officials. The entrepreneur took to social media amid the deadly and destructive California wildfires to “hit American voters with an ‘I told you so’ about their elected leaders’ response” to the catastrophe, as noted by Fox News. | |
| Snail Darter Revisited: Famous Fish That Halted a Dam's Construction Is Not Endangered After All A team of ecologists, evolutionary biologists and resource managers affiliated with several institutions across the U.S. has found that the snail darter, which was famously used by environmentalists in the 1970s to block construction of a damn, is not actually a distinct fish species. In their study, published in the journal Current Biology, the group used standard species determination testing to investigate the distinctiveness of the snail darter. A quick study of the fish suggested it was unique and at risk of extinction if the dam was built. That fish, the snail darter, soon became a symbol for the use of an endangered species as a way to prevent the development of projects across the country in the ensuing years. | Once Again, “The Science” Fails |
| When Did Changing Weather Become Climate Change? Brian C. Joondeph What’s the difference between weather and climate? Let’s ask the expert class, the governmental National Weather Service. "Weather is defined as the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and barometric pressure. Climate is defined as the expected frequency of specific states of the atmosphere, ocean, and land, including variables such as temperature, salinity, soil moisture, wind speed and direction, and current strength and direction. It encompasses the weather over different periods of time and also relates to mutual interactions between the components of the earth system (e.g., atmospheric composition, volcanic eruptions, changes in the earth’s orbit around the sun, and changes in the energy from the sun itself)." |  Pay attention class |
| Judge Merchan Tries to Defend Himself After Trump Sentencing – But He and Bragg Are Responsible for This Monster Jonathan Turley Acting Justice Juan Merchan admitted that the case was “unique and remarkable” but insisted that “once the courtroom doors were closed, the trial itself was no more special, unique, and extraordinary than the other 32 cases in this courthouse.” If so, that is a damning indictment of the entire New York court system. Merchan allowed a dead misdemeanor to be resuscitated by allowing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively prosecute declined federal offenses. He allowed a jury to convict Trump without any agreement, let alone unanimity, on what actually occurred in the case. |
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| Pay Up, Mr. Mann The Editors National Review For more than eight years, the climate scientist Michael Mann harassed National Review through litigation over a blog post – until, eventually, the First Amendment brought an end to his attack. This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days. It is time for him to get out his checkbook, and sign on the dotted line. This restitution is welcome, if incomplete. As was made clear during the discovery process, Mann’s explicitly stated intention was to use a “major lawsuit” as a vehicle with which to “ruin National Review.” |
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| Behind Trump’s Expansionist Rhetoric Thomas Gallatin Donald Trump wants to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal, as well as rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. For good measure, he’s joked about making Canada the 51st state. Furthermore, he’s willing to use force to make it all happen – at least, that’s what the mainstream media reports. So, what is Trump really up to? Well, it’s a bit of typical Trumpian hyperbole mixed with actual intentions sprinkled with just the right amount of trolling to keep everyone flummoxed. Does Trump really want Greenland? Is Trump really willing to use force to take the Panama Canal? Would Trump really annex Canada, making our neighbor to the north the 51st state? Is Trump serious about renaming the Gulf of Mexico? |
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| Surprise! Hegseth’s ‘crypto-nazi tattoo’ Prominently Featured at Jimmy Carter’s Funeral?  Social
media couldn’t help but poke fun at one hysterical lawmaker’s fear of
Pete Hegseth’s Christian tattoo, only for the same symbol to make an
appearance during President Jimmy Carter’s funeral. As BizPac Review
previously reported, Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote a 33-page
smear campaign on President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary
of Defense, Hegseth. One of the points of contention she had was a
prominent “Deus Vult” tattoo, which she claimed people believed made
him a possible “insider threat.” So imagine her shock when the same
symbol featured on Hegseth’s chest was found on both the floor and the
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“Deus Vult” tattoo, which translates to “God’s will.” |
| Only 5 Percent of U.S. Car Buyers Want an EV Only 5 percent of U.S. consumers want their next vehicle to be a battery electric vehicle, according to a new survey by Deloitte. The consulting company gathered data from more than 31,000 people across 30 countries as part of its 2025 Global Automotive Consumer Study, and some of the results are rather interesting, as they pertain to technologies like new powertrains, connectivity, and artificial intelligence. Among U.S. consumers, internal combustion engines (ICE) remain number one, with 62 percent indicating that their next car will not be electrified. Another 1 in 5 would like a hybrid for their next vehicle, with a further 6 percent desiring a plug-in hybrid |
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| Energy Secretary’s Not-So-Excellent EV Adventure Emmy Griffin Summer road trips are always an experience, as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm just found out. Granholm set off on a four-day excursion in an attempt to promote the ease, convenience, and necessity of electric vehicles (EVs)... Granholm’s biggest hiccup happened just as she was traveling through Grovetown near Augusta, Georgia. Granholm and her team needed to stop for a fast charge, and her gas-powered advanced team encountered a major problem. The charging stations were almost full, so one of the team members used their non-electric vehicle to save the last free charging station for the energy secretary. | |
| Financial Tracking of Ohio Gun Buyers Banned Gun owners in Ohio won’t have to worry about firearm purchases being tracked by financial institutions or having to carry liability insurance. Senate Bill 58, one of a series of bills signed into law late Wednesday by Gov. Mike DeWine, received backing from pro-gun organizations like the National Rifle Association and Buckeye Firearms. But the Ohio Mayors Alliance and the Ohio Municipal League both opposed it. Known as the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, the new law stops government entities from keeping a list of privately owned firearms or firearm owners and prohibits banks and other financial institutions from assigning a firearms code in a way that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers. |
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| Media's Latest Alito Conspiracy Theory Is Particularly Ridiculous Mollie Hemingway Left-wing media breathlessly reported Wednesday that Associate Justice Samuel Alito provided a job reference on behalf of one of his former clerks to President-elect Donald Trump. “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position. I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon,” Alito told ABC News, which broke the shocking news that an employer gave a job reference for one of his former employees. |
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| Mel Gibson Tells Joe Rogan He 'couldn’t walk for three months' Thanks to Fauci's 'lethal' Advice Legendary actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson revealed this week that he couldn’t walk for months after he took the Fauci-backed COVID drug Remdesivir. “I got COVID from my gardener,” he began. “He had it first, and then I got it. … I knew the guy for 20 years, and we both went to the same hospital, and he died, and I didn’t.” “I think we both got Remdesivr, which is not good … not good,” he added. |
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| Laken Riley Act Passes House with 48 Dems, All Republicans The Laken Riley Act passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, the first piece of federal legislation approved by the 119th Congress after the House agreed to its rules for the term. All voting Republicans supported the bill, along with 48 Democrats – more than the total left-wing lawmakers who voted for it last year. It passed on a 264 to 159 margin and will now be sent to the Senate. |
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| Our Out-of-Control Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Ryan Cleckner In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home. It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported. Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their responsibility to protect the rights of those who elect them, the ATF has suffered no repercussions. How and why did this killing take place? |
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| Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden Admin's Title IX Rewrite A federal judge in Kentucky blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine sex in Title IX as "gender identity," striking down the change nationwide. The U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky Northern Division made the ruling in Cardona v. Tennessee on Thursday. "Another massive win for TN and the country!" Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a post on X. "This morning, a federal court ruled in our favor and vacated the Biden admin's radical new Title IX rule nationwide. |
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| Minnesota May Deny Licenses If Teachers Don’t Affirm LGBT Identities Current and aspiring teachers will need to ensure they are sufficiently in support of the LGBT agenda in order to have a license to teach in Minnesota under rules set to go into effect this July. Minnesota’s new “Standards of Effective Practice” require teachers to “[foster] an environment that ensures student identities,” including “sexual orientation,” are “historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves.” |
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| Minnesota School District Removes LGBTQ Children's Book with Nudity, Despite Objections Kristine Parks  A
Minnesota public school district defended its decision to pull an LGBTQ
children's book from its elementary school shelves, despite facing
objections from some parents and school librarians. Rochester Public
Schools said it pulled the 2022 book, "The Rainbow Parade" by Emily
Neilson, from its elementary school media center last month after a
Franklin Elementary School parent raised concerns about nude
illustrations in the book. The book tells a story about a young girl
going to her first Pride parade with her two moms. Several pages within
the book have illustrations depicting full or partial public nudity,
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| Days After Scrapping 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers, Meta Axes DEI Programs Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is cutting its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring, training, and picking suppliers. The company has also eliminated its DEI-focused team and will instead build programs "that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background," according to a Friday memo by Vice President of Human Resources Janelle Gale, Axios reported. |
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| What
Everyone Is Missing in the Argument Over Mass Deportation Hans von Spakovsky “Illegals must go,” Tom Homan, the incoming Border Czar, has declared – and he and President-elect Trump mean that literally. Critics have a pat response: It is not physically or financially possible to implement the largest deportation program in our history. But they’re missing a critical tool: the ability of the entire executive branch to create conditions that will help induce self-deportation by many aliens. Trump and Homan have already indicated that they’re going to focus the Department of Homeland Security’s resources on the worst-of-the-worst, in what we can call a “catch-and-deport” program, in contrast to the “catch-and-release or, don’t-even-bother-to-catch” program of the past four years. |
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| Don’t Let Democrats or
Media Get Away with Their Lies Nina Bookout The Democrats and media would like us to ignore all the lies they’ve peddled since Joe Biden started his campaign in 2020. We can’t and shouldn’t let them get away with any of it. I agree that the Democrat party was the worst party of the year. I also believe they’ve been the worst party for the last two decades or more. That said, they sincerely hope we’ll just sweep all their lies under the rug and pretend the last four years, 2024 in particular, never happened. |
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| Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to
Announce Resignation As Early As Monday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly expected to resign from his position as early as Monday, according to Canadian media. The news was first reported by the Globe and Mail on Sunday night, citing three sources. The outlet said that it is unclear when exactly the Liberal Party leader will step down, but a resignation is expected to come before a national caucus meeting on Wednesday. The news comes as Trudeau's popularity continues to dwindle in Canada, which has a national election planned for Oct. 20 of this year. The country continues to suffer from a housing crisis, a declining per-capita GDP and high inflation, among other issues. |
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| Journos Who Joined Gaslighting On
Biden's Decline Should Never Live It Down NY Post Editorial Board President-elect Donald Trump is forcing the Democratic politicians who spent years lying about President Biden’s senility to take their bitter medicine, but we’re more concerned about the toady media who played along. Trump on Monday posted a video showing clip after cringe-worthy clip of Democratic leaders from Rep. Nancy Pelosi to Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas denying again and again that Biden was mentally and physically deteriorating, claiming he was “sharp,” “on his game,” “focused” and that “his age is an asset.” |
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| Joe Biden's Senior Moments (We Told
You So Edition) Thaleigha Rampersad and Andrew Stiles As Joe Biden nears the end of his failed term as president, a handful of mainstream journalists are finally starting to admit what most Americans already knew: The people (mostly journalists and other Democratic partisans) who kept insisting Biden was fit to serve another four years in the White House were profoundly wrong. |
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| Trump Says New York Judge Should Be
Disbarred After Refusal to Throw Out Hush Money Conviction President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday called for Judge Juan Merchan to be disbarred after he rejected Trump's bid to toss out his conviction in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case. "The judge should be disbarred!" Trump wrote in a lengthy TRUTH Social post. "This is why people, and companies, are FLEEING New York – A corrupt court system." |
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| Holy Omelet! Blue State Blues: Eggs
Hit $9 a Dozen in California Some parts of California have seen a dozen eggs hit a cost of nearly $9 recently in another failure for Gavin Newsom’s Commie Paradise. Fox Business blamed an alleged bird flu pandemic, which has been used as an excuse to kill millions of birds these last couple of years. Democrats’ terrible economic policies no doubt also contribute to higher prices, as they have across America under the Biden-Harris administration. In fact, as of Nov. 2023, U.S. egg prices had tripled since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office. Prices are set to rise again as of the end of 2024, most especially, it appears, in Commiefornia. |
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| Hamas Fires Long-Range Rockets at
Jerusalem, Refuses to Provide List of Living Hostages “According to the IDF, two rockets were launched from Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip towards Jerusalem before being successfully intercepted,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “Earlier on Saturday, additional rockets from the strip activated sirens in the Gaza border communities of Mefalsim and Nir Am in southern Israel.” |
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a Little Honesty About Israel Victor Davis Hanson Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protestors. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion after October 7 from the Biden administration. Here are 10 of their most common untruths about October 7 and the war that followed. |
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| Adam Schiff Raked Over the Coals
When Resurfaced Video Puts Him at Center of the ‘Big Lie’ A resurfaced video of then-Rep. Adam Schiff has sparked a new call for accountability for the newly minted-Democrat senator. As the curtain is pulled back on the truth about President Joe Biden’s mental decline, which Democrats like Schiff vehemently denied, clips have been circulating online showing the many egregious lies and verbal gymnastics employed to cover up what everyone could plainly see. Schiff’s questioning of then-Special Counsel Robert Hur before a congressional committee has sparked renewed condemnation for the California Democrat who blasted Hur for the way he portrayed Biden after investigating his mishandling of classified documents. |
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| Another Horrifying Subway Attack
Rocks Dem-Run City As Cops Detail Assault, Attacker Caught A man is in critical condition after he was shoved onto New York City subway tracks on New Year's Eve, adding to a recent spate of violent incidents in the nation's busiest subway system. The victim, a 45-year-old man, miraculously survived being struck by an incoming 1 train at the 18th Street station. He suffered a head injury and was listed in stable condition at Belleve Hospital on Tuesday night, the New York Post reported. "By God’s own hand, he fell perfectly in the trench," one law enforcement source told the Post. |
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| FBI Releases New Video, Information in Hunt for Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber A video compilation produced by the FBI shows a new angle of the suspect placing one of the pipe bombs outside of the DNC headquarters just blocks from the Capitol, as well as an enhanced map showing the route the suspect walked that evening. The video further includes a graphic showing the FBI's estimate of the suspect's height -- which agents have calculated is 5 feet 7 inches, and animation showing the specific pair of Nike shoes the person was wearing. |
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| New Orleans Police Superintendent
Career: Fired from Oakland, Teaches FBI Group's Diversity Course [aka DEI] New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, who has been leading the city’s response to the New Year’s Day terrorist attack, was previously fired from her police chief position in Oakland, Calif., and teaches an FBI group’s leadership training program course on diversity. Kirkpatrick has more than 35 years of policing experience, according to her bio, with 20 years as a police chief. Her record also includes hitting two pedestrians while driving in New Orleans’ French Quarter in August and creating a gun-free zone around a police station there, by placing a vocational-technical school inside it. |
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| FBI Declines to Say Whether It Will
Fire, Discipline Agent Who Said Attack Was 'Not a Terrorist Event' The FBI has remained silent on whether it will fire or discipline the agent who initially told the media and public that the shocking New Year's Day attack in New Orleans was "not a terrorist event," before the agency quickly backtracked and reported the attack was in fact under investigation as a terror incident. Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI's press office and press secretary on Thursday and Friday, inquiring whether New Orleans field office FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan would face termination or disciplinary action over her initial claim the attack was not connected to terrorism, but did not receive replies. Fox Digital also called the FBI press office on Friday morning but could not leave a message regarding the inquiry as the voicemail box was full. |
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| The Anti-Drone Laser Is Fast
Approaching Guy J. Sagi While mysterious flocks of what might be drones plague the skies over the United States, across the pond, the British Army successfully tested a radical new and highly effective anti-UAV weapon in early December. It doesn’t rely on a projectile or propellant, firing solutions are computer controlled and it’s mobile – although hardly light enough for a Russian weightlifting team on steroids to haul around. It works by directing an intense beam of infrared light in the form of energy toward its target… |
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| U.S Mulls New Rules to Limit or Ban
Chinese Drones Due to National Security Concerns The Commerce Department said Thursday it is considering rules that could limit or even ban the sale of Chinese-made drones in the U.S. – a move that follows growing alarm over a disturbing series of unidentified drone sightings in New Jersey and New York. The department is seeking public comments by March 4 to bolster security in the U.S. drone supply chain – and cited “acute threats from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia” that “may offer our adversaries the ability to remotely access and manipulate these devices, exposing sensitive U.S. data.” |
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| New Year’s Resolution to Embrace
CO2 Emissions and Benefits Vijay Jayaraj Scientific advancement and agricultural technology have revolutionized food production, enabling humanity to feed more readily a ballooning population. And working behind these celebrated innovations is an unacknowledged but indispensable contributor to the world’s growing food security: rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The very molecule that has been wrongly branded as a doomsday gas has been contributing to increasing yields for essential crops like rice, wheat and soybeans. |
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| How Biden Screwed the Steelworkers Ethan Dodd Back in April, when President Joe Biden was still running for reelection, he told a gathering of steelworkers in Pittsburgh that “I have your back.” On Friday morning, just three weeks before leaving office, he stuck a knife in their backs. He did so by blocking Japan’s Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9 billion purchase of the once-iconic, now-declining U.S. Steel. The ostensible rationale was “national security.” As Biden put it in a statement Friday morning, “It is my solemn responsibility as president to ensure that, now and long into the future, America has a strong domestically owned and operated steel industry.” |
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| Biden Gives Last-Minute Student
Loan Handout as He Abandons Broader Initiative Biden will forgive $4.28 billion in student loans for 54,900 eligible public sector workers through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, established by Congress in 2007 and expanded under his administration, the White House announced Friday. Biden will, however, scrap his pending regulations for broader student loan forgiveness, which remain tangled in legal challenges. |
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| New Biden Water Heater Ban Will Drive Up Energy Prices for Poor, Seniors The Biden administration is banning certain natural gas water heaters from the market as part of its climate change agenda, a move critics say will jack up energy costs for low-income and senior households. The move in the final days of the administration will take non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters off the shelves by 2029 in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which climate change advocates and President Biden say cause global warming. |
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| Biden Went Postal with Green
Ripoffs, But What If We Just Unloaded the Thing by Privatizing It? Duggan Flanakin As Donald Trump prepares to resume his role as U.S. President in January, perhaps the most important work under his auspices will be that of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Americans are waiting with bated breath foraudits of the Department of Defense, which just failed its seventh straight audit, and other federal agencies. The mammoth job being undertaken by Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and their cohorts will surely include a stern review of “climate crisis” spending, much of it from the Biden-Harris $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 that dwarfed the $831 billion from the Obama-Biden American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. |
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| As Extreme Cold Threatens U.S.
Electricity Supply, Grid Watchdog Issues Dire Warning to Suppliers The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a nonprofit international regulatory authority overseeing electricity reliability on the grid, is urging all the industries involved in delivering electricity to consumers to take steps to avoid potentially deadly blackouts. “I’m asking everyone in the electricity supply chain – from natural gas producers to pipeline operators, to system operators, to power generators, and the utilities themselves – to take all appropriate actions to ensure that we can maintain an uninterrupted supply of electricity to customers, so that January will be warm and bright for everyone,” NERC CEO Jim Robb said in a statement on the nonprofit’s Youtube Channel. |
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| Renewable Disaster: "Puerto Rico was without power yesterday after a widespread failure in the fragile electricity grid triggered a island-wide blackout" Doug Sheridan PR has one of the most expensive and least reliable power systems in the nation, with frequent outages plaguing residents. This outage was the most extensive since Hurricane Ernesto hit in Aug, leaving roughly half the island without power. Efforts to modernize the grid have been slow, stoking anger among residents, whose daily lives are often disrupted. When Jenniffer Gonzalez takes over as Puerto Rico governor later this week she'll have her hands full. Her solution is to drop some of Puerto Rico’s clean energy targets in favor of using more LNG. |
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| Three Major Financial Firms Join
Exodus from Climate Group, Bringing Total to Five in Past Month The new year is starting off with more bad news for environment, social and governance (ESG) investing. Citigroup and Bank of America announced Tuesday that they were leaving the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, Reuters reported. Then on Thursday, Morgan Stanley announced it too was terminating its membership with the group, according to Bloomberg. Morgan Stanley and Citigroup each said they remain committed to progress in achieving net-zero emissions. Last month, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs withdrew from the alliance. |
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| FEMA Fumbles Big Time on Promise to
Deliver Houses for NC Families; Meanwhile, the Amish Come Through A new year and President Joe Biden’s imminent exit drew more attention to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s shocking failure in North Carolina. Months after Hurricane Helene barreled into the state and upended lives and property, FEMA’s embarrassing progress in getting help to North Carolina storm victims has again come under scrutiny. Despite promises to get temporary homes for 26 families by Christmas, FEMA allegedly made good on only three. |
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| Gutsy Woman, 71, Fends Off Violent
Attack By 4 Teen Girls on Blue City Subway An unflinching 71-year-old woman gave a group of would-be teen muggers a taste of their own medicine when they tried to mug the senior on her way to church on New Year’s Day. The gutsy straphanger fought off the four female teens as they punched and stomped on her during the botched robbery on the New York City subway system, the latest in a string of crimes on the Big Apple’s crime-ridden transit network. |
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| Blue State Ends Basic Reading and
Writing Skills Test Requirement for Teachers Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy, D., in June, went into effect on Wednesday at the start of the new year. The law aims to tackle teacher shortages in the state by removing what the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a teachers’ union, called a "barrier" to certification in 2023. |
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| $450,000 Settlement for Ohio
Teacher Who Refused to Use Students’ Pronouns An Ohio school district will pay $450,000 to a middle school teacher who resigned for refusing to address two transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns. Jackson Local School District reached a settlement in December with the teacher, Vivian Geraghty, after she claimed in a 2022 lawsuit her First Amendment rights were violated when she was told to resign from a middle school language arts position. |
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| Apple to Pay $95 Million to Settle
Lawsuit Accusing Siri of Eavesdropping Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade. |
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Week ending 29 December 2024 |
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| The Dominoes Are Falling
Fast Over the Biden Mental Health Cover-Up Matt Margolis There truly aren’t enough words to describe just how big of a scandal the White House cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline really is. As I’ve said before, the liberal media doesn’t feel that it has to protect Joe Biden anymore, and there have been a torrent of stories exposing how Biden’s mental decline was handled for four years. The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and even the New York Times have all hit the story. The fallout from this could be extensive for the Democratic Party. |
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| Musk Derangement
Syndrome Roger Kimball Move over, Trump Derangement Syndrome! It is time to make room for the latest pathology: Musk Derangement Syndrome. The hysteria has been building for some time. It wasn’t so long ago that Elon Musk enjoyed enviable street cred among the brotherhood of snotty, self-congratulating elites. A green energy guru, he made the hearts of the Sierra Club Sultans go pit-a-pat with his talk of “sustainable transport” and solar roofs. Then Musk made several missteps. |
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| Democratic Strategists Concede
Party Brand Is 'In The Toilet' – And That's Being 'Generous' The New York Times held a "written online conversation," hosted by contributing Times opinion writer Frank Bruni, with progressive campaign consultant Anat Shenker-Osorio, Democratic communications strategist Lis Smith and former Ohio representative Tim Ryan to discuss the remains of the party after brutal losses in November. "The Democratic brand is in the toilet," Smith said. "Many of the Democrats who succeeded this cycle – our best over-performers in House races, for instance – are people who ran against the Democratic Party brand. Trump tore down the blue wall in the industrial Midwest, but he also expanded his vote the most in our bluest and most urban areas." |
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| As Team Biden's Lies Drone On, the
Truth Comes Out Robert Knight The most striking thing about the gusher of lies told over the past four years by the Biden administration and other ruling elites is the disdain the liars have shown for the American people. The whoppers were – and are – easy to spot and impossible to defend. Just ask people in New Jersey and other states who have seen thousands of mysterious drones. The government has told them that their eyes are deceiving them and that the drones are really small airplanes, cloud formations or even stars. |
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| Joe Manchin Warns Democratic Party
is ‘Toxic’ As He Steps Down from U.S. Senate Senator Joe Manchin, a lifelong Democrat who left the party earlier this year to become an independent and is now stepping down from the US Senate after 15 years, issued a series of warnings on Sunday to members of his former party. “The D-brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of – it’s just, it’s toxic,” Manchin told CNN, saying he had not been able to consider himself a Democrat “in the form of what Democratic party has turned itself into”. Manchin, a wealthy coal tycoon, said the party’s approach had become censorious and dictatorial to ordinary Americans, and he blamed progressives for the shift. |
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| Trump Border Czar Considering
Military Bases to Aid Deportations: ‘Certainly on the Table’ There is precedent for enlisting military help on immigration matters, as both President Barack Obama and Joe Biden use military bases to house unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the border illegally without their parents. Biden also used military installations to house Afghan refugees. President-elect Donald Trump‘s border czar considers the U.S. military to be a “force multiplier“ in the soon-to-launch mass deportations of millions of illegal aliens and he wants to use Pentagon bases and planes to speed such operations. |
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| What the National Archives Just Did
Is a Total Scandal Matt Vespa  There’s no evidence Joe Biden enriched himself, say the liberal media. It’s another declaration that quickly got gutted, skinned, and filleted because these people are wrong about everything. It’s becoming amusing as hell. Whenever they take a firm stand like this, be prepared for these folks to be run over with a tank because we saw that happen this week. CNN’s Abby Phillip said, “I’m still waiting to see the proof of Joe Biden enriching himself. I take his brother and his son, perhaps.” No, ma’am. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) destroyed that narrative in less than a minute, going line-by-line about the layers the Biden crime family goes through via their shell companies where Joe Biden finally gets his cut of the takings. The National Archives finally released photos of Joe palling around with his business partners, who he claims he never met ever. |
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| Biden’s Parting Gifts to China Diana Furchtgott-Roth As he leaves the White House, President Joe Biden isn’t forgetting Christmas gifts to China. This week he announced new Paris Agreement targets to reduce greenhouse gases and he issued a waiver to California to attempt to do away with the American internal combustion engine. Biden’s actions would require purchases of additional Chinese-made renewables and batteries, as well as critical minerals. These initiatives, taken as Biden walks out the White House door, strengthen China’s economy at the expense of America’s economy, and result in more jobs for Chinese and fewer for Americans. |
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| Social Media Frenzy About GOP
Congresswoman Living In Retirement Facility: 'Compelling case for term limits' The news that Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, has been living in a retirement facility and experiencing a "very rapid" decline set off a social media outcry this week across the political spectrum. Among these voices included billionaire Elon Musk, a key adviser and supporter of President-elect Donald Trump. "Maybe we should have some basic cognitive test for elected officials? This is getting crazy …" Musk said, in reference to the news about Granger. |
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| A Pardon for Fauci? The Covid
Cover-Up Is in Full Swing Michael Nevradakis Medical commentator Dr John Campbell told viewers of his YouTube show this week that the Biden administration’s rumoured plan to issue a pre-emptive pardon to Dr Anthony Fauci is ‘concerning’. Campbell said a pardon would help cover up evidence of a possible Covid-19 lab leak and covid vaccine injuries, including evidence detailed in the final report released last week by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. |
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| DEI and the CIA Bernard Hudson Under the best of circumstances, it is difficult for any intelligence service to collect, analyze, and produce actionable, predictive data for a nation’s leadership. This task is made considerably harder when lockstep adherence to a fringe political ideology is imposed upon the workforce tasked with carrying out this challenging mission. Unfortunately, this is the situation the Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Community are in: to America’s detriment, their leadership enthusiastically imposed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ideology upon their employees. |
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| Trump Says Fate of TikTok Should Be
in His Hands When He Returns to White House President-elect Trump says he should be the one to make the decision on whether TikTok can continue operating in the United States due to the unique national security and First Amendment issues raised by this case, he said in an amicus brief Friday. Trump’s argument comes in an amicus brief "supporting neither party," filed Friday, weeks before the Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments on Jan. 10, 2025 on the law that requires a divestment of TikTok from foreign adversary control. |
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| NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Signs Law
Forcing Energy Companies to Fund “Climate Change Superfund” Leslie Eastman New York is spending billions on illegal immigrants, and is facing a $16 billion deficit in 2028. So the NY Governor and legislature are trying to force fossil fuel companies to pay $3 billion each year for 25 years based on pseudoscience and virtue-signalling... So, in New York, brace yourself for California-style gas prices. It will be one of the many unintended consequences of being a “Sanctuary State”, despite assurances by “experts” consumers won’t be impacted. |
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| Recent Studies Freeze Climate
Alarmist Claims Two recent studies set fire to climate alarmists’ credibility, providing yet more data to show that “global warming” isn’t about to destroy the planet and politicians’ “solutions” are actually pointless and ineffective. Climate alarmists have not been right a single time in a major prediction for well over half a century, yet politicians continue to wreak havoc on energy, the economy, education, and other sectors of society and government based on claims of a climate apocalypse that is not coming. Two studies this year provide evidence once again that the Earth is not about to turn into a burning ball of fire and that even if it were, the much-touted and much-funded “net zero” solutions would have little to no effect. |
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| Study: Cold Weather Deaths on the
Rise in U.S. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that the number of Americans who died from cold weather-related factors more than doubled from 1999 to 2022, with the highest rate being detected in the Midwest. More than 40,000 people died between 1999 and 2022 in situations in which cold was found to be the underlying or a contributing factor, according to the study. |
Al Gore call your office |
| Court Orders Biden Admin to Stop
Selling Border Wall Materials, Was 'Illegally Subverting' Laws The Biden administration on Friday said it would stop selling off materials slated to be used to build a border wall ahead of the incoming Trump administration, which has promised to bring back tougher efforts to combat illegal immigration. The Biden administration confirmed to a court that it will agree to a court order preventing it from disposing of any further border wall materials over the next 30 days, allowing President-elect Trump to use those materials, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said. Donald Trump Asks Court to Block Border-Wall Sell-Off, Warns Joe Biden's Acts May Be 'criminal' The battle over the border wall is heating up as the Biden administration sells off materials, seemingly defying the plans of President-elect Donald Trump, who has asked a federal court for an “immediate stop” to the sales to ensure he can restart building the wall next year. Mr. Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer, said Biden officials may even be engaged in “a criminal act” if they are selling the materials at cut-rate prices in order to thwart Mr. Trump’s plans. Republicans on Capitol Hill have also weighed in, demanding the current administration explain the current sales and come clean about past auctions that have dumped wall materials at incredible discounts. |
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| Why Are Bed Bugs So Hard to Kill? Scientists Uncover Genetic Survival Secrets While bed bugs are not known to transmit diseases to humans, their bites can cause itchy rashes and secondary infections. Insecticide use, including the now-banned DDT, nearly eradicated bed bug populations by the 1960s, making infestations a rarity. However, over the past two decades, bed bugs have made a global resurgence, largely due to genetic mutations that have rendered them resistant to modern insecticides. |
One more proof that banning DDT was a major screw up! |
| Alleged California Shoplifters
Shocked to Learn Stealing Now a Felony: 'B---h New Laws' In the viral surveillance video shared by the Seal Beach Police Department on Sunday, three women can be seen walking into an Ulta Beauty store, browsing the shelves, then casually exiting the business with what police said was nearly $650 worth of stolen merchandise. "… a friendly reminder that Proposition 36, which increases punishments for some retail theft and drug possession offenses, went into effect Wednesday morning in California," the Seal Beach Police Department wrote in the caption of the video on their Instagram account. |
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| 'You should expect to be shot':
Florida Homeowner Fatally Guns Down Masked Intruder, Scares Off Another A Florida sheriff said intruders should "expect to be shot" after releasing information about a homeowner who opened fire at two masked men trying to break into his house, killing one. The deceased suspect was identified as 23-year-old Jorge Nestevan Flores-Toledo, from Mexico, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. The second suspect, Michel Soto-Mella, 39, an illegal immigrant from Chile, is charged with armed burglary, with additional charges pending, according to the sheriff's office. |
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| Still Baffling: AR-15 Provides
Homeowners with Unfair Advantage Over Intruders? John Boch Years ago, Massad Ayoob once told me, “In a fight for your life, if it’s a fair fight, your tactics suck.” Like many of us, I’ve heard (and used) that same expression countless times. However, a grandfather in Oklahoma apparently thought it should be a fair fight between home invaders like his grandson and innocent homeowners. Leroy Schumacher told media outlets that the homeowner’s use of an AR-15 gave him an “unfair advantage” against the gaggle of armed thugs who broke into his home. In the end, three of the thugs assumed room temperature. |
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| UCLA Student Sues California
Doctors, Says She Was 'Fast-Tracked' Into Transgender Surgery A UCLA student is suing multiple California health care providers and hospitals for medical negligence, alleging she was wrongly diagnosed with gender dysphoria and then “fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery, according to her lawsuit. Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, said she experienced sexual abuse as a young child, and by the time she was 11, she “began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy,” according to her suit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court. When she expressed this to her then-school counselor, the counselor told her “that she was transgender and called her parents to tell them the same.” |
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| Biden Administration Throws Out
Proposed Title IX Transgender Sports Rule The Biden administration has scrapped plans to prohibit states from banning transgender athletes from participating in school sports. According to Reuters, Biden’s Department of Education withdrew the proposed rule from the federal register on Friday afternoon. The rule, if it went into effect, would have barred schools from banning transgender athletes from participating in sports teams different from their sex assigned at birth. |
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| Supreme Court Lets Hawaii Off With
a Warning … For Now The Hawaiian court’s over-the-top theatrics earned it the attention and praise of the antigun media, with one outlet approvingly noting the Wilson opinion dispensed with the usual duties of “deference” and even “basic respect” toward the nation’s highest court. It was instead, that article continued, “an open display of contempt.” But the Wilson court’s bravado stopped short of actually ruling on the merits of the defendant’s Second Amendment claims, so the U.S. Supreme Court arguably had no federal issue in the case to correct. The Hawaiian court, in other words, picked its fight from what it assumed was an inaccessible perch. |
Very interesting 2A article |
| Academics Should Embrace the Truth
of Christ’s Birth Gregory J. Rummo On Christmas, we celebrate a phenomenon theologians call the incarnation. The birth of Jesus Christ was the trans-dimensional irruption of the Son of God into our world from the heavenly realm. Both the Old and New Testaments give witness to Jesus’ miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit to a young Jewish virgin named Mary. As if this weren’t strange enough, the late Reverend Dr. Timothy Keller adds to the incredulity, reminding us that “Jesus was the only son given, and the only son born older than his parents.” So, what evidence is there that the birthday we celebrate every year on December 25 was an actual historical event and not some myth or legend conjured up in the minds of the Jewish authors of the Gospels? |
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Week ending 22 December 2024 |
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| Biden’s
Final Monkey Wrenches Thomas Gallatin In the dying days of Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration has made it its mission to do everything possible to frustrate Donald Trump’s ability to implement his policy agenda when he arrives in the Oval Office next month. Unlike in 2016, when Barack Obama’s outgoing administration brazenly labeled Trump as illegitimate and promised resistance to his incoming administration, there is almost a resigned, defeated calm in Washington after Trump’s resounding victory in November. Democrats who threw everything they could at Trump and Republicans, smearing them as threats to democracy, have found that a majority of Americans have stopped listening and have rejected their foolishness. So, will they simply go quietly into the night, accepting the fact that Trump’s in charge now? No; these are the Democrats we’re talking about. |
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| Obamacare Is Killing
People Matt Margolis I’m old enough to remember when health insurance was affordable. It wasn’t all that long ago; it was before Obamacare passed. Despite being officially called the Affordable Care Act, nothing about it has made health insurance more affordable. The question is, for the higher premiums and larger deductibles we have, are we even getting better coverage? The answer, which shouldn’t shock you, is a big fat “no.” That’s right, despite paying more, you are also getting less. Health insurance denials and delays have hit record highs, and while many point the finger at insurance companies, accusing them of prioritizing profits over care, they’re not to blame. As Betsy McCaughey points out, the real culprits are the politicians who sold us Obamacare on a pile of lies. |
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| This
Just In: Joe Biden Was Never Fit to Be President Nate Jackson Democrats and their Leftmedia sycophants are in hysterics (again) today over the sway Elon Musk has over what’s happening with budget negotiations in Washington. He’s the “shadow president,” they gasp. That made me wonder what DC would really be like with a shadow president. Let’s ask The Wall Street Journal. “How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge,” blared its new headline over a thorough 3,800-word story detailing what aides, Cabinet officials, and other Democrats are now admitting about Joe Biden’s severe age-related decline over the last four years. All the while, the Journal’s subheader says, “The administration [publicly] denied Biden has declined.” They lied. Oh. Biden has been the shadow of a president for four years. Tell us something we didn’t know in 2020, you’re thinking. Same here. |
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| Biden Tosses a Middle Finger Salute
to the Coal Industry on His Way Out the Door Rick Moran Joe Biden doesn't like coal. I mean, he really, really doesn't like it. What's more, coal is mainly located in red states and employs a lot of conservative voters. Biden decided to deliver a parting shot to coal-producing states and those whose livelihoods depend on mining. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently approved an amendment to the Resource Management Plan (RMP) that would ban new coal leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin and make "48.12 billion short tons of coal unavailable for leasing consideration in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proxy for climate change," said BLM Buffalo, Wyo., field manager Todd Yeager. |
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| ‘Liberty in Laundry’: House Passes
Bill Blocking Biden Washing Machine Restrictions Lawmakers in the House countered President Joe Biden’s green energy standards by passing a bill to block rules on washing machines. In a vote of 215 to 200 on Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the appropriately titled “Liberty in Laundry Act,” which was introduced by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN). The bill was aimed at preventing the Department of Energy (DOE) from “implementing new or amended energy efficiency standards for clothes washers that are not technologically feasible and economically justified.” |
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| U.S. EPA Approves California Plan
to Ban Sale of Gas-Only Cars Starting in 2035 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it has approved California's landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035. The decision in the final weeks of President Joe Biden's administration sets up a fight over the future of California's vehicle regulations. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to rescind approvals granted by the EPA to California to require more EVs and tighter vehicle emissions standards. |
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| The
Eleventh-Hour EV Mandate Emmy Griffin The Biden/Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just green-lighted California’s EV mandate, which seeks to phase out gas-powered cars over the next decade. The mandate states that 35% of all cars whose model year is 2026 must be electric. That percentage will only increase year over year until 2035, when all California cars sold must be electric. This is both a bad idea and an unrealistic one. California can’t even keep up with its current electrical needs, particularly during the summer season, when there are rolling brownouts. |
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| Newt Gingrich Says Trump May Have
'broken' Trudeau Government During Historic Transition Period Fox News Staff Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on "Hannity" that President-elect Trump is the "de-facto president" amid a transition period that he called "amazing" and "decisive." Gingrich noted Trump's impact on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's political future and the "presidential welcome" he received on his trip to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. |
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| Joe Manchin Calls Democratic Party
‘toxic,’ Blames Progressives Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.V., delivered a parting shot to the Democratic Party, calling his former party "toxic" as he prepares to retire from office at the end of the congressional term. Manchin, who was a lifelong Democrat before registering as an Independent earlier this year, blasted the Democratic Party in an interview with CNN’s "Inside Politics with Manu Raju" that aired on Sunday. "The D-brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of, it’s just, it’s toxic," Manchin said, adding that he left the party because he no longer considered himself a Democrat "in the form of what Democratic Party has turned itself into." |
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| The Evaporation of the Obama
Mystique Victor Davis Hanson Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination – and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history. Recall earlier that after a flailing candidate Joe Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere... The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia. |
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| DOJ Investigating Complaints
Against Jack Smith's Team The Department of Justice is investigating allegations of attorney misconduct by special counsel Jack Smith's team during its investigations into President-elect Donald Trump. A Dec. 4 letter from House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to Jeffrey Ragsdale, head of the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility, revealed the office launched an inquiry in June 2023 after a prosecutor self-reported a complaint from a defense attorney working on the Florida classified documents case, The Hill reported Thursday. |
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| Fast & Furious
Whistleblower Reportedly Under Consideration to Lead ATF Former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives official Peter Forcelli, who blew the whistle on the Obama-era Operation Fast & Furious scandal, is reportedly one of the names under consideration to be the next ATF director... As his book explains, the Fast & Furious scandal entailed the U.S. government allowing illegal gun purchases under the guise of tracking organized crime. The operation never resulted in the arrests of any organized crime leaders, and it became a national scandal when Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by a Fast & Furious firearm in 2010. |
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| House Republicans Urge FBI to
Investigate Liz Cheney for 'potential' Witness Tampering Former Rep. Liz Cheney is facing calls from GOP legislators that the FBI investigate her for "potential criminal witness tampering" related to her former role on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, a report released Tuesday by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight chairman, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., details. "Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
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Criminal Investigation of Liz Cheney? Douglas Andrews It didn’t go down quite like that, of course, but it seems clear that Liz Cheney will need to explain her interactions with one of the key witnesses during her tenure on Nancy Pelosi’s since-disbanded Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. According to a new 127-page interim report released by the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Pelosi’s rigged committee, on which the Trump-hating Cheney served as vice chairman, was “improperly constituted and lacked authority,” and “neglected or withheld evidence from its Final Report and deleted voluminous records it should have preserved.” Cheney’s actions, though, warrant particular attention. |
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| Illinois Community Outraged After
Biden Commutes Sentence of Fraudster Behind $53M Embezzlement Scandal President Biden added the woman behind the largest municipal embezzlement scandal in U.S. history to his list of clemency controversies, outraging a small Illinois community in the process. The former Dixon, Illinois comptroller Rita Crundwell, 71, who stole nearly $54 million from the town over 22 years and pled guilty to the crime in 2012, had her sentence commuted as a part of a broader commutation last Thursday, making her one of 1,500 – the most ever granted by a president in a single day. |
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| We Can’t Stop Crime, So We’ll Go
After Glock: New Jersey, Minnesota AGs Sue Manufacturer In a controversial move, the attorneys general of New Jersey and Minnesota filed lawsuits on December 12 against Glock, accusing the gun manufacturer of knowingly producing pistols that can be easily modified into illegal machine guns using inexpensive conversion devices known as “Glock switches.” We’ve all seen this movie before! The lawsuits claim these switches, which can cost as little as $20 or be fabricated using a 3D printer, enable Glock handguns to fire up to 1,200 rounds per minute with a single trigger pull, according to Reuters. The New Jersey Attorney General’s office alleges that Glock has been aware of this issue since the 1980s but has failed to make design modifications to prevent such conversions. |
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| You're Not Going to Believe How
Many Illegal Aliens Reside in Sanctuary Cities The incoming Donald Trump administration has vowed to carry out a mass deportation of illegal aliens. How this will unfold will be the story of the century. There are many obstacles that the administration must overcome to achieve the deportation of even a fraction of the illegal population in the United States. By far, the biggest roadblock will be going into sanctuary cities and deporting the illegal populations that reside there. |
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| The BLM Dog No Longer Hunts Douglas Andrews [W]hile the BLM riots of four years ago were precipitated by the death of career criminal George Floyd, they had their roots in a couple of racial riots from years earlier. Thankfully, though, that Black Lives Matter dog no longer seems to hunt. What was once righteous anger in our urban centers and even suburbs has been replaced by an almost comical indifference. It seems, thankfully, that the American people, black and white, have come to realize that not every black-and-white encounter is a racial atrocity on the level of Emmett Till. |
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| Cat Ladies Flip Out over Suggestion
of Mandatory Paternity Tests Dmytro "Henry" Aleksandrov Many people, including the self-described conservative Christian women, pushed back against the suggestion that President-elect Donald Trump should implement the anti-paternity fraud law. “Trump administration should consider a law that makes paternity tests mandatory at birth …to put father’s name on birth certificate etc. It’s bizarre, given this technology, that this isn’t already the law,” @bronzeagemantis wrote. |
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| The
Six Percenters Thomas Gallatin Evidently, 6% is good enough for government work. Cutting government waste is a major focus of Donald Trump’s upcoming administration, as illustrated by his creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), co-led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. A recent report from Senator Joni Erst (R-IA) provides the perfect first step for DOGE. According to Ernst’s report, just 6% of all federal employees show up to work in the office full-time. The rest either split in-office time with telework or telework full-time. |
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| Comprehensive Study Finds Gaza
(Hamas) Health Ministry “Civilian” Death Claims “Inflated and Misleading” William A. Jacobson In many ways, the war against Israel is a war against truth. The lies of the anti-Israel movement, be it in Gaza or on campuses, are relentless and pervasive. From the false claim that the Arabs of the British Mandate of Palestine were indigenous, to the denial of Jewish history in the area, to the attempt to misappropriate Jewish history, to the false claims of Apartheid and Genocide – it’s lie upon lie upon lie in the effort to destroy Israel. |
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| U.S. Air Strikes Hit Houthi
Strongholds in Yemen, Kill ISIS Leader in Syria U.S. air strikes blew up Houthi strongholds in Yemen on Saturday just days after an American military operation killed an ISIS leader in Syria. The strikes in Syria occurred Friday in territory previously held by the Syrian government and Russia before the collapse of the Assad regime. They killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif aka Mahmud and another operative, officials said. “As stated before, the United States – working with allies and partners in the region – will not allow ISIS to take advantage of the current situation in Syria and reconstitute,” Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla said. |
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| Archaeologists Uncover Earliest
Known Evidence of Christianity North of the Alps: 'Unusual for This Time' The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, publicized by the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum last week, is called the Frankfurt silver inscription. Discovered in 2018, the inscription has been analyzed and studied for years before finally being released to the public this month. |
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| DOE Withdraws Rule on Transgender
Athletes in School Sports; Biden Withdraws Student Loan Scheme The Department of Education on Friday withdrew a proposed rule that would have stopped schools from banning transgender athletes from joining teams that match their gender identities. The decision to withdraw this rulemaking was submitted to the Federal Register on the same day the Biden administration also withdrew efforts targeting student loan forgiveness. |
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| Women Uncomfortable Sharing Space
with Trans Players Can Go Elsewhere, NCAA Boss Says NCAA President Charlie Baker sent a message to women's college athletes who are uncomfortable sharing locker rooms with transgender athletes on Tuesday, putting the responsibility for their own safety squarely on the women themselves. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over legalized sports gambling, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questioned Baker about the NCAA's policies that have allowed trans athletes to compete on women's teams. Hawley confronted Baker about the NCAA policy that states "transgender student athletes should be able to use the locker room, shower and toilet facilities in accordance with their gender identity." |
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| Ohio Law Schools End Race-Based
Programs After Think Tank Probe Five public law schools in Ohio are ending their scholarships and programs based on race following a conservative think tank’s investigation. The Buckeye Institute, based in Columbus, Ohio, launched the investigation this year into five law schools at Ohio State University, Cleveland State University, University of Akron, University of Cincinnati, and University of Toledo. |
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| Report Exposes How the Most Elite
Universities Are Side-Stepping Supreme Court DEI Ruling The Equal Protection Project, founded and led by Cornell professor William Jacobson, has released a deep-dive report on the prevalence of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training at Ivy League universities. "The review of Ivy League practices by our CriticalRace.org project reflects substantial efforts by Ivy League schools to purport to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action, while maintaining work-arounds and DEI practices that continue the obsession with racial identities," Jacobson told Fox News Digital. |
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| Mark Levin Outlines Why
Obama/Biden Administration are Talking About “Preemptive Pardons” Sundance President Trump suggested on his Truth Social account to review the commentary by Mark Levin this past weekend. Within his opening monologue, Mr Levin walks through the historic background of the attacks against President Trump, and by extension the larger American electorate, and how all of that White House triggered weaponization underpins the nervousness of the Obama/Biden administration. It is an interesting review and revisit to the issues of great familiarity to all of us. |
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| America’s Verdict Christopher Rufo A New York City courtroom today issued a stunning verdict: Daniel Penny, a veteran US Marine who restrained a threatening homeless subway rider named Jordan Neely, who later died in police custody, is not guilty of involuntary manslaughter or criminal negligence. And the verdict was not just about Penny. Make no mistake: the Black Lives Matter era of “restorative justice” is over and the real spirit of justice is returning to America. |
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| Trump Once Stopped Erdogan Attacks
on US-backed Kurds in Syria, and Has Opportunity to do it Again Gen. Jack Keane President-elect Trump could be the key factor in stopping the reported Turkish destruction of the pro-U.S. Syrian Kurdish community, Fox News senior strategic analyst and retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane told Fox News' Mark Levin on "Life, Liberty & Levin" on Saturday. Keane said, "Biden is not going to do anything about it, but President Trump has a huge opportunity, and I know for a fact that President Trump dealt with Erdogan once before over the same issue. And it stopped as a result of a phone conversation that he had with President Erdogan." |
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| Israel Conducts Nearly 500 Strikes
in Syria to Stop Weapons from Falling Into Terrorist’s Hands The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have launched nearly 500 strikes across Syria over the last two days to prevent military weaponry from falling into the hands of terrorists who have overthrown Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship. On Monday night, Israeli Navy missile ships struck two Syrian Navy facilities – the Al-Bayda port and the Latakia port – destroying approximately 15 Syrian naval vessels. |
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| NYT: Hamas
Records Taken by Israel Show UN Top School Administrators Also Were Hamas Terrorists Documents shared with the New York Times impelled the media outlet to admit that senior staff at UNRWA schools doubled as members of Hamas’ military wing. “The agency, which employs roughly 13,000 people, including thousands in the schools, has a duty to maintain the neutrality of its facilities in the conflict zones in which it operates, including by keeping militants off its premises and payrolls,” The Times noted. But as shown by the detailed records, at least 24 people employed by the anti-Israel UN Relief and Works Agency in their schools were members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. |
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| House Approves $895B Defense Bill
with Military Pay Raise, Ban on Transgender Care for Minors The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military. The bill is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but some Democratic lawmakers opposed the inclusion of a ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization. |
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| Manchin and Sinema Help Block Dems
from Shaping Trump-Era Majority in Labor Agency The Senate blocked President Joe Biden‘s renomination of the current chairwoman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Lauren McFerran, with the help of two lawmakers who left the Democratic Party. Sens. Joe Manchin (I-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) joined with Republicans in a 50-49 cloture vote, effectively stymying the bid to give McFerran a new five-year term. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) was the only lawmaker who did not vote. Axios reported Marshall had planned orthopedic surgery and GOP leaders were aware that he was not expected to be in attendance. |
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| Five Ways to Start Fixing the
UOCAVA Mess That Lets People Abroad Cast Insecure Votes in Swing States Republican victories in November could easily lead some on the right to become complacent when it comes to fighting for integrity in our elections, but that would be a huge mistake, especially when it comes to overseas voting. UOCAVA, short for the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, has numerous problems, including a poor track record for verifying the identity and eligibility of the voters it admits to the system. This observation might help to explain in part why the Democrat Party has recently taken a particular interest in UOCAVA voting. |
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| ActBlue Bombshell: Dem Money
Platform Tells Congress It Didn't Block Foreign Gift Cards Until Fall ActBlue, the massive online fund-raising platform for liberal causes, has informed Congress it did not automatically block donations made with foreign-bought gift cards until recently, a potentially significant revelation in an ongoing investigation into whether China, Russia, Iran or Venezuela routed illicit money to Democrat candidates. House Administratrion Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., whose panel oversees election integrity, told Just the News on Tuesday that ActBlue turned over documents under subpoena showing a major change in September to its donor verification policies designed to protect against illicit money flowing into political campaigns. |
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| Chinese Citizen Arrested for Flying
Drone and Taking Photos of Military Base in California Federal law enforcement officials have arrested a Chinese citizen for allegedly flying a drone and taking photos of a military base in California. Yinpiao Zhou, 39, a Chinese citizen and U.S. resident, was accused of flying a drone and taking photographs of Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California. He was charged with “failure to register an aircraft, not providing transportation, and violation of national defense airspace,” according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. |
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| Government Funneled Unprecedented
Amount of Money to Criminal Gangs Through COVID Relief, Oversight Report Finds The government provided an estimated $872 billion in assistance through programs like the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), at least 17% of which – amounting to nearly $200 billion – was “disbursed to potentially fraudulent actors,” AEI’s Matt Weidinger wrote, quoting an after action review from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic under the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. While Weidinger said much of that money aided needy Americans affected by COVID-related shutdowns, he also noted that “unprecedented amounts were lost to improper payments and fraud.” |
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| Annual Inflation Rate Accelerates
to 2.7% in November, As Expected Consumer prices rose at a faster annual pace in November, a reminder that inflation remains an issue both for households and policymakers. The consumer price index showed a 12-month inflation rate of 2.7% after increasing 0.3% on the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The annual rate was 0.1 percentage point higher than October. |
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| Trump Promises 'expedited'
Approvals, Permits for Firms Investing $1 Billion+ in U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday promised firms that investing $1 billion or more in the United States would receive expedited approval on their myriad projects from his administration. "Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals. |
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| Memo Starkly Warned Mayorkas in
2021 About Migrant Kids, Long Before Crisis That Alarmed Congress John Solomon and Steven Richards Long before Congress became alarmed over as many as 320,000 unaccompanied minor children from the border crisis, the Department of Homeland Security prepared a briefing memo in summer 2021 starkly warning Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that federal authorities were ill-equipped to deal with a surge of young immigrants or reunite them with their parents, according to a copy of the memo reviewed by Just the News. |
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| National Labor Relations Board
Judges Can Now Be Removed at Will. Some judges can be removed at will, rather than for cause, a federal judge stated in a new Dec. 10 ruling as he also removed a layer of protection for the judges. |
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First Ever Nativity in U.S. History
Displayed at the Capitol For the first time in United States history, a nativity scene is on display on Capitol Hill. Tuesday afternoon, the "Christmas Carols and Nativity Display" was held on the southeastern steps of the U.S. Capitol, on the House of Representatives side. The event included prayer, Christmas carols, and a Scripture reading about the birth of Jesus. |
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| Author of Books That Inspired
'Reagan' Movie Reflects on Wild Disparity Between Critic, Audience Reviews Author Paul Kengor said the "disparity" between the Rotten Tomatoes critics' score and audience score for the movie "Reagan" was comparable to President Reagan's landslide presidential win in 1980 as he recalled his books' whirlwind ride to the theaters. The year's best reviewed films have been assembled, and the film, "Reagan," has one of the biggest disparities in recent years – currently sitting at a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. That's starkly different from the dismal critics' score of 18%. |
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| The Grid Speaks Kip Hansen Sometimes we feel that we, and our allies in the energy/climate battle, are the only ones that face the reality that a national or regional electrical grid can be overloaded with wind and solar resources to the point that the reliability of the grid itself is threatened. So, when we, the climate deniers, shills for fossil fuel companies all, point out the obvious truths about the problems caused by adding too many intermittent renewable energy sources to electrical grids without adequate reliable dispatchable backup, we are brushed off, denigrated, ignored, mocked, and vilified in the press. But when real-world reality strikes it produces news coverage like this in Australia’s SkyNews two weeks ago: |
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| EPA Special Advisor Admits to
Giving Out Grants to Trump-Proof Biden’s ‘Green New Deal’ Leslie Eastman Legal Insurrection readers may recall that back in August, I reported that one intriguing sign that eco-activists in Washington, DC, anticipated a different political climate after the November election was the number of massive grants being given to “climate crisis” projects. Team Biden was flooding eco-activist organizations with billions from the public coffers. Now Project Veritas has released an incredible video confirming my suspicions that the $50 billion giveaway was designed to “Trump-Proof” Biden’s “Green New Deal’. |
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| Supreme Court Poised to Curb Scope
of Environmental Reviews Adam Liptak The Supreme Court seemed prepared on Tuesday to rule that a federal agency had done enough to consider the environmental impact of a proposed 88-mile railway in Utah. Such a ruling could limit the scope of environmental reviews required by federal law in all sorts of settings. Paul D. Clement, a lawyer representing seven Utah counties in support of the project, said that “the board was not heedless of environmental effects here.” “It consulted with dozens of agencies, considered every proximate effect and ordered 91 mitigation measures,” he added. “Eighty-eight miles of track should not require more than 3,600 pages of environmental analysis.” |
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| Tren De Aragua Gun Runner Released
by Biden Admin Charged in Texas Capital Murder Police in San Antonio say a Venezuelan migrant is charged in the July capital murder of a teenager. The man is suspected of being a gun trafficker and Tren de Aragua gang member and was released by the Biden administration after illegally entering the U.S. San Antonio law enforcement sources told CBS Austin they arrested Eiber Gabriel Sira-Vargas, 29, for the alleged kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Alexis Jose Vargas. Court records show Sira-Vargas entered the U.S. illegally and was released by Border Patrol to wait for an immigration hearing. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers detained the Venezuelan migrant in September as part of a multi-agency operation. |
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| 'Knows how to get things done': Border Patrol Union Rallies Around Noem As DHS Chief A labor union representing thousands of Border Patrol agents is all in on South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, calling on senators to confirm her nomination "qui??ckly." Perez sent the letter, which was obtained by Fox News Digital, to the senators on Thursday, joining a growing chorus of law enforcement groups throwing their support behind Noem. The DHS oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
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| EXCLUSIVE: Biden Races to Sell Off
Border Wall Parts Before Trump Takes Office The Biden administration is using its final weeks to haul a massive amount of border wall materials away from the southern border to be sold off in a government auction, an apparent effort to hinder President-elect Donald Trump’s effort to secure the border, The Daily Wire has learned. Videos obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire from a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent show unused sections of the wall being hauled away on the back of flatbed trucks from a section of the border just south of Tucson, a hotspot for illegal crossings during the Biden administration. |
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| 'Death to Jews': Inside the Home of
2 SJP Leaders at George Mason University, Police Find Guns, Ammo, and
Terrorist Flags When police searched the home of two Students for Justice in Palestine leaders, a pair of sisters at George Mason University, their allies painted a sympathetic picture. The students were targeted, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), for engaging in "anti-genocide events on campus." The Intercept reported that police found "antique firearms" registered to the students' brother and brought gun-related charges as a result of his family's "pro-Palestine activism." |
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| Yale Students Overwhelmingly Pass
BDS Referendum Yale students have overwhelmingly passed a referendum calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel. While the school has said it will not do so, the results reveal widespread support for divestment at one of the top universities in the world. Of the more than 3,000 undergraduates who voted on the referendum, 76.6 percent answered "yes" to the question about divestment. An even larger number – 79.5 percent – said that Yale should "invest" in "Palestinian scholars and students" given "the widespread destruction of schools and universities in Gaza." |
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| University of Michigan Abandons
Mandatory Diversity Statements If you were looking for a university to identify as committed to woke ideology you would have quite a few to choose from. But there's no doubt that the University of Michigan has really tried to put itself at the forefront of this shift. The school has spent more than any other on DEI administrators and programs ($250 million at least) and has more than 500 staffers dedicated to DEI. UM has also been at the forefront of mandatory diversity statements, a way for schools to ensure that only the most left-wing candidates are considered for jobs. |
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| UCLA Student Sues Medical
Providers, Alleging They Rushed Her Into Transgender Surgery The UCLA student suing several medical providers after she was “fast-tracked” into changing her gender says she wished her carers had taken a different approach in addressing her problems. The Washington Examiner previously reported that the student was suing a transgender youth doctor in a “historic lawsuit.” The student, 20-year-old Clementine Breen, underwent a gender transition at 12 before later regretting her decision. “In retrospect, I wish that somebody had suggested real, genuine therapy first, instead of gender-specific therapy, because really the only therapy that I received until much later was specifically focused on gender dysphoria, and didn’t connect my gender dysphoria to anything else,” she told NBC News. |
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| Schadenfreude CNN gets eaten by Food Network: These are depressing times over at CNN, a leftist propaganda network masquerading as news. Viewership there has been hemorrhaging for many years now, and yet it still hasn’t hit rock bottom. (Or make that the bottom of the oven.) Last week, the Food Network attracted more viewers than CNN, whose primetime lineup averaged a paltry 367,000 people. Also besting CNN was HGTV, among others. In other words, more people would rather watch wannabe chefs butcher their culinary creations or contractors remodel grossly overpriced homes than suffer through pundits gaslighting [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/] the world around them. Whatever changes CNN pledged to implement have evidently fallen flat with the average Joe. |
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| D.C. Restaurant Server Fired After
Comments About Refusing Service to Some Trump Officials A Washington, D.C.-area restaurant server has been fired after she spoke out about possibly refusing service to incoming Trump administration officials. Her remarks were part of a report about whether there would be local "resistance" to certain Trump figures when they were in public settings again after several high-profile incidents during his first term. They included then-aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders being ejected from a restaurant in Lexington, Va., and protesters swarming then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a D.C. Mexican establishment. |
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| Calling Out Legacy Media
Bias Cloaked in Anonymous Sources Tim Graham The anti-Trump media have already congratulated themselves for destroying the Matt Gaetz nomination for attorney general and are now attempting to destroy the Pete Hegseth nomination for secretary of defense. Vetting the records of Cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function. It is not a legitimate journalistic function to kill a nomination based on hit pieces stuffed with anonymous sources. Someone with responsibility at media outlets should ensure that their hit pieces include some sources who are named. |
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| Debunked – The Great
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Myth Kathy Gyngell Most thinking people come to realize that positive discrimination doesn’t work. As a twenty-something idealist I was much impressed by President Lyndon Johnson’s Project Headstart educational program which began with the earliest years of ‘deprived’ children’s lives. Twenty years later, when I looked up the research again I found most of the program’s advantages had been wiped out by age 11 and virtually all by 20. It was a complete waste of time and money. It certainly had little chance of compensating for a dramatic culture shift towards fatherlessness, particularly amongst blacks, from the 1960s onwards. |
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| Wrong Answers The Scuttlebutt – William Lehman The first thing on my hit parade today started as a west coast thing, but if you are blessed enough not to live on the left coast, that doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods. They’re looking at your state too, trust me. Already on board is WA, OR, CA, NY, Mass, and NJ. (Yes, I know, those are the same morons that almost gave us ‘president Harris’.) Yeah, you in the back, with the Save the Polar Bears shirt, I’m talking about you! See, back in August of 2005, the never to be sufficiently damned morons in the Washington Legislature decided to pass a law surrendering their agency and their sovereignty to California. Now to be fair, in truth it was “follow CA law, or follow Federal law” but in the words of the warrior monk:"You choose ... poorly." |
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| "Corrupt to the Core": Dems in
Disarray Over Hunter Pardon As 'Rule of Law' Narrative Implodes Tyler Durden Absolute chaos has broken out on the left following Joe Biden's blanket pardon of his son Hunter – which spans the period right before Hunter joined the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma (for $1M/year), through yesterday evening. It was also revealed that months of denying this would happen were pure lies, as the pardon had been in the works for months. In short, it couldn't be any more obvious that Hunter was simply the Biden family bag-man. |
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| Nothing Cool About Democrats’ Woke
Religion J.B. Shurk Right now Democrats are publicly debating the reasons for their electoral implosion. I use the word “debating” rather loosely, since being a leftist requires a great deal of self-censorship. Democrats can discuss fellow cult members’ obsession with chemically castrating children only so much before the great priests of the party denounce them as “transphobic.” Only a few morsels of truth about the mass invasion of foreign nationals can be articulated out loud before a faithful adherent of the open borders liturgy rises with indignation, extends a long finger in the speaker’s direction, and condemns the apostate a “hateful bigot.” |
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| House Committee Chairman Vows to
‘fight’ After Docs Reveal ‘Disgusting’ Sexual Misconduct at VA Facility Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) has been investigating claims of inappropriate sexual behavior at a Veteran’s Affairs facility in Tennessee. Bost is the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and investigative documents reveal more details on the sexual misconduct that took place at the Mountain Home VA property. “The sexual misconduct, harassment, and inappropriate interpersonal relationships that were allowed to persist at the Mountain Home VA facility are disturbing and disgusting. If these allegations are verified, without question, these men and women have no business serving veterans in East Tennessee, and this should have never happened,” Bost declared in a statement. |
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| Project
Veritas Undercover Finds ‘insurance policy against Trump’ 2.0: ‘We’re
throwing gold bars off the Titanic,’ says EPA Staffer An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffer was caught on undercover camera admitting that the agency has been funneling money to nonprofits to preemptively undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda and prop up current President Joe Biden’s agenda. The staffer, Brent Efron, reportedly a special adviser tasked with implementing President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, told undercover investigators with Project Veritas that the EPA is purposefully funneling money to climate change nonprofits NOW to keep Biden’s agenda alive. |
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| Impoundment, For Lack of a Better
Word, Is Good I & I Editorial Board Last year, President-elect Donald Trump said that “For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending through what is known as impoundment.” Since he’s been elected, he’s given every indication that he intends to reclaim this power. Indeed, the success of his “Department of Government Efficiency” run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy depends heavily on Trump being able to spend less than Congress appropriates. |
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| Lawfare Will End When the Left Is
Too Terrified to Contemplate Continuing It streiff To eliminate lawfare as a tool of the left, they have to experience just how horrible it is to be on the receiving end. We need to go after everyone involved in the planning of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Every FBI agent who didn't call in sick for a 6 a.m. raid on a pro-lifer's home needs to be fired and sued personally. Only when we've plowed the soil of the Deep State with salt can we talk about a truce. But the personal damage we inflict over the next four years, in terms of jail time, bankruptcies, and legal judgments, must so terrify that second tier of Deep Staters that no matter what another batch of Democrat operatives cook up, they will refuse to get involved. |
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| The Washington Post
Cannot Be Serious About This Headline About Pete Hegseth Matt Vespa It’s incredible how far liberals will go regarding denigrating any institution once they lose power. A Bronze Star isn’t the Medal of Honor, but are they fool’s gold? It’s insanity to take this position: only Distinguished Service Crosses, Silver Stars, and other service medals considered more than a Bronze Star, for lack of a better term, are true yardsticks regarding service to one’s country. This piece only serves as a reminder that the Left hates the military, and they will throw an anti-institutional tantrum when things don’t go their way. It’s why I hate these people so very, very much. |
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| Dozens of Prominent Veterans Sign
Onto Letter Supporting 'outstanding' Hegseth Nomination Amid Controversies A growing number of prominent veterans are signing onto an open letter endorsing Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth as he battles back allegations that may stymie his confirmation. "As military veterans and patriotic Americans, we are pleased to see an outstanding veteran nominated to lead the Department of Defense," the letter begins. |
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| Kash Patel Threatens Suit, Demands
Retraction from MSNBC for Guest Smearing Him With Lies Kash Patel isn’t going to just sit back and allow himself to be smeared by the media and bad actors who have declared war on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s key nominees. In a letter to MSNBC guest Olivia Troye, Patel’s lawyer threatened to sue the pants off of the former Mike Pence aide if she didn’t retract comments made on-air about the FBI director nominee. Troye has endeared herself to leftists with her vicious attacks on Trump and her former colleagues and during a recent appearance on racist host Joy Reid’s show, she slimed Patel as a “delusional liar” and claimed that he put “the lives of Navy SEALs at risk in an operation when it came to Nigeria.” |
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| ESG Firms Invested in Coal Industry
They Tried to Reduce, While Reaping Big Profits, Lawsuit Alleges The State of Texas has been a leader in the pushback against environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, passing some of the first anti-ESG laws in the country. Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moved to protect the coal industry from what Paxton says is an effort on the part of large investment firms to not only shrink coal companies – but also unfairly profit from them. Paxton teamed up with 10 other attorney generals in GOP states to file a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street Corporation and Vanguard Group, three of the largest investors in the world. The lawsuit alleges that the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in the United States. The defendants shared information, communicated with the management of the coal companies they invested in, and voted with their shares to artificially reduce production and constrain the supply of coal. |
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| House Oversight Subcommittee Grills
DOE Official on Who or What Influenced Biden’s LNG Export ‘Ban’ Ever since President Joe Biden announced in January that the Department of Energy was stopping the approval of liquified natural gas permits, questions swirled around why the decision was made. A House Oversight subcommittee hearing Wednesday sought to find some questions as to who influenced the decision and why it was made. |
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| Maine School Districts Face
Repaying Grants for EV Buses, Despite Problems Making Them Inoperable Maine school districts tapped funding for electric school buses through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Bus Program, which is overseen by Vice-President Kamala Harris. The districts reportedly continue to have problems with the buses, and stipulations of the grants that paid for the buses require them to keep using the buses. In July, Central Maine reports, Quebec-based electric bus manufacturer Lion Electric recalled a part on the electric buses that Winthrop Public Schools received. Whenever the buses would hit a bump, a school transportation official told Central Maine, they would shut down. Winthrop recently received the parts and the district is initiating trials to see how the repaired buses perform. |
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| Comer: The Census Is Overcounting.
Guess Who Benefits? Katie Pavlich “In 2020, the Post-Enumeration Survey suggests that there were overcounts in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Delaware, Minnesota, Utah, and Ohio. And there were undercounts in Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Illinois," Comer said. “Six of the eight states benefiting from overcounts tended to favor Democrats in awarding congressional apportionment and electoral college votes." |
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| US Navy at Risk of Failing Critical
Amphibious Assault Mission The US Navy’s amphibious assault force is failing to provide enough vessels for use by the US Marine Corps, with half of the fleet in poor condition and some ships having been unavailable for years at a time, according to a report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). Published on 3 December 2024, the GAO report painted a concerning picture for a capability that is crucial to the ability of the US Marine Corps to move into theatre, with the US Navy mandated to maintain a 31-ship fleet to meet its requirements. As of March 2024, half of the amphibious fleet “is in poor condition” and these ships were “not on track to meet their expected service lives”, the GAO report revealed. |
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| Drug Price Controls Threaten Cancer
Cures Sally C. Pipes A federal judge in New Jersey recently dismissed a lawsuit seeking to strike down the Inflation Reduction Act's program of price controls for prescription drugs dispensed through Medicare. It was the fifth suit of its kind to fail this year. Democrats have cheered the IRA's price controls for supposedly making drugs more accessible to seniors. But they have an insidious downside. By slowing the pace of new drug innovation, price controls will seriously harm Americans with cancer now and in the future. |
Bravo for the Dem’s socialistic controls. Not! |
| Drain the Swamp for the Economic
Benefits I & I Editorial Board There’s not much Donald Trump could ever do as president that will generate more resistance and hatred than bleeding the fetid capital swamp. It’s arguable that there’s nothing he could ever do as president that would be better for the republic. |
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| President Biden Cloaks His Legacy
in Infamy With the Hunter Biden Pardon Jonathan Turley President Joe Biden’s decision to use his presidential powers to pardon his own son will be a decision that lives in infamy in presidential politics. It is not just that the President used his constitutional powers to benefit his family. It is because the action culminates years of lying to the public about his knowledge and intentions in the influence-peddling scandal surrounding his family. |
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| Delaware Judge Rejects Musk's $56
Billion Tesla Pay – Again A Delaware judge ruled on Monday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk still is not entitled to receive a $56 billion compensation package despite shareholders of the electric vehicle company voting in June to reinstate it. Tesla in a statement on X said, "The ruling is wrong, and we're going to appeal," adding that the judge had overruled a supermajority of shareholders. Musk and Tesla can appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court as soon as McCormick enters a final order, which could come as soon as this week. The appeal could take a year to play out. |
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| Mom Sues Mattel Over 'Wicked' Dolls
with Porn Website Link After Daughter Visited Site In a proposed class action filed in federal court in Los Angeles, Holly Ricketson said she bought a “Wicked” doll for her daughter, who then visited an adult entertainment website through the link provided by the toymaker. Ricketson said her daughter showed her hardcore photographs from the website and both were “horrified” by what they saw, suffering emotional distress. |
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| In Transgender Case, Can Supreme
Court Cut to the Moral Heart of the Issue? Josh Hammer The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a state law banning minors’ use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for purposes of so-called gender-affirming care – which, stripped of all euphemism, means genital mutilation and chemical castration. And the justices will indeed have to resolve the narrow legal question before them in this case: namely, whether or not Tennessee’s commonsense protection of vulnerable youth from the predations of the billion-dollar transgender industry offends the 14th Amendment’s injunction that no state “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” |
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| ETSU President Resists
Congressional Pressure, Maintains Controversial Art Exhibit Depicting
Mike Johnson As a Nazi with New 'waiver' Requirement for Viewing East Tennessee State University President Brian Noland has announced that the Fletcher Exhibit will remain on campus, despite its inclusion of works containing conservative figures alongside swastikas, Hitler, and Ku Klux Klan hoods. “After consultation with legal counsel, I cannot, in good faith, censor this exhibit because doing so would run counter to the duties of the Office of the President to uphold the laws of the State of Tennessee,” Noland said in a statement obtained by Campus Reform. |
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| Michigan’s Radical Faculty Program John D. Sailer At the University of Michigan (UM), professor Jessica Kenyatta Walker specializes in “critical food studies” and helped develop “in-class activities” on the “racialization of food in the United States.” Professor Adi Saleem’s recent book, Queer Jews, Queer Muslims: Race, Religion, and Representation, focuses on “triangulating the Jewish-Muslim dyad with a third variable: queerness.” Jennifer Dominique Jones, meantime, teaches courses in “Black Queer Histories” and “Black Intimacies.” |
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| Today in the College Collapse Steven Hayward The Chronicle of Higher Education seems to have decided to go into competition with the Babylon Bee with this feature: "Affluent White Students Are Skipping College, and No One Is Sure Why. White students are falling out of higher education more quickly than any other racial group, and recent data suggests that middle- and upper-income white students are skipping college at a higher rate than their lower-income peers. That flies in the face of entrenched narratives about more-affluent white students following a well-marked path to college." |
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| Climate Reality is
Setting in, and That's 'Strange' to the Washington Post David Blackmon You almost have to feel a little sorry for the adherents to the dogma preached by the Global Church of Climate Alarm. Almost. After all, look at how their fantasy world in which you can use a trace element in the atmosphere made up of human carbon emissions as a kind of global thermostat is coming crashing down around them. |
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| Data Centers Highlight
the Limits of Renewable Energy Irina Slav Until about a year ago, no one paid much attention to data centers. Everyone used them, of course, but they didn’t think about them. Then, the AI rush began. It was followed by a rush for energy supply. One year in, and data centers are threatening the very energy transition on which so many governments have staked everything. Power utilities, regulators, and climate activists appear to be experiencing growing concern about the immediate outlook for oil and gas demand, Reuters reported this week, saying the fast growth in demand for electricity caused by the mushrooming of data centers had come as a surprise to many. Data centers need reliable, uninterrupted electricity around the clock, and there is no way either wind or solar, even with battery backup, can guarantee this to the extent that data centers need. |
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| Lyin' Biden Pardons Son Hunter | |
| Day 1: Pipe and Drill I & I Editorial Board Donald Trump has said that on the first day of his second term, he wants to “frack, frack, frack, and drill, drill, drill.” He needs to keep that promise – as well as reopen construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which the Biden administration blocked, just as the Obama White House did before Trump reversed the policy in 2017. “Put us to work right now,” a laid-off worker who had been building the pipeline when it was shut down said earlier this year. “And you will see not only the fuel prices go down, but you will see the price of everything else go down with it.” |
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| Detroit Using Eminent Domain to
Plop Panels – Solar, That Is – Instead of People on Vacant Lots Beege Welborn It's always something with the Green Grifters. The latest out of the once bustling metropolis of Detroit is the mayor's plan to continue his battle against urban blight and resident flight by, oh...not refurbishing houses or building new ones on the vacant sites littering the city. Well, shoot – some aren't even vacant – they're just not pretty. But they still have occupants and renters in them. No worries. Everybody gets to leave, and the roofs over their heads come down in the name of 'FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE.' |
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| Trump Plans to Use Impoundment to
Cut Spending – What Is It? Lawrence Wilson President-elect Donald Trump has said he intends to cut government spending by reasserting the presidential power of impoundment, a move certain to spark a court battle and one that could redefine presidential power for decades to come. Impoundment occurs when the president chooses not to disburse funds authorized by Congress, instead leaving them unspent in the U.S. Treasury. |
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| Iranian General Killed in Syria Amid Largest Rebel Offensive Since 2020 A radical Islamist group unleashed its biggest military incursion against Syrian regime forces since 2020 in the northwest of the war-ravaged Syrian Arab Republic, triggering Russian and Syrian warplanes on Thursday to bomb the insurgent offensive. Rebels led by the U.S-designated Islamist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stormed a dozen towns and villages in northwest Aleppo province, which is controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. |
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| Trump Taps Daughter's Father-in-Law
As Senior Adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs President-elect Trump tapped his daughter Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, Lebanese-American businessman Dr. Massad Boulos, to join his Cabinet as senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. "Massad is an accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the International scene. He has been a longtime proponent of Republican and Conservative values, an asset to my Campaign, and was instrumental in building tremendous new coalitions with the Arab American Community," said Trump. |
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| Who Is Karoline Leavitt?: A Look at
the Youngest Woman Ever Named to Serve As White House Press Secretary  President-elect
Donald Trump announced Karoline Leavitt will return to the White House
next year as his press secretary, making the 27-year-old the youngest
White House press secretary in U.S. history and notching another
massive career benchmark. Leavitt has been a fierce defender of Trump
throughout his hard-fought campaign against Vice President Kamala
Harris, which included Democrats and the Harris campaign lobbing
attacks at Trump that he is a "fascist" and on par with Nazi Germany
dictator Adolf Hitler, two assassination attempts and crisscrossing the
nation to rally support for the former president. |
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| Amish Volunteers Built 100+ 'Tiny
Homes' for Hurricane Victims but Guess What Happened Next... Stephen Green After Hurricane Helene which left untold thousands of western North Carolina (WNC) residents homeless, volunteer Amish carpenters showed up to build temporary shelters, but the heartwarming story has a bitter ending. There are a couple of stories here that the mainstream media hasn't reported on much. The first is that FEMA, for whatever reason, has not been up to the task after Helen destroyed or damaged approximately 100,000 homes in WNC, impacting more than 200,000 people. People are living in trailers or even tents all these weeks later – and as temperatures drop. |
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| News Outlets Push Pro-Union Stories
While Taking Undisclosed Cash from Organized Labor A trio of liberal publications has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from teachers unions over the past couple of years, a fact that is not disclosed in their positive coverage of those same unions. The New Republic, American Prospect, and Courier Newsroom have collectively accepted $905,000 since 2022 from the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, according to the unions’ financial disclosures. After accepting funds from the two largest teachers unions in the nation, each of these outlets went on to publish pieces painting them in a positive light without disclosing the funding arrangement. |
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| Biden’s FBI Reportedly Altering Murder Data to Suit Gun Violence Narrative In October, Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) broke the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had stealth-revised its reported violent crime data for 2022 to show a 4.5% increase, rather than the originally reported 2.1% decrease, for that year. Among other things, that adjustment added 1,699 more murders for 2022. Given that the vast majority of murder crimes are reported, Lott asks, “How do you miss 1,699 murders?” |
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| Illegal Alien’s Purchase of 170
Guns Raises Eyebrows According to a Fox News report, Carlos Serrano-Restrepo’s lawyer submitted a motion to dismiss the charge arguing that he has the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. The judge denied the motion to dismiss the charge against the Ohio man, who had been in the U.S. for 15 years, writing in his opinion that “disarming unlawful immigrants like Mr. Serrano-Restrepo who have not sworn allegiance to the United States comports with the Nation’s history and tradition of firearm regulations.” |
Illegals don’t have 2A rights |
| Texas Could Bus Migrants Directly
to ICE for Deportation Instead of Sanctuary Cities Under Proposed Plan Texas could implement a plan to bus migrants directly to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an effort to get them processed for deportation, according to media reports. The move would be a departure from the state's program, part of Operation Lone Star, that has bussed thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities, a source told the New York Post. It has yet to be approved by Gov. Greg Abbott. |
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| Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan
Threatens Sanctuary City Leaders Seeking to Block Mass Deportations:
'Don't Test Us' President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan vows to instill harsh consequences on sanctuary city leaders who are threatening to block immigration authorities from carrying out their planned mass deportation – telling them plain and simple: “Don’t test us.” “Let me be clear, there is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border,” Homan said during a visit to the border Tuesday in Eagle Pass, Texas, alongside Gov. Greg Abbott. “If we don’t do it, what is the option? Let them stay? Cause if you let them stay, you’ll never fix the border. |
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| Did Biden Make His Anti-Semitism
Official? Steven Hayward This story came back to me over the weekend with the photos of Joe Biden emerging from a Nantucket bookstore holding in plain sight the book he purchased: Rashid Khalidi’s "The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017". It is quite possible that in his senile state Biden isn’t actually replicating Reagan’s deliberate act of promoting a book with an implicit presidential endorsement. |
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| Largest Gold Deposit in the World
Worth $83 Billion Found in China What is being dubbed as the largest gold deposit in the world has been found in China, state outlet Xinhua news said. The gold reserves are worth 600 billion yuan, according to Reuters, which amounts to $83 billion U.S. |
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| Conservation Successes Defy Climate
Pessimism Vijay Jayaraj  When a purported climate crisis dominates much of the discourse of public policy, the trap of attributing every ecological issue to climate change easily ensnares anyone who fails to note the abundant evidence to the contrary. Over the past few decades, we have witnessed remarkable success stories of species being brought back from the brink of extinction – stories that defy the popular media narrative that a climate modestly warmer than the Little Ice Age is killing our planet’s life forms. The iconic polar bear, long heralded as the unofficial emblem of climate advocacy, has now multiplied in a remarkable way despite media houses like NBC claiming that they are on an “extinction path”. |
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| Anti-Trump Filmmaker Rob Reiner Has
Checked Himself Into a ‘Facility’ Following the 2024 Election When it comes to Trump Derangement Syndrome, few have suffered with the condition like filmmaker Rob Reiner. His Twitter/X rants about Trump and the end of democracy leading up to the 2024 election were legendary. Now that the election is over, and Trump won not only the Electoral College but the popular vote as well, Reiner has admitted himself to a ‘facility’ where he can get some much needed quiet. This is not parody. |
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| Judge Rules in Favor of Missouri
Law Requiring Photo ID to Vote A judge on Monday upheld a Missouri law mandating that voters show photo identification at the polls to cast a ballot. Cole County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Jon Beetem ruled that multiple groups that alleged the state’s voter ID laws were unconstitutional “failed to prove their case.” Beetem said Missouri’s law was a “reasonable” deterrent for voter fraud and did not violate the rights of those who challenged the measure. |
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| Texans' Azeez Al-Shaair Comes Under
Scrutiny Over Trevor Lawrence Hit, Pro-Palestinian Cleats Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was put under the microscope on Sunday as his second-quarter hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence knocked the player out of the game... The Jaguars ruled Lawrence out for the rest of the game as he was diagnosed with a concussion. The hit wasn’t the only thing Al-Shaair was criticized for. |
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| New Report Shows Nearly 70% of
Biden Admin's Education Enforcement Targeted Christian and Career Colleges A report showed that nearly 70% of enforcement actions executed by the Biden administration’s Education Department targeted faith-based and career schools. According to a press release published by the American Principles Project (APP), they drew on newly obtained data finding that nearly 70 percent of the Department of Education’s (ED) enforcement actions dealt with faith-based and career schools, even though those schools represent less than 10 percent of students in the U.S. APP Policy Director Jon Schweppe said the Democrats have been "busy weaponizing every part of the federal government to target their opponents" for the past four years. |
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| University of Michigan Board of
Regents Targets DEI Office for ‘Defunding’ or Major Changes, Faculty
Senate Freaks Out On Wednesday, John D. Sailer, senior fellow and Director of Higher Education Policy at the Manhattan Institute, posted an email from the University of Michigan Faculty Senate chair announcing the proposed changes on X. The chair wrote to other members of the Faculty Senate, warning them about “impending threats” to DEI at the University of Michigan. |
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| The State vs. Parents on the
Transgender Agenda Emmy Griffin The heavily contested gender ideology is a phenomenon that has flooded the modern scene with a vengeance. The battlegrounds are varied. Some are fighting the attempted subjugation of the language. Others focus on attacking the early sexualization and indoctrination of children. Some poor parents are in the midst of custody battles for children who have been talked into buying the transgender lie. Still others want to address accommodating gender-confused individuals’ bathroom preferences. This month has already seen three different court decisions regarding gender identity/confusion and the varying issues this enabled illness presents to the culture as a whole. |
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| Boise State Praised for Forfeiting
Title Shot As SJSU Trans Player Stood in Way: 'Real Champion' The Boise State women's volleyball team made the decision to forgo any chance of winning the Mountain West tournament as they were set to face a transgender player in the semifinals. After defeating Utah State in the first round, the Lady Broncos had a state setup with second-seeded San Jose state University, which has trans player Blaire Fleming on its roster. Shortly after their playoff victory, Boise State said it would forfeit the semifinal game, thus automatically putting SJSU in the final. |
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| Biology Update: Scottish Supreme Court to Determine What a 'woman' Is Beege Welborn I am sure this will be a precedent-setting ruling, whatever the outcome. I mean, how can it not be, considering that even reportedly brilliant legal minds raised to the heights of our own SCOTUS find themselves completely flummoxed when confronted by that very same thorny question? What is a woman? |
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| NY Times
Hammered for Article Referring to Biological Women As ‘Non-Transgender Women’ Former female sports greats, media figures, and even a conservative lawmaker tore into a recent New York Times article for referring to women as "non-transgender women." ennis legend Martina Navratilova and other prominent people blasted the piece online for the characterization, stating the outlet should just be referring to biological women as women. "NYT-you stink. We are women, NOT TRANSGENDER WOMEN. Just WOMEN will do in the future," Navratilova wrote on the social media platform on Friday. |
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