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social philosophy one’s own as easily as a new costume. . . More
menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture,
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The Nadir of the Climate Change Movement Steven F. Hayward It is possible that the Trump Administration is going to deal the death blows to the long-running climate change hysteria and government hostility to fossil fuels, not just in the United States but around the globe. The Trump Administration has moved well beyond merely supporting increased oil and natural gas production. It has also launched steps to dismantle the foundations of anti-energy climate policy, in particular, a proposed reversal of the so-called "endangerment finding" that gave the EPA jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gases, which were never explicitly included in any of the various Clean Air Acts passed over the last 50 years. Trump's EPA is also proposing to revise the EPA's flawed "social cost of carbon" analysis, which is used to justify costly green energy schemes.  The Tide Is Turning Against the Fantasy Economics That Prop Up Net Zero Matthew Lynn For most of the last decade, corporate leaders have insisted that the transition to a carbon-neutral economy was win-win. We would save the planet and get richer at the same time. But hold on. The Australian airline Qantas has just broken ranks, admitting that flying may soon be the preserve of only the privileged, while a wealth of research is making it clear that environmental goals have hammered the economy. In reality, bosses are starting to admit what has been obvious for some time. Net zero is making us poorer – and that means we have to rethink the way we go about reducing carbon emissions. |
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| Why Did The Atlantic’s Goldberg Wait 13 Days to Notify Waltz About ‘Massive Security Breach’? Craig Bannister On Monday, The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg confirmed with the Trump Administration that national security was breached by his accidental inclusion in a text message group initiated by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz – 13 days after he first suspected his inclusion was a mistake. Instead of immediately addressing the national security threat by asking Waltz if his addition to a Signal text messaging app group was a mistake, Goldberg apparently waited nearly two weeks – all the while suspecting that national security was being breached – before bothering to contact Waltz and other high-ranking officials to question his inclusion in the group. Two hours after his inquiry on Monday, the Trump Administration replied, confirming he was added to the group inadvertently. Goldberg, then, promptly published his story, titled “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”: | |
| Trump Says He Won't 'Fire People' Over Signal Flap President Donald Trump on Saturday made his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen. “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker. He also said that he had confidence in Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, and Pete Hegseth, his Pentagon chief. | |
| Plaintiffs Challenging Trump DEI Order Are Playing Judicial Games Margot Cleveland A group of plaintiffs asked a federal judge on Saturday to vacate the injunction he had previously entered in their favor against the Trump Administration that halted the implementation of the president’s directives to end DEI initiatives. The plaintiffs’ move came after a federal appellate court stayed the injunction, signaling a likely reversal of the injunction on appeal and a win for Trump. This motion represents the second effort within as many weeks by litigants to game the judicial system to avoid losing to the president on appeal. The courts should refuse to play along, including in this case by denying the motion to vacate the injunction. |
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| New Dirt on Judge Boasberg Raises More Questions Matt Margolis The district court judge who recently blocked President Donald Trump's efforts to deport illegal alien gang members attended a suspiciously partisan legal conference just months before his ruling, according to a judicial ethics report. Judge James Boasberg, who serves on the D.C. District Court, participated in what appears to be nothing more than a Democrat strategy session masquerading as a legal conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The conference’s agenda items, “Judges in a Democracy” and “State of Democracy,” sound eerily similar to the Democrats’ tiresome 2024 campaign rhetoric about “saving democracy” – which, of course, has become the justification for their using the courts to obstruct Trump’s agenda. | |
| The Case for Removing Judge Boasberg's Security Clearance M Dowling Mike Davis called for President Trump to remove Judge Boasberg’s security clearance. No one, not Congress or the Supreme Court, is doing anything about Boasberg. Boasberg wants those Tren de Aragua back in the country. He won’t remove the TRO because he said the domestic terrorists marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win. He claims they are entitled to individual hearings and due process. Attorney Mike Davis explained that he did not have the power to do what he was doing. It’s not the proper court. Davis also presents an excellent case for removing Judge Boasberg’s security clearance. | |
| White House Office Moves to Limit Union Rights for Federal Employees The memo cites authority issued under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, which Trump is also using to end collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that represent agencies with national security missions, per a White House Fact Sheet. The order impacts all agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the General Services Administration, and more. |
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| Follow the Money: Is This the Real Reason the Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education? Tyler O'Neil  Judging
from the Left’s responses to President Trump’s order to wind down the
Department of Education, you might be forgiven for thinking the
president had just started World War III. These people know, of course,
that eliminating the Department of Education doesn’t actually mean
“declaring war on America’s students” or demolishing the “public
education system.” (Even school choice, which may weaken public schools
by allowing tax dollars to follow students to home schooling and other
options, will only introduce competition for public schools, not
destroy them.) President Trump didn’t order the demolishing of schools
– he ordered the Department of Education to begin the process of
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| You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS Was Funding Catherine Salgado Do you want your taxpayer dollars funding studies on preventing pregnancy in “transgender boys” or HIV stigma in Thailand? Fortunately, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary also considers that a waste, so he’s cutting numerous idiotic woke studies. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Trump’s new agency heads have uncovered billions of dollars of egregious fraud and waste, including the previously unknown agency whose employees lived “like kings” and the Social Security funding for 150+ year olds. Now HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is looking to streamline the massive, unwieldy, unconstitutional, and harmful federal healthcare agencies. It’s time to cure the woke mind virus. Read on for mind-blowing craziness. |
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| Trump Declassifies FBI's Russia Investigation President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the declassification of FBI files connected to the inquiry into his 2016 campaign's potential ties to Russia, The Hill has reported. The memorandum calls for the declassification of "all files related to Crossfire Hurricane investigation," White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, who added that "we believe that it's long past time for the American people to have a full and complete understanding of what exactly is in those files." | |
| Biden Bailout Fallout: VA Budget Bungling Led to Veterans Affairs Crisis Last Year President Joe Biden's dramatic emergency request to bail out the VA last year was rooted in massive bureaucratic bungling and resulted in Congress appropriating money that was not needed, the agency’s internal watchdog concluded. The inspector general report published Thursday confirms that a $2.9 billion supplemental request went unused because the agency failed to account for “prior-year recoveries” in its budget planning. Had the agency taken into account those recovered funds, the inspector general found, its projections “would have shown a reduced risk of a shortfall by year-end.” |
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| Confirmed: Biden Was Given the Press Questions In Advance David Strom  Imagine if the Donald Trump for President campaign demanded that questions directed at Trump were pre-scripted and that the campaign would get the right to pre-approve quotes derived from those interviews. We would hear nonstop about propaganda, suppressing the truth, First Amendment concerns, and be treated to a media freakout that would go on for days or weeks. Now look at how the same Pravda Media responded to demands by the Biden administration's demands for the same privilege: mute compliance. |
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| The Democratic Party Died but the Autopsy Results Are Being Ignored John Sexton Politico Magazine published a story today looking at the current state of the Democratic Party. The news is not good if you're a Democrat. It's not just people outside the inner circle, i.e. the base and the voters, who are angry, it's also people much closer to the action. The story picks up with a gathering to decide who should lead the DNC into the future. “How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’ defeat?” asked MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart. Every candidate raised their hand. “That’s good,” he added. “You all pass.” Later, a DNC member asked, in reference to party positions: “Will you pledge to appoint more than one transgender person to an at-large seat?” Only one of eight contenders kept their hand down. | |
| Sweeping Trump Order Overhauls U.S. Elections, Including Citizenship Requirement President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day. The order, titled "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections," stated the U.S. has failed "to enforce basic and necessary election protections" and called on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. |
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| With Federal Election Looming, Liberal Canadian PM Accused of Plagiarism While Studying at Oxford Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing allegations that he copied parts of his 1995 doctoral thesis at Oxford University without proper credit. The report comes as he's seeking election to remain the country's PM next month, when Canadian voters head to the polls on April 28. The National Post reviewed Carney’s thesis, "The Dynamic Advantage of Competition," with three university experts, who found at least 10 instances of apparent plagiarism. |
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| Youngkin Pushes to Strip Funds from 'sanctuary' Localities Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is renewing his push to end so-called "sanctuary cities" in the commonwealth by proposing a budget amendment that would strip state funding from local governments that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The policy appears in Youngkin's proposed budget amendment presentation, which includes a requirement for local law enforcement to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | |
| BOMBSHELL: Anti-Israel Groups in U.S. Had Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack, Lawsuit Alleges Rick Moran A lawsuit brought by the families of victims of the October 7 attacks in Israel alleges that several pro-Hamas and anti-Israel groups in the United States aided and abetted the Hamas attack. Some groups reactivated their dormant social media accounts just prior to the attacks, according to the lawsuit. Among the groups being sued is Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), whose leader, Mahmoud Khalil, sits in an ICE detention center in Louisiana awaiting deportation. “Defendants in this case are Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus,” the suit states. |
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| U.S. Halts Financial Contributions to WTO, Trade Sources Say The Trump administration is retreating from global institutions it sees as at odds with his "America First" economic policies. It plans to quit some, such as the World Health Organization, and has cut contributions to others as part of a broad review of federal spending. The WTO has already been hobbled by a U.S. move in 2019 during Trump's first term to block new judge appointments to its top appeals court, which left its key dispute settlement system only partially functional. Washington had accused the WTO Appellate Body of judicial overreach in trade disputes. |
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| Rep. Catches NPR CEO Denying She Read ‘Reparations’ Book She Bragged About Reading Craig Bannister At a House hearing probing why American taxpayers should have to fund the biased propaganda of her organization on Wednesday, National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher got called out by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) for making a false claim. “Radical leftist @NPR CEO Katherine Maher claims she never read ‘The Case for Reparations’ Yet publicly tweeted about reading it. Was she lying then or is she lying now?” Rep. Gill asks in a social media post including a video clip of the exchange. Rep. Gill was grilling the NPR CEO about a host of her past social media posts, which exhibited blatant political bias and voiced support for controversial, far-left views, when the subject of the book came up: |
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| Las Vegas Judge Declines to Release Suspect in Tesla ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Attack A federal magistrate judge declined Friday to immediately release the man accused of setting fires at a Tesla collision center, citing her concerns of returning him to the community without his mother’s supervision. Las Vegas Metro police arrested Paul Kim, 36, on Wednesday night on charges including arson and possessing an explosive device, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. U.S. Marshals later took Kim into custody on federal charges. During a detention hearing Friday before Magistrate Judge Elayna Youchah, prosecutor Jacob Operskalski called Kim a “flight risk” and said the Department of Justice considered his alleged actions “domestic terrorism.” | |
| 6 Unbelievably Scammy Federal Practices DOGE Staff Reveal in Fox Interview On Thursday evening, Elon Musk and some of his Department of Government Efficiency team sat for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on “Special Report.” The nerd dream team includes a former rocket scientist, a Houstonian who ran five successful businesses, and the billionaire co-founder of Airbnb. Musk said he thinks the team can cut the federal deficit by $1 trillion within 130 days. He and the other DOGE engineers gave some eye-popping examples of how scam-ridden federal programs have become. | |
| Another Day, Another Lefty Scam Organization Exposed Lawrence Person The ongoing DOGE revelations prove that leftists feel absolutely no compunction about stealing money from taxpayers. Given that, and the revelations of where all those #BlackLivesMatter dollars ended up, perhaps it’s not surpirsing that more and more obviously feel no compunction about stealing from their own organizations. |
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| Report Warns of Major Wireless Shortfall by 2027, $1T+ in Costs A Thursday report from IT consulting firm Accenture, commissioned by wireless trade association CTIA, warns of a projected spectrum shortfall that could see demand overwhelm existing infrastructure by next year and cause substantial outages by 2027. "The U.S. faces a spectrum crisis, with long-term negative implications for U.S. economic growth. Rising demand on networks and constrained supply is pushing networks to their limit," the executive summary opened. "By 2027, the U.S. is expected to face a critical spectrum deficit, where the available spectrum will not be able to support connectivity demand in high-traffic areas during peak hours." | |
| CA Lost 173K Private Jobs, Added 181K Government, Largely Part-Time Jobs California has lost 173,000 fully private sector jobs since January 2023, offset by a gain of 181,100 largely part-time government and government-supported jobs. Thirty-eight percent of these new government and government-supported jobs are from elderly or disabled individuals using state funds to pay household members and others minimum wage for part-time care and assistance. The report also found that while hourly wages are up, average hours worked are down, suggesting employers are cutting hours to reduce labor costs, such as those imposed by the state’s sector-based minimum wages. | Way to go, Gavin! |
| NJ Gov. Hopeful Defends Nation of Islam After Video Surfaces of Him Applauding Violent Rhetoric by Louis Farrakhan New Jersey gubernatorial candidate and Newark mayor Ras Baraka (D.) defended the Nation of Islam and accused critics of trying to silence him after a video surfaced showing him applauding racist and violent comments from Louis Farrakhan, the group’s notorious anti-Semitic leader. While serving as Newark’s deputy mayor in 2004, Baraka hosted Farrakhan to celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa. The Nation of Islam minister encouraged the mostly black audience to "break his neck" if "the cracker hit you on the jaw," called white people "the devil," and praised Baraka’s father. Baraka, for his part, called Farrakhan a "role model" whose teachings helped him "become a man" as a college student. |
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| Black City Official Charged with Putting a Noose on Her Own Desk and Faking a “Hate Crime”  A
black city official in Pennsylvania is charged with faking a racist
threat that triggered outrage from activists and a response from the
FBI. Allentown, Pennsylvania school board member LaTarsha Brown
allegedly planned[sic] a small noose on her own desk in Allentown’s
City Hall in January before telling authorities she was targeted,
police said Monday in a press release Brown previously filed workplace
discrimination claims against City Hall but now faces possible jail
time over the noose incident, which prompted cries of rampant bigotry
from figures such as Democratic city council member Ce-Ce Gerlach,
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| Why Libs Should Want to Shut Down the Department of Education Don Surber President Trump’s destruction of the federal Department of Education is overdue because the states, not the president, should decide education policy. Once the federal DOE is gone, we should get rid of the state DOE’s and let local school boards set the policies. Once the state DOEs are gone, we should have a beer and chill. Of course there is too much money involved for this to happen. The money does not go to the classrooms but to six-figure school superintendents, contractors, union featherbedding, bureaucratic featherbedding and the like. Education is the perfect place for scoundrels because no one follows the money and any proposal not to increase spending by at least the rate of inflation is reported by the media as anti-education. Hamas terrorists hide behind children. So do the educrats. |  |
| Cornell Reinstates DEI Hiring Statement After Temporary Removal Micaiah Bilger – Assistant Editor College Fix As it turns out, Cornell University is not ending its commitment to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in its hiring practices. On Friday, the Ivy League institution added back DEI language to its Equal Education and Employment Opportunity Statement after removing it earlier this month, The Cornell Daily Sun reports. A university spokesperson said the removal of the DEI language was a “clerical error.” |
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| University of Michigan Ends DEI Office, Cracks Down On $250M DEI Campaign After String of Controversies The University of Michigan has announced significant cuts to its $250 million Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including abolishing its DEI office, following a string of controversies surrounding the school’s promotion of the ideology. The university announced on Thursday that it would immediately shutter its “Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion” and end the “DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan.” The school administration will now “shift resources to increase investments in student-facing programs, such as financial aid, mental health resources, pre-professional counseling and other efforts.” | Watch this doesn’t return under a different guise! |
| House Passes DETERRENT Act to Boost Transparency on Foreign Funding in Higher Education The House of Representatives passed legislation on March 27 that would require American colleges and universities to disclose all foreign gifts and contracts from countries of concern, as part of an effort to increase transparency and curb foreign influence in U.S. higher education. The bill, H.R. 1048 – formally titled the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act – passed on a bipartisan 241–169 vote. | |
| U. Washington Affirms Commitment to Ending Antisemitism After Trump Warning The University of Washington, following a year-long surge of anti-Israel protests on campus, reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the Jewish community in response to a recent warning letter from the Trump administration. The public university was one of 60 that received letters from the U.S. Department of Education this month, warning that the federal government could pull their funding if they “do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus.” | |
| Trump Pauses Federal Funds for Planned Parenthood The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday. |
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| Colorado State University paid Women’s March Organizer Linda Sarsour $7,000 for Speaking Engagement Colorado State University paid Linda Sarsour, a controversial anti-Israel activist who has been accused of anti-Semitism, $7,000 for a 2024 speaking engagement, a document obtained by Campus Reform shows. The university paid the $7,000 to Sarsour to be the keynote speaker for an April 3, 2024 speaking engagement, as shown in a university contract obtained by Campus Reform. |
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| Speaker Mike Johnson
Reveals Why the Autopen Scandal is a Big Deal Jim Davis The Autopen is a fascinating device. Developed to allow celebrities to mass-produce autographs for hordes of swooning fans, it was never intended to enable a Muppet to serve as president of the United States. But that seems to be exactly what happened. Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after his first few days in office – every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) – was signed with not one, but two Autopens. |
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| Is the Jig Up for Elite
Higher Education? Victor Davis Hanson Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal -- and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished. |
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| Stop Valorizing Campus Protesters People Like Mahmoud Khalil Aren’t Heroes Charles Fain Lehman Mahmoud Khalil – the green-card holder and Columbia-based Hamas sympathizer whom ICE detained last week – has overnight become a martyr for free speech. Advocates for his release, from Rep. Gerry Nadler and Sen. Chris Murphy to academic nonprofits, have framed Khalil’s detention as a violation of his speech rights. In this version of the story, he is an innocent campus protester caught up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on dissent. These arguments don’t stand on firm First Amendment footing. As even the most Khalil-sympathetic legal scholars have acknowledged, the relevance of free-speech law in the case is at best unclear. |
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| A Revolution Against Regulation John Berlau One of the great threats to freedom in the United States today is what we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute call “Regulation Without Representation.” Increasingly, laws are effectively made by unelected regulatory agencies in the administrative state instead of the people’s representatives in Congress. The phrase “regulation without representation” also connotes the battle that George Washington and other American patriots fought against taxation without representation. |
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| Trump Declares Biden’s Pardons of January 6 Committee ‘Void, Vacant’ Due to Autopen President Donald Trump said former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons for members of the January 6 Committee are “void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” citing the pardons having been given via an autopen. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” President Trump said in a Sunday night Truth Social post.  Were Biden’s ‘autopen’ Pardons Legal? Trump Says Question Should Be ‘up to a court’ Kaelan Deese President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the legality of autopen-signed pardons should be decided by the courts, questioning whether former President Joe Biden’s final clemency orders, including controversial preemptive pardons, are valid. In a Truth Social post, Trump said Biden’s pardons, including those granted to members of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee such as former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), along with former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, were “VOID” because they were allegedly signed using an autopen, a mechanical device that replicates a signature. Biden’s Autopen Scandal Just Got a Whole Lot Worse Matt Margolis Earlier this month, we reported that virtually every document bearing Joe Biden's signature during his presidency was signed by an autopen. The presidential autopen has been in use since the 1950s, with its legality debated for years. In 2013, Barack Obama became the first president to sign a bill into law using an autopen while vacationing in Hawaii, relying on a Bush-era legal memo stating a president’s presence wasn’t required if he had authorized the signature. The key issue with Biden, however, is whether he actually authorized the use of the autopen – or if someone else was running it without his knowledge. Is This the Aide Who Abused Joe Biden's Autopen? Matt Margolis The latest scandal for the former Biden administration has exploded into the spotlight thanks to Trump’s declaration Sunday night that Biden's pardons are "VOID, VACANT, AND NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT" because they were signed via autopen, and Biden may not have authorized them. The lingering question, of course, is who may have been using the autopen on Biden’s behalf without his knowledge or consent. An explosive New York Post report revealed a disturbing pattern of potential power abuse within the Biden White House, centered around the controversial use of the presidential autopen. |
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| Smearing Trump’s Cabinet on Wikipedia It’s discouraging to consider the continuing influence of Wikipedia, especially given that the rank leftism of the online encyclopedia was exposed years ago. Now, for those too dull to know better or too lazy to look elsewhere, Wikipedia has trained its sights on Donald Trump’s cabinet members. The website’s entries for FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were “updated” recently to call attention to their confirmation battles and the negativity that those battles entailed. |
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| The Postal Service Is Bleeding
Cash, But the DOGE Can Stop the Hemorrhaging Ross Marchand The Department of Government Efficiency is teaming up with the U.S. Postal Service, and it’s a good thing. Last week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he had reached an agreement with the DOGE to root out inefficiencies and help the service address “big problems” – most of which are financial. As an initial cost-cutting gesture, the USPS is reducing its workforce by 10,000 through a voluntary early retirement program. The DOGE certainly has its work cut out for it. The USPS lost an astounding $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 and is projected to lose an additional $60 billion to $70 billion by 2030. However, most of this spending is wasteful – not essential – which positions the service, through proper reforms, to recover and once again deliver for taxpayers and consumers. |
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| DHS Boss Noem Vows to 'hunt' Down
Those Making Swatting Calls Targeting Conservative Media Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined FBI Director Kash Patel in the fight against swatting calls targeting members of the "conservative new[s] media," announcing Wednesday her department will "hunt these cowards down." Patel recently confirmed a rise in swatting incidents, when someone tries to send armed police to another person's house under false pretenses, aimed at media figures and their families. The act, she said, puts the lives of the victims and responding officers in danger. |
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| Dozens of Wikipedia Editors
Colluded on Years-Long Anti-Israel Campaign, Bombshell ADL Report Claims More than two dozen Wikipedia editors allegedly colluded in a years-long scheme to inject anti-Israel language on topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Anti-Defamation League claimed in a bombshell report released Tuesday. The rogue editors, at least 30 of them, flooded one of the world’s most popular sites with “anti-semitic narratives, anti-Israel bias, and misleading information,” according to the report by the ADL’s Center for Tech and Society. The alleged bias also extended to pervasive “pro-Hamas perspectives” across Arabic-language Wikipedia content, the report claimed. |
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| Doxing Website That Shows Personal
Details of Tesla Owners Has Molotov Cocktail As Cursor The site, called “Dogequest,” reportedly reveals the names, addresses and phone numbers of Tesla owners throughout the US using an interactive map – and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor. The site’s operators, who also posted the exact locations of Tesla dealerships, said that they will remove identifying information about Tesla drivers only if they provide proof that they sold their electric vehicles, according to 404 Media. |
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| AG Pam Bondi Announces Domestic
Terrorism Charges Against Suspects in 3 Firebombing Attacks on Tesla  U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced charges of domestic terrorism against three people accused of firebombing Tesla vehicles and charging stations. Liberal protesters have targeted Tesla vehicles and company locations in order to punish Elon Musk for his role in implementing President Donald Trump's policies. Some vehicles and locations have been vandalized in what is suspected to be politically motivated violence. Trump had promised to seek domestic terrorism charges against violent Tesla attackers, and Bondi made good on that promise Thursday. |
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| The Battery Backlash Is Real, It's
Global, and It's Growing Robert Bryce The battery business is on fire. According to the Energy Information Administration, 10.3 gigawatts of battery capacity was added to the U.S. electric grid in 2024, and the EIA expects another 18.2 GW of capacity to be added this year. By comparison, the agency expects no new nuclear capacity, no new coal, and only 4.4 GW of new natural gas-fired capacity to be built in the U.S. in 2025. Subsidies are a key driver behind that new capacity. Under the Inflation Reduction Act [the Biden admin's deceptively named program], corporations can use the investment tax credit to recover as much as 50% of a battery project’s cost upfront. Furthermore, as I will explain momentarily, under Joe Biden, the Department of Energy handed out more than $26 billion in loans for battery projects. Between 2021 and 2024, that sum constituted more than a quarter of the $99 billion in loans the DOE handed out over that period. The battery sector is getting tens of billions more per year in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act. Despite all the cash, all is not well in battery land. |
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| The New York Times
Makes a Stunning Admission About the Democrats Matt Margolis Liberals are in full-blown panic mode over President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Democrats in Congress are hysterically crying “constitutional crisis,” while unhinged activists are lashing out at Tesla vehicles and showrooms – all because Elon Musk dares to support cutting government waste. Conservatives have long suspected there’s a deeper reason why the left goes berserk over efforts to rein in reckless spending. Now, the New York Times has accidentally said the quiet part out loud – the left’s political machine is fueled by your tax dollars. |
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| Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Be Sent to Amazon Starting on March 28  If
that's not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with
Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa
voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees
listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour
shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice
recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language
understanding systems. ... Voice ID enables Alexa
to do
things like share user-specified calendar events, reminders, music, and
more. Previously, Amazon has said that "if you choose not to save any
voice recordings, Voice ID may not work." As of March 28, broken Voice
ID is a guarantee for people who don't let Amazon store their voice
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| NYC’s Law Allowing Noncitizens to
Vote Is Dead As State’s Highest Court Shuts It Down The Big Apple’s controversial law allowing noncitizens to vote in city elections was struck down by the state’s highest court Thursday. The New York Court of Appeals ruled 6-1 that the law – passed by the City Council in late 2021, with the support of current Democratic mayoral candidates Adrienne Adams and Brad Lander – violated the state constitution. “Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens,” the opinion states. |
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| Peter Navarro: Virtually All New
Jobs Under Joe Biden Were Taken by Illegal Immigrants Peter Navarro, the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing for President Donald Trump, tells Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that virtually all new jobs created during the Biden administration went to newly arrived migrants who poured across the United States-Mexico border. During an exclusive sit-down interview with Marlow at the White House for The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Navarro explained mass immigration’s close relationship to free trade, where the cost of labor plummets, dragging down Americans’ wages. |
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| Nuclear-Generated Electricity Saves
an Electricity-Starved World Ronald Stein P.E. | America Out Loud News Only a few wealthy countries have spent hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing what they call “renewable energy” in the name of “carbon-free electricity” that is unreliable and weather dependent. Yet, despite picking our pockets through taxes and borrowing to support humongous subsidies for wind and solar, our direct costs are rising for electricity, our electric grid is becoming more failure-prone, and we still live with a monopolistic system called utilities of marketing electricity. |
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| Average Planned Parenthood CEO
Earns $350K The American Life League has released a report on Planned Parenthood CEO pay. “In the U.S., the average salary for a nonprofit CEO is roughly $117,000 a year,” says the report. However, the average Planned Parenthood CEO salary has increased from $317K to $352K since 2020. That’s a strong incentive to keep the abortion business booming. Pro-life advocate Lila Rose reports that awards are being given for exceeding abortion quotas. In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received $699.3 million in federal funding, about 34% of its annual revenue. Taxpayer money isn’t supposed to pay directly for abortions, so lavish salaries are one place to fudge that money. |
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| White House Hails Recent Drops in
Egg and Gas Prices The White House on March 17 announced a drop in egg and gasoline prices, calling it a win for the Trump administration’s economic agenda. "Americans are continuing to see the benefits as the economic agenda of President Donald J. Trump and his administration comes into focus,” the White House press office said in a statement. The average wholesale price per dozen of eggs has dropped to $3.10, down 47 percent from $6.55 per dozen from Jan. 21, 2025, the White House said. |
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| Insane New Jersey Hospital Asks
Parents If Their Newborn Babies Are Straight, Gay or Trans A New Jersey hospital system has absolutely lost its mind and jumped the shark with extreme gender ideology. Inspira Health is asking new parents about their babies' sexual orientation. A photo of the form Inspira gives out at hospitals went viral on social media, titled "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questionnaire." And it's just as insane, if not more, than it sounds. "What sex was your baby assigned at birth?" It continues: "Which of the following best describes your baby? Lesbian or gay; straight or heterosexual, bisexual, questioning/unsure, prefer not to answer." |
New Jersey Hospitals Exemplify Why Democrats Are Unpopular |
| Elon to 'Fire Pull' Bowman: Get
Ready for a 4-Alarm Lawsuit Ed Morrissey At some point, Jamaal Bowman will learn not to pull fire alarms. Right? Right? Maybe? What happens when you go on national television and call the world's wealthiest man a "Nazi" and a "thief" because you dislike his politics? You get to meet a lot of his attorneys is what happens. Unlike when Bowman was in Congress, the Speech and Debate Clause no longer applies, and moments like this become actionable – theoretically, anyway: |
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| Seventy-Seven Retired Generals and
Admirals Call for Supporting Israeli Attack on Iran Frontpage Mag Seventy-seven retired generals and admirals have written a letter calling for the United States to support Israeli military action that prevents a nuclear Iran. The letter was issued by the Jewish Institute for the National Security of America on March 4. ... What Israel needs most from the U.S. that it doesn’t have already in its arsenal are those 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs), a huge precision bunker buster specially designed to penetrate very deeply buried and fortified targets. This bomb would enable the Israeli Air Force to destroy the nuclear facilities deep underground at Natanz and deep inside a mountain at Fordow, as well as other nuclear facilities that may not yet have been publicly identified, but that the IDF is well aware of. |
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| WNBA Champ Natasha Cloud Says Fan
Outrage Over Fouls on Caitlin Clark Amounts to 'racism' WNBA champion Natasha Cloud took aim at the sport's new fans who were critical of fouls committed against Caitlin Clark last season. During an interview on the "Pivot Podcast" with Ryan Clark, Cloud weighed in on the debate that rocked the WNBA last year when several illegal hits against Clark prompted outrage from many of her fans. Cloud, who said she lost a tooth from a hit earlier in her career, insisted the outrage on behalf of Clark was rooted in "racism." |
Say anything negative about a black player and it's racism |
| Federal Investigation Opens Into
Illinois Schools Over Transgender in Girls’ Locker Room Illinois education authorities were hit with a federal probe over a mother’s report that her middle-school daughter and other girls were required to change clothes in the same locker room as a biological male who identifies as female. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened investigations Thursday into the Illinois Department of Education, Chicago Public Schools District 299, and Deerfield Public Schools District 109 over complaints that their gender-identity policies violate Title IX. |
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| Pro-trans UPenn Funding Paused “Promises made, promises kept,” Donald Trump posted on Wednesday after his administration froze $175 million in federal funds for the University of Pennsylvania. The reason for the action was tied to Trump’s executive order banning males from competing in female sports. Trump officials further warned that UPenn is under investigation and is “still at risk of losing all its federal funding” over potential Title IX violations related to its having allowed transgender-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas to compete on its women’s swim team. A White House official explained that UPenn’s action resulted in “overturning multiple records hard-earned by women, and granting the fully intact male access to the locker room.” |
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| New Mexico Teens, 13 and 15,
Charged with Murder in Hit-and-Run of Bicyclist Posted on Social Media Police in New Mexico said a 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder, took an 11-year-old into custody and are searching for a 15-year-old boy in connection with the deadly hit-and-run of a bicyclist that was recorded on video from inside a stolen car and circulated on social media. Albuquerque police said the 13-year-old and 15-year-old have both been charged with an open count of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, leaving the scene of an accident involving great bodily harm or death and unlawful possession of a handgun by a person. |
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| Now We Know Biden's Role
in the FBI's Witch Hunt Against Trump Matt Margolis The FBI's relentless witch hunt against Donald Trump has taken yet another bizarre turn. New revelations show the bureau secretly obtained Trump and Pence's government phones from Biden's White House in May 2022, as part of their “investigation.” “The Biden White House turned over government cellphones belonging to President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence to the FBI in May 2022 as part of a bureau probe into the aftermath of the 2020 election, tying Trump to that investigation without sufficient predication,” Fox News Digital reports. |
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| UN Pushes Awful Green
Deal Policies While Also Spreading Eco Lies Bjorn Lomborg The United Nations is at a crossroads. President Trump pulled out of the World Health Organization, cut funding for the UN’s Climate Convention, and more withdrawals are likely in the pipeline. He calls the UN an “underperformer,” suggesting it is a swamp to be drained. At this critical juncture, one could reasonably assume the UN would justify its existence by sharpening its focus on peace and prosperity through sound, data-based advice. Instead, it is boldly working to suppress open debate on climate change while pushing prosperity-wrecking policies. |
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| Biden’s Autopen Was a Mighty Big
Sword Jeff Crouere On Friday, in his address to the Department of Justice, President Trump said the Biden autopen controversy was “a big deal.” He said, “you don’t use (an) autopen. Number one, it’s disrespectful to the office. Number two, maybe it’s not even valid because, you know, who’s getting him to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing.” Sadly, Biden was oblivious to what was happening around him, but key staffers in his White House were certainly aware of his cognitive decline and they exploited his weakness to enact the most radical leftwing agenda in American history. In the process, crimes were possibly committed in a scandal that makes Watergate look like child’s play. |
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| Trump Announces 'Decisive and Powerful'
Airstrikes Against Houthi Terrorists in Yemen President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to a fiery Truth Social post published on Saturday. In the post, Trump wrote that he had "ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen. They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones," Trump wrote. |
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| Iran
and the MAGA Response Brian Mark Weber When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he inherited a hot mess. To name a few of the fires, runaway inflation, rising consumer prices, widespread crime, and an open southern border all plagued our nation. Amongst the plethora of problems Trump inherited are hotspots around the world where regional conflicts could turn into global war. One of these hotspots is Iran, a country whose desire to become a nuclear power was thwarted for many years, only to have American presidents pave the way for their nuclear ambitions. Instead of putting pressure on Iran’s leaders, Barack Obama and Joe Biden gave them a nuclear deal and ransom money for hostages to boot. |
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| Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics
for Defamation Misled Jury, Judge Says Nick Pope University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann and his attorneys presented misleading information to the jury in his defamation case against critics of his work, according to a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Mann won his defamation suit against conservative writers Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg, both of whom criticized Mann’s signature “hockey stick” climate model as shoddy work, in February 2024 after litigating the issue for more than a decade. However, D.C. Superior Court Judge Alfred S. Irving sanctioned Mann and his attorneys on Wednesday for conduct “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent” during the trial and stated in his filing that Mann knew that he and his team provided the jury with false information about how much grant funding he truly missed out on due to the alleged defamation. |
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| $375
Billion EPA Slush Fund Thomas Gallatin How much of the climate cult is really just about money? “Get the money out as fast as possible before they [the Trump administration] come in. … It’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge,” former EPA advisor Brent Efron was caught saying in an undercover video captured by Project Veritas. That statement, which Efron’s lawyer quickly dismissed as him simply expressing his “personal views,” adding that his client “had nothing to do with" how EPA funding was administered, is nonetheless proving to be accurate. At least $20 billion of what amounts to an EPA slush fund went to a number of suspect nonprofit organizations that appear to have been created simply for the purpose of receiving the funding. |
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| Trump Administration Unveils
Sweeping Environment Rollbacks President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced a wave of environmental rollbacks targeting Biden-era green policies, including carbon limits on power plants, tailpipe emissions standards and protections for waterways. The 31 actions are part of what Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin called "the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history," as he promised to "unleash American energy" and "revitalize the American auto industry." Among the most significant of them is revisiting a 2024 rule that requires coal-fired plants to eliminate nearly all their carbon emissions or commit to shutting down altogether, a cornerstone of former Democratic president Joe Biden's climate agenda. |
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| Jeffries
Says Dems Have the GOP ‘On the Run’ Douglas Andrews  Hostage videos are among the ugliest, most inhumane of things, and we know them when we see them -- the poor video quality; the unidentifiable backdrop; the pale, bloodless face; the fearful, sleepless, deer-in-the-headlights eyes; the enemy flag placed prominently nearby; and the utter lack of conviction in the words being uttered: I’m being treated well. My captors’ cause is just. We have the Republicans on the run. Such was the case with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently, who apparently felt the need to not just stand there but do something. |
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| No Lessons Learned! Dems Exposed Regurgitating Same Script, AGAIN! As reported last week, Democrats seem perfectly willing to scrap the notion of making their own authentic arguments for positions they supposedly believe in, in exchange for scripted rhetoric that can be mindlessly parroted to the masses. “IT HAPPENED AGAIN! The people behind Democrats in Congress sent the script to *every* member and they are now posting THE EXACT SAME THING IN UNISON!” Florida Voice News Assistant Director Eric Daugherty posted on X. |
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| Trump ICE Unleashes on Biden Admin After Arrests Surpass All 2024 Data: 'Cooking the Books' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests since President Donald Trump took office are already outpacing arrests made in all of 2024, the agency said Wednesday – while saying the Biden administration had been "cooking the books" on its numbers. "We have uncovered that the previous administration… was cooking the books on ICE data," acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told reporters. "They were purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests." |
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| Trump Orders the Dismantling of
Government-Funded, 'propaganda' – Peddling Media Outlet President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of news agency Voice of America, the U.S.'s state-funded media outlet that Trump has railed against for promoting biased media reports. "Voice of America has been out of step with America for years. It serves as the Voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now," a senior White House official told Fox News Digital. |
“government funded ‘giant rot’” |
| USAID, State Failed to Monitor NGOs
to Ensure They Weren’t Funding Taliban, IG Says A government inspector general on Wednesday sounded the alarm about problems with the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and underscored how “non-government organizations” receive billions of dollars from the United States in corruption-prone regions with limited accountability. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in a new report that “since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the U.S. government has spent billions of U.S. taxpayer funds on projects intended to provide for Afghans’ basic needs.” |
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| Newsom's Ties to CCP Under
Microscope in New Book Exposing Alleged Corruption: 'Fleeced American Citizens' A new book sounding the alarm about corruption in California spends a chapter focusing on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s history with a nonprofit organization that the authors say served as a major "gateway" for corrupt CCP-aligned corporations to flood into the state. In their book, "Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All," authors Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree write extensively about Newsom’s relationship with the Chinese community in the Bay Area and his ties to CCP businesses. |
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| Tesla,
Musk Derangement, and Civil Terrorism Douglas Andrews Somewhere out there, there’s a meme telling you to go back and find your 2016 self and let him know that Donald Trump just bought a Tesla and that the ecofascist Left is firebombing the dealerships of the world’s most climate-friendly car manufacturer. Strange days, indeed. Donald Trump did just buy a Tesla – very publicly – as a show of support for his friend Elon Musk, the “heretic” whose efforts to root out government fraud, waste, and abuse via the Department of Government Efficiency have earned him the unmitigated enmity of the Left. As Musk told Joe Rogan recently, “At this point, I think I’m at the top of the list for a lot of homicidal maniacs. They’re doing the same thing to me that they did to Trump, which is that they’re making it sound like if you kill me, you’re a hero.” |
Since when are death threats and firebombs considered “protest”? |
| Alleged Transgender Tesla Vandal,
42, Lives with Mom and Calls Himself ‘Baby’ Details about one of the alleged Tesla vandals spoke to the “emotional problems” of the dress-wearing man who referred to himself as “baby.” Aligning with the hyperbolic rhetoric from leftist leaders, activists appeared to heed their marching orders against Elon Musk by targeting Tesla dealerships across the country. Among those who had been arrested was one Lucy Grace Nelson, 42, of Lyons, Colorado, a man who considers himself a woman living in his mother’s home. |
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| Planned Parenthood Kills
18-Year-Old Girl in Botched Abortion Operation Rescue has launched a full investigation into the death of Alexis “Lexi” Arguello, an 18-year-old Colorado girl who died from abortion complications on February 6, after delayed emergency transport from the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood. “Our team has been gathering information on this death for weeks, slowly piecing together exactly what happened,” said Sarah Neely, Chief Operating Officer of Operation Rescue. “On March 12, however, testimony during a hearing with the Colorado Committee of Health and Human Services confirmed everything we have been investigating, including Planned Parenthood’s suspected failings.” |
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| Iowa's Caitlin Clark Snubbed in
Ridiculous Ranking of Best Women's College Basketball Players Ever Caitlin Clark scored more points for Iowa than any other Division I basketball player, whether a man or a woman, has ever scored. That apparently means nothing to ESPN's women's basketball crew, which named the top-five women's college basketball players of all time on Sunday and didn't include Clark. Here's how ESPN ranked the top-five women's college basketball players ever: |
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| Virginia Teen Track Runner Who
Bashed Opponent's Head with Baton Charged with Assault and Battery The Virginia high school track and field athlete who was seen bashing an opponent's head with a baton during a race has been charged with assault and battery, Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Office confirmed to Fox News Digital. I.C. Norcom High School student athlete Alaila Everett was seen smashing her baton on the head of Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker during a championship meet last week. Footage of the incident went viral in the following days, prompting national controversy and backlash against Everett. |
Runner suffered a concussion and possible skull fracture |
| Trans Ideology Could Cost Blue
State Schools $10 Billion Victoria Manning Three Democrat-run states are risking $10 billion in federal funding to continue allowing boys in girls’ bathrooms and sports teams on schoolchildren, and the Trump administration is cracking down. On February 25th, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent warning letters to California, Maine, and Minnesota for defying federal anti-discrimination laws. All three blue states still require girls to compete against boys in sports, a violation of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972. Bondi vows to sue or seek termination of federal funding to states refusing to comply with the law. |
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| Trump Education Department
Investigates 45 Colleges Over ‘Race-Based’ Programs The Department of Education has opened investigations into 45 colleges, including some of the nation's most prestigious institutions, over their alleged refusal to end racial preferences in PhD programming. According to federal education officials, the schools may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with “The PhD Project," an organization that gives doctoral students insight and networking opportunities toward obtaining a Ph.D. but limits eligibility based on race. |
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| Trump Administration Slashes
Millions More in Grants to Columbia The Trump administration on Friday slashed additional grants to Columbia University totaling approximately $30 million, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The administration is in the process of reviewing the totality of Columbia’s $5 billion in federal funding, and the fresh round of cuts comes on the heels of the administration’s decision to cancel $400 million in grants and contracts to the Ivy League school announced earlier this month. At the time, the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism said the initial cuts constituted "the first round of action" and that additional cuts were expected to follow as the review continued. Columbia Activist Who Endorsed Hamas's 'Anticolonial Liberation Movement' Self-Deports After Trump Admin Pulls Visa A Columbia University doctoral student who expressed support for the "anticolonial liberation movement in Palestine" used the Trump administration’s revamped "CBP Home" app to self-deport to Canada about a week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian national and doctoral candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation was "involved in activities supporting Hammas [sic], a terrorist organization," according to the DHS announcement. |
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| Colleges Are in Trouble and
Suddenly Realizing They Have Few Allies John Sexton Columbia University is just the start of a long-brewing backlash. On Monday of this week the Trump administration's Department of Education put 60 schools on notice that they will lose federal funding if they don't do more to crack down on antisemitism on campus. “The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws.” |
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| U.S. District Judge Boasberg Orders
Trump Administration to Halt Deportation of Illegal Aliens and
Narcotrafficking Gang Members It will not come as a surprise to CTH readers to hear the name Judge James Boasberg associated with efforts to protect the institutional interests of a corrupt DC deep state. Boasberg has a long, very long, and well documented history of protecting the DC apparatus. On Saturday, without giving the Trump administration any time to respond, Judge Boasberg issued an immediate temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking DHS, Customs and Border Patrol and ICE from deporting illegal aliens and narcotrafficking gang members belonging to Tren de Aragua (TdA), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. |
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| Could a Bombshell
Discovery Render All of Biden's Presidential Actions 'Null and Void'? Matt Margolis The Biden presidency might have been the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the American people. A shocking investigation by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project has revealed that virtually every document bearing Joe Biden's signature during his presidency was signed by an autopen – except for one. What makes this revelation particularly damning is that the only document confirmed to have Biden's actual signature was his letter announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. Let that sink in for a moment. Remember when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) revealed his discussion with Biden when Biden couldn't recall signing the executive order halting LNG exports? Now we know why – he probably didn't. The real question is: Who did? Who was running the country while Biden was not all there? More on the Autopen |
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| We Can't Afford Timidity
in Revamping Medicaid Sally Pipes Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid. Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed unease about that possibility. But the hand-wringing about Medicaid cuts is misplaced. The program is bloated and rife with fraud and waste, and it has veered significantly from its original intent of caring for the poor and disabled. It's long overdue for paring. |
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| Biden's 'autopen signature' Appears
on Most Official Docs, Raising Concerns Over Who Controlled the WH "WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY" The majority of official documents signed by President Joe Biden allegedly used the same autopen signature, reinvigorating concerns over the former president’s mental acuity and if he "actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents," a report published by an arm of the Heritage Foundation found. "We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year. Here is the autopen signature," the group claimed on X, accompanied by photo examples. |
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| Build, Build, Build – Trump’s
Strategy to Make America a Maritime Nation Once Again James E. Fanell The President’s announcement of the creation of the Office of Shipbuilding is a visible reflection of the existential threat that the PRC’s 30-year naval and maritime modernization program represents to America’s national security. Since the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Crisis, where the U.S. dispatched U.S. Navy aircraft carriers to the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese Communist Party has been executing a maritime modernization program that has transformed the PLA Navy from a coastal defense force into the largest navy on the planet. |
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 Scandals, the Bubblegum Pink Resistance,and Lawfare Clarice Feldman The unveiling of the USAID’s scandalous misappropriation of money continues. This week, MSNBC tried to toss a lifesaver to Stacey Abrams, asking her to explain the $2 billion allotted to her pop-up nonprofit by the EPA when she lacked all experience for managing so much money. Didn’t work. In fact, her own words underscore that this was a Democrat party grift.... More on lawfaring. Perhaps the secret behind the flurry of lawsuits against the Administration for working to remove resistance fighters in the government and reduce waste and fraud is that there is in place an agreement, previously secret, among 14 blue states, left-wing groups, and NYC law firms to “conduct coordinated lawfare against DOGE and Elon Musk.” |
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| More Evidence – From Space! – That
Joe Biden Was a Tiny, Petty, Vindictive Prez Stephen Green I've written before that Presidentish Joe Biden is "easily the worst human being to hold the office of president of the United States of America," but would you believe he might also be the smallest, pettiest, and most vindictive? Of course, you would. Here's the headline: NASA's stranded astronauts finally snap as they appear to let slip who's to blame for leaving them there. I watched the video and nobody "snapped" or let anything "slip." Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were asked a direct question and Butch gave an honest and thoughtful answer. |
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| Climate Doomsday Predictions That
Flopped Spectacularly Andrew Stiles It’s been almost six years since the delinquent child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist’s warning that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels” by 2023. The scientist in question, Harvard University professor James Anderson, also predicted “there will be no floating ice remaining” in the Arctic Ocean by 2022 absent a “Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years.” That didn’t happen, but climate activists are still warning that the Arctic could be ice-free at some point between 2035 and 2067. |
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| Lawmakers Reveal Several House
Members' Mental Faculties So Diminished They Can't Do Their Jobs Nick Arama One of the worst things of the four years in which Joe Biden occupied the White House was that Democrats covered up and didn't care about his cognitive condition – until it was a threat to their control. The problem wasn't just Biden... Part of the problem is that people need to step aside at a certain point, but for many members of Congress, it's become a lifetime job that they don't want to let go. That's why you get people like 84-year-old Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and 86-year-old Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). |
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| Meet Sandra Whitehouse, Whose
Husband's Votes Funneled Millions Into NGO That Pays Her Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has emerged into the spotlight amid a new ethics complaint due to his voting in favor of laws that ultimately funded millions in grants to a nonprofit climate group that pays his wife's consulting firm. But who is his wife, Sandra Whitehouse? ... According to tax documents, Ocean Conservancy has paid Whitehouse a total of $2,686,800 either directly or through her firm since 2010. This was cited in last month's complaint to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., from ethics watchdog the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT). |
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| Trump Could Sell Off Around 450
Gov’t Buildings, Including FBI Headquarters The headquarters of agencies like the FBI could be on the chopping block after a list proposing the sale of nearly 450 federal buildings to slash government waste was compiled. As the Department of Government Efficiency’s savings climbed toward hundreds of billions of dollars, leaving an increasing number of swamp creatures crying, wasteful programs and bloated workforces weren’t the only targets to trim spending. Having already canceled leases on scores of vacant or underutilized buildings, the General Services Administration (GSA) cleared the way for an estimated $430 million in annual savings with a list of “non-core assets” around the country. |
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| Colorado Bill Looks to Expand SNAP
to Allow Restaurant Food Purchases Colorado lawmakers have proposed bipartisan legislation to expand food assistance benefits to allow recipients to use them to buy meals from restaurants. As of June 2024, nine other states have already adopted this program. The program would allow eligible Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to purchase hot or prepared foods at participating restaurants. SNAP is a federal program that provides food benefits to low-income families. |
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| The Sneaky Way DC Got Its Awful
Reparations Bill Past Republicans in Congress Tyler O'Neil Washington, D.C., is not a state, and Congress has the authority to block its laws, but the district pulled a fast one on the Republican majority in Congress to get its “reparations” bill past its oversight. The Reparations Foundation Fund and Task Force Establishment Act of 2023, which passed Washington’s City Council in January, was listed as the “Insurance Database Amendment Act of 2024” when it appeared before Congress. |
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| All HHS Workers Given $25,000
Voluntary Buyout Offer A source familiar with the situation told CBS News that all employees in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were notified Friday of the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for a $25,000 payment. The department-wide email offered a “voluntary separation incentive payment,” the source said. Employees have until March 14 to reply. Friday’s offer is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the size of federal workforce and shrink the government’s budget through mass layoffs and financial cuts. |
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| DOGE Slashes One Federal Agency
Down to a Single Person During President Donald Trump’s address Tuesday, Democratic Party lawmakers seethed as the GOP leader highlighted examples of the billions of dollars of waste that had thus far been exposed by DOGE. Earlier in the day, the organization had served up another reason for grifters to gnash their teeth as the Inter-American Foundation’s workforce, averaging six-figure salaries, was reduced to one State Department official, Peter Marocco. Detailed in a post on X from DOGE, “The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue foreign grants ($60M budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee).” |
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| The EPA Demands an Accounting of
the $20 Billion Climate Fund On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency sent letters of inquiry to the eight nonprofit recipients chosen by the Biden administration to receive grants from the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in April 2024. The letter asks, among other things, what exactly the nonprofits plan to do with the money. The letters were sent on the same day that a Free Press investigation revealed that the $20 billion was shoveled into around 129 Citibank accounts in the interregnum between President Trump’s election and his inauguration. Currently, $16.9 billion remains in those accounts, which have been frozen by Citibank. The Free Press investigation also uncovered connections between the nonprofit CEOs and executives and the Biden and Obama administrations. |
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| Wrong, PBS, Real-World Data Doesn’t Show That a Climate Crisis Is Happening Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) recently published article by Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press (AP), titled “Scientists say EPA just needs to look around the world to see the growing dangers of climate change,” which says that proof of catastrophic climate change is found in obvious “growing dangers” evident for all to see. This is false. Borenstein’s story, which PBS didn’t bother to verify or even question, paints a false picture of an impending climate catastrophe, citing everything from worsening wildfires to supposed ocean acidification, all while conveniently ignoring the very real benefits of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. |
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| The Resistance to Climate Alarmism
Grows I & I Editorial Board The end is near. That’s what we’ve been told since the beginning. The doomsdayers have cited a variety of cataclysms that will do us in, from asteroids to resource exhaustion to a dying sun. But they all have one thing in common: So far, they’ve all been wrong. Same with the climate alarmists. And the public is catching on. A study, published by the Stanford University School of Sustainability, no less, found that “resistance to climate action has become a global movement that strengthens after governments implement climate-related policies.” “We found that counter climate change organizations tend to emerge after pro-environmental policies are institutionalized in government,” said the study’s senior author. |
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| MSNBC Is a ‘Money-Losing Operation’ Victor Davis Hanson I’d like to talk about some hypocrisy that’s been in the news lately. And it tends to be mostly on the Left and mostly by very elite people that we wouldn’t expect because we were told, of course, they were populists and men and women of the people. Let’s take Rachel Maddow. She’s on MSNBC. Her audience has declined drastically. She typically works one day out of five, per week. I think, after the election, she was coming in a little bit more often and that’s going to terminate and she’ll go back to her one day. She took a pay cut from $30 million to $25 million. |
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| DHS Ends Collective Bargaining for
the TSA Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Transportation Security Officers, which has constrained TSA’s chief mission: to safeguard our transportation systems and keep Americans safe. Eliminating collective bargaining removes bureaucratic hurdles that will strengthen workforce agility enhance productivity and resiliency, while also jumpstarting innovation... Gaps in benefit programs, including non-verifiable Family and Medical Leave, are being exploited by a select few poor performers, placing greater burden on TSOs at the expense of American travelers and taxpayers. |
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| Whistleblower: Armed Congressional
Staffer Was at Capitol on Day of Trump’s Address Former Capitol Police officer Tarik Johnson said Saturday that a congressional staffer with a gun gained entry into one of the House office buildings that leads to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday – the same day as President Donald Trump’s congressional address. According to Johnson, the staffer was arrested. “This is the fourth instance of a gun being brought in a building policed by USCP Chief J Thomas Manger since Trump was elected President,” Johnson said. “What is frightening to me is that both dates that President Trump attended events at the Capitol it was on a date where a gun made it in one of the buildings and I’m told one of the guns made it in a room where President Trump was actually in and only feet away from him.” |
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| Trump Announced Taiwan Chip Giant
Plans New Investments of $100B in Arizona for Chip Manufacturing On Top of Planned $65B Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to invest $100 billion in the United States, President Donald Trump announced Monday as he appeared with the company's head at the White House. TSMC, the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer, produces chips for companies including Apple, Intel and Nvidia. The company had already announced plans to invest more than $65 billion in the U.S., including three plants in Arizona after the Biden administration offered billions in subsidies. Its first factory in Arizona has started mass production of its 4-nanometer chips. |
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| A Major Karen Bass Narrative Might
Have Just Imploded Matt Vespa Something is going on with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. She’s deleting her text messages. The Los Angeles Times reported that the besieged mayor had deleted her texts. It gets worse: the purported messages she was sending to officials on the ground when the wildfires engulfed the county were never saved. Bass was partying in Ghana during its presidential inauguration when the wildfires erupted, despite a promise never to leave the country during her tenure as mayor. |
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| Trump Slashes ALL South Africa Aid,
Cites Anti-White Government Policy Ben Bartee The communists who’ve run South Africa into the dirt since the end of apartheid – increasingly brazen in their genocidal anti-white rhetoric and deeds – may have not expected any real pushback on their illiberal racism. And why wouldn’t they expect immunity? They had gotten away with it for decades under all previous U.S. presidents, even while they touted the “international rules-based order” that is neoliberalism. But we’re in the Golden Age now. |
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| Palestinian Authority Pays February
Terror Salaries As Usual The Palestinian Authority on Thursday morning paid out February stipends from its “pay-for-slay” fund that rewards terrorists and their families for their attacks, the Palestinian Media Watch NGO reported, citing an official announcement by the P.A.’s postal bank. “Palestine Post announces the beginning of payment of the monetary allowances tomorrow morning, Thursday, March 6, 2025, at the main post offices and through the ATMs,” Ramallah’s announcement read. |
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| Trump Administration Cancels $400
Million in Grants to Columbia The Trump administration is cutting off $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University, claiming it has failed to take steps to confront antisemitism on campus after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the Free Press has learned. The cuts represent the federal government’s first round of grant cancellations for Columbia, according to the administration’s newly formed antisemitism task force, which is leading the effort. Columbia has over $5 billion in active federal grants that are being reviewed by the government. Leo Terrell, the head of the DOJ’s antisemitism task force, said the funding cuts are “only the beginning.” |
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| UN 'Human Rights Committee' Censors
American for Mentioning Hamas Atrocities Justine Brooke Murray Anyone who believes the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is actually a council for human rights at this point, let alone thinks the UN is legitimate organization, has been woefully fooled. The council hosted a one-sided “Interactive Dialogue,” addressing a report published by their High Commissioner that calls Israel “Occupied Palestinian Territory” and claims their defensive war against Hamas is a human rights violation. It only took seconds for the “dialogue” to devolve into a verbal struggle session that only allowed terrorist sympathizers and Jew-haters representing the U.N. to have the floor. |
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| Chuck Todd Blasts Biden over the
‘Mythology’ He Is a Family Man Former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd ripped into former President Joe Biden on a recent episode of Steve Schmidt podcast “The Warning.” “You know that Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place,” Todd told Schmidt with regard to his presidency. Todd proceeded to recall when he read the transcript of Hunter Biden’s trial and was appalled with the former president. |
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| Two Illegal Aliens Murdered a Good
Samaritan in Sanctuary City Los Angeles Deportations are going strong and the border invasion seems to have slowed to a trickle ever since President Donald Trump was inaugurated, but the nation’s problems with illegal aliens are still ongoing. This is most apparent in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles where a hideous crime was caught on camera. Two men suspected of murdering a good Samaritan who attempted to stop them from stealing a catalytic converter in Los Angeles were in the United States illegally, according to authorities. |
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| Trump Encourages Farmers to Grow
More Food for U.S. Consumers As April 2 Tariffs Loom On Monday, President Donald Trump pushed for U.S.-based farmers to start growing more products for those in the country, citing his tariffs that are slated to go into effect on April 2. Trump posted on Truth Social, "To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!" |
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| Morning Coffee Is Best for Health Dr. Mehmet Oz, M.D. and Dr. Mike Roizen, M.D.  More than half of Americans agree with the statement, "Coffee is pure pleasure to me." So it’s no wonder one-third of people drink an estimated three to five cups a day. While they love it as a pick-me-up, a source of warmth, and a morning ritual, they may not know what it’s doing when it gets inside them. |
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| Huge Study Says Transgender Surgery
Doubles Depression Rates Transgender surgery raises the rates of depression, suicidal impulses, anxiety, and drug addiction, a huge new study says. Yet the study’s authors concluded that governments should just spend more on the “mental health” of patients to offset the damage of transgender therapies. The study is another blow for transgender activists and friendly judges who insist that transgender medical treatments be funded by taxpayers because the treatments are supposedly life-saving forms of self-expression. That argument is fundamental in the activists’ fight against current efforts by the federal government and state governments to protect children and youths from transgender advocacy. |
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| Sanctuary Schools Must End David Harris What do a windswept town on the plains of North Dakota and a sandy beach hamlet in Florida have in common? Aside from the fact they’re both in the U.S., they only require students to show proof of identification, residency, and an up-to-date vaccine card to enter their schools. With the exception of some states that allow for vaccination waivers, this policy has led to an unprecedented number of illegal migrant children gaining admittance to public schools across the country. Though statistics on these demographic movements have been difficult to find, what is available suggests that the number of children of illegal immigrants attending publicly funded schools is staggering. |
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| A Simple Tax-Code Change Would
Protect Academic Freedom Michael Lachanski, Jonah Davids Every year, donors give billions of dollars to American colleges and universities. Some give for social or sentimental reasons, but most do so because they want to aid exceptional students, faculty, and research. Yet, far too often, these donations disappear into administrative costs and ideological projects that do little to advance real scholarship. At the same time, scholars who challenge the consensus within their fields, or simply hold opinions unpopular with their colleagues, frequently find themselves without support from their department or institution. It doesn’t have to be this way. |
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| Elon Musk Has ‘Cracked
the Code’ on Government Secrecy Matt Margolis “The problem is, for decades, as we know, we haven’t been able to do that job well, because even though we requested the data and requested the insight, it was hidden,” Johnson explained. “How many of you know that bureaucracy was not forthcoming? Right? They’re not transparent. That’s the whole point. That’s the problem. That’s the Deep State we talk about.” “So they were hiding from Congress. We didn’t know that USAID was funding drag shows in Peru or whatever, you know, transgender operas in Colombia or whatever. You know, it’s madness. But Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies,” Johnson continued. “He’s created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data. And as he told me in his office, the data doesn’t lie.” |
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| The Fight to Fix Higher
Ed Is Just Beginning – Here's the Hard Road Forward Post Editorial Board In the first flush of wins like the Supreme Court ruling against racial preferences in college admissions and the Trump administration’s moves to stop men from competing in women’s college sports, it’s tempting to assume that total victory over wokeness in the academy will come just as swiftly. But a new Manhattan Institute report brings the necessary reminder that the fight will take far longer – witness the fact that at Barnard the administration is still encouraging pro-Hamas thuggery – but can be won. |
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| Trump Signs Executive Order Making English Official Language of U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order making English the official language of the U.S. The order revokes an executive order issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000, "Improving Access Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency," that required federal agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers. However, Trump's order notes it does not "require or direct" any change in services provided by any agency... The U.S. is one of just a few countries without an official language. About 180 of the 195 countries across the globe have made the distinction. |
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| Elon Musk Exposes Soros ‘grift’ to Secure Billions in Federal Funding for NGOs Elon Musk’s latest appearance with Joe Rogan didn’t pull punches on GEORGE SOROS, dark money and the “alternate reality” of corporate media. Surprising no one, the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency to expose waste, fraud and abuse had garnered intense, coordinated pushback from the establishment which included politicians, pundits and union allies. “GEORGE SOROS is like a system hacker…He is a genius at arbitrage,” Musk said at one point of the Open Society Foundations founder. “He figured out that you could leverage a small amount of money to create a nonprofit, then lobby the politicians to send a ton of money to that nonprofit so you can take what might be a $10 million donation…and leverage it into a $1 billion NGO.” |
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| Soros-Backed NGO Filling GOP
Townhalls with Fake Republicans A new report revealed that protesters posing as constituents are targeting Republican town halls in a coordinated effort against the Trump administration and DOGE. “Pushing fake outrage will backfire on them,” posted Elon Musk, who is the left’s current top enemy as he heads up President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Musk was reacting to a post noting: “The fake outrage at DOGE at GOP townhalls is being coordinated by a Soros-backed NGO called Indivisible.” |
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| Dems Fight Bill to Stem Fentanyl
Flow Over Border, Grieving Parents Want to Know Why Democrat lawmakers are under fire for opposing a bipartisan bill that aims to stem the flow of fentanyl smuggled by drug traffickers. The HALT Fentanyl Act, aimed at permanently classifying fentanyl analogs under Schedule I, faces resistance from a drug policy nonprofit supported by GEORGE SOROS, which argues that the legislation would worsen mass incarceration and hinder research into these opioids. Democrats like New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker have echoed these concerns while attempting to delay the bill’s progress through amendments and procedural tactics, Fox News reported. |
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| Mexico Sends 29 Major Drug Capos to
U.S. As Trump Tariff Threat Looms Mexico on Thursday handed over major figures in the country's criminal underworld to U.S. authorities, part of a surprise extradition of nearly 30 jailed convicts or others accused of ties to violent drug cartels. Some are aging gang leaders who reigned over international trafficking rings decades ago focused on cocaine and heroin. Others are much younger leaders engaged in moving large quantities of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. more recently. |
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| State Department Completes Foreign
Funding Review, Identifying 15,000 Grants Worth $60 Billion for Elimination President Donald Trump's State Department completed its review of U.S. foreign aid, identifying nearly 15,000 grants worth $60 billion for elimination, an internal memo reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon shows. The review pertained to foreign aid that flowed from both the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Within the State Department, auditors reviewed more than 9,100 grants worth an estimated $15.9 billion. It identified 4,100 of those grants worth $4.4 billion for elimination. |
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| Former USAID Exec Says Over 95% of
Staff Are Dems, Over 95% of Funding Went to Far Left NGOs Former COO of USAID Max Primorac had a shocking admission about USAID’s staff and funding recipients. President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have received a lot of grief from the left over its treatment of USAID, and after hearing what Primorac had to say, it’s no surprise Democrats are acting this way. It turns out, the vast majority of the money being disbursed by USAID was going to the left and left-leaning organizations. |
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| DOGE Reveals Most Savings at Dept. of Education with Nearly $1B Cut The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is claiming to have saved the most money at the U.S. Department of Education out of any federal agency through cuts in wasteful spending. Earlier this week, DOGE launched an ”Agency Efficiency Leaderboard” that ranks government agencies based on how much wasteful funding has been cut. The Department of Education is currently ranked in first place. |
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| Researchers Discover Sen. Ruben
Gallego Benefited from ‘Smurfing’ Contributions Some election integrity researchers are expanding their investigation of politicians who benefited from questionable “Smurfing” campaign contributions and discovered that Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) received many of them. Smurfing refers to using straw donors to make campaign contributions; usually, elderly and unemployed people are unaware their identities are being used for money laundering. Many contributions are made under one name, sometimes thousands of them, and they are usually small amounts, often around $10 each, to escape detection. Peter Bernegger, one of the key researchers who discovered the Smurfing phenomenon, posted on X on Tuesday, “Arizona @SenRubenGallego caught Smurfing, i.e. criminally laundering money into his campaign! Note that this is just the tip of the iceberg. |
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| DOGE Says Texas Nonprofit with
Former Biden Transition Member Reaped Millions Operating Empty Facility The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract with a nonprofit that was paid millions each month to operate a Texas overflow facility that sat empty, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a social media post, DOGE said a former U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021, where they helped the organization secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities. "As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023, the post states. |
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| Gabbard: Biden Regime Ignored
‘Highly Inappropriate’ Perv Chats for Years; DEI Possible Reason Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard confirmed Wednesday that Biden administration officials had been fully aware of all the filthy, explicit chats happening on the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) chat server. “I’ve had whistleblowers come forward just in the last few days who work in the NSA and who said, ‘Hey, we saw this, and we reported it through official channels under the Biden administration,’ and essentially they were told this is no issue, step aside,” she told Fox News. |
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| Israel to Resume War in Gaza and
‘Eradicate Hamas,’ Cutting Off Aid and Bombarding Strip with Troops Israeli decision-makers plan to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks with overwhelming force, sending in tens of thousands of troops to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas. Incoming military chief of staff Eyal Zamir has, at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz, started developing the plan, according to several current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of high-level discussions. Under the plan, Israel will deploy more troops to Gaza than it has to this point in the war – over 50,000 – before relocating the civilian population to humanitarian zones and waging a ruthless ground campaign against Palestinian terrorists across the rest of the strip. |
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| Pro-Israel Influencer Says Bibas
Memorial in NYC 'brought out the worst' in Antisemites Pro-Israel influencer Zach Sage Fox has gone undercover in the West Bank, where he interviewed a freed terrorist, yet he says he saw "some of the worst antisemitism" while filming in Times Square. In the middle of New York City’s famous Times Square, Fox set up a memorial site for Ariel and Kfir Bibas with pictures of the two boys, orange balloons, orange flowers and a crib spray-painted orange. Orange has been used often to represent the Bibas children, both of whom were redheads. |
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| Dem Bid to End Trump Energy
Emergency Squashed After Forced Senate Vote Democrats in the Senate failed to pass a resolution that would have reversed President Donald Trump’s executive order on "Unleashing American Energy" in a 53-47 party-line vote. The White House argued that scrapping the emergency would endanger nearly 900,000 jobs and have a negative $3.6 trillion impact. The order encourages domestic energy production on federal lands and nixed a Biden-era push to strive for more electric vehicles on the road. |
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| Trump's Health Care Cost
Transparency Order: What to Know Gabe Whisnant, Katherine Fung President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday mandating price transparency in some health care costs, calling it "one of the biggest things that can happen to reducing costs in health care." The order directs three federal agencies, the Treasury, the Labor Department and the Health and Human Services Department, to enforce the regulations he rolled out in his first term. The order mandates hospitals to publicly post online prices for some of their most common services, including MRI scans and C-section deliveries. Trump has long pushed for greater transparency to prevent patients from being blindsided by unexpected medical bills. |
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| Ethics Watchdog Flags Outspoken Dem
Senator for Helping Wife Rake in Millions for Nonprofit Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is being accused of violating ethics rules after backing laws that financially benefited his wife's environmental organization. The Democratic senator and climate hawk voted for key laws that provided funding for grants to the environmental non-profit group that works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and pays her through a consulting firm. |
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| Uncle
Sugar’s Checkbook Is Closed, But They’re Too Poor to Take His Place |
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| Dem Rep Ripped After Telling Musk
to F--- Off in Viral Clip: 'Classy As Ever' Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett caused a social media firestorm after telling Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk to "f--- off" in the latest example of her public opposition to the newly formed agency’s push to cut government waste and spending. "F--- off," Crockett told reporter Joe Gallina outside Capitol Hill on Tuesday when asked what she would tell Elon Musk if she could tell him anything. Crockett’s reaction immediately drew blowback from conservatives on social media, who took issue with the liberal firebrand’s tone. |
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| The Fall of the USS Gettysburg Kevin Eyer  At around 0300, on Sunday, 22 December, the Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) shot down an F/A-18F preparing to land on USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75) while operating in the Red Sea. The Carrier Strike Group to which each of these units was assigned was an element of the U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian, assigned to protect Red Sea merchant traffic from Yemen-based Houthi attacks. |
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| Trump Says He's Terminating
Chevron's Venezuela Oil Agreement Trump detailed the decision in a lengthy post on Truth Social, stating that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had not upheld his end of the bargain. "We are hereby reversing the concessions that Crooked Joe Biden gave to Nicolás Maduro, of Venezuela, on the oil transaction agreement, dated November 26, 2022, and also having to do with Electoral conditions within Venezuela, which have not been met by the Maduro regime," Trump wrote. "Additionally, the regime has not been transporting the violent criminals that they sent into our Country (the Good Ole’ U.S.A.) back to Venezuela at the rapid pace that they had agreed to," he added. |
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| Lebanon Seizes $2.5M Destined for
Hezbollah After Stopping Man at Airport in 'unprecedented' Bust A man allegedly carrying $2.5 million in cash destined for the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah reportedly was detained Friday at Beirut’s airport in a bust that an expert told Fox News Digital is "unprecedented." "The detainee and the seized funds will be handed over to the investigation division at the General Directorate of General Security," Lebanon's finance ministry said in a statement obtained by Reuters, which cited sources saying that the man had been traveling from Turkey. "We are seeing indications that the terrorist Hezbollah group funded by the Islamic Republic is still committed to rearming and rebuilding its decimated infrastructure." |
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| Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit
Triggers Ice Ages, and There's One in the Next 11,000 Years Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today. What triggers these periods of glaciation, or ice ages, is difficult to pin down, though for some time researchers have strongly suspected quirks of Earth's orbit around the Sun are involved. New research has demonstrated the precise relationship between past ice ages and each wobble, tilt, and angle of the planet's path, unlocking a new tool for predicting the future fluctuations of our global climate. |
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| More Video Unearthed of Jake Tapper
Covering up Biden’s Decline John Nolte More video has been uncovered of CNN’s Jake Tapper actively engaging in the conspiracy to cover up Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline. The backlash against CNN’s Jake Tapper and the bubbled arrogance that led him to write a book about the cover-up of Joe Biden’s obvious unfitness to be president has been both fierce and glorious. |
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| Tennessee Bill Blocks Doctors from
Asking About Guns A new bill introduced in the Tennessee Legislature will prohibit healthcare providers, if passed, from asking patients whether they own or possess firearms or related items. Not only would HB 0387 defend Tennesseans from being asked an annoying and irrelevant question, but the law would come with some teeth, by way of a $1,000 fine and more if they do choose to pry. Representative Ed Butler introduced the bill and has previously sponsored measures dealing with education, taxes, and infectious disease. HB 0387 prohibits any inquiry into a patient’s ownership, possession of, or access to firearms, ammunition, or accessories, including the denial of treatment based on knowledge of the aforementioned circumstances. |
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| Understanding the Human Trafficking
Crisis: Trump’s Policy Response In 2022, the National Human Trafficking Hotline documented over 10,000 cases, yet this figure represents merely the tip of the iceberg, as fear and coercion silence countless others. Traffickers reap massive profits from this $150 billion criminal industry, underscoring the urgent need for stronger prevention, prosecution, and survivor support. Awareness and action are critical to dismantling this pervasive threat. |
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| More Trans Terror? Texas Police Thwart 'Mass Casualty' Plot An apparent "transgender"-identifying homeless man allegedly plotted to carry out a "mass casualty" attack on police in Texas, targeting white officers specifically, similar to the 2016 shooting that a black extremist perpetrated against Dallas police. According to a Corpus Christi Police Department (CCPD) press release, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s local field office was tipped off about 21-year-old Seth Gregori a.k.a. "Andrea" Lozano making terroristic threats against CCPD personnel, white officers in particular. |
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| Martina Navratilova Takes Shot at
Gavin Newsom Over California's Trans-Athlete Policy Tennis legend Martina Navratilova criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s policies regarding transgender participation in girls' sports as another issue appeared to arise. A triple-jump record was broken in California girls high school track and field last weekend, sparking the latest debate about trans-inclusion in girls' sports. The issue came as California bucked President Donald Trump’s executive order keeping biological males out of girls’ and women’s sports. Navratilova, who has championed fairness in women’s sports, took a shot at Newsom on X. |
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| Girl, 15, Who Refused to Compete
with Biological Boy Target of ‘Bullying’ Probe The radically left-wing state of Washington is reportedly investigating a 15-year-old teen girl who refused to compete against a biological boy. The story began on Feb. 6th, when Tumwater High School (TSD) basketball player Frances Staudt refused to play because the opposing team featured a so-called “transgender” player named Andi Rooks. According to a legal complaint against the school filed on Staudt’s behalf by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR), when she realized that a boy was playing on the other team, she raised concerns with principal Zach Suderman and athletic director Jordan Magrath. |
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| The NCAA’s Transgender Policy Has a
Massive Loophole Colin Wright Shortly after President Trump signed his executive order banning males from competing in female sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association president Charlie Baker announced that he and the NCAA Board of Governors would convene to align their policy with the directive. On February 6, the NCAA released an updated “Participation Policy for Transgender Student-Athletes,” which Baker described as a new “national standard” that “brings much needed clarity as we modernize college sports for today's student-athletes.” While the new policy might seem reasonable at a glance, a closer look reveals a giant loophole that could be used to defy the clear intent of Trump’s executive order. In fact, the updated protocols could make it easier for males to compete in women’s sports. |
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| Women Athletes Don't Compete vs.
Transgender in Team USA Track Event, Giving Default Victory to Trans Athlete Transgender track and field athlete Sadie Schreiner took first place at the USA Track and Field (USATF) Open Masters Championships in the women's 400-meter dash in New York Saturday. The other participants in the event, Anna Vidolova and Amaris Hiatt, have no recorded times and are listed as DNS, did not start. Schreiner is 21 years old, while Vidolova is just 17, and Hiatt is 16. |
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| AG Bondi Dismisses DEI Lawsuits
Brought Against Police, Fire Departments Under Biden Administration The Department of Justice has dismissed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) lawsuits brought against various police and fire departments across the country under the Biden administration, which deemed aptitude tests in certain cases as discriminatory. The lawsuits, which the DOJ said did not show evidence of intentional discrimination, were filed in efforts to require race-based hiring after statistical disparities between applicants of different races and genders. |
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| U.S. Launches 'End DEI' Portal for Public Complaints About Diversity in Schools The administration of Republican President Donald Trump has attempted to dismantle DEI initiatives since taking office on Jan. 20. Trump has issued executive orders targeting DEI in the federal government and private sector. Earlier this month, the Trump administration warned of cuts in federal funding for academic institutions and universities if they continued with DEI programs. A two-week deadline for educational institutions to end DEI practices outlined in that February 14 letter nears its end. A teachers union sued the Trump administration over that letter. |
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| Ex-Vikings Player Calls Tim Walz
'Disgusting, Disgrace to Football' for Letting Trans Athletes in Girls
Sports Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer will be joining conservative activist Riley Gaines for a rally in his home state Monday to lobby for a bill to ban transgender athletes in women's sports. The "Preserving Girls' Sports Act" passed in the state's House Education Policy Committee Feb. 20 and will be voted on in the House of Representatives Monday. If it passes there, it will go to Gov. Tim Walz's desk, where it is expected to get vetoed because Walz is a strong advocate for transgender rights. |
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| How DOGE Could Take Down the Department of Education Christopher F. Rufo Since January 20, the president’s cabinet has pursued decisive action on virtually every political front. But the most high-risk, high-potential initiative has been Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Established in the shell of former President Obama’s U.S. Digital Service, DOGE was charged with eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in an effort to remake the federal government. For anyone else, such an initiative would have seemed quixotic. But for Musk, who has revolutionized multiple industries and thrives in high-conflict management scenarios, a cautious hope seemed appropriate. |
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| The Insanity In
Washington I & I Editorial Board We’ve noted before that Democrats and progressives are, with some exceptions, of course, mentally imbalanced. What we’ve seen in the first month of the Trump administration, though, is appalling. The political left in this country needs an intervention before it goes completely mad. We say this because: |
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| Trump Admin to Slash 1,600 USAID
Positions Just Before Midnight The Trump administration is eliminating over a thousand positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while also placing the majority of the remaining staff members on administration leave globally, just before midnight Sunday. The Associated Press reported that it learned from the Trump administration that 1,600 posts would be eliminated after reviewing notices that were sent to USAID workers. |
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| Hamas Linked to UNRWA, Aid Went
Straight to Leaders, Recordings Reveal Jerusalem Post Staff The humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip at the beginning of 2024 reached Hamas leaders instead of Gaza citizens, according to recordings of communications between Hamas operatives revealed by Channel 12 on Sunday. Israel presented the recordings to the U.S., Channel 12 claimed; however, the Biden administration was adamant that 250 trucks of aid enter Gaza on a daily basis. The recordings further revealed the close connection between Hamas and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). |
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| Hamas Holds Deranged Rally to
Celebrate Handover of Bibas Family Bodies Although Hamas claimed that the four bodies released to Israel on Thursday included Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, an Israeli forensics team announced late Thursday evening that the body believed to be Shiri’s was not, in fact, Shiri Bibas. Specialists at Abu Kabir Forensic Institute determined that Ariel and Kfir were “brutally murdered by terrorists” in November 2023 and that “the additional body received” was not Shiri’s. The specialist confirmed the identities of Ariel, Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz, a retired journalist. |
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| Congress Unmasks Perils of 'Beijing
Biden' Era: China's Expanding Mass Espionage Efforts The revelations made two years ago that Joe Biden’s family sought to cash in on communist China with millions in payments immediately raised concerns about what Beijing got in return. Now, new evidence unearthed by the U.S. House suggests America’s main adversary may have succeeded in launching a mass espionage blitz on the last administration’s watch. The House Homeland Security Committee last week painted the contours of China’s surveillance surge, documenting more than 60 espionage operations in 20 states during the Biden administration that unmasked the breadth of Beijing’s efforts to steal America’s intellectual property and the tools of its military might. |
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| Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Make
Plans for Major Budget Cuts to Align with Trump DOGE Priorities Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the agency to develop plans to slash 8% from the Department of Defense budget in each of the next five years to align with President Donald Trump's priorities, specifically to achieve peace through strength, officials said. Hegseth is asking for plans in an effort to identify offsets from the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget that could be realigned from low-impact and low-priority Biden-legacy programs, a statement from Pentagon spokesman Robert Salesses said. Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be drawn up by Monday, according to a memo. |
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| New FBI Director Kash Patel Will
Also Be Named Acting Head of the ATF New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday. Patel could be sworn in next week, the official said, putting Patel in charge of two of the Justice Department's largest agencies in an unusual arrangement that raises questions about the future of the bureau that has long drawn the ire of conservatives. |
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| HHS Splurged More Than $22B on
Grants for Migrants – Including Cash for Cars, Home Loans and Startups The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ramped up grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024 — which included cash assistance to buy cars, homes and even build credit for startup businesses, according to a shocking watchdog report that found taxpayers were left on the hook for $22.6 billion. HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) – which came under fire last year for having lost track of 32,000 migrant kids in the U.S. – handed out the high sum to a host of nonprofits, effectively acting as a “giant magnet” for those crossing the U.S. border and claiming asylum, auditors from the money monitor OpenTheBooks revealed exclusively to The Post. |
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| Biden’s Zombie DOJ is Still
Undermining Anti-Trust Law Thaddeus G. McCotter During Attorney General Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearings, pearl-clutching Democrat Senators ascribed the sins of the departed Biden administration onto the entering Trump administration: specifically, the weaponization of the Department of Justice against one’s political opponents. Blissfully inured to their mendacity and hypocrisy, these Democrat Senators were urging that the Golden Rule not be applied by AG Bondi. For over the past four years and more, these same august partisans were gleefully cheering ex-AG Merrick Garland as he stomped his left boot on the once sacrosanct scales of impartial justice to persecute their party’s opponents. |
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| Did a Senate Democrat Just Call for
an Insurrection? Matt Margolis Do you remember when Democrats accused former President Trump of incitement for telling his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” march to the Capitol to make their voices heard? Well, fast forward to today, and we have a sitting senator engaging in rhetoric that does far more than make a call for peaceful assembly. Earlier this week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) advocated for “revolution” while standing outside in snow-covered Boston, a site steeped in revolutionary history. “Massachusetts is where revolutions are born,” Markey began. “And the revolution against Donald Trump and Elon Musk starts here.” |
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| Let's Go Privateering! An Old Idea Gets New Enthusiasm. Glenn Harlan Reynolds  Time
to go a’privateering? We’ve heard a bit about letters of marque and
reprisal recently. Sen. Mike Lee has proposed bringing back letters of
marque in a thread on X, suggesting them as a tool for going after
Mexican drug cartels. Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, the private
security company (it’s rude to call them “mercenaries”) has also
weighed in in favor of this approach. This isn’t a new idea, really.
Letters of marque and reprisal date back centuries; and even in this
century there have been proposals to use them again, particularly after
9/11 when they were proposed, particularly by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) as a
way of going after terrorists. |
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| Kathie Lee Gifford Says Trump Saved
Her from 'Psychopathic Murderer' After She Received Death Threat During a recent interview on "The Sage Steele Show," the 71-year-old TV personality became emotional as she recalled the incident 31 years ago. Gifford said she and her baby daughter Cassidy were on their way to Atlantic City, where Gifford was to host the "Miss America" pageant, when her late husband, Frank Gifford, was notified she had received a death threat. "The FBI called my husband, and they said, 'Mr. Gifford, we have a problem. There's this guy. This is a very, very bad human being. [He] was a psychopathic murderer – a rapist and murderer. And he's coming to get your wife," she shared. |
Gifford had no clue of dire threat until days later |
| 70 Christians Beheaded in African
Country by ISIS-Aligned Militants, Groups Say; World Mostly Silent Seventy Christians have been beheaded with machetes or large knives, according to multiple groups that monitor terrorism and persecution, by Islamist militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – and yet the world remains mostly silent. The 70 Christians were first rounded up by Islamist rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces, a group affiliated with the terror group Islamic State, or ISIS, according to Open Doors U.S., which monitors Christian persecution around the world. The Christians, reportedly all from the Lubero district, were forced out of their homes allegedly early in the morning of Feb. 13, with the rebels shouting, "Get out, get out." |
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| Nikola Goes Bankrupt, to Sell
Assets in Latest EV Market Turmoil Nikola said on Wednesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and would pursue a sale of its assets, the latest electric-vehicle maker to stumble after grappling with tepid demand, rapid cash burn and funding challenges. The development ends a challenging journey, which included several leadership changes, plummeting share values and short-seller allegations. EV startups that went public during the pandemic, promising to revolutionize the sector, such as Fisker, Proterra and Lordstown Motors have filed for bankruptcy in recent years as funding for their capital-intensive operations dried up due to high interest rates and flagging demand. |
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| What Really Sets the Global Climate
State? Kirby Schlaht What really does set the global climate state? The Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), has been underway for several years, preparing to drill the oldest continuous ice core record from Antarctica. The project is a major element in the Australian Antarctic Program, led by the Australian Antarctic Division and other national and international collaborators to answer that very question. Now, in 2025, the Australian Antarctic Division is leading one of the most ambitious and challenging scientific projects undertaken in Antarctica – the quest to drill an ice core containing over a million years of Earth’s climate and atmospheric history. |
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| MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid's Lefty Show As Network Makes Major Shakeup MSNBC liberal mainstay Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report. The 7 p.m. program hosted by ardent Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders. |
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| Brown Medical School Prioritizes
DEI Over 'Clinical Skills' in Faculty Promotions Brown University Medical School values a commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) over actual “clinical skills” when it comes to promoting faculty members. The promotion guidelines classify a “[d]emonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion” as a “Major Criterion” for promotion for several positions. More specifically, it entails pushing for DEI in “Research,” “Teaching,” “Clinical care,” and “Service.” On the other hand, several positions list “excellent” or “exceptional clinical skills” as a “Minor Criterion” – placing it lower than the “Major Criterion” of promoting DEI. |
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| Education Department Ends $600
Million in Grants for DEI, Critical Race Theory Trainings On Monday, the Trump administration terminated $600 million of federal grants to institutions and nonprofit organizations that were teaching left-wing ideologies to education agencies and teachers. The Department of Education announced the end of the grants and listed examples of how they taught critical race theory, social justice activism, “anti-racism,” diversity, equity, and inclusion, and other progressive concepts that hyper-fixate on race. |
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| New Report Exposes Botched
Procedures, Poor Conditions At Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics Planned Parenthood workers shared horror stories of working for the nation's largest abortion provider in a new report as the organization faces renewed calls to cut its federal funding. In a bombshell report by the New York Times published Saturday, over 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants and medical staff from affiliates alleged they worked under poor conditions with "rock-bottom" salaries, even as the national organization raked in hundreds of millions in donations after the fall of Roe v. Wade. |
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| Maternal Acetaminophen Use May
Alter Placental Gene Expression, Raising ADHD Risk In Children Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Maternal acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy is associated with a higher likelihood of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study led by the University of Washington. Acetaminophen (also called paracetamol) is widely used during pregnancy, with an estimated 41–70% of pregnant individuals in the United States, Europe, and Asia reporting its use. Despite its classification as a low-risk medication by regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, accumulating evidence suggests a potential link between prenatal APAP exposure and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including ADHD and autism spectrum disorder. |
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| In a 'Boy-Friendly' School, Boys Get More Time to Play, Socialize, Choose Activities Joanne Jacobs Boys are doing poorly in school compared with their female classmates, reports Education Week. Boys score half a grade level lower in reading in third grade, nearly a year lower in eighth grade. Meanwhile, girls are catching up to boys in math. In high school, boys earn lower grades and take fewer advanced classes. They'll be less likely to go on to college and less likely to earn a degree if they do. What works for boys? As part of Ed Week's series on boys' struggles, Elizabeth Heubeck reports on an all-male Baltimore private school that's redesigned itself to be more "boy-friendly." That includes more opportunities for "unstructured play, in-person socializing and choice" about social activities. |
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| Transgender Politician Who Defeated
12-Year-Old Girl in Marathon Defends Trans Inclusion in Women's Sports Nathanielle Morin, Canadian advisor to the Federal Minister of Women, released a statement this week defending the advisor’s participation in women’s marathons as a transgender biological male. Morin referenced President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that prevents trans athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports in the statement. "I am aware that my participation in so many competitions will be talked about because of my medical history. The situation in the United States and the comments of certain politicians do not help either," Morin wrote. |
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| Trans-Identifying Male Athlete Wins
Maine State Title in Girls' Pole-Vaulting That thing that never happens has happened again. An 11th-grade trans-identifying male high school athlete won a Maine state title in girls' pole-vaulting, defeating the closest competitor by more than six inches. Katie Spencer, as the trans-identifying male is now known, is a member of the girls' track and field team at Greely High School in Cumberland, Maine. Spencer captured first place with a pole vault of 10-feet, 6-inches on Monday at the Class B state indoor meet. Spencer defeated two girls from Freeport High School, who tied for second, with their equal 10-foot vaults. |
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| Former SJSU Coach Targeted After Opposing Transgender Athlete on Women's Volleyball Team The private residence of a former San Jose State University (SJSU) volleyball coach was recently vandalized. The coach, Melissa Batie-Smoose, had been critical of SJSU’s biologically male women’s volleyball player, Blaire Fleming. The vandalism occurred on Feb. 10, according to The Post-Millennial. Batie-Smoose, who had filed a complaint against the university for keeping Fleming on the team, was let go by the school after her contract expired in January. |
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| ‘You Better Comply’: Trump
Confronts Maine Governor Over Refusal to Protect Women’s Sports President Donald Trump briefly quarreled with Maine Governor Janet Mills on Friday after announcing that the Democratic-run state will not receive any more federal funding until it complies with his recent executive order barring men from competing in women’s sports. Trump directly asked Mills whether Maine will abide by federal law when it comes to protecting women’s sports. Mills responded she is “complying with state and federal laws.” Trump shot back. “We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t.” |
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| The Genius of the DOGE
Exposures William F. Marshall The American people have rightly been appalled at the outrageous expenditures Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been exposing at USAID, which not only demonstrates the striking wastefulness of our government but also an ingenious public relations strategy by the Trump administration. When Americans learn that their tax dollars are going to fund egregious projects around the world, it lays a foundation for the public relations framework needed by the Trump administration to bring American public opinion along on the necessary journey of restructuring the government. It makes people’s blood boil. |
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| How Trump Can Dismantle the
Department of Education Christopher F. Rufo There is a tingle of fear in any corporation whenever the words “restructuring,” “merger,” “acquisition,” or “hostile takeover” spread through the office. Employees work on their resumes, whisper about projected layoffs, and assess their options. We’re seeing the same phenomenon unfold right now in our nation’s capital. Since taking over last month, President Trump has promised to blitz through federal departments to roll back waste, cut ideological programs, and return fiscal sanity to American governance. While Republican presidents have long promised to “reduce the size of government,” they have usually failed to do so – the bureaucracy always wins. This time might be different. |
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| The Democrats Doth Protest Too
Much, Methinks I & I Editorial Board The Democrats’ reaction to the Department of Government Efficiency’s necessary mission might seem a bit excessive. But it is understandable. Their taxpayer-funded slush fund has been exposed. Rather than joining with Elon Musk, who is leading DOGE to root out federal waste and fraud, and improve the transparency of the murky federal leviathan, the Democrats are attacking him. At a rally a week ago outside the Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley, chanted “Elon Musk must go” along with a rabble that seems eager to do harm to the South African billionaire. |
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| EPA Chief Exposes Biden Admin’s
$50,000,000 Gift to ‘left-wing advocacy group’ The new administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, said he has canceled a Biden-era $50 million environmental justice grant to an organization that believes "climate justice travels through a Free Palestine." "Just earlier today, I canceled a $50 million grant to an organization called the Climate Justice Alliance," he said. "They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine. I think that the American taxpayer wouldn't want $50 million going to this left-wing advocacy group. It’s canceled." |
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| Trump and Vance Aren’t Defying the
Constitution, They’re Following It John Yoo and Robert Delahunty Under the Constitution, “the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion.” For his decisions, “he is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.” His choices cannot be questioned in court because “the subjects are political. They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive.” Who penned these outrageous words? Democrats and many pundits might answer Vice President J.D. Vance. Over the weekend, Vance provoked an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges “aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” |
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| Senator Reveals 'crazy' USAID
Threatened Her When She Tried to Curb Its Spending Last Year Sen. Joni Ernst is accusing USAID of intimidating and threatening her team in a brazen effort to obstruct congressional oversight. Speaking with DailyMail.com, the Iowa Republican tore into the agency, which has been effectively shuttered by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk. The senator said that the agency stonewalled her last year when she tried to investigate its cash flow. |
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| Liberal Analyst Warns Dems:
'Suicide' to Defend USAID Ed Morrissey I'd bet you could guess the identity of the liberal analyst within three guesses, even before I mention the name. Why? Because at the moment, the number of liberal commentators with any sense of the moment at all can be counted on one hand, with a finger or two left over. These days, the best of the potential guesses would be Bill Maher, James Carville, and Ruy Teixeira, all of whom tried to warn Democrats to get out of the Academia faculty lounge for the past several months. This time it's Teixeira, writing at the always-interesting Free Press, warning his allies that they are marching themselves off a political cliff with their all-in defense of USAID's unaccountable spending: |
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| Goodbye to the Roaring Twenties of
Regulation? A Cost Roundup Competitive Enterprise Institute The final Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations from the Biden administration appeared January 15. Here at the middle of this second decade of the 21st Century, the transition between Biden and Trump offers an opportunity to take stock as Trump tees up a ten-for-one operating mandate for rulemaking... What we can say now is that, by official estimates, 116 rules issued so far in the second decade of the 21st Century add $77 billion in annual regulatory costs... Among these rules are familiar examples like vehicle fuel efficiency, building energy conservation, industrial admissions standards, COVID-19 paid leave, as well as certain savings from the first Trump term that appear as negative values in the table above. |
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| Trump Goes for the Jugular with NGO
Funding Review, Imperiling Dem-Journo-Activist Cabal After decades of failure in its efforts to conserve American culture and rein in the federal bureaucracy, the GOP under President Donald Trump has finally struck at the heart of the progressive advocacy cabal by reviewing government funding of non-government organizations (NGOs) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) oversight into the latter this week revealed deep financial links between the federal government and left-wing journalism outlets that repeatedly push narratives supporting Democrats and progressive causes while demonizing Republicans and their objectives. |
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| Incompetent or Crooked? Elon Musk Exposing Washington's Rotten System Glenn H. Reynolds Democrats have their panties in a wad over the work that Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to control government spending. But despite all the hoopla, what’s actually going on is straightforward stuff that most people probably – but wrongly – assumed the government was doing all along. Musk went on to express disbelief that more than $100 billion worth of entitlements every year are going to “individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.” “When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!” he exclaimed. |
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| Billionaire-Funded Lawfare Takes
Another Big Hit in New Jersey David Blackmon Things are just not going well for the leftwing activist groups, billionaire-funded NGOs, and trial lawyer firms who have recruited a growing number of state and local government entities to sue U.S. oil and gas companies involving specious claims for damages caused by climate change. In recent months, the lawfare campaign, coordinated mainly from the offices of one San Francisco-based firm, has suffered a series of adverse judicial decisions in what appears to be a rising consensus in the nation’s courts. Just two weeks after suffering a major setback in a decision involving Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the pushers and funders of this lawfare campaign were tossed out in a case targeting ExxonMobil in New Jersey. There, Superior Court Judge Douglas H. Hurd dismissed the Garden State’s lawsuit with prejudice based on the same federal primacy arguments which prevailed in recent decisions in New York City and Baltimore, as well as in the Anne Arundel case. |
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| Border Czar Homan Sets DOJ Probe of
AOC in Motion Over Webinar on How Illegals Can Avoid ICE Border Czar Tom Homan made it clear that he’s not playing when it comes to impeding President Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration. During an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Homan referred to Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’ recent webinar where the Squad member gave a seminar on how to avoid deportation and apprehension. The border czar said he contacted the deputy attorney general to decipher if AOC is in legal trouble for breaking the rules. |
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| Missouri AG Sues Starbucks for DEI
Hiring Practices That Forced Workforce to Be ‘more female and less white’ Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) sued Starbucks for DEI policies that he charged led to unlawful discrimination. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) protocols adopted by Starbucks had the coffee chain prioritizing sex and race in its hiring practices while subjecting employees to segregated training and benefits, a lawsuit filed by Bailey on Tuesday alleges. |
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| Cancel Your Museum Trip. The Fauci
Exhibit Has Been Axed. Robert Spencer In comparison to the massive waste and fraud that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already uncovered, this is just a drop in the bucket. It is not so much a matter of money saved, however, as it is of rolling back the left’s sinister and destructive practice of forcing the celebration of its key figures as heroes. Anthony Fauci is no hero, and he doesn’t deserve a museum exhibit. Axing this exhibit is a step toward reclaiming the culture from the sinister authoritarians who have dominated it for far too long. |
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| Egg Prices Hit New Highs as Flocks
Wiped Out Over Virus Egg prices in the United States have never been higher. They likely will drop back to a more typical level, but no one can say exactly when. Various experts who spoke with The Epoch Times said the average price a consumer paid for a dozen eggs rose to more than $7 per dozen in early February. Americans in some regions are paying more than $8 a dozen, a record high. |
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| World Becomes Brighter as Trump
Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Leslie Eastman President Donald Trump has spent another day reversing Biden’s efforts to limit consumer choices over products that limit their options and hinder their quality of life. In the name of efficiency, Biden’s bureaucrats banned incandescent light bulbs, normal-flowing toilets, and effective shower heads. Trump has just instructed his Environmental Protection Agency administrator to bring them all back. |
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| Teacher on Leave After Anti-Trump
Unhinged Tirade and Verbal Assault on Student Was Caught on Tape A teacher at a Staten Island all-boys Catholic high school has resigned in disgrace over his anti-Trump ranting and raving. The unnamed teacher was recorded last week at Monsignor Farrell High School trash-talking President Donald Trump, calling him a dictator, and eventually cursing out what appeared to be one of his pro-Trump students. The ranting and raving reportedly started after the pro-Trump student brought up politics (presumably from a pro-Trump stance). This inspired the teacher to go off about Trump’s executive order releasing billions of water in California to fight the ongoing wildfires. |
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| Hospital Staff Suspended After
Video Shows Them Claiming to Have Killed Jewish Patients Two Sydney nurses who threatened on camera to kill an Israeli man and other Jewish people in their care were identified and immediately suspended from practicing. The Australian Department of Health and Aged Care announced in a statement on Thursday that the Nursing and Midwifery Council of New South Wales (NSW) suspended the registrations of registered nurses Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, effective immediately. Nadir and Lebdeh, who initially claimed they were doctors while donning scrubs, threatened Israeli influencer Max Veifer on an international video chat website called Chatrouletka. |
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| Judge Issues Restraining Order
After Trump Blocks Federal Funds for Youth Sex Change Operations A judge in Washington state has issued a temporary restraining order over President Trump's executive order that withholds federal funding to health care providers who prescribe youth puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or who perform surgeries for gender dysphoria. Judge Lauren King, in the Western Washington District Court, issued the order on Friday, two weeks after Trump signed the order, called "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation," on Jan. 28. |
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| UCLA Students for Justice in
Palestine Suspended After Harassing UC Regent and His Family, Vandalizing Home The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of California, Los Angeles was recently suspended after members of the group vandalized a regent’s home and harassed him and his family. University Chancellor Julio Frenk announced the development in a statement on Wednesday, saying the school will suspend both the SJP and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine after their attack on the home of Jay Sures, who sits on the University of California Board of Regents. Frenk related that, on Feb. 5, members of both groups “harassed Mr. Sures and members of his family outside his home.” |
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| Pakistani Immigrant Allowed to Stay
in Britain Despite 'Preying on Barely Pubescent Girls When His Wife Wouldn't Have Sex' A Pakistani immigrant has been allowed to stay in Britain despite preying on “barely pubescent girls” when his wife would not have sex with him. The paedophile, who has been granted anonymity for his own protection, was caught in August 2022 for messaging decoy children he believed were young girls online. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting three counts of attempting to cause a child under 16 to engage in a sexual act. |
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| Texas University on Edge As Police
Hunt Campus Sexual Assault Suspect Who Was Arrested, Released University of Houston students protested Wednesday amid a campus crime wave, following reports that a man accused of sexually assaulting and robbing a woman on campus was released shortly after his arrest, prompting police to now look for him. Eric Latroy Brown, 40, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon after he allegedly approached a woman in a parking garage on UH's campus and sexually assaulted her in her car at knifepoint on Feb. 7 around 5:30 p.m. |
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| Welfare for Colleges? NIH 'slush
fund' Allegedly Stiffs Research to Fund Administrative Bloat The sky is falling for the nation's wealthiest medical research institutions and their allies in government-subsidized media in the wake of the National Institutes of Health ratcheting back the extra money they receive for "indirect costs" as a percentage of research grants. The Association of American Medical Colleges portrayed the cut on "facilities and administrative" cost reimbursement as an attack on research grants themselves that will harm "every American" with "slower scientific progress, longer waits for cures, fewer jobs." |
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