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soon find their place in urban
life, they soon adopt, externally, town manners and opinions, but for a
long time they remain foreign to civic thought. One cannot make a
social philosophy one’s own as easily as a new costume. . . More
menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture,
but not
in thought.” —Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, p. 38 (1922) |
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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.  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: | |
| 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. |  |
| 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. | |
| UCLA Students for Justice in Palestine Suspended After Harassing UC Regent and His Family, Vandalizing Home The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of California, Los Angeles was recently suspended after members of the group vandalized a regent’s home and harassed him and his family. University Chancellor Julio Frenk announced the development in a statement on Wednesday, saying the school will suspend both the SJP and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine after their attack on the home of Jay Sures, who sits on the University of California Board of Regents. Frenk related that, on Feb. 5, members of both groups “harassed Mr. Sures and members of his family outside his home.” |
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| Pakistani Immigrant Allowed to Stay in Britain Despite 'Preying on Barely Pubescent Girls When His Wife Wouldn't Have Sex' A Pakistani immigrant has been allowed to stay in Britain despite preying on “barely pubescent girls” when his wife would not have sex with him. The paedophile, who has been granted anonymity for his own protection, was caught in August 2022 for messaging decoy children he believed were young girls online. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting three counts of attempting to cause a child under 16 to engage in a sexual act. |
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| Texas University on Edge As Police Hunt Campus Sexual Assault Suspect Who Was Arrested, Released University of Houston students protested Wednesday amid a campus crime wave, following reports that a man accused of sexually assaulting and robbing a woman on campus was released shortly after his arrest, prompting police to now look for him. Eric Latroy Brown, 40, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon after he allegedly approached a woman in a parking garage on UH's campus and sexually assaulted her in her car at knifepoint on Feb. 7 around 5:30 p.m. |
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| Welfare for Colleges? NIH 'slush fund' Allegedly Stiffs Research to Fund Administrative Bloat The sky is falling for the nation's wealthiest medical research institutions and their allies in government-subsidized media in the wake of the National Institutes of Health ratcheting back the extra money they receive for "indirect costs" as a percentage of research grants. The Association of American Medical Colleges portrayed the cut on "facilities and administrative" cost reimbursement as an attack on research grants themselves that will harm "every American" with "slower scientific progress, longer waits for cures, fewer jobs." |
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| Spoiling for a Fight:
Why Challenging Birthright Citizenship May Be a Win-Win Strategy for Trump Jonathan Turley This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright citizenship as absurd. Yet the administration seemed not only undeterred, but delighted. There is a reason for that euphoria: They believe that they cannot lose this fight. The legal case against birthright citizenship has always been tough to make, given the long-standing interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment in federal courts and agencies. Many in academia and the media have shown unusual outrage toward anyone questioning the basis for birthright citizenship as a legal or policy matter. |
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| Climate Warriors’ Legal
Woes a Win for the Country Jason Isaac Climate lawfare is an urgent threat to our high quality of life, but recent court decisions offer an encouraging sign for consumers and energy providers. In recent months, three judges in Maryland and New York have dismissed outlandish lawsuits that demand billions of dollars from energy companies over climate change. If successful, these lawsuits would empower far-left cities like San Francisco or Boulder, Colorado, to set energy policy for the entire country. |
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| DOGE Has Their Next Target, and
Libs Are Bound to Freak Out Matt Vespa The Department of Government Efficiency has been on a tear in DC. They’re acting like they have a mandate from the 2024 election, and they do. They’re uprooting, exposing, and shining light on the numerous pipelines of government waste and left-wing extremism that’s infected DC. They’re also clearing up many administrative issues, like worthless leases on barely used government offices. The DC bureaucratic class has tried to fight back. They can’t win. Those who stand in DOGE’s way are put on administrative leave. Give them access to the systems or else. Treasury, USAID, and the Small Business Administration are undergoing renovations, but the Department of Education is reportedly the next target for a dressing down (via WSJ): |
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| Trump Removes Antony Blinken,
Letitia James, Alvin Bragg's Security Clearances Among Others President Donald Trump decided Saturday to remove security clearances for several Democrats, including former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both of whom are vocal Trump critics, Fox News has learned. "Bad guy. Take away his passes," Trump told the New York Post of Blinken, Biden's Secretary of State. James and Bragg were involved in prosecuting Trump in New York last year and James' office filed a lawsuit on Friday on behalf of 18 other Democratic state attorneys general over the Department of Government Efficiency's access to the Treasury Department's payment system. |
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| Elon Musk Slams 'mean' Podcast
Hosts for Calling DOGE Employees 'Arrogant Little Pr---s' Among Other
Things Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk slammed podcast hosts and frequent CNN "experts" Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway via X Saturday, claiming the pair are "cruel, mean and deceitful human beings" who are "threatening" young DOGE professionals. Tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU professor Scott Galloway, who host the podcast "Pivot," said in a recent episode they want to see Democratic governors arrest DOGE employees, claiming the team is attempting a coup. While acknowledging DOGE has the authority to conduct actions ordered by President Donald Trump, Swisher said she didn't like that the team included many young professionals, whom she called "children" and "arrogant little pr---s." |
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| 'Swindled the American Taxpayer': New House GOP Internal Memo Rips Dem USAID Uproar An internal memo being circulated to House Republicans is urging lawmakers to argue that President Donald Trump’s handling of foreign aid is "already paying dividends" and that the Biden administration spent that money on initiatives like "a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department." The three-page document, obtained by Fox News Digital through a House GOP source, is being sent to members of Republican leadership as well as lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It includes two pages of recommended talking points, including, "America is spending $40 billion in foreign aid annually. Much of those aid dollars are not even reaching the intended recipients and are instead propping up an NGO industrial complex that has, for years, swindled the American taxpayer." |
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| USAID
Staffer Reveals Moment DOGE Arrived the Team Scrambled to Hide Pride Flags and Incriminating Materials Kevin Haggerty As increased exposure facilitated the GOP smackdown of waste in the federal government, an establishment-tied USAID employee detailed efforts to conceal “incriminating” materials. At once arguing the money spent by the U.S. Agency for International Development was vital but also a paltry sum of little concern, leftist lawmakers had little recourse but to seethe and cope as the Department of Government Efficiency shone a [light] on the obscene waste of American taxpayer dollars. |
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| 'Losing Their Minds': Dem Lawmakers
Face Backlash for Invoking 'Unhinged' Violent Rhetoric Against Musk Several Democratic lawmakers drew the ire of conservatives on social media after showing up at a rally against Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts and riling up the crowd with disparaging comments about the Tesla CEO, including calling him a Nazi. "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby, a godless lawless billionaire, who no one elected," Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said at a rally outside the Treasury Department where protesters were speaking out against DOGE. "Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the American people," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said while shaking her fist alongside Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. "We are here to fight back." |
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| Lawmakers Propose Legislation to
Revoke District of Columbia's Home Rule Act U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn. have introduced the Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident Act, or BOWSER Act, named after the district’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser. The lawmakers argue the legislation comes in response to the “mayor and city council’s failure to prevent violent crime, corruption, and voting by non-citizens.” The District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973 was enacted by Congress and ratified by D.C. voters. The act gave the district residents limited autonomy over local affairs, allowing them to elect local leaders, including mayors and council members. |
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| Pro-Trump Influencer Will Take
Legal Action Against New York Magazine Over ‘Despicable’ Cover Story  CJ
Pearson is taking legal action against New York Magazine
after its "despicable" cover story that he feels falsely painted
pro-Trump conservatives as racist. New York Magazine
writer Brock Colyar warned that a new generation of "casually cruel
Trumpers" are "conquering Washington" in a cover story headlined, "The
Cruel Kids’ Table." The glossy feature has since come under fire for
cropping Black attendees out of the cover image while quoting an
attendee who complained "the entire room is White." Pearson has not yet
filed a lawsuit but provided a formal notice to the magazine that he
plans to sue. |
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| Why Is the U.S. Not Vaccinating
Poultry Against Bird Flu? As bird flu wreaks havoc across the United States, with devastating consequences for birds, dairy herds, and even humans, the decision not to vaccinate poultry has increasingly come under scrutiny. While other countries have used vaccines as part of their strategy to control outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, the U.S. remains on the sidelines, citing trade concerns and logistical challenges. Vaccines for H5N1 bird flu have been available for years and have shown effectiveness in reducing infections and disease transmission in poultry. |
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| Trump DOJ Targets Blue County
Sheriff for Releasing Illegal Immigrant Criminal in Home of Cornell Univ. Emil Bove III, a former member of President Donald Trump’s personal legal team who was named acting deputy attorney general last week, said that the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York was looking into the "failure" of Tompkins County Sheriff Derek Osborne, a Democrat. "Yesterday, despite the warrant, a defendant with no legal status and a history of violence was released into the community," Bove said in a release on Thursday, Jan. 30. "Federal agents risked their safety and pursued the defendant in unsafe conditions." Bove noted "the U.S. Attorney’s commitment to investigate these circumstances for potential prosecution," shining a spotlight on the nationwide battle between federal agencies and local sanctuary policies, which have been embraced by the city of Ithaca, the seat of Tompkins County. |
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| LA Mandating Low-Income Housing in
Palisades Rebuild Could Be Unconstitutional, Experts Say A prominent public-interest law firm is warning that Los Angeles’ apparent requirement that older apartments be replaced with income-restricted low-income housing is an “unconstitutional taking” that, if applied to homes destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire, would add “insult to injury.” Last week, The Center Square reported on a newly passed Los Angeles ordinance that could require a large portion of apartment units lost to the Palisades Fire to be replaced with low-income housing. |
Using a fire disaster to advance social adgenda |
| Border Chief Homan Says Raid on
Tren de Aragua Gang Was Leaked, Vows Accountability Border czar Tom Homan promised on Feb. 6 to find those responsible for leaking the details of a raid targeting members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang and hold them accountable. “This isn’t a game,” Homan told reporters outside the White House. “When operations get leaked like that, it puts our officers at great risk.” The Venezuelan gang has become increasingly active in the United States amid a years-long surge in illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. It is one of several high-threat groups the Trump administration has prioritized for deportation. |
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| Prominent Pundit Wonders If Left
Wing 'nuttiness' Has Damaged Democratic Party Beyond Repair Prominent mainstream media journalist and author Joe Klein savaged the Democratic Party, claiming that its recent Democratic National Committee meeting proves the party’s "intellectual corrosion is comprehensive." In a new article for his "Sanity Clause" Substack series, Klein pointed out the various gender rules that the DNC rolled out during its meeting last week as proof that the party may be damaged beyond anything he’s ever seen. "Yes, friends, still crazy after all these years…and the encroaching dementia is not benign. Can this party be saved? I have my doubts," Klein wrote after quoting multiple articles detailing the complex gender rules established at the meeting. |
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| House Passes Bill Blocking Future
Presidential Bans On Hydraulic Fracking A bill preventing future presidents from unilaterally banning hydraulic fracking is on its way to the Senate after passing the House 226-188 Friday. Sixteen Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the Protecting American Energy Production Act, which will block future bans on hydraulic fracking without congressional approval, if enacted. “When President Biden took office, his administration took a 'whole of government' approach to wage war on American energy production, pandering to woke environmental extremists and crippling this thriving industry,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, said on X following the vote. “My legislation that passed today is a necessary first step in reversing Biden’s war on energy.” |
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| Denver: 2 High School Basketball
Coaches Fired for Antisemitism and Pro-Hamas Flags Toni Airaksinen  A
Colorado School is facing backlash after their Palestinian baseball
coach refused to shake hands with Jewish students on the opposing team,
and another staffer also showed up to the Jewish school and decked out
the rafters with keffiyehs and Palestinian flags with him. The
basketball game happened on the 22th of January, and many of my readers
in the Denver area sent the story to me. Their – “Coach O”, also known
as Samir Omar – arrived in a Lotus School uniform and keffiyeh has been
fired (as well as Sami Jabai, another coach who wore a keffiyeh). |
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| Israel Set to Ban Hamas-Infested UN
Agency UNRWA Israel is set to ban the United Nations’ Palestinian aid agency (UNRWA), as a law barring the Hamas-infested agency takes effect on Thursday. The ban comes after Israeli intelligence exposed the identities of hundreds of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists on the UNRWA’s payroll, with several of them taking part in October 7 atrocities. “Israel, with the backing of the Trump administration, will cut ties with UNRWA from Thursday,” the British newspaper Guardian reported Wednesday. |
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| Judge Calls Out University for
Making Jewish Students Hide in a 'Proverbial Attic,' Allows Lawsuit to Proceed The judge said that Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a small private four-year college located in Lower Manhattan, must face charges for neglecting to help Jewish students who had to lock themselves in a library during an anti-Israel rally on Oct. 25, 2023. "Title VI places responsibility on colleges and universities to protect their Jewish students from harassment, not on those students to hide themselves away in a proverbial attic or attempt to escape from a place they have a right to be," U.S. District Judge John Cronan wrote Wednesday in the opinion. |
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| Trump Order Banning ‘Chemical and
Surgical Mutilation’ of Children Is Already Saving Kids Jack Montgomery President Donald J. Trump’s executive order banning the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of American children through irreversible transgender medical interventions is already bearing fruit, with many institutions canceling or pausing all so-called “gender-affirming care.” The White House has produced an illustrative list highlighting various jurisdictions and institutions where poorly evidenced transgender treatments have been curtailed: |
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| Many Medical Providers End
Transgender Youth Procedures After Trump Order Late last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting “transgender” procedures on youth, including puberty blockers and surgeries such as mastectomies and penile reconstruction. In response, many medical providers including some of the top in the nation for performing them have announced they will comply with the EO. The EO states that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.” |
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| NY AG Letitia James Tells Hospitals
to Continue Sex-Change Procedures for Minors Despite Trump’s Executive Order New York Attorney General Letitia James warned local hospitals Monday that they will be in violation of state discrimination laws if they comply with President Trump’s executive order aimed at outlawing sex-change procedures for minors. “Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws, including those that prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their membership in a protected class, such as sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, military status, disability, or marital status,” James wrote in a letter to New York healthcare facilities. |
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| Not Kidding: Michigan Bi-sexual
State Rep Says She Sterilized Herself to Protest Trump  A
Democratic Michigan state representative told protesters Wednesday that
she underwent voluntary sterilization to avoid becoming pregnant during
President Donald Trump's second term, a left-wing media outlet
reported. "Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that
I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump's America,"
Rep. Laurie Pohutsky told anti-Trump protesters gathered Wednesday
outside the Michigan Capitol, according to a piece published by the
Michigan Advance. "I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an
administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate." |
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| 'Lost City' Deep Under the Ocean Is
Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before on Earth Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle sent to explore. They range in height from tiny stacks the size of toadstools to a grand monolith standing 60 meters (nearly 200 feet) tall. This is the Lost City. |
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| What We Know and What We
Don’t About January 6 John Daniel Davidson Just hours after his inauguration on January 20, President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people convicted of offenses related to the events of January 6, 2021. He commuted the sentences of fourteen additional people whose cases for a full pardon are still under review. Earlier that morning, to less fanfare, President Biden had issued “preemptive pardons” -- a type of presidential pardon with no historical precedent -- to all the members and staff of the House Select Committee on January 6 and to all the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before that committee. What could better illustrate that what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has become a political Rorschach test on which Americans remain deeply divided? |
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| The Tragedy of DEI Nate Jackson The utterly insidious result of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is that it politicizes virtually every staffing decision and leaves Americans arguing over racial divisions, even when tragedy strikes. Democrats believe this benefits them politically, which is why they’ve focused on race for as long as there’s been a Democrat Party. “You have to be a slave because of your skin color.” –Democrats, 1828-1865. “You can’t do this job because of your skin color.” –Democrats, 1866-1964. “Employers have to hire you because of your skin color.” –Democrats, 1965-present. That’s a gross oversimplification, perhaps, but it illustrates the racial obsession that has been a fundamental part of Democrat politics for 200 years. |
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| Mike Lee Proposes Issuing Letters
of Marque Lincoln Brown I haven't talked to Mike Lee in years. He is one of my senators, and I occasionally fire off a missive to his office, but we haven't had a one-on-one conversation since my radio days. Lee has never been at a loss for a quip or a novel idea, and let's be honest: the drug cartels south of the border have no intention of going away, no matter how many planes we send to Colombia. So why not think out of the box? Lee has proposed that the government return to issuing letters of marque. For those of you not versed in pirate lore (meaning anyone who does not have the same weird fascination with it as I do, which is likely everyone), a letter of marque was a document issued by a government to privateers to loot and plunder ships belonging to enemy nations. The crews or, more likely, the owners got a cut of the take. Many privateers also engaged in piracy, although one of the most famous pirates in history, Henry Morgan, despised being called a pirate and considered himself a one-time privateer and a loyal subject to the British crown. |
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| Musk Rips 'fraudulent' Treasury
Handouts As Reports Mount DOGE Has Access to Federal Payment System Tech billionaire Elon Musk ripped alleged "fraudulent" Treasury payments on Saturday as reports circulated that the Department of Government Efficiency has gained acces to the federal government's payment system as the second Trump administration continues cutting what they say is government fat and overspending. "The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once," Musk, the chair of DOGE, posted early Saturday morning to X. |
Treasury spends $6 TRILLION per year on payments for federal agencies. |
| 'Essential to Our Nation's
Sovereignty': Noncitizen Voter Crackdown Led by GOP Ahead of 2026 Midterms Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced the bills this week, with four lawmakers co-sponsoring the entire package and various other members supporting specific pieces. The three pieces of legislation are a bill to prohibit noncitizen residents of Washington, D.C., from voting in local elections, a bill to block noncitizens from helping administer elections and a constitutional amendment to prevent noncitizens from voting. It is currently illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Though the law does not apply to state and local elections, there is currently no state in the U.S. that allows noncitizens to vote in statewide elections. Some areas, however, allow for noncitizens to vote in local-level elections – including Washington, D.C. |
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| CBS News to Hand Over Transcript of
Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ Interview to FCC Amid $10 Billion Trump Lawsuit CBS News announced it would comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) demand that it turn over the transcript of a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that is the subject of President Trump’s lawsuit against the company. The FCC, led by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, sent a letter of inquiry to the news company on Wednesday, requesting the "full, unedited transcript and camera feeds." "We are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do," a CBS News spokesman said in a statement on Friday. |
Playing fast and loose with the truth - FAFO |
| NY Dems Working to Keep Stefanik's
House Seat Vacant for Months in Latest Scheme Against Trump "We still haven't seen the final proposal from the Democrats in Albany, but there's no doubt that Tammany Hall corruption is alive and well in the state capital," Republican New York Assemblyman Matt Slater, who represents the state's 94th district in areas of Putnam and Westchester counties, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive Zoom interview on Sunday morning. "It is just blatantly corrupt for the New York State Democrats to keep changing the rules of engagement simply out of self-interest. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are struggling in so many different ways. U-Haul just gave us our worst migration rating ever because there's so many New Yorkers who are fleeing this state. So they can get things done, but they only do it when it benefits them," Slater continued. |
This is the crap that turns the public off on politics generally and the Dems specifically |
| Trump Envoy Richard Grenell Secures
Freedom for 6 Americans Following Meeting with Maduro in Venezuela Following a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to discuss, in part, the release of Americans being held in the country, Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions announced on X Friday night that he was returning to the U.S. with six of them. "They just spoke to @realDonaldTrump and they couldn’t stop thanking him," Grenell said in his post without identifying the six men, four of whom were dressed in light-blue Venezuelan prison outfits. |
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| FAA Diversity Hiring Under Renewed
Scrutiny After Deadly DC Air Disaster Despite direct links between the air disaster in Washington, D.C. and federal hiring practices remaining unclear, the deadliest crash in 15 years has returned to the forefront of concerns about aviation industry safety, including past efforts to prioritize diversity over merit in the air traffic control profession. After the crash, newly inaugurated President Donald Trump called out past efforts during the Obama and Biden Administrations to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) hiring practices, including for important air traffic control specialist roles, and issued an executive order requiring a review of government hiring in the industry. |
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| Dropping a Bomb on DOD DEI Nate Jackson  During his Senate confirmation hearings, newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promised he would dump the Left’s social engineering via DEI and return the military to a meritocracy. He and his boss, Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump, are off to a good start. “Our standards will be high,” Hegseth told the Senate, “and they will be equal (not equitable, that is a very different word).” Over the weekend, he posted on X, “The President’s guidance (lawful orders) is clear: No more DEI at [the Department of Defense]. The Pentagon will comply, immediately. No exceptions, name-changes, or delays.” |
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| Iron Dome Is a Big Deal Douglas Andrews You could practically hear the snickers on the Left when, on June 18, 2018, President Donald Trump directed the Department of Defense to begin the process of establishing a new military branch called Space Force. “Our destiny, beyond the Earth,” he said, “is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security.” Nobody’s laughing now. On Monday night, Trump continued his shock-and-awe strategy by signing yet another executive order – this one to create a next-generation missile defense shield he calls “Iron Dome for America.” |
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| U.S. Kills Key Figure in Syrian
Terrorist Group Linked to al-Qaida, CENTCOM Says U.S. forces launched an airstrike in northwestern Syria this week that killed a high-ranking member of a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaida, according to U.S. Central Command. Muhammad Salah al-Za’bir was a senior operative in Hurras al-Din, CENTCOM said late Thursday in a statement, which added that the fatal strike had occurred the same day. The strike was part of U.S. forces’ ongoing efforts to disrupt terrorism in the region, especially as Syria transitions to a new government following the ouster of longtime strongman Bashar Assad. |
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| Trump Says He Ordered Airstrikes
Against ISIS in Somalia President Donald Trump on Saturday said he ordered military airstrikes in Somalia against the Islamic State or ISIS, which were aimed at a terrorist attack organizer and others from the terrorist group. "These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians." |
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| How Trump's Team Will Break Down
the Woke Bureaucracy Tyler O'Neil Americans are unifying behind President Trump far more than we did in 2017. Eight years ago, cries of “not my president” resounded through Washington, DC, but this year, it seems the hard-left “resistance” has gone out with a whimper. Unfortunately, that’s not the case inside the federal government. A new poll from Napolitan News showed that 64% of the federal bureaucrats who work in DC and voted for Kamala Harris vow not to implement a lawful order from Trump if they consider it bad policy. |
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| California’s Policies Drive Up
Residents’ Energy Costs, But Experts Say Impacts Go Nationwide “It's almost impossible for a refiner to do business now in California, and I don’t think a lot of them are going to stay,” Michael Miche, University of Southern California professor and management consultant, told Just the News. Much of the U.S. military guarding the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii relies heavily on petroleum products from California’s refineries. This includes Air Force assets in California, Nevada and Arizona, as well as the Pacific Fleet and Third Fleet, which is based in San Diego. “They're all dependent on California refineries providing aviation fuel, diesel fuels and gasoline for their operations,” Miche said. |
No Gouging! Data reveals net profit margin of $0.09/gal. |
| Large Solar Plant in Mojave Desert Appears Headed for Closure 11 Years After Opening A massive solar plant in the Mojave Desert, Ivanpah Solar Project, appears headed for closure 11 years after its opening. According to ABC News, the plant has been struggling to stay competitive against cheaper solar technologies on the market such as photovoltaic solar. Earlier this month, Pacific Gas & Electric said it is ending its contract with the Ivanpah solar power plant, which launched in 2014 using concentrated solar. |
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| DNC Lambasted for 'Beyond Parody'
Leadership Vote That Included Singing, Gender Rules: 'Can’t stop laughing' The DNC voted to elect Minnestota Democrat Party leader Ken Martin as its chair on Saturday, after eight candidates vied to succeed Jaime Harrison. Following the Democratic Party's losses in November, when Republicans reclaimed the White House and Senate and retained control of the House, the DNC's chair vote serves as a fresh slate for the party as they ramp up strategies and fundraising for the next election cycle. Conservatives and critics took to social media over the weekend to highlight what they viewed as the most out of touch speeches and comments from party leaders, including the election of left-wing activist David Hogg as one of its three co-chairs. Hogg is an outspoken gun control advocate... |
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| ICE Nabs 7 Illegal Immigrants By
Bringing Back Tactic the Biden Admin Stopped Using U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted a worksite raid at a car wash in Philadelphia that led to the arrest of seven illegal immigrants, the agency announced. The agency said that ICE agents encountered, interviewed and arrested seven illegal aliens for immigration violations, who were later detained pending removal... ICE has arrested more than 7,400 people in nine days across several states amid its aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration since the new Trump administration came into office. |
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| Pentagon Pulling Gen. Milley's
Security Detail and Clearance 'immediately,' May Face Demotion in
Retirement Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is "immediately pulling" retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News. The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to "undermine the chain of command" during President Donald Trump's first term, officials say. |
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| Jury Nullification in New York Stephen I. Siller Wake up, New York! Did you pay attention to the Trump trials? Did you realize how your rights as a citizen have been abrogated by the New York legal system? Please read the post-trial Trump jury charge and watch the New York juror orientation video. In past years, Chief Judge Judith Kaye’s orientation video depicted the 1735 John Peter Zenger case, which New York schoolkids learned about in pre-woke days. That video told jurors of our inalienable right to find a defendant not guilty if jurors thought the law in the case was immoral, wrong, wrongly applied, or just plain unjust. Jurors could nullify a judge’s jury instruction, which would otherwise give the jury no choice but to find the defendant guilty. |
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| Nearly 80% of Americans Don’t Want
Men Playing in Women’s Sports Surveying nearly an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, a poll taken by the New York Times and polling company Ipsos showed that the majority of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men in women’s sports. Of those surveyed, 79% answered that men “should not” compete in women’s sports when posed with the following question: “thinking about transgender female athletes – meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female – do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women's sports?” |
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| DEI Oaths in Taxpayer-Funded
Medical Schools Draw Legal Threats, Bump Against Trump Orders Public universities are still testing the legal limits of what they can force students to say, even if it's not clear what they expect students to do, prompting confrontations with free-speech groups and likely the second Trump administration, which has wasted no time invoking executive power against all forms of diversity, equity and inclusion. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a legal warning letter Friday to the University of Connecticut School of Medicine for apparently requiring freshmen to recite what FIRE called an "ideologically-charged version of the Hippocratic Oath" at their "white coat ceremony" last summer, which kicks off their medical education. UConn Med has been stonewalling FIRE since a staff member in the admissions office told FIRE in a Jan. 7 phone call the oath is mandatory, which would violate SCOTUS precedent dating to World War II, the letter says. |
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| Two U.S. Service Academies End
Minor in Diversity and Inclusion West Point Military Academy and the Air Force Academy have both ended their “Diversity and Inclusion Studies” minors. As late as Jan. 8, West Point, based in New York, offered its DEI minor, while as of Jan. 9 the Air Force Academy, based in Colorado, still offered its DEI minor, according to internet archives. Currently, a minor in “Diversity and Inclusion Studies” is no longer listed on either service academy’s website. Around the same time the DEI minors disappeared, President Donald Trump ended all DEI programs in federal agencies via an executive order. |
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| Gender-Mutilation Whistleblower
Finally Vindicated Samantha Koch Among the many bold moves and statements that President Donald Trump has made during his first 10 days in office, countless Americans felt a huge sigh of relief as he declared in his inaugural address the official national stance on gender. “As of today, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.” Parents can finally see the light at the end of the gender-madness tunnel, looking forward to regaining the right to guide the moral path of their own children. Normal non-woke teachers hope they can return to providing an actual education. That also goes for many throughout the medical field, in both the mental and physical health areas of care, who look forward to being able to reject the pressure to psychologically and physically “transition” their patients, upholding their pledge as doctors and surgeons to do no harm. |
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| President Donald Trump to Deport
Hamas Sympathizers on College Campuses, Defund CRT with New Executive Orders President Donald Trump ordered a law enforcement crackdown on antisemitism on college campuses, including removing pro-Hamas activists with student visas from the country, Fox News has learned. Trump's directive gives all federal agencies a 60-day window to identify civil and criminal authorities available to combat antisemitism and deport anti-Jewish activists who broke any laws. "It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence," the order reads. |
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| FDA Escalates Walmart Broccoli
Florets Recall to Highest Threat Level: Risk of 'Death' A recall over Walmart-sold broccoli florets has been escalated to Class I, the highest threat level, as consumers are warned to discard the food products over potential contamination. Braga Fresh has been recalling some packages of its ready-to-eat 12oz Marketside Broccoli Florets since Dec. 27. The FDA announced the recall on Dec. 31 and recently upgraded its classification. Class I recalls, which are the most serious category of FDA food recalls, refer to "situation[s] in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death." |
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| It’s Morning in America,
Again I & I Editorial Board When Donald Trump takes the oath of office today, he will do something no president has managed in modern times. He’s getting a second chance to make a first impression. Today, Trump is like a breath of fresh air after a long, dark, and dreary winter. The team he’s assembled is completely new, bursting with top talent eager to kick reforms into high gear. Where incumbents usually take their second terms leisurely, riding on their successes, Trump’s second-term agenda is more aggressive and wide-ranging than his first. |
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| Trump’s Merit-Based DEI
Executive Order Is a Sledgehammer William A. Jacobson I previously wrote how Trump Signed Executive Orders Rescinding Biden’s “Racial Equity” Agenda and Eliminating DEI Throughout Federal Government. Those executive orders rescinded Biden’s 2021 and 2023 “Racial Equity” executive orders, and also banned DEI within federal agencies and programs. That was big. Pursuant to those executive orders, federal DEI staffers were put on leave and DEI offices ordered closed starting at 5 p.m. today. But that was nothing compared to the Executive Order signed last night, January 21, 2025, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (the “Merit-Baed EO”), which targets discrimination done in the name of DEI. |
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| Trump Strikes Back with Retaliatory
Measures Against Colombia for Rejecting Deportation Flights "I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people," Trump wrote on social media. "Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures," Trump continued. |
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| JD Vance Clashes with CBS Anchor,
Margaret Brennan, Over Unvetted Refugees – Birthright citizenship She specifically asked whether he stood by his past comments that the U.S. should not "abandon anybody who's been properly vetted." "Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants, or all these refugees have been properly vetted," Vance said. "In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks in our country. That happened during the campaign, if you may remember. So, clearly, not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted." ... "This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers," Vance said. "But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that, 240 years later, that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world. No country says that temporary visitors, their children will be given complete access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship." |
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| Democrats Sure Do Have a Lot of
Criminal Friends I & I Editorial Board In their latest email, our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, which has become an indispensable daily source of valuable information and sharp commentary, included a chart of presidential pardons going back to Harry S. Truman. Until Joe Biden, pardons were almost entirely reserved for people who had actually been convicted of crimes, but even without those pre-crime pardons, Biden leads the pack by an eye-popping margin, with 8,064 in his four years. Nobody comes anywhere close. Trump pardoned just 237 in his first term.  |
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| Coast Guard Commandant Terminated
Over Border Lapses, Recruitment, DEI Focus Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, 61, has been terminated by the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman, the official said. These include the failure to address border security threats, insufficient leadership in recruitment and retention, mismanagement in acquiring key acquisitions such as icebreakers and helicopters, excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and an "erosion of trust" over the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor, which was the Coast Guard's internal investigation into sexual assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy. |
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| "YOU'RE FIRED!": Trump Boots 4
High-Profile Biden Appointees Including Mark Milley Tyler Durden "Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again," Trump wrote on Truth social just after midnight Tuesday. "Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon,” Trump said before listing off the four officials in the post that ended with “YOU’RE FIRED!" |
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| Secretary of State Rubio Hails
Release of U.S. Prisoner in Belarus As Controversy Hangs Over Nation's Election Crediting President Donald Trump's leadership, Rubio said in a post on X that "Belarus just unilaterally released an innocent American, Anastassia Nuhfer, who was taken under Joe Biden!" No further information was immediately released about Nuhfer or her release, as some social media users marveled about not knowing an American had been jailed in Belarus during former President Joe Biden's administration. |
Biden admin kept public in the dark about prisoner |
| New CIA Boss Ratcliffe Says
Biden-Era Report Backing Lab-Leak Theory Released to 'restore' Trust The CIA's decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story marks a step toward transparency with the American people, newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News on Sunday. Speaking in his first interview since being confirmed as the agency's director last Thursday, Ratcliffe spelled out the insights he made public shortly after taking over the post and affirmed the importance of restoring trust in American institutions. |
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| Feds
Round Up 50 Tren De Aragua Members at 'makeshift nightclub' in Denver
As ICE Raids Bust Child Rapists and Suspected ISIS Terrorists Federal agents rounded dozens of members of Tren de Aragua in an overnight raid on a “makeshift nightclub” in Denver – after the vicious Venezuelan prison gang terrorized the city and the suburb of Aurora. The DEA said agents in Colorado interrupted an “invite-only party” where dozens of the gangbangers were cutting lose in Adams County – just outside Denver city limits. The busts netted cash, weapons, guns and drugs – including Tusi or “pink cocaine,” a powerful narcotic that the gang has played a major role in distributing across the U.S. |
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| Trump Says He May Send Nearly
90,000 Newly Hired IRS Agents to Border After Issuing Indefinite Hiring Freeze President Trump said Saturday he is considering sending nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service agents to guard the southern border, just days after he issued an indefinite hiring freeze on the federal agency. The 47th Commander-in-Chief told a boisterous crowd of supporters that he could also fire the IRS employees, many of whom had salaries funded by $72 billion provided for the federal agency under the Inflation Reduction Act. |
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| Trump Rapidly Fortifies U.S.
Borders with Plans for 10,000 Troops, Immediate Deportation of Illegal Crossers Welcome to President Trump’s fortress America. In just three days, the commander in chief has moved to dramatically beef up security at the border – with plans to send in 10,000 U.S. troops and summarily detain and deport any illegal border crossers. The sweeping changes underway are meant to help U.S. law enforcement agencies to stop illegal migrants from entering the country, and make it easier to send back the ones who are already here. |
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| Stefanik Calls United Nations
'antisemitic,' Will Review Funding Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., called the United Nations "antisemitic" on Tuesday during her confirmation hearing to become the U.S. ambassador to the international organization, adding that she will review the funding of UN programs. Stefanik, speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was asked to describe the UN in one word, and responded, "antisemitic," the New York Post reported. Stefanik said that the U.S. must change the UN's antisemitism by being "a voice of moral clarity on the UN Security Council and at the United Nations at large for the world to hear the importance of standing with Israel," according to The Post. |
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| Canadian Leader Ready to Work with
Trump to Resurrect Keystone XL Pipeline Thomas Catenacci Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, Canada, said Tuesday that she would like to restart conversations with Trump administration officials about reapproving the Keystone XL oil pipeline or permitting additional Canada-United States oil pipelines. Smith is prepared to leverage her own authority and work with President Donald Trump on the issue, she told the Washington Free Beacon in a Tuesday interview. Her government is seeking to double its oil and gas production, she said, which means the province will need additional pipeline infrastructure to transport that product to its destination. |
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| The Big Reversal Robert Bryce It took the re-election of a battered Republican candidate – and a milestone rejection of the Democratic Party’s climate and energy policies by the American electorate – to stop the years-long assault on rural America, our landscapes, and our wildlife by Big Wind and its many allies. But yesterday, in a landmark executive order, President Donald Trump ordered that all federal agencies must immediately assess “the environmental impact of onshore and offshore wind projects upon wildlife, including, but not limited to, birds and marine mammals.” For over a decade, Big Wind has dodged and weaved, and denied responsibility for its impact on everything from eagles to North Atlantic Right Whales. |
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| Trump’s Moratorium on Offshore Wind
Development Gives Wind Industry’s Opponents in Blue States Hope Kevin Killough Among the plethora of executive orders President Donald Trump signed after being inaugurated Monday was a withdrawal of all offshore areas for wind leasing. For the dozens of coastal grassroots community groups opposed to offshore wind, the order is welcome news... "The Biden administration rammed them through the approval process without proper oversight, transparent lease agreements, or a full understanding of their devastating consequences. They are an economic and environmental disaster waiting to happen,” Rep. Jefferson Van Drew, R-N.J., said. |
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| Trump Must Reject USPS Electric
Boogaloo David Williams  The
United States Postal Service is bleeding red ink. America’s mail
carrier lost an astounding $9.5 billion in fiscal 2024 and expects to
lose an additional $60 billion to $70 billion by 2030. It certainly
hasn’t helped that the agency is spending $9.6 billion on a vehicle
procurement plan that includes 66,000 electric vehicles. These vehicles
are two to three times more expensive than their conventional
counterparts, but that has somehow not deterred the USPS. Agency
leadership has even convinced Congress to spend $3 billion of taxpayer
money on this nonsensical “deal.” Fortunately, USPS EVs may not be long
for the roads. According to a report by Reuters’
Jarrett
Renshaw and Alexandra Ulmer, incoming President Donald Trump, “is
considering canceling the U.S. Postal Service’s contracts to electrify
its delivery fleet, as part of a broader suite of executive orders
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| This Biden Pardon May Already Have
Caused Innocent Deaths Paul J. Larkin and Dakota L. Wood Former President Joe Biden’s last-minute clemency decisions included pardoning his son Hunter, Joe Biden’s siblings and their spouses, and commuting the capital sentences of almost every federal prisoner on death row. They have drawn a boatload of public attention and justified criticism. Indeed, some will likely cost people their lives. That is clear in the pardon Biden issued to arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Last October, The Wall Street Journal reported that, in August 2024, the Houthis in Yemen sent emissaries to Moscow to purchase $10 million in automatic weapons. There, according to the WSJ’s sources (which included a European security official), the Houthi agents met Viktor Bout, an infamous arms trafficker responsible for perhaps hundreds of thousands of deaths. |
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| Senate Dems Block Born-Alive
Abortion Survivors Protection Act Senate Democrats blocked on Wednesday legislation that aims to protect babies born alive in botched abortions. By a 52-47 vote along party lines, the Republican-led upper chamber failed to invoke cloture on the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” A two-thirds majority was needed for consideration of the legislation to commence. The chamber’s two newest members, Sens. Ashley Moody (R-FL) and Jon Husted (R-OH), who were appointed to replace Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, respectively, cast their first vote in favor of the bill. |
This tells you all you need to know about the Democrat Party |
| Washington State Bill Would Make
‘Gender Expression,’ Illegal Immigrants Protected Classes in K-12 A Washington bill introduced this legislative session would add new protected classes to a state law regarding nondiscrimination against students in the public school system, including “gender identity” and illegal immigrants. Although proponents of the legislation say it is needed to ensure certain students are treated equitably, critics testifying at the bill’s Tuesday public hearing argued the definitions are not only confusing, but would put Washington’s K-12 system at risk of losing federal funding due to President Donald Trump's executive order in which the federal government only recognizes male and female sexes. |
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| K-12 Education Is Mediocre Because Teaching Colleges Set Mediocre Standards Prof. Nicholas Giordano Would you trust a surgeon who was never required to pass anatomy or board a plane with a pilot who didn’t have to demonstrate flying proficiency? Of course not. So why are millions of students forced into classrooms with underqualified teachers and professors who lack the skills, subject matter expertise, and training necessary to provide a quality education? New Jersey’s recent announcement that it will eliminate basic reading, writing, and mathematics proficiency exams for aspiring teachers is a symptom of a much broader problem. The real crisis is the failure of our education colleges to maintain high standards. |
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| Cruz Introduces Bill to Expand
Tax-Deferred Educational Savings Plans U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has introduced the Student Empowerment Act to expand a tax-deferred education savings plan previously expanded under the first Trump administration. The three-page bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit kindergarten through grade 12 educational expenses to be paid from a 529 account. A 529 account is a tax-advantaged savings account originally created as a way to help parents save money to cover colleges expenses. It allows for tax-exempt withdrawals at the federal level and in some states for qualified education expenses. |
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| Up to 250,000 Children Born to
Illegal Migrants in 2023: Preliminary Report The birthright citizenship debate exploded back into the national discourse this week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning it. Trump's ban was slated to take effect on Feb. 19, but a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked the order. Some experts believe the issue will eventually be settled by the Supreme Court. Should the ban eventually go into force, it would likely impact tens of thousands of children born to the parents of illegal immigrants. |
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| West Point Appears to End Its
Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor “West Point has ended its ‘Diversity and Inclusion Studies’ minor,” wrote former Department of Education Press and current spokesperson from the Defense of Freedom Institute Angela Morabito in a Wednesday X post. Morabito, a former fellow at Campus Reform, posted side-by-side pictures of the West Point website from Jan. 8 and Wednesday, showing that the DEI minor is no longer present on the academy’s “Majors and Minors” page. “The web page for the minor program has been scrubbed, too,” she added. |
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| Can Trump Make America
Safe Again? Heather Mac Donald Upon being nominated in 2021 to head Joe Biden’s Justice Department, Merrick Garland announced that the DOJ’s top priorities would be “ensuring racial equity” and “meeting the evolving threat of violent extremism.” The U.S. had just lived through race riots, mass looting, and the largest annual homicide increase in the country’s history. Americans were getting robbed at gunpoint while eating in restaurants; thieves were smashing trucks and SUVs into storefronts to make off with merchandise, cash registers, and ATMs. But when Garland and his boss referred to violent extremism, they were referring to white supremacists. |
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| No, CNN and BBC, 2024
Wasn’t the ‘Hottest Year on Record’ When ALL of the Available Evidence Is Considered Anthony Watts A number of mainstream media outlets have uncritically echoed the proclamation of 2024 being the “hottest year on record,” such as, CNN with a story titled, “2024 Confirmed as World’s Hottest Year on Record”, and the BBC with a headline that declared, “2024 Confirmed as Hottest Year Ever Recorded.” When these media reports are examined in long-term historical context of the available global temperature data, it becomes clear that the claims lack the certainty their headlines proclaim and are likely false or exaggerated. |
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| Appeals Court Deals Blow to
Obama-Era Amnesty for Dreamers A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy that provides amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. as children. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled unanimously that a new version of the policy issued by President Biden in 2022 overstepped the executive branch's authority. The decision by two Republican-appointed judges and one Democratic-appointed judge is the latest blow to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in a string of legal challenges that has kept 500,000 so-called Dreamers waiting for a resolution for more than a decade. |
Once again a Biden fantasy deals cruel blow to illegals used as political pawns |
| Biden’s DOJ Offers MS-13 Gang
Leader a Sweetheart Deal After at Least 7 Murders. Why? Vivek Saxena An MS-13 gang leader responsible for at least seven murders has been granted a veritable sweetheart plea deal by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ). Instead of receiving either the death penalty or life in prison, gang leader Jairo “Funny” Saenz, 28, received only 40 to 60 years in federal prison, according to the New York Post. He was reportedly all-smiles during the sentencing hearing. |
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| Weiss Report: Hunter’s Drug Use
Can’t Explain Away Not Paying Taxes on Money Earned by 'Last Name' "As a well-educated lawyer and businessman, Mr. Biden consciously and willfully chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over a four-year period. Weiss wrote in his final report, which was released Monday. "Mr. Biden made this money by using his last name and connections to secure lucrative business opportunities, such as a board seat at a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate, Burisma Holdings Limited, and a joint venture with individuals associated with a Chinese energy conglomerate. He negotiated and executed contracts and agreements that paid him millions of dollars for limited work," Weiss continued. |
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| One of Joe Biden’s Last Acts in
Office Laced with Cruel Irony John Loftus | Daily Caller News Foundation One of President Joe Biden’s last acts in office is laced with a terrible irony. On Monday, Biden honored one of the most incompetent and harmful presidents in American history. The president who was responsible for the Iraq invasion, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, who ripped apart American families and scarred veterans, who expanded the surveillance state and eroded civil liberties, all while throwing away trillions and trillions in tax dollars: George W. Bush. |
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| 'Make Greenland Great Again':
Trump's House GOP Allies Unveil Bill to Authorize Country's Purchase President-elect Donald Trump's House GOP allies are clearing the runway for him to make good on his vow to acquire Greenland. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is leading a bill to authorize Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark over purchasing Greenland, a territory located in North America but with longstanding cultural and geopolitical ties to Europe. The bill is titled the "Make Greenland Great Again Act," according to a copy of its text obtained by Fox News Digital. |
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| Chicago Official Slams Mayor's New
ICE Guidelines: 'Who is the mayor trying to protect?' Johnson on Friday released guidelines for how to handle ICE visits on city property, while reaffirming his administration's "commitment to the welcoming city ordinance." Bracing for a change in federal administration, the mayor’s office assured the city would continue to comply with the 2017 Illinois Trust Act, which prohibits local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration enforcement. |
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| Michael Rapaport Goes Ballistic On
Gavin Newsom Over LA Fires: ‘Trump-Proofing California? Try
Fire-Proofing' Actor Michael Rapaport went off on California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a video on Tuesday, telling the Democrat "there’s no more mistakes for you, you’re done!" The "Only Murders in the Building" actor said that "Gavin with the good hair Newsom" was talking about "Trump-proofing" California when he should have been focused on "fire-proofing" the state. "You’re talking about Trump this, Trump that. He’s not even president," the 54-year-old said in a video he posted to Instagram as the Southern California fires, which have burned thousands of homes, entered their second week. |
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| Fire, Snow and a Storm of Climate
Nonsense I & I Editorial Board It never takes long for the foolish to break out and Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t disappoint on Wednesday when he tweeted: “80,000 people told to evacuate. Blazes 0% contained. Eight months since the area has seen rain. The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable. Climate change is real, not ‘a hoax.’ Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is.” Unfortunately, he speaks for the many who are uninformed and naive, as well as those who want to use the man-made global warming narrative as a means to fundamentally change this country – and the West – into a political society run by leftists who, to borrow an applicable phrase, have difficulty resisting their authoritarian impulses. |
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| Shameless Kaine His Hypocrisy Is Worse Than You Know. John A. Lucas Virginia Senator Tim Kaine gave one of the more disgraceful performances in Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, and that’s saying something because he had some stiff competition. But you don’t know the half of it – his hypocrisy is worse than you know. |
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| Stacey Abrams Group to Pay Largest
Fine for Campaign Violations in Georgia History A voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams will pay $300,000 for illegally supporting her 2018 gubernatorial campaign – the largest fine ever assessed for violating Georgia campaign finance laws. Under a consent order approved by the State Ethics Commission on Wednesday, the New Georgia Project admitted it raised and spent millions of dollars to support Abrams’ unsuccessful campaign without registering as an independent political committee and disclosing its activities, as required by state law. |
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| Republican Congressional Members
Outraged Over Biden Plan to Remove Cuba from State Sponsor of Terrorism
List A high-level source U.S. government source with direct knowledge about Cuba confirmed to ADN Cuba that the Biden administration will remove the communist regime from the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. The source also stated that the decision came directly from the Democratic administration at the White House, not the State Department. The decision comes just six days before President Biden will relinquish power and President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in on Jan. 20 and has outraged prominent Republican members of the U.S. Congress. |
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| Can This Huge Oil Discovery Revive
the Bakken Oil Boom? Charles Kennedy – Oil Price.com North Dakota’s claim to oil fame has long been the Bakken shale, one of the top shale plays in the country. The Bakken is considered a rather mature play, but now, studies by researchers with the state’s Department of Natural Resources have opened up the prospect of a second life for the Bakken. It is called Three Forks – a reservoir that lies within the Bakken shale play and may contain as much as 250 million barrels of crude as of yet untapped. And that oil is not too deep in the ground either, the researchers determined. |
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| CNN Defamation Trial: Losing Case
Was Expected but Still a Bad Bruise for the Network, Insider Says "Being found liable for defamation and dishonesty is a bad thing," the employee said bluntly in a message to Fox News Digital. Navy veteran Zachary Young successfully alleged CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the "black market" during the Biden administration's military withdrawal from the country in 2021. Young believes CNN "destroyed his reputation and business" by branding him an illicit profiteer who exploited "desperate Afghans" during the Nov. 11, 2021, report that first aired on CNN’s "The Lead with Jake Tapper." |
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| The Post Adopts
a New Mission Statement John Sexton Yesterday we learned that hundreds of Washington Post staffers are begging Jeff Bezos to step in and possibly save them from looming decline after recent layoffs and several reporters leaving for other outlets. No word on whether Bezos will respond to that request for a meeting signed by 400 employees. But we do know that the paper is trying to convince employees they are not circling the drain but about to expand dramatically. The paper's official slogan remains "Democracy Dies in Darkness" but behind the scenes they are trying out something less goth: Riveting Storytelling for All of America. |
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| Texas A&M Cancels
Conference Trip Excluding White and Asian Students After Governor Backlash Texas A&M University pulled the brakes on an upcoming conference trip after Gov. Greg Abbott, R., discovered that only applicants of a particular race could attend. On Monday, conservative activist Christopher Rufo posted an image of the university promoting the PhD Project’s Annual Conference in Chicago. The application specified that the conference is "designed for historically underrepresented individuals considering business doctorial studies," and only Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic American or Native American/Canadian Indigenous students were eligible. |
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| Biden EV Road Trip Stunt Was Worse
Than First Thought I & I Editorial Board When Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her staff of clowns bungled a four-day ramble in 2023 to show off the wonder of electric vehicles, the lasting impression would be the report of her advance team blocking an open charger so she wouldn’t have to wait for one. A federal report, however, reveals details that cast the entire charade in an even worse light... |
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| AOC Mocked for Hysterical Rant
Defending Trans Athletes in Girls' Sports: 'Trans girls are girls!' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was once again the subject of a viral roast campaign after an unhinged rant on the House of Representatives floor on Tuesday. Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in a two-minute tirade that included both false and unsubstantiated claims. Her speech ended with an unexplained claim that "CEOs love this bill" as it relates to the ongoing California Wildfires. |
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| Teachers Union Webinar Encourages
Teachers to Oppose Trump, Make Students in U.S. Illegally 'Feel Less Afraid' The National Education Association hosted a webinar on Wednesday encouraging teachers to oppose President-elect Donald Trump on immigration reform, saying their goal is to make students who are in the country illegally "feel less afraid." "Right now, there are laws on the books that prohibit immigration agents from venturing on to school grounds, and so various people in the Trump administration would like to roll that back," Jennifer Berkshire, author of The Education Wars, said. |
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| Deport Millions, Finish
the Wall, Tax Remittances, and End Birthright Citizenship Victor Davis Hanson I want to talk about illegal immigration. You know, this is the point in our history that we’ve never been before. We have not a porous border, but no border at all. We’ve had somewhere between 10 [million] to 12 million illegal entrants since the Biden administration began. There is no real corpus of immigration law. It’s been destroyed. We’re at a historical period in our country, where 55 million people, never such a large number of people born outside the United States, that are residing here. In terms of percentages, almost 16% of the population was not born in the United States. |
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| In LA Fire Horror, California Elites Face the Consequences of Blue Misrule Karol Markowicz The vivid, heartbreaking images from this week’s Los Angeles wildfires called urgent attention to California’s longtime decline. But this time, those affected by its bad policies and bad governance include a demographic rarely touched by them: the rich. Over the last several years, California’s net out-migration numbers set records. |
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| Why We Must Expose the Criminal
Fraud of Those Behind Biden's Disastrous Presidency Martin Gurri January 20 will see the conclusion of the most extraordinary episode in the history of the American presidency. For the last four years, the supposed president, Joe Biden, has been the man who wasn’t there. Bloody and historic events – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ pogrom in Israel and the subsequent five-cornered Israel-Iran war – have shaken the world, yet Biden wasn’t there. Millions of non-Americans of every description, including terrorists, criminals, and members of the Cuban Communist Party, have swarmed over the Mexican border and flooded into our urban centers, costing billions of taxpayer dollars to support – and still Biden wasn’t there. |
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| America Just Averted Another
Potential Disaster, Union Boss Gives ‘full credit’ to Trump, NOT Biden It looks like America will avert a near disaster and the leader getting “full credit” is a slap in the face to the Biden administration. The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), the group representing ship line and terminal operators and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) reached a tentative deal on Wednesday that otherwise would have port workers go on strike on Jan. 16, CNN reported. ILA President Harold Daggett is calling President-elect Trump the “key” to helping his members “secure the greatest contract.” But the good news doesn’t end there. |
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| The Top 10 Lies of Liz Cheney and
the January 6th Committee Tristan Justice Disgraced ex-Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was awarded one of the highest civilian honors last week after House Republicans referred the vice chair of the since-disbanded Select Committee on Jan. 6 to the Justice Department for criminal charges. In December, however, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., released a nearly 130-page review of the Jan. 6 Committee’s work, concluding Cheney should face a criminal investigation for “witness tampering.” |
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| Climate Change Isn’t Responsible
for Disastrous Wildfires Susan Crockford Extended periods of hot weather and drought create ideal conditions for hard-to-fight forest fires. Although climate models predict that such weather conditions generated by human-caused global warming will increase the incidence of wildfires, recent wildfires cannot be blamed exclusively – or even primarily – on global warming: Weather-driven conditions conducive to forest fires have existed for millennia as a result of naturally occurring climate cycles. |
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| How Years of Corruption and
Mismanagement Led to LA Running Out of Water in the Middle of the Palisades Wildfire As Los Angeles firefighters faced down the most destructive blaze in the city’s history, they ran out of water. “The hydrants are down,” a firefighter said over the radio, according to the Los Angeles Times. Another chipped in: “Water supply just dropped.” Fire crews were forced to watch as entire blocks of the Pacific Palisades – one of the most scenic and celeb-packed neighborhoods in LA – were incinerated in a matter of hours late Tuesday and early Wednesday.  Los Angeles Wildfires Death Toll Rises to 16 As Gavin Newsom Faces New Firefighting Funding Scrutiny The LA Department of Water and Power is sticking to its narrative that all hydrants in Pacific Palisades were working just fine before the fires – even though a major reservoir was taken offline beforehand. Now the organization is facing further scrutiny after the county's $750,000-a-year water chief, Janisse Quinones, said her work is guided by an "equity" lens. Quinones said in a July interview with KBLA radio that the importance of putting an "equity lens" to the DWP was "the number one thing that attracted me to this role." California Fires: Multiple People Accused of Arson As Firestorm Rages in LA [Global Warming?!] As fire crews continue to work to extinguish deadly wildfires across Southern California, at least two people have been arrested in recent days, accused of trying to start fires in the area. The massive firefight began on Tuesday, Jan. 7 with the Palisades fire breaking out on the west side of Los Angeles. Since then, several other major fires have broken out in Los Angeles County, including the Eaton Fire in the Altadena and Pasadena area and the Kenneth Fire in West Hills. |
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| LAFD Asst. Chief's ‘disqualifying’
DEI Remarks Draw Fury: 'Criminal Negligence' Los Angeles Fire Department Assistant Chief Kristine Larson ignited fierce criticism when a self-promoting clip touting her ability to serve her community despite being a woman went viral. The beginning of the P.R. video shows Larson explaining how fire and medical victims want to be rescued by people “who look like” them, presumptively, if not ignorantly, claiming it puts the victim more at “ease.” Larson went on to defend her stance as a woman firefighter by answering concerns she’s presumably been pressured about: “Is she strong enough to do this?…. You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire,” she used as examples. “My response is,” Larson explained, “he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” |
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| LA Times Owner
Reminds Voters ‘Competence Matters’ When Electing Leaders Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong declared that “competence matters” when electing state and local officials. The entrepreneur took to social media amid the deadly and destructive California wildfires to “hit American voters with an ‘I told you so’ about their elected leaders’ response” to the catastrophe, as noted by Fox News. |
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| Snail Darter Revisited: Famous Fish
That Halted a Dam's Construction Is Not Endangered After All A team of ecologists, evolutionary biologists and resource managers affiliated with several institutions across the U.S. has found that the snail darter, which was famously used by environmentalists in the 1970s to block construction of a damn, is not actually a distinct fish species. In their study, published in the journal Current Biology, the group used standard species determination testing to investigate the distinctiveness of the snail darter. A quick study of the fish suggested it was unique and at risk of extinction if the dam was built. That fish, the snail darter, soon became a symbol for the use of an endangered species as a way to prevent the development of projects across the country in the ensuing years. |
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| When Did Changing Weather Become
Climate Change? Brian C. Joondeph What’s the difference between weather and climate? Let’s ask the expert class, the governmental National Weather Service. "Weather is defined as the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and barometric pressure. Climate is defined as the expected frequency of specific states of the atmosphere, ocean, and land, including variables such as temperature, salinity, soil moisture, wind speed and direction, and current strength and direction. It encompasses the weather over different periods of time and also relates to mutual interactions between the components of the earth system (e.g., atmospheric composition, volcanic eruptions, changes in the earth’s orbit around the sun, and changes in the energy from the sun itself)." |
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| Judge Merchan Tries to Defend
Himself After Trump Sentencing – But He and Bragg Are Responsible for This Monster Jonathan Turley Acting Justice Juan Merchan admitted that the case was “unique and remarkable” but insisted that “once the courtroom doors were closed, the trial itself was no more special, unique, and extraordinary than the other 32 cases in this courthouse.” If so, that is a damning indictment of the entire New York court system. Merchan allowed a dead misdemeanor to be resuscitated by allowing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively prosecute declined federal offenses. He allowed a jury to convict Trump without any agreement, let alone unanimity, on what actually occurred in the case. |
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| Pay Up, Mr. Mann The Editors National Review For more than eight years, the climate scientist Michael Mann harassed National Review through litigation over a blog post – until, eventually, the First Amendment brought an end to his attack. This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days. It is time for him to get out his checkbook, and sign on the dotted line. This restitution is welcome, if incomplete. As was made clear during the discovery process, Mann’s explicitly stated intention was to use a “major lawsuit” as a vehicle with which to “ruin National Review.” |
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| Behind Trump’s Expansionist Rhetoric Thomas Gallatin Donald Trump wants to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal, as well as rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. For good measure, he’s joked about making Canada the 51st state. Furthermore, he’s willing to use force to make it all happen – at least, that’s what the mainstream media reports. So, what is Trump really up to? Well, it’s a bit of typical Trumpian hyperbole mixed with actual intentions sprinkled with just the right amount of trolling to keep everyone flummoxed. Does Trump really want Greenland? Is Trump really willing to use force to take the Panama Canal? Would Trump really annex Canada, making our neighbor to the north the 51st state? Is Trump serious about renaming the Gulf of Mexico? |
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| Surprise! Hegseth’s ‘crypto-nazi
tattoo’ Prominently Featured at Jimmy Carter’s Funeral?  Social
media couldn’t help but poke fun at one hysterical lawmaker’s fear of
Pete Hegseth’s Christian tattoo, only for the same symbol to make an
appearance during President Jimmy Carter’s funeral. As BizPac Review
previously reported, Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote a 33-page
smear campaign on President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary
of Defense, Hegseth. One of the points of contention she had was a
prominent “Deus Vult” tattoo, which she claimed people believed made
him a possible “insider threat.” So imagine her shock when
the same
symbol featured on Hegseth’s chest was found on both the floor and the
funeral program cover at Carter’s service. |
“Deus Vult” tattoo, which translates to “God’s will.” |
| Only 5 Percent of U.S. Car Buyers
Want an EV Only 5 percent of U.S. consumers want their next vehicle to be a battery electric vehicle, according to a new survey by Deloitte. The consulting company gathered data from more than 31,000 people across 30 countries as part of its 2025 Global Automotive Consumer Study, and some of the results are rather interesting, as they pertain to technologies like new powertrains, connectivity, and artificial intelligence. Among U.S. consumers, internal combustion engines (ICE) remain number one, with 62 percent indicating that their next car will not be electrified. Another 1 in 5 would like a hybrid for their next vehicle, with a further 6 percent desiring a plug-in hybrid |
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| Energy Secretary’s Not-So-Excellent
EV Adventure Emmy Griffin Summer road trips are always an experience, as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm just found out. Granholm set off on a four-day excursion in an attempt to promote the ease, convenience, and necessity of electric vehicles (EVs)... Granholm’s biggest hiccup happened just as she was traveling through Grovetown near Augusta, Georgia. Granholm and her team needed to stop for a fast charge, and her gas-powered advanced team encountered a major problem. The charging stations were almost full, so one of the team members used their non-electric vehicle to save the last free charging station for the energy secretary. |
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| Financial Tracking of Ohio Gun
Buyers Banned Gun owners in Ohio won’t have to worry about firearm purchases being tracked by financial institutions or having to carry liability insurance. Senate Bill 58, one of a series of bills signed into law late Wednesday by Gov. Mike DeWine, received backing from pro-gun organizations like the National Rifle Association and Buckeye Firearms. But the Ohio Mayors Alliance and the Ohio Municipal League both opposed it. Known as the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, the new law stops government entities from keeping a list of privately owned firearms or firearm owners and prohibits banks and other financial institutions from assigning a firearms code in a way that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers. |
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| Media's Latest Alito Conspiracy
Theory Is Particularly Ridiculous Mollie Hemingway Left-wing media breathlessly reported Wednesday that Associate Justice Samuel Alito provided a job reference on behalf of one of his former clerks to President-elect Donald Trump. “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position. I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon,” Alito told ABC News, which broke the shocking news that an employer gave a job reference for one of his former employees. |
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| Mel Gibson Tells Joe Rogan He
'couldn’t walk for three months' Thanks to Fauci's 'lethal' Advice Legendary actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson revealed this week that he couldn’t walk for months after he took the Fauci-backed COVID drug Remdesivir. “I got COVID from my gardener,” he began. “He had it first, and then I got it. … I knew the guy for 20 years, and we both went to the same hospital, and he died, and I didn’t.” “I think we both got Remdesivr, which is not good … not good,” he added. |
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| Laken Riley Act Passes House with
48 Dems, All Republicans The Laken Riley Act passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, the first piece of federal legislation approved by the 119th Congress after the House agreed to its rules for the term. All voting Republicans supported the bill, along with 48 Democrats – more than the total left-wing lawmakers who voted for it last year. It passed on a 264 to 159 margin and will now be sent to the Senate. |
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| Our Out-of-Control Federal Law
Enforcement Agencies Ryan Cleckner In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home. It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported. Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their responsibility to protect the rights of those who elect them, the ATF has suffered no repercussions. How and why did this killing take place? |
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| Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden
Admin's Title IX Rewrite A federal judge in Kentucky blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine sex in Title IX as "gender identity," striking down the change nationwide. The U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky Northern Division made the ruling in Cardona v. Tennessee on Thursday. "Another massive win for TN and the country!" Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a post on X. "This morning, a federal court ruled in our favor and vacated the Biden admin's radical new Title IX rule nationwide. |
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| Minnesota May Deny Licenses If
Teachers Don’t Affirm LGBT Identities Current and aspiring teachers will need to ensure they are sufficiently in support of the LGBT agenda in order to have a license to teach in Minnesota under rules set to go into effect this July. Minnesota’s new “Standards of Effective Practice” require teachers to “[foster] an environment that ensures student identities,” including “sexual orientation,” are “historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves.” |
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| Minnesota School District Removes
LGBTQ Children's Book with Nudity, Despite Objections Kristine Parks  A
Minnesota public school district defended its decision to pull an LGBTQ
children's book from its elementary school shelves, despite facing
objections from some parents and school librarians. Rochester Public
Schools said it pulled the 2022 book, "The Rainbow Parade" by Emily
Neilson, from its elementary school media center last month after a
Franklin Elementary School parent raised concerns about nude
illustrations in the book. The book tells a story about a young girl
going to her first Pride parade with her two moms. Several pages within
the book have illustrations depicting full or partial public nudity,
including two men in bondage gear. |
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| Days After Scrapping 'Politically
Biased' Fact-Checkers, Meta Axes DEI Programs Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is cutting its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring, training, and picking suppliers. The company has also eliminated its DEI-focused team and will instead build programs "that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background," according to a Friday memo by Vice President of Human Resources Janelle Gale, Axios reported. |
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| What
Everyone Is Missing in the Argument Over Mass Deportation Hans von Spakovsky “Illegals must go,” Tom Homan, the incoming Border Czar, has declared – and he and President-elect Trump mean that literally. Critics have a pat response: It is not physically or financially possible to implement the largest deportation program in our history. But they’re missing a critical tool: the ability of the entire executive branch to create conditions that will help induce self-deportation by many aliens. Trump and Homan have already indicated that they’re going to focus the Department of Homeland Security’s resources on the worst-of-the-worst, in what we can call a “catch-and-deport” program, in contrast to the “catch-and-release or, don’t-even-bother-to-catch” program of the past four years. |
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| Don’t Let Democrats or
Media Get Away with Their Lies Nina Bookout The Democrats and media would like us to ignore all the lies they’ve peddled since Joe Biden started his campaign in 2020. We can’t and shouldn’t let them get away with any of it. I agree that the Democrat party was the worst party of the year. I also believe they’ve been the worst party for the last two decades or more. That said, they sincerely hope we’ll just sweep all their lies under the rug and pretend the last four years, 2024 in particular, never happened. |
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| Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to
Announce Resignation As Early As Monday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly expected to resign from his position as early as Monday, according to Canadian media. The news was first reported by the Globe and Mail on Sunday night, citing three sources. The outlet said that it is unclear when exactly the Liberal Party leader will step down, but a resignation is expected to come before a national caucus meeting on Wednesday. The news comes as Trudeau's popularity continues to dwindle in Canada, which has a national election planned for Oct. 20 of this year. The country continues to suffer from a housing crisis, a declining per-capita GDP and high inflation, among other issues. |
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| Journos Who Joined Gaslighting On
Biden's Decline Should Never Live It Down NY Post Editorial Board President-elect Donald Trump is forcing the Democratic politicians who spent years lying about President Biden’s senility to take their bitter medicine, but we’re more concerned about the toady media who played along. Trump on Monday posted a video showing clip after cringe-worthy clip of Democratic leaders from Rep. Nancy Pelosi to Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas denying again and again that Biden was mentally and physically deteriorating, claiming he was “sharp,” “on his game,” “focused” and that “his age is an asset.” |
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| Joe Biden's Senior Moments (We Told
You So Edition) Thaleigha Rampersad and Andrew Stiles As Joe Biden nears the end of his failed term as president, a handful of mainstream journalists are finally starting to admit what most Americans already knew: The people (mostly journalists and other Democratic partisans) who kept insisting Biden was fit to serve another four years in the White House were profoundly wrong. |
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| Trump Says New York Judge Should Be
Disbarred After Refusal to Throw Out Hush Money Conviction President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday called for Judge Juan Merchan to be disbarred after he rejected Trump's bid to toss out his conviction in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case. "The judge should be disbarred!" Trump wrote in a lengthy TRUTH Social post. "This is why people, and companies, are FLEEING New York – A corrupt court system." |
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| Holy Omelet! Blue State Blues: Eggs
Hit $9 a Dozen in California Some parts of California have seen a dozen eggs hit a cost of nearly $9 recently in another failure for Gavin Newsom’s Commie Paradise. Fox Business blamed an alleged bird flu pandemic, which has been used as an excuse to kill millions of birds these last couple of years. Democrats’ terrible economic policies no doubt also contribute to higher prices, as they have across America under the Biden-Harris administration. In fact, as of Nov. 2023, U.S. egg prices had tripled since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office. Prices are set to rise again as of the end of 2024, most especially, it appears, in Commiefornia. |
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| Hamas Fires Long-Range Rockets at
Jerusalem, Refuses to Provide List of Living Hostages “According to the IDF, two rockets were launched from Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip towards Jerusalem before being successfully intercepted,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “Earlier on Saturday, additional rockets from the strip activated sirens in the Gaza border communities of Mefalsim and Nir Am in southern Israel.” |
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a Little Honesty About Israel Victor Davis Hanson Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protestors. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion after October 7 from the Biden administration. Here are 10 of their most common untruths about October 7 and the war that followed. |
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| Adam Schiff Raked Over the Coals
When Resurfaced Video Puts Him at Center of the ‘Big Lie’ A resurfaced video of then-Rep. Adam Schiff has sparked a new call for accountability for the newly minted-Democrat senator. As the curtain is pulled back on the truth about President Joe Biden’s mental decline, which Democrats like Schiff vehemently denied, clips have been circulating online showing the many egregious lies and verbal gymnastics employed to cover up what everyone could plainly see. Schiff’s questioning of then-Special Counsel Robert Hur before a congressional committee has sparked renewed condemnation for the California Democrat who blasted Hur for the way he portrayed Biden after investigating his mishandling of classified documents. |
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| Another Horrifying Subway Attack
Rocks Dem-Run City As Cops Detail Assault, Attacker Caught A man is in critical condition after he was shoved onto New York City subway tracks on New Year's Eve, adding to a recent spate of violent incidents in the nation's busiest subway system. The victim, a 45-year-old man, miraculously survived being struck by an incoming 1 train at the 18th Street station. He suffered a head injury and was listed in stable condition at Belleve Hospital on Tuesday night, the New York Post reported. "By God’s own hand, he fell perfectly in the trench," one law enforcement source told the Post. |
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| FBI Releases New Video, Information in Hunt for Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber A video compilation produced by the FBI shows a new angle of the suspect placing one of the pipe bombs outside of the DNC headquarters just blocks from the Capitol, as well as an enhanced map showing the route the suspect walked that evening. The video further includes a graphic showing the FBI's estimate of the suspect's height -- which agents have calculated is 5 feet 7 inches, and animation showing the specific pair of Nike shoes the person was wearing. |
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| New Orleans Police Superintendent
Career: Fired from Oakland, Teaches FBI Group's Diversity Course [aka DEI] New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, who has been leading the city’s response to the New Year’s Day terrorist attack, was previously fired from her police chief position in Oakland, Calif., and teaches an FBI group’s leadership training program course on diversity. Kirkpatrick has more than 35 years of policing experience, according to her bio, with 20 years as a police chief. Her record also includes hitting two pedestrians while driving in New Orleans’ French Quarter in August and creating a gun-free zone around a police station there, by placing a vocational-technical school inside it. |
DEI is killing Americans. Imagine what horror stories we never hear! |
| FBI Declines to Say Whether It Will
Fire, Discipline Agent Who Said Attack Was 'Not a Terrorist Event' The FBI has remained silent on whether it will fire or discipline the agent who initially told the media and public that the shocking New Year's Day attack in New Orleans was "not a terrorist event," before the agency quickly backtracked and reported the attack was in fact under investigation as a terror incident. Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI's press office and press secretary on Thursday and Friday, inquiring whether New Orleans field office FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan would face termination or disciplinary action over her initial claim the attack was not connected to terrorism, but did not receive replies. Fox Digital also called the FBI press office on Friday morning but could not leave a message regarding the inquiry as the voicemail box was full. |
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| The Anti-Drone Laser Is Fast
Approaching Guy J. Sagi While mysterious flocks of what might be drones plague the skies over the United States, across the pond, the British Army successfully tested a radical new and highly effective anti-UAV weapon in early December. It doesn’t rely on a projectile or propellant, firing solutions are computer controlled and it’s mobile – although hardly light enough for a Russian weightlifting team on steroids to haul around. It works by directing an intense beam of infrared light in the form of energy toward its target… |
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| U.S Mulls New Rules to Limit or Ban
Chinese Drones Due to National Security Concerns The Commerce Department said Thursday it is considering rules that could limit or even ban the sale of Chinese-made drones in the U.S. – a move that follows growing alarm over a disturbing series of unidentified drone sightings in New Jersey and New York. The department is seeking public comments by March 4 to bolster security in the U.S. drone supply chain – and cited “acute threats from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia” that “may offer our adversaries the ability to remotely access and manipulate these devices, exposing sensitive U.S. data.” |
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| New Year’s Resolution to Embrace
CO2 Emissions and Benefits Vijay Jayaraj Scientific advancement and agricultural technology have revolutionized food production, enabling humanity to feed more readily a ballooning population. And working behind these celebrated innovations is an unacknowledged but indispensable contributor to the world’s growing food security: rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The very molecule that has been wrongly branded as a doomsday gas has been contributing to increasing yields for essential crops like rice, wheat and soybeans. |
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| How Biden Screwed the Steelworkers Ethan Dodd Back in April, when President Joe Biden was still running for reelection, he told a gathering of steelworkers in Pittsburgh that “I have your back.” On Friday morning, just three weeks before leaving office, he stuck a knife in their backs. He did so by blocking Japan’s Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9 billion purchase of the once-iconic, now-declining U.S. Steel. The ostensible rationale was “national security.” As Biden put it in a statement Friday morning, “It is my solemn responsibility as president to ensure that, now and long into the future, America has a strong domestically owned and operated steel industry.” |
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| Biden Gives Last-Minute Student
Loan Handout as He Abandons Broader Initiative Biden will forgive $4.28 billion in student loans for 54,900 eligible public sector workers through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, established by Congress in 2007 and expanded under his administration, the White House announced Friday. Biden will, however, scrap his pending regulations for broader student loan forgiveness, which remain tangled in legal challenges. |
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| New Biden Water Heater Ban Will Drive Up Energy Prices for Poor, Seniors The Biden administration is banning certain natural gas water heaters from the market as part of its climate change agenda, a move critics say will jack up energy costs for low-income and senior households. The move in the final days of the administration will take non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters off the shelves by 2029 in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which climate change advocates and President Biden say cause global warming. |
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| Biden Went Postal with Green
Ripoffs, But What If We Just Unloaded the Thing by Privatizing It? Duggan Flanakin As Donald Trump prepares to resume his role as U.S. President in January, perhaps the most important work under his auspices will be that of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Americans are waiting with bated breath foraudits of the Department of Defense, which just failed its seventh straight audit, and other federal agencies. The mammoth job being undertaken by Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and their cohorts will surely include a stern review of “climate crisis” spending, much of it from the Biden-Harris $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 that dwarfed the $831 billion from the Obama-Biden American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. |
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| As Extreme Cold Threatens U.S.
Electricity Supply, Grid Watchdog Issues Dire Warning to Suppliers The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a nonprofit international regulatory authority overseeing electricity reliability on the grid, is urging all the industries involved in delivering electricity to consumers to take steps to avoid potentially deadly blackouts. “I’m asking everyone in the electricity supply chain – from natural gas producers to pipeline operators, to system operators, to power generators, and the utilities themselves – to take all appropriate actions to ensure that we can maintain an uninterrupted supply of electricity to customers, so that January will be warm and bright for everyone,” NERC CEO Jim Robb said in a statement on the nonprofit’s Youtube Channel. |
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| Renewable Disaster: "Puerto Rico was without power yesterday after a widespread failure in the fragile electricity grid triggered a island-wide blackout" Doug Sheridan PR has one of the most expensive and least reliable power systems in the nation, with frequent outages plaguing residents. This outage was the most extensive since Hurricane Ernesto hit in Aug, leaving roughly half the island without power. Efforts to modernize the grid have been slow, stoking anger among residents, whose daily lives are often disrupted. When Jenniffer Gonzalez takes over as Puerto Rico governor later this week she'll have her hands full. Her solution is to drop some of Puerto Rico’s clean energy targets in favor of using more LNG. |
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| Three Major Financial Firms Join
Exodus from Climate Group, Bringing Total to Five in Past Month The new year is starting off with more bad news for environment, social and governance (ESG) investing. Citigroup and Bank of America announced Tuesday that they were leaving the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, Reuters reported. Then on Thursday, Morgan Stanley announced it too was terminating its membership with the group, according to Bloomberg. Morgan Stanley and Citigroup each said they remain committed to progress in achieving net-zero emissions. Last month, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs withdrew from the alliance. |
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| FEMA Fumbles Big Time on Promise to
Deliver Houses for NC Families; Meanwhile, the Amish Come Through A new year and President Joe Biden’s imminent exit drew more attention to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s shocking failure in North Carolina. Months after Hurricane Helene barreled into the state and upended lives and property, FEMA’s embarrassing progress in getting help to North Carolina storm victims has again come under scrutiny. Despite promises to get temporary homes for 26 families by Christmas, FEMA allegedly made good on only three. |
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| Gutsy Woman, 71, Fends Off Violent
Attack By 4 Teen Girls on Blue City Subway An unflinching 71-year-old woman gave a group of would-be teen muggers a taste of their own medicine when they tried to mug the senior on her way to church on New Year’s Day. The gutsy straphanger fought off the four female teens as they punched and stomped on her during the botched robbery on the New York City subway system, the latest in a string of crimes on the Big Apple’s crime-ridden transit network. |
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| Blue State Ends Basic Reading and
Writing Skills Test Requirement for Teachers Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy, D., in June, went into effect on Wednesday at the start of the new year. The law aims to tackle teacher shortages in the state by removing what the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a teachers’ union, called a "barrier" to certification in 2023. |
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| $450,000 Settlement for Ohio
Teacher Who Refused to Use Students’ Pronouns An Ohio school district will pay $450,000 to a middle school teacher who resigned for refusing to address two transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns. Jackson Local School District reached a settlement in December with the teacher, Vivian Geraghty, after she claimed in a 2022 lawsuit her First Amendment rights were violated when she was told to resign from a middle school language arts position. |
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| Apple to Pay $95 Million to Settle
Lawsuit Accusing Siri of Eavesdropping Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade. |
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