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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end
for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." —C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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Political Violence on the Rise.
Is It Time for a New Domestic Terrorism Law?

Paul Mauro
The media continue to bend over backward to avoid the overtly political nature of the murders of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson – while President Donald Trump has taken the step of "designating" Antifa as a terrorist organization. So, with political violence on the rise – undeniably from the left – will we finally see federal terrorism charges against domestic actors committing political violence on the home front? Will the likes of Tyler Robinson and Luigi Mangione now face federal terrorism charges? Alas, as the law is currently constructed, we will not.

Inflammatory Democrat Rhetoric and the Dallas ICE Assault
Nate Jackson
Words are not violence, but words certainly can incite violence – especially when our elected officials demonize law enforcement as the "Gestapo" and "slave patrols." ... Across the street from the Dallas ICE facility, the assailant, 29-year old Joshua Jahn, was found dead of suicide with a bolt-action rifle similar to the one used to assassinate Charlie Kirk. A stripper clip with rifle rounds included one with “ANTI-ICE” written on the casing, and similar messages on other casings. Authorities say he “fired indiscriminately,” hitting both the ICE building and an unmarked transport van, holding the detainee victims.

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Week ending 28 September 2025

Dearborn and the American Future
Douglas Andrews
A sizable Michigan city is now majority Arab-American, and its political leadership has made it clear that dissenting American opinions are unwelcome... Dearborn, whose population is around 110,000 and which forms the western border of Detroit, is now somewhere north of 55% Arab-American and counting, which is a 7% increase from the city’s 2019 census data. It is represented in Congress by none other than Rashida Tlaib, Madam River-to-the-Sea herself, who flies the Palestinian flag outside her Capitol Hill office, spews Jew-hating/pro-Hamas propaganda, and has employed Hamas-linked activists on her political campaigns.
Tlaib’s Ties to Hamas
Dearborn Mayor Refuses to Apologize for Telling
Christian Minister He Was 'Not Welcome Here'

Jasmine Baehr, Fox News
At Dearborn, Michigan’s first city council meeting since his clash with a local Christian minister went viral after a heated exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined to apologize for his saying the minister was “not welcome here” and that he would “launch a parade” when he left town. Ted Barham, the same Christian minister, opened his remarks at Tuesday’s meeting by repeating the words that went viral at the previous one on Sept. 9. “The mayor, in a way, cursed me, as was seen around the world. And I would like to repeat what I said that day to you, Mr. Mayor: ‘God bless you,’” Barham said.
CNN Promotes ICE-Tracking App
Emmy Griffin
Democrats are getting dangerously close to putting themselves in the category of enemies of the American people. Their latest stunt comes courtesy of CNN. In a recent, now-infamous segment, newscasters told viewers about a new app called ICEBlock. This app enables users to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in real-time. Users are anonymous, and the app deletes the information every four hours to prevent spamming. If ICE officers are spotted, users can input that information onto the app’s map, which then sends a push notification to users within a five-mile radius. According to Fox News, “The app’s creator, Joshua Aaron … said he was inspired to create ICEBlock as a way to fight back against deportation efforts which he claimed were reminiscent of Nazi Germany.”
Does CNN Have Blood on Its Hands in Anti-ICE Shooting?
Matt Margolis
The anti-ICE shooting in Dallas this week wasn’t just the act of a deranged gunman. It was the predictable outcome of years of media-driven demonization of immigration enforcement. The left’s rhetoric lit the match, but it’s the corporate press that kept pouring gasoline on it. FBI investigators say this was no spontaneous outburst. It was premeditated, deliberate, and designed to terrorize immigration officers. The shooter, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, left a note making his intent crystal clear: “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP [armor piercing] rounds on that roof?’”
Trump Administration Says It Has Located
25,000 Missing Illegal Migrant Children So Far

Trump border czar Tom Homan last week told reporters that he was called back to service with three main goals: Securing the border, running President Donald Trump's deportation effort, and finding the missing children who were brought into the United States illegally under the Biden administration. "They’ve already located just under 25,000," Homan told Fox News. "Some of these children were fine, with parents just hiding because they didn’t want to be deported. But many were in sex trafficking. Many we found in forced labor, slavery. I mean forced to work ungodly hours, not going to school. [They were] not getting paid, being abused.”
More to the story
Jan. 6 Subcommittee Zeroes in on
Paid Informants at the Capitol Riot

The chairman of the new House subcommittee aimed at uncovering the truth behind the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., says his panel is concerned about the dozens of paid, federal informants present during the demonstrations, and is concerned that the intelligence they gathered was not properly shared with law enforcement. “And so my question is, you know…our FBI does pay to have informants through different organizations, and their primary job is intelligence, you know, to provide information. But, with that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?” Loudermilk continued.

FBI's Patel Clarifies Role of
Hundreds of Agents on Jan 6, Says Wray Lied to Congress

"Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police – something that goes against FBI standards," Patel told Fox News Digital. "This was the failure of a corrupt leadership that lied to Congress and to the American people about what really happened." He added, "Thanks to agents coming forward, we are now uncovering the truth. We are fully committed to transparency, and justice and accountability continues with this FBI."
The Schumer Shutdown and Comey Comeuppance
Clarice Feldman
Clarice's Pieces
To my mind, the two biggest stories of the week for their domestic impact are Senator Chuck Schumer’s threatened government shutdown and the indictment of former FBI head James Comey. Neither of them bodes well for the Democrats, whose favorability ratings are already scraping bottom. Both revolve around the magic date September 30, that is, this Tuesday. If Congress does not pass a continuing resolution this Tuesday, the government will shut down. Schumer insists that he won’t vote for a stopgap bill, something centrists in his party like Senator Jeanne Shaheen are seeking. Schumer, along with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, has said that he will not vote for a continuing resolution unless there’s a restoration of the $1.5 trillion in cuts contained in the One Beautiful Bill enacted into law in July and the rescissions Trump wanted and got.
Massive Cheating Scandal Involving
Democratic Governor Candidate Also Involved Husband

A massive cheating scandal that rocked the U.S. Naval Academy in 1994 and involved New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill also involved her husband, Jason Hedberg, according to reporting by the New York Post. This follows the improper release of bombshell private military records by the National Archives and Records Administration, which revealed that Sherrill was not allowed to walk with her graduating class at the Naval Academy and that her name was not included in the commencement program due to her involvement in the scandal. Sherrill, a congresswoman representing New Jersey, has not been accused of cheating at the Naval Academy but rather of failing to report those who had cheated on an exam.
No helicopter invovled
Hypocrite Democrats Are
Driving Us Off the Government Shutdown Cliff

Mike Lawler
For years, Democrats have thundered from every podium, press conference and Sunday show that any government shutdown is reckless, destructive and indefensible. Whenever Congress hits a budget impasse over federal funding, Democrats have decried it as a “hostage situation.” They have said shutdowns hurt families, seniors, farmers, veterans and small businesses. They have demanded compromise. Now? Those same Democrats are suddenly just fine with plunging the American people into a shutdown – because it suits their political agenda. The House last week, ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline, passed a bill to keep funding the government at its current levels for eight more weeks – but Senate Democrats blocked it, demanding billions in new spending as ransom for its passage. The hypocrisy could not be more apparent.
U.S. Economy Grew Faster Than Expected in the Second Quarter
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Thursday released its third and final estimate of second-quarter GDP, which showed the economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.8% in the April through June period. That figure was hotter than the 3.3% estimate of economists polled by LSEG, and came in higher than the Commerce Department's initial second-quarter GDP estimate of 3%.
New York Times Reports DOJ Is Investigating George Soros
The New York Times is reporting that a “senior Justice Department official” has directed “more than a half dozen U.S. attorney’s offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros.” Soros is the notorious Democrat donor and billionaire mastermind behind a lot of the Left’s attempts to gain power and control in America. Now it appears we may get a peek behind that curtain. According to the Times report, its reporters had the chance to view a copy of the DOJ official’s memo detailing a list of charges that could be filed against Soros’s Open Society Foundations. These include racketeering, arson, wire fraud, and providing material support for terrorism.
Ex-Soros Fund Manager Indicted, Accused of
Abusing Women in Manhattan ‘sex dungeon’

A former Soros Fund Management portfolio manager has been indicted on charges of luring women – including former Playboy models – to his Manhattan penthouse with a room outfitted with a soundproof "dungeon," where prosecutors say he subjected them to violent sexual abuse. Howard Rubin, 70, a retired New York financier also known as "Howie" and "H," has been indicted alongside Jennifer Powers, 45, his longtime assistant, on federal sex trafficking and bank fraud charges.
Meet the British Billionaire
Bankrolling Leftist Causes Across America

Shawn Fleetwood
Left-wing politics have utterly destroyed the once-respected nation of Great Britain. And now, its elites are seeking to subsidize these same destructive ideologies throughout the United States. On Wednesday, the good government group Americans for Public Trust (APT) released a bombshell report unearthing the extensive financial activity of British billionaire Christopher Hohn in U.S. political causes. Through the use of his nonprofit, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Hohn has “funneled over $553 million into U.S. organizations from 2014 through 2023 to bankroll advocacy campaigns and push a radical green energy agenda,” according to the analysis.
Tylenol, Autism, and Team Trump
Thomas Gallatin
Does Tylenol cause autism? Well, according to the Trump administration, it just might. “Taking Tylenol is not good,” President Donald Trump asserted in a major announcement regarding recent assessments his administration has made into addressing the growing problem of autism. Trump noted that pregnant women may want to avoid taking Tylenol unless they spike a very high fever. “Don’t take Tylenol,” the president said. “Don’t take it. Fight like hell not to take it.” He concluded, “There’s a lot of common sense in this.”
FBI’s New York Boss Puts Gangs on Notice in
AOC’s Crime-Riddled 'Red-Light' District

The FBI has warned it is getting ready to smash and dismantle the transnational gangs who have helped transform a busy commercial strip in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district into a crime-infested hot spot blighted by illegal prostitution, drugs, human trafficking and violence. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Christopher Raia, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the New York office, said he has deployed multiple squads to patrol the troubled two-mile strip along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens and said that agents are aggressively working with the NYPD to "cut off the head of the snake" in terms of the gangs’ hierarchy. The area is also represented by Rep. Grace Meng, a progressive Democrat like Ocasio-Cortez.
Secret Service Dismantles 'imminent' Telecomm Threat in NY Region, Amid UN General Assembly Session
A network of electronic devices throughout the New York tristate area was dismantled by the Secret Service, according to the agency. The network was used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed at senior U.S. government officials. Through the investigation, the agency discovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites. The devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the UN General Assembly. The investigation is ongoing.
A Death Blow to Globalism?
Trump’s UN Speech Sets Up a U.S. Pivot

President Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech to the United Nations General Assembly saw him excoriate the international body as ineffective and forecast Washington putting more distance between itself and the UN. Trump accused the United Nations of leaving the job of peacekeeping to him, highlighting the many global conflicts that he resolved in the first seven months of his presidency. Among those, Trump managed to speedily resolve conflicts between India and Pakistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Rwanda and the Congo. “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal,” he lamented.
UN Delivers Final Nail in the Coffin of 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal,
Set to Impose Snapback Sanctions

After President Donald Trump exited the deal in his first term and bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities in his second, the United Nations Security Council hammered the final nail into the coffin of the 2015 nuclear agreement by voting Friday to reimpose UN sanctions on the regime at the end of the month. The vote came after other signatories of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, invoked a “snapback” mechanism to restore the global body’s sanctions against the Iranian government over its illicit nuclear program. This is the third major blow to the Iranian regime and its nuclear ambitions this year. It follows Israeli strikes against military targets throughout the country and an ambitious American bombing of the regime’s key nuclear sites.
U.S. Bans Iranian Officials from Shopping at
Costco, Sam’s Club While Attending UN

The State Department issued a statement indicating that Iranian diplomats working at the U.N. headquarters would not be able to access “wholesale club stores and luxury goods” while in the country. The Iranian officials would also be restricted in their movements through the U.S., with them being limited to “areas strictly necessary to transit to and from the UN headquarters district to conduct their official UN business.” “We will not allow the Iranian regime to allow its clerical elites to have a shopping spree in New York while the Iranian people endure poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and dire shortages of water and electricity,” Thomas Pigott, a Department of State spokesperson, said in a statement. “The United States will not allow the Iranian regime to use [U.N. General Assembly] as an excuse to travel freely in New York to promote its terrorist agenda.”
U.S. Treasury's Support for Argentina Gives
Peso, Milei Friendly Leg-Up, for Now

UJavier Milei.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's pledge of "large and forceful" actions to stabilize Argentina's wobbling currency by using a 91-year-old U.S. crisis fund could help the peso find its footing, at least for a while. Bessent's backstop for Argentina with Treasury's occasionally used $219.5 billion Exchange Stabilization Fund sent the peso and other Argentine assets soaring after major losses last week. But he said decisions on any U.S. intervention would come after he and President Donald Trump meet with Argentine President Javier Milei in New York on Tuesday.
Trump Offers Support for Argentina's Milei
Iryna’s Law, Restart of N.C. Death Penalty
Awaits Gov Stein Decision

Iryna’s Law (named for Iryna Zarutska, 23, was murdered on light rail train), removing judicial hurdles for the death penalty, finished swift passage in the General Assembly on Tuesday evening and now awaits a decision from first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein. The legislation will stop cashless bail for some charges; removes broad discretion of magistrates; and makes it more difficult for repeat offenders to get out of jail. There is a new category of “violent offenses” that require certain conditions for pretrial release, inclusive of GPS monitoring.
Pentagon Seeks Trump Approval for First
U.S. Military Execution in 60 Years Following Ft. Hood Mass Shooting

The Pentagon is preparing to ask President Donald Trump to authorize the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of carrying out the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, a senior Department of Defense official told The Daily Caller News Foundation. If approved, it would be the first U.S. military execution in more than six decades. Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in the attack. Hasan entered Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center armed with a semi-automatic pistol and opened fire on fellow service members preparing for deployment.
AG Bondi Transfers Former Death Row Inmates
Commuted by Biden to 'Supermax' Prison

Eight federal inmates – once on death row for murders, including the killings of fellow prisoners, gang-related stabbings, and the slayings of two campers – have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital. The news comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration's sweeping clemency actions. The eight former death row inmates were transferred Tuesday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as "ADX," Justice Department officials confirmed.
Meet ADX Florence
WI Republican Linked to Explicit Trans Account
Was a Trump-Dissing RINO Who Pushed Leftist Election Rules

M.D. Kittle
A Wisconsin RINO who appears to have a penchant for “sexually explicit” material – and a connection to a trans porn site – has dropped out of the Badger State governor’s race. Whitefish Bay businessman Bill Berrien, who also had a past dalliance with the disastrously kinky election method known as ranked-choice voting, quit Friday following reports linking the candidate to several “sexually explicit accounts” on social media. He apparently connected to said accounts through the platform Medium, where he followed Jiz Lee, a “trans” sex peddler, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported earlier this week.
Armed Queers Group Trains Radical Marxists to Shoot
Just Miles from Where Charlie Kirk Was Murdered

Amid the snow-capped mountains and Mormon churches of Utah, not far from where FBI agents continue to scour for more evidence in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a self-described armed revolutionary group openly aligned with Cuba has risen up on the streets of one of America’s most conservative states. Armed Queers SLC says its mission is to train gay, queer and transgender people to arm themselves and to fight against capitalism. Although their purported Facebook page does not directly appear to encourage the use of firearms in their claimed mission, many of the images used depict firearms.
Ford Recalls Over 115K Trucks Due to Defect
That Could Lead to Loss of Steering Control

More than 115,000 Ford trucks are being recalled because drivers could lose control of steering, according to U.S. auto safety regulators. A defect impacting certain F-250, F-350 and F-450 vehicles, from model years 2020 through 2021, can cause the steering column's upper shaft to detach, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In total, 115,539 vehicles are impacted by this recall.
5 Bad Proposals Currently Being Pushed by
Anti-Gun Pennsylvania Lawmakers

Mark Chesnut
Anti-gun Democrat lawmakers in Pennsylvania and pushing forward a handful of measures that would greatly infringe upon the rights of lawful gun owners in the Keystone State. And all five are scheduled to be considered by the House Judiciary Committee very soon. According to an alert by NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), one measure, House Bill 1593, would mandate so-called “universal” background checks, a holy grail item for gun-ban advocates. Of course, since criminals don’t follow gun laws, the only purchasers that would be subject to the “universal” checks are lawful citizens, who don’t use their guns for nefarious purposes anyway.
About Those 'Luxury EVs'
Beege Welborn
Not so fast. Maybe...not for a good long time. In an amazing turn of events, where luxury carmakers like Porsche and Mercedes-Benz planned to go all-in on electric vehicles, making them a staple of their selection, instead of a cool, exclusive niche product? It turns out no one wants them.
House Republican Says Teen Son's School Promotes
'Non-Monosexual Identities' in Morning News, Urges Action

A Republican lawmaker is sounding the alarm after her son’s high school aired segments on its student-run television program regarding "Bisexual Plus Awareness Week." Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, posted on X about the segment, saying it was "so bad and inappropriate" she refused to share it. "As a mom and as a legislator, I am so appalled the school is promoting sexual content to minors. What administrators approved this content on the morning news program the entire student body watches every morning? Why were parents not made aware of this explicit content our children would be forced to watch?"

Week ending 21 September 2025

Charlie Kirk Died for Free Speech and
Universities Still Have Nothing to Say

Evita Duffy-Alfonso
When a man is publicly executed for his views on a university campus, one would expect institutions of higher education to respond immediately – if only to confront the chilling effect such violence unleashes. One would expect them to reassure students that their campus remains a place for free inquiry. One would expect them to guarantee that future speakers of every political persuasion are not only welcome but safe from mortal threat. Yet following the gruesome assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, universities have remained largely silent.
Charlie's Death Reveals Media's Worst
Don Surber
Originally, today’s newsletter was supposed to be about cartoonist Chip Bok screwing up with his political cartoon about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. My goodness you don’t depict a man having his head blown off. I will get to that later in the newsletter, but Jimmy Kimmel had to make an ass of himself by mocking the reaction of MAGA and President Trump to Charlie’s death. How bad was it, Donnie? It was so bad that ABC yanked him from the air immediately.
Erika Kirk Forgives Husband's Killer At Memorial Service:
'It's What Charlie Would Do'
Erika Kirk, the widow of slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, remembered her husband's legacy at a memorial for him Sunday – and revealed her thoughts about his alleged assassin. Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect charged in Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 death, was much like the other young men that Charlie Kirk encountered, Erika Kirk said. Charlie Kirk "wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life," she said.
The Great, Unrecognized Political Realignment
Douglas Schwartz
Political change mimics a supertanker in its inertia. Turning direction proceeds imperceptibly at first. Then advances sporadically, punctuated by specific accelerating events. Progress in the new direction proceeds over decades, interspersed by backsliding episodes. ... Contrast reactions after the deaths of George Floyd and Charlie Kirk. Congressional Democrats knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds in 2020, yet won’t honor Kirk. Voters notice such things.
The First Man Arrested After Kirk Shooting
Tried to Help the Real Shooter Escape

Matt Margolis
The Democrats' latest attempt to undermine FBI Director Kash Patel has blown up in their faces, revealing once again how quickly they rush to political judgment without understanding the facts. Their accusations that Patel botched the investigation into Charlie Kirk's assassination because authorities initially had the wrong man in custody shows exactly the kind of knee-jerk partisanship we've come to expect from the left. What actually happened tells a completely different story, one that showcases both the complexity of the investigation and the effectiveness of Patel's leadership.
Patel's competence really shines through
Before a Left-Wing Assassin Murdered Charlie Kirk,
Chris Wray’s FBI Tried to Destroy Turning Point USA

Beth Brelje
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA was on a short list of Republican groups targeted by President Joe Biden’s FBI under the direction of then-Director Christopher Wray. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, dropped that bombshell Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee regular hearing on the oversight of the FBI, along with a revolting new document. “It’s well-understood that your predecessor left you an FBI infected with politics,” Grassley said in his opening statement, speaking to current FBI Director Kash Patel.
Grassley said 92 Republican-linked targets were placed under the scope of Arctic Frost
Powerful Public Figures Spread False Info
About Charlie Kirk Assassination, Beliefs, Invent Quotes

Greg Piper
Public employees across the U.S. are facing sanctions including firing for social media comments that celebrate or condone the assassination of Charlie Kirk, sometimes selectively paraphrasing his comments on the Second Amendment's tradeoffs as Kirk's admission that he could be hoisted by his own petard. High-profile public figures and institutions from New York to Washington and Dallas to Hollywood have gone beyond cherry picking Kirk's words since his death, however, attributing others' words to him, fabricating or editing quotes and making assertions about his alleged killer and political movement that are lacking or contradicted by hard evidence.
UK, Canada, Australia Recognize Palestinian State;
Netanyahu Vows ‘it will not happen’

The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia on Sunday announced the recognition of the Palestinian state, in the hope that a two-state solution will bring peace with Israel despite protests from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the move is intended "to revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis." "We recognized the state of Israel more than 75 years ago as a homeland for the Jewish people," Starmer said in a video message posted on X. "Today we join over 150 countries who recognize a Palestinian state also. A pledge to the Palestinian and Israeli people that there can be a better future."
I predict there will never be a 2-state solution. 
Here's
why!
Israel Palestinian Conflict:
The Truth About the West Bank

Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The video explains where the terms "West Bank", "occupied territories" and "67 Borders" originated and how they are incorrectly used and applied. (6 min. – July 2011)
The Significance of the Recently Released
Russia Hoax Documents

Mollie Hemingway
Within hours of her 2016 presidential campaign loss, a devastated Hillary Clinton attributed her defeat not to the American voters who rejected her, but to Russia, echoing a campaign theme she had been developing for months. “Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss” and “kept pointing her finger” at Russia, according to Shattered, a 2017 book about her campaign – “Her team coalesced around the idea that Russian hacking was the major unreported story of the campaign.” Fast forward to today. Six months into Trump’s second term, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have declassified and released long-suppressed documents detailing how President Obama and his spy chiefs laundered the Steele dossier and other falsehoods in an attempt to destroy Trump’s first presidency.
Weaponized Scoops:
New Russiagate Documents Expose Media/Government Collusion

Paul Sperry
Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia. Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump’s first term.
Charlotte Train Stabber’s Half-Brother
Murdered a White Person, Too

While public attention focuses on DeCarlos Brown Jr.’s federal charges in the brutal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail system, the violent criminal history of his half-brother Stacey Dejon Brown has received considerably less scrutiny. Stacey Dejon Brown, now 32, is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for the October 2012 murder of 65-year-old Robert Heym. The crime bears striking similarities to his half-brother’s recent attack, particularly in its use of Charlotte’s public transportation system as both a means of approach and escape.
BLM Grifter Pleads Guilty to Fraud,
Spending Donations on Herself –
The Charges Amounted to a Staggering 27-Count Indictment

A radical leftist activist accused of defrauding her own organization plans to plead guilty to federal fraud charges. Monica Cannon-Grant – the founder of Violence in Boston and a staunch proponent of defunding the police – filed court documents requesting a change of plea hearing, Boston25 and WCVB reported Friday. The filing did not clarify whether she secured a plea deal with prosecutors or was simply pleading guilty to the accusations. Her trial had been scheduled for Oct. 14.
Mitsubishi Says Sayonara to Offshore Wind
Robert Bryce
The only thing dumber than onshore wind energy is offshore wind energy. And over the past few months, the foolishness of offshore wind has become ever more apparent. For the sake of brevity, I’m going to ignore the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to cancel offshore projects in U.S. waters. Instead, I’ll focus on what’s happening overseas. On September 16, in Australia, the state of Victoria postponed its inaugural auction on offshore wind projects, “citing global investment hurdles.” ... It has taken a long time, too long, but the evidence from Australia, Germany, and Japan is clear: the offshore wind scam is running out of steam.
Wind project developers are wary of "zero-subsidy" projects – i.e. No backing from the taxpayers.
Funding for Green Groups Soared After 2009 Endangerment Finding, Nonprofit Watchdog Finds
Changes to the Environmental Protection Agency's strict regulations on the automobile industry could cost nonprofit groups that reported a 267% funding bump in the years since the federal agency's 2009 Endangerment Finding, a rule that provided a legal basis for the agency to regulate vehicle emissions and the energy industry through the Clean Air Act. ... Trump's EPA boss, Lee Zeldin, says the endangerment finding cost the industry $1 trillion in regulations. Trump's EPA blames the 2009 Endangerment Finding for the Biden administration's electric vehicle mandate, which aimed to reduce the production of gas-powered vehicles.
Robert Bryce: ‘The Era of Super Cheap Natural Gas Is Ending’
Climate Change Editors
Robert Bryce Excerpt: "Over the past 15 years or so, thanks to the shale revolution, American consumers have saved untold billions of dollars on gasoline, diesel fuel, and natural gas. The natural gas story is particularly significant. Since 2005, domestic natural gas production has more than doubled, and the inflation-adjusted price of gas has fallen like a rock. In 2023, the spot price for gas at Henry Hub, America’s main gas trading point, was $2.50 per million Btu. In 2024, that price fell to $2.20 per MMBtu. For comparison, the inflation adjusted price of gas (2024 dollars) in 2010 was over $6 per MMBtu."
Shocked by Your Electric Bill?
AI Is Spiking Prices 20% in These 13 States

Emily Forlini
The nation's largest grid company, PJM Interconnection, plans to increase prices by more than 20% this summer, citing low supply as electricity demand from data centers spikes, Reuters reports. The cost of electricity has risen sharply nationwide since 2020, and continues to outpace inflation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. PJM operates in 13 states in the Northeastern US, including parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, according to its website.
Judicial Limits on Glyphosate and Climate
‘Jackpot Justice’ Litigation

Paul Driessen
Although the U.S. Supreme Court frequently overrules it, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (covering California, eight other western states and two U.S. territories) deserves applause for its recent Engilis v. Monsanto decision. The court affirmed a district court’s exclusion of “expert testimony” claiming a plaintiff’s exposure to the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused his blood cancer (chronic lymphocytic leukemia). The court upheld summary judgment in favor of product manufacturer Monsanto (now owned by Bayer).
Historic Shuttered Navy Base Back in Action for
Caribbean Counter-Drug Mission

The F-35B stealth fighters that landed in Puerto Rico on Saturday joined a growing U.S. military presence at the former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads. Though the Navy disposed of this sprawling facility more than two decades ago, it is now a major staging area for the Trump administration’s battle against narco traffickers and pressure campaign against Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. These counter-drug activities have some asking whether Roosevelt Roads, once considered surplus by the U.S. Navy, should be permanently reopened as a military installation.
F-35Bs at Rosy Roads Base
MORE:A Sleeping Caribbean Giant Awakens:
Roosevelt Roads is Back – Now with F-35s
In my Navy days we called it “Rosy Roads Naval Base”
Fetterman Warns Democratic Talk of ‘autocracy’ at
Odds with Party Strategy on Government Shutdown

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) says the repeated Democratic warnings that President Trump is trying to turn the United States into an “autocracy” are at odds with the hard-line stance Democratic leaders have taken on a government funding bill, which is likely to result in a shutdown that would empower Trump. “If Democrats truly believe we’re on a rocket sled to autocracy, why would we hand a shuttered government over to Trump and Vought’s woodchipper at the OMB?” Fetterman said in a statement to The Hill, referring to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought. “I’m unwilling to vote for mass chaos and run that risk,” Fetterman added.
Federal Judges Spout Anti-Gun Views from the Bench
A federal judge this month declared that having guns was “an invitation to get into trouble,” drawing fierce denunciations from Second Amendment groups that saw a shocking instance of ignorance, if not an anti-gun bias. Judge James Robart made his remark while sentencing a repeat felon to 54 months in prison for possessing a firearm. After Kenan Dejuan Brown told the judge he “felt safe” with a gun, Judge Robart countered. “In my experience, a gun is an invitation to get into trouble,” he said. He is the second federal judge in less than a month to express derision for firearms.
Rampaging Florida Boys Cause $50K in Damages to
School Library – and Are Turned in by Their Own Moms

Library Rampage
Two rotten Florida boys allegedly caused over $50,000 in damages to their school library – and were turned in to police by their own moms, according to officials. The alleged bad seeds were identified as 12-year-old Felix Cohen Romero and 13-year-old Bentley Ryan Wehrly, who confessed to the outrageous vandalism of the Friendship Elementary library in Deltona, according to a Facebook post from the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
Man Who Attempted to Assassinate Justice Kavanaugh
Now Identifies As a Woman

A man who pleaded guilty to attempting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 is now using a female name and pronouns, according to a court document filed Friday. Nicholas Roske, who is scheduled to be sentenced next month, is using the name Sophie Roske and a "Ms." title for the first time in a court filing in a case that has stretched for three years... "Out of respect for Ms. Roske, the balance of this pleading and counsel’s in-court argument will refer to her as Sophie and use female pronouns," the footnote stated.
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Sex Tests Expose Dozens of Athletes with Male Advantages Competed in Women's World Athletics Finals Since 2000
A presentation at a World Athletics panel in Tokyo on Friday revealed that 50 to 60 athletes with male biological advantages have been finalists in the female category at global and continental championships since 2000. The panel was led by the head of the World Athletics Health and Science Department, Dr. Stéphane Bermon, who said sex tests were necessary because of an "over-representation" of DSD (differences of sex development) athletes among finalists, per multiple reports. ... Last October, the United Nations said nearly 900 biological females have fallen short of the podium because they were beaten by trans athletes.
Democrats’ $1.5 Trillion Demand to Keep the Gov’t Open
Sets a New Record for Gall
NY Post Editorial Board
Senate Democrats this week said they’d let the Republican short-term spending bill pass, and so avoid a government shutdown as of Oct. 1, for the low, low price of ... $1.5 trillion. Yep, they demand that much added spending, which means $1.5 trillion in new federal debt over the next decade. To add a single month of uninterupted federal operations, the GOP must agree to:
Hearing Held After Report on Tax Money Funding
Woke Ideology in Nonprofit Hospitals
Following a “Consumer Warning” report that shows a number of nonprofit hospitals promote DEI, gender ideology, and climate activism, the House Ways & Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing on how tax dollars are being spent by tax-exempt hospitals. “Increasingly, hospitals don’t see themselves as just healthcare providers or even as hospitals,” Hild said. In June, Consumers’ Research released the Consumer Warning report revealing five hospitals they found to be funding “a partisan agenda pertaining to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), radical gender ideology, [or] climate activism,” with tax dollars, instead of “lowering costs and passing savings onto patients,” as The Center Square reported.
"Maybe they don’t need these subsidies,” Hild said.

Week ending 14 September 2025

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Nate Jackson
“Assassination culture is spreading on the left,” Charlie Kirk warned in April. Sadly, that proved to be prophetic, as an assassin took Charlie’s life yesterday while he was speaking – about transgender mass shootings and gang violence, no less – at Utah Valley University. Kirk founded Turning Point USA when he was just 18 years old. He hosted a popular eponymous podcast. He traveled the country, speaking to diverse audiences and using his formidable intellect and speaking skills to persuade listeners to adopt conservative ideas. He never backed down from a respectful discussion, no matter the disagreement.
The Day the Masks Came Off:
What Charlie Kirk’s Murder Reveals About the Left

Jamie K. Wilson
On Twitter, the progressive crowd erupted in celebration. Memes, jokes, cheers – many of the same people who preach about compassion and “our shared humanity” couldn’t resist mocking the death of a man who devoted his life to building conservative institutions and defending ordinary Americans. On MSNBC, hosts and guests blamed everyone but the shooter. In Congress, when the Speaker of the House tried to hold a moment of silence, Democrat radicals shouted him down. This was not just another tragedy. It was a revelation.
An Assassination That Unleashed an
Army of Charlie Kirks

Victoria Taft
We don't need to wait to find out "what motivated" the sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday, as Barack Obama claimed within hours of the Turning Point USA founder's murder. We already know what the motive was. We know Charlie was shot to death by a nihilistic sniper from the rooftop of a Utah Valley University campus building because he was an effective messenger for turning hearts and minds away from the left and toward home, family, God, and life.
Unfinished Business: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Tim O'Brien
Chances are your family, friends, and coworkers who don’t follow politics closely won’t know who Charlie Kirk was. They’ll hear the news of his assassination from the legacy media, and he’ll be framed as a “far right extremist” or something to that effect. Most of these people won’t come away feeling he deserved to be assassinated, but they’ll find a way to justify his killing in their minds so as to continue going about their day as though it never happened. Because in their world, it didn’t happen in any way that would affect them. The legacy media’s fabricated narrative will seek to make the killing make sense. But you know differently.
A Turning Point
Erick Erickson
“You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children … I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry,” Charlie Kirk said last week. Now he is dead, assassinated on a college campus. ... The left and Democratic leaders need to acknowledge that Democratic politicians and MSNBC hosts have been prodding progressives towards violence. Data consistently shows progressives are the most mentally fragile people in the nation, overwhelmed with despair, and Democrat politicians are grooming that fragility for violence. They must stop, or we all may lose control of what comes next.
Robinson's Roommate Who Tipped Off FBI Is Identified As Family Refuse to Deny Transgender Motive for Charlie Kirk Assassination
A 22-year-old wannabe professional gamer who lived with Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin gave cops incriminating text messages leading to his arrest. Lance Twiggs turned over Tyler Robinson, who lived with him in a three-bedroom apartment in Saint George, Utah, Daily Mail can reveal. Twiggs showed police texts from Robinson about stashing a gun linked to Wednesday's shooting of the prominent conservative activist at Utah Valley University (UVU), a law enforcement affidavit said.
Retired FBI Agent Warns of 'assassination culture'
After Learning Kirk Suspect Lived with Trans Partner

One former FBI official sounded the alarm on a dangerous "assassination culture" in the nation as investigators revealed new information about Charlie Kirk's alleged killer, including reports he was in a romantic relationship with his transgender roommate. Retired FBI supervisory agent James Gagliano warned Sunday that the country is facing a dangerous rise in the ideation and explained how these investigations are "layered." "We’re seeing this new ideation, which is assassination culture. What does that consist of?" Gagliano wondered.
‘Ugliest Moment I’ve Ever Witnessed’:
House Dems Object to Prayer for Charlie Kirk

Democrats objected after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) requested a spoken prayer from the House floor for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Wednesday while holding an event at a university in Utah. As news of the assassination spread, House Speaker Mike Johnson held a moment of silence in the House for Kirk. After the moment of silence, Boebert asked for a verbal prayer. “I believe silent prayer gets silent results,” Boebert said, according to the Wall Street Journal. Daily Mail reporter Jon Michael Raasch described the incident as “Possibly the ugliest moment I’ve ever witnessed in politics.” About three dozen Democrats in total objected to having a spoken prayer, according to the outlet.
This is today's Democrat Party it is now loathsome
Is Prayer Returning to Schools?
Thomas Gallatin
When tragedy strikes, the most appropriate initial response is to pray. It’s an acknowledgement of our finiteness and the reality that, ultimately, only God is truly in control; only God is sovereign over everything. It was and is fitting for us to pray, to call on God, after this most recent atrocity: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Indeed, given that he was an outspoken Christian, that is precisely the response Kirk would have wanted. Prior to Kirk’s assassination, President Donald Trump announced that his administration would be pursuing an effort to protect the right to pray in schools. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump stated.
What This School Teacher Did to His Students
After Charlie Kirk’s Death Is Unimaginable

Matt Margolis
On September 11, a teacher at Corvette Junior Public School in Toronto allegedly showed a classroom of ten- and eleven-year-olds the horrific assassination video of Charlie Kirk. According to a report from the New York Post, the teacher didn’t just show the video once – he played it repeatedly, forcing children to relive the violence over and over while delivering a tirade on “anti-fascism” and transgender politics, and declaring that Kirk “deserved this fate.” ... This is what the political left does when ideology trumps decency. Instead of treating the murder of a human being as a moment to grieve or counsel, this teacher turned it into a grotesque object lesson in leftist identity-driven politics. A tragedy became a weapon to bludgeon students with lectures on anti-fascism and gender utopianism.
This is what the political left does when ideology trumps decency.
No Shortage of Repulsive Comments from
K-12 Educators Following Charlie Kirk Murder

There was no paucity of unprofessional and tasteless remarks from K-12 staff across the country following the Wednesday assassination of Charlie Kirk, and much of it was chronicled by the popular Libs of TikTok account on X. What follows is a mere smattering of what was said by those in charge of your children’s education:
You really MUST abandon public schools
Secret Service Faces New Scrutiny
After Agent Cheers Charlie Kirk’s Murder

Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a letter to Secret Service Director Sean Curran Thursday, demanding the immediate firing of a special agent who argued in a social media post that Charlie Kirk deserved to die. Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, wrote the letter after RealClearPolitics reported that the agent, Anthony Pough, blamed “karma” for the killing of the founder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, who was fatally shot at Utah Valley University Wednesday.
Office Depot Facing Boycott Calls After Michigan Store
Allegedly Refused to Print Poster for Charlie Kirk Vigil

Office Depot is facing backlash and even boycott calls after a Michigan store allegedly refused to print a poster of slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk for a vigil, with a GOP official blasting the company online and calling the move censorship. Matthew DePerno, an attorney and Republican activist, said the Kalamazoo County Republican Party ordered the poster at 2:24 p.m. Friday from the Office Depot in Portage, MI, for a vigil honoring Kirk scheduled for that evening. But around 5:30 p.m., DePerno said a store print supervisor named “Beryl” called and told organizers the order would not be completed because the poster was “propaganda.”
JD Vance Crushes Lefties' Dreams After
Democrats Release Alleged Trump-Epstein Birthday Note

Katie Jerkovich
Vice President JD Vance crushed lefties' dreams like only he can after House Democrats posted the alleged image of a Birthday note they claimed from President Donald Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And the truth is written there for all to see that it's not his signature. Many things about President Trump are just distinct, and one of them is definitely his signature that appears on things like MAGA apparel, 47 hats, and especially the Executive Orders he signs.
Not only are they loathsome, the Dems are stupid also
House GOP Report Alleges
$20B Green Grants Enriched Biden Allies

Republicans from the House Oversight Committee released a report outlining what they allege are conflicts of interest, financial mismanagement and oversight failures associated with a Biden-era green energy grant program that sent $20 billion to just 8 different nonprofits. An undercover recording of a former Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) political appointee, who described disbursements made through Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) as akin to tossing gold bars off the Titanic at the end of Biden's term, was cited by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in February when he announced that the agency would be looking into the matter. ... One example' Climate United, reported just $95,557 in assets for fiscal year 2023 but received $6.97 Billion from the EPA, representing a 7,293,980% increase in reported assets since 2023, the Oversight report points out.
All awardees had ‘climate equity’ or DEI policies in place
Chuck Schumer Tested FAFO and the GOP
Is About to Make Him Pay the Price

Matt Margolis
Chuck Schumer is about to learn the hard way what happens when you block and stall for too long. After seven months of throwing a tantrum and holding up more than 100 of President Trump’s nominees, the Senate Minority Leader’s obstruction has finally pushed Republicans to the breaking point. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has had enough, and he’s preparing to unleash the nuclear option to break Schumer’s blockade, ram through confirmations, and get Trump’s team in place before the September 19 recess. In Washington, this is FAFO politics at its finest – Schumer tested his luck, and now he’s about to pay the price.
Theater-Kids Unite: Jeffries Appoints New J6 Subcommittee Members,
and It Goes As Bad As You'd Imagine

Katie Jerkovich
clown carHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) proudly announced the names of the other theater-kid members he wants to join him on a new subcommittee investigating what happened on January 6, 2021, and it goes as badly as you imagine. To kick things off with this clown car, Jeffries named Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) to be the lead Democrat on the new subcommittee.
Sweeping Trump Crackdown on Misleading Pharmaceutical Ads
Is First in Nearly 3 Decades

In a landmark move, the Trump administration has launched a sweeping crackdown on misleading pharmaceutical advertisements, the first major enforcement effort since direct-to-consumer drug ads were legalized in 1997. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary recently spoke with Full Measure about the unprecedented effort, stating that the agency is sending “thousands” of enforcement letters targeting deceptive promotions across TV, social media, and online platforms. The U.S. is one of only two countries allowing such ads (the other is New Zealand).
What Else Did Biden’s Autopen Handlers ‘Sign’?
Mark Alexander
In June, Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate whether Biden’s handlers “abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.” Actually, we now know there were three Biden autopens. Trump’s order noted: “This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history. The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts.”
The mind-boggling scope of autopen duplicity
Ten Years of Migration Crisis: The Fracture that Changed Europe
Javier Villamor
On September 5, 2015, after Angela Merkel uttered the now infamous words “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do it”) on August 31st, Germany’s borders were effectively opened to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Austria and Hungary. With that gesture, celebrated by left-wing media as a show of humanity, one of the most convulsive stages of contemporary Europe began: the era of mass immigration. Today, a decade later, the data, the social problems, and the political transformations prove that the decision marked a turning point in the continent’s history.
Should Rashida Tlaib Even Be in Congress?
Robert Spencer
Tlaib, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), made it clear in her remarks that she considers herself to be part of an unapologetically subversive force within the United States. Tlaib thundered: “They thought they could kill us, rape us, imprison us, violently uproot us from our olive tree farms, starve our children to death, and we would disappear. Well, guess what, now we are in Congress and we’re [in] every corner of the United States.”
Palestinian Groups Sanctioned by the State Dept
Were Funded by Europeans, Soros Philanthropy

Three Palestinian groups sanctioned by the State Department for efforts to aid in the International Criminal Court prosecutions of Israeli officials have ties to designated terror groups and received funding from European and foundations affiliated with George Soros. Late last week, the State Department announced sanctions against three Palestinian human rights organizations for giving aid to the International Criminal Court’s effort to “investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent.” Neither the United States nor Israel are signatories of the treaty that established the court and are therefore not subject to its jurisdiction, the United States argues.
Rough Couple of Weeks in San Diego for EVs
Beege Welborn
In February of 2024, Hertz Rent-a-Car suddenly backed off its ambitious plans to essentially turn its rental car fleet into an all-electric operation. The company had come to the realization that no one was interested in purchasing used rental cars if they were EVs, and unloading those used vehicles is an essential part of the company's business model. About two weeks ago, Hertz got another nasty surprise thanks to a couple of their EVs. The vehicles were parked in a lot at San Diego's International Airport and went up in flames at zero dark thirty on a late August Tuesday morning.
Belgian Wind Project Vetoed;
Global Total Of Renewable Rejections Hits 1,104

Robert Bryce
The global backlash against battery, solar, and wind energy projects keeps growing. Among the most notable was the rejection of a wind project in Belgium, near the West Flanders town of Loppem. According to a September 1 article in BrusselsMorning, the project, which included a single turbine 200 meters high, “was cancelled after 882 resident objections, municipal opposition, and heritage concerns.” The cancellation is the second veto of a wind project in Belgium in the past two years. It is also the 584th rejection or restriction of wind energy in the newly consolidated Renewable Rejection Database, which now contains 1,104 rejections or restrictions of battery, solar, and wind projects around the world since 2003.
Yet Another Ford Recall? Yep, This Time for 1.4 Million
Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and Vans

Motor Trend
No, we're not recycling old content. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued yet another recall for Ford ... we believe this puts the Blue Oval well over 100 recalls for the 2025 calendar year. That has to be some kind of a record. Ford is, by far, the most recalled automaker of 2025, that’s for sure. While the backup camera recall from this past May was a software issue, this one seems to be hardware-related and can result in the camera screen either blanking out, inverting, or distorting the image to the point it will not show the field of view correctly. According to the recall report, Ford is aware of 18 accidents related to this recall, though none has caused injury.
Federal Agents Target Sinaloa Drug Cartel, Arrest 617 Suspects
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Sept. 8 announced 617 arrests as well as the seizure of 1,058 pounds (480 kilograms) of fentanyl powder, 714,707 counterfeit pills, 4,870 pounds (2,209 kilograms) of methamphetamine, 16,466 pounds (7,469 kilograms) of cocaine, and 36 pounds (16.55 kilograms) of heroin. More than $11 million in currency and over $1.6 million in assets were also seized in the operation, along with 420 firearms. In an executive order earlier this year, President Donald Trump declared eight drug cartels as foreign terrorist groups, including the Sinaloa cartel, one of the largest and most powerful in Mexico.
$100M in LA Wildfire Aid Is Being Doled Out to Fund Pet Clinics, DEI Projects and Fungus Planting – But Not a Dime Directly to Victims
A star-studded benefit concert featuring everyone from Billie Eilish to Lady Gaga raised about $100 million for victims of the LA wildfires in January – but struggling locals say they have yet to see a dime from it eight months later. The massive, much-ballyhooed FireAid event – which drew heavy-hitter supporters such as former Veep Kamala Harris and her hubby, Doug Emhoff – has doled out the dough to 197 charities, many of which are focused on a variety of niche, woke and DEI causes not directly related to helping fire victims. Organizers – who have been accused of being tone-deaf – said in their defense that they never claimed FireAid Inc. funds would go directly to helping victims.
Californians, Other Out-State Donors
Bankrolling Socialist Zohran Mamdani – to the Tune of $2.4M

Deep-pocketed, out-of-state donors account for 78% of the nearly $2.4 million raised by a super PAC backing Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign. Lefties outside the Empire State wrote fat checks totaling $1,831,706 to the group, New Yorkers for Lower Costs, as of Friday, records showed. The sum included $762,631 from 26 California donors, with most of it coming from just two people. “Mamdani’s campaign isn’t about New York City – it’s about fueling a national socialist movement bankrolled by donors in California and beyond … with Hollywood and out-of-state activists trying to dictate the future of our city,” said Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro.

Week ending / Spetember 2025

White House Counsel Raises Red Flags on Legality of
Biden Pardons, Urges DOJ and Congress to Probe

John Solomon
The Trump White House Counsel is raising serious questions about the legality of Joe Biden's final wave of pardons and commutations, urging the Justice Department and Congress to interview the former president's advisors to determine if he truly authorized acts of clemency signed by an autopen operated by staff, according to a memo obtained Saturday by Just the News. "We believe that answering the questions above requires interviewing those involved," White House Counsel David Warrington wrote in a memo to President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. "As the WHC does not have the authority to conduct interviews, we recommend that you approve making the information contained in this memorandum and the supporting materials available to entities that do have that power.
RFK Jr Is Right,
Nobody Knows How Many Americans Died of COVID

David Marcus
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday in a hearing that made the Jerry Springer show look like an Oxford Union debate, but amid the pompous posturing from Democrats, an important truth came out. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., thought he scored major points by asking RFK Jr the gotcha question – "how many Americans died of COVID?" When the secretary said that he did not know, a giddy Warner thought he could spike the football. But here’s the thing: RFK Jr. is right. Nobody actually knows how many people have died of COVID, because we don’t really even know what dying of COVID means. ... The age of "just shut up and trust the science," is well and truly over. As George W. Bush once put it, "fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice…well, you’re not gonna fool me again." That’s where the American people are when it comes to the medical establishment.
Trump Doesn’t Need to Stage a Coup in Iran, Just Give It Time
Victor Davis Hanson
There is going to be an eruption in Iran, I think, maybe within a year or two. We hear stories that the revolutionary Islamic government has already executed almost a thousand of its own citizens. It’s in a state of paranoia. Why? Because it has no air defenses, No. 1. Israel showed the world that Iran was a paper tiger. It has dismantled its terrorist surrogates, just wiped out the Houthis command and control in Yemen, it’s embarrassed Hezbollah, there is no real Hamas organized resistance, and Iran has no defenses. The United States then took out its nuclear proliferation apparatus, at least for a number of years. More importantly, the theocracy has no popular support, it seems like.
The Dems' Theater of the Absurd
Douglas Andrews
Yesterday, after untold hours of rehearsal, after staring in the mirror and painstakingly delivering their focus-grouped “gotcha” moments, Democrats on the Senate Finance Sen Ron WydenCommittee “welcomed” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the chamber for an afternoon of … grandstanding. The committee’s ranking Democrat, Ron Wyden – a sweaty, pasty-faced Oregonian who looks like he could benefit from a bit of time in the sun – left no doubt about his party’s plans, and about their collective disdain for fact-finding. This would be a theatrical hearing, a hearing featuring one well-rehearsed tirade after another from the Democrat committee members.
Team Trump: President, VP, and Can-Do Cabinet
Jack DeVine
Pop quiz: Name as many Joe Biden Cabinet officers as you can. For extra credit, jot down what is memorable about each. Don’t ask Google or ChatGPT; do it from memory, before reading further.... Organizations tend to take on the characteristics of their leaders. Those of a certain age might recall Vince Lombardi’s tough and scrappy Green Bay Packers, or John Wooden’s surgically precise UCLA Bruins, both teams whose players modeled their coach’s personality, year in and year out. In the same fashion, Team Biden emulated their leader: low energy, enjoying the prestige and privilege of office, but rarely proactive and hardly inspirational. Team Trump is the polar opposite of Team Biden.
‘Clear Up This Mess’: Trump Demands Companies
Justify the Success of Their COVID Drugs

“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various COVID Drugs,” he wrote in a post published to Truth Social. “Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW,” he continued. Trump also called for COVID vaccine manufacturers to publicly release all the data about their shots so that the public can see and review it for themselves. He argued that their ongoing lack of disclosure has made life harder for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK).
Trump Administration Seeks to Break U.S. Dependence on
China and India for Generic Pharmaceuticals

As the U.S. gets most of its pharmaceutical ingredients from China and India, the Trump administration has been taking steps to bring back pharmaceutical manufacturing to the U.S. in order to break the U.S.' dependency on foreign countries. Health and Human Services Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response John Knox said last month that 70% of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and key materials are manufactured in China and India. He also said that about 90% of antibiotics are manufactured in China. ... There are also incentives in the recently passed "one big beautiful bill" that created tax incentives to get the process rolling for having APIs made in the U.S.
'Delusional': Oversight Republicans Slam Ex-Biden Aide for
Lashing Out at Trump, GOP in Autopen Probe

The House Oversight Committee is slamming former Biden spokesman Andrew Bates after he accused Republican lawmakers of having a misguided focus in his opening remarks during the panel's autopen probe. ... "His so-called opening statement – leaked in the middle of his transcribed interview and not even read at the time it was leaked – peddled the same fantasy he’s been trying to sell the American people. The public has rejected Bates’ spin and witnessed President Biden’s decline with their own eyes," the spokesperson said. "And just this week, new records revealed that President Biden neither approved – nor may have even been consulted on – thousands of pardons. This is a historic scandal with massive repercussions."
Gabbard Slams Clapper, Brennan for Thinking
They Could 'Undermine' a 'Duly Elected President’

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday slammed former CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper for believing they had the "right to undermine the duly elected president of the United States because they disagree with his positions or his policies." Brennan and Clapper have been accused of being involved in a treasonous scheme related to Russiagate, where former Obama administration officials tried to falsely link President Donald Trump to Russia to distract from their own scandals.
Tulsi Gabbard
The Real Reason for Floating Bondi's Trans-Ban on Gun Purchases
Mark Alexander
In the wake of the most recent “mass shooting” in Minneapolis by an assailant afflicted with gender-confusion pathology, the Department of Justice is launching an investigation into the escalating trend of violence in recent years by so-called “transgender” individuals. This follows other high-profile mass assaults by those manifesting this pathology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nashville, Tennessee, and Uvalde, Texas... I have argued the obvious for decades – that gender disorientation manifestations are pathological. That is not a condemnation of those so afflicted; it is objecting to the Left’s effort to normalize what is not normal.
Dear Timmy: The Mental Illness Is a Root Cause, Not Guns
Nina Bookout
They all want to blame the guns. They’d rather do that instead of focusing on and addressing the mental health issues. And Minnesota lawmakers with Tim Walz in the lead bears major responsibility for a tragedy wrought by ignoring a root cause, mental illness. There were a multitude of red flags regarding Robert Westman. There were major problems that involved law enforcement as far back as 2018, before his mother signed the papers changing Robert’s name to Robin at age 17. Three different high schools, not because the family was moving, but because of the kid’s serious mental issues.
Care to Guess How Many of the
Deadliest Cities in the U.S. Have a Republican Mayor?

I & I Editorial Board
In one of his endless attempts to grab a headline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week taunted President Donald Trump, saying that if he’s serious about fighting crime, he should be sending the National Guard to red states such as Louisiana, which has a murder rate far higher than California. Newsom’s attempt to troll the president failed on Sunday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the attention-starved governor up on his offer. “Absolutely,” she said on “Face the Nation,” when asked if the Trump administration would send National Guard troops into cities or states run by Republicans. “Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer.”
These are the facts, Gavin.
And they are, indeed, alarming.
Newsom's China Whisperer the
Daughter of Personal Data-Collecting Mastermind

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s liaison to China is the daughter of a computer scientist building a genealogical database for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who has considerable ties to Chinese intelligence and military personnel, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Amy Tong has held multiple cabinet positions in Newsom’s administration, such as serving as the Government Operations Agency secretary, and is now listed as “senior counselor to the governor,” government records show. Newsom has repeatedly sent Tong to negotiate with CCP officials and Chinese intelligence personnel, and “appointed Tong to lead people-to-people exchanges with China,” according to a July 2024 Chinese state media report. … “The more the regime knows about family members, the easier it is to find pressure points,” [Gordon] Chang said. “The genealogical database will facilitate the regime’s ability to weaponize ethnic Chinese around the world, turning them into spies and worse.”
CNBC Just Spilled the Awful Truth About California
Stephen Green
Question: What do you call "key sectors" of the world's fourth-largest economy when they rely on illegal alien labor working for substandard wages, fewer benefits, and at greater risk of exploitation? I'd call it a crime. But in California, they call it "putting billions of dollars at risk" when President Donald Trump actually enforces the law. You know, like the chief executive takes an oath to do.
Is Your Baby, Doorbell or Security Cam Spying for China?
Florida’s Top Cop Wants to Know

Florida’s top law enforcement official has issued a subpoena to Lorex Corp., a top maker of baby monitors, security and doorbell cameras, demanding documents and information about its corporate structure, whether it has any ties to Chinese Communist firms and whether Americans' data or privacy can be breached. Those documents could provide evidence of illegal activity. Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office told Just the News he believes Lorex, though North American-based, has imported large swaths of equipment from a Chinese manufacturer banned from the United States over alleged human rights abuses and national security risks.
Bing, bong! Xi calling!
Appeals Court Allows EPA to Cancel $16 Billion in Climate Grants
A divided federal appeals court on Sept. 2 ruled that the Trump administration may terminate $16 billion in grants to nonprofits intended to finance climate-related projects. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2–1 to reverse U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s injunction preventing the federal government from withholding the funds.
Economic Growth Is Not the Bogeyman –
Rich Nations Have a Cleaner Better Environment

Jo Nova
Despite the UN blaming the rich nations for destroying the planet, the data shows that wealthy nations have cleaner air and water and less deforestation. A team at Yale compile a score called the Environmental Performance Indicator. It tracks 58 factors like biodiversity, species protection, particulates in air, pollution in water, forest integrity and fish stocks. It also, sadly, considers “climate change mitigation” measures – which no doubt adds some pointless noise to the line. But the underlying trend is clear. The only countries in the highest ranks of Environmental Performance are the ones with a GDP per capita higher than $30,000 U.S.
Al Gore Wrong Again: Study Delivers Good News for
Arctic Ice Trends, Bad News for Climate Hucksters

Joseph MacKinnon
Polar bear can't lookFailed presidential candidate Al Gore claimed in his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that the previous year, "as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented distress that the North Polar ice cap is 'falling off a cliff.' One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years." It turns out Al Gore, whose fearmongering reportedly nets him $200,000 per speaking engagement, was not only wrong about a 20-foot rise in the global sea level "in the near future," polar bear drownings, and the snows of Kilimanjaro, but also about the future of Arctic ice.
CBS Busted Again! Deceptively Edits Interview with Kristi Noem
Chris Donaldson
CBS doesn’t seem to have learned a thing after the network’s parent was forced to settle a lawsuit with President Donald J. Trump over a doctored “60 Minutes” interview with failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris... [I]n another black eye for the network, CBS’s “Face The Nation” was busted, taking a scalpel to its interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. When the segment aired on Sunday morning, it was conspicuously missing valuable context about Democrat poster boy Kilmar Abrego Garcia, depriving Americans of the real scoop that the “Maryland man” is an illegal alien MS-13 gang banger, human trafficker, and domestic abuser. Garcia is currently fighting his deportation to Uganda and is demanding asylum in the U.S.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Faces Deportation to
Tiny African Nation Eswatini After Rejecting Trump Deal

Accused MS-13 gangbanger and El Salvador national Kilmar Abrego Garcia is now reportedly facing deportation to the tiny South West African nation Eswatini after rejecting a deal from the Trump administration. The one-time Maryland resident accused of human smuggling – who was repatriated to the US after being deported to El Salvador earlier this year – was informed of impending removal in a Friday email from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Eswatini was chosen after Garcia, 30, listed 22 countries he could not live in for “fear of persecution or torture.”
Abrego Garcia will surely give a 'thank you' to Sen. Chris Van Hollen for all his help
Senator Kaine Claims Rights Come from Government, Not God
Joshua Arnold
Sen Tim Kaine“The notion that our rights do not come from our laws or our government should make people very, very nervous,” warned U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) during a recent confirmation hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for five Trump nominees. “The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government but come from the creator – that’s what the Iranian government believes.” Kaine pounced on the opening remarks of Riley Barnes, who was nominated to become assistant secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Not So Funny Now: Tow Truck Driver Who Hauled Away
ICE Vehicle Slapped with Federal Charges

It may have been funny at the time, but a Los Angeles tow truck driver who hauled away an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle last month isn’t laughing now. Bobby Nunez could have a good chunk of time on his hands to contemplate the humor of his act as the driver now faces up to a decade in prison after being federally charged for the August 15 incident in which he interfered with ICE agents during an operation to arrest an illegal alien. According to a federal criminal complaint obtained by Fox News Digital, the 33-year-old Nunez was allegedly very amused as he hooked up and drove off with the vehicle, “laughing and filming” the act.
FAFO
Dearborn Heights Police Department Is Issuing a Police Patch That Includes Both English and Arabic Text That Is Optional for Officers
The department announced the patch Wednesday. It has the Michigan state seal and features the words "DEARBORN HEIGHTS" and "POLICE" in both languages, according to Fox News. The patch was designed by local police officer Emily Murdoch. The Middle Eastern and Northern African population of Dearborn Heights was 39% as of 2023, according to Fox 2 Detroit. The news outlet also says the patch is the first such in the U.S.

Dearborn Heights’ Arabic Police Patch SNAFU
Is a Badge of Surrender

Brianna Lyman
A Facebook post from the police department posted earlier this week read: “The Dearborn Heights Police Department [DHPD] is proud to share a new optional patch that our officers may wear as part of their uniform,” according to Fox News. The patch, according to the post (which appears to have since been removed), “incorporat[ed] Arabic script alongside English” and was “designed … to reflect and honor the diversity of our community – especially the many residents of Arabic descent who call Dearborn Heights home,” Fox reported. It purportedly “represent[ed] unity, respect, and our shared commitment to service.”
University of Pennsylvania Stops Banning
Non-Black Races from Doctor Directory to End Lawsuit

Five months after medical advocacy group "Do No Harm" sued the University of Pennsylvania, its medical school and health system, a Philadelphia-area consortium of medical schools and an African-American-owned and operated talk radio station for excluding non-black doctors from a directory for black patients, the defendants have thrown in the towel. U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle entered a final judgment in favor of Do No Harm and against the Penn defendants, Consortium of DEI Health Educators and WURD Radio for $1 in nominal damages after the defendants made an offer of judgment, three weeks earlier, to rename the Black Doctors Directory and stop considering race in eligibility for inclusion.
Whitmer Watch:
Test Scores Drop for Michigan's Youngest Students

Michigan students continue to perform poorly on standardized testing, according to data released this week by the Michigan Department of Education. While it found students improved performance on 14 of the 20 tests given in the spring of 2025, the youngest students again saw drops in reading proficiency. The results of the 2025 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, also known as M-STEP, found that 61.1% of all third-graders scored below proficient on the state’s English language arts test. That was up slightly from 60.4% in 2024.
GOP Sens Take on Schools Transitioning Kids Behind Parents' Backs
Republican Sens. Jim Banks of Indiana and Tom Cotton of Arkansas reintroduced legislation Wednesday to stop K-12 schools from withholding information from parents if their child expresses discomfort with his or her biological sex. The bill, called the Empower Parents to Protect Their Kids Act, would prevent K-12 schools from hiding or facilitating children adopting a gender identity that is incongruent with the child’s biological sex, according to bill text first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The legislation would also empower parents to sue school districts that hide information about their child’s gender transition or gender identity.
School Boys Filmed in Locker Room Complaining About
Trans Policies, Parents Speak Out After They’re Suspended

Parents are putting Loudoun County Public Schools District on blast after their sons’ concerns about transgender policies were ignored by school officials. Both boys were suspended and declared responsible for sexual harassment after they questioned why biological females were using their locker room. They claim they were not given any way to file a formal complaint about their discomfort with the policy. “Parents Renae Smith and Seth Wolfe say unclear policies and poor communication on the part of the Loudoun County Public Schools District led to the Title IX ruling and 10-day suspension for the boys,” Fox News reported.

Week ending 31 August 2025

The Deadly ‘Trans’ Assault in Minneapolis
Nate Jackson
As school has begun across the country, there have been numerous hoax calls about active shooters on campus. That’s a sick way to get entertainment, but sicker still is when the shooting is real, as it was yesterday morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After his assault, the murderer took his own life. And, like the murderous psychopath at The Covenant School in Nashville two years ago, this killer identified as “transgender.” For the media outlets that use feminine or “they/them” pronouns or the “trans woman” moniker for this 23-year-old man, shame on you for indulging his twisted fantasy even after he inflicted demonic horror upon young students, teachers, and families.
Bans on Gas Stoves Come Back As
Democratic Cities and States Continue War on Gas Appliances

Kevin Killough
A new law went into effect in Colorado earlier this month requiring health warning labels on gas stoves, similar to those placed on cigarette packages. It’s one example of multiple efforts, primarily in blue states, to stop consumers from using gas-powered appliances in their homes. After a Biden administration official in 2023 alluded to the possibility of a ban on gas stoves in the name of public health, legacy media outlets produced a number of “fact checks” insisting the Biden administration wasn’t going to ban gas stoves. They claimed the whole idea was just a "right-wing conspiracy." Conveniently, most of the "fact checks" ignored the many local and state efforts in Democratic strongholds that accomplish the same goal.
Atlanta Fed GDPNow Lifts Q3 U.S. Growth Estimate to 3.5%
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said its GDPNow model now projects U.S. real gross domestic product to expand at a 3.5% seasonally adjusted annual rate in the third quarter of 2025, up sharply from the 2.2% pace estimated on Aug. 26. The update, released on Aug. 29, signals a stronger near-term outlook for economic growth than suggested just three days earlier.
Ten Most Important Revelations About the
Obama-Biden Era of Weaponization

The Trump administration’s probe into weaponization of the intelligence community, beginning with the genesis of the fake Russia collusion allegations in 2016, has kicked into full gear this summer. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel have declassified and released a mountain of documents shedding light on how the bureau's deeply flawed and politically-motivated Trump-Russia inquiry, known as "Crossfire Hurricane," got off the ground.
Dems FURIOUS with RFK Jr When He Threatens to
Expose Pharmaceutical Transgender Grift

Democrats lost it on Thursday after Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. (RFK) announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun studying certain psychiatric medications following the latest trans-related mass shooting. “We are doing those kind of studies now,” he said. “At NIH, we’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.” “You know, many of them on there have black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. We can’t exclude those as a culprit, and those are the kind of studies that we’re doing,” he added.
House Oversight Panel Launches Investigation Into
DC Police Crime Data

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer launched an investigation on Monday into the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) crime data, alleging that the force manipulated the information to hide the scope of crime in the nation's capital. Comer wrote a letter to MPD Chief of Police Pamela Smith on Monday, noting that the department recently made a settlement regarding allegations that senior officials falsified the city's crime statistics, and Third District Commander Michael Pulliam was placed on administrative leave following allegations that he altered crime reports.
Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Cashless Bail
"One of the executive orders has to do with cashless bail – that's when the big crime in this country started," Trump said before signing the order. He said that when a person kills someone, and they are released on cashless bail, they are just told to return to court, but they don't. "They thought it was discriminatory" to require bail after killing people on the street, Trump said. The executive order charges the attorney general to identify cashless bail jurisdictions in order to withhold their federal funding.
Andrew Cuomo Enthusiastically Gave Us the No-Bail Law
Post Editorial Board
Andrew Cuomo never heard of the no-bail law; he’s proud of ending an “injustice”; it was the other guy; someone faked his name on it; it never happened in the first place. “We don’t have cashless bail” in New York, Cuomo said (with a straight face!) last week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order aiming to cut federal funding to areas that embrace the pro-crime “reform.” Sorry, Andrew: Tell that to 94-year-old Audrey Hawkins. She was trying to catch the E train in June when serial criminal Edwin Wright bashed her in the head – just a few months after his arrest for assaulting a child ... and rapid release because his charges weren’t “bailable.”
Trump Beats Dems at Their Own Game
Nate Jackson
“When they go low, we go high,” then-First Lady Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention in 2016, claiming it was the Democrats’ motto. Few things are less true of Democrats, though they repeat it to themselves in the mirror every morning. Democrats have spent decades screaming about their GOP opponents being racist Nazis, as if that by definition puts Democrats on the high road. On the contrary, false name-calling is not a high-road substitute for serious policy arguments.
'No Exceptions': Trump to Sign EO Requiring Voter I.D. in Elections
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!! President DJT.” Election integrity has long been an issue on the president’s mind. In December 2022, he told Breitbart News that Republicans must fight Democrats on mail voting and ballot harvesting like the Democrats do. At the time, he recognized that Republicans were forced to live with the system until they could get back into power and make changes.
Commerce Secretary Lutnick Voids 'illegal' $7.4B Payment to
Biden Ally-Staffed Nonprofit for Semiconductor Research

“Rather than establishing these operations within the Department, however, Biden Administration officials spent significant time, effort, and resources creating an unaccountable, outside entity – Natcast – to administer taxpayer funds”. Four days before Biden left office on Jan. 20, Lutnick noted, the Commerce Department agreed to set aside $7.4 billion in “advance payments” to Natcast after spending nearly two years setting it up and tapping administration officials, advisers and allies to fill out positions. ... Lutnick’s revocation of the funding comes after EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed appointees of the 46th president were “rushing to get billions of dollars out the door before Inauguration Day” to lefty NGOs.
Revealed: $20 billion more meant to be sent “through eight pass-through entities”
UN-backed Gaza City Famine Determination
May Be Flawed by Reliance on Incomplete Data

The United Nations-backed organization that declared a famine in the Gaza Governorate appeared to have relied on incomplete data that is key to making its assessment of the effects of Israel’s ongoing war against the Hamas terrorist group in the enclave. ... While the world is bombarded with heart-wrenching images – many of them fake or staged – of starving children, a review of the data shows that the IPC appears to have relied on incomplete survey results for the month of July to make its claim that Global Acute Malnutrition – a key data point used to assess famine conditions – had exceeded a necessary 15% threshold to declare the conditions in the main region of Gaza to be a famine.
Israeli Forces Kill Prime Minister of Yemen's
Houthi Government in Air Strike

Israel killed the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi government and several cabinet ministers in a Thursday airstrike on Sanaa, delivering the first successful strike against senior officials in the Iran-aligned group’s leadership, Reuters reported. Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, confirmed Saturday that Prime Minister Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi died in the attack, along with the energy, foreign and information ministers, according to sources, Reuters reported. Al-Mashat did not clarify whether Defense Minister Mohamed al-Atifi survived the strike.
Islamic Republic Close to Collapse in Iran, Civil War Possible
After U.S., Israeli Decimation of Nuclear Capabilities

The winds of change could soon blow on Iran, according to a new report. The Islamic Republic is facing collapse, indicates the report, issued by UK-based Henry Jackson Society this week, as the UN accuses Tehran of executing nearly 900 people already this year “as a tool of intimidation.” If the Islamic Republic falls, “there is a danger that regime collapse could lead to a vacuum of governance that is accompanied by civil war,” according to the findings.
U.S. Denies Visas for Abbas and Palestinian
Delegation Ahead of UN Assembly

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it is denying and revoking visas for members of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, including President Mahmoud Abbas, blocking them from traveling to New York for the United Nations General Assembly scheduled for September. In a written statement, the department cited U.S. sanctions laws and national-security concerns, alleging the Palestinian leadership continues to finance militants and pursue unilateral statehood moves. Visas already issued to the officials are being cancelled, while new applications will be refused, the department added.
Pentagon to Build New Task Force to Counter Drone Threats
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Department of Defense wants to address the growing threat and to improve its systems to protect people and equipment at home and overseas. "We're moving fast – cutting through bureaucracy, consolidating resources, and empowering this task force with the utmost authority to outpace our adversaries," Hegseth said. "We will innovate, we will lead and we will win."
Minnesota Catholic School Leader Warned Tim Walz of
‘Critical’ School Safety Threats. He Did Nothing.

Two years before a shooter opened fire on students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Democrat Governor Tim Walz for help securing their schools, according to a 2023 letter reviewed by The Daily Wire. The funding was never authorized. In a letter dated April 14, 2023 that specifically addressed “school safety in nonpublic schools,” Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, stressed an “urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe” in light of “recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state.”
The leaders SPECIFICALLY called on Waltz for assistance
Thwarted: White House Reveals Possible School Shooting in D.C. Stopped Just Hours After MN Horror
The pain of the awful Minneapolis school shooting Wednesday is still fresh in our hearts, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Thursday at a press briefing that another tragedy may have been averted in Washington, D.C. She said that law enforcement in the nation’s capital arrested a juvenile Wednesday night for "allegedly threatening violence towards a school," just hours after the Annunciation Church School shooting, which left two children dead and at least 17 victims injured.
Here’s Why Democrats Work So Hard to Defend Criminals
Howard J. Warner
Democrats defend crime and defunding the police because this keeps them in power. If people are threatened, they are more willing to distrust those who fall into the “oppressor” groups. The impetus to change paradigms does not come easily when “free” stuff is offered to those with little resources. Hence socialist Mamdani is leading for NYC mayor in a city with a large immigrant population. Crime is the chaos that Critical Theory has ordered.
A Billion Dollar Somali Autism Fraud in Minnesota
Daniel Greenfield
The $250 million ‘Feeding Our Future’ free food fraud in which Somali groups stole a quarter of a billion dollars while claiming to feed hundreds of thousands of children who never existed seemed like the biggest case of welfare fraud in Minnesota, but it may be just the beginning. Somali autism fraud, partly linked to the ‘Feeding Our Future’ scam, may be even bigger and after the FBI raids of autism clinics last December, the scale of it is still being put together. The pattern in both Somali meals for children and autism treatment for children is similar.
Autism claims rose from $3 million to $400 million.
Judge Orders Fani Willis to Provide Info on
Searches for Trump-related Records

Judicial Watch on Monday announced that a Georgia judge last week ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to provide additional information in her search for records related to her prosecution of President Donald Trump. The order was part of Judicial Watch's 2024 lawsuit that it filed after Willis denied having any records related to the watchdog's Georgia Open Records Act request for communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office and the January 6 Committee. The Judicial Watch lawsuit as well as a House Judiciary inquiry were seeking to find out the extent of cooperation between Willis' office and the highly politicized January 6 Committee, along with Jack Smith's office. But when Willis originally claimed she had no such records, it also became a question of what she was hiding and why.
Google’s $1.375B Slap: Why Conservatives
Must Continue the Fight Against Big Tech’s Surveillance

Caleb Larson
Americans rightfully have significant expectations when it comes to privacy. We have constitutional protections against government overreach but we're more exposed to Big Tech companies like Google. Texas’ $1.375 billion settlement against Google for harvesting location, biometric, and search data without consent has achieved a victory for Texans and further exposed Google’s surveillance empire, but Americans at large are still at risk. Conservatives must demand better data privacy reforms from state and federal governments to stop Google as it continues to undermine data privacy through ad tech tracking, AI data grabs, and lobbying efforts against privacy laws.
23 State Attorneys General
Urge Zeldin to Defund Climate Law Group

Twenty-three state attorneys general are urging Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to defund a climate law group called the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). In the letter, the AGs noted that "ELI received approximately 13% of its revenue in 2023, and 8.4% in 2024, from EPA awards." The Climate Judiciary Project is run by ELI, and "estimates that it has hosted more than 50 events and trained more than 2,000 judges," according to the letter.
Colorado Funds Medicaid Costs for Planned Parenthood
The Colorado legislature has passed a bill that funds Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood and others who provide reproductive healthcare services, including abortions. The Colorado House voted 43-19 Sunday in favor of Senate Bill 25B-2, following the Senate’s approval Friday. The bill now goes to Democratic Gov. Jared Polis for his signature.
Chinese Money Launderers Fuel Drug Crisis
Epoch Times
For years, the Chinese communist regime has been accused of fueling the fentanyl epidemic in the United States, a claim that gained renewed attention when President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on goods from China as well as Mexico and Canada, citing their role in the drug crisis. While many Americans know that fentanyl is smuggled into the country, few understand how the trade is financed or how illicit profits move through the U.S. financial system. A recent Treasury Department report found that Chinese money launderers moved over $300 billion through U.S. banks in the past five years, helping Mexican cartels hide their profits. Here’s a closer look at how these funds move undetected.
NSSF Asks FTC to Disclose Extent to Which it Colluded With the
Gun Control Industry to Limit Gun Makers’ Commercial Speech

Dan Zimmerman
While Trump 2.0 has done a lot to undo much of the government side of the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex since it took office in January, we still don’t have anything approaching a full accounting of what took place prior to January 20. One aspect of the prior administration’s war on guns was pressure that was brought by NGOs – read: gun control operations – via the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and pressure gun makers as to their product advertisements and claims.
HUD Threatens Funding for Public Housing Authorities
Shielding Illegal Immigrants

President Donald Trump‘s Department of Housing and Urban Development is giving every public housing authority in the country 30 days to share citizenship status of tenants or risk losing their federal funding. By law, every PHA is required to share eligibility information, including citizenship status, with HUD. Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act specifically bars illegal immigrants from public housing programs. However, two senior HUD officials, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive information, tell the Washington Examiner that a significant number have either not shared citizenship information with the government, or were simply never collecting that information in the first place.
Gavin Newsom's 10-year Plan to End
San Francisco Homelessness Marks 20-Year Anniversary

Houston Keene
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, commands a Golden State that has turned into a deep blue "Sapphire State." As Newsom took over following the 2003 San Francisco mayoral election, the then-mayor-elect said that December he intended to "aggressively" make ending homelessness in his city his administration's top priority. The plan involved a 10-year strategy to end chronic homelessness with "tens of millions" of federal dollars in funding to create 550 "supportive housing" units for the troubled homeless, SFGate reported at the time.
How About Less Time Breaking the Internet and
More Time Fixing California?

Matt Mahan, Mayor of San Jose
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s vaunted social media team disparaged an announcement from the new CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond that it would not open or operate any stores in California due to anxieties over our state’s business climate. The governor’s team responded to the feedback not with a reasoned argument, but with an extended attack in their new “Trumpian” voice of belittling those who disagree with them. Their message to the CEO (and the 6.1 million other people who viewed the post) was “take your business elsewhere.”
Kids' Gender Clinic Whistleblower Tells Dr. Phil
Regretful Patients Begged to 'have body parts put back on'

Jamie Reed, who worked at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, penned a lengthy tell-all exposé last year in which she called gender clinics for kids "morally and medically appalling." On "Dr. Phil Primetime," the host asked Reed, who is queer and married to a transgender person herself, what changed her mind about transgender treatments for youth. "A number of things," she said. "We started to see patients who were experiencing very significant medical harms being rushed to the emergency room with lacerations requiring stitches. We had patients contact us who were begging to have body parts put back on within months of having surgeries."
"If a child says they're trans there's no questioning it"
Trump Administration Threatens to Pull $81 Million in
Sex Education Funding Over Gender Ideology

The Department of Health and Human Services order directs 40 states and six territories, including Washington, D.C., and Maryland, to remove content related to gender ideology as defined in President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order prohibiting federal funding for anything that does not affirm the concept of binary biological sex. Together, the states could lose more than $81 million in federal sex education funding under the Personal Responsibility Education Program from the Administration for Children and Families at HHS. Acting HHS Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said in a press release on Tuesday that “accountability is coming” for states that are not in compliance with the Trump executive order on biological sex.
Teachers' Unions Give Million$ to Progressive Causes;
“It Is Clear the Unions’ Priorities Are Advancing Far-Left Politics”

The two largest U.S. teachers unions have donated over $40 million to progressive organizations and initiatives, a new report found. The report outlines that AFT and NEA donated to pro-gender ideology groups, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, among others. The report states that $29,500 went to Gender Inclusivity LLC, $30,000 to the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network and $60,000 to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The union reportedly sent $200,000 to the Black Progressive Action Coalition, $17,941 to the National Equity Project and $110,663 to Politico LLC.
Education Dept Finds GMU Violated Title VI with DEI Policies
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced George Mason University violated federal law by hiring and promoting staff based on race and other characteristics. In July, OCR launched an investigation into GMU due to multiple complaints filed by professors alleging that university leadership had adopted unlawful diversity, equity and inclusion policies from 2020 that give preferential treatment to prospective and current faculty, the department said in a press release.
Kristi Noem Halts Thousands in DEI Red Tape,
Shreds Internal Marketing Spend

The Department of Homeland Security is scrapping thousands of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) contracts after billions of dollars in waste and fraud were found. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found FEMA spending on inflated contracts, duplicate services and programs it called fraudulent or unnecessary. In response, DHS is moving to cancel the contracts and boost oversight. The Daily Caller obtained a sample of the contracts flagged by DOGE. “Any American who opened the books at FEMA and saw their lackluster spending controls and policies would be horrified,” a FEMA spokesperson told the Caller.
‘Nonsensical’ Illegal Immigrant Tuition Policy Scrapped in Kentucky, Bondi Lawsuit Deal
A lawsuit brought by Attorney General Pam Bondi against Kentucky’s public education apparatus over in-state tuition for illegal immigrants resulted in an agreement to end the practice... "Under current federal law, any illegal immigrant is barred from eligibility for postsecondary education benefits, like in-state tuition, unless the same benefits are offered to every U.S. citizen," Coleman said. Bondi noted in a statement obtained by Coleman’s office that "no state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens."

Week ending 24 August 2025

Stop and Smell the Commie: The Normie's Guide to
Recognizing Marxism Before it Kills Us All

Kevin Downey Jr.
The Trump economy continues to improve, and crime is falling. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met to begin the process of winding down the war between Russia and Ukraine. Trump has also begun turning Washington back into a peaceful city where residents can walk to the Dairy Queen without fear of stray lead perforation. Sure, your typical flag-waving, liberty-loving Americans are having a hoot, but the more successful Trump – and America – become, the louder those meat-dodging, septum-pierced, blue-haired apparatchiks seem to screech. Why is that? Because they are filthy communist prags who want to bring down the greatest nation in the history of mankind, which happens to be the United States of America.
Trump’s Whirlwind Week:
Peace Talks, D.C. Cleanup, and a CBO Win

Roger Kimball
This little collection of snapshots from the whirlwind that is Donald Trump could have been much longer and more detailed. I offer the collage merely as a reminder of the beneficent energy that Trump brings and attracts to his activities as President of the United States. He wants peace, prosperity, and social comity. He has done – and continues to do – more than any president in my lifetime to realize those desiderata.
Gavin Newsom: The Chameleon Who Destroyed California
Joel Kotkin
Gavin Newsom may be saddled with an awful record. But the California governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet – even a frontrunner in some polls – in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. How is this possible? The simple answer is that Newsom might be the ultimate candidate for the attention-deficient generation. He is a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively – not according to facts, but to whatever best seems to fit the national mood.
Karen Bass Exists to Make Gavin Newsom Look Competent
Stephen Kruiser
Karen BassWe've often discussed the fact that the Democrats are out of ideas and have nothing to offer the disaffected voters who they've been pushing away for over four years. They're in desperate need of some big, bold policy pitches to give the American people, and they're not going to get any from the party's current crop of "stars." True, there are limitations placed on them by their own political philosophy, but they still need someone to put lipstick on their socialist pig in order to win elections. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been getting all of the wrong kinds of press since fire destroyed Pacific Palisades and other areas of her city. We've seen public officials not handle crises well before, but Bass is going to need her own wing in the Mega FAIL Hall of Shame. Bass is the mayor of the second-largest city in the country and has performed as if she couldn't be trusted to keep a fake houseplant alive.
Cali’s Commie Commissar Karen
Mark Alexander
Some of the most strident political rhetoric of late has been about one of the most strident political hacks, Zohran Mamdani, who won the Demo primary in New York City in June. Now, given that NYC is our nation’s largest city, candidates there are going to be noticed. But what makes Mamdani most noticeable is that, more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Socialist Democrat Party’s legions of “useful idiots” might elect an avowed communist mayor of New York. Oh, and there is another factor: as podcaster Isabel Brown observed, “Imagine going back in time to September 12, 2001, and telling New Yorkers they’d eventually go on to elect a Muslim … mayor of the city.” Evidently, we neglected to “never forget” the 9/11 Islamist attack.
Bed, Bath & Beyond Flees California,
Tells the World Exactly Why

Like many businesses, Bed, Bath & Beyond is fleeing California. Unlike most, however, it's not slinking out quietly. It's letting the world know why it got the hell out of Dodge. In a publicly issued statement, its executive chairman, Marcus Lemonis, wrote: "We will not open or operate retail stores in California. This decision isn’t about politics – it’s about reality."
More than 1,000 businesses fled since 2011.
Trump Administration Considers Immigration Ban on
Muslim Brotherhood and Other Islamic Groups

Christine Williams
No other government but the Trump administration would be likely to venture into the highly complicated arena of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the West. “Trump Administration Weighing Immigration Ban on Members of Islamic Extremist Groups,” by Neil Munro, Breitbart, August 13, 2025... The Breitbart article also points out that “the group, largely led by Muslim university graduates living in Europe and the United States, is suppressed by nearly all Arab countries.” Yet it operates freely in Western countries.
What Is the Muslim Brotherhood?
'Fake Crime Numbers': Trump Bashes DC Dems
On Monday, Trump announced, with his customary excessive enthusiasm, that D.C. – which has higher violent crime rates than the cities of some third-world dictatorships – is already on its way to becoming a safe and secure town. The president federalized the capital’s police force and deployed National Guard troops in an effort to address the crime crisis that is ruining D.C. In a post on Truth Social, the platform where he often communicates directly with the American people, Trump insisted, “D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety. This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing!”
Texas ICE Shooting Suspects Tied to Secretive Far-Left Anarchist Group Formed During Violent 2020 BLM Protests
An armed mob arrested for shooting up a Texas immigration detention center last month are reportedly members of a secretive network of far-left “anti-fascists” trained in self-defense and firearms. An ex-U.S. Marine Corps reservist and 10 others were nabbed after the group, who were clad in black military-style clothing, opened fire outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado back on July 4 – leaving one cop shot in the neck. In the wake of the attack, it has emerged that several of the suspects have apparent ties to left-wing extremist groups operating out of Dallas, the Washington Post reported.
Justice Jackson Writes Opinions for Her Media Fanbase,
Not Everyday Americans

Shawn Fleetwood
Ketanji Brown JacksonIn roughly three years, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has established herself as one of the most recognized members of the Supreme Court – and not in a good way. Despite being the most junior justice on the high court, Jackson has regularly gone out of her way to thumb her nose at her colleagues for upholding America’s constitutional framework. Whether it be through public comments or poorly written opinions, the Biden appointee has shown little respect for the longstanding traditions and collegiality that have defined SCOTUS for generations.
This Might Be the Biggest Development in the
Biden Health Cover-Up Scandal

Matt Margolis
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer dropped a bombshell on Thursday when he revealed that Ian Sams, the former White House spokesperson who spent years defending Joe Biden’s mental acuity, admitted under oath that he interacted with Biden only twice during his entire tenure. Comer said the revelations cast serious doubt on who was really calling the shots inside the Biden White House. “Wow. That was probably the most informative transcribed interview we’ve had thus far,” Comer told reporters after Sams’ testimony. “I’ll give Mr. Sams credit -- he answered our questions. And one of the most shocking things to me is… he communicated with Joe Biden two times. He saw Joe Biden, talked to Joe Biden two times the entire stint as White House spokesperson.”
CNN’s Legal Expert Dropped a Major Truth Bomb About
Trump’s Huge Civil Case Victory

Matt Margolis
CNN’s top legal analyst admitted he wasn’t the least bit surprised when a New York appeals court threw out more than $500 million in penalties against President Donald Trump and his business empire, gutting what many have called a politically motivated case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked senior legal analyst Elie Honig if he was shocked by the ruling. Honig replied, “Well, I’m not, Wolf. I have been skeptical of the attorney general’s case for a long time. I’m on record saying that. This is a huge win for Donald Trump any way you cut it. And this is a stinging rebuke to the attorney general, Letitia James.”

Judge Who Fined Trump $500 Million
Gets the Book Thrown at Him on Appeal

Jonathan Turley
In New York, a court revealed that a leading citizen had cooked the books by inflating questionable figures without any support in reality. Moreover, his wild overvaluation was widely viewed as motivated by his self-aggrandizement. The final reported figures are so absurdly inflated that they were rejected in their entirety. In the end, he was off by over half a billion dollars. That man is Judge Arthur Engoron.

Jonathan Turley Says Letitia James
Might Not Be Done Losing to Trump Yet

Harold Hutchison
Democratic Attorney General Letitia James of New York may suffer further losses in appellate courts to President Donald Trump, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley predicted Thursday. A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that the $355 million civil penalty issued by New York Judge Arthur Engoron in February 2024 violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against excessive fines. Turley told “Faulkner Focus” guest host Aishah Hasnie that while the ruling was a “tremendous victory” for Trump, more wins could be coming for the president.
Ed Martin: The Russia Hoax Is About to Blow Up,
Schiff and Biden’s DOJ Are Next

Matt Margolis
Ed Martin, the director of the Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group, joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures" for an explosive interview about ongoing investigations into government abuse of power. Martin confirmed that his office is reviewing criminal referrals involving Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), New York Attorney General Letitia James, and matters tied to the Russia hoax and January 6 investigations. Bartiromo opened by asking Martin to assess “a decade of dirty tricks” against Donald Trump. Martin agreed, saying the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group, launched under Attorney General Pam Bondi, is tasked with uncovering the truth.
Hillary Clinton Slapped with Ethics Complaint Targeting
Her Law License Over Role in Russiagate Scandal

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing an ethical complaint from a government watchdog group calling on the Arkansas state bar to probe whether Clinton’s involvement in the Russia investigation into President Trump should affect her ability to practice law in the state. The complaint, filed by Democracy Restored this week, cites the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct involving "Dishonesty" and "Prejudice to the Administration of Justice" and seeks a "formal review of the conduct of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Esq., a licensed attorney in the State of Arkansas, in connection with her actions during the 2016 presidential campaign."
Hillary - Oh Sh!t
Details in Deadly Florida Semi Accident Get More Horrific As SEVERAL STATES MAY BE RESPONSIBLE
The bloody results of the Biden administration's open borders just keep getting worse. Especially heinous crimes like the murders of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Joselyn Nungary have shocked the nation. They were completely preventable, and all three should still be alive. But the policies of blue states that encourage and normalize illegal immigrants are being felt in other ways as well. One of those polices is issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, many of whom can't speak or read English. One recent incident is now highlighting just how dangerous this is, and the Department of Transportation has launched an investigation.

Rep Mast Says 'Serious Hurt About to Roll Downhill'
After Illegal Migrant Trucker Crash

Harjinder Singh’s deadly wreck on Florida’s Turnpike exposes not just the illegal immigration crisis but systemic negligence – or worse – in transportation-related areas, Florida Rep. Brian Mast told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday interview. Mast lives only 10 minutes from where Singh allegedly made an unlawful U-turn on Florida’s Turnpike and killed three people whose vehicle became wedged under his rig – after he illegally used a median crossover meant for emergency vehicles. ... As a member of the House Transportation Committee, Mast said he has heard complaints from municipal officials who run the local DMVs who tell him the problem of illegal immigrants getting CDLs in large numbers is "systemic."

Illegal Immigrant Truck Driver Accused in Deadly Florida Crash Got Biden Work Permit After Trump Admin Denial in 2020
The illegal immigrant truck driver accused of causing a crash that killed three people in Florida was given a work permit under the Biden administration, officials said Monday. Harjinder Singh, who was arrested on Saturday in Stockton, California, on three counts of vehicle homicide, entered the United States illegally and his work authorization was rejected under the Trump administration on Sept. 14, 2020, said Tricia McLaughlin, the Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs.
Socialist Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate
Has Rally with Almost No English

Socialist FatehA small rally for Minneapolis Democratic Socialist Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh was held mostly in Somali on Sunday night. Fateh, who currently serves as a Minnesota state senator, announced his mayoral candidacy last year and was recently endorsed by the Minnesota Democratic-Labor-Farmer (DFL) Party. He became the first Somali American and Muslim elected to the Minnesota Senate after defeating Democrat Jeff Hayden in 2020. During the rally, which was recorded and broadcast by Somali TV Minnesota, multiple speakers, including Fateh, took to the microphone while speaking Somali. The music is Somalian, and no American flags were flown. Some attendees wore stickers with the Palestinian flag.
NYC Public Defender Terminated Over
Antisemitic Social Media Post Targeting Israelis

A public defender with Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) was fired over a social media post in which he appeared to call for violence against Israelis. Despite sharing the same acronym as the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, Brooklyn Defender Services is a New York City public defense organization with no affiliation to it. Lucas Gomez, a public defender, recently responded to a post in which someone asked, "What everyone needs to start asking is ‘who will take 7 million Israelis in?’" Gomez wrote in response. "No one needs to ask this question when firing squads exist," according to screenshots posted on X by the watchdog group StopAntisemitism.
U. Oregon Law Review Accused of
Rejecting Professor’s Article Because He’s Israeli

Ofer Raban, a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, said he filed a discrimination complaint with the university’s Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance in February. In it, Raban alleged the Oregon Law Review rejected a professor’s article for publication because he is Israeli. Raban told The College Fix last week that he was notified in June that the results of the university’s investigation into his complaint would not be disclosed. “University of Oregon informed me that it will not disclose to me – or to the public – the results of its investigation. The email referred to some unnamed ‘university policy,’” Raban told The Fix.
Top Eric Adams Adviser Winnie Greco Caught
Handing Reporter a Bag of Chips Stuffed with Cash

A former top aide to Mayor Eric Adams – and current adviser to his re-election campaign – handed a Big Apple reporter a potato chip bag stuffed with cash Wednesday, according to a report and sources. Winnie Greco gave the bag to Katie Honan, a reporter at The City, just steps away from Hizonner’s new campaign office in Harlem, The Post confirmed.
Founder of Soros-Backed Legal Group
Resigned Amid Internal Accusations of Racism

Progressive activist Miriam Krinsky was at the top of her game in early 2024. As the founder and leader of Soros-backed Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), she helped support the day-to-day work of the nationwide wave of progressive prosecutors elected in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Then it all came to a screeching halt when her own staff accused her of being a racist, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. FJP, funded by billionaire financier George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, played a key role in supporting elected progressive prosecutors under Krinsky’s leadership from 2017 through 2024.
Obama's 'obscene monument to his ego' Dramatically
Backfires As $850M Vanity Project Sparks Outrage

Obama ego tripPresident Barack Obama's promise to build and revitalize blighted neighborhoods was a centerpiece of his first term in the White House. But now, nearly nine years after he left the Oval Office, he might be destroying one critical area in the city he called home, the Daily Mail can reveal. His $850 million presidential center in Chicago – due to open in April – has come under fire from residents, community leaders and even onetime supporters who now warn that the massive 19.3-acre facility in Jackson Park is gentrifying the neighborhood, increasing rent and forcing families out.
More: And it is absolutely UGLY!
Foreign Policy Double Standards:
Trump's String of Wins Perpetually Downplayed by Opposition

As President Donald Trump has achieved historic peace deals across the globe, media treatment of his presidency is on track to resemble the pre-determined critical nature shown in Trump's first term. Near the 100th day of his second term, Media Research Center, a conservative-leaning media watchdog, found that 92% of mainstream media coverage of Trump has been consistently negative. The contrast to former President Joe Biden, who enjoyed 59% positive news coverage, shows a glaring double standard when it comes to recognizing White House success, particularly in the area of foreign policy.
Bill Barr Takes a Sledgehammer to the
Democrats’ Trump-Epstein Narrative

Matt Margolis
For years, Democrats have been desperate to turn Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes into a political weapon against Donald Trump. They’ve tried to weave the two men together into some elaborate scandal, hoping it would be the silver bullet that finally takes Trump down. And yet, like so many other “bombshells” before it, the narrative has collapsed under the weight of reality. As has been proven repeatedly, there’s no connection. Trump’s hands are clean, and now, sworn testimony from someone positioned to know for certain has blown apart this left-wing fantasy. ... The media’s never-ending attempt to tie Trump to Epstein collapses every time real testimony surfaces.
Ukraine’s Patriots Now Struggling to Intercept
Enhanced Russian Ballistic Missiles

A surge in Russian use of ballistic missiles with enhanced maneuvering capabilities has cut into the effectiveness of Ukraine’s Patriot surface-to-air missile systems, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has confirmed. ... “The flight of a ballistic missile along such a quasi-ballistic trajectory – when the missile doesn’t just fly in a straight line like it’s falling, but actually performs maneuvers in flight – makes it more difficult for the Patriot system, which calculates the interception point using software, to predict exactly where the missile will be,” he continued. “According to Ihnat, the modified missiles are now equipped with radar-decoy systems and use quasi-ballistic flight paths that make them more difficult to track and intercept using Patriot systems,” The Kyiv Independent‘s report added.
The Story of an Industrial Flop, mRNA
Jeffrey Tucker
One wishes that this article could be made light and fun but it doesn’t seem possible. It provides an overview of one of the great industrial scandals of our time, one that has impacted you, your family, your community, and your country. The only real good news here is that it seems to be coming to a merciful end. Last week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of HHS withdrew funding for 22 government projects that relied on mRNA technology. They were managed by an agency called BARDA, which stands for Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
Grassley Releases Data Showing Biden Admin Placed
Over 10K Migrant Children with Unvetted Sponsors

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Monday released new data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which confirmed his concern that the Biden administration placed over 10,000 migrant children with unvetted sponsors. The Trump administration provided Grassley with the information as part of his oversight investigation and requests, which were largely ignored or stonewalled by the previous administration.
Reed College Investigates Security Chief for Giving
FBI Info on Anti-ICE alum, a Violation of School Policy

Reed College’s director of community safety is under internal investigation for helping the FBI locate a recent graduate who allegedly threw a rock at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, according to an open letter from its president to the campus community. The private Portland, Oregon college’s actions have raised questions about student privacy as well as the college’s actions against its safety officer.
Mom Hid Her Baby in Closet Then Shot and Killed Burglar
A quick-thinking mother hid her baby in a closet on realizing someone was breaking into her home...then shot and killed the intruder. The unnamed mom sprung into action after hearing the stranger enter her property in a peaceful suburb of Joliet, Illinois, around 10:30pm Friday night. She rushed her baby into a closet on the second floor of the property and hid the youngster there.
RKBA
'They raped one child': Earle-Sears Cites Assault Case
As Schools Risk Millions

Republican Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears appeared on "Fox & Friends" on Friday to break down why her state is at risk of losing federal funding over transgender bathrooms. Earle-Sears, who is running for governor of Virginia as a Republican, told Fox News' Brian Kilmeade that she stands in solidarity with parents against transgender school policies and explained why it's so important that schools in her state abandon transgender ideology and abide by federal law.
Largest Christian University Celebrates FTC
Dropping Lawsuit, Ending Years of 'lawfare' from Biden Admin

"This case, which we inherited from the previous administration, was filed nearly two years ago and has suffered losses in two motions to dismiss," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said. "These losses are compounded by recent events: Grand Canyon secured a victory over the Department of Education in a related matter before the Ninth Circuit; the Department of Education rescinded a massive fine levied on related grounds; and the Internal Revenue Service confirmed that Grand Canyon University is properly claiming 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation designation."
Former NFL Player, Jack Brewer, Warns
Vikings' Male Cheerleaders 'Manipulates Young Boys'

The Minnesota Vikings' employment of male cheerleaders for the 2025 season has prompted growing controversy, and now a former player is weighing in. The team's new male cheerleaders, Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn, have been the topic of fierce social media debate after speaking out against critics, as the team has even put out a statement in defense of the two men on the cheer squad. Former Vikings player and current conservative activist Jack Brewer told Fox News Digital he is "disgusted and embarrassed" about the new cheerleaders.
Trans Athlete's Mom Blasts Board Member After
Volleyball Team Forfeits to Her Child

A school board meeting in California descended into explosive debate after a girls' volleyball team forfeited to an opponent with a transgender player. The players on the Riverside Poly High School girls' volleyball team chose to forfeit last Friday's game against Jurupa Valley High School. Multiple parents previously told Fox News Digital the forfeit was in response to the presence of trans athlete AB Hernandez on the Jurupa Valley team. Local parents showed up to the Riverside Unified School District board meeting on Thursday to speak out in support of the girls who forfeited and against the school district for its current gender policies, while others spoke in support of trans athletes in girls' sports.
Blue State AG Gloats Over Legal Battle vs. Trump to
Keep Trans Athletes in Girls' Sports

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison gloated about his lawsuit against President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, which aims to protect the rights of biological males to compete in girls' sports in his state. In an interview with Public Citizen on Thursday, Ellison made an appearance to boast about his legal battle over the issue, which he filed back in April. "We are fighting to protect transgender athletes. In fact, we were in court doing it today… Donald Trump and [Attorney General] Pam Bondi were threatening to sue me, I sued them first!" Ellison said.
George Mason President Implemented Illegal
Race-Based Hiring Schemes, Education Department Finds

George Mason University's president "waged a university-wide campaign to implement unlawful DEI policies that intentionally discriminate on the basis of race," a violation of civil rights law, the Department of Education determined Friday. The Northern Virginia school, under President Gregory Washington's direction, violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "by illegally using race and other immutable characteristics in university practices and policies, including hiring and promotion," National Review first reported.
Former University Employee Gets $265K
After Being Told She Was Too 'white' for Job

A former DEI staffer at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire will receive a $265,000 settlement after she sued the school, alleging discrimination for being White. Rochelle Hoffman, a former employee at UW-Eau Claire, brought the case in 2023 after she was promoted to interim director of the campus's Multicultural Student Services office. The school's former vice chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Student Affairs, Olga Diaz, was allegedly told by students that a White woman was not fit to preside over a position intended to serve students of color.

Week ending 17 August 2025

'Democrat' Becoming Synonymous with Criminality,
Anti-Americanism

Eric Utter
There is no other way to say it: today’s Democrats have a love-affair with criminals, violence, and vulgarity. Thus, they clearly favor illegal immigrants over citizens, criminals over the law-abiding, and chaos over the Constitution. The examples are legion, inexhaustible. ... Mind-bending. Some of the Democrat party’s leaders are (allegedly) criminals themselves, so perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that they have such an affinity for others of their ilk.
Russiagate Was Worse Than Watergate
Sean Collins
Russiagate is back. U.S. attorney-general Pam Bondi has ordered a grand-jury investigation into an alleged conspiracy by the Obama administration and the national-security services to tie Donald Trump to Russia. While the Department of Justice has not yet brought indictments, the alleged crimes could be serious – including offences punishable by imprisonment. Last month, Gabbard accused Barack Obama – along with former director of national intelligence James Clapper, former CIA director John Brennan and former FBI head James Comey – of leading a ‘treasonous conspiracy’.
Trump Tariff Revenue Reaches $25 Billion Monthly
Revenue from President Trump's tariffs reaches $25 billion monthly, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The bipartisan group reported that the monthly tariff revenue jumped from $7 billion a year ago to $25 billion in July, according to the Washington Times. The committee estimated that by the end of Trump's term in office, the tariffs from his administration would bring in $1.3 trillion “before accounting for economic effects.”
Clapper Allegedly Pushed to 'compromise' 'normal' Steps to Rush 2017 ICA, Despite Concerns from NSA Director
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allegedly directed officials to "compromise" "normal" procedures to rush a politicized 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment – despite concerns from then-Director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers, who allegedly said his team did not have "enough time" to review the intelligence to be "absolutely confident" that Russia was involved in the 2016 election. "The leading figures in the Russia hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence," Tulsi Gabbard told Fox News Digital.
Russiagate seed. Part of “team sport”!
Investigation Season –
Lawfare Judge Boasberg’s Russiagate Connection Revealed

Alexander Marlow
United States District Court for the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg is well known to this audience for ordering illegal aliens to remain in the United States despite the Trump administrations clearly lawful effort to deport them under the Aliens Enemies Act. Yet, he also has an important connection to the Russiagate hoax that reveals the scope of the lawfare superstructure that is trying to dismantle MAGA, which I document in my book Breaking the Law. Just like the rest of the Russiagate conspirators, Boasberg ought to be investigated for it.
Gabbard Declassifies Email Between James Clapper and
Mike Rogers Regarding Russiagate

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday declassified an email exchange between then-DNI James Clapper and then-National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers, who expressed concerns over the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment used in the Russiagate scandal. Rogers said his staff had serious concerns about the NSA’s lack of “sufficient access" to information needed for the assessment and said his staff was not “fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments.”
Shifty Schiff Directed Leaks of Classified Info to Hurt Trump
Nate Jackson
A Democrat intelligence officer who worked for Democrat lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee for over a decade told the FBI in 2017 that Adam Schiff, then a Democrat representative and now a senator from California, directed the leaking of classified information to smear Donald Trump. The subject? You guessed it – the Russia collusion hoax. Given Schiff’s long history of lies and Ahab-like obsession with harpooning Trump, it’s no surprise that he took an ends-justify-the-means approach. In August 2018, Schiff claimed without evidence that “I think there’s plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight.” In April 2019, he similarly insisted, “I’ve been very clear over the past year, year and a half, that there is ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.”
GOP Sen Johnson Says Comey's Involvement in
Leaking Intel About Russiagate is 'grotesque corruption'

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson said it's likely too late to rely on criminal investigations, and he hopes that Attorney General Pam Bondi ramps the investigation up to a conspiracy where a trial can be had in a venue like Florida. "I can't think of a better venue, day by day, week by week, where we lay out the timeline of the grotesque corruption of these partisans within the Department of Justice [and] the FBI ... all on the side of the Democrats, all in opposition, sabotaging Trump's first administration, and if they can, they'll do it to a secondary administration," Johnson said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.
‘Shut it down’: Bombshell FBI Timeline Exposes
Political Interference in Clinton Corruption Probe

FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered a bombshell memo written in 2017 chronicling the extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation. "Shut it down!" then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is quoted as demanding in the detailed timeline of political impediments that agents in New York City, Little Rock, Ark., and Washington D.C. reported. The agents tried to get the help of federal prosecutors to determine whether or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, most notably, because at that time, her family foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and U.S. interests with business before her department.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Reveals the Number of
Illegal Aliens Who Have Self-Deported – and It's Huge

Joe Biden and company told us it couldn’t be done – the border couldn’t be fixed without complex new legislation and gobs of money. Turns out that wasn’t true; all we needed was a new president. One who was willing to take command of the situation and enforce the laws already on the books. But it’s not just ICE repatriations and a tight border that are at play here: as Trump promised on the campaign trail, a number of illegals would simply self-deport once they realized there was a new sheriff in town.
Mexico Hands Over 26 Notorious Cartel Bosses to
U.S. in Major Trump Victory

Mexico is handing over 26 top cartel leaders to the United States this week in a deal with the Trump administration. The cartel figures were scheduled to fly to the U.S. on Tuesday. "Today is the latest example of the Trump administration's historic efforts to dismantle cartels and foreign terrorist organizations," Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital. "These 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores – under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country. We are grateful to President Sheinbaum and the Mexican government for their collaboration in this matter."
Five "Typical Nebraskans" Arrested for Running Human Trafficking, Child Rape Operations at Nebraska Hotels
'Nebraska' men
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that five run-of-the-mill Nebraska men were arrested for running a human trafficking ring out of local hotels. United States Attorney Lesley A. Woods announced that five people were charged by complaint for a range of federal violations that center around their alleged conspiracy to engage in labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and harboring of aliens at several hotel locations across the Omaha metro area and into central Nebraska. The defendants own, operate and manage several hotels in the Omaha metro area located at the following locations where federal search warrants were executed in the early morning hours of August 12, 2025:
Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief Nominee
Calls for Pause to Monthly Jobs Reports Until Fixed

President Trump's recent nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics has called for a pause in the agency's monthly jobs reports until data issues are fixed. Economist E.J. Antoni was nominated last week by Trump to replace agency Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, whom the president fired after BLS published a weak July jobs report that Trump thinks was flawed. Antoni, the chief economist for the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, thinks there are recurring flaws in the agency's methodology that need to be fixed before the monthly reports can continue.
"BLS data problems have been evident for three years now"
Profanity Won’t Save a Party That’s Out of Coherent Arguments
David Manney
Once, not too long ago, people with ideas aspired to enter politics by presenting their ideas, which were debated during rallies and speeches. Worthy candidates laid out a map to follow for election, and voters judged the best route. Within the past year, many high-profile Democrats have replaced maps with megaphones and words that would make World War II-era merchant marines proud, remaining confident that their volume equaled clarity, while anger equaled authenticity. Although rhetorical shifts such as these grab attention for a single moment, the speakers never learned the lesson that attention without persuasion turns into nothing but a noisy treadmill.
Democratic Whistleblower Told FBI That Adam Schiff
Approved Classified Leaks to Target Trump

A Democratic whistleblower told the FBI that Adam Schiff approved leaking classified information in order to discredit President Donald Trump, according to newly-released documents. The documents, which were obtained by Just The News, were recently handed over to Congress by FBI Director Kash Patel. The whistleblower reportedly worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for over ten years, and reported Schiff's alleged behavior to the FBI in 2017.
DC Police Chief Ripped for 'Mind Blowing' Response to
Basic Policing Question: 'Yikes!'

DC Chief SmithWashington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith is facing backlash and mockery on social media after she appeared to not understand a question from the media about the department's "chain of command" amid President Donald Trump's recent federalization of the department. "Can you tell us what the chain of command is now?" a reporter was heard asking Smith during a press conference Tuesday morning. "What does that mean?" the police chief responded. "Well, is it Pam Bondi speaking to the mayor? Is it you? How does this work?" the reporter continued... Smith previously served as the department's first chief equity officer, where she "led the department's efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion," according to her biography.
"This is why DEI is a disease"
A DC Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes to Make Stats Look Low. The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit.
The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed. Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the department in 2020, alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme.
Hillary Ripped As 'Massive Liar' After
Scathing Reaction to Trump's Plan to Fix DC Crime

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was slammed on social media Monday after she dismissed President Trump’s efforts to combat crime in Washington, D.C. as "unhinged" with other top Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, receiving similar pushback. Clinton’s post immediately drew pushback from conservatives on social media, including from inside the White House, with many making the case that crime in Washington, D.C. has gotten out of control. "On top of being a big-time loser, you're also a massive liar," White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson posted on X along with an article headline about a D.C. police commander being suspended for allegedly altering crime data.
Letitia James Is in Big Trouble Now
Matt Margolis
For years, New York Attorney General Letitia James has fancied herself as the scourge of Donald Trump, chasing him with a vengeance to fulfill her campaign promise of getting Trump at any cost. Now, in a stunning turn of events, the Department of Justice has launched a grand jury investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James over her sham civil fraud case against Donald Trump. The partisan hit job that scored James a bloated $454 million judgment against Trump is now facing the heat of federal scrutiny, and the tables may finally be turning.
Cincinnati Viral Beating Suspect Hit with Federal Gun Charge
A previous felon and suspect in the viral downtown Cincinnati beating that reverberated nationwide is facing a new federal gun charge. "A federal grand jury today indicted Montanez Merriweather, 34, with illegally possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon," according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio. "According to the indictment, on July 2, Merriweather illegally possessed a 9mm pistol. As a previously convicted felon, he is prohibited from possessing firearms," the release from the attorney's office said.
First Lady Melania Trump Puts Hunter Biden on
$1B Notice Over 'false, Defamatory' Epstein Comments

First lady Melania Trump is putting Hunter Biden on $1 billion notice over what she claims are "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements" made about her, demanding he immediately remove and retract the content and issue an apology or face legal action, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the letter that Alejandro Brito, attorney serving as litigation counsel for the first lady, sent to Hunter Biden and his attorney, Abbe Lowell, Aug. 6. 

Trump Backs Melania’s Threat to Sue Hunter Biden:
‘I Let Her Use My Lawyers’

President Trump backed up his wife, first lady Melania Trump, in her threat to sue Hunter Biden, former President Biden’s son, over comments linking her to convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Well, I said go forward, you know, I’ve done pretty well on these lawsuits lately, and I said, go forward with it,” Trump said during his Thursday morning Fox News Radio interview with host Brian Kilmeade.
In His First 200 Days, Trump Has Overturned
Biden Climate Agenda at Breakneck Speed, Report Shows

President Donald Trump had campaigned on promises to undo many of the Biden administration’s climate policies. He called climate change a “hoax,” vowed to stop offshore wind projects, and promised to overturn former President Biden’s electric vehicle mandates. Immediately after being sworn into office, Trump went about making good on these campaign promises and more. In 2022, The American Energy Alliance began keeping a tally of all the actions Biden and the Democrats had taken to make it harder to produce oil and gas. Only two years into Biden’s term, the AEA had 125 items on its list. By the time Biden left office, the list had doubled in size.
Offshore Wind's Mask Finally Comes Off
David Blackmon
The green fairy tale now seems to be unraveling faster than a faulty wind turbine blade in a Nantucket storm. On Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, Danish offshore wind giant Ørsted dropped a bombshell, notifying the market it plans a massive rights issue worth up to 60 billion Danish kroner (about $9.4 billion) to prop up its flailing offshore U.S. operations. The plan, which amounts to almost 50% of Ørsted’s market cap, is a desperation move driven by the forces of reality and President Donald Trump’s no-nonsense energy policies. Ørsted’s stock took a nosedive in the wake of Monday’s announcement, cratering as much as 31.2% in Copenhagen trading, erasing billions in value overnight.
Democrats Love Citing This One Climate Change Study.
Turns Out It’s All Bogus.

Mairead Elordi
Democrats often tout a study that predicts the global economy will crash this century thanks to climate change. It turns out the study is bogus, according to a new analysis. The paper, published in the journal Nature last year, claimed that global gross domestic product will plummet by 62% by 2100 compared to where it would be without climate change. About 19% of the global economy will be lost in the next 25 years, the study claimed. The dire predictions were three times higher than previous estimates, causing alarm over the possibility that climate change could destroy the global economy within people’s lifetimes.
The Demos’ Census Redistricting Strategy
Mark Alexander
Ira Mehlman with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) says: “By some estimates, California’s large illegal alien population resulted in that state getting four to five more representatives than it would have if illegal aliens were excluded for this purpose. The system actually rewards states that enact policies that draw illegal aliens.” It is doubtful that Trump’s order will pass the Supreme Court’s constitutional scrutiny. That is a high hurdle. But he has certainly shined a bright light on the census count of illegal aliens for the purposes of gerrymandering congressional districts.
Former Ilhan Omar Associate Pleads Guilty in
Pandemic Food Fraud Scheme

A former associate of Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar pleaded guilty to participating in a pandemic food fraud scheme, according to U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota. Guhaad Hashi Said, 49, a one-time “enforcer” for Omar’s campaign, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering in a fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, Alpha News reported. “The conviction of the 52nd defendant in the Feeding our Future case is yet another reminder of the vast reach of this fraud and the scale of the crisis we face in Minnesota,” acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson said in a statement.
Part of a web of schemes targeting such programs
Michigan Faces Scrutiny As SNAP Fraud Surges,
Whistleblower Fired

When a 23-year veteran of Michigan’s government caught employees stealing from a program, she reported it to the state’s top law enforcement office. Then the state health department fired her... “In or around early 2024, Plaintiff reported concerns to the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Michigan regarding fraudulent activity by State employees who were allegedly conspiring to unlawfully receive public benefits, including food assistance," the lawsuit said.
Famous Pro-Life Resister Asks Supreme Court to
Overturn Gay Marriage Ruling

A famous pro-life resister has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark case that legalized gay marriage. Over a decade ago, in 2015, then-Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was jailed for six days for refusing on religious grounds to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. In addition, a gay couple consisting of David Ermold and David Moore sued her for violating their constitutional rights... This marks the first time that someone has formally requested that the high court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. And that’s because Davis is one of a handful of Americans, if even that many, with the legal standing to challenge the ruling.

Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Asks Supreme Court to
Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Ruling: ‘Legal fiction’

“If ever a case deserved review, the first individual who was thrown in jail post-Obergefell for seeking accommodation for her religious beliefs should be it,” Liberty Counsel, the nonprofit law firm representing Davis, wrote in the petition. “Davis was jailed, haled before a jury, and now faces crippling monetary damages based on nothing more than purported emotional distress,” the filing continued, arguing that Davis was protected by her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion in denying the marriage licences. The petition also asks the justices to consider “whether Obergefell v. Hodges … and the legal fiction of substantive due process, should be overturned.”
Federal Appeals Court Rules Trump Admin Can
Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration can continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid money, after several aid groups sued the administration to block the order. The lawsuit challenged President Donald Trump's authority to withdraw $9 billion in foreign aid funding that had previously been appropriated by Congress. The reversal of funds was approved by Congress as part of its rescissions package.
Supreme Court Won’t Halt Mississippi Law
Requiring Social Media Age-Verification

The Supreme Court on Aug. 14 declined to block a Mississippi law restricting minors’ access to social media platforms. The court did not explain its new ruling in NetChoice v. Fitch. NetChoice, a trade association for internet companies, filed an emergency application last month after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted a federal district court’s injunction that shielded several platforms from the law’s requirements. NetChoice argues that the state law violates First Amendment free speech protections.
Revisiting Dresden – Frederick Taylor’s Eye-Opening Account and
Its Contemporary Implications

Michael J. Woodruff
There is a longstanding myth from the Second World War that the Allies killed hundreds of thousands of civilians by the sudden and shameless aerial bombing of Dresden, a beautiful city remarkable for its history and culture. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 provided German historians access to previously restricted East German records relevant to the Allied bombing of Nazi targets in Dresden, Germany. Frederick Taylor, a bilingual scholar, read several German accounts, yet untranslated into English, that dispelled the myth. Taylor found that Dresden was “by the standards of its time a legitimate military target.
Florida Sheriff Says He's 'unleashed the teeth of the dog'
After Viral Lakeside Brawl

A Florida sheriff tore into a group of rowdy boaters after a massive, caught-on-video lakeside brawl left families and children stunned. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, known for his tough talking and zero-tolerance messaging, ripped into the group after a chaotic video showed the punches flying at Lake Winterset, with one person left knocked out on the grass while a woman frantically performed CPR on him. Seconds later, one man sucker-punches another partygoer, sending him flying headfirst into the water, as another man then jumps on top of him and lets loose with a flurry of follow-up punches. In the video, a young girl in a boat can be seen looking on.
The Deeper Rot Exposed in Cincinnati
Sophie Starkova
Last month’s viral Cincinnati beatdown exposed much of the rot that has not only eaten away at our once-great cities but corroded American society at large. We are witnessing attacks throughout the country, from the Austin Metcalf killing to the savage beating of a teen at a South Carolina football camp over petty perceived threats. As our own Mark Alexander correctly observed, “It’s not just a ‘Cincinnati problem.’” One of the rots we are seeing wear away the fabric of our society is the normalization and acceptance of violence, which has not only brought on the trend of cheering it on, but also the routine of recording the act instead of reporting it. The Cincinnati police chief lamented that more than 100 people were present on the street corner at the time of the fight, and yet only one person called 911.
Gov. Youngkin Orders Probe Into Virginia Schools
Funding Abortions for Minors Without Parental Consent

Virginia's Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday instructed the Virginia State Police to conduct a criminal investigation into allegations that schools in Fairfax County funded abortions for minors without parental consent. The governor's office highlighted reports that school officials may have arranged and paid for abortions for multiple minors without notifying the students' parents, which Youngkin argued would be a violation of parental rights. Fairfax County Superintendent Michelle Reid told school administrators and the Fairfax community that the allegations would be "unacceptable" if true and has launched her own investigation into the allegations, per ABC7 News.
Whac-a, Meet Mole. In N. Carolina, As Elsewhere,
Anti-DEI Reformers Can’t Keep Up with the Faculty and Staff

Graham Hillard
Some years ago, I saw in a friend’s kitchen a sign meant to place the house’s terms of engagement beyond dispute: “My dogs live here. The rest of you are just visiting.” Little did I know then that a bit of mass-produced kitsch could explain the higher-ed reformer’s central dilemma. Consider this year’s attempt by the UNC System to bring its schools in line with Trump Administration anti-DEI guidance. As recent events make clear, that effort may fail precisely because the public’s representatives cannot possibly turn over every campus rock or smoke out every defiant faculty member. Why not? As my friend’s sign made clear, it’s a matter of standing. Recalcitrant professors and administrators “live” on campus. However well-intentioned, those charged with overseeing them are merely “visiting.”
Rutgers Deletes Race-Based Scholarships
After Civil Rights Complaint

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey has deleted four scholarships from its website after being hit with a civil rights complaint on Friday. The Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed the Aug. 1 complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The complaint argues that the four scholarships violate Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by giving preference based on race. The university has since deleted all four of the scholarships from its website. However, the complaint provides archived links for each award:
Local Calif. School Board
Bans Trans Athletes from Girls' Sports

A California school board voted to ban transgender athletes from competing in sports that don't align with their biological sex. The Kern County Board of Education voted on Tuesday to adopt a resolution related to Title IX, KBAK/KBFX reported. Title IX is a federal law that requires equal opportunities for boys and girls in school sports and programs.
A touch of sanity in Calif.
Federal Appeals Court Allows Arkansas Ban on
Gender Mutilation for Minors to Be Enforced

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld an Arkansas law prohibiting doctors from providing gender transition medical treatment to minors, reversing a lower court decision that blocked the first-in-the-nation law. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-2 on Tuesday to overturn a lower court decision, now allowing the state to enforce the law. The appeals court cited the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June upholding a similar ban in Tennessee, in which the nation's highest court ruled that the law was constitutional and did not discriminate against transgender people.
Virginia School Board Votes to Keep Transgender Policies,
Defying Education Department Order

The Loudoun County, Va., school board voted Tuesday to keep its transgender policies, even after the Education Department warned that the district and four others could face legal punishment and lose federal funding for violating Title IX, the federal law that bans sex discrimination. The board "voted to maintain its policies allowing transgender students to use facilities that match their gender identity," defying the Education Department's order to drop the policies, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Israel’s West Bank Settlement Plan Could ‘Bury’ the
Prospect of a Palestinian State. Here’s Why

Oren Liebermann
Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “permanently bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” To the delight of the Israeli settler movement, but horror of Palestinians and settlement watchdogs, Smotrich confirmed that the government was reviving a long-stalled project to the east of Jerusalem. It is expected to be approved next week.
University Near White House
Blamed Jewish Students for Pro-Palestine Harassment

A private university near the White House was once so alarmed by a reported swastika in a predominantly Jewish fraternity that it banned from campus the Jewish member who posted what turned out to be an ancient Hindu symbol. George Washington University has swung hard the other way a decade later, according to a Justice Department findings letter that alleges an assistant dean of students and campus police blamed Jewish students for the harassment they endured from "antisemitic protesters" who shouted "racial slurs" at them, "forced them to flee" and blocked their movement.
Washington State Elementary School Brings in Drag Performance to Stage R-Rated Rocky Horror Picture Show for Kids
One performer appeared to gear his act toward children by using songs from The Little Mermaid and the Hannah Montana movie. A Washington State elementary school is facing community backlash after hosting a drag event for children that included drag performances featuring songs and characters from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult-classic film rated “R” for mature audiences.
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The Grand Conspiracy: Five Things You Need to Know
Douglas Andrews
There hasn’t been a lot of talk about the Grand Conspiracy lately – at least not since DNI Tulsi Gabbard stunned the mainstream media into silence just over two weeks ago. It was then that Gabbard released evidence that then-President Barack Obama and his henchmen “conspired to subvert President Trump’s 2016 election victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people … while publicly pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power.” While it’s sad, even pathetic, that the legacy media is suddenly dumbstruck about the years-long Russia collusion hoax – which is the most serious political scandal of our lifetimes – it’s not at all unexpected.
Obama and Biden –
What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?

Mark Alexander
There are endless “knock-knock” jokes. But the answer to “Who’s there?” by the deep state coup d'état cabal of co-conspirators who interfered both with the first election of Donald Trump and then undermined his administration, of may be, “The FBI.” In this case, my preference would be for “no knock” entries! A month ago, we noted that a “grand conspiracy” DoJ investigation was launched... At the time, distinguished legal scholar Jonathan Turley, a former Hillary Clinton supporter, concluded: “The public is now learning about the real Russian conspiracy and its key players. It was the most infamous – and successful – political hit job in history.
Putin Ally Says Critics Plan 'Titanic Efforts' to
Derail Summit and Prolong Ukraine War

A senior member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle warned that multiple countries are mounting "titanic efforts" to undermine the upcoming summit between the Russian leader and U.S. President Donald Trump. "Undoubtedly, a number of countries interested in continuing the conflict will make titanic efforts to disrupt the planned meeting between President Putin and President Trump," wrote Russia's investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, in a Telegram post on Saturday, referencing the Kremlin's ongoing war in Ukraine.
In Rush to Blame Job Numbers on Trump,
Media Looks Past Key Detail That’s Great News for Americans

Chris Donaldson
In the Democrat-media rush to blame President Donald J. Trump for Friday’s dismal jobs report, one very important detail was largely ignored, and it’s great news for American workers. But according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), native-born Americans have actually experienced job gains while illegal aliens have declined, an early testament to the effectiveness of Trump’s tough new immigration policies.
Trump: Government May Sell Fannie/Freddie Shares,
Raise $30B, Cut $8T in Liabilities, Avert 2008-Style Financial Crisis

The Trump administration is weighing the sale of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares in an offering that could begin as early as this year. Plans under discussion call for selling between 5% and 15% of their stock, with the two government-controlled mortgage giants valued at more than $500 billion. The transaction could raise around $30 billion, potentially making it the largest IPO in history.
Census Bureau Errors
Distort Congressional Representation for the States

Hans von Spakovsky
In a shocking report that has not received the attention it deserves, the U.S. Census Bureau recently admitted that its 2020 Census count of the American population was incorrect in at least 14 states. U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Undercounts in Six States, Overcounts in Eight (May 19, 2022) And those mistakes were costly to certain states in terms of congressional representation, number of electors, and money those states are likely to receive from the federal government during the next decade.
JD Vance Calls On Republicans To Take 'decisive Action'
To Counter Democratic Gerrymandering

Amid the increasingly high-stakes battle over redistricting, Vice President JD Vance is calling for red states to counter what he calls "aggressive" Democratic gerrymandering in blue states like California, New York and Illinois. At the center of this push is a contentious debate over fairness, representation and the role of illegal immigration in congressional apportionment – an issue Vance argues is tipping the scales unfairly in favor of the Democratic Party. "The democratic system in this country is broken because who you vote for doesn't necessarily get reflected in who your representatives are," he told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."
Chicago Is So Gerrymandered Its Main Airport Is Parking
Backlogged Planes in Two Different Congressional Districts
Three days after Texas Democrats took a private jet to Chicago in an attempt to stop their Republican counterparts from passing a new congressional map, the airport they flew to, O'Hare International, experienced a flight backlog that forced planes to park in areas of the airport they would not normally use. The city's House districts are so infamously gerrymandered that those planes were parked in two different congressional districts. The ordeal illustrates the extent to which Illinois Democrats gerrymandered their state's House districts to send as many of their partymates to Washington, D.C., as possible. It also illustrates the unforced error Texas Democrats committed by traveling to Chicago to block Republicans from passing a new map in their own state.
Inside the Enormous Biden Effort to 'debank' Trump After Jan. 6
Charles Gasparino
The scale of the effort to “debank” Donald Trump because of pressure from Biden administration regulators went far beyond JPMorgan and Bank of America, The Post has learned. At least 10 other financial institutions closed their windows to the billionaire real estate tycoon over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill ­melee. The moves came in the months after Trump left the White House in 2021, sources inside the Trump Organization told me. The stunning scale of the blacklisting is being revealed here for the first time.
Trump Nominates State Department Spox Tammy Bruce for
New Role Representing U.S. in the UN

Among the first choices President Trump made, after the November 2024 election that swept him back into the White House, was whom should represent his new administration in the role of spokesperson for the State Department. He named Tammy Bruce, and it's easy to see why. On Saturday, Trump shared in a post on his Truth Social account that he's nominating her for an even more prominent role – this time while helping represent the U.S. at the United Nations. "I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Tammy Bruce, a Great Patriot, Television Personality, and Bestselling Author, as our next Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador," he wrote.
Trump Puts Nancy Pelosi's Personal Finances
Before the Public As Only He Can

Andrea Widburg
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, owns a small company called Financial Leasing Services, Inc. (estimated annual revenue $434,284) that bills itself as a real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm. Nancy Pelosi herself has spent the last 38 years as a federal employee. Her current salary is $174,000 per year. Nevertheless, Paul and Nancy Pelosi are estimated to be worth around $413 million, up from a “mere” $370 million just two years ago. This power couple’s wealth is almost magical. They are the living embodiment of the fact that, while Republicans get rich and then go into politics, Democrats go into politics and then get rich.
swamp creature Nancy
Goodbye to DEI, Crushed by the Weight of Its Own Hypocrisies
Victor Davis Hanson
President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry. But DEI was already on its last legs. ... DEI had insidiously replaced the old notion of affirmative action – a 1960s-era government remedy for historical prejudices against black Americans, from the legacy of slavery to Jim Crow segregation. But during the Obama era, “diversity” superseded affirmative action by offering preferences to many groups well beyond black Americans.
Europe’s Not the Only One Failing
Because of the Green New Deal; So is New Jersey

Andrea Widburg
Thomas Kolbe has written about the collapse of the German economy, something pretty shocking to those of us who remember when the German economy seemed unstoppable. What’s slammed the brakes on that juggernaut is central planning that revolves around the whole Green New Deal theory. Other European countries are doing the same. Spain and Portugal had a catastrophic power outage thanks to their green energy policies, and, in England, people are getting cold and dirty in a very 19th-century way because of the UK’s drive for “Net Zero.” Had Kamala been elected last year, America would almost certainly have gone down that path, too. As it is, California’s Gavin Newsom is now begging the refineries that he closed to reopen. ... "You have to be a conservative to appreciate the irony that Western leftists buy solar panels – which are difficult and expensive to recycle, because they have all sorts of nastiness in them – from China, a country that uses coal to manufacture them."
Elon Musk Proved Democrats Never Cared About the Environment
Matt Margolis
Elon Musk used to be a darling of the left. Then he bought Twitter and turned it into a free speech platform, and the left’s love affair ended overnight. Musk didn’t just stop the censorship of conservatives on one of the biggest social media platforms; he openly endorsed President Trump and went with him to the White House to root out waste and corruption. That’s when the left completely lost it, vandalizing Teslas and attacking dealerships in protest. But their outrage goes even deeper. Musk has exposed something Democrats never wanted you to notice: Their so-called climate principles crumble the moment partisan hatred takes over. Musk’s unapologetic shift to the right triggered such a meltdown on the left that many liberals aren’t just boycotting Tesla; they’re souring on electric vehicles altogether.
Meta-Analysis of Over 100 Studies Shows Gas Stoves Pose
NO Increased Risks of Asthma

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2023, the Biden administration seriously considered a nationwide ban on gas stoves, blaming “pollutants” released by the appliances. Now, a review of the data from 116 separate studies that was recently published in The Lancet and funded by the World Health Organization shows that heating and cooking with natural gas stoves is not associated with asthma in children or adults. ... The study’s conclusion that there is no association between the use of natural gas and asthma contradicts prior claims of population incidence of asthma attributable to gas, which are only valid where a causal relationship exists. In fact the same study shows that the use of gas stoves has a very positive effect on human health, as follows:
The fuel scare was not only bad science, it was dangerous propaganda.
Moms For Liberty Called a ‘Hate Group’ in
Massachusetts Police Trainings

The group responsible for training Massachusetts police officers listed a prominent parental rights group alongside Antifa and neo-Nazis on its list of “hate groups.” The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, which trains more than 20,000 police officers across the commonwealth, listed Moms for Liberty under “Hate Groups” active in Massachusetts in training materials, which were shared exclusively with The Daily Wire. The training materials cited the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels Moms for Liberty an “anti-government extremist” group.
Corrupt Democrat Rep. Caught Taking Bribes
In 2013, U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife took a seemingly routine trip to Turkey and Azerbaijan, funded by an obscure Houston-based nonprofit. What followed, federal prosecutors now allege, was a years-long scheme involving foreign influence, money laundering, and one of the most serious indictments ever brought against a sitting member of Congress. According to a federal indictment unsealed last week, Cuellar and his wife accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities: Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company, SOCAR, and Mexico’s Banco Azteca.
Henry Cuellar
DOJ Appoints Prosecutor to Probe
Adam Schiff, Letitia James Mortgage Fraud Allegations

Adam SchiffU.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate alleged mortgage fraud by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and New York Attorney General Letitia James, several outlets reported Friday. According to the New York Post, Bondi has tapped former acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Ed Martin to spearhead “the prosecution of James and Schiff for potential mortgage fraud, bank fraud and wire fraud, which carry jail terms of up to 30 years.” “Attorney General Bondi and President Trump have given me a very serious and mission,” Martin told the outlet. “For months DOJ and the FBI have been working on these two cases, it is my job to stick the landing.”
Why Isn't the Corporate News Showing You a Picture of the
Army Sergeant Who Was Arrested for a Shooting Rampage?

Five soldiers were shot at Fort Stewart yesterday. A suspect was quickly in custody. His name and mugshot were released. Let's see if any major outlets showed us his face: CNN, NBC, CBS, NPR, others, Nope, Nada. Anyway, here's Sergeant Quornelius Samentrio Radford:
Sergeant Quornelius Samentrio
Why does the media have to hide the identities of their favored groups? Why can't we do profiles on suspects equally? Don't the American people deserve the truth? What happened to reporting facts instead of narratives?
Border Wall Materials Sold by Biden May Soon
Find Their Way Back to the Feds, Auctioneer Claims

The global government-surplus auction house that listed unused components of President Donald Trump’s border wall under the Biden administration told Fox News Digital on Friday that it plans to coordinate with the Trump administration to return some of the materials to the federal government. In January 2021, President Joe Biden set in motion the chain of events that would eventually lead to the sale of unconstructed border wall components and implements.
Anti-ICE Rioter Who Hurled Cinderblocks at Border Patrol
Indicted, Faces Up to 20 Years in Prison

The rioter who threw cinderblocks at and injured Border Patrol agents during an ICE raid in June in Paramount, California, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Jacob Daniel Terrazas was charged with one count of assault on a federal employee by using a deadly and dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury. If convicted, he would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. "We will not stand by while our brave federal agents and officers get hurt,” Acting United States Attorney Bill Essayli said. “If you injure an official enforcing immigration law, you may serve 20 years in a federal prison cell. It’s just not worth it.”
Man Arrested with Fully Loaded AR-15 and Knives
Outside Palm Beach Airport Frequented by Trump

Authorities in Florida arrested a man early Tuesday morning after discovering a loaded AR-15 rifle and several knives inside a rental vehicle parked in a restricted area at a Palm Beach County Airport, according to law enforcement officials. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office (PBSO) deputies responded around 7:10 a.m. after airport operations staff reported a suspicious individual standing outside a dark-colored vehicle in a secure parking zone. When deputies arrived, they found the man, later identified as Michael Rodrigues, 41, of no known local address, outside the vehicle, reportedly getting dressed. Deputies determined the vehicle was a rental and opened the glove compartment to retrieve the rental agreement. Inside, they found a fully loaded AR-15 magazine.
Former AOC Organizer Busted After Calling for Attack on
'Israel-Loving Zionists' at Public School

Antisemitism has to be one of humanity's oldest and most irrational hatreds, but that doesn't mean it doesn't keep popping up. The latest example comes to us from Brooklyn, from a former organizer for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who, we should note, had nothing to do with the event. The former organizer, one Iman Abdul, took to her X account to call for an attack on a public high school attended by Jewish students.
INCREDIBLE! Virginia School District Officials Being
Investigated for Bankrolling Secret Abortions for Students

We have a wild story coming out of Northern Virginia: We have an investigation into some Fairfax County School District officials who are accused of bankrolling and arranging secret abortions for students without their parents’ consent. Is it surprising? Given what we’ve read about school districts giving transgender students puberty blockers and hiding certain methods from parents, why wouldn’t these unhinged officials establish a covert network for abortions? This operation has been around since 2021.
First Female Teammate of Trans Athlete Speaks Out on
Being 'mortified' by Experience

Caroline Hill turned down multiple Division I women's track and field scholarships to compete for Division III Rochester Institute of Technology. Her talents allowed her to break the program record in the 200-meter and 300-meter early in her collegiate career. But then she had to watch both records fall to transgender teammate Sadie Schreiner, all while feeling "uncomfortable" sharing a locker room with her trans teammate for the next two years.
Dershowitz Takes on Pierogi Politics, and Leftist Hypocrisy
Jonathan Turley
Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz appears to be living through a remake of the Seinfeld Soup Nazi episode. However, Dershowitz is facing a new culinary menace in Martha's Vineyard. Chef Krem Miskevich has barred the famed lawyer from buying pierogis because of his political views, and liberals are applauding him for it. Welcome to Pierogi Politics. It is the same distasteful politics that is tearing apart this country, only with an added carbo load. He is treated as a persona non grata and shunned by the wealthy community.

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