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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,
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How Math Can Kill You Clarice Feldman Pollster Mark Penn presents a “math camp” this week. It’s a refreshing response to offset the hysteria about the economic disruption of Iran’s “global terror network.” "We use 20 million barrels of oil a day. So if oil prices increased during the war to $110 a barrel that is an extra $1 billion a day in costs. So 60 or 90 days of conflict adds about 60 to 90 billion in costs in a 29 trillion dollar economy. About 70 per cent of that is domestically produced so 70 per cent of it stays in the U.S. economy. It just shifts from one sector to the other. In comparison, Trump took in 260 billion in tariff revenues last year and all of the fears of it were overblown as that amounted to only 1 per cent of the economy. The impact here of even a 4 or 6 month conflict (and there’s no indication it will go on that long) are much less than last year’s tariffs. Oil was over $100 for 3.5 years of Obama’s term without daily headlines.  Birthright Citizenship: The Deep Dive John Hinderaker One of the most important contemporary legal issues is the application of birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. Liberals argue that the 14th Amendment makes anyone born in the territory of the U.S. an American citizen, with no exceptions. Except that there are, and always have been, exceptions. And the Supreme Court has never held that the 14th Amendment’s grant of citizenship applies to children of people who are here illegally. The issue is now squarely presented in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Trump v. Barbara. Oral arguments in the case will be held on Wednesday. The foremost proponent of the view (correct, I think) that the 14th Amendment does not make children of illegal aliens citizens is Ilan Wurman, law professor at the University of Minnesota. |
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| Fraud Ring Used Fake Doctors’ Orders in $61.5M Medicare Scheme A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to over 12 years in prison and two years of supervised release for organizing and leading a $61.5 million health care fraud and wire fraud conspiracy in which thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who were the victims of deceptive telemarketing were sent thousands of orthotic braces, foot baths, and genetic tests they did not need. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Robert “Bobby” Leon Smith III, 50, of Archer City, Texas, owned and operated seven durable medical equipment supply companies based in Florida, Texas, and Maryland through which he submitted millions of dollars in false claims to Medicare for orthotic braces and foot baths that beneficiaries did not need. |
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| 500 Groups with $3B in Revenues Are Behind the #NoKings Protests and Communist Call for 'revolution' A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide "No Kings" protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a "revolution," according to a Fox Digital News investigation. According to a copy of the permit for the "flagship" march in St. Paul, Minn., Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.  No Kings – Except for Hamas: The Growing Overlap Between No Kings and Pro-Hamas Protests Doug Ross Since 2023, two massive waves of street protests have swept across America. The first came after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, triggering pro-Islamic terror rallies on campuses and city streets nationwide. The second is the “No Kings” movement – huge anti-Trump demonstrations that have drawn millions of people since mid-2025. On the surface, these movements have different goals. But a closer look at the organizers, their funding networks, and the boots on the ground reveals that the same forces are behind both. |
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| Legacy Press Desperately Tries to Lose Another War for America David Manney The legacy media can't help themselves. The moment America takes strong action against the Iranian regime, these dinosaur outlets dust off their old Vietnam playbook and start pushing the same tired narrative of doubt, failure, and inevitable defeat. They did it in the 1960s. Walter Cronkite went on the air and declared the Vietnam War a stalemate. That single broadcast helped turn public opinion and weaken the war effort. Now, that same crowd thinks they can pull the same stunt with President Donald Trump and the conflict with Iran. |
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| Blue State Senator Admits How Democrats Prioritize Illegals Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy openly admitted that the people his party cares about “the most” are illegal aliens, in an interview clip from 2024 that resurfaced this week. Democrats have filibustered to prevent funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over their objections to immigration enforcement operations, leading to a partial shutdown of the Cabinet department. The lawmakers are demanding new restrictions be placed on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in January during clashes with “rapid response groups” opposed to federal immigration enforcement operations. |  |
| A Muslim U.S. Soldier Says She'll Disobey Commands to Fight Muslims. Now What? Robert Spencer Will Fariah Brewer be disciplined? Will she be thrown out of the military? Wearing a hijab, Brewer on Monday recorded a video that quickly went viral. In it, she happily admits that if she is commanded, as a member of the U.S. military, to fight other Muslims, she would disobey the orders. She makes this clear in the context of a discussion of the conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Will the Army take action? Or would doing anything to call Brewer to account be “Islamophobic”? | |
| Biden’s CIA Reportedly Cast Pro-Family Americans Under Extremism Suspicion Michael Cantrell Remember that time when the FBI, under direction from the Biden administration, labeled Catholics who attended the Latin Mass as potential "violent extremists" in a leaked document? The declaration utterly astounded Catholics, Christians, and conservatives. And if you didn't think it could get any worse, you were wrong, because the Trump administration has unearthed another memo, this time from the Central Intelligence Agency, and it's a doozy. Biden CIA Listed 'motherhood and Homemaking' in Report About Violent Extremism Ryan Foley The Central Intelligence Agency retracted a Biden-era internal document warning about female “racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists" that listed the prioritization of “motherhood and homemaking," raising the concern of a conservative legal group. The document, titled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists,” outlines concerns about women’s participation in “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism.” |
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| Fishing Expedition: Docs Expose Expansive FBI Surveillance of Trump Allies, Possible Illegality Newly released records in the Senate investigation into the weaponization of government raise questions about whether the FBI went on a fishing expedition targeting Trump advisors who were never charged with crimes and whether Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prior testimony to Congress was truthful. The documents were made public by Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, before a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing into alleged abuses by the Biden-era FBI and Justice Department in their investigations into then ex-president Donald Trump before and during the 2024 presidential election during its probe code-named “Arctic Frost.” |
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| Air Defense Destroyer: New SiAW U.S. Air Force Missile to Fly from F-35, F-47 NGAD and New B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Reuben Johnson | 19FortyFive  Why, some are asking, is the USAF going full speed ahead – almost warp speed, said one commentator – in the procurement of a Stand-in Attack Weapons (SiAW) that is designed to take out air defenses and other A2AD capabilities. The answer is that there is an acknowledgement that neither Venezuela nor Iran falls into the category of “peer competitors” with Washington. Any efforts that those two nations had undertaken along those lines would pale in comparison to those of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and, to a lesser extent, the Russians. |
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| CRAP! Green Gremlins Plague USS Gerald R. Ford The U.S. Navy’s $13 Billion Supercarrier Surprise Weak Spot Reports based on documents cited by NPR describe chronic clogs and vacuum failures in the ship’s Vacuum Collection, Holding and Transfer (VCHT) sewage system, allegedly driven by narrow piping and the demands of a roughly 4,600-sailor crew. Nevertheless the Navy presents a happy face saying the system is zoned, disruptions are isolated, and mission readiness has not been affected... Documents obtained by NPR and reported in an NPR essay state that there have been problems with the USS Ford’s Vacuum Collection, Holding and Transfer (VCHT) system – the ship’s main sewage and waste-handling network. The VCHT was admirably [pun intended] adopted to reduce water usage and improve sanitation compared with older gravity-based systems.  Ford Heads to Crete for Extensive Repairs |
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| The EV Bubble Is About to Burst Sydney Rodman When did getting from point A to point B get so complicated? When the government decided which cars Americans should buy. With the economic and scientific premises behind electric vehicle (EV) mandates collapsing, the EV bubble may burst completely. There is one mandate left to burst: California’s Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulation, which requires all new vehicles to be 100 percent electric by 2035, or else automakers get penalized. With the federal repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Endangerment Finding in February, the government’s formal scientific basis for EV mandates is gone. State governments no longer have a rational scientific basis for requiring EV sales. | To encourage adoption newly invented cars, government didn’t have to ban horses |
| From the Green New Deal to Supporting the Ayatollah John Sexton You may have noticed by now that far-left progressives seem to shift their focus to something new every few months. You wouldn't necessarily think there was a direct path from support for the Green New Deal to chanting "Death to America" in Tehran, but for some young leftists one thing leads to another. Yesterday the Free Press published a lengthy story about the poster girl for this sort of left-wing extremism. Her name is Calla Walsh and a few years ago she was a well-regarded youth activist working on campaigns for national democrats. |
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| Democrat Governor Celebrates Ramadan at Hamas-Linked Mosque Tyler O'Neil New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, celebrated Ramadan at a mosque whose co-founder was convicted of funneling money to Hamas and with an imam who faced deportation proceedings over alleged Hamas ties. This imam also called for a “new intifada.” “Thank you to the Islamic Center of Passaic County for welcoming me to join their celebration as the holy month of Ramadan comes to a close,” Sherrill wrote in a Facebook post with pictures of her in a headscarf visiting the mosque and meeting with Imam Mohammad Qatanani. |  |
| Gabbard Reveals Conspiracy to Use Aid to Ukraine to Fund Biden Green Energy Campaign David Strom Gee, what a surprise. The Ukrainians cooked up a plot, likely with USAID contractors and USAID officials, to grant hundreds of millions of dollars to a "Green Energy" project in Ukraine, with 90% of the money funneled back into the Biden campaign and the DNC. Shocking, right? Who would have guessed that a green energy project in a war zone would be a scam, or that USAID would be involved in manipulating elections? Not me. I thought USAID was totally about saving children in Africa, and that Ukraine's biggest problem right now was an insufficient supply of solar panels and proper insulation in housing. |
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| Natural Gas Prices in Texas Plunge Deep Into Negative Territory and Producers Are Burning It Off, While the Rest of the World Braces for Shortages Jason Ma  Over
the past week, spot prices at the Waha gas trading hub in the Permian
Basin fell as low as -$9.75 per million British thermal units, with
expectations that it could hit -$10 when pipeline capacity tightens as
operators perform seasonal maintenance later this year, traders told
Bloomberg. That’s because drilling in the prolific Permian Basin yields
both oil and natural gas. But while an extensive network of pipelines
exists to bring crude to market, there’s less infrastructure to
transport natural gas, creating bottlenecks and localized surpluses.
Since negative prices mean producers have to pay to someone to take the
supply off their hands, excess natural gas is often burned off, and
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| Justice Department Secures Denaturalization of Convicted Gun Trafficker and Health Care Fraudster The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has secured the denaturalization of two criminals "who obtained U.S. citizenship through fraud" and sued to revoke the citizenship of a third who carried out marriage fraud. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the actions "reflect this Department of Justice's ongoing efforts to strip citizenship from people who conceal crimes or defraud the American people during the immigration process." "American citizenship is a sacred privilege – not a cheap status that can be obtained dishonestly," she added. | |
| Chicago Moves Toward Reparations with Bus Tours and Town Halls As $150M Deficit Looms Now, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to hold a public engagement forum called Repair Chicago to "gather lived experiences of harm of Black Chicagoans" in an effort to provide reparations for Black residents. "Your experience is evidence, and we’ve placed it at the center of our work," Johnson said. "By engaging directly with residents, we are grounding this work in the voices and lived realities of the people it is meant to serve." |
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| Trans Migrant Gets Just 6 Months Behind Bars in Rape of 14-Year-Old Boy Inside NYC Bodega Bathroom An illegal trans immigrant admitted Tuesday to molesting a 14-year-old boy inside the bathroom of a Manhattan bodega last year – but won’t have to do any more time behind bars. Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old Colombian immigrant who was born male, pleaded guilty to second-degree rape in Manhattan Supreme Court for sexually assaulting the teen in East Harlem last year and was promised a sentence of just six months – which has already been served. That means the creep will be free to go at sentencing on April 27 – unless federal immigration agents are there to slap on the cuffs again to deport them. | |
| NY AG Letitia James Referred Again for Criminal Prosecution for Alleged Homeowner Insurance Fraud The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has again referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the U.S. Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, proffering allegations that New York’s top cop may have falsified information on her homeowner’s insurance application. The FHFA Director William Pulte, who oversees Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, asked U.S. Attorneys in Florida and Illinois on Wednesday to “authenticate and investigate” the information, according to two letters reviewed by Just the News. |
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| Virginia: Stealing an Election as We Watch John A. Lucas The Phony Moderate, Governor Abigail Spanberger, and her Democrat allies are trying to steal an election. But not just a single election. That would the child’s play. Their play is to rig the system to steal one election and then use it to scoop up other congressional seats. They hope to accomplish this by misrepresenting the nature of a Democrat-sponsored amendment to Virginia’s Constitution, all in the name of “fairness.” Phony Moderate Spanberger and her Democrat lieutenants in the General Assembly have come up with a new twist. They have been and are trying to rush through an amendment to the Virginia Constitution that likely will ensure that over 90% of Virginia’s congressional seats will go to Democrats, even though the Virginia is a “purple” state with roughly half of its voters casting their ballots for the GOP. Note that the sole question on the ballot in this special election is whether the Constitution of Virginia should be amended. The text of the amendment is not provided. The ballot includes only a description of its supposed purpose: "to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections …. Rubbish. |
Spanberger to Biden: “You think you know how to steal an election? Hold my chablis, and watch what I can do.” |
| Fairfax County Protecting Illegal Immigrant Charged with Groping at Least a Dozen Girls Mary Rooke Authorities charged an 18-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador named Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz with nine counts of misdemeanor assault and battery March 7 after being enrolled at Fairfax High School in Fairfax County, Virginia. Flores-Ortiz entered the United States illegally in 2024 and was released under former President Joe Biden... Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Dipti Pidikiti-Smith denied bail to Flores-Ortiz after reviewing surveillance video, citing public safety risks despite the local prosecutor not opposing his release. Yet because of the county’s policy [de facto sanctuary], if Ortiz ever walks free from custody, ICE cannot easily take him into federal custody for removal. He remains protected from deportation by local government decisions that prioritize non-cooperation over accountability. |
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| Drones Swarm Nuclear Bomber Base, Exposing Potential Threat to U.S. Aircrews Barksdale Air Force Base (BAFB), a major U.S. strategic bomber installation in northwest Louisiana, has just experienced an unusually serious series of unauthorized drone incursions over its most sensitive areas. More than a dozen unsanctioned drones repeatedly swarmed a U.S. Air Force base that is home to a nuclear bomber fleet – and were able to resist efforts to bring them down via jamming technology, according to military officials. |
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| Divinity School in Texas Seeks Prof to Teach Bible from ‘Queer’ and ‘Womanist’ Perspective A divinity school affiliated with Texas Christian University wants to examine the Bible through a “queer” and “womanist” lens, according to a job opening. The Brite Divinity School is currently seeking a full-time professor in the “Hebrew Bible” who is knowledgeable about “gender and sexuality studies, womanist, feminist, queer, postcolonial, postmodern, and racial/cultural studies.” In addition to being able to “engage texts critically” through “hermeneutical approaches,” it also helps to not be a white male. |
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| Ohio State University is Doubling Down on Hiring Woke Faculty The Ohio State University is currently seeking a professor of “Philosophy of Race,” an area of expertise that includes “the epistemological significance of race or racism” and “race in the philosophy of science.” Its Department of Physics seeks a professor whose main focus is “issues relevant to educational equity.” And its Department of Anthropology recently sought an archaeologist whose work emphasizes “decolonization, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, and/or Indigenous ontologies.” |
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| Trump DOJ Cracks Down on States Housing Biological Men in Women’s Prisons The Justice Department opened an investigation into male inmates being placed in women’s prisons in California and Maine. The DOJ notified California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Maine Gov. Janet Mills, respectively, on Thursday about the pending probes, noting the danger to female inmates of potential sexual assault. California law allows male prisoners who identify as females to be incarcerated in women’s prisons under the state’s 2021 Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act. | |
| International Olympic Committee Adopts New Policy on Transgender Identity and Women’s Sports The International Olympic Committee announced Thursday that it would restrict women’s sports to biological females, as determined by a genetic test. The policy will go into effect for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games onwards. The IOC adopted as the standard a test for the gene associated with the sex-determining region Y protein, also known as SRY. The SRY gene is responsible for the initiation of male sex determination. |
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| The U.S.-Israeli
Strategy Against Iran Is Working Here Is Why Muhanad Seloom | Al Jzeera Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. U.S. senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war. But this narrative is wrong. Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are cataloguing the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger. |
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| Expect Chaos in Cuba Armando Simon The Communist dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. For decades, it had a parasitical relationship with the Soviet Union, which kept it alive economically, militarily, and politically. The Soviet Union was able to last for as long as it did because it was truly gargantuan, spanning two continents and filled with natural resources which the government utilized to stave off the inevitable end of all Marxist regimes. But when it, in turn, collapsed, Cuba’s economy took an even deeper dive than before, euphemistically referred to as the “Special Period.” Then, oil-rich Venezuela, became Communist and extended a lifeline to Cuba while it, too, oppressed its people and ruined the country. With the arrival of Donald Trump, that lifeline is now gone. Cuba has no oil and we can see what happens when fossil fuels disappear (paying attention, global warmists?). |
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‘Entirely Justified’ Bashing Media’s Iran Coverage: Many ‘Rooting for America to Lose’ Sean James President Donald Trump’s complaints about how the media has covered the war in Iran are “entirely justified,” according to an op-ed published by Mark Penn – a former pollster for President Bill Clinton – and former New York City Council president Andrew Stein in the Wall Street Journal. Penn and Stein argued the mainstream press appears hellbent on painting Operation Epic Fury negatively, no matter how the war is actually going. Their Monday article – titled “On Iran, Is Only Bad News Fit to Print?” – said coverage of the war has gone far beyond merely being critical and instead reflects “reportorial partisanship and the Democrats’ determination” to oppose Trump at every turn. |
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| CBS News' Margaret Brennan Accused
of Mocking People of Faith After Pete Hegseth's Prayer Remarks CBS News’ "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan raised eyebrows on Thursday with a bizarre social media post that many believed was critical of people of faith. The saga began when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke about Operation Epic Fury during a somber early morning press conference in which he vowed to "honor" the sacrifice of six U.S. service members killed in a plane crash last week... Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded, "Only in DC is something like this considered even remotely offensive." Rep. Brandon Gill added, "Democrats are reflexively repulsed when they hear someone invoke Christ’s name. What does that tell you?" |
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| The Iran Dossier: How Barack Obama Helped Build a Nuclear Terror State Doug Ross Between 2009 and 2024, a series of U.S. policy decisions funneled billions of dollars -- sometimes literally in pallets of cash -- toward Iran, the country the U.S. government has long called the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The is the timeline of those actions, the money trail, and the consequences that inevitably followed. The numbers are in the public record. All connections are drawn from congressional reports, investigative journalism, and on-the-ground events... The Iran nuclear deal became the defining foreign policy act of the Obama second term -- and the most controversial. Critics point to a Senate investigation that found administration officials pressured the U.S. Treasury to help Iran convert $5.7 billion through foreign banks. Then came $1.7 billion sent entirely in untraceable non-U.S. cash on cargo planes -- with $400 million delivered the same day Iran released American prisoners. |
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Chicago Residents Unionize to Fight
Possible Displacement, Rent Hikes Over Obama Presidential Center Chicago
residents in rent-controlled housing near a site being constructed to
honor former President Barack Obama have reportedly unionized in
response to the controversial project. Residents of a longtime Woodlawn
apartment building organized to resist possible displacement and rent
increases they say are being driven by development pressure surrounding
the Obama Presidential Center. Tenants at the Chaney Braggs Apartments
rallied earlier this month outside their building near 65th Street and
Stony Island Avenue, saying a potential sale of the property could
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| John Fetterman Reveals Who's Really
the Leader of His Party Tyler Durden Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) sat down for an interview on the "All-In Podcast" this week and made a telling admission about the Democratic Party. When co-host David Friedberg asked Fetterman point-blank, "Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?" the Pennsylvania senator didn't flinch. "Oh, we don't have one," he said. "I think the TDS, that's the leader right now. You know, right now our party is governed by the TDS.” |
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| Iran Is Losing the War It's
Fighting. It's Winning the One You're Reading About Elder of Ziyon Three weeks in, the U.S. military has struck more than 8,000 targets. Iran’s air defenses are almost completely destroyed, its command structure decimated, its proxy network in tatters. By any military measure, Iran is losing. And yet you wouldn’t know it from the coverage. The New York Times tells us Iran has “shown no sign of backing down.” The iWall Street Journal runs a sophisticated piece explaining why Tehran “believes it is winning.” CNN elevates a disgraced former official’s claim that Israel dragged America into war. The Associated Press makes that claim its headline. This is Iran’s cognitive war - and it is being fought largely with Western reporting, on Western platforms, by Western journalists. |
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| Saudi Arabia Reserves Right to Take Military Action Against Iran, Foreign Minister Says Speaking to reporters following a meeting in Riyadh of foreign ministers from the region, Prince Faisal said that Iran “tries to pressure its neighbors” with attacks. “The kingdom is not going to succumb to pressure, and on the contrary, this pressure will backfire… and certainly, as we have stated quite clearly, we have reserved the right to take military actions if deemed necessary,” he said. |
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| Did B-2s Just Drop GBU-57 Massive
Ordnance Penetrators On Another Iranian Nuclear Site? Satellite imagery from Vantor shows that a site long linked to Iran’s nuclear program has been struck. A trio of very large impact points also raises the possibility that the hardened facility was hit by 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bombs. MOPs were first used operationally in U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last year, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer. The Taleghan 2 site was newly encased in a concrete shell and then covered with soil in the months leading up to the current conflict, which may have created a need to use munitions more capable of burrowing down into it to have a better chance of ensuring its destruction. |
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| CNN Is Shocked: ‘Stupid’ Trump Has
Actually Been Talking About Taking Iran’s Kharg Island Since 1988! Scott Pinsker Homer Simpson: "To alcohol! The cause of – and solution to – all of life’s problems." Speaking of which, there’s a certain phenomenon that alcoholics call a “moment of clarity.” It refers to the sudden realization that their drinking is out of control – and instead of being a harmless vice, they’re now suffering from a full-blown addiction. But “moments of clarity” can happen in the news business, too: It’s when the mainstream media realizes that they have completely – and embarrassingly – misjudged a political leader. After selling audiences one narrative, the anchors and pundits learn that the exact opposite was true. |
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| Without the Save Act, We are Living
in a Slave State and Our Labor Is Harvested by Crooks Elizabeth Nickson | Welcome to Absurdistan Did John Thune get a clench in his noble behind when eye-patch-pretend-pirate-guy lost his primary? Added to Trump’s relentless pressure Thune has, grindingly, consented to refer the Save Act to a vote, possibly next week. Thune is, like most elected Republicans, pretendian MAGA counting the days when he can go back to playing defence and lining his pockets. The fact that voter fraud has deprived the Republicans of a clear unbreakable majority for THREE election cycles is clearly beyond him. He is functionally retarded. Or a shark committing treason... The guy is a sleazeball. 96% of his party want the Save Act. |
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| The Political Left,
Multiculturalism and the Dark Alliance with Islam Brandon Smith For 15 years the FBI was engaged in a landmark investigation into the largest Islamic-based charity in the United States, called The Holy Land Foundation. The organization was operating as a front for Muslim terror groups, funneling cash from western countries to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, until they were finally put on trial in 2008. Among the documents seized from these individuals during the investigation was a strategic paper drafted by senior Muslim Brotherhood operative Mohamed Akram in 1991. The memorandum gave detailed methods for establishing Islam as a “civilization alternative” in the West and a “grand Jihad” for eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within. The plan explicitly referred to using western society’s own people, institutions, laws, and unwitting allies (progressive groups and NGOs, media, politicians, academics, or civil-rights organizations) to advance the Islamic agenda. |
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| Iran Security Chief Had a $10
Million Bounty on His Head, but Israel 'Did It for Free' Catherine Salgado The Iranian Islamic regime security chief eliminated in an Israeli strike had a huge U.S. bounty on his head, but as Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa’ar said, “We did it for free.” This is yet another reason Israel is by far the best ally of the United States. Not only do they engage in a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to conflicts, which is not true of any of our other allies (especially useless, whiny NATO), but they also always talk as if it is an honor to do us favors. |
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SPECIAL COVERAGE — A-10 Thunderbolt II –
A-10 Warthog A-10 Warthogs Target Iranian Fast-Attack Craft in Strait of Hormuz U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft are now engaged in maritime interdiction operations along the southern flank of Operation Epic Fury, targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fast-attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. “The A-10 Warthog is now engaged across the southern flank, targeting fast-attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz,” Air Force Gen. Dan Caine said during a Pentagon briefing on the operation. “The A-10 Thunderbolt II can loiter for hours, standing by and ready to execute a mission whenever needed,” CENTCOM said in the accompanying post on X. The A-10 Warthog: Why the Air Force Can't Retire Its Toughest Plane  Here is a puzzle worth
sitting with: the United States Air Force, the most powerful air arm in
human history, has spent more than thirty years trying to get
rid of one of its own aircraft. Not because it does not work.
Because it works too well at something the Air Force
would rather not be doing.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II, universally known as the Warthog, first flew
on May 10, 1972. It entered operational service in 1977. Per the Air
Force's official A-10 fact sheet, the aircraft was designed for a
single mission: destroying Soviet tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap
in a European ground war. That war never happened. By most
institutional logic, the A-10 should have been retired when the Cold
War ended. Instead, it kept finding new wars to fight and new reasons
to stick around.Get to Know the A-10 Warthog: 50 Facts About This Legendary Aircraft  The
A-10 Warthog. The official designation for this aircraft is the A-10
Thunderbolt II, named after its illustrious WWII predecessor the P-47
Thunderbolt. However, one interesting A-10 fact is that the nickname
“Warthog” is so popular and well loved that it appears in official
documents. This is a beloved airframe: a robust ground attack aircraft
proven time and again in battle. And the stories behind it are just as
interesting as its combat record.A-10 Warthogs Are Prowling for Iranian Boats in the Strait of Hormuz Venerable A-10 Warthog attack jets are helping dismantle Iran’s Navy. Though the A-10 is most commonly associated with missions over land, the jets have a long-standing, if often obscure, maritime role. Moreover, Warthog pilots have been training for decades for the specific scenario of hunting Iran’s fleets of fast boats in and around the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz. All of this comes as the U.S. military works to find ways to reopen the critical waterway to normal maritime commerce, which has ground to a virtual halt in the face of Iranian attacks on shipping and its declaration that the strait is closed.  |
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| Congress Zeroes in on Pilots from ‘Foreign Adversary’ Nations Training in U.S. The U.S. Senate is raising fresh concerns about Chinese pilots training in U.S. flight schools as potential national security risks and an avenue for an adversary’s military to gain vital insights into U.S. aviation practices. In a letter this month, Senator Jim Banks, R-Ind., who sits on the Armed Services Committee, asked the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to revise its guidelines to exclude any prospective pilots from “foreign adversary nations” from studying in American flight schools. |
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| They Blamed Georgia’s Pro-Life Law
Again. The Facts Say Otherwise. Chris Queen You may remember the story from the late summer of 2024 about a woman in Georgia who died as a result of taking the Mifepristone abortion pill regimen. The liberal media couldn’t wait to falsely blame Thurman’s death on Georgia’s pro-life LIFE Act, which outlaws abortion after professionals can detect a baby’s heartbeat in the womb. Here’s what I wrote about that story: "Several of these abortion lies have dovetailed in a report from the left-wing outlet ProPublica, which gives a false account of the story of Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old woman who died in Georgia after taking the abortion pill regimen. ProPublica begins its lies right out of the gate in the third paragraph of its story." |
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| Wanted: Magic Batteries John Hinderaker Wind and solar are intermittent energy sources, dependent on the weather. Where I live, solar panels produce electricity around 14% of the time. Wind turbines produce electricity less than half the time. So how can these be viable sources of energy? That is, primary sources on which an economy can depend for baseload power, not expensive and irrelevant add-ons. The answer from liberals is always “batteries.” Batteries will store electricity during the relatively unusual times when electricity is being produced, and then dispense it 24/7. So, can we see one of these giant batteries? No, they don’t actually exist. They are purely hypothetical. And extremely dangerous!  |
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| Solar Scattered, Coal Still
Standing – What an Indiana Tornado Revealed About the Cost of Fragile Power Energy Bad Boys and Mitch Rolling On Tuesday, March 10th, an EF-1 tornado destroyed the Dunns Bridge Solar I and II facilities owned by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO). The facilities, located outside of Wheatfield, Indiana, had 2.4 million solar panels, totaling 700 megawatts (MW) of power capacity, and reportedly cost $1 billion to construct – a little over $1,400 per kilowatt (kW). While the solar panels were damaged by the tornado, we are not aware of any reports of damage at the nearby R.M. Schahfer Generating Station, a 950 MW coal facility that NIPSCO was planning to retire at the end of 2025. However, it is still running thanks to a 202(C) order issued by the U.S. Department of Energy requiring the plant to continue operations. [See map. Look how close undamaged coal plant is to the solar farm!] |
Who will gather up all the glass shards? |
| Kathy Hochul: Oops, That Climate
Law Was a Mistake... David Strom Kathy Hochul is up for reelection this year, and has a big, big problem: for all the talk about an "affordability" agenda, every single policy the Democrats like to push increases costs, reduces quality of life, and drives people out of Blue states. The pressure is so great, both because consumers are pissed off and businesses that can move begin doing so, that Hochul wants to "delay" the climate goals she and the Democrats were so excited about just a few years ago. |
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| NASA's Artemis Moon Mission Is
Flirting with Disaster Glenn H. Reynolds Next month, as soon as April 1, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, officials announced last week, and carry four astronauts into orbit around the moon. At one level, that isn’t very impressive: Artemis is just replicating the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission, almost 60 years later... Artemis aims to be all these things, but mostly it’s recapturing Apollo’s “very risky” side. Ironically that’s not because it uses cutting-edge technology, but because it uses 50-year-old technology. |
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| Wall-Climbing Robot Swarms Crawl
U.S. Navy Warships As China’s Fleet Surges Swarms of wall-climbing robots will soon be crawling across U.S. Navy warships in a $71 million effort to slash repair delays and boost fleet readiness as China continues expanding its naval power. Under the five-year contract, Gecko will begin work on 18 ships in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, with the initial award valued at up to $54 million. The contract vehicle is structured to allow other military services to access the technology as well. The AI-powered machines, developed by Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, scale hulls, flight decks and other hard-to-reach steel surfaces, scanning for corrosion, metal fatigue and weld defects. "It’s no good having 300 vessels if 40% of them are in a dry dock somewhere," said Gecko Robotics CEO Jake Loosararian. |
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| Worker Trapped, Crushed As Machine Unexpectedly Turns on in Horror Industrial Accident An Ohio Ford employee is dead after being trapped and crushed by a malfunctioning industrial machine at a company plant this week. The incident unfolded around 9:45 a.m. on Monday, when authorities were called to Ford’s Sharonville plant on E. Sharon Road regarding reports of an industrial accident, according to FOX 19. Upon arriving at the plant, authorities reportedly encountered a press machine that was undergoing routine maintenance when it malfunctioned, causing it to turn on and pin the worker. |
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| There's Something REALLY Screwy
Going on in the Georgia 2020 Election Fraud Investigation Matt Margolis If you thought the effort to get to the bottom of the 2020 election fraud wouldn’t meet resistance, you were sorely mistaken. Nearly 100 boxes of 2020 election materials are unaccounted for in Fulton County, and the people who should have answers are doing everything they can to avoid giving them. Here's what we know. On January 28, the FBI raided the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center, hauling out ballots, tabulator tapes, and ballot images from the 2020 recount. By the bureau’s count, they left with 656 boxes. While that’s a lot of boxes, it’s a lot lower than the 750 boxes county officials had previously claimed existed. |
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| Supreme Court Gears Up to Decide If Elections End on Election Day Shawn Fleetwood Does Election Day actually mean Election Day? That’s the key issue the U.S. Supreme Court is going to consider when it holds oral arguments in a pivotal elections case next week. In the case before SCOTUS, the justices will decide whether these state statutes violate existing federal laws that establish an election day for federal races. |
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| Swalwell “Nannygate” Explodes: DHS
and FEC Complaints Allege Illegal Alien Employment and Misuse of
Campaign Funds for Childcare Joel Gilbert  On
February 16, 2026, I filed two well-documented federal complaints
against Congressman Eric Swalwell, one with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security (DHS/ICE), and another with the Federal Election
Commission (FEC). Together, these filings raise serious questions about
whether Swalwell engaged in illegal patterns of conduct that reflect
his disregard for federal law and a potential abuse of campaign funds
for personal benefit. At issue are two distinct but closely related
allegations: first, that Swalwell continued employing a foreign
national nanny illegally for two years after her legal work
authorization expired; and second, that he illegally used campaign
funds to cover what appear to be ongoing personal childcare expenses
totaling more than $300,000. |
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| Gavin Newsom's California Doesn't
Really Exist Stephen Kruiser California Gov. Gavin Newsom may be the chief executive of the nation's most populous state, but he approaches that as if it were a distracting day job. For the last couple of years, Newsom has fancied himself a podcaster and social media influencer. All of that is being done in the service of his eventual 2028 presidential run, his ambitions for which are the worst-kept secret in American politics. As far as Gavin Newsom is aware, he is the most popular boy in school. In California politics, Democrats don't actually have to be good at politics; they just have to meet the right money people early on. If, like Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, they start in the Bay Area, they're on a fast track. California is a massive blue echo chamber, so Newsom never comes within a mile of realistic or negative feedback. |
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| California's 'Bridge to Nowhere'
joins the 'Train to Nowhere' 'Nowhere' Is a Popular Destination Among CA Government Officials Kira Davis California is going nowhere, fast. It isn’t even a figure of speech anymore. We are $13 billion dollars into a high speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco. As of this moment it goes…nowhere. Not an inch. Not a stitch of high-speed rail has been laid. What was once projected to be a $33 billion dollar project that would be operational by 2020 is now projected to cost about $128 billion, becoming operational in 2032…but only between Merced and Bakersfield. If you don’t know where those places are or why people would need high-speed rail to get between them…exactly. It is a scam on par with Boston’s notorious Big Dig, but until recently it was a singular scam. Duffy Mocks Newsom’s ‘bridges to nowhere’ As California Wildlife Crossing Overruns by $21M Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy bashed Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom over an unfinished wildlife crossing bridge in the Golden State that is running $21 million over budget. Duffy shared a post from the X account End Wokeness showing video of the unfinished project stretching across 10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California. The video shows the incomplete bridge, which is intended to provide safe passage for animals such as cougars to cross over the highway. |
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| Fury as Gavin Newsom's Wife TRASHES
Christians Over Gender Roles in Astonishing Resurfaced Clip: 'We're all woke now'  Jennifer
Siebel Newsom in a 2022 interview said 'there's so much to learn from
same sex couples.' 'The folks on the far right ... they're living in
this silo, this evangelical, conservative silo that ultimately is
pulling us back as a country to a time and a place where we don't
deserve to be and we're not going to be,' Jennifer added. She claimed
that 'young women and fathers of daughters are awake now, and they're
woke, and they're not going to let us go back.' |
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| Failing California School District
Pays Nearly $300,000 for Black Kids to Learn to Rap Josh Koehn The Merced City School District in the Central Valley -- one of the state’s lower-performing school districts based on test performances -- has signed a $270,000 agreement with Fresno-based School Yard Rap, which describes its approach to learning as “edutainment.” The contracts include a summer “Rap Camp” and an “African American Affinity Group,” which is only for 100 African American students, raising questions about whether the program complies with federal law. |
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| West Coast, Messed Coast™ – I'm
Afraid for Nick Shirley's Safety After California Fraud Exposé Victoria Taft "You are Trouble Man!" a heavily-accented woman yelled as Nick Shirley stood at the door of her alleged "daycare" center in San Diego. Would she answer any questions? No. Will she take your money, California? Oh, absolutely. Nick Shirley is currently in his own lane as the Chris Hansen of fraud. Why don't you have a seat right over there, Gavin? We have a few questions. Welcome to the West Coast, Messed Coast™ report, where this week, Shirley, the independent reporter, released yet another video showing what could be a series of fraudulent daycare "centers" and hospice providers in Southern California that pay so well that one provider bought himself a Maybach. |
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| Speaker Mike Johnson: Separation of Church and State Is 'misunderstood' Ryan Foley House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is calling on Americans to embrace the true meaning of the term “separation of church and state,” which he said is “one of the most misunderstood issues in American society.” “It is from the very birth of our nation that America has always been sustained by prayer and been reliant upon our foundation of religion and morality and it’s in the DNA of our nation and who we are,” he explained. Johnson, a former professor and lawyer, emphasized his expertise in “religion in the public sphere,” calling it one of his favorite and most misunderstood topics. |
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| Preparing for Iran’s
Democratic Transition Ivan Sascha Sheehan After years of domestic unrest, economic collapse, and growing popular resistance, the durability of the ruling system in Iran is increasingly uncertain. What matters now is not merely whether the current system crumbles, but whether a credible democratic alternative is ready to assume responsibility when it does. A crucial development occurred on February 28, 2026, when Maryam Rajavi – president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran – announced the formation of a provisional governing framework designed to guide Iran through the crucial period following the collapse of the ruling establishment. |
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| A Lot of Americans Don't
Understand Operation Epic Fury, and the Answer Why Is Obvious David Strom If you have followed Operation Epic Fury closely, you know why the United States has been blowing up Iran's military power, its leadership, and has allied itself with Israel to devastate the Iranian regime. Yet, according to several polls, Americans aren't sure why Trump initiated the operation, and are mostly unaware of how incredibly successful it has been. Aside from the decapitation strikes' successes, people are led to believe that Iran is doing pretty well out of the war. The reason why Americans are confused, to the extent that they are, is obvious: the media keeps obfuscating, as do the Democrats. |
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| Iranian Threat, Appeasement, and
History History teaches that evil does not stop because you ask it to; it stops when someone with courage decides to stop it. Christian Vezilj  History is a warning system that teaches patterns, exposes illusions, and reminds us that evil, when left unchallenged, grows bolder. One of the clearest lessons of the twentieth century came in 1938, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, desperate to avoid another world war, chose appeasement as his strategy for peace. In the Munich Agreement, he surrendered the Sudetenland – a fortified, strategically vital region of Czechoslovakia – in exchange for Adolf Hitler’s promise that Germany had “no further territorial ambitions.” The lesson was unmistakable: you cannot negotiate with evil because evil does not negotiate – it advances. |
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| 53 Dems Vote Against Calling Iran
the Biggest State Sponsor of Terror More than 50 Democrats were unwilling to commit themselves to the incontrovertible fact that Iran’s Islamic regime is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Rapid Response 47 shared the final vote tally on labeling Iran’s regime the biggest state sponsor of terrorism, a title which the U.S. State Department has given it for decades. The resolution passed the House in spite of the jihad-loving Democrats. |
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| USA Today: Trump's 'Friendly Takeover' of Cuba Closer Than Expected Ed Morrissey At the end of February, Donald Trump offered what appeared to be an offhand comment about a potential "friendly takeover" of Cuba in the wake of the capture of Nicolas Maduro. At the time, it sounded like speculative goal-setting, as is Trump's wont. Yesterday, though, Trump repeated his claim at a presser at the Doral country club, with more specificity. Reporters followed up on the assertion, and Trump indicated that Marco Rubio has already plunged into talks with the remnant Castroites in Havana: USA Today's Francesca Chambers reported yesterday, with updates this morning, that progress in these talks may have gone further than first thought. |
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| When Obama and His Party Need to
Suppress the Vote, It’s OK I & I Editorial Board  The
Democrats have been making desperate arguments against voter ID
legislation, including claims that it will disenfranchise married women
due to their name change. Naturally, they’ve left out the part about
Barack Obama launching his political career by using the name change of
a married woman in his successful attempt to have all his opponents
kicked off the ballot and run unopposed. The SAVE Act, which has been
passed by the House and is heavily supported by the public but is
stalled in the Republican Senate, simply “requires individuals to
provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote,
and requires photo identification to vote, in federal elections.” It
does not establish a poll tax, a literacy test, nor pre-19th Amendment
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| Married Women, You’re Being Lied to About the SAVE America Act BlazeTV Staff Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed the Republican-backed SAVE America Act could prevent millions of married women from voting. “Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote. Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act,” Clinton wrote in a post on X. “This is so crazy,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey’s father, Ron Simmons, comments on “Relatable.” |
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| The Obama Foundation Is Even More
Corrupt Than You Thought Matt Margolis  The
scandal-plagued Obama Presidential Center in Chicago already stirred up
plenty of controversy. Now the money trail surrounding it raises even
more uncomfortable questions about how former President Barack Obama’s
inner circle is cashing in while taxpayers get screwed over.
Compensation across the organization has ballooned. Salaries and
benefits climbed from $18.5 million in 2018 to $43.7 million in 2024.
Staffing expanded to 337 employees. Illinois Republicans smell the
stench of classic Chicago corruption. |
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| Speaker Mike Johnson Warns of
Encroaching Sharia Law in U.S.: 'Serious issue' House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., warned of what he characterized as an encroaching threat from Sharia law in the United States, which he said is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, during a press briefing Tuesday in Florida. "There's a lot of energy in the country and a lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law in America is a serious problem," Johnson said. "That's what animates this. The language that people use is different language than I would use, but I think that that's a serious issue." |
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| Islamic Sharia Law Is Coming to a
Small Town Near You Kris Kubal In the heart of America, a quiet shift is unfolding – one that echoes through our streets and public spaces, signaling the fading resonance of our Judeo-Christian heritage and the bold emergence of a new influence. Remember the church bells? Those timeless chimes that once marked the rhythm of community life, ringing out joy, solemnity, and unity in towns across the nation. Today, they are largely silent. Many churches simply stopped the tradition, no longer seeing fit to ring them. Many because noise ordinances limit or prohibit their chiming in certain communities. Contrast this with another sound gaining ground: the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, now blaring over loudspeakers in communities nationwide. |
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| ANALYSIS: ‘Death to America’ Chants
Echo Across Campuses Due to Iranian Influence and Radical Professors Emily Sturge For nearly five decades, Iran has chanted “Death to America.” Now that same message is echoing across American college campuses. Students are marching in support of Iran, chanting anti-American slogans, and celebrating violence against the United States. This disturbing trend is fueled by radical campus activism and the ideological environment inside America’s universities. Sadly, I’m not shocked to see students repeat talking points from Iran’s violent regime. At Campus Reform, we’ve long reported on the radical ideological environment on our college campuses. |
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| New Study Refutes Key UN Climate
Claim: Finds the Oceans Are Not ‘Warming’ Let Alone ‘Boiling’ – ‘Ocean
Heat Content Estimates’ Are ‘Based on Physically Meaningless Calculations’ Marc Morano An international team of scientists has published groundbreaking research revealing that the primary measurement used to support claims of planetary “warming” is fundamentally flawed and scientifically invalid. The paper, published in Science of Climate Change, demonstrates that ocean heat content estimates, which underpin the IPCC climate assessments, are based on physically meaningless calculations that violate basic 150-year-old principles of thermodynamics and fail to meet the standards of the scientific method. |
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| Climate Change – Where the Experts
Make Fools of Themselves Francis Menton Much has been written recently about the death of expertise in America. On one subject after another, those claiming to be experts have proved to be completely wrong. Covid provided multiple examples: from the origins (did it come from a lab leak?), to the efficacy of vaccines, to the necessity of lockdowns and “social distancing.” Another famous example was the Hunter Biden laptop, stated by 50+ “experts” from the intelligence community to carry “the classic earmarks” of “Russian disinformation.” But has there been any area where self-proclaimed experts have more made fools of themselves than the area of “climate change”? |
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| Environmental Groups Fight to Stop
Carbon Capture Tech Green groups claim that carbon dioxide is the leading driver of climate change and, thus, lobby for “net zero” policies to curb emissions. However, with the growing development of carbon capture and storage (CCS), one would think these environmental groups would cheer. Yet as Louisiana moves to deploy a number of new Class VI wells, environmental groups are fighting to stop it. Why? As Institute for Energy Research President Thomas Pyle observed, “If the oil and gas industry invented a magic wand that eliminated CO2 from the atmosphere and allowed them to continue to produce and for us to use oil and gas, they’d be opposed to that. [Lead credit] |
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| Gov. Newsom’s Wife Collected $3.7
Million from Gender Nonprofit California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, along with her LLC, has collected a combined $3.7 million over the last decade from a nonprofit activist organization she founded. Corporations that receive millions of dollars from the California taxpayer are behind hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the nonprofit that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife runs. Siebel Newsom created a string of documentaries about gender, including Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. Her nonprofit, The Representation Project, promotes her documentaries and engages in activism battling “intersectional gender stereotypes” and “harmful gender norms.” |
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| Long-time California Based Company Announces Red State Move The blue-state mass exodus continues as Yamaha Motor Co. prepares to move its headquarters to Southern pastures. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced that Yamaha will relocate to Kennesaw over the next several years, after being headquartered in Cypress, California, since 1979. “After many years of great partnership, we are honored and proud to welcome Yamaha’s American headquarters to the No. 1 state for business,” Kemp said in a statement. |
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| Defund the U.N. I & I Editorial Board The United Nations is having a budget crisis. It might have to lay off part of its staff. No one should be brokenhearted over this. It should instead be cause for celebration. The U.N. is nothing more than a parasite leeching off the American taxpayer while propping up dictators, terrorists, and every left-wing crackpot scheme ever dreamed up. It should be dissolved. Earlier this year, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “sent a dramatic letter to” member states to warn them “about the ‘imminent financial collapse'” of the organization, says the Global Policy Forum of Europe. “The letter followed earlier warnings” that the U.N. might be forced to cut its budget by 15% in 2026, meaning a reduction in the workforce by roughly 2,600. |
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| New York City’s Credit Outlook
Downgraded to Negative by Moody’s Amid Mamdani’s Budget Deficit Noah Stanton There’s an old saying in finance: the market doesn’t care about your feelings. It doesn’t care about your campaign promises, your ideology, or who you blame for the mess you inherited. It only cares about the math. And in New York City, the math has gotten ugly fast. Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office with grand ambitions and an even grander budget – $127 billion, up from $115 billion under his predecessor. That’s a $12 billion leap in a single transition, because apparently $115 billion just wasn’t enough. |
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WWII leader Churchill to be Removed
from UK Banknotes World War II leader Winston Churchill is to be dropped from the UK Ł5 banknote in favour of a nature scene, sparking outrage from some lawmakers who said he should not be replaced by an otter or badger. The next series of banknotes due to be issued by the Bank of England will feature animals native to the UK, in a shift away from images of prominent Britons. Possibilities, subject to a public consultation, include badgers and otters as well as frogs, hedgehogs, barn owls and newts. Plants and landscapes will complete the scenes depicted. |
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| FBI Secretly Seizes Election
Records from Arizona’s Largest County As Voting Probe Expands The FBI is expanding its criminal probe into suspected election irregularities, secretly obtaining a large tranche of voting records from Arizona’s largest county with a recent grand jury subpoena, multiple people familiar with the probe told Just the News. The sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the grand jury probe, said FBI agents are receiving gigabytes of electronic election data from Maricopa County, about a month after the bureau first disclosed an investigation into election irregularities by raiding a warehouse near Atlanta and seizing ballots from the 2020 election conducted in Fulton County, Georgia’s largest metropolis. |
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| California State University Board
Meeting Falls Into Chaos Amid SJSU Lawsuit vs Trump Admin Over Trans Scandal Lesbian employee says she's had girlfriends with Male Genitals amid San Jose State Univ trans scandal. The California State University (CSU) system's board of trustees meeting Tuesday was shaken by a stampede of emotional residents and alumni reacting to a decision to sue the federal government. CSU and San Jose State University announced Friday they are filing the lawsuit to challenge the U.S. Department of Education's recent findings that SJSU violated Title IX in its handling of a transgender volleyball player from 2022-24. |
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| Oh Canada! 'Kangaroo Court'
Tribunal Fines School Board Member Nearly 3/4 Mil for Opposing Gender
Ideology As Canadian parliament debates legislation to criminalize supposed hate speech, comments against "gender ideology" in the curriculum have already cost a former British Columbia school board member the equivalent of more than half a million U.S. dollars. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered Neufeld to pay $750,000 Canadian to all LGBTQ-identified members of the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association for "injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect," citing discrimination in employment, hate speech and "discriminatory publications" on Facebook, "statements made in Board meetings, rallies, and interviews." |
President Trump, maybe we don't want Canada! |
| University of Texas-Austin Strikes
a Telling Blow Against Critical Race Theory Rick Moran The University of Texas-Austin's new President Jim Davis didn't waste any time mixing things up with the radical left. The former Texas deputy attorney general is the school's first non-academic hire for president in a hundred years, and he immediately went to work dismantling some of the more egregious examples of woke indoctrination. Shortly after being hired, Davis convened a committee to review the Department of Liberal Arts, which recommended consolidating the "studies" departments. The move to consolidate wokeness was more than just efficiency. All of the "studies" programs were outlets for the teaching of critical race theory. Being placed together, the contagion could be contained. |
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| Australian Admin in Deep Water
After Allowing Trans Triple Killer to Live with 2 Foster Kids Two foster children who had been living with a convicted transgender triple killer, despite authorities being aware of the situation since late December 2025, are no longer residing with the violent criminal, according to local media reports. Reginald Arthurell – who began transitioning to a woman shortly after his release from prison in 2020 – was removed from the home after heavily armed officers raided the address on Monday, radio station 2GB reported. He had been living with a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old for several months, the outlet said. |
Incredible. This goes beyond woke! |
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| U.S. Productivity Surges
Past Expectations in Q4, Defying Critics of Trade and Immigration Policies Noah Stanton For years, economists and media pundits have fashioned themselves as meteorologists of the American economy, confidently predicting disaster just over the horizon. Tariffs would cripple growth and immigration enforcement would starve businesses of labor. The Trump administration’s policies, they assured us, were a hurricane bearing down on working families. Funny thing about forecasts from people who’ve never run a business or signed the front of a paycheck … they’re usually wrong. ... Then came Thursday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and suddenly the professional forecasters went quiet. |
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| The Iran War Has Exposed
the Suicidal Madness of Net Zero James Woudhuysen The UK, which has depended on foreign imports for energy for decades, is in the eye of this storm. In a more rational world, then, one might hope that UK energy secretary Ed Miliband would reassess his longstanding hostility to fracking on British land and drilling in the North Sea. Alas, no. The phrase ‘doubling down’ seems to have been invented for Miliband. ‘To ensure our energy security in an unstable world’, Miliband said on Wednesday, the Labour government will ‘keep driving’ for ‘clean, homegrown power’. What Miliband is saying, with his typical nursery-school level of insight, is that the wind and sun in the British Isles are more reliable and affordable than fossil fuels from the Middle East. |
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| Trump’s Way of War Victor Davis Hanson War is the use of arms to settle differences – tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material – between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature. However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority. That said, has President Trump introduced a novel way of waging Western war against America’s foreign enemies? |
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| Senate Democrats Block DHS Funding
Bill, Extending Shutdown Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a Republican-backed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of fiscal 2026, extending the agency's shutdown into a fourth week as partisan divisions over immigration enforcement continue to stall negotiations. The Senate voted 51-45 on the measure, short of the 60 votes required to advance. Every Democrat opposed the bill except Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. Republicans had urged Democrats to approve the funding, arguing the recent conflict with Iran has heightened threats to the U.S. homeland and increased the urgency of restoring DHS operations. |
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| For America’s 250th Birthday, Make
the Senate Talk Again Anna Pingel This year, America turns 250 years old, and it deserves a birthday present – secure elections brought about by the SAVE America Act. It is time for the Senate to shake off the dust and use the only viable mechanism it has to pass the SAVE America Act – the talking filibuster. Our Senate doesn’t talk much anymore. The talking filibuster, in which each member is able to speak for as long as he or she is physically able, without rest or food, has become a ghost of the past, its death brought about by the current practice of only bringing bills to the Senate floor when they are already guaranteed enough votes to pass. |
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| Self-Radicalized ISIS Protesters
Used Explosive Called ‘Mother Of Satan’ Inside Bombs Thrown at Gracie
Mansion Protest in NYC A pair of ISIS-trained extremists were charged with hurling an IED at Gracie Mansion duringa rowdy weekend protest – allegedly packing the homemade bomb with “Mother of Satan,” a volatile explosive favored by international terrorists. The two pro-Muslim fanatics – Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18 – both self-radicalized in recent years and traveled to Turkey and other terror-training hot spots, law enforcement sources close to the case told The Post. |
Will Dems still block funding for DHS? I bet yes. |
| Democrat Who Compared ICE to the
Stasi Faces Ethics Complaint Over Program to Report Feds New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill faces an ethics complaint after she asked Garden State residents to report on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the state government. “In a seemingly unprecedented move, Governor Sherrill is using official state resources to coordinate the potential obstruction of federal immigration enforcement activities,” Curtis Schube, director of research and policy at the Center to Advance Security in America, told The Daily Signal in a statement on the complaint Tuesday. “Her administration created an official portal for members of the public to upload personal videos of ICE officials conducting their official duties.” |
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| Even Dems Are Questioning Rep. Swalwell’s Eligibility to Run for Governor Rep. Eric Swalwell has long maintained his primary residence in Washington, D.C., despite representing large portions of California in Congress. Now that he is running for California governor, his apparent on-paper-only California residency is under scrutiny – even from fellow Democrats. Tom Steyer, a left-wing billionaire donor who is also running for the Democratic nomination for governor, called on California Secretary of State Shirley Weber to enforce the state’s residency requirements. |
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| U.S. Adversaries Made Nearly 30K
Visits to Sensitive Labs Under Biden Admin, Bombshell Data Show Citizens of China, Iran, and Russia made close to 30,000 trips to sensitive American research facilities during the Biden administration, new data show. Between Sept. 1, 2021, and Aug. 31, 2024, 28,028 Chinese nationals, 304 Iranians, and 1,608 Russians visited laboratories run by the Department of Energy, according to the office of Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). “While Iran’s regime chanted ‘Death to America,’ the Biden administration rolled out the red carpet for Iranian foreign nationals to enter our National Labs,” Ernst told The Post. |
Was Biden determined to undermine the U.S? |
| Karen Bass Has Call with Trump for
First Time Since Palisades Fire – Here's What They Talked About Months after a tense public clash over rebuilding the Pacific Palisades following the devastating 2025 wildfires, the progressive mayor and the Republican president spoke directly by phone, a conversation Bass revealed in an interview Friday with KNX Los Angeles City Hall reporter Craig Fiegener that was obtained by The Post. Bass said she called the White House early in the week and Trump returned her call on Thursday. The call marks the first known conversation between the two since the early days of the wildfire crisis, when the pair clashed publicly over how quickly Los Angeles should rebuild. |
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| Supreme Court Retains GOP District
in NY, Giving Republicans Midterms Win Carmine Sabia The Supreme Court on Monday said it would keep New York’s current congressional map in place, temporarily blocking a lower court ruling that had found the map violated the Constitution by diluting the voting power of Black and Latino residents. The unsigned emergency order did not include a vote count or written reasoning, which is typical for decisions issued on the court’s emergency docket. The decision allows the existing map to remain in place while appeals continue, making it likely the map will be used in the upcoming midterm elections, the New York Times reported. The ruling was a victory for Republicans and could help them retain control of a closely divided House of Representatives. |
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| New York, Get Ready for Higher
Energy Bills and Rolling Blackouts Ken Girardin The 2019 Climate Act requires New York to cut statewide greenhouse gas emissions by about one-quarter from that year’s levels by 2030. The state has made little progress toward this goal, in part because officials shuttered New York’s largest nuclear power plant in 2021. The law remains on the books, and its defenders balk at revision. If Governor Hochul can’t persuade them to change it, Albany’s green dreams will cause harsh conditions in the Empire State – steep electric bills, green-energy boondoggles, and rolling blackouts. |
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| California's Green Gas Fees Set to
Cost More Than Price of Fuel Itself, Oil Group Warns A series of taxes and fees piled on top of the price of California gas are set to cost more than the fuel itself, a top oil industry group revealed. The U.S. Oil & Gas Association shared a chart showing a detailed breakdown of the factors that make the price of gas in the Golden State the highest in the U.S. The news comes as the average price of a gallon of regular gas in California surged to $4.905 on Friday, well above the national average of $3.32, according to American Automobile Association. |
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| Refinery Shutdowns, EV Dreams, and
$8 Gas: The Price of California’s Climate Delusion Leslie Eastman California’s climate-cult-driven political leaders assumed gasoline demand would fade quickly as electric vehicles took hold. Acting on that prediction, they created conditions that forced refineries to close, blocked new projects, and added regulations expecting everyone would share their disdain for fossil fuels and reliable internal combustion engines. But reality didn’t match their models. Tens of millions of drivers still rely on gasoline every day, and by shrinking supply faster than demand declined, our eco-activist bureaucrats created a fragile, high-risk system. |
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| The Asymmetric Advantages of
Environmentalist Zealotry Edward Ring There are numerous high-profile examples of how activist judges have used their power to thwart initiatives of the Trump administration, but while the visibility of these rulings has risen, they have been around for a long time. One of the biggest areas where individual activist judges have been able to exercise sweeping power is in the de facto partnership some of them have formed with environmentalists. During the Obama Administration, environmentalist NGOs turned litigation into a business model, collecting millions by suing the U.S. EPA, which would immediately settle and pay their legal fees. |
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| The Tax Loophole That Made U.S.
Health Care Unaffordable Veronique de Rugy America's health care system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It's not, as some politicians claim, expensive because markets have failed. It's expensive because the market has been repeatedly blocked from succeeding. Until we're honest about that, any potential reforms will only address symptoms while ignoring the disease. The health care market is hindered in many ways, but the core structural problem is simple: The person receiving care is almost never the person actually paying for it. Roughly 90 cents of every dollar is covered by a third party – an insurer or the government. |
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| Sanders, Khanna Unveil $4.4
Trillion Tax Increase Ira Stoll  Sen.
Bernie Sanders, socialist of Vermont, and Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat
from California best known for trafficking in Epstein-related
conspiracy theories, are pushing legislation that would impose a new 5
percent annual wealth tax on billionaires and use the revenue to give
money to everyone earning less than $150,000 a year. The bill, which
the politicians are calling the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share
Act, would raise $4.4 trillion over a decade, according to a letter
from Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists at the University of
California, Berkeley, that was released by the leftist politicians. |
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| U.S. Restores Diplomatic Relations
with Venezuela Amid Push for Democratic Transition The United States and Venezuela’s interim authorities have agreed to reestablish diplomatic and consular relations, according to a State Department media note issued Thursday. The State Department said the agreement is intended to "facilitate our joint efforts to promote stability, support economic recovery and advance political reconciliation in Venezuela. |
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| Anti-Communist Protests Erupt in
Havana As Trump Eyes Shake-Up in Cuban Leadership Anti-regime protests have broken out in Havana, Cuba as the Caribbean state has entered its 60th hour of being without electricity. The new wave of protests come just days after President Donald Trump suggested that Cuba could be the next country in line for a change in leadership after the successes of the Maduro raid and the first week of Operation Epic Fury. Trump has tasked Secretary of State Marco Rubio of handling negotiations with the Cuban government. |
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| Iranian Warship Surrenders to Sri
Lankans, First Time Ship Interned by Neutral Nation Since Second World War The captain of a ship of the Iranian Navy has handed his vessel over to the Sri Lankan government, a neutral party, for internment, saving the lives of his crew hours after another Iranian warship was destroyed nearby by the United States Navy. Sri Lanka (Ceylon) has assumed control of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ship (IRIS) Bushehr, a fleet supply ship (oiler). Sri Lanka has sent craft to receive the 1970s-era ship within its territorial waters and, per local media, has taken off 208 officers and men, who are to be sent ashore. The ship will now be taken by the Sri Lankans to Trincomalee for internment for the duration of hostilities. |
Far better than being sunk by a torpedo from a U.S. sub. |
| Soros-Backed Virginia Prosecutor
Descano Drops Charges Against Another Bus Stop Murder Suspect Craig Bannister The office of Fairfax, Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano has dropped murder charges against a man suspected of murdering a man at a bus stop – just days after the George Soros-backed prosecutor drew national criticism for dropping charges against an illegal alien who later went on to be charged with the murder of a woman at a bus stop last month. “The Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney is in the spotlight again,” FOX 5 DC wrote Thursday, reporting that a second-degree murder charge has been dropped against Robert Andrew Reed, who had been accused of fatally stabbing another man at a bus stop last summer. |
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| Little-Known Agency That Funded CRT
and DEI Under Biden Now Celebrates America Under Trump Tyler O'Neil Under President Joe Biden, the federal government spent millions pushing what critics call a negative narrative about America in the museums meant to celebrate and commemorate the country’s history. Now, the Trump administration has reversed course, using the same agency to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. The Institute of Museum and Library Services now supports “Freedom Trucks,” mobile museums that tell the story of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and the Constitution. |
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| DOJ Set to File Suit Against Kathy
Hochul Admin Over Allegedly Rigged Revamp of NY's $11B Medicaid Homecare Program The feds will file a formal complaint in the coming weeks, expected to take aim at both Hochul’s admin and the company at the center of the $11 billion program’s overhaul, according to three sources familiar with the DOJ’s investigation. The federal probe, spurred in part by an investigation by state Senators last year, could hone in on a range of accusations surrounding the homecare mess, including alleged bid rigging and non-compliance with Medicaid billing rules, the sources said. |
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| California Bishop Who Allegedly
Made Several Trips to Mexican Brothel Arrested at San Diego Airport Trying to Flee U.S. A high-ranking California Catholic bishop who allegedly took more than a dozen trips to a Mexican brothel known for human trafficking and misused parish funds was arrested at San Diego International Airport while trying to flee the country. Bishop Emanuel Shaleta, 60, a senior figure in the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle, was arrested Thursday by San Diego Sheriff’s deputies following a months-long investigation. Shaleta faces eight counts of embezzlement, eight counts of money laundering, and one count of aggravated white-collar crime, officials said. |
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| Scientists Confirm Biblical
Earthquake That Shook the Earth at the Moment of Jesus' Crucifixion A decade-old study claiming to find evidence of the earthquake described in the Bible at the time of Jesus's crucifixion is reigniting debate after resurfacing online. The Gospel of Matthew says 'the earth shook' moments after Jesus cried out before dying on the cross, and researchers in 2012 reported evidence that could support the verse. A team of geologists examined sediment layers near the Dead Sea, about 25 miles from where many scholars believe the crucifixion took place. Their analysis revealed signs of at least two significant earthquakes affecting the region. |
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| Water Polo Star Accused of
Homosexual Assault Convicted of Sick Attack on Second Teammate A water polo player accused of sexually abusing and racially harassing a teammate at an elite Los Angeles school had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting another teammate, court records reveal. The accused athlete, Lucca van der Woude, admitted in juvenile court to sexual penetration of a minor with a foreign object, and was ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution in November 2024, according to court records reviewed by the Daily Mail. Lucca van der Woude is the son of award winning movie director Thomas “Basti” van der Woude, (Ocean’s Eleven and Cast Away). |
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| Biden Tells Majority Black Crowd: ‘I’m a Hell of a Lot Smarter than Most of You’ Former President Joe Biden made a rare public appearance Friday and drew criticism over what some observers described as a racially insensitive remark. Speaking at the funeral of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, Biden told attendees – including prominent civil rights figures and other notable guests – “I’m a hell of a lot smarter than most of you.” |
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| ‘F–king Perverts’: Joe Rogan
Rejects Guest’s Sob Story About Transgender ‘Oppression’ Popular podcaster Joe Rogan was forced this week to educate a comedian who’d been brainwashed into thinking trans people are oppressed. Appearing on Rogan’s show, longtime comedian Steve-O recalled being told by a grocery store cashier that trans people are oppressed. “They described to me a level of oppression that genuinely f–king broke my heart,” Steve-O told Rogan. “They said, ‘Hey, let me tell you, like, I am not allowed to use the bathroom at my own place of work.'” Rogan immediately pushed back: |
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| B-2 Spirits Join Iran
Air War, Pummel Underground Missile Caves TWZ Newsletter, 1 March 2026 Just as we expected, B-2 Spirits have entered the air campaign against Iran last night. Flying global airpower missions from their home base in Whiteman, Missouri, America’s stealth bombers arrived over Iranian airspace in the early morning hours and targeted Iran’s missile caves. These facilities are built deep under mountains and are primarily used for storage, but some of them actually have the ability to launch ballistic missiles through fissures in their ceilings. |
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| Think Dems’ ‘Tax the
Rich’ Policies Will Make America Better Off? Just Take a Look at California I & I Editorial Board Politicians love nothing more than spending, as our dangerously surging fiscal deficits clearly show. But rather than cut unnecessary spending, which would be the most logical thing, Democrats continue to push the dumbest non-solution for our soaring spending, deficits, and debt: tax the rich. |
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| Hormuz Erupts: Attacks, GPS
Jamming, Houthi Threats Rock Strait Amid U.S.-Israeli Strike The Strait of Hormuz region became a flashpoint Sunday after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran under Operation Epic Fury triggered electronic warfare activity and multiple "attacks" on vessels along one of the world’s most critical energy waterways, according to reports. The sudden escalation followed a Feb. 28 warning from U.S. maritime authorities urging commercial vessels to avoid strategic waterways if possible, including the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, citing heightened security risks. |
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| Trump Pledges to 'avenge' Fallen
U.S. Service Members As Tensions with Iran Intensify "As one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation," Trump said in a video statement posted on Truth Social. "Even as we continue the righteous mission for which they gave their lives, we pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen." |
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| Mamdani's Response to Iran Strike
Sparks Online Fury: 'Why Is This So Hard for You?' "Comrade Mayor is rooting for the Ayatollah," GOP Sen. Ted Cruz posted on X. "They can chant together." Mamdani blasted the Trump administration's decision in a post on X that has been viewed roughly 20 million times. "Today’s military strikes on Iran – carried out by the United States and Israel – mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression," Mamdani wrote. "Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change." |
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| Why Donald Trump Is Right to
Intervene in the UK’s Chagos Islands Deal and Risking Diego Garcia Azeem Ibrahim The U.S. and the UK have shared a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos Islands, since the 1970s. As I previously argued in the Washington Examiner, Diego Garcia is not an obscure colonial relic but a cornerstone of Western power projection in the Indo-Pacific and Middle East. The proposed agreement would see the United Kingdom transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while leasing back the base for nearly a century at a cost reportedly running into the billions. This is being framed in London as a legal tidy-up, a necessary act of post-colonial housekeeping. In reality, it is a profound strategic surrender dressed up as moral rectitude. Trump is correct to oppose it for three core reasons: deterrence credibility, alliance coherence, and systemic competition with China. |
Trump’s blunt point that “leases are no good when it comes to countries” reflects a basic truth |
| Spanberger's
Dour SOTU Rebuttal Sophie Starkova  Virginia
Governor Abigail Spanberger attempted a rebuttal of President Donald
Trump’s State of the Union Address by asking three questions of the
American people: “Is the president working to make life more affordable
for you and your family? Is the president working to keep Americans
safe at home and abroad? Is the president working for you?” According
to Spanberger, though, “We did not hear the truth from the president.”
... The contrasts couldn’t be starker between the two: Trump has kept
his promises, while she has broken all of hers. |
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| State Officers Uncover $28 Billion
in Waste as Trump Launches Anti-Fraud Initiative For years, there’s been that little voice in the back of your head – the one the media tells you is crazy – whispering that the corruption we see is just a fraction of the real story. We hear about a scandal here, a boondoggle there, and we know in our bones it’s just the surface. It’s a profound sense of frustration, watching our money get vacuumed into a black hole of ineptitude. But a stunning new report just confirmed that little voice was right all along. A coalition of conservative watchdogs recently put the crisis in stark terms, praising President Trump for taking on the challenge. |
The rot is systemic and pervasive – not confined to blue states |
| Biden Admin Urged Mass. Gov. Maura
Healey to Clean Up State SNAP Program, a 2024 Letter Reveals Healey claims that allegations of fraud in Massachusetts, labeled by President Trump during the State of the Union address as among the most fraud-ridden states, are simply a “distraction” by Trump to shift focus away from what she says are his failed policies. But a letter from the USDA, dated Feb. 8, 2024, urged Healey to improve and bring to “acceptable” levels the Department of Transitional Assistance’s payment error rate, case and procedural error rate, and its application processing timeliness, adding that all three didn’t meet “basic federal requirements” in FY22, which was under the Gov. Charlie Baker administration. |
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| Behind Shadowy Union Boss Pushing
California's Billionaire's Tax – Who Faced Sleazy Workplace Claims The man who could make or break California’s future isn’t Gavin Newsom or Donald Trump – but a powerful union boss many fear is hell-bent on driving $1 trillion in wealth from the state. Dave Regan, who’s been the head of the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West since 2011, wants billionaires to pay 5% of their wealth to the the state. But the widely-panned tax already has some of the wealthiest Californians – facing staggering tax bills as high as $12 billion – seriously considering packing their bags for cheaper states. |
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| He Served the U.S. Air Force for 24
Years. He’s Now Accused of Training Chinese Combat Pilots A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot was arrested Wednesday on allegations that he traveled to China to illegally train combat pilots with the People’s Liberation Army. The Justice Department announced that 65-year-old Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr. had been charged with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Brown was arrested in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Thursday. |
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| Austin 6th Street Shooting: 3 Dead;
Image Shows Apparent Gunman As Terror Ties Probed  Three
people, including the gunman, were killed, and 14 others were wounded
in a mass shooting outside a bar in Austin's bustling Sixth Street
entertainment district early Sunday morning that authorities said may
have ties to terrorism. When police arrived at the scene, they
confronted a man with a gun and then "returned fire, killing the
suspect," Davis said. According to the Associated Press, the Department
of Homeland Security later identified the gunman as 53-year-old Ndiaga
Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Senegal who lived in
Pflugerville, a suburb north of Austin. |
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| Cuba’s Russian Rescue Fantasy Falls
Apart Sarah Anderson The Cuban regime is just embarrassing itself. At some point in the last day or so, a rumor spread that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it was sending Cuba a tanker full of oil accompanied by a Russian Navy destroyer to keep the United States military from stopping it from reaching the island. The rumor was big on social media, largely growing through pro-Cuban regime accounts, and, while I can't verify this, it was possibly even mentioned in state media. The Russian Embassy in Cuba came out with an official statement, saying that the information is false and reminded people to only get their information from official Russian channels. |
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| Batteries Are the Next Fault Line
in the Defense Supply Chain Saurabh Ullal When China announced export controls on rare earth materials last October, Washington reacted with appropriate alarm. Editorial boards warned of supply disruptions, defense analysts warned of national security implications, and automakers throttled production lines. What received far less attention: China simultaneously imposed export controls on lithium-ion batteries, cathode materials, and graphite anode materials. Those battery controls, which were temporarily suspended for one year alongside the rare earth curbs as part of a negotiated truce between the two countries, threaten an equally critical supply chain. |
Batteries matter because they power everything the Pentagon needs to fight. |
| Mercedes-Benz Issues Recall for EQB Electric SUV Over Fire Risk  Mercedes-Benz ordered a recall for 12,236 EQB electric SUVs, which could catch fire due to an issue within the high-voltage battery system. According to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the recall population covers a subset of EQBs from the 2022, 2023, and 2024 model years. The NHTSA documents show that a combination of production and use-case conditions can cause an internal short circuit of a battery cell in the high-voltage battery system. That short circuit can potentially cause a fire. The Cheaper Nissan Leaf Has Been Delayed Indefinitely Justin Banner | Motor Trend For those looking to get into a cheap electric vehicle, the new Nissan Leaf is a reasonable option. Unfortunately, as the U.S.’s electrified future remains in flux (and Nissan’s own future is still rather cloudy), there won’t be an even cheaper option on the table any time soon. Per a report from InsideEVs, the Leaf S and its sub-$30,000 price tag has been indefinitely delayed until 2027, if at all. The Leaf launched with the S Plus trim. |
The EV bubble continues to deflate |
| The
Future of Nuclear Power Is Bright Brian Mark Weber Nuclear power has had a bad rap for some time now. There’s hardly anyone who hasn’t heard of Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, and the fear of leaking nuclear reactors has left the public shy about embracing nuclear power. As an alternative, green energy companies promised that wind and solar would deliver a safe and efficient source of power. But we soon found out there are serious limitations to an energy system reliant on sunny days or the wind. Even when conditions are ideal, so-called “green” energy sources can’t power data centers, military bases, or whole cities. |
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| Surprising Discovery: Sahara Is
Greening… Billions of Trees Where Once Thought to Be Barren P. Gosselin For decades, the narrative surrounding the Sahara was one of unstoppable desertification – a vast, arid landscape slowly swallowing everything in its path, including Europe alarmists have warned. However, recent scientific findings are painting a much more hopeful and complex picture. Thanks to advanced satellite technology and Artificial Intelligence, researchers have discovered something remarkable: The edges of the Sahara and the Sahel zone are becoming significantly greener. |
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| The Fani Files: Georgia Prosecutor
Plotted Trump Case Closely with Biden DOJ, J6 Democrats Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department and White House as well as Democrats on the House Jan. 6 investigative committee as she built a failed criminal case against President Donald Trump and his allies related to their challenge to Georgia's 2020 election results, according to a trove of internal communications obtained by Just the News. |
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| Pro-Abortion Notre Dame Professor Rejects Prestigious Appointment after Pro-Life Backlash Vocally pro-abortion Notre Dame associate professor Susan Ostermann is declining a prestigious academic appointment following weeks of backlash from pro-life students, faculty, and Catholic bishops. In January, Ostermann was appointed director of Notre Dame’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the Keough School of International Affairs. Keough School dean Mary Gallagher, a supporter of Ostermann, announced her decision to step down from the appointment in an email sent to students at the school Thursday. |
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| Pro-Maskers Accidentally Admit
MASKS DON'T WORK, Debunking Anthony Fauci and Years of Mandates It's obvious to anyone who paid even the slightest amount of attention to COVID outcomes that masks do not work. The evidence against masking is overwhelming, from the decades of studies that confirmed masks did not stop respiratory infections, to years of universal masking failing to stop or even moderately slow the spread of the virus during the pandemic. But there are a committed few, like Japanese soldiers continuing to fight years after the end of World War II, who are pushing for universal permanent masking... Those masks were "invented to stop [surgeons] and nurses from sneezing into the guts and the hearts of patients" not stop viruses or respiratory infections. |
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| MLB Star Tommy Pham Criticizes
Governor Newsom for Telling Black Audience He’s a ‘960 SAT Guy’ Noah Stanton There’s an old saying in politics: when you have to tell people you’re one of them, you probably aren’t. The harder a politician works to prove he’s just a regular guy, the more obvious it becomes that he’s anything but. It’s the political equivalent of showing up to a barbecue in a brand-new pair of work boots – the tags still dangling. |
Gavin Newsom Plays Dumb |
| Liu
vs. Gu: A Story of Two American-Born Athletes Emmy Griffin  Alysa
Liu is an American figure skater who had the profound privilege and
honor of winning the Olympic gold medal last week in women’s singles
free skate. With poise and grace, she skated a nearly perfect routine.
Her gold medal ended a more than 20-year drought for Team USA in this
event. While her victory was historic, her story is even more
interesting. ... On the podium, Alysa’s playful, joyful personality
shone. Unlike her teammate, Amber Glenn, Alysa utilized her newfound
attention like a professional, like an athlete who loves her country
and her sport. |
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| Kansas Invalidates Licenses for
Transgender Drivers: 'There Are Just Two Sexes' Transgender drivers in Kansas have had their licenses invalidated under a new state law that went into effect on Thursday, which requires residents to change their gender identification to the sex they were assigned at birth. The notice from the state’s Department of Revenue was mailed to the roughly 1,700 drivers after the Legislature’s GOP supermajority voted to prohibit documents from listing any sex other than the one assigned at birth. |
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| White Police Officers Sue
Philadelphia for DEI Policies, Claiming They Were Passed Over for Promotions Trump's America, where DEI goes to DIE. Yes, according to a lawsuit filed by five white male Philadelphia police officers, the City of Brotherly Love is apparently more interested in checking diversity boxes than rewarding merit. Here's the scoop from NYP: "The five officers had 'positive annual performance reviews' and 'strong service records' when they missed out on captain and lieutenant positions during the November 2025 promotion cycle, according to the suit filed by America First Legal (AFL)." |
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Week ending 22 February 2026 |
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| Why Exactly Did They
Destroy the Border? Victor Davis Hanson Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new constituents for agendas that otherwise were without broad public support. Yet for years, Democrats and leftists themselves had written triumphalist books with titles like The Emerging Democratic Majority. And often they crowed that “Demography is Destiny.” ... The Left’s political agenda for illegal immigration was to be realized either immediately through compromised ballot integrity or soon enough by warping the census-based reapportionment of congressional districts. |
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| Will the Gender Cult Implode? Mark Alexander Last week, Canadians witnessed in horror the deadliest school mass shooting since the 1989 Montreal Polytechnique attack – this one at a high school in the small village of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia. A so-called “transgender” male identifying as a female, who was identified by news outlets as a “gunperson,” murdered six children after murdering two relatives. This attack was the latest by a gender confusion cult adherent. As I posted on our social media pages, “The transgender cult ideology not only destroys the lives of gender confused kids; some of those kids then grow up to become a threat to all of us.” That resulted in predictable outrage from the gender dysphoric crowd and their defenders. But their protests fell strangely silent Monday after a shooting at a hockey game in Rhode Island by another sociopathic man identifying as a woman. |
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| Scott Bessent Lays Out Future of
Trump’s Tariffs, Trade Deals Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that revenue from tariffs would not drop, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling against the authority President Donald Trump’ invoked to levy his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Bartiromo questioned Bessent about claims made Friday by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that the deficit would increase due to the loss of revenue. “Yes, so, Maria, let’s take a step back here. And Maya MacGuineas should be ashamed, and they should take the word ‘responsible’ out of her organization’s name,” Bessent responded. “Everything she told you was completely irresponsible and, look, where were they when the Biden administration blew out the deficit that we had a fiscal contraction last year? So she should be ashamed.” |
The IEEPA tariffs will be replaced in 3 days; “tariff revenue will be unchanged this year and in the future.” |
| Jamieson Greer Says Trump Still Has
'Very Durable Tools' for Tariffs, Trade Deals United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told “This Week” guest host Martha Raddatz on Sunday that, despite a Supreme Court ruling against his invoking of one legal authority, President Donald Trump still had multiple options to levy tariffs on other countries. Greer reminded Raddatz that the administration had authority for tariffs under other laws aside from IEEPA. [T]he president addressed this in his press conference on Friday. And he said that since we were looking at this and the possibility of having this tool removed, we had to look at backup plans. And we found ways to really reconstruct what we’re doing,” Greer said. |
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| Trump Quietly Set Up Future of
American Manufacturing with Stroke of a Pen Gavin Wax If President Donald Trump is going to keep reshaping the global trade order, he needs tools that rest on firm statutory footing and a record that can survive courtroom scrutiny. That is why a quietly consequential step President Trump took in January matters far more than most commentators noticed. In plain English, with the PROVE IT Act, Trump now has the federal machinery to hit back when foreign governments weaponize climate policy to punish U.S. industry. |
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| Witkoff Warns Iran Is ‘A Week Away’
from 'Bomb-Making Material' As Trump Weighs Action Special Envoy Steve Witkoff warned Saturday that Iran could be "a week away" from having "industrial-grade bomb-making material," raising urgent questions about what President Donald Trump could do next to address the looming threat. "It’s up to 60%," Witkoff said of Iran’s enrichment level. "They’re probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material." The "dangerous" proposition, Witkoff said on "My View with Lara Trump," comes despite Trump’s "zero enrichment" red line, which he accused Iran of violating "well beyond" what a civil nuclear program requires. |
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| It Was All A Setup: FBI Internal
Emails Reveal Biden White House Coordinated with DOJ on Mar-a-Lago Raid Fox News on Friday obtained internal FBI emails proving that the Biden White House coordinated with the Justice Department to raid Mar-a-Lago. More than 3 dozen machine-gun-toting agents descended on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, and by November, Biden’s DOJ appointed a special counsel to investigate the documents stored at the Florida residence. Court documents revealed that Biden’s FBI authorized the use of deadly force during their raid on Mar-a-Lago, which was authorized by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland... It was recently reported that the FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago in 2022 but descended on Trump’s Florida estate amid pressure from Biden’s corrupt Justice Department. |
To date no one has been held accountable for the unprecedented raid |
| Prosecutors Zero in on CIA's John
Brennan with Secret Request for Years-Old Evidence from U.S. Senate  Federal
prosecutors who are probing the weaponization of intelligence and law
enforcement against President Donald Trump and his allies have sent a
secret and rare request for evidence from the U.S. Senate regarding
former CIA Director John Brennan, signaling that they are zeroing in on
his questionable testimony going back nearly a decade on his
now-debunked efforts to tie Trump's 2016 campaign to collusion with
Russia. The overtures to the U.S. Senate and its intelligence committee
from U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quińones' team in Miami began over
the last month and were formalized in a written request for documents,
transcripts and testimony last Friday, according to multiple people
directly familiar with the conversations. |
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| CIA's Historic Retraction of Intel
Reports Exposes Political Bias in Obama-Biden Spy Agencies Jerry Dunleavy First there were parents flagged at school board meetings. Then it was Catholics who preferred the traditional Latin Mass who were targeted for scrutiny. Now, the CIA's retraction of nineteen “politicized” intel reports on Friday – on the heels of the agency’s self-critique last year on its assessment of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 – has put the sharpest light yet on the infection of political bias inside American spy agencies dating back to the Obama era. The CIA’s retractions on Friday are the latest examples of the politicized nature of the intelligence community over the past decade, including a Biden Justice Department memo aimed at parents protesting at school board meetings, and more. |
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| EPA to Reform Biden-Era Electric
Bus Program That 'forced unsafe and unreliable' Transportation The program provided funding for schools to transition diesel-powered buses to electric. The buses turned out to be unreliable and unsafe, with many schools unable to use the buses they purchased with the funding. “As was the case with so many of the Biden-era programs, the Clean School Bus program has been a disaster of poor management and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. At the Trump EPA, we have zero tolerance for reckless spending,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement. |
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| Climate Alarmists Howl After EPA Rescinds ‘Endangerment Finding’ Paul Driessen The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finally rescinded the 2009 Endangerment Finding (EF) – the Obama-era EPA ruling that claimed carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gas” (GHG) emissions “endanger” human health and welfare. Within minutes, climate alarmists challenged it in court. The action follows an extensive review of scientific evidence, legal and constitutional principles, and 572,000 public comments (534,000 via mass comment campaigns). EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called it “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.” Was Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scam in History? Stephen Moore Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy. Oklahoma Smelter the First Fruits of Trump Aluminum Policy Duggan Flanakin Just months after winning a $500 million grant from the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, Century Aluminum announced plans to construct and operate a new aluminum smelter in Inola, Oklahoma, that will have a production capacity of 500,000 tons per year of aluminum, including 20,000 tons of high-purity aluminum for defense applications. |
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| Mamdani's Jim Crow 2.0 Snow Removal
Operation Requires ID David Marcus With a blizzard bearing down on New York City, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has offered citizens a chance to make a few extra bucks removing snow, but there is a catch, and it's a doozy: As racist as the Left tells us this is, workers must bring valid ID. Say it ain’t so, Zo. We know from the voter ID debate that marginalized Brown and Black people just can’t figure out how to get driver's licenses. According to Kamala Harris, it has something to do with not having a Kinkos. So why is Hizzoner pushing Jim Crow 2.0 here? |
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| NYC Property Owners Flee to Texas
and Florida as Mayor Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Collides with 40% Tax Increases Noah Stanton Socialism doesn’t announce itself with a bang – it arrives with a frozen pipe, an overflowing trash bin, and a promise that things will get better. New Yorkers are learning this the hard way. Since Zohran Mamdani took office, the city has stumbled from one crisis to the next. Residents have shivered through brutal cold, watched garbage pile up on sidewalks, and braced for the “painful” tax hikes their new mayor has gleefully promised the wealthy will pay. The visible decay is bad enough. But the real wrecking ball? It’s just getting started. |
Socialists have never quite mastered basic math |
| Gavin Newsom Wants You to Know It's Not His Fault That He Doesn't Know What He's Doing Victoria Taft We’d wager that even Polymarket couldn’t put a number on just how calamitous critics see Gavin Newsom as a governor – and an even worse hand at foreign policy. Now, however, the California governor seems to have an answer ready. In short, he suggests it’s not his fault that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Newsom’s latest revelation had been brewing for months, but it burst onto the world stage at the Munich Security Conference, where he told an audience – some of whom reportedly gasped – that the National Guard, federal immigration agents, and American law enforcement were akin to the Nazis in Germany. Oh, yes, he did. |
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| Possible Terrorist Attack at Power
Station Fails as NY Man Takes Himself Out A New York man carrying multiple firearms drove his rental car through a secured gate at a Nevada power facility Thursday before taking his own life, authorities said. The vehicle came to rest against large industrial wire reels inside the secured area. The driver was dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities identified the suspect as Dawson Maloney, 23, of Albany, Fox News reported. Officers found him wearing soft body armor and gripping a shotgun. |
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| More States Moving to Close Election Funding LOOPHOLE Few Voters Knew Existed As many as two dozen states could enact legislation this year to ban foreign funding of ballot measures, a trend that gained bipartisan support last year. This follows nine states that have already enacted bans in the last 18 months. While it’s already illegal for foreign nationals or foreign entities to contribute to candidates, ballot initiatives have been a longstanding loophole. |
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| “El Mencho”, Head of Cartel Trump
Designated As Terrorists, Reportedly Killed in Mexico The Mexican military reportedly killed the leader of one of the Western Hemisphere’s most dangerous drug trafficking organizations during a Sunday operation, setting off violent retaliation across multiple states. The federal forces killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), The Associated Press reported. A federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed the death occurred during a military operation in Jalisco. |
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| Yes, Leftists are 'Evil.' Here’s
How They Got That Way – and Why You’ll Never Change Them Selwyn Duke “They are programmed…,” Soviet defector and ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago about the ideologues we call “leftists.” “You cannot change their mind…. You are stuck with them.” It’s common for people to say today when contrasting our two major ideological groups, “Conservatives think leftists are misguided; leftists think conservatives are evil.” I, though, am different. I know leftists are evil. |
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| NC College Fires Instructor Who Was
Running for Office After Rant on Charlie Kirk, Trump A North Carolina college professor and state House candidate was fired from his job after being recorded calling Charlie Kirk a "racist piece of s---" last week. Chris Schulte had taught psychology at Coastal Carolina Community College since 2008, but he was fired on Thursday after a student recorded audio of a rant in which he disparaged both Kirk and Turning Point USA. "Did he deserve to die? No. But he was a racist piece of s---. And Turning Point USA is a racist piece of s--- organization," Schulte could be heard saying in an audio recording. |
One of many academics celebrating the TPUSA founder's death last year. |
| Don't Misgender That Murderer Jim Treacher Another day, another trans shooter. But this one might be the craziest one so far. This man was named Robert Dorgan: A transvestite with Nazi tattoos? Well, it takes all kinds to make up a world. And this is what Mr. Dorgan did. Providence (RI) Journal: "Police have identified the suspect who killed two and critically injured three others in a Feb. 16 shooting at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena [ice rink], before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves confirmed that the shooting was targeted and appeared to be a family dispute. The shooter was identified as Robert Dorgan, who also went by the name Roberta Esposito." Trans Shooters: The Patterns Are Well Established Eric Florack Here we go again, I note this morning with a sad shake of the head. Our Catherine Salgado’s piece on the Rhode Island hockey game shooter reports that he identifies as “transgender." "The lesson that comes from encouraging mentally ill people to indulge their insanity and to express violent hatred against those who do not affirm their illness is written in the blood of children killed at the high school hockey game." Catherine correctly asks, and I'll quote her because I can't do better than she does here, "How many transgender shooters does it take to stop leftists from lauding the delusion that one can change one’s biological sex and demand everyone agree?" I would only add it's time to treat the mental illness like we used to and not play into and reinforce the delusions. We're costing lives playing this game. It needs to stop. And perhaps we should be looking at treating transgenderism itself as a mental illness, again. The indicators are clearly there. |
"The rise in transgender
killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding." —Karol Markowicz |
| Rhode Island Trans Shooter's Son,
37, Jailed for Torching Black Church a Year Before Dad's Deadly Hockey Rampage The troubled, racist son of trans Nazi-loving Rhode Island killer Robert Dorgan was jailed last year for setting a series of fires at a predominantly black church, according to a report. Kevin Colantonio, one of six children Dorgan had with three different women, is serving a nearly seven-year sentence in a Texas federal prison for using gasoline and a lighter to spark five fires outside Shiloh Gospel Temple Ministries in North Providence in February 2024, WPRI reported. The church – which the deranged arsonist labeled as a place of worship for “Atheist God mockers” in a text to his family after the blaze – serves a mostly black congregation of 100 and was empty when the flames erupted. |
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| Trans Lawmaker Wants You to Believe
Porn Sites Are ‘Educational’ for ‘Queer Kids’ Harold Hutchison Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke claimed during a Thursday hearing that pornography could be “educational” for “queer” children while arguing against a law requiring age verification to access adult web sites. The legislation HF 1434, would require age verification for sites deemed “harmful to minors,” with sites failing to do so being subject to civil action from the state attorney general and private citizens. Finke, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, claimed current sex education was not being provided for LGBT youth. |
What the heck is wrong with Minnesota!! |
| KY Gov Andy Beshear Blasted for
Citing the Bible to Defend Transgender Treatments for Kids Potential 2028 contender Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was accused of twisting Scripture on Monday after he used the Bible to defend his veto of legislation banning gender transition medical treatments for children. “These days, it’s hard to be astounded by something absolutely ridiculous, or worse, coming from an officeholder when it comes to political office,” Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, said in a video message posted to X and first picked up by The Christian Post. “And frankly, if you’re coming up with a catalog of stupid things said on programs like ABC’s ‘The View,’ you’d better get ready for a very long list,” Mohler continued to say in his response. “But I don’t care how long your list is, this one’s going to rank at the top of stupid.” |
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| Blue State Judges Appoint New U.S.
Attorney, Who Is Promptly Fired by DOJ A federal court in Virginia attempted to appoint its own U.S. attorney this week, only to see the Justice Department shut the appointment down Friday. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) appointed veteran litigator James Hundley as interim U.S. Attorney. The move drew an immediate response from Trump administration officials, who made clear the executive branch – and not federal judges – controls U.S. attorney appointments. |
What the heck is wrong with Virginia!! |
| California Middle School Assistant
Principal Nabbed in Child Sex Sting  The
San José Police Department announced that a task force arrested nearly
a dozen people last week for seeking sex with a minor, including one
individual who was an assistant principal at a local school. “Between
February 3 and February 6, 2026, the San José Police Department
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested 11
individuals for communicating with… the intent to have sex with a
minor,” the police department said. Ruben Guzman, who was working as an
assistant principal at Sunrise Middle School, is one of the individuals
who was arrested. |
Another advertisement for home schooling |
| Scott
Jennings Can't Get Congressional Candidate to Say He Would
Deport
a Single Illegal Alien [in Spite of His Diarrhea of the Mouth] Democratic congressional candidate, Justin Pearson, wouldn’t support deporting a single illegal alien when pressed by Scott Jennings during a Friday segment on CNN. Pearson, the current Democrat representing Tennessee’s 86th District in the State House of Representatives, spoke on a CNN panel about the need to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). [Watch the show clip, <2 min.] |
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| Black Professor Claims He Was
Victim of Racist Attack, Police Say That's Not What Happened A Virginia Tech sociology professor, Dr. Onwubiko Agozino, alleged white teenagers targeted him in a racist attack, but police found the juveniles were simply clearing snow from their truck. Investigators determined the juveniles had attended a gathering nearby. Two struggled to clear frozen debris from their truck bed because of the slope where the vehicle sat. The group then stopped where the road leveled out, and one pushed the remaining ice from the truck before they drove off. |
Real racism attacks are so seldom lefties have to make some up. |
| AOC Condemns Spain for Stealing Mexico’s Language  In
a bold declaration against colonial imperialism, U.S. Congresswoman
Alexandro Ocasio-Cortez spoke out this week to condemn Spain for
stealing Mexico's language. According to AOC, Spain is a racist, dirty,
white colonialist old power and should repatriate the Spanish language
back to Mexico, where she said it originated. |
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Week ending 15 February 2026 |
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| Climate Alarm on the Run I & I Editorial Board It’s not sad in the least that the Washington Post has cut its climate “reporting” team down to five lonely reporters. It is, in fact, encouraging that maybe we’re seeing the winding down of decades of political and scientific villainy disguised as concern for our planet. Give us more, please. Not four years ago, the Washington Post announced it was “pleased to introduce” an “expansion of Climate coverage.” (Yes, Climate is so important to the Post that the “c” must be capitalized.) Readers were assured the newspaper was “a major investment that is commensurate with the story of climate (but no upper case here – why not?) change and its profound impact on humanity and the planet.” |
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| Democrats Oppose SAVE
Act Because They Cannot Win Without Millions of Illegal Votes Rod Thomson The SAVE Act, which requires people to prove they are American citizens to cast a ballot in federal elections, is popular across all American demographics. Even 71 percent of Democrats support voter ID in recent Pew polling. And yet almost every Democrat in the House voted against it, and Democrats are holding together to filibuster a vote on it in the Senate. In the end, there are only nefarious reasons why Democratic politicians and their rabid, well-organized army of street hooligans oppose it. They want to cheat. |
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| Trump Declares That Voter ID Will
Be Required to Vote in the Midterm Elections President Donald Trump declared Friday that voters will need to present identification to vote in the midterm elections this November, even if legislation does not get through Congress in time. Trump said in a social media that he has "searched the depths of legal arguments" on voter identification and will be presenting an "irrefutable" argument in favor of requiring it in the "near future." "There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not," he said. |
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| Karoline Leavitt Lights Up
Hypocrite Obama for Spreading Panic About Voter ID Democrats are frantic to prevent the SAVE Act from passing, which it will do unless the usual handful of RINOs in the Senate refuse to do the right thing, and they have deployed the party’s biggest gun to whip up panic and urge its followers to pressure senators to vote against it. But while Obama may be a big gun, he’s an even bigger hypocrite, and President Donald J. Trump’s top spox called him out on Thursday. “You know how badly the Democrats are panicking when they bring out Obama to spread lies about voter ID. The fact is that nearly 90% of voters support: Requiring government-issued photo ID to vote.” |
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| Rep Tim Burchett Spotlights Absurd
Irony of Dems Using Their Photo ID to Vote Against the SAVE Act Democrat politicians claim that requiring voter ID is akin to advancing an “extremist, white supremacist agenda,” never mind that 71% of their base supports the idea – according to Pew Research Center, 83% of Americans favor requiring voters to show ID to vote, including 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats. The Republican-led House passed the SAVE America Act this week, which would require proof-of-citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections, and would also require voters to show photo identification when voting and when requesting a mail-in ballot. |
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| Climate and Energy Experts Praise Trump’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Climate and energy experts have praised President Donald Trump’s recent elimination of former President Barack Obama’s Endangerment Finding, with several noting the freedom the action will bring to the auto industry and others stating this is only a beginning step. American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac told The Center Square that repealing the Endangerment Finding “for mobile sources is a necessary first step toward correcting course, restoring the Clean Air Act to its proper role, and putting reliable, affordable energy back at the center of federal policy." |
Obama said that under his energy policies, electricity prices would ‘necessarily skyrocket’ |
| Latest Jobs Report Explains Why
Dems Hate Trump So Much Issues & Insights The latest jobs report had good news for the country, but terrible news for the party of Big Government. In January, the economy added 172,000 private sector jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which was better than economists had expected (which seems to be a running theme in the Trump administration). And the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3%. So, what’s the bad news for Democrats? The number of federal government jobs shrank by 32,000. Main Street Economy Catches Fire with January Jobs Report As Expert Credits Trump's Tax Certainty Washington skeptics were quieted Wednesday morning as the January jobs report beat expectations, revealing a resilient American workforce that added 130,000 jobs to start the year. While experts predicted a winter chill for hiring, the 4.3% unemployment rate tells a different story – one of a Main Street economy – showing renewed strength. According to Patrice Onwuka of the Independent Women’s Center for Economic Opportunity, this isn’t just a lucky break; it’s the direct result of "one big, beautiful bill" giving businesses the tax certainty they need to build, hire and grow. |
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| Federal Data Shows $1B+ in Foreign
Funding to Michigan’s Top Universities More than $1 billion in foreign funding has flowed to the University of Michigan and Michigan State University over the past decade, according to newly-released federal disclosure data. The reports, released this week by the U.S. Department of Education, include updated 2025 disclosures from 555 American colleges and universities. The release is part of a broader transparency push by the Trump administration aimed at strengthening oversight of foreign financial ties in higher education. |
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| DNA Found on Glove Located Near
Nancy Guthrie's Home – and May Be from Armed Suspect Seen on Her Doorbell Cam The FBI has collected DNA from a glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s house, which may have come from the armed suspect seen at the 84-year-old’s door the night she disappeared. The bombshell revelation means that investigators could finally have DNA evidence from the primary suspect in the Feb. 1 abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mom, law enforcement sources told The Post. |
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| Key Political Voice in Georgia
Urges State to Take Over Fulton County Elections After FBI Raid Georgia state Sen. Greg Dolezal, a leading voice on election integrity and a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is urging the state government to temporarily take over vote counting in Fulton County in the aftermath of an FBI raid that seized 2020 election ballots. "We passed a law in 2021 that set the triggers in place for the state election board to take over the elections for a temporary period of time if a county proves they're incapable of following Georgia law. And if there's ever a county that's proven it, it's Fulton County," Dolezal told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Friday. |
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| Far-left Activists Radicalizing
High School Kids to Take on ICE As Young Suspects in Agent Attack Pictured  Far-left activists are radicalizing high school students to take on ICE as cops hunt two youngsters who attacked a federal officer, the California Post can reveal. ‘Dare To Struggle SoCal’ is urging children to skip class and “rebel against” agents across major West Coast cities. It comes a day after an ICE worker was hit by a rock and rushed to hospital when officers faced off against up to 500 teenagers outside Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center. |
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| Teachers Union Proposes Training,
Rewarding Students for 'Community Self-Defense' Against ICE: Leak When the Supreme Court overturned a 41-year-old precedent that allowed public sector unions to compel non-members to pay so-called agency fees for collective bargaining, it said such arrangements violate the First Amendment right against compelled speech. Planning documents and materials from United Teachers of Los Angeles, obtained by parental rights group Defending Education, suggest UTLA sought to hijack taxpayer-funded Los Angeles Unified School District resources and professional development obligations to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, perhaps by force. |
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| Texas Public Schools Under
Investigation for Supporting Student Walkouts, ICE Protests Several Texas public schools are under state investigation for supporting thousands of student walkouts to protest federal immigration enforcement. Many have either been taken over by the state or have planned school closures. Gov. Greg Abbott has called for schools that facilitate protests to be stripped of state funding. |
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| Can U.S. Grid Handle Next Winter
Storm "Fern" – Or Major Solar Flares? Paul Driessen Winter Storm Fern (January 23-27) dumped heavy snow and ice on more than 240,000,000 Americans across 40 states and 2,300 miles, beginning in Arizona and wrapping up in Maine. Scores died, including 20 in New York City, where Mayor Mamdani refused to close homeless camps or compel “unhoused residents” to move indoors, instead letting them rely on the “warmth of collectivism.” ... The real question: Will we learn lessons from Fern and heed warnings about the U.S. grid and too-heavy reliance on wind, solar, battery and related (heavily Chinese) technologies in time for the next Big One? |
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| Evacuation Warning for Palisades
and Eaton Fire Areas Ahead of Winter Storm Los Angeles officials issued evacuation warnings to those living in the Palisades and Eaton Fire burn scar areas ahead of the upcoming winter storm expected to bring heavy rainfall. A bulletin from the Los Angeles Fire Department on Saturday was sent out that warned of the extreme danger from possible debris flow and mudslides for those who live in several areas that were affected by the recent devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. The intense wildfires burn through vegetation and layers of soil allowing for dangerous mudflows. |
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| Penn State Forces Faculty to Become
DEI Zealots to Get Promoted, Wine Scientist's Lawsuit Says Want a promotion in a Pennsylvania State University agricultural program? Be prepared to wax poetic on going above and beyond to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). That's the narrative in a First and 14th Amendment lawsuit by a wine-science educator against Penn State Extension, which "empowers farmers, agribusinesses, youth, and communities with science-based education and innovative solutions to advance agriculture." It's at least the second ongoing case against Penn State by a professor related to DEI. |
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| AG Pam Bondi Lists 300 Bigwigs
Named in Epstein files – Including Trump, Obamas, Clintons and Kamala Harris Attorney General Pam Bondi released a list of 300 politicians and prominent people who were named in the Epstein files, as she told Congress that all of the docs that the Department of Justice was required to reveal have been made public. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Bondi noted that privileged material is still being withheld as she outlined the list of government officials and “politically exposed” individuals who appeared in the files in a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. |
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| Red Defection: CIA Deploys New
Video Seeking to Lure Chinese Soldiers to U.S. Amidst PLA Turmoil The CIA deployed a new recruitment video in the Mandarin language, hoping to lure Chinese soldiers to defect amidst significant turmoil inside the People’s Liberation Army where two generals have been removed by President Xi Jinping. The new video, entitled "The Reason for Stepping Forward: To Save the Future," follows a series of videos dating to late 2024 that the Agency said have been successful in encouraging some Chinese to defect or cooperate with the United States. The new video "illustrates the real gulf between the Chinese elites who want what is best for their banks and the Chinese citizens who want what's best for their country," the official said. |
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| Canada's MAiD Program Is About to
Get Even More Horrifying Amy Curtis Canada introduced its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program under the guise of letting terminally ill patients end their lives without pain and suffering. It was painted as humanitarian and compassionate. Many of us, this writer included, saw MAiD for what it was: a government-run euthanasia program. In the decade since its inception, MAiD has gone from helping the terminally ill to ending the lives of veterans, the poor, and the mentally ill. It's even being promoted to teens, and one Canadian MP said the program "enhances freedom." Canada’s medical assistance in dying program, (MAID) already one of the world’s most permissive euthanasia regimes, may soon extend to disabled newborns. That possibility is reigniting horror among pro-life advocates who warn of a slippery slope toward eugenics. |
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| Moderna Threatens American Jobs
After FDA Snubs mRNA Flu Shot, Trial Looked 'scientifically lax' For years before he became director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, epidemiologist Vinay Prasad openly railed against what he perceived as the shoddy design of drug trials and the deference regulators gave them, sending biotech stocks tumbling when Commissioner Marty Makary appointed him. A vaccine maker that hit the federal jackpot during COVID-19 acted caught off-guard when the former University of California San Francisco medical professor put his gripes into practice, halting its FDA application for a new mRNA flu vaccine based on what he considered weak trial design. |
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| Doctors Continue to Warn About Big
Pharma's Influence on Medical Journals, Publish Alternative Sharyl Attkisson The world's most prestigious medical journals have for centuries been trusted as the gold standard for scientific research. But many doctors who rely on them likely don’t know a shocking truth: much of the information is slanted or untrue. “There is no question that [medical] journals have been taken hostage by Big Pharma,” Varon tells "Full Measure." “We recognized that all these journals were being kidnapped. ... I had the idea that we needed an independent journal that would allow independent practitioners, independent key opinion leaders to write papers that were clean – were bias free.” |
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| Puerto Rico Enacts Law Defining
Unborn Children As Human Beings Puerto Rico’s governor has approved a highly debated change to the island’s criminal code that formally recognizes a fetus as a human being, a decision that critics say could have sweeping effects on health care and civil rights in the U.S. territory. On Thursday, Gov. Jenniffer González signed Senate Bill 923, an amendment to the territory’s Penal Code that alters the legal definition of a “human being” to include an unborn child at any stage of gestation. The change was adopted without public hearings, drawing criticism from medical professionals and legal experts. |
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| A Cup (or 2 or 3) of Coffee or Tea
a Day Helps Keep Dementia Away Lindsey Leake Coffee and tea lovers, rejoice; decaf fans, rethink. Those cups of caffeine could lower your dementia risk, new research suggests. In a long-term, observational study of nearly 132,000 healthy adults, daily consumption of two to three cups of caffeinated coffee or one to two cups of tea was associated with lowering dementia risk, slowing cognitive decline and preserving cognitive function. The findings were published Monday in the Journal of the AMA. “We are not recommending that people who don’t drink coffee start drinking,” said the study lead author. “We are just seeing that for people who already drink coffee, the results are really reassuring.” Decaffeinated coffee didn’t yield the same neuroprotective benefits.  |
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| Americans Are on the Verge of
'sextinction' As Shocking Numbers Are Going Without Sex – and Social
Media Are Partly to Blame Rikki Schlott People are experiencing extended periods of sexlessness. In the US, a staggering 1 in 3 men and 1 in 5 women have not had sex in the past year, according to the General Social Survey. Testosterone levels are plummeting. Loneliness is at record highs. Like so many problems, social media are at least partly to blame. “The idealization of impossibly high standards has coaxed men into believing that social media influencers with millions of followers may one day show interest in them. It has persuaded women to give the time of day only to men who are over six feet tall and astronomically wealthy,” sex neuroscientist Dr. Debra Soh writes in a new book out Tuesday. |
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| UCCS Wellness Office Promotes ‘Sex Week’ Events with Student Fees Jessica Ogrin University of Colorado Colorado Springs is set to host a three-day “Sex Week” from Feb. 17–19, a university-promoted series of events organized through campus wellness offices and billed as part of UCCS’s official student programming. The event lineup includes activities such as Cake Pops and Condoms, Sex Week Trivia Night, and Sex in the Dark. University materials promote the programming under the umbrella of student well-being rather than as an initiative organized by an independent student group. |
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| How the Dow Jones
All-Time High Compares to Stock Market Leaps Throughout History Jim Sergent The Dow Jones industrial average finished above 40,000 for the first time on Friday afternoon, doubling where the index hit shortly after Donald Trump became the 45th president. The Dow flirted with this latest milestone in April. But the historic peak was delayed by strong economic news, an upturn in March inflation data and statements from Fed officials suggesting interest-rate cuts wouldn't be coming soon... These big, round numbers don't mean much, but they do serve as a reminder that over time stock investments can pay off. The S&P 500 has returned about 10.6% annually for the past 100 years, according to analysis from Trade That Swing. |
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| America Is the Sole
Superpower Again. Here's How Trump Surprised the World Arthur Herman There’s one superpower that dominates the planet again, and it’s the United States. In just one year in office, President Donald Trump has catapulted the U.S. from a country that seemed on the brink of inevitable decline, into the American colossus that’s put the other great powers – especially China and Russia – in the shade, and now determines the tempo and direction of world events. What happened in Davos should set aside any doubts. In 24 hours, President Trump turned worldwide panic about possible U.S. military intervention in Greenland into worldwide relief with a framework for peacefully securing the giant island for generations to come. |
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| Huge Energy Company Announces $1B
U.S. Manufacturing Investment, Creating 1,500 Jobs Across Six States Noah Stanton  America’s
power grid is straining under pressure it was never designed to handle.
The artificial intelligence revolution has sent electricity demand
soaring, with government reports warning that data centers alone could
devour 12% of the nation’s power within two years. That’s nearly triple
what they consumed in 2024. So while cable news pundits debate
temperament, someone decided to actually do something about the
problem. Siemens Energy, the German-headquartered company responsible
for roughly one-quarter of America’s power generation technology, just
announced a $1 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing. The commitment
will create 1,500 highly skilled jobs across nine facilities in six
states: Mississippi, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, New York, and
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| Court Backs Trump Policy on Illegal
Immigrant Detention Wyatt Porter A federal appeals court ruled the government can keep illegal immigrants in detention without a bond hearing. This means authorities don’t have to let most illegal immigrants out while they wait for their case. Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated, calling it a big victory for American safety and law and order. “The Fifth Circuit just held illegal aliens can rightfully be detained without bond – a significant blow against activist judges who have been undermining our efforts to make America safe again at every turn,” She wrote. |
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| Watchdog Releases Scathing Report
on Tlaib's Alleged Ties to Terrorist Groups, Warning of 'Potential Risks' A comprehensive new briefing document from a prominent nonpartisan research and policy group is sounding the alarm on "serious ethical and national security concerns" related to Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib and her affiliations with individuals and organizations linked to designated foreign terrorist entities. "The conduct of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, including her rhetoric, affiliations, campaign infrastructure, and ideological alignment with certain individuals and organizations, raises serious concerns about potential risks to the ethical and institutional integrity of the United States government," the report, released by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy’s advocacy and policy-oriented arm, states. |
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| How Did Democrats Get So Stupid? Derek Hunter There are some people who should be grateful that breathing is a reflex, because had it required any mental abilities whatsoever, they surely would have suffocated on the streets, having forgotten to do it. These people should be pitied, but Democrats hold them up as aspirational figures. I get why they do it. Democrats have very little to actually be proud of; what is disturbing, however, is that there are so many people even more dumb who fall for it. That there are so many people in this country who are so wildly ignorant enough to follow the political left over the cliff is not a shock; the public schools in Democrat-controlled cities have essentially been “ignorant factories” for decades. |
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| Iran Warns It Would Strike U.S. Military Bases in Middle East If Attacked Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said on Saturday that Tehran would respond to any U.S. military attack by targeting American bases stationed across the Middle East. He made the remarks in an interview with Qatari television amid sharply rising tensions between Washington and Tehran. |
Thousands attend 'Free Iran' rally in Berlin |
| What’s Going on with That Secret Biolab in Las Vegas Connected to China Jim Geraghty The Las Vegas Police Department issued a statement Monday announcing that its “ARMOR” team had assisted the FBI is collecting more than a thousand pieces of evidence from a residence on Sugar Springs Drive in Northeast Las Vegas. The “ARMOR” team – “All-Hazard Regional Multi-agency Operations and Response” – specializes in the “detection, response, mitigation and investigation of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive incidents.” House Intel Chairman Warns China May Be Setting Up Illicit Biolabs in U.S. to Seed Next Pandemic Nicholas Ballasy House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., is warning that illicit biolabs on U.S. soil that the FBI says are linked to Chinese nationals could represent a serious national security threat, and may be an effort by Beijing to infect a "patient zero" for the next pandemic. Speaking during an interview Friday on the Just the News Not Noise television program, Crawford pointed to labs raided by authorities in California in 2023 and Nevada a week ago, raising questions about the intent, oversight failures, and the potential risks posed by foreign actors. One of the labs was located in a vacation rental home near Las Vegas, a major metropolitan center frequented by vacationers. |
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| Schweizer: China Exploiting
Birthright Citizenship Laws Around the World John Binder Among other revelations in "The Invisible Coup", Schweizer said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively involved in encouraging its nationals to gain American citizenship through America’s birthright citizenship policy that allows the U.S.-born children of foreign nationals to secure such citizenship even as their parents have no ties to the U.S. “This is encouraged by the Chinese government; they started running articles in the People’s Daily, which is the main newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, saying ‘you can do this, you have a constitutional right,'” Schweizer said. |
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| U.S., Argentina Strike Sweeping
Trade Deal Cutting Tariffs, Opening Markets to U.S. Exports Argentina and the United States have signed a reciprocal trade and investment agreement that will give U.S. exports preferential market access, reduce tariffs on a wide range of goods and deepen cooperation on economic and national security issues, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) office and President Javier Milei. The agreement, signed Thursday, is designed to cut or eliminate tariff and non-tariff barriers, facilitate trade in goods and services, modernize customs procedures and promote investment in strategic sectors including energy, critical minerals, infrastructure and technology, according to Argentina’s Office of the President. |
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| UN Scrambles for Cash After Trump
Cuts Wyatt Porter The United Nations says it’s nearly out of money, pointing the finger at unpaid dues and big cuts from America. U.N. leaders warn many programs could shut down without more cash from members. “We are currently in survival mode, delivering under strain,” said U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk during a speech in Geneva. President Trump slashed U.S. payments to the U.N., calling out waste and bias, while demanding that other countries step up. America led 193 countries to reduce U.N. spending by $570 million and cut almost 3,000 staff jobs. |
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| RFK Jr. Announces $100 Million
Federal Program to Combat Homelessness and Addiction in Eight Cities For decades, America’s approach to addiction and homelessness resembled nothing so much as pouring water into a bucket with no bottom. Billions of federal dollars flowed through bureaucratic pipelines while tent cities sprouted like weeds in our great cities, and overdose deaths climbed year after year. The so-called experts assured us that more funding, more programs, and more compassion would turn the tide. Spoiler alert: it never did. |
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| Arctic Blast Fuels Scrutiny of
Biden’s $8B Electric Bus Push As Watchdogs Cite Oversight Failures The Arctic blast that snowed in much of the East exposed not only the need for road salt but the possibility that untold taxpayer dollars were wasted on risky electric bus subsidy programs under the Biden administration, according to critics of those initiatives. That’s the claim from Power the Future, a top energy advocacy and watchdog group that also compared the disbursement of more than $8 billion over at least two related federal subsidy programs to oversight failures by the Minnesota government involving its Medicaid and childcare entitlement crises recently exposed... "Taken together, these outcomes raise the same red flags now familiar from the Minnesota daycare fraud scandal: large federal payouts with minimal verification, poor oversight and taxpayers left holding the bill." |
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| Two-Week ICE Op Nabs Hundreds of
Illegals Without Incident – Because State and Local Officials Cooperated. In a successful two-week immigration enforcement effort in West Virginia from January 5 to January 19, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers worked alongside 14 federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to arrest more than 650 migrants who were in the country illegally. The operation spanned several cities, such as Charleston, Martinsburg, Beckley, Moorefield, Morgantown, and Huntington, and prioritized migrants who posed a risk to public safety and national security. |
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| New York Released Almost 7,000
Criminal Illegal Aliens Catherine Salgado New York released almost 7,000 criminal illegal aliens last year as a result of sanctuary policies, rewarding killers, rapists, robbers, and burglars while defying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Feb. 2, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a press release about the arrest of Gerardo Miguel-Mora, a criminal illegal alien with an extremely lengthy rap sheet for strangulation, rape, grand larceny, burglary, sexual assault, and drug possession. New York City released Miguel-Mora because city officials refuse to honor ICE detainers, so ICE had to re-arrest him on Jan. 30 of this year. |
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| Semi-truck Driver Held on ICE
Detainer After 4 Killed in Head-On Crash "Not only was Bekzhan Beishekeev released into our country by the Biden administration using the CBP One app, but he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania. These decisions have had deadly consequences and led to the death of four innocent people in Indiana on Tuesday," added DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement. "It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America’s roads. These sanctuary governors must stop giving illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses before another American gets killed." |
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| Smirking Georgia Teen Killer
Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murdering Boy, 14, Outside Football Game A Georgia teen, who smirked as he was arrested for murdering a 14-year-old outside a heated high school football showdown, was sentenced to life behind bars more than two years after the slaying. Kaomarion Kendrick was found guilty of felony murder and three RICO counts last week in connection with the September 2023 shooting of Emmanuel Dorsey outside Griffin Memorial Stadium at Griffin High School, WSBTV reported... Police found Kendrick armed with a Glock modified with a full-auto switch that turned it into a rapid-fire weapon, at the time of his arrest, according to 11 Alive. |
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| Feds Have Charged 158 Anti-ICE
Agitators with Federal Crimes in Minnesota; More Expected in Days to
Come Since the start of the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota, federal prosecutors have reportedly charged 158 anti-ICE agitators with federal crimes, including “FACE Act violations, conspiracy charges, and obstruction of federal agents.” Some of the offenses carry penalties of up to 20 years in prison. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced last week that she “expect more arrests to come” as the Justice Department is poised to crack down on similar anti-ICE insurgencies nationwide. |
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Anti-ICE Applause: Jackson's
Disqualifying Moment One
thing we should never see is judges high-fiving criminals at parties;
they enforce the law, not celebrate those who mock it. Neutrality
demands distance from chaos, especially when robes hang in the closet.
Attending events that trash law enforcement turns impartiality into a
punchline. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) urged Chief Justice John
Roberts to investigate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Blackburn pointed to Jackson's attendance at the Grammy Awards on Jan.
29 in Los Angeles. During speeches filled with anti-ICE
rhetoric,
Jackson clapped along with attendees who also wore "ICE Out" pins,
while speakers shouted "F*** ICE" and "No one is illegal on stolen land." |
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| Outrage As ex-UCLA Doctor
Imprisoned for Sexually Abusing Patients Has Conviction Overturned
Because Juror Barely Spoke English Patrick Reilly Say what? An appeals court overturned the conviction of a disgraced former UCLA gynecologist serving 11 years in prison for sexually abusing patients, after determining the trial judge failed to disclose that jurors had concerns that one of their own barely spoke English. James Heaps, 69, will be retried on the charges involving the two patients he was convicted of abusing in 2022, a three-judge panel of the California 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered on Monday, the Los Angeles Times reported. |
Juror #15 Could barely understand trail testimony |
| Regulators Expand Probe Into Nearly
1.3M Ford F-150 Pickup Trucks Over Transmission Issues The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had received reports from drivers that the trucks faced an unexpected transmission downshift that came without warning or driver input. The auto regulator said drivers reported that the issue was often accompanied by a temporary rear-wheel lockup or skidding that increases the risk of a crash. The probe covers model years 2015-2017 F-150 trucks equipped with "6R80" transmissions. The F-150 is the perennial best-selling pickup truck in the U.S. |
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| Florida's Rare Freeze Gives
Residents and Visitors Green Light to Collect Stunned Invasive Iguanas  Florida's
rare extreme freeze is providing a "unique opportunity" for citizens or
visitors to help remove a pesky invader from the Sunshine State, its
wildlife agency said. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission (FWC) issued an executive order Friday allowing people"to
remove live, cold-stunned green iguanas from the wild without a
permit." Under the provisions of the order, anyone can bring the
cold-stunned iguanas to five designated FWC offices on Sunday and
Monday, "no permit required, to be humanely killed or, in some cases,
transferred to permittees for live animal sales." |
"no permit required to be humanely killed" |
| ‘Stolen land’ Grammys Rant Explodes
In Billie Eilish’s Face As Critics Demand She Hand Over Her Luxury Homes Patrick Reilly Lefty pop star Billie Eilish is facing calls to hand over her ritzy Los Angeles digs to a Native American tribe or illegal immigrant after she declared “No one is illegal on stolen land” at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. The “Wildflower” singer, 24, is being accused of virtue signaling for the anti-ICE remarks she made while accepting the award for Song of the Year on Sunday night... “The woman is a blithering idiot. Of course, if she really means it, then she’ll happily hand over her multi-million pound Malibu beachfront home to illegal migrants,” wrote British journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer on X. “Which she won’t, because it’s all just silly celeb posturing.” |
Billie Eilish faces calls to return her $3M mansion to native tribe |
| 18 Percent of Fed-Funded Home
Health Care Is in Los Angeles County, and Fraud Is Rampant Catherine Salgado Los Angeles County accounts for almost a fifth of all home healthcare billed to the federal government in the United States, and the Trump administration is crying fraud. Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz, told the press, "You've got hospice that's grown seven-fold in the last five years. They represent about three and a half billion dollars of fraud, we believe, just in L.A. County." Just think of that cost to U.S. taxpayers from only one county in California. |
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| Newborn Calf Struggling in Deep
Freeze Brought Indoors to Curl Up on Couch A Kentucky family battling extreme cold temperatures on their farm over the weekend opened their home to a newborn calf that was struggling in the deep freeze. Hours later, the calf, fed and fluffed, took a spot on the couch with the Sorrell family’s two children. Their mom, Macey Sorrell, snapped some photos and later posted them to social media, and the cuteness did not go unnoticed. The calf was born outdoors in single digit temperatures on Saturday. |
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