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soon find their place in urban
life, they soon adopt, externally, town manners and opinions, but for a
long time they remain foreign to civic thought. One cannot make a
social philosophy one’s own as easily as a new costume. . . More
menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture,
but not
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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.  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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
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." |
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| ‘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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| Slouching Towards Fort
Sumter? Victor Davis Hanson In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union. Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable. Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see their stain of slavery gone from the Union. Similarly, others agreed that the emerging Confederacy was not worth the trouble and costs of war, and the secessionists could just form their own nation and stew in their own backward, servile juice. Something similar is emerging over Minnesota, the South Carolina of our age. |
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| Minnesota’s ‘vouching’
Disaster Proves America Needs SAVE Act Jason Snead Minnesota’s election system stands as one of the worst in the nation, and its “vouching” policy is a prime example of why confidence in election security remains fragile. A new Fox News investigation reveals just how risky the vouching system is. Under the state’s rules, one registered voter can “vouch” for up to eight others, meaning these unverified individuals can walk into a polling place on Election Day, register, and vote without ever proving identity, citizenship, or residency. That policy creates an open door for confusion, mistakes, and fraud. Scandalously, state officials have done nothing to fix it. After all, they see it as a feature rather than a bug. |
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| The Armada Has Arrived – Did the
U.S. Navy Just Go Dark for ‘Day One’ Strike on Iran? The Military Channel The world is holding its breath as the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) has officially gone “dark” in the Indian Ocean. While heading toward the Strait of Hormuz to confront a surging crisis in Iran, the 100,000-ton supercarrier disabled its AIS transponders, entering a tactical state known as “Ghost Mode” or EMCON. Why is the U.S. Navy taking such a drastic step now? In this investigation, we break down the strategic logic behind President Trump’s “Armada”. With Iran currently in the grip of violent internal unrest and the regime threatening a “whirlwind” response to U.S. pressure, the Lincoln isn’t just patrolling – it’s positioning for a potential “Day One” strike. We look at how this deployment follows the successful, surgical blueprint used just weeks ago in South America. |
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| Play Civil War Games, Win Civil War
Prizes: Trump Draws a Red Line for the Blue Cities Robert Spencer With Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, and other hard-leftists out there trying to conjure up the spirits of Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, President Donald Trump has just made it clear that he is not going to tolerate any more of this low-grade but escalating insurrection. “I have instructed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem,” Trump wrote on Saturday afternoon, “that under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for help.” This apparently means that Trump intends to deny the Democrats what they want most: Trump sending the National Guard to restore order in cities where leftist leaders are using the lack of order as a political weapon, and are salivating at the chance of being able to claim that they’re holding the line for “our democracy” against the fascist Trump and his jackbooted thugs. |
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| Trump: 'Scammer' Ilhan Omar Should
Be Jailed over MN's Billions in Fraud Amy Furr President Donald Trump had a fiery message for Minnesota’s Democrat leaders on Saturday, saying the fraud in Minnesota is bigger than initially projected. The president zeroed in on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) when he wrote in a Truth Social post, “The Theft and Fraud in Minnesota is far greater than the 19 Billion Dollars originally projected. The Biden Administration knew this FRAUD was happening, and did absolutely nothing about it. ‘Scammer’ Illhan Omar and her absolutely terrible friends from Somalia should all be in jail right now or, far worse, send them back to Somalia,” he continued. |
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| ICE Arrests Over 650 Illegal Aliens
Across West Virginia with State, Local Police Backing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested more than 650 illegal aliens across West Virginia during a two-week statewide operation conducted in coordination with local law enforcement agencies and without protests, federal officials announced. ICE said in a press release Sunday that the operation ran from Jan. 5 to Jan. 19 and involved 14 federal, state and local law enforcement partners. |
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| 2010 Obama Clip Goes Viral Where He
Defends Deportations, Even of Those ‘just trying to earn a living’ A clip of President Barack Obama in 2010 warning that halting deportations would trigger a surge in illegal immigration is going viral. The post, made on the social media platform X, fueled sharp divisions over ICE deportation raids launched since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. While some critics condemn the deportation of otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants, others are argue such "mass deportations" were not only Trump’s flagship promise, but also a norm among past Democratic administrations. |
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| Who’s Funding COPAL, a Group on the ‘Front Lines of Anti-ICE Operations’? Tyler O'Neil Protests over two immigration enforcement-involved shootings have highlighted the agitators organizing against federal agents on the ground in Minnesota, and the organization Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accíon Latina, or COPAL Education Fund, is a major player. COPAL describes itself as a group that works “to improve the quality of life of Latine families.” It also hosts a hotline for people to call when spotting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at work. The group also set up the Immigrant Defense Network, which trains “legal observers” to watch and report ICE. |
Tax dollars go to fund the group attacking ICE in Minnesota |
| Virginia Nurse Fired After Urging
Attacks on ICE Agents Malinda Cook, a Virginia nurse anesthetist was fired this week after posting a series of disturbing TikTok videos in which she encouraged protesters to assault Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with drugs and other harmful substances... "Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end," Cook said in one video circulating online. "Have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever," she continued, referencing a fast-acting anesthetic that can cause temporary paralysis. "Whatever. Virginia Legislators Demand Prosecution of Fired VCU Nurse Over Anti-ICE Posts "Firing her for what is basically calling for healthcare terrorism is sort of the easy thing, and I'm glad VCU did that, and I'm glad that they did it quickly," State Sen. Glen Sturtevant, R-Chesterfield, told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "Secondarily, we need to know what the law enforcement investigation is doing and how it's going to end, and I don't see how this woman does not get charged with something, whether it's state crime or whether or not [the] Department of Justice gets involved." "But she was, I mean, calling for poisoning federal law enforcement for political reasons, for just doing their job, which we can't abide by," Sturtevant said. |
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| Trump-Hating Hollywood Stunned As Melania Documentary Rakes in Millions  "Melania,"
the documentary detailing the 20 days in the first lady’s life before
President Donald Trump's second term in office, shocked the Hollywood
press with its surprise opening weekend. Reports indicated that
"Melania" posted the best opening weekend for a documentary in over a
decade, in stark contrast to its low critic score... "'Melania: Twenty
Days to History' is proving the haters and losers wrong. The Brett
Ratner-directed documentary chronicling three weeks in the life of the
incoming first lady has over-performed expectations," Rolling
Stone magazine reported on Sunday. |
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| Leavitt Unleashes On Republican
Senator for Holding the Country 'hostage' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., of holding America "hostage" for vowing to oppose President Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Reserve until the administration ends its probe of current Fed Chair Jerome Powell. "I certainly don't think a United States sitting senator should be holding the entire country and our economy hostage over the fact that he has some political disagreements with an investigation that the Department of Justice is overseeing," Leavitt said of Tillis on "Sunday Morning Futures." |
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| SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Disrupts
Russian Operations in Ukraine with Single Move Starlink units have supported Ukrainian forces throughout the invasion, but Russian forces have also captured many of the units as a result. Musk's company had been working to block Russian forces from utilizing the captured devices, and Ukrainian officials now say they are working to prevent Russian access long term. Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Kyiv was developing a system that would allow only authorized Starlink terminals to work on Ukrainian territory. |
Zelenskyy doubts "that Russia wants to end the war." |
| Iron Fist Active Protection System
for Armor Can Shoot Down Drones The War Zone  A recently released video highlights the Israeli Iron Fist active protection system’s ability to down incoming drones. This comes as the system’s popularity has been growing globally, including with multiple contracts to install them on U.S. Army Bradley Fighting Vehicles. TWZ has previously explored in detail how hard-kill active protection systems like Iron Fist could give tanks and other armored vehicles a critical layer of protection against ever-growing uncrewed aerial threats... As already mentioned, TWZ has previously detailed how hard-kill active protection systems, which are already being integrated on a growing number of tanks and other armored vehicles, could offer a valuable, if not essential, way to help further shield them against uncrewed aerial attacks. |
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| Panama Boots China from Panama
Canal in Another Victory for Trump’s Monroe Doctrine Revival Panama’s Supreme Court decision to boot a Chinese company from the strategic Panama Canal gives a boost to President Donald Trump’s effort to revive the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere aimed at reducing Chinese influence in Latin America. The ruling comes one year after President Trump zeroed in on Chinese influence in the country and the vital strategic waterway built by the U.S. more than a century ago. “China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China,” Trump said in his inauguration address. “We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.” |
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| Federal Judicial Manual Contains
Climate-Advocacy Materials Biasing Judges, Coalition of AGs Says A coalition of 27 Republican attorneys general is joining a growing chorus of criticism over climate activists providing one-sided material to judges that’s presented as an impartial scientific resource to train the judges in climate science. The coalition, which is led by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, is demanding that material dealing with climate science be removed from a manual that’s utilized by thousands of federal judges and published by a federal agency. The coalition members argue the material is ideologically biased in favor of plaintiffs suing energy companies over climate change. |
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| Welfare Reform Boost: More States Enforce New 80-Hour SNAP Rules Ward Clark The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has been in desperate need of reform for quite a while. While Democrat administrations (I'm looking at you, Barack Obama) have measured success by how many people are on these programs, during the Obama administration, the Department of Agriculture actually ran television and radio ads promoting SNAP – conservatives tend to measure success by how many people no longer need them. But incentives matter, too, and that's part of the ongoing rollout of SNAP reforms pushed by President Trump. Some of those reforms just went into effect on Sunday. |
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| Florida Driver’s License Exams:
English-Only Starts Feb. 6 News Service of Florida Driver’s license tests in Florida will be administered only in English starting Feb. 6, the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Friday. “This change applies to all driver license classifications, including exams administered orally,” said state officials in a news release. Currently, exams for most non-commercial driver classifications are offered in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. |
This should be implemented in all 50 states. |
| Team Canada Found to Have
Manipulated Competition That Cost American Shot at Milan Cortina Olympics An investigation by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has found that Team Canada manipulated the outcome of the North American Cup in Lake Placid, New York earlier this month. Canada's actions denied American Olympian Katie Uhlaender a chance to earn enough points to qualify for the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games. After Team Canada withdrew four athletes from the North America Cup, it reduced the amount of points the competition could award. The reduction made it mathematically impossible for Uhlaender to earn enough points to qualify. |
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| West Virginia Librarian Charged
with Recruiting People to Assassinate Trump  The
Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in West Virginia announced Sunday
evening that a librarian was under arrest after she posted videos
seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald
Trump.
Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count
of making a terroristic threat, the agency posted on its Facebook page.
The arrest was announced at 9:31 p.m. Eastern time, hours after Libs of
TikTok posted the videos on X earlier Sunday evening. The video, which
featured a caption saying, “Surely a sniper with a terminal illness
cannot be a big ask out of 343 million.” |
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| Letitia James Fires Lesbian Who
Warns That ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids Is Consumer Fraud Tyler O'Neil Some Democrats realize they have a problem with transgender orthodoxy, but not New York Attorney General Letitia James—she’s doubling down. Last week, she fired Glenna Goldis, the assistant attorney general at the Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau, apparently for the crime of expressing concern about the mutilation of children. Goldis announced her departure in a lengthy post on X. She claimed James fired her “for speaking out against pediatric gender medicine.” |
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| Why the Operation to
Capture Maduro Has Generated So Much Concern in Moscow and Beijing Rick Moran In the early morning hours of Jan. 3, "Operation Absolute Resolve," the mission to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, was already well underway. Several MH-47G Chinook helicopters from the Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), the legendary "Night Stalkers," flew into Caracas at barely 100 feet off the ground in a blacked-out city. The city was dark because U.S. Cyber Command flipped the switch and cut power to the entire grid. They also wreaked havoc on Venezuelan air defenses in a tour de force demonstration of the real capabilities of electronic warfare. |
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| FBI Issues Criminal
Subpoenas to MN Governor, Mayor and Attorney General Over Alleged ICE Obstruction Noah Stanton For weeks, Minnesota’s Democratic leadership has treated federal immigration law as a suggestion rather than a mandate. Like a teenager ignoring curfew, they seemed genuinely surprised when the consequences finally arrived. The North Star State has become ground zero for a bitter standoff between state officials and federal authorities. Protests have raged through Minneapolis streets, and anti-ICE demonstrators invaded a church service to harass a pastor they accused of working for immigration enforcement. |
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| U.S. Murder Rate Plunges to Lowest
Level Since 1900 The average reported homicide rate declined 21% in 35 major U.S. cities in 2025, marking the largest one-year drop of all time and likely the lowest level since 1900, according to data compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ). Meanwhile, 11 of 13 tracked offenses were lower in 2025 compared to in 2024, while nine of the offenses declined by 10% or more, according to the report. “President Trump campaigned on Making America Safe Again and he is delivering,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Thursday in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Whether it be deporting criminal illegal aliens, supporting law enforcement officers, or finally being tough on criminals, the Trump Administration has employed a whole-of-government approach to drive down crime and make communities safer.” |
“President Trump campaigned on Making America Safe Again and he is delivering” |
| Does the FACE Act Protect Churches? Tyler O'Neil After anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators invaded a church in the middle of a service, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison suggested that they were protected by the First Amendment and did not violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, commonly known as the FACE Act. “People have a right to lift up their voices and make their peace, and none of us are immune from the voice of the public,” Ellison told former CNN host Don Lemon when asked about the church invasion in an interview Monday. Lemon was present during the disruption and filmed the agitators in action. Ellison, the top law enforcement official in the state, went on to claim that it would be a “stretch” to prosecute the anti-ICE agitators under the FACE Act or the Ku Klux Klan Act. |
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| Trump Forces Media to Stare at
Mugshots of Illegal Criminals During Surprise Briefing Appearance  President Donald Trump held up mugshots of illegal alien criminals in a room full of reporters on Tuesday during his surprise visit to the White House briefing room. Trump held up the mugshots of the “worst of the worst” criminals who have been nabbed by ICE in Minnesota, who have committed crimes such as homicide and sexual crimes. The reporters were presented with these mugshots while anti-ICE sentiments in Minnesota continue to be widespread throughout the state. |
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| ICE Went Above and Beyond to
Comfort Abandoned 5-Year-Old After Mother Refused to Take Custody Catherine Salgado Democrats are having dramatic, hysterical meltdowns about a five-year-old whom they say Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested. The truth is, the child’s criminal father abandoned him, after which ICE officers went out of their way to comfort and help the child. It is difficult not to loathe the people who did not care a snap of their fingers about the 400,000 children either lost or placed with abusive sponsors by the Biden-Harris administration, but who are now self-righteously pretending to be disgusted that ICE had to take custody of a small child. Even Kamala Harris, under whose watch so many children were trafficked and exploited, got in on the smearing of ICE. |
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| Noem Announces 10K Illegal
Immigrant Arrests in Minnesota Homeland Security Secretary Krisit Noem announced on Monday that immigration officers have arrested more than 10,000 illegal immigrants in Minnesota. “PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS!” Noem exclaimed in a post to X. “We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals.” The figure includes about 3,000 “criminal illegal aliens” arrested by federal authorities in just the last six weeks, the secretary said. |
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| Arizona
AG Suggests Residents Could Shoot UnidentifiableMasked ICE
Agents
Under State's Self-Defense Laws: 'Recipe for disaster' Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents could open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws. The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers. A flabbergasted Resnik repeatedly challenged Mayes, cautioning that her remarks could be interpreted as a “license” to residents to shoot a federal agent. She retorted that she was merely stating a “fact,” not encouraging violence. |
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| Maryland Democrat’s Bill Seeks to
‘digitally unmask’ ICE Agents After Fatal Minneapolis Shooting A Maryland Democrat is pushing to strip anonymity from ICE agents accused of violent or unconstitutional misconduct, proposing a new "digital unmasking" process that he says would preserve identifying data, so victims can pursue accountability in court. The bill is being introduced by Maryland State Delegate David Moon, a Democrat and longtime Judiciary Committee leader, who says the measure is designed to ensure victims can identify federal agents accused of serious misconduct while limiting access to court-ordered civil rights or criminal cases. |
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| Top 5 Moments from Jack Smith's
Testimony on Capitol Hill Ashley Oliver Former special counsel Jack Smith testified during a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, where he faced searing criticism from Republicans and praise from Democrats over his two prosecutions of President Donald Trump. The hearing gave Smith, a career prosecutor of nearly three decades, a rare chance to speak publicly about his work. He defended his indictments against Trump related to the 2020 election and classified documents as by-the-book and apolitical.  |
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| Europe Fades As Latin America
Rises. Milei Is Leading the Way. Sarah Anderson One of the biggest takeaways from Davos this week was confirmation of something we already knew: Much of Europe is a shell of its former self. The continent's bureaucratic stagnation and cultural decline were on full display – even Emmanuel Macron's sunglasses couldn't hide it. Donald Trump pointed this out. "Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable. Here in Europe, we've seen the fate that the radical left tried to impose upon America," he said during his own speech. "Friends come back from different places and say, 'I don't recognize it.' And that's not in a positive way. That's in a very negative way. I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good, but it's not heading in the right direction." |
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| Trump's Penguin Breaks the Internet
– and Sends the Left Into a Frenzy Evita Duffy-Alfonso On Friday, the White House posted an AI-generated photo of President Trump walking alongside a penguin holding an American flag, the pair marching toward mountains adorned with the Greenlandic flag. The caption read: "Embrace the penguin."  |
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| Gavin Newsom Roasted As Photo of
Him Posing with 'Sugar Daddy' Alex Soros Goes Viral California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Trump administration have been at each other’s throats on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, during which Newsom was mocked for cozying up to “billionaire sugar daddy” Alex Soros after the California governor accused world leaders of kowtowing to President Donald Trump. Newsom attended the conference this week and slammed foreign world leaders for “rolling over” when confronted by President Donald Trump, but Newsom was criticized himself this week for cozying up to Alexander Soros, the son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, while in Davos. |
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| Wannabe Newsom Goes All the Way to
Davos to be Canceled and Humiliated for ‘frolicking’ Gavin Newsom traveled all the way across the pond to attack President Donald J. Trump on the world stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, but had the rug yanked out from under him when an appearance was abruptly canceled. The California governor had been invited to speak at a “fireside chat” hosted by media sponsor Fortune, but the Democrat interloper’s audition for the globalists didn’t work out as anticipated after he was denied entry to the USA House, the official U.S. pavilion at Davos. |
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| Andrew Jackson Comes to Davos Mike Watson  President
Donald Trump, who keeps a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval
Office, brought a heaping dose of his predecessor's energy with him
when he alighted in Switzerland on Wednesday. The contrast between the
international assemblage of sophisticates and the president from Queens
brings onto a global stage one of the longest-running dramas in
American political history. Mastering the forces unleashed by
Jacksonian America is the key not only to Trump's presidential success,
but also to the preservation and renewal of the American-led
international order. |
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| Somali-born Activist Applauds
Trump’s Davos Message to World: ‘It’s the MOST important thing’ Human rights activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali backed President Donald Trump, who essentially told Europe to “wake up” about its history and culture. The president ruffled some feathers in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos as he delivered a warning about the loss of Western civilization in the face of foreign cultures. Speaking with Fox News Digital, Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali concurred with his remarks, saying, “Trump is right” and that his speech was a “breakthrough” in getting a message to European leaders. |
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| HHS Announces U.S. Has Completed
Its Withdrawal from the World Health Organization The Department of Health and Human Services and the State Department announced Thursday that the United States has completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also cited issues with the organization's failure to adopt urgent reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the political influence of WHO member states. |
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| Iranian Drone Swarms Pose 'credible
threat' to USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Group, Defense Expert Says U.S. military assets headed to the Middle East could face a serious threat from Iranian drone swarms as reports emerge that Iran’s supreme leader has gone underground, according to a leading military drone expert. Cameron Chell, CEO and co-founder of Draganfly, warned that Iran’s growing reliance on low-cost unmanned systems poses a credible danger to high-value U.S. naval assets, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group. "Iran’s drone capabilities are worth well into the tens of millions of dollars," Chell told Fox News Digital.  |
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| Iran State TV Hacked to Show
Footage of Country’s Exiled Prince Iranian state television channels were hacked on Sunday to display a message from the country’s exiled crown prince who has called on citizens to resist the Islamic Republic regime. Two video clips of the Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi, were shown alongside a message calling on the regime’s security forces to side with the people, multiple outlets reported. "Don't point your weapons at the people. Join the nation for the freedom of Iran," one graphic read, according to a translation by the Associated Press. |
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| Huge Scale of Chinese Birth Tourism
May Impact SCOTUS Ruling on Birthright Citizenship, Author Says Steven Richards As the Supreme Court considers a challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, new findings from award-winning investigative journalist Peter Schweizer about how China abuses the U.S. law could have major implications for the case. In his new book, "The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon", which was released to the public on Tuesday, Schweizer examines the role of both China and Mexico in encouraging illegal immigration to the United States as well as how the Chinese government has apparently abused U.S. birthright citizenship. |
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| CCP SPY $$$ SPIGOT EXPOSED: How a
U.S. Visa Program Designed by a Chinese Spy Lets Beijing Funnel Money
into American Elections John Hayward The plot revolved around a program established by the 1990 Immigration Act called the Employment-Based Fifth Preference (EB-5) visa. It was ostensibly intended to encourage foreign investors to put big money into American business and job creation. Foreigners who invested at least $1.05 million (or $800,000 in certain economically-distressed areas) and created at least ten American jobs were issued a green card and permanent resident status. Applicants under this fast-tracked program were subjected to very little scrutiny. |
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| The Obamas' Power, Corruption, and
Lies Are Things to Behold Stephen Green I try not to write much about Michelle Obama because her preening mendacity hits me like Laurence Olivier torturing Dustin Hoffman with a dental drill in The Marathon Man, but worse, because Obama expects applause for it. But her latest viral video provides such perfect context to discuss Barack Obama's corruption that we have to give her at least a brief mention. My PJ Media colleague Matt Margolis has the full report on Michelle – Michelle Obama Said Something Really Racist Again – but I saw less racism and more of that progressive lecture-pandering she's so famous for. |
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| Bureaucrats’ Political Donations
Hint Census Bureau Over-Counting for Democrats May Not Be Coincidental Mark Tapscott Undercounting the population in red states like Texas and Florida in 2020 cost Republicans at least six seats in the House of Representatives, while overcounting in blue states like California and New York contributed to 18 new Democratic seats, according to Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas). “In 2020, the Census Bureau undercounted in primarily deep-red states like Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, all red, while overcounting in radical blue states like Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island,” Hunt told a November 19, 2025, hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. |
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| ‘Left-Wing Bias’ on Television
Takes Another Hit: FCC Issues Guidance on Political Equal Opportunities
for Broadcast Stations Sean Moran The FCC on Wednesday issued guidance to ensure that programming on broadcast television must comply with political equal opportunities requirements and end what one expert referred to as “DNC TV,” Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Decades ago Congress put protections in place through the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure that broadcast television ensures equal access to legally qualified candidates for office regardless of political affiliation. Under Section 315 of the Communications Act, if a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidates to use its facilities, then it shall provide equal opportunity to all other legally qualified candidates for that office. |
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| Pam Grier’s Claim of Witnessing
Ohio Lynching on ‘The View’ Fact-Checked as False Cole Harrison The real battle for America isn’t one of bullets, but of stories. It’s a bitter contest between objective, verifiable truth and the emotionally convenient “personal truths” – whatever those are – that the left now treats as gospel. One side believes in a shared reality built on facts. The other champions the power of narrative, where a story’s political usefulness is far more important than its accuracy. This is a dangerous game. Compelling personal anecdotes can be powerful tools for propaganda, especially when broadcast to millions without a shred of scrutiny. When fabricated, they become a poison designed to gin up resentment, validate a political agenda, and convince entire generations that America is a land of unrelenting evil. A recent, nationally televised spectacle provides a perfect, and frankly pathetic, example of this tactic in action. |
Her story, emotionally manipulative as it was, simply never happened |
| Conditioning You for Socialism
(Starting With Your Toilet) Stephen Green  Everything
went wrong -- as so many things did -- during the administration of
President George H.W. Bush, who put his signature on the Energy Policy
Act of 1992, passed by the Democrat-dominated Congress. It was one of
those feel-good laws that didn't feel so good once its provisions
kicked in, particularly those low-flow toilets that didn't, you know,
flush. The law slashed the legally allowed water volume for new toilets
from the standard 3.5 gallons (or even more for older toilets) to just
1.6. Early models were so bad that people often resorted to flushing
three or four times to get the job done, using more water than the
original models that worked. Things got so bad that Americans started
smuggling toilets in from Canada. From there, things got worse. |
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| GOP Officials Warn Climate Activist
Group to Stop Pressuring American Companies A coalition of Republican attorneys general, led by the state of Florida, said Wednesday that a major climate group may be violating their states’ antitrust and consumer protection laws by artificially pressuring companies to adopt climate activist policies, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier warned the Boston-based nonprofit organization Ceres that it may be illegally pressuring companies to adopt net-zero policies. He said the organization was pursuing policies that were an “assault on American families and businesses.” Ceres is an advocacy group that says it is “working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world.” |
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| Gore's
Big Climate Lies Didn't Stand the Test of Time Emmy Griffin Not many vice presidents are particularly memorable. However, Bill Clinton’s veep, Al Gore, made a name for himself in two ways. First, by insisting on endless recounts in Florida in the hopes of winning the 2000 presidential election against George W. Bush. Second, for his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” which was ostensibly intended to educate the public about global warming. The only problem is that 20 years later, all of his “inconvenient truths” have been thoroughly debunked. |
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| Why Do We Let Commie Chinese Pilots
Train in America? Catherine Salgado It should be a fairly self-evident proposition that allowing military affiliates from our number one enemy to train here is a bad idea. And yet that is exactly what we do, according to an expert on Communist Chinese infiltration of the USA. If we train Chinese pilots in the U.S., we are helping the Chinese Air Force out. Considering that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is extremely open about hating the United States and aiming to usurp our place on the world stage, even periodically threatening military action, we shouldn’t be allowing anyone connected to the Chinese military to train here. After all, the CCP reportedly told its people it was entering a war phase with the U.S. back in 2019, and CCP infiltration of our institutions has intensified in recent years. Why make it easier for them to sabotage us? |
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| Hero Barron Trump Saved Woman’s
Life, Called Police As She Was Being Beaten by Jealous Ex Presidential son Barron Trump “saved” a woman’s life by notifying police after seeing her being beaten by her ex-boyfriend when she called him on FaceTime during the assault. The UK-based outlet Metro reported that the unnamed woman told a London court that President Donald J. Trump’s youngest son spared her from being beaten to death by the former beau, a man who was jealous about her relationship with the young Trump and “flew into a rage” after she had tried to call him earlier, prosecutors said. |
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| Charlie Kirk’s Widow Erika Kirk
Demands Speedy Trial, Alleging 'Undue Delay' from Tyler Robinson Defense Erika Kirk is seeking a speedy trial in response to perceived delay tactics from the legal team representing her husband's accused assassin, Tyler Robinson. In a court filing made public over the weekend, her attorney, Jeffrey Neiman, notified the court that she is invoking her rights to a speedy trial as a victim under Utah law. "The Utah Code affords victims of a crime ‘the right to a speedy disposition of the charges free from unwarranted delay caused by or at the behest of the defendant,’" Neiman wrote in a court filing. |
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| Doctor Punished for Questioning
COVID Vaccines Says She Could Have Made Up to $35M by Giving Shots A doctor whose admitting privileges were suspended for questioning COVID-19 vaccines and prescribing ivermectin to COVID patients, and subsequently resigned from and unsuccessfully sued her hospital for defamation, claims she could have made tens of millions of dollars from administering the vaccines to her COVID patients. "If I had vaccinated the 6,000 patients I treated for Covid, I could have made $35,523,000. |
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| Trump Says it 'Is Too Late' to Stop
the White House Ballroom Construction Amid Lawsuit President Donald Trump said Sunday that it was "too late" to halt construction of a new ballroom at the White House, despite a newly filed lawsuit challenging the project. In a post on Truth Social, Trump described the ballroom as "a GIFT (ZERO taxpayer funding) to the United States of America," estimating its cost at $300 million and saying it was financed through private donations. Trump said the lawsuit was brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, criticizing the group for filing it after construction was already underway. |
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| Girl Goes Viral After Getting Pink
Princess Landline Phone for Christmas Instead of Smartphone A mother is going viral on social media after her little girl was surprised with a landline phone for Christmas. Meg Kate McAlarney is part of a group of parents in Illinois who agreed not to get their children smartphones until the kids were in at least eighth grade. Meg Kate's daughter, Maddie, 8, was beaming after receiving a pink princess phone for Christmas, one picked out by her grandmother, and the video of her using the phone brought smiles to online viewers everywhere. |
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| iPhone Flaw Leaves 800M Devices
Exposed As Users Ignore Apple's Urgent Warning The Apple iPhone is the most popular smartphone in the United States and one of the most widely used devices in the world. An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on iPhones every day. That massive user base also makes the platform a prime target. Over the past few weeks, Apple has been sending out warnings about a serious security flaw. New data suggests the risk could affect roughly half of all iPhone users. That puts hundreds of millions of devices in potential danger right now. |
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| Somali Official Shows
How Entrenched the ‘Fraud Pipeline’ Really Is Derek VanBuskirk | Daily Caller A Somali lawmaker described to the Daily Caller how his government functions as a “fraud pipeline,” siphoning U.S. tax dollars from foreign aid, health care and day care into one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world. Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of the Somali Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of the People, told the Caller the corruption surfacing in Minnesota and across the United States did not emerge spontaneously, but is a downstream consequence of Somalia’s deeply entrenched system of corruption. |
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| California Shows How to
Lose $1 Trillion Without Even Trying Issues & Insights The Billionaire Tax Act isn’t even officially on the California ballot yet, but that hasn’t stopped businessmen, entrepreneurs, and investors from fleeing the state, taking $1 trillion in wealth – along with jobs and opportunity – with them. “We had $2T of billionaire wealth just a few weeks ago. Now, 50% of that wealth has left – taking their income tax revenue, sales tax revenue, real estate tax revenue, and all their staffs (and their salaries and income taxes) with them.” |
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| Who Funds the Groups Harassing ICE
Agents in Minnesota? The Left's Premier Foundations and Dark Money Networks Have Given Millions Jessica Costescu, Chuck Ross When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found. At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. |
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| Somali Suitcase Stash: Feds Say
$130 Million Moved from Ohio Airport to Minnesota on Way Overseas  Federal
agents investigating a Somali immigrant operation that moved massive
amounts of cash in suitcases from the Minneapolis airport to overseas
have uncovered a new leg of the courier journey: the Columbus, Ohio
airport. Homeland Security Department officials told Just the
News
that Transportation Security Administration officers tracked and
flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the
passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport
since November 2023. |
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| Somali Subpoenas: Congress Moving
Quickly to Investigate Cash-In-Luggage Exodus from U.S. Airports Two powerful committee chairmen in Congress are moving quickly to investigate why Somali immigrant couriers were moving hundreds of millions of dollars out of U.S. airports in their luggage to overseas destinations the last few years, and whether there is any connection to a massive fraud scheme in Minnesota or terror groups in their native country in Africa... “As we've started our investigation, we're already bumping up against the federal government, which says they have an active investigation,” Paul said during an interview with the Just the News, No Noise television show. “And whereas I can investigate for facts, I can't put people in jail. So if the FBI is currently investigating this, or certain members of the government are, it may be delayed, as far as me being able to bring individuals who may shortly be, you would think under indictment.” |
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| The ICE Uproar is a Conspiracy
Calculated to Fool Americans Andrew Cherkasky, Katie Cherkasky The chaos erupting in Minneapolis isn’t an organic protest movement, and it certainly isn’t spontaneous. It’s coordinated. It’s calculated. And it’s deadly. The indoctrination has convinced them that federal immigration law is illegitimate, that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have no authority to operate, and that physically confronting federal officers is not only justified, but moral. |
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| Renee Good's Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’
Group Shared Manual Detailing How to Fight Arrests, Launch ‘a micro-intifada’  The
Minnesota ICE Watch group of which slain Minneapolis protester Renee
Good was a member shared a detailed manual providing instructions on
fighting police officers to free arrested radicals from their grasp,
comparing each “de-arrest” to a “micro-intifada.” The “de-arrest
primer” manual was reposted on Instagram in June by MN ICE Watch, part
of a loose collective of agitators who teach members how to disrupt law
enforcement officers performing their duties, including ICE agents. The
manual – which says on the front cover it was published in
the spring of 2024
– outlines four tactics for interfering with arresting officers, such
as the best kind of grip to use while yanking someone in custody out of
their hands, or even suggestions on “pushing and pulling an officer”
off of an arrestee. |
Just a Minnesota mom ... yeah, right! |
| DHS Demands Minnesota Honor ICE
Detainers for 1,360 People, Cites Criminal Cases The Department of Homeland Security is calling on Minnesota officials to honor federal immigration detainers for more than 1,360 people in state custody, saying Gov. Tim Walz has released nearly 470 individuals with criminal charges or convictions since President Trump took office. In a statement Tuesday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of refusing to cooperate with ICE enforcement. “Criminal illegal aliens should not be released back onto our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans,” McLaughlin said. |
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| Well, Well, Well, Look What Tim Walz Signed Into Law in 2020… "MN law §609.066: Officers can use deadly force if a driver accelerates toward them, creating immediate life-threatening danger. No need to wait for impact – they can act based on apparent intent & proximity." It’s real. Under Minnesota Statute 609.066, peace officers may use deadly force only when a reasonable officer believes it’s necessary to protect against death or great bodily harm. And it’s all based on the totality of circumstances known at the moment, not some hindsight debate after the fact. |
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| Fraud Is Just the Beginning of the
Tim Walz failure Washington Examiner Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) ended his political career on Monday, announcing that he would abandon his reelection campaign in light of the fraud scandals involving his state’s nutrition, healthcare, and child care programs. But as bad as Walz’s welfare fraud scandals are, and they are very bad, the more important lesson to learn from his failed administration is about the real damage that can be done to a state’s finances when the Democratic Party achieves full control. |
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| James Comer Says Ilhan Omar Is “At
the Top of the Suspect List” in Massive Minnesota Fraud Scandal House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer dropped a bombshell this week, suggesting that far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar sits “at the top of the suspect list” in the sprawling Minnesota fraud scandals involving taxpayer-funded daycare and healthcare programs. The comments came during a pointed exchange with journalist Alison Steinberg, who raised serious concerns about whether members of Congress themselves may have benefited from money funneled through political action committees tied to fraudulent daycare and healthcare schemes. |
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| Scott Bessent says Treasury Will
Investigate Groups Funding Antifa, Riots, Anti-ICE in Minnesota Treasury officials confirmed they’ve begun using federal financial authorities to investigate the funding behind agitator and anti-ICE activist groups that have been disrupting law enforcement operations across American cities like Minnesota. Bessent made the statement while speaking with Jack Posobiec on Human Events Daily regarding “human blockades” and “vehicular blockades” while Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct enforcement operations. Posobiec asked whether Treasury could use its power to trace the money supporting these organizations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that work has already begun. |
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| Trump Administration Ends 35-Year
Temporary Protected Status for Somalis, Requiring Departure by March 17 There’s an old saying about houseguests and fish – after three days, both start to stink. Now imagine 35 years. That’s how long Somali nationals have enjoyed Temporary Protected Status in the United States, a program designed for short-term emergencies that somehow became a permanent fixture. What began in 1991 amid Somalia’s civil war transformed into a decades-long arrangement that successive administrations lacked the political will to address. I don’t know about you, but where I come from, “temporary” doesn’t mean “until everyone forgets about it.” |
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| U.S. to Suspend Immigrant Visa
Processing for 75 Countries The State Department said in a statement posted on X that it “will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates.” “The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people,” it stated. The department said the pause affects countries “whose immigrants often become public charges on the United States upon arrival.” |
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| Newly-Minted Dem Governor
Immediately Repeals Pro-ICE Order Within hours of being sworn into office Saturday, Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 10, a proclamation rescinding an executive order signed by her Republican predecessor requiring Virginia law enforcement officials to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Critics have framed the move as a “disaster” which will lead to an increase in crime. |
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| Nonprofit Revenue Totals Surge Amid
Growing Scrutiny After Major Fraud Cases Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed through U.S. nonprofit organizations in 2024, tax filing data show, as major fraud cases – including in Minnesota – put new focus on how taxpayer-backed funds are overseen. The figures come from ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and were independently reviewed by Fox News, which confirmed the state-by-state revenue totals. According to the data, California’s 213,720 nonprofits reported a collective $593.4 billion in revenue, the highest total of any state. |
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| Trump Cancels Biden Rules Forcing Banks to Give Loans to Illegals On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department eliminated the Biden guidelines that ordered lenders not to consider immigration status when evaluating loan and credit applications, a rule that had major implications for mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans, Bloomberg reported. The Biden era rules were intended to help anchor illegal and temporary visa workers into Americans’ communities, for example, by providing funds for homes, autos, and apartment leases. |
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| Europe Should Be Begging Trump to
Buy Greenland Shane Harris President Donald Trump has renewed his push for the United States to acquire Greenland from Denmark, again prompting gasps and outrage from elected Democrats and European elites. But the historical record and geopolitical reality suggest that acquiring the island territory would be not only fair compensation for American involvement in Europe since the start of World War II, but also a critical check against encroaching Chinese and Russian influence in the Arctic. |
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| New York City Lost Nearly 5,000
Businesses Last Year New York City lost nearly 5,000 businesses early last year as employers closed their doors or left for other low-tax states, according to a new report. The analysis comes as newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes to hike business taxes to foot the bill for his agenda. The report, released Thursday by the Economic Development Corporation, showed more than 3,500 new businesses opened their doors in New York City during the second quarter of the fiscal year but that was offset by a loss of about 8,400 employers. That's the weakest quarter for business formation since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the report's authors said. |
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| Trump Is Right: Obamacare Made ‘Fat
Cat’ Insurers Rich While Patients Beg for Scraps Americans for Limited Government After years of Washington politicians lining the pockets of insurance companies and anointing them “essential partners,” President Trump has called out the insurance monopoly for what it is. “Let the money go not to the big fat cats and the insurance companies that made 1,700 percent over a short period of time,” President Trump said. “Let the money go directly to the people, where they can buy their own health care.” The big health insurance companies that have gorged themselves at the Obamacare trough are finally being put under the spotlight and held to account. While these companies have grown richer, patients have been left paying ever-increasing premiums and deductibles with steadily decreasing care in return. |
Obamacare did not “rein in insurers” – it enriched them. |
| Fauci Privately Called Natural
Immunity Data ‘Impressive’ Before Forcing Jabs on Americans Anthony Fauci privately acknowledged “impressive data” showed stronger immunity from a COVID-19 infection than vaccination while publicly pushing mandated shots, newly released documents show. Former President Joe Biden’s top pandemic response officials discussed a thorough study from Israel showing the superiority of natural infection in August 2021, indicating officials who helped compel COVID shots had contemporaneous scientific evidence they were unjustifiable for millions of Americans. The officials distorted the evidence in public statements, repeatedly saying vaccination is necessary for immunity. |
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| U.S. Used Powerful Mystery Weapon
That Brought Venezuelan Soldiers to Their Knees During Maduro Raid: Witness Account The U.S. used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood, during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary. In a jaw-dropping interview, the guard described how American forces wiped out hundreds of fighters without losing a single soldier, using technology unlike anything he has ever seen – or heard. |
Did a Mysterious “Sonic Weapon” Really Aid Delta Force in Capturing Maduro? |
| U.S. Navy to Deploy Unmanned
Systems with Surface Forces This Year Military Times  The
U.S. Navy is moving swiftly to integrate and deploy unmanned surface
vessels, with three USV divisions slated to be created next week and
two medium USVs to be operating under fleet control this year. The Seahawk
and Sea Hunter
are the Navy’s first medium autonomous USVs, and are both nearly 135
feet long. They are primed for surveillance, equipped to send data to
manned ships to aid in anti-submarine warfare and to increase
reconnaissance capabilities. They were previously used in fleet
exercises in 2022 and 2023. |
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| The End of Green Energy Joel Kotkin Not long ago, all right-thinking liberals were sure that fossil fuels would soon become “stranded assets” as The Guardian once put it. Hydrocarbon-based energy sources, the thinking ran, would become ever more worthless as the world entered a bright renewable future. Yet as President Trump’s takeover of Venezuela demonstrates, there is, in fact, a lot of life left in those deposits; as the progressive American Prospect recently lamented, the “fossil-fuel empire” has struck back. |
Successful economies either have fossil fuels or need easy access to them. |
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Unveils Plan to Shift Power Costs to AI Data Centers Trump administration officials and a bipartisan group of governors announced a plan Friday to tackle high electricity prices by essentially having giant technology companies pay for the construction of new power supplies in the area managed by the largest United States grid operator. At a White House event on Friday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, along with the governors from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, outlined a plan for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would make technology companies pay for new power plants in the PJM Interconnection, which manages much of the grid in the eastern U.S. |
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| Never Give Up Your Guns:
Venezuela’s Brutal Interior Minister Touts the State’s Monopoly on Arms The leader of the armed thugs known as “colectivos” in Venezuela touted the state’s “monopoly on arms” as a tool for keeping the population “calm.” The colectivos serve Maduro as his enforcers with guns that intimidate, and when necessary, kill any political opposition among the population. The National Rifle Association couldn’t have written a better commercial for those who may be agnostic on gun ownership in America as to why firearms in the hands of everyday people is a necessity to counter dictators and tyrants. Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello runs the colectivos. The U.S. has put a $25 million bounty on his head. Undeterred, he’s bragged on video about the disarmed state of the people in Venezuela, that he says is, “contributing to the calm.” |
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| States Now Taking on the Fight
Against Anti-Gun Lawfare Larry Keane As state legislatures across the country grapple with how to address the criminal misuse of firearms, South Carolina lawmakers have taken a decidedly different path with the introduction of House Bill 4723 – a measure aimed at strengthening legal protections for the lawful manufacture, distribution and sale of firearms and related products. The proposal, known as the “South Carolina Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA),” reflects a proactive effort to block what supporters describe as “opportunistic lawsuits” that seek to hold honest businesses, like South Carolin-based FN America and Palmetto State Armory, liable for criminal misuse of their products. |
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| Coffee's Surprising Health
Benefits: What the Latest Research Says Mandy French Recent research has shown that coffee may be better for your heart than originally thought. Studies have also found that daily coffee consumption may also help reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes. There are various potential health benefits associated with drinking coffee, including boosting energy, aiding in weight management, and potentially reducing the risk of depression.  |
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| Swalwell Campaign In the Hot Seat
After Accepting Almost $15K from CCP-Tied Law Firm: 'Stop playing footsie' Rep. Eric Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign recently received almost $10,000 from the California-based office of a top Beijing law firm that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party, a Fox News Digital investigation found. A filing that was released this week reveals that Swalwell’s campaign received $9,999 from the DeHeng Law Offices PC on Dec. 30 and said that the office is based in Pleasanton, Calif. The law firm’s website reveals that this office is their "Silicon Valley Office" and appears to only have one lawyer who works there. |
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| Congressman Calls to Revoke License
of Doctor Who Refused to Say Men Can’t Get Pregnant Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) is calling on the Georgia Composite Medical Board to revoke the medical license of Dr. Nisha Verma, a Georgia-based obstetrician-gynecologist, after a tense exchange during a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on January 14. In a letter sent Wednesday, Carter argued that Verma’s testimony demonstrated an unwillingness to affirm what he described as basic biological facts, raising concerns about her fitness to practice medicine in the state. |
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| 'Can men get pregnant?' GOP
Portrays Democrats' Witness at Abortion Pill Hearing As Fake Scientist With the Trump administration under fire from pro-life organizations for the Food and Drug Administration's alleged slow-walk of a promised review of an abortion drug's safety – one even demanded Commissioner Marty Makary's firing – Senate Republicans tried to steer the blame back to familiar territory: prior Democratic presidents. The Obama and Biden administrations' weakening of mifepristone's regulatory structure, by removing requirements to report non-fatal adverse events, then in-person dispensing after the Supreme Court ended federal abortion rights in Dobbs, was front and center at a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing Wednesday. |
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| ‘Just a Dick’: Pa. Judge’s ‘Book of
Grudges’ Causes Problems A Lehigh County judge faces disciplinary charges after her “Book of Grudges” and a sexually explicit calendar became the sources of complaints. The Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board took action yesterday against Magistrate Judge Amy Zanelli, who is also accused of improper demeanor toward a defendant who was representing himself but was banished to the hallway. The first part of the JCB’s complaint details the Book of Grudges, which “had the appearance of an ancient leatherbound tome with papyrus pages,” it says. The first entry was Nov. 22, 2023. |
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| Largest Teacher’s Union Steers
Millions to Shady Left-Wing Social Justice Causes For those paying attention, it comes as no surprise that one of the nation’s most prominent teachers unions steers millions of dollars to far-left activist groups, ballot initiatives and social justice organizations in FY2024. That’s according to Fox News, which cites federal labor filings from the National Education Association (NEA) filed in November... The NEA, which boasts more than 3 million members, sent $300,000 to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a liberal dark money group Fox News Digital has reported on extensively, and tens of thousands of dollars to the Tides Foundation network, which Fox News Digital previously reported has ties to anti-Israel protests and a variety of far left causes. |
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| Fired UNC Charlotte DEI Official Sues School Over Undercover Video An employee at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) who was fired after admitting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) measures are still being implemented has now filed a lawsuit against the school. Janique Sanders, who was the assistant director for UNC Charlotte’s Office of Leadership and Community Engagement, was featured in an undercover video captured in May by Accuracy in Media (AIM) discussing how DEI is still being implemented within the university, the Charlotte Observer reports. |
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| ‘Seeking Removal of the Photos’:
Amherst College Demands Free Beacon Edit Photos, Videos of Students Performing in Official Sexual Ceremony. Amherst College is pressing the Washington Free Beacon to blur out the faces of students who performed mock sex acts in the college’s main chapel during an official orientation event. The $93,000-a-year college claims that the Free Beacon’s publication of videos of the performance led to "serious doxxing" and harassment. Amherst, which funds the event, has declined to say whether it will revise the program going forward. |
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| FTC Slams CarShield: $10M Scam
Exposed Most drivers don’t expect to hear from the federal government – unless something has gone very wrong. But this month, more than 168,000 Americans opened their mailboxes to find checks from the Federal Trade Commission, all tied to a case that exposed widespread deception in the vehicle service contract industry. The fallout is substantial: more than $9.6 million headed back to consumers who were misled, frustrated, and often left paying for repairs they thought were covered by CarShield and American Auto Shield. |
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New Personal eVTOL Promises
Personal Flight Under $40K Personal electric aircraft have teased us for years. They look futuristic, promise freedom from traffic, and usually come with prices that put them out of reach or timelines that feel uncertain. Recently unveiled at CES 2026, the Rictor X4 entered that conversation with some bold claims. It is a single-passenger electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft designed to make short-range personal flight more accessible and far more affordable. If those promises hold up, it could change how we think about flying for everyday trips. |
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| An Ex-Muslim’s Warning
to America Selwyn Duke It was in 2015 that Muslim refugee Dr. Mudar Zahran warned of the “soft Islamic conquest of the West.” Zahran was referring to the wave migration affecting Europe, which ultimately saw millions more Muslims enter the Continent. Now, a decade later, an ex-Muslim sounds the same alarm here in America. In fact, she says, operational in the U.S. is a decades-old, clearly stated plan for civilizational jihad. Only, like sheep to the slaughter, most Americans are unaware of it. |
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| Ten Reasons to Cheer the
Arrest of Maduro Richard Porter The weekend arrest of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro marks a rare moment when American power was used decisively, strategically, and unapologetically in defense of U.S. interests and human freedom – and there are at least 10 reasons to cheer it... You might not like Trump or his style – or even agree with his policies – but he is fighting the drug war; taking on China, rebuilding our military’s prowess; addressing root causes of a migration crisis; reducing crime; striving for peace while audaciously deploying our military; controlling our border – and admit it – Making America Great Again. |
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| Trump's Tariffs Are Working: Trade Deficit Narrows to Smallest Since 2009 The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services declined by nearly forty percent from September to October, as the Trump administration’s tariff policies continued to rebalance trade, data from the Commerce Department showed on Thursday. Imports fell by 3.2 percent to $331.4 billion, while exports rose by 2.6 percent to $302.0 billion. Because imports declined and exports increased, the U.S. trade deficit shrank by a sharp 39.0 percent, indicating that the Trump administration’s trade policies are working to bring U.S. trade into better balance. |
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| Seattle Police Union Blasts City's
New Socialist Mayor for Allegedly Redirecting Drug Cases: 'Insane Direction' The Seattle police union is slamming the city’s new socialist mayor for apparently issuing a directive halting all open drug use arrests – in favor of promoting a diversion program they say suffers from “suicidal empathy.” Wilson, 43, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, ran on a platform of seemingly impossible guarantees – including a promise to “Trump-proof Seattle,” according to her campaign website. The Seattle Police Officers Guild said it was blindsided by a directive from Wilson’s team to pause open drug use arrests, in a statement issued Sunday. |
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| Hours After Trump Arrests Maduro, a
Major Surge Hits America Noah Stanton When the critics finished clutching their pearls over President Trump’s decisive action in Venezuela, something interesting happened: The people who actually put money where their mouths are – investors, fund managers, the ones who move billions based on cold calculations rather than cable news hysteria – rendered their own judgment. And it wasn’t even close. While progressive pundits spent the weekend wringing their hands about the capture of Nicolás Maduro (despite the fact they ALL would’ve applauded had Biden done the same thing), the business world was doing math. |
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| Socialist Group Tied to Mamdani
Closely Allied with Maduro, Now Leads Protests of U.S. Actions The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which counts New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a key member, has been closely allied with Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro for years, and is now leading protests in the U.S. against the communist dictator’s arrest by the United States as Maduro sits in a NYC jail cell. The DSA International Committee’s website touts its “Venezuelan Solidarity” and its “Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution!” – led by former Venezuelan socialist strongman Hugo Chavez and continued by socialist leader Maduro. |
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| Noem Announces Major Takedown of Dominican Gang Behind Shooting of CBP Officer in NYC Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers nabbed 54 members and associates of the Trinitarios Dominican gang who were operating across New York, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced during a press conference Thursday. “During our investigation, we learned that these scumbags were affiliated with the transnational criminal organization, the notorious Trinitarios gang in New York. We began to target every single last person that is affiliated with them and recognized that they needed to be brought to justice,” Noem said. |
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| Dem Narrative Challenged After DHS
Exposes Identity of 'married couple' in CBP-Related Shooting Peter Pinedo, Alec Schemmel, Michael Sinkewicz As new protests erupt and Democrats express outrage over another shooting involving an immigration agent in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is setting the record straight on the two victims’ suspected gang affiliation. In a Friday X post, DHS said that the two shooting victims, Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, are Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens and suspected members of the foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA). |
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| RFK Jr. Announces Major Overhaul of
Dietary Guidelines, Reversing Decades of Low-Fat Recommendations For decades, the federal government handed Americans a nutritional roadmap and promised it would lead to better health. Millions followed it faithfully. They swapped butter for margarine, traded whole milk for skim, loaded up on grains at the base of that sacred food pyramid, and dutifully avoided the eggs and red meat they were told would kill them. And what did we get for our obedience? An obesity epidemic that now affects over 40 percent of American adults. A diabetes crisis draining family savings and Medicare coffers alike. A life expectancy that trails other developed nations by five years. The map, it turns out, was drawn by people more interested in protecting agricultural subsidies and food industry profits than protecting American health. But hey, at least the corn lobby was happy. |
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| Fed Chair Powell Says He’s Under
Criminal Investigation Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank was served with grand jury subpoenas by the Department of Justice on Jan. 9. In a statement late Jan. 11, Powell confirmed that officials threatened a criminal indictment over his Senate Banking Committee testimony in June 2025. That testimony, Powell noted, “concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings.” The central bank chief dismissed the idea that this criminal probe was driven by his testimony or the renovation. |
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| FAFO: Hegseth Announces
Disciplinary Action Against Sen. Mark Kelly Matt Margolis  In
November, six Democratic lawmakers participated in a viral video urging
military members to refuse what they called "illegal orders." The
dispute over Trump’s use of the National Guard was over policy, not
legality. On Monday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the
Department of War has initiated formal disciplinary action against Sen.
Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). Hegseth cited the video, which he characterized
as seditious conduct that undermined military discipline and encouraged
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| Minnesota Democrats Blocked
Auditors from Tackling ‘Avalanche’ of Somali Fraud, Blacklisted Whistleblowers The Somali-dominated Democratic political machine in Minnesota successfully silenced hundreds of government experts who tracked the huge flow of taxpayer funds through Somali-run businesses, a top Minnesota Republican told a House hearing on Wednesday. Up to 1,000 government auditors, accountants, and program managers were silenced by Democratic threats, Minnesota House Rep. Marion Rarick told a House hearing. ... Citizens’ complaints were also suppressed by the political power of the clannish Somali groups in the local Democratic Party. |
480 Minnesota Staff Report Fraud in 2023 |
| Minnesota Democrats Threatened to
Fire 1,000 Whistleblowers Who Tried to Report $9 Billion in Fraud In any scandal worth its salt, the crime itself is only half the story. The other half – the one that tells you everything about the people in charge – is what happens when someone tries to stop it. Minnesota’s fraud epidemic has made national headlines, with estimates suggesting up to $9 billion was siphoned from Medicaid and social services under Governor Tim Walz’s watch. The theft is staggering. But it isn’t what should haunt Minnesotans most. What should keep them up at night is what happened to the people who tried to sound the alarm. |
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| GOP Whip Unloads on Tim Walz Over
Rampant Fraud: ‘I’m Not Going to Be Minnesota Nice’ Tom Emmer made his comments on the latest episode of the Republican Study Committee’s “Right to the Point” podcast, where he was joined by his fellow Minnesota Republican Reps. Brad Finstad and Michelle Fischbach about the still-unfolding situation in their home state. The trio called out the leadership in their state, saying that whether they were complicit in the rampant fraud or had simply failed to deal with it, the full price of their actions had fallen on the people of Minnesota. |
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| SBA Suspends Nearly 7,000 Minnesota
Borrowers Over Suspected $400M Loan Fraud The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced Thursday that it suspended 6,900 Minnesota borrowers after uncovering what it says is widespread suspected fraud. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the agency reviewed thousands of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) loans approved in Minnesota, and identified nearly $400 million in potentially fraudulent loans tied to borrowers in Minnesota. Loeffler said the agency will refer appropriate cases to federal law enforcement for prosecution and repayment. |
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| Walz: 'I Have Never Used
Inflammatory Terms' The man who calls ICE the "Gestapo" and said Minnesota was at "war" with the federal government is now saying he has never used inflammatory language about the shooting that happened yesterday. Then he called Secretary Noem an executioner. ... As Democrats around the country are calling an ICE agent at whom a car sped and then hit a "murderer," Walz announced that he was calling out the National Guard to protect Minnesotans against "rogue" federal agents. |
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| Mastermind of $250M Minnesota
Welfare Fraud Ordered to Forfeit Luxury Goods The founder of a Minnesota-based nonprofit who was convicted of masterminding a $250 million welfare fraud scheme was ordered by a judge last week to forfeit luxury goods obtained with the spoils of her corruption. Aimee Bock, who was the brains behind the Feeding Our Future scandal, was found guilty in March on federal charges of wire fraud, bribery, and conspiracy in connection to the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the United States, the New York Post reported. The 44-year-old, along with dozens of mostly Somali co-conspirators, siphoned pandemic relief funds from a federal programs intended to feed children in need. |
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| Criminals Exploiting Aid Agencies
in Every State, Fraud Experts Warn The massive fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid program has been replicated across the country, with criminals taking advantage of the lax policing of aid payments for years, according to fraud experts. The rip-off of aid programs is happening “in every single state,” said Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a fraud-prevention firm that advises more than 9,000 federal, state and local agencies. |
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| Report: Newsom’s Lack of Oversight Cost California $33B in Fraudulent Unemployment Payments As the multi-billion-dollar Medicaid fraud scandal in Minnesota continues to develop, another much larger fraud scandal is potentially brewing in California. A recent report from the state’s independent auditor has revealed that upwards of $33 billion in federal and state taxpayer funds have been pilfered from the Golden State’s unemployment insurance system over the last six years due to lax oversight and inaction by Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) administration. |
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| Guyana: The Little Caribbean
Country with a Big Role to Play in Trump’s Regional Shift With the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in a bold Jan. 3 military raid and a large naval force still prowling the southern Caribbean to ensure that Maduro’s successors cooperate with the Trump administration, other subtle, but key, developments in the region can be overlooked. Among under-the-wire events is a December 2025 agreement between the United States and Venezuela’s neighbor, Guyana. That agreement could have profound implications, not only in the immediate context of unfolding events in Venezuela, but also for the long-term execution of the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, unveiled in November 2025 by U.S. President Donald Trump. |
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| Dick Blumenthal’s BCCA Bill is a
Back Door Ploy to Enable Infinite Firearm Purchase Waiting Periods Larry Keane Introduced by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), S.3458, titled the Background Check Completion Act of 2025, is being sold with a simple, catchy bumper-sticker promise: “No check, no gun.” In reality, it’s simply political theater and has the potential to create unnecessary hurdles for law-abiding Americans while doing nothing to improve public safety... This would be a dramatic change that would repeal the long-standing three-business-day Brady Bill safeguard Congress included to prevent government delay from becoming government denial. That’s not a “fix” to background checks. It’s a policy choice to convert bureaucratic backlog, incomplete records and agency non-responsiveness into a de facto infinite waiting period with no meaningful end point. |
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| Thanks to Germany's Insane Green
Energy Laws, the Berlin Blackout Just Got More Dangerous Amy Curtis We told you how a Leftist, Antifa-linked eco-activist group in Germany sent Berlin into a blackout during the freezing winter. The Vulkan Group published a letter taking responsibility for the terrorist attack on Berlin's energy infrastructure, writing, "In the greed for energy, the earth is being depleted, sucked dry, burned, ravaged, burned down, raped, destroyed. The aim of the action is to cause significant damage to the gas industry and the greed for energy." It also said it was "cutting off power to those in power." How harming innocent Berlin residents and businesses is harming those "in power" is beyond us, but the Left doesn't care who they hurt in pursuit of their agenda. |
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| Washington State’s Climate Change
Program Benefits Inflated by a Factor of 1,000!!! Committee to Unleash Prosperity Does anyone in the climate change industrial complex ever tell the truth about ANYTHING? Here’s the latest whopper lie from Washington state’s Commerce Department, which has spent $1.5 BILLION in recent years on reducing carbon dioxide emissions: “Due to a data entry error, Commerce reported that 7.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced as a result of eight rebate projects funded by the Climate Commitment Act supporting home electrification and appliance rebates for low-income and vulnerable communities. The corrected data now estimates that 78,000 tons of emissions will be reduced over the lifetime of those projects.” |
The state project wasted $1 billion to achieve 1% of its target |
| Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind
Farm Wasting Three Quarters of Energy The Seagreen wind farm off Scotland’s east coast is squandering vast amounts of its power because there is not enough grid capacity to transport it to areas of the country where it is needed most. This is likely to have sparked hundreds of millions of pounds in so-called constraint payments for the wind farm, which is run by Scottish energy giant SSE and France’s TotalEnergies. These payments are made under a Government scheme to encourage renewables, aimed at guaranteeing cash for green power even if it cannot be used. |
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| Chris Wright – We’re in the Greatest Malinvestment in Human History Chris Wright, the United States Secretary of Energy, marvels that people can spend so much to achieve so little: “Germany invested half a trillion dollars, more than doubled the capacity of its electricity grid – and today produces 20% less electricity than before that investment, selling it at three times the price.” |
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| Trump Keeps Several U.S. Coal
Plants Running, Defying ‘End of Coal’ Predictions The Trump administration last week blocked plans to shut down a generator unit at a coal-fired power plant in Colorado. The order, which will keep the unit running through March 2026, cites analyses finding that the grid would be unable to supply enough electricity during periods of high demand, such as a major storm. “Keeping this coal plant online will ensure Americans maintain an affordable, reliable, and secure supply of electricity. |
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| “Battle of the Sexes” Another Blow
Against Feminism and “Transgender” Lunacy Selwyn Duke In case you didn’t hear about it, and you might not have given that the outcome wasn’t media-narrative friendly, there was another tennis “Battle of the Sexes” yesterday. And, boy, it was not a good night for feminism and the “transgender” agenda. Aryna Sabalenka, a Belarusian and currently the world’s number one female player, took on notorious Australian tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios in the United Arab Emirates. Kyrgios, currently 671 in the men’s rankings ... I won’t bore you with the build-up to the match, as some of what was said by both players was designed to generate interest (e.g., Sabalenka predicting “I’m going to kick his ***”). But the interest ended with the “unwoke” result: Despite looking a bit tired and out of condition, Kyrgios won 6-3, 6-3, though the handicap did make it competitive (which is the whole idea). |
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| Harvard President Admits Allowing
Campus Activism Was the ‘Wrong’ Way to Go Sarah Holliday Only after years of prominent and disruptive campus activism, Harvard University President Alan Garber has confessed: universities, including his own, “went wrong” by permitting professors to inject their personal political views and ideological agendas into the classroom. He argued that this practice has led to free speech being chilled, open debate being discouraged, and the creation of intimidating environments where many students hesitate to challenge authority figures or speak openly about their own views. |
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| Texas A&M Declines to
Reinstate Lecturer Fired Over Gender Ideology in Classroom A university in College Station, Texas decided it would not bring back a lecturer who was fired during the fall semester for controversial statements about gender identity. Texas A&M University made its decision in December, sending a memo to the instructor, Melissa McCoul, according to The New York Times. A Texas A&M official reportedly determined the dismissal was for “good cause.” |
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| DOT Exposes Illegal Truck Licenses,
Threatens $50M NC Cut The Trump administration is moving to withhold nearly $50 million in federal transportation funding from North Carolina after a federal audit found the state illegally issued a majority of its non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, putting public safety and federal compliance on a collision course. According to a Department of Transportation briefing released Thursday, federal inspectors determined that 54 percent of North Carolina’s reviewed non-domiciled CDLs were issued in violation of federal law, triggering a formal ultimatum from Washington. |
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| Now for Trump’s Next
Feat, the Left Is About to Openly Support the Cartels Tim O'Brien Until the past 24 hours, Nicolás Maduro Moros and other Venezuelan high-ranking individuals in the Maduro regime ran the Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles). Now that the U.S. has penetrated Venezuela’s defenses to capture and arrest Maduro, things have changed. Maduro and his regime had corrupted the institutions of that country, including its military, its intelligence apparatus, its legislature, and its judiciary, all to aid his cartel’s massive criminal operations... Looking back to the start of Trump’s second term, Trump has been steadily working to dismantle the power structure of the cartels, and Maduro was key. |
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| What a Way to Start 2026 Clarice Feldman Christmas week was rather a slow week, with the big news being the further unraveling of the corruption in Minnesota, Washington state, California, and other Democrat redoubts. But like George Washington crossing the Delaware to beat the Hessians as they rested on Christmas, the U.S. pulled off an incredible military operation capturing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in his pajamas and bringing him back here to answer to criminal charges... We are so fortunate to have Trump. Maduro has been removed and is facing trial here; drug overdose deaths are plummeting; homicides are plummeting; the mullahs are collapsing (without war), the border is closed; widespread fraud is being exposed, and the least Congress can do to right our ship of state is to demand election integrity. |
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| Attorney General Pam Bondi Released
the Maduro Indictment. Here's What It Says. The United States carried out strikes in Venezuela today and arrested Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The U.S. launched a "large scale" strike against the South American nation, including on military facilities. The move came after months of build up in the region. In recent weeks, the U.S. had seized two oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela and conducted kinetic strikes on narco-terrorist vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific. Both Maduro and his wife were indicted in the Southern District of New York. Attorney General Pam Bondi shared news of the indictment on X, and here's what that indictment entails: |
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| Why Capture of Maduro Didn't
Require Approval from Congress Jonathan Turley In an extraordinary military operation, the United States launched a large-scale military operation in Caracas, Venezuela, early Saturday, with Special Forces seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. There is a pending 2020 indictment of Maduro in the Southern District of New York, where he is expected to be taken to face prosecution. The operation comes not long after the 37th anniversary of the capture of Manuel Antonio Noriega on Dec. 20, 1989. Noriega was convicted of drug and money laundering offenses and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was tried in Miami. |
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| Trump Pours Cold Water on Machado
Becoming Venezuela's New Leader After Maduro's Capture President Trump placed doubt on the chances of María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, leading the nation after Nicolas Maduro's capture. Opposition politician Edmundo González has been recognized as Venezuela’s legitimate leader following the widely disputed 2024 elections. He succeeded Machado on the ticket because she was barred from running by the Maduro-aligned judiciary. Maduro declared victory in 2024 and remained in power, despite opposition leaders claiming Gonzalez earned more votes, citing exit polls. |
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| Iran and Maduro Ties Suffer Major
Blow Following U.S. Operation and Capture of Venezuelan Dictator The Trump administration’s military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a devastating setback to the South American nation’s long-term ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran, experts contend. As Iran experiences yet another day of anti-regime protests across the country, Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), who has written about Maduro’s nefarious activities, told Fox News Digital that, "Maduro’s capture will be a blow to Iran’s interests in the Western Hemisphere as he was a longtime ally of Tehran under the banner of anti-imperialism and Americanism in the region." |
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| Iran's Regime Is Teetering on the
Edge – the West Should Help Push It Over Post Editorial Board Three years shy of its 50th anniversary, Iran’s tyrannical, terror-sponsoring regime may finally be nearing its breaking point. Cross your fingers. The key question now is: What will the world – particularly America – do to ensure, and hasten, its demise, and steer it back toward a respectable position in the civilized world? For nearly half a century, Iran’s brutal theocratic leaders have survived numerous threats: fierce internal dissent, an eight-year war with Iraq, economic sanctions and a Cold War with Israel and the United States that recently turned hot. |
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| The Capture of Maduro: A Massive
Blow to the Mullahs Robert Spencer Venezuelans are celebrating the capture of Marxist dictator Nicolás Maduro, but in far-off Iran, the embattled leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran had good reason to view the event with considerable disquiet. The Iranian Foreign Ministry called the capture “a gross violation of the country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.” It never, of course, used any similar language to describe its own financing and arming of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and the Assad regime, all for the purpose of committing gross violations of Israel’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity. |
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| Venezuelans Celebrate the Demise of
Collectivism While New Yorkers Embrace Its ‘Warmth’ I & I Editorial Board We will leave it to the pundits, the lawyers, politicians, and various other “experts” to debate the merits of Trump’s action. But what we can’t let happen is for the left and the mainstream media to ignore or downplay just how tragic Venezuela’s embrace of collectivism has been. So, we thought we’d do our readers a service and republish an editorial we wrote more than six years ago, in which we detailed the cold, hard truths about socialism. The situation in Venezuela had only deteriorated further in the years after this editorial ran. |
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| Mamdani Removes His Thin Mask with First-Day Order Rescinding Definition of Antisemitism Michael Goodwin There are good and bad ways to start an administration, then there’s the way Zohran Mamdani did it. Dreadful, awful and horrible don’t fully capture his First Day fiasco. No political guru in the history of New York elections would advise a new mayor to launch his administration by picking a fight with Israel and adding fresh evidence to the suspicion that the city’s first Muslim mayor is an antisemite. Yet that’s exactly what Mamdani did by announcing that he had rescinded all the executive orders of his predecessor, Eric Adams, going back 15 months. |
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| Database Searches Show Somali Fraudsters Funding Democrat Politicians Warner Todd Huston Somali operators of daycare centers and other social services receiving tax dollars, many fraudulently, are also donating shares of their looted funds to the Democratic Party, say citizen journalists, and others. The New York Post, for instance, found that Minnesota Democrats were the happy recipients of $50,000 in campaign donations from many of the now convicted felons who ran the Somalian Feeding Our Future organization that stole some $250 million in Minnesota welfare funding. There's more... |
This explains a lot and Huston has the receipts! |
| Democrats Order Police to Cover Up
Somali Fraud Daniel Greenfield After the latest wave of exposes made Somali fraud, Democrat state officials from Minnesota to Washington to Maine scrambled to conduct cover-ups and threaten anyone exposing the fraud. The head of Seattle’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, Hamdi Mohamed, “the first Somali woman elected in the state”, convened a meeting with Gov. Bob Ferguson, representatives of Attorney General Nick Brown, Seattle City Attorney Erika Evans, as well as other elected officials, who promised to protect Somalis from investigations and enforcement. |
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| Trump Ending Automatic Green Cards
for Migrants Marrying U.S. Citizens Immigration lawyers are warning that federal agencies are increasingly skeptical when migrants claim to have legitimate marriages with Americans. The policy shift comes after President Donald Trump’s deputies began cracking down on rising rates of marriage-related visa fraud by migrants who pay Americans for temporary marriages. While marrying a U.S. citizen has never been a locked-in guarantee that a migrant would be issued a green card, marriages have previously offered a huge boost to a migrant’s request for legal status. |
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| DOGE at One Year: Efficiency
Department Sparks Lasting Changes in Federal Spending Habits Susan Ferrechio The Department of Government Efficiency hasn’t come close to achieving the $1 trillion in cuts pledged at its launch last January, but it has identified billions of dollars in wasteful spending, reduced the bloated federal workforce, and spurred a nationwide effort to streamline and economize government agencies. In Washington, DOGE continues its work. As of October, it claims to have slashed an estimated $214 billion in federal spending, which DOGE officials say has saved each taxpayer $1,329. |
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| YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Portland
Rolls Out PAID “Immigration Leave” – City Workers Get 40 Hours Off for Deportation Hearings While Taxpayers Foot the Bill, No Questions Asked Jim Hoft City officials have now committed public funds to cover paid leave for immigration court proceedings – including deportation hearings while blocking basic oversight, all while the city is facing a $66 million shortfall. As of January 1, 2026, city workers in Portland, Oregon, can now clock out for up to 40 hours a year – without losing pay or benefits – to deal with immigration-related legal matters for themselves or for family members. |
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| Jack Smith Just Blew Up His Entire
January 6 Case Matt Margolis Jack Smith just torched what was left of his own January 6 investigation. The former special counsel sat down for an over eight-hour deposition with the House Judiciary Committee on December 17, 2025, and when the transcript was released to the public on Wednesday, it contained a stunning admission. It turns out that the former special counsel admitted under oath that Cassidy Hutchinson, the committee's star witness, relied on secondhand hearsay instead of firsthand evidence when she testified about Trump's conduct after the 2020 election. It gets better. |
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| The J6 Pipebomber Explains His
Motive, and The Left Won’t Be Happy Matt Margolis Cole told investigators he followed the 2020 election controversy on YouTube and Reddit after things "started happening" and felt "bewildered" by what he saw. But it wasn't just one side that captured his attention. He believed that both major parties were ignoring legitimate concerns from voters who felt something was wrong. The real trigger? How both parties were dismissing and labeling those concerns. "I really don't like either party at this point," Cole told agents when they asked him why he targeted both the RNC and DNC. He wasn't some Trump cultist. He was angry at everyone in charge. |
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| 40 Examples of Fake News in 2025 James D. Agresti  For
the purpose of media accountability, Just Facts has summarized 40
misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called
fact checkers during 2025. Each example quotes a specific media outlet,
but the vast bulk of these falsehoods and half-truths were spread by
multiple news sources, and some were propagated by dozens. |
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| Growing Concerns About ‘Activist
Judges’ Intensify Calls for Structural Reforms Long-simmering conservative concerns about so-called “activist judges” have intensified in recent months, as a number of federal district court judges have repeatedly blocked major executive branch initiatives and reshaped national policy through judicial orders. Critics argue such rulings exceed the proper role of the judiciary and concentrate outsized power in the hands of individual trial-level judges. The debate has renewed calls for intervention by the Supreme Court’s leadership and for legislative reforms that would curb judicial authority. |
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| The Unreported Story of Grid Scale
Battery Fires Francis Menton The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. The idea is that when there is abundant wind and sun, they can store up the power for use during those calm and dark periods in the winter. How much battery storage will that take? It’s a simple arithmetic calculation, but none of our supposed experts have taken the trouble to crunch the numbers. |
Video of the Moss
Landing Battery fire (~3-mins) |
| There’s a Reason Electricity Prices
Have Been Rising. And It’s Not Data Centers. Shannon Osaka Over the past few months, Americans have looked aghast at their rising electricity bills – in New Jersey, for example, prices have risen 19 percent just in the last year – and found one clear scapegoat: data centers. As these energy-sucking operations proliferate, the thinking goes, they require more and more electricity, pushing prices up for everyone from big companies to small households. The argument has become a political flash point. In Virginia, the Democratic candidate for governor, Abigail Spanberger, has said she will push data centers “to pay their own way and their fair share.” Last week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) wrote on X: “These data centers are massive electricity hogs. … Somebody has to pay for it all – and don’t believe any politician who says it won’t ultimately be you.” |
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| Hochul Must Reveal the “ruinous
cost” of the Climate Act David Wojick New York Governor Hochul has been saying for months that the regulations required by law to meet the Climate Act will be ruinously costly to New Yorkers. The draft regs were reportedly finished a year ago. The Governor must be citing their official cost assessment. So where are the numbers? Why has Hochul not released the cost numbers so New Yorkers can see who gets hammered and how much? Keeping these ruinous cost numbers secret is outrageous. It should be an election issue. |
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| Trump Energy Department Scuttles Planned Closures of 2 Indiana Coal Plants The Trump administration on Wednesday issued emergency orders to keep two set-to-be-shuttered coal plants in Indiana running through the end of the year, providing a lifeline to a favored industry while arguing it would ensure people with secure and affordable electricity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the orders directing the Northern Indiana Public Service Company and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator to take steps to ensure the F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer generating stations in Indiana are available to operate. |
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| Dem-Run States Are Gouging Their
Residents with Sky-High Electricity Rates Betsy McCaughey Your electricity bill reveals a stark political divide: Red-state residents pay less, while blue states gouge their citizens and businesses with exorbitant electric rates. But even worse are the bald-faced lies of blue-state politicians who defend the gouging. Instead of admitting that expensive electricity is a choice they’re deliberately making – your budget be damned – they constantly claim wind and solar power are “affordable” and “reliable.” |
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| High Electricity Prices Are a
Choice Blue States Make Every Day Isaac Orr & Tom Pyle Americans are anxious about their utility bills – and with good reason. Three quarters of U.S. residents are concerned about their electricity and gas bills rising this year, and 80% feel powerless over how much they are charged for utilities. For nearly two-thirds of U.S. billpayers, simply keeping the lights on has become a growing source of financial stress. Those concerns are grounded in reality. U.S. electricity prices rose 27% during the Biden administration and another 11% between January and September 2025. Yet despite a national narrative eager to blame President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the real drivers of high electricity prices are far closer to home. |
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| $5B in ‘Questionable’ Rental
Assistance Under Biden Revealed – Including to Thousands of ‘Deceased
Tenants’ and Non-Citizens HUD officials said a “large concentration” of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states – in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers’ dollars under the Biden administration. “A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden’s watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration’s failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement. |
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| ‘Ten-year stain:’ Bondi Asks
Prosecutors to Probe Obama-Biden Lawfare as Criminal Conspiracy John Solomon Attorney General Pam Bondi told Just the News that she has asked prosecutors to investigate the Obama-Biden era of lawfare as an ongoing election-meddling conspiracy that protected Democrats from criminal investigation and infringed the civil rights of Republicans like President Donald Trump and his supporters. Recovering from eye surgery, Bondi made the revelation in written answers Sunday to questions submitted by Just the News, signaling she agrees with FBI Director Kash Patel, who earlier this year penned a memo predicating an investigation looking at the weaponization of intelligence of law-enforcement powers dating to the Russia collusion case as an ongoing conspiracy. |
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| California’s Open-Carry Gun Ban Blown Up in Major Second Amendment Ruling A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to California’s gun laws Friday, ruling the state’s open-carry ban in most populated areas violates the Second Amendment because it cannot be justified under the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. In a 2–1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said California’s restriction on openly carrying firearms fails the Supreme Court’s modern Second Amendment test, which requires gun regulations to align with how firearms were regulated at the time of the nation’s founding. |
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| Federal Appellate Court Okays
Planned Parenthood Funding Halt A three-judge panel on Tuesday overturned an injunction that stopped the Trump administration from halting Medicaid funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Officials for Planned Parenthood said the measure targeted it and forced the closure of 20 Planned Parenthood centers since the act took effect in July. Without legal intervention, Planned Parenthood officials said they might close up to 200 centers that are located in states controlled by Democrats and that allow abortion services to be provided. |
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| Harvard Professor Calls Out
University’s ‘Exclusion of White Males’ in Scathing Public Resignation A history professor who has taught at Harvard for 40 years is publicly calling out the Ivy League school over race-based hiring and admissions policies, a “shocking indifference” to antisemitism, and for its eroding commitment to teaching students about Western history. James Hankins wrote in a Compact Magazine essay titled “Why I’m Leaving Harvard” that his decision was largely influenced by the school’s abandonment of merit in favor of diversity quotas, which he said entirely changed “the way we conducted our affairs,” leaving extraordinary candidates behind if they did not have Harvard’s desired skin color or gender. |
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| HUD Audit Reveals $5.8 Billion in
Potentially Improper Rental Assistance Payments Under Biden There was a “significant misuse” of taxpayer funds under the Biden administration concerning rental assistance, which resulted in potential payment errors of nearly $5.8 billion, the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said in a statement on Dec. 30. The findings were made after HUD’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer examined all Project-Based Rental Assistance and Tenant-Based Rental Assistance payments made by the agency in 2024 using advanced data analytics for the first time. |
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| ACLU Transgender Chief Admits Legal
Defeat Due to Trump Admin, Now Calls for 'Stealth Strategy' Noah Stanton For years, Americans watched as radical gender ideology marched through institutions with seemingly unstoppable momentum – courtrooms, classrooms, corporate boardrooms, even military barracks. Parents who questioned why their children were being taught to reject biological reality were labeled bigots. Women who objected to men in their locker rooms were silenced... But something has shifted ... the machinery that once steamrolled opposition is grinding to a halt, and the architects of this social experiment are finally admitting what millions of Americans already knew: they’ve lost. |
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| Detransitioner Chloe Cole Shares
Complications After Gender Procedures: 'I am grieving' Medical victim Chloe Cole was at the center of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Thursday announcement of proposed regulatory actions to end "sex-rejecting procedures" on minors. The proposed regulatory actions by the HHS are part of President Donald Trump's January executive order calling on the department to protect children from "chemical and surgical mutilation." The department is rolling out a series of policy updates and regulatory actions that would effectively defund hospitals that provide gender transition procedures, according to an HHS official. |
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Week ending 28 December 2025 |
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| Why Do Pessimistic
Pundits Keep Getting Trump's Economy So Wrong? Stephen Moore Even more surprising than the blockbuster 4.3% economic growth rate recorded in the third quarter of 2025 was the fact that some 90% of the nation’s professional economists got it all wrong. These economic whiz-kids’ faulty forecast comes on the heels of their predictions last week that inflation was going to be above 3%. Instead, the actual number was 2.7%. Welcome to the gang that can’t shoot straight. |
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| Trump Administration
Halts $5.5 Million in Federal Funds to Minnesota Amid Scandal Noah Stanton Let’s be honest about the deal we make with the government. We, the American people, agree to hand over a portion of our hard-earned money. In exchange, we expect our leaders to guard that treasure with the seriousness it deserves. It’s a simple, foundational contract: don’t waste our money and don’t let criminals steal it. But in the sprawling administrative states run by liberal politicians, they treat that pact like trash. They build bloated, unaccountable bureaucracies where oversight is a dirty word. |
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| Yes, Democrats, Trump Does Own This
Economy I & I Editorial Board Timing is everything in humor, and in politics. So, it was particularly amusing to read a piece in MS NOW on Monday quoting Democrats who were all singing from the same hymnal – namely that President Donald Trump “owns the economy.” Obviously, these Democrats meant it in a bad way. But then, on Tuesday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its estimate for GDP growth in the third quarter: a blistering 4.3%. That was well ahead of economists’ expectations, and comes on top of a 3.8% growth in the second quarter. |
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| U.S. Economy Sets 2-Year High for
Growth, Exceeding Analysts' Expectations by More Than 40% The U.S. economy grew at a surprisingly strong 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, the most rapid expansion in two years, driven by consumers who continue to spend in the face of ongoing inflation. U.S. gross domestic product from July through September – the economy’s total output of goods and services – rose from its 3.8% growth rate in the April-June quarter, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a report delayed by the government shutdown. Economists surveyed by the data firm FactSet forecast growth of just 3% in the period. |
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| Americans Will Get 'gigantic' Tax
Refund Next Year, Treasury Secretary Says Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted that Americans will see "gigantic" refund checks in the upcoming filing season, thanks to tax cuts in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Bessent, who also serves as the acting commissioner of the IRS, made the remark during an appearance on the "All-In Podcast." The treasury secretary told the hosts that the tax provisions in the act, which Trump signed in July, applied retroactively to the beginning of the year, and because most workers did not change their withholdings, many can expect sizable refunds in 2026. |
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| Walz Under Fire As Minnesota Mayors
Sound Alarm on 'Financial Disaster' Ahead A group of 98 Minnesota mayors raised concerns with state leaders in a letter about their state's fiscal policies, saying they have impacted their cities and residents, noting a disappearing $18 billion surplus and a projected $2.9 billion to $3 billion deficit for the 2028-29 biennium. "Fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management in St. Paul have trickled down to our cities – reducing our capacity to plan responsibly, maintain infrastructure, hire and retain employees, and sustain core services without overburdening local taxpayers," the letter states. |
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| Media ‘complicity’ Blamed As Feds
Say Minnesota Fraud Crisis Could Reach $9B: 'Shown their true colors' Andrew Miller Minnesota’s sprawling fraud crisis has garnered national headlines in recent weeks, but several critics say the problem festered for years, aided by local media that appeared uninterested in holding people in power accountable. "In newsrooms, they’re told, ‘We can’t run that because we’re going to be accused of being racist,’" Townhall columnist Dustin Grage recently told Fox News Digital about news outlets in Minnesota essentially enabling the fraud by not calling out shocking taxpayer waste occurring primarily within the local Somali community. |
"The Minnesota Star Tribune masquerades as a newspaper" –columnist Miranda Devine |
| Tim Walz Gets More Bad News from
Feds After Massive Fraud Scandal Exposed  Democrat
Gov. Tim Walz just had millions of federal dollars cut off from the
Small Business Administration (SBA) to his state, due to the
multi-billion-dollar fraud scandal that occurred under the governor’s
nose. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler sent a letter to Walz on
Tuesday, telling the governor that her agency will “halt” more than
$5.5 million in annual support in the state “until further notice,” Fox
News reported. “This action is the result of a fundamental breakdown in
the public trust,” she said. “Under your leadership, Minnesota failed
to safeguard taxpayer dollars, and SBA will not continue to place
federal resources at risk in a state where oversight measures are
ignored and accountability is abandoned.” |
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| Walz Slammed in Wake of Viral Video
That Raises Daycare Funding Questions: 'Needs to Be Held Accountable' Politicians took to social media Saturday to criticize Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a viral video raised questions about a Minneapolis daycare center that allegedly received millions of dollars in state funding despite appearing largely inactive. Responding to an X post highlighting allegations of Somali Medicaid fraud and voter fraud in the state, Vice President JD Vance described the situation as "a microcosm of the immigration fraud in our system. Politicians like it because they get power. Welfare cheats like it because they get rich," Vance wrote. "But it's a zero sum game, and they're stealing both money and political power from Minnesotans." |
Full video link in article |
| HHS Report Finds Medicaid Paid Over
$200 Million in Incorrect Payments for Deceased Recipients A Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General report released Tuesday found that Medicaid improperly paid over $200 million to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for patients who had already died. The internal watchdog said its audit found that Medicaid programs paid $207 million to managed care organizations on behalf of deceased enrollees between July 2021 to July 2022. The proper death dates of the enrollees were recorded in the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. |
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| UK Flag Clash As Foreign Banners
Fly, Citizens Push Back Against Woke Policies Reshaping Britain  A
battle over British identity and the nation's flag is just the latest
issue to widen the political divide in the United Kingdom in 2025. As
the Labour government continues to face growing criticism over a number
of issues, from cracking down on free speech to its migration policies,
many Britons are concerned about their country's future. The issue
simmered over the summer amid concerns of a growing rift between the
ruling elites and members of the public centered on the nation’s flag.
The debate, while ongoing for several years, gained new life since
anti-Israel protests erupted after Hamas’ mass terror attack against
Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when Britain saw a proliferation of Palestinian
flags across the country. |
Brits should have been less woke years ago, IMHO. |
| DOGE Says 55 Contracts Worth $863
Million Canceled in Past 5 Days The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stated that federal agencies have terminated or scaled back 55 contracts over the past five days, eliminating an estimated $261 million in spending tied to what the task force described as wasteful or duplicative services. The canceled and descoped contracts had a combined ceiling value of $863 million, DOGE stated in a Dec. 22 social media post announcing its latest update... DOGE has estimated a total savings of more than $214 Billion since its creation, an amount it says equates to roughly $1,329 per taxpayer. |
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| Avast, Me Hearties! Lawmakers Want
Congress to Issue 'Letters of Marque' to Go After Cartel Drug Boats Rick Moran  Sen.
Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants to revive an ancient and honorable custom:
grant Congress the authority to issue Letters of Marque that would
allow U.S. citizens and others to legally interdict drug boats and
other cartel-owned ships and property, to be sold off. At least some of
the proceeds would go to the "privateers." The idea of giving Letters
of Marque to employ private citizens to police the oceans isn't new. As
recently as Sept. 11, 2001, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) introduced a bill
to grant Letters of Marque that would have legally allowed American
citizens to go after Osama Bin Laden and his assets. |
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| Migrant Truckers Sue California DMV
Over Canceled Commercial Drivers' Licenses The California DMV is facing a lawsuit brought on behalf of nearly 20,000 immigrant truckers over the state's plans to revoke their commercial drivers' licenses (CDLs). The Asian Law Caucus and the Sikh Coalition, along with the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in an effort to stop the California DMV from canceling the CDLs, which the complaint says would "result in mass work stoppages" starting Jan 5, 2026. |
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| America’s Energy Economy: Why Natural Gas and Nuclear Still Matter Timothy G. Nash, Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, Bob Thomas, Thomas Rastin Energy debates in America are often framed as a choice between the future and the past. But when it comes to the U.S. economy, that framing misses a crucial reality: reliable energy is not just an environmental or geopolitical issue, it is an economic one. And today, natural gas and nuclear energy remain a key foundation to American prosperity. When all impacts are included (both direct and indirect), the oil and natural gas industry contributes between $2.0 trillion and $2.4 trillion to U.S. Gross Domestic Product, representing roughly 7 to 8% of the total economy. Natural gas alone accounts for more than half of that share. These are not speculative numbers; they are derived from multiple methodologies from trusted resources. |
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| Republican Officials Warn Climate
Group to Stop Its ‘Assault’ on the American Economy Over a dozen Republican attorneys general warned a leftist climate group that it may be illegally attempting to eliminate fossil fuels from the American economy, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. “As You Sow, a little-known but influential member of the climate cartel, is attempting to eliminate the fossil-fuel industry, which will have a devastating impact on Montanans, especially in the winter when we need fossil fuels to heat our homes,” Knudsen told The Daily Wire. “Their efforts to push their green, woke agenda and box out the fossil-fuel industry appear to be a violation of antitrust and Montana consumer protection laws.” |
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| Destroying Countrysides to Save
Earth from a Climate Non-Crisis Paul Driessen Energy analyst Robert Bryce maintains a database showing that, as of November 2025, local communities have rejected or restricted 595 wind, 475 solar and (more recently) 72 large-scale battery projects. Many don’t want the installations blanketing wildlife habitats, scenic vistas, croplands or their backyard viewsheds; especially when the unreliable electricity is exported to faraway, power-hungry, virtue-signaling cities; and particularly when they are expected to help pay for installations and transmission lines that serve another state... Voters and ratepayers need to wake up to these realities – and vote ideologues out of power before they destroy the planet in misguided attempts to save it. |
300-megawatt battery inferno at Moss Landing, California. |
| Trump Admin Pauses 5 Wind Turbine
Projects Over ‘National Security Risks’ As Interfering with Military Radar Specifically, the federal government cited “clutter” from the motion of the “massive turbine blades” and the “highly reflective towers,” according to a press release from the Interior Department. “Today’s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers. Interior Sec. Burgum said that “ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as much energy as these 5 projects COMBINED.” The Trump administration will always prioritize the security of the American people,” he continued. |
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| Democrats’ Push for Epstein Files
Boomeranged with Clinton Featured Prominently Throughout Democrats' push for the release of documents surrounding convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein through a House vote appears to have backfired, as the disclosures intended to scrutinize Team Trump have instead spotlighted their own party's connections, including former President Bill Clinton's prominent mentions and salacious photos with the disgraced financier and/or young women. Clinton had long been married to Hillary Clinton at the time the photos were taken. |
DOJ
Cautions Newly Released Files Contain 'unfounded and false' Claims |
| U.S. Black Ops Plane Annihilates Drug Boat in Wild Combat Footage The United States military appeared to use a highly-advanced black operations plane to ventilate a drug boat. President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are currently overseeing a massive operation against narco-terrorists. The U.S. military has conducted more than 20 lethal boat strikes, and regularly releases the footage to the public. There's also an unprecedented military build-up near Venezuela as we await possible strikes against dictator Nicolás Maduro.  |
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| Tiny Pacific Nation to Take Up to
75 Deportees As Trump Administration Accelerates Mass Removals Palau has struck a deal with the U.S. to accept up to 75 deportees from the U.S. in exchange for $7.5 million in foreign aid. The agreement will allow "third-country nationals" who have never been charged with a crime to live and work in the Pacific nation, which has a population of about 18,000 people, according to announcements Wednesday from President Surangel Whipps Jr.’s office and the U.S. Embassy in Koror. |
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| Bondi Beach Shows That You Can’t
Buy a Gun Culture Paul G. Markel Once more, the entire world has witnessed the failure of citizen disarmament policy, at least regarding the promise of safety from violence. Yes, I am speaking of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack that claimed fifteen dead and wounded forty. It has been ten years since a spate of terror attacks in Germany, the aftermath of which had the German people scrambling for tools to defend themselves. We recall headlines such as “Germans Call for Gun Rights” or “German Right-Wing Backs Right to Arms.” Of course, at the time, we shook our heads knowing full well what was actually going to happen. The socialists running Germany used the terrorist attacks as an excuse to exercise even more control over the citizens. Now, just as the definition of insanity has foretold, the Australian government has vowed to enact even stricter regulations on civilian firearms ownership. |
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| Ice Arrests 100+ Illegal Alien
Truckers in Major Sweep After Deadly Crashes Across Multiple States U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 100 illegal alien truck drivers on California highways in Operation Highway Sentinel, launched after a string of deadly crashes linked to commercial driving licenses (CDLs) issued under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s policies. Federal authorities said the sweep was launched after multiple fatal crashes across several states involving illegal alien truck drivers licensed in California, underscoring growing concerns that the state’s commercial licensing policies are putting motorists nationwide at risk. |
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| DHS Arrests Over 17,500 Criminal
Illegal Immigrants Under Laken Riley Act The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has arrested and detained more than 17,500 criminal illegal immigrants under the Laken Riley Act, the department said in a Dec. 24 statement. The Laken Riley Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Jan. 29, in honor of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Hope Riley from Georgia, who was murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in February 2024. |
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| Dogs on Meth, 'binge drinking
ferrets' Featured in Rand Paul's Festivus Report on Wasteful Spending The federal government spent tens of millions of dollars on gruesome and pointless experiments on animals from dogs to dolphins, according to 2025's "Festivus" report by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., which uses the Seinfeld-invented Dec. 23 holiday to catalog more than $1.6 trillion in what he perceives as wasteful government spending. Paul especially highlights animal experiments in the report, which credits investigations by the anti-animal testing White Coat Waste Project for bringing several to his attention. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also credited WCW and Paul with exposing the Navy's sodomization of cats in last year's Festivus report. |
Biden reinstated program cut by first Trump admin allowing funds to be used again for this "research" |
| California Attorney General Joins
Coalition to Protect Trans Youth in Sports California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined 12 Democratic attorneys general on Tuesday, submitting an amicus brief opposing a legal challenge to Minnesota’s policies that allow transgender athletes to participate in female sports. The brief was submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Female Athletes United v. Ellison. The case challenges Minnesota’s statewide policy permitting transgender athletes to compete in female sports. The brief argues that Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity. It said excluding transgender athletes would violate the statute. |
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| Education Department to Start
Garnishing Wages Next Year for Those Who Defaulted on Student Loans The Trump administration ended the pause on student loan repayments in May that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, and began collecting on the debts by withholding tax refunds and other federal payments to those in default. The department said that it will begin sending notices to approximately 1,000 defaulted borrowers in the first week of January. The number of notices will then increase each month. There are currently 5 million borrowers in default. |
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| Justice Served: Oklahoma TA Fired After Punishing Student for Citing the Bible In the progressive hierarchy of protected classes, there’s one group that never quite makes the list. You can mock them, fail them, call their beliefs “offensive” – and until recently, face zero consequences. Christians, it turns out, have always been fair game on the modern college campus. Funny how that works, isn’t it? At the University of Oklahoma, a junior named Samantha Fulnecky learned this lesson the hard way. In her psychology class, students were assigned to write a response to a scholarly article about gender norms among adolescents. The assignment asked for a “thoughtful discussion” – and notably, the rubric did not require empirical evidence. Fulnecky, a woman of faith, responded thoughtfully. |
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Week ending 21 December 2025 |
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| Mogadishu
on the Mississippi Michael Smith One morning’s musings circled back to Minnesota... What’s unfolding there is not simply a local embarrassment but a revealing glimpse into how the modern Democrat political machine now operates. The state’s leadership, from Attorney General Keith Ellison to Representative Ilhan Omar to Governor Tim Walz ... treats the widening scandal over massive misappropriation of federal funds as little more than a minor cultural misunderstanding. Estimated losses run into the billions. Federal dollars evaporated into an ecosystem of shell organizations, sham nonprofits, and opportunistic intermediaries while state officials looked the other way. The Minnesota Mogadishu dynamic, as it’s beginning to look, is less an aberration than a microcosm of the Democrat Party’s national strategy. |
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| Incentivized
Entitlement Fraud Thomas Gallatin As the national debt topped $38 trillion thanks to decades of profligate deficit spending, the federal budget in the past fiscal year hit $7 trillion. A large portion of federal spending is on government programs of income redistribution -- taking money from some Americans and giving it to other Americans (or, all too often now, non-Americans). This is not constitutional, and the wisdom of this “charity” is, at best, debatable. America is a generous nation, but the demand for generosity as if it were a “deserved” right is no longer generosity; it has become an entitlement. Over time, the notion has emerged that people who do not work are entitled to compensation simply because they “need” it to survive. |
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| Trump Economist Predicts ‘Biggest Refund Cycle Ever,’ Massive Checks Ahead A leading contender to become President Trump’s next Federal Reserve chair said the administration expects larger tax refunds and higher take-home pay next year, as many Americans continue to express concerns about affordability. "We are going to see the biggest refund cycle ever in the history of America, and people are going to get massive refund checks," Kevin Hassett said in an interview on FOX Business' "Varney & Co." on Thursday. "We're expecting just that part of it alone to be worth a couple-thousand-dollar refund … the numbers are striking." |
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| House Republicans Pass Reforms to Lower Health Care Premiums and Restore Accountability U.S. House Committee on the Budget House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act – a targeted package of reforms designed to lower premium costs for all Americans, expand access to affordable coverage, and increase transparency to drive down prices across the health care system. "The law Democrats promised would make health care affordable did the opposite. Thanks to the (un)Affordable Care Act, premiums and deductibles have doubled, choices have decreased, all while 20 percent of claims are denied. Americans are paying more for less. The COVID-era expansion of Obamacare subsidies only made matters worse, driving up costs and padding the pockets of insurers and middlemen. |
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| HHS Demands Accounting from
Minnesota to Prove Feds' Money Didn't 'Fuel Illegal and Mass Migration' Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and the allegedly fraudulent nonprofit Feeding Our Future received demand letters from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a probe of whether federal money was used to "fuel illegal and mass migration" in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, an HHS official told the New York Post. The letters from Administration for Children and Families Assistant Secretary Alex Adams seek a "comprehensive list" of state entities funded by $8.6 billion in federal dollars and more than 1,000 grants from fiscal year 2019 to 2025, due Dec. 26. Minnesota got more than $690 million for safety net programs in President Biden's final fiscal year, the Post said. |
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| Media ‘complicity’ Blamed As Feds
Say Minnesota Fraud Crisis Could Reach $9B: 'Shown Their True Colors' Minnesota’s sprawling fraud crisis has garnered national headlines in recent weeks, but several critics say the problem festered for years, aided by local media that appeared uninterested in holding people in power accountable. "In newsrooms, they’re told, ‘We can’t run that because we’re going to be accused of being racist,’" Townhall columnist Dustin Grage recently told Fox News Digital about news outlets in Minnesota essentially enabling the fraud by not calling out shocking taxpayer waste occurring primarily within the local Somali community. On Thursday, federal prosecutors held a press conference where they revealed that the true scope of the fraud scandal could end up costing taxpayers around $9 billion. |
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| The
Sordid Tale of Ilhan Omar Continues Michael Swartz The pride of Somalia, Representative Ilhan Omar, has been on our radar screen for a while, dogged by a tangled web of accusations of tax evasion and immigration fraud that have clung to her ever since she became Little Mogadishu’s congressional representative nearly seven years ago. (Seems like 70.) You might remember that I got the ball rolling by noting, “The filing of improper tax returns only scratches the surface. Rumors have swirled around Omar’s marriage to [her brother Ahmed Nur Said] Elmi: that it was a sham in order to allow Elmi … to fraudulently enter the country... Then, just a couple of months later, we found out she had cheated on her husband and broken up another marriage, meanwhile enriching the new husband with $230,000 in campaign funds. These comments inspired Senator Ted Cruz to claim, “If this [allegation of marrying her brother to skirt immigration laws] is true, then Omar faces criminal liability under three different statutes,” citing immigration law, tax evasion law, and state law against incest. |
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| Stop the Fraud, Save the System: Minnesota Shows Why Enforcement Matters Samantha Koch From housing assistance to nutritional aid, program after program appears to have been exploited, siphoning millions – if not billions – from taxpayers. What’s most alarming is the growing evidence that this wasn’t merely negligence but a breakdown in accountability so severe that it was allowed to flourish under the watch of state leadership, including the governor himself. This scandal now sits at the center of a broader national debate with several questions that need to be answered: How did this happen? What does it mean for America’s immigration policies moving forward? Is it possible to reestablish a firm expectation for those coming into our country? |
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| Biden Border Crisis Fallout: Terror
Gang Tren de Aragua Charged in Massive ATM Malware Scheme Federal prosecutors say the Biden-era border crisis produced one of the most brazen cybercrime cases in years. The Department of Justice charged 54 alleged members of the Venezuelan terror gang Tren de Aragua with using sophisticated malware to loot millions from U.S. ATMs and funnel the cash back to their criminal network. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska unsealed two sweeping indictments charging 54 individuals for their alleged roles in a nationwide ATM “jackpotting” conspiracy tied to the violent Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TdA). Prosecutors say the group deployed sophisticated malware to force ATMs across the United States to dispense cash, stealing millions of dollars and funneling the proceeds back to TdA leadership. |
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| FBI Memos Detail a Half Dozen
Pay-To-Play Allegations Involving Hillary Clinton and Her Foundation Internal investigative files show FBI agents and federal prosecutors attempted to investigate a wide range of activities involving the State Department under then-Secretary of State Clinton a decade ago, including whether foreign donations made to the Clinton Foundation were used as improper influence on U.S. foreign policy. The FBI and DOJ inquiries were repeatedly shut down by FBI and DOJ leadership. The documents turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi show that career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ believed the Clinton Foundation saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it was hobbled. |
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| FBI Repeatedly Warned DOJ Didn't
Have Probable Cause to Raid Trump Home: 'Not been corroborated' The FBI in summer 2022 raised repeated objections to raiding Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, warning agents did not believe the Biden Justice Department had enough evidence to establish "probable cause" that the then-former president had broken the law in handling classified documents, according to bombshell memos turned over Tuesday to Congress. "WFO [FBI's Washington Field Office] has conducted approximately [Redacted] interviews related to this matter. Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents," a June 1, 2022 FBI memo declared. "From the interviews, WFO has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes (presumably of the same type as were sent back to NARA [National Archives] in January) at Mar-a-Lago." |
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| 'We Don't Dispute' It: Georgia 315k
Vote Bombshell Blows a Big Hole in 2020's 'Most Secure Election' Lie A Georgia State Election Board investigation substantiated that Fulton County violated election rules in 2020 by failing to have poll workers sign required tabulation tapes for early votes in 36 out of 37 advanced voting precincts, affecting approximately 315,000 ballots. These unsigned tapes broke the chain-of-custody and certification requirements under Georgia law, which mandates signed tapes as the sole legal proof of authentic vote totals. |
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| There’s No Evidence Australia’s Strict Gun Control Laws Are Effective John R. Lott Jr. Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun confiscation law as a successful model to emulate, while many Australians -- especially after the Bondi Beach terror attack earlier this week -- argue that the confiscation helped but failed to go far enough. Yet the supposed benefits of this policy rest on deeply flawed statistical analysis... Economists also note that people can substitute other methods for suicide or homicide, which makes total deaths more informative than firearm-specific counts. By that measure, the results look even worse. Immediately after the [Australian] confiscation, total suicides jumped by roughly 20 percent and remained at or above pre-confiscation levels. A decade later, firearm homicides had declined slightly, but total homicides had increased. |
Only policy to reduce number and severity of mass shootings was armed citizens permitted to carry concealed handguns. |
| Australians Arrest More Bondi
‘Violent Plotters,’ Looks Like Another Islamist Cell Catherine Salgado A few days after two ISIS-linked terrorists massacre more than a dozen Jews at a Hanukkah party on an Australian beach, police there have arrested another set of men whom they simply describe as suspected of a violent plot. But they might be hiding one key factor. The same Aussie police who were claiming they hadn’t identified a motive for the two Muslims, who drove up in a car festooned with Islamic State flags specifically to murder families at a Jewish holiday celebration, are also being very carefully vague about this latest arrest. But if video shared online is accurate, it appears this might have been another Islamic terrorist plot. |
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| National Science Foundation to
Break Up Major U.S. Climate Research Center in Colorado White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said Wednesday that the National Science Foundation will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The White House said it plans to identify and eliminate "green new scam research activities" during an upcoming review of the center in Boulder, according to USA Today, but critical functions will be moved to another location. "This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country," Vought said on X. |
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| Ford EVs – Found On Road Dead Brian Mark Weber During Joe Biden’s presidency, electric vehicles seemed all the rage. Back in 2021, he rode around the South Lawn of the White House and later jumped aboard a Ford F-150 Lightning for a photo op, excited over the smooth ride and quick acceleration. They also said it was good for the environment, quietly forgetting that part about relying on other countries to dig up the earth for rare minerals we don’t have, the energy it takes to make a battery, and the toxic chemicals that leak after disposal. In reality, though, Americans weren’t clamoring for more EVs.  |
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| The Electric Vehicle Collapse: Wow,
That Was Quick! Francis Menton It was less than three years ago -- early 2023 -- that I was writing about the then-universal government and industry line that electric vehicles (EVs) would soon be taking over the American car market. In April 2022 the Biden Administration had adopted aggressive vehicle mileage standards intended to be achievable only through rapid transition to EVs. Our “climate leader” states, California and New York, had then adopted regulations in August and September 2022, respectively, mandating a phase-out of sales of combustion vehicles, to culminate in 2035, after which only EVs would be allowed... The past few weeks have brought a lot of news on the EV front. The short version is that even I would not have predicted how quickly and completely the EV fantasy has collapsed. |
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| California 2025: Massive Blackout
Hits San Francisco Leaving Waymos Stuck at Intersections Bob Hoge California is famous for its weather – with good reason. Right now, as we get closer to Christmas, it’s 70 degrees and sunny, and I’ve got my office door wide open to the glorious day. Of course, we have plenty to endure here, too: earthquakes, ridiculous taxes, a corrupt and inefficient one-party state government led by a man (Gov. Gavin Newsom) more interested in pushing a woke agenda than he is about improving the lives of residents, rampant homelessness… You get the idea. And now, just in time for the holidays, San Franciscans were gifted a massive blackout that left over a hundred thousand people without power and caused Waymo self-driving taxis to literally stop in their tracks in the middle of the street. No bueno. |
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| New Patriot Interceptors to Allow
for “Over-The-Shoulder” Shots at Passing Targets A combination of new interceptors and launchers is set to give the Patriot surface-to-air missile system an “over-the-shoulder” engagement capability, the U.S. Army has disclosed. What this means is that future Patriot systems will have critical additional flexibility to engage threats, even ones that may have already passed overhead. This is something the system cannot currently do without physically reorienting its launchers, creating challenges in various intercept scenarios.  |
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| This Will Be the Navy’s New FF(X)
Frigate The U.S. Navy has confirmed its decision to acquire a new FF(X) frigate with a design based on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Legend class National Security Cutter, though there are immediate questions about its expected configuration. The new warships, the first of which is set to be launched in 2028, are intended to fill the gap left by the cancellation of the abortive Constellation class frigate program.  |
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| RFK
Throws Down the Gauntlet on Gender Mutilation Nate Jackson Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of Donald Trump’s disrupters, and his job at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been to undo the leftist orthodoxy among Washington’s health experts. That cultish dogma led to the tyrannical and scientifically dubious COVID response, among other things. It also accepts the gender mutilation of children, but RFK is putting the kibosh on that child abuse. |
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| House Passes Legislation That Makes
Performing Transgender Surgeries on Minors a Felony The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday night that makes it a felony for doctors to perform transgender surgeries and procedures on minors, despite heavy opposition from over 200 House Democrats. The legislation, titled the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, passed in a 216-211 vote, which saw 207 House Democrats and four moderate House Republicans object to it. Three House Democrats joined with their Republican counterparts to pass it. |
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| University of Illinois Lesson
Materials Push Leftist Race, Class Struggles on Future Teachers: Leaked Lectures Peter D'Abrosca More leaked PowerPoint lectures from a first-year University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign class show left-wing ideology woven into the fabric of the course. Fox News Digital obtained course material from weeks six and nine of EDUC 201, "Identity and Difference in Education," from a concerned student. The course is taken by future teachers, and is part of the university's education department. |
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| Clinical
Director Who Released Deranged Macy's Stabber Has Own History of Mental
Illness, Relied on Advice from Temp Psychiatrist Tina Moore, Rich Calder, David Spector The penny-pinching Manhattan Psychiatric Center administrator who greenlit the release of the deranged Macy’s stabber has a long history of mental illness herself – and made her decision on the recommendation of a “temporary” shrink, The Post has learned. Caitlin Stork, clinical director of the center on Wards Island, tried to kill herself twice as a teen and battled bipolar disorder, which was treated with lithium and the antipsychotic Seroquel, she told the Charlotte Observer in 2003. |
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