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Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) on Monday took a swing at his Democratic congressional colleague Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) over Iran.
The president’s saying he’s now considering taking military action inside Iran, do you want the U.S. to get involved like that?” Bolduan asked Fetterman.
“Sure, absolutely. And now, if it continues to make more sense, absolutely. I think I was the only Democrat that fully supported our strike of their Iranian nuclear facilities last year. And now, by then, without those kinds of strikes, Iran could have acquired a nuclear bomb,” the Keystone State senator responded.
Key national security officials with the Trump administration—
J.K. Rowling blasted the silence of leftists who claim to be human rights supporters amid the recent anti-Islamic regime protests in Iran, saying their silence proves they don’t care about "people being oppressed and brutalized" as long as it’s being “done by the enemies of your enemies.”The famed “Harry Potter” author was one of the first to effectively rail against the injustice of the insane transgender agenda, proven right by everyone eventually. And once again, she’s on the right side of history, showing her support to those people who are risking their lives in Iran by speaking out against their oppressive government.
Rarely can more than two birds be killed with one stone in foreign policy. That is, unless leadership can grasp multi-causality or multi-causal synchronicity and carry out bold and adept policy executions with finesse in different theaters. A unique part of President Donald Trump’s success in leadership is precisely this ability.The surprise stealth operation in Venezuela in the dark of early morning January 3, 2026, resulted in the flawless capture of President Nicolás Maduro – one of the worst international criminals and enemies of the United States. What many underappreciate is that the Venezuela shaped by Maduro is the key to achieving peace in the Western hemisphere and beyond.
Earlier today the Supreme Court denied cert in a case called Marquis v. Massachusetts, upholding a decision by the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts that the colonel of the state police has the discretion to decide who is "suitable" to own and carry a firearm in the state. That "suitability" authority is given to local police chiefs as well, and goes well beyond the "shall issue" criteria that SCOTUS said was constitutional in the Bruen decision.The SJC will soon have the opportunity to review another "suitability" case, and in this particular matter a Massachusetts appellate court actually got it right.
Have you ever “taken to the streets” over any issue? Marched in a protest? Chanted whatever some weirdo ordered you to repeat? Maybe, but probably not. The only protests or marches I’ve ever attended were one against war a friend wanted to go to and he didn’t want to drive to DC alone (plus, I’d never been to DC at that point), one I got extra credit for in college involving newspaper strike, and one that was an annual even to “protest” pot laws because we went to meet chicks and get stoned in a crowd – mostly the novelty of it (which is now common).
You won't catch the mainstream media digging too deep into Renee Good's backstory. They want you to see her as an innocent “Minnesota Mom” who dropped her kid off at school and just accidentally wound up in the middle of an ICE operation. The truth is, she was there to obstruct ICE and antagonize them. She eventually attempted to run one over with her car, getting shot in the process.
The left has invested heavily in this narrative, which is why they don’t want you to know the truth about her anti-ICE activism and her involvement in Minnesota ICE Watch.
I keep a mental "reality rating" of friends and cohorts when it comes to political accuracy. People, mostly libstanks, like to vomitously spew out political "facts" they believe to be true, which a 30-second web search will usually prove false.
Today, when a member of a cohort with a "reality rating" of 0% (she hasn't been right even once) gleefully asked me if I had heard that Elon Musk's Grok AI was churning out nude pictures of celebrities and even kids, I honestly said I had not heard this "fact." But I knew one thing for sure: It's a lie. I was right.
Texas Strips American Bar Of Law School
Oversight After ‘Unlawful Discrimination’ Complaints replies
Oversight After ‘Unlawful Discrimination’ Complaints replies
Law schools in Texas will no longer need the American Bar Association’s (ABA) approval after the state supreme court ruled this month that the organization will no longer have the final say on accreditation.
Approval of law schools now rests with the Texas Supreme Court, according to the Jan. 6 ruling. Concerns over ABA’s objectivity have been growing in recent months, and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in February 2025 even accused the organization of subjecting law schools and students “to unlawful race and sex discrimination under the guise of ‘diversity’ mandates” by forcing schools to ensure their student and staff bodies are “diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.”
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surged into Minneapolis, Minnesota, one local McDonald’s made a public display against the upholding of federal immigration law.
The Daily Wire posted an image of the sign, which was captioned “NO ICE ACCESS IN THIS BUSINESS,” to social media platform X on Thursday afternoon.
The sign was clear that it was intended as a “NOTICE TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT & IMMIGRATION AGENTS.” “This is a private business,” it said.
“You are not permitted to enter non-public areas of this business (including offices, break rooms, storage areas, and staff-only areas) without a valid JUDICIAL WARRANT signed by a judge or magistrate.”
The Trump administration has canceled the Biden administration’s rules forcing banks to ignore immigration status for loan applications.
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 administration maintained that considering immigration status would violate anti-racism laws that ensure equal and fair lending practices.
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.
Sen. Ernst, Rep. Gosar demand NIH halt
$3M in funding for Anthony Fauci’s ‘bat
facility’ in Colorado replies
$3M in funding for Anthony Fauci’s ‘bat
facility’ in Colorado replies
Two Republican lawmakers demanded Monday that the National Institutes of Health halt more than $3 million in taxpayer funding for “sketchy” research on live bats involving “experimental infection studies” with “SARS-related coronaviruses” like the one that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) called on NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to “immediately … stop this batty research,” which was prompted by the since-debarred nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance and spurred on by former NIH officials Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, per a letter exclusively obtained by The Post.
An as-now uncanceled grant of $2.2 million from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to
A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That
Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World
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Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World
War III' replies
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday — is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam. In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years. And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.
Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero companies.
Meta Platforms on Monday appointed former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair of the technology conglomerate, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Powell McCormick, who is married to Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick, served as President Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser during his first term, and previously held several roles in the George W. Bush administration. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that Powell McCormick is “uniquely suited” to oversee multi-billion dollar investments due to her extensive background on Wall Street and in the White House. “Dina’s experience at the highest levels of global finance, combined with her deep relationships around the world, makes her
If you had a bad case of political whiplash following the events of Tuesday and Wednesday, you're not alone. Usually it takes weeks if not months or Democrats and the media to put the full measure of their hypocrisy on display; this week, it took less than 24 hours. (snip) Representative Mike Levin, a Democrat from California, in an ironic harbinger of things to come the very next day, gave a heartfelt plea asking his colleagues to honor the officers who stood between "democracy and chaos" hat afternoon. (snip) But just hours later, those same Democrats once again took the side of "chaos" (snip.)
Sen. Mark Kelly Sues Pete Hegseth Over
Military Rank Demotion Due To Viral ‘Illegal
Orders’ Video replies
Military Rank Demotion Due To Viral ‘Illegal
Orders’ Video replies
Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday — challenging Hegseth’s move to demote Kelly’s military rank after the senator told service members to defy the Trump administration’s “illegal orders.”
Kelly’s lawsuit, which was docketed in Washington D.C., claims Hegseth’s efforts to demote his rank following his November 2025 appearance in a viral video violates the Constitution’s speech or debate clause. Kelly argued in a statement announcing the suit that the executive branch has never before sought to impose military sanctions on a U.S. lawmaker over saying “something that the President or Secretary of Defense doesn’t like.”
Brooks Koepka returns to PGA Tour under
stiff financial penalty just 5 weeks after
leaving LIV replies
stiff financial penalty just 5 weeks after
leaving LIV replies
HONOLULU — Brooks Koepka is returning to the PGA Tour just five weeks after bolting from LIV Golf, agreeing to a one-time program for elite players that comes with a financial penalty that could rank among the largest in sports.
Koepka plans to resume his PGA Tour career in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines at the end of the month.
But he will not be eligible for PGA Tour equity grants for five years, he will not receive FedEx Cup bonus money in 2026 and he cannot play signature events unless he earns his way in.
The out-of-pocket cost is a $5 million charity donation
Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state's registration rolls (snip) after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits against the state in recent months. Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read (snip) outlined two new directives (snip) to address the roughly 800,000 voter records that are being maintained by state officials. (snip) [O]regon paused removals in 2017. (snip) "[I]'s astounding that they haven't been removing anybody from the voter force in almost a decade because this is very basic 101 level election administration," said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project.
Minnesota sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a court to halt a massive federal immigration operation they claim is unconstitutional, politically motivated and endangering public safety.
The lawsuit claims “Operation Metro Surge” has led to racial profiling and disruptions to public life.
“The unlawful deployment of thousands of armed, masked, and poorly trained federal agents is hurting Minnesota,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. “People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted."
As the Iranian uprising continues to escalate, it’s been reported that hundreds of protesters have been killed by the regime’s security forces.
The internet, phone signals and lighting have been cut, and it’s feared the killings are intensifying behind the blackout.
Yet the Iranian people have increasingly poured onto the streets to confront the regime’s murder and torture squads. There’s never been such a mass display of raw courage in the teeth of such vicious repression.
If the regime does fall, this will be a seismic event, reshaping the region and world politics. The insurrection might be the most consequential global event so far this century.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed on Monday the uprising against his brutal regime is “now under total control” after hundreds, or even thousands, of civilians were killed by security forces.
Estimates of the death toll vary widely. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said 496 protesters have been killed, plus 48 members of Iran’s security forces, and about 10,600 people have been arrested over the past two weeks. Iran Human Rights (IHR), a group based in Norway, cited “unverified reports” that “suggest the possibility that over 2,000 people may have died” since the regime began shutting down Internet and mobile phone access on Thursday to cover its activities.
The average national price for a gallon of gas dropped to $2.796, the lowest we’ve seen since 2021, per AAA.For obvious reasons, the White House is eager to spread this good news.
“In 43 states, the average gas price is below $3/gal. In 30 states, it’s below $2.75/gal,” wrote the White House’s official Rapid Response X account. “In 17 states, it’s at or below $2.50/gal.”The cost of gas is the tip of the wedge to achieve that new word everyone’s using these days: affordability.Those gas station signs we all pass displaying that day’s cost per gallon acts as a national barometer about how we feel about the economy.
President Trump declared Monday that the US would be “screwed” if the Supreme Court rules against his reciprocal tariff policies — arguing the feds would have to “pay back” billions in revenue collected over the past year.
“[I]f the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this National Security bonanza, WE’RE SCREWED!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“The actual numbers that we would have to pay back if, for any reason, the Supreme Court were to rule against the United States of America on Tariffs, would be many Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,”
British Defence Secretary John Healey has ruffled the feathers of the Kremlin after saying that he would like to capture Russian leader Vladimir Putin and put him on trial for war crimes.In the wake of the stunning display of military prowess by the Trump administration’s pre-dawn operation that saw the toppling and capture of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, UK Defence Secretary John Healey openly pined for the ability to exact the same fate on the President of nuclear power Russia, Vladimir Putin.During a visit to Ukraine on Friday, the Labour politician said in comments reported —
The West should ban radical Islamist groups and back President Donald Trump’s suggestion of military action to suppose “the good guys” on the ground in Iran, said Brexit leader Nigel Farage on Monday.Reform UK leader and Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage has stepped up his longstanding support of the Persian people and the return of the country’s former monarchy on Monday, addressing a rally outside the Iranian embassy. Handed the microphone at the protest, Mr Farage declared “freedom for Iran”, hailed the “beautiful Persian people”, and hailed victory, “whatever the terrible price being paid by many innocent people in every Iranian city right now”.