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If the title of this column seems to exaggerate the potential impact of last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, it’s probably because most political pundits have focused on its effect below the Mason-Dixon Line. But the majority-minority congressional districts that will need to be altered pursuant to the Court’s ruling are far more pervasive than most realize. Ballotpedia, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey, estimates that these racially gerrymandered districts account for 148 seats in the House of Representatives. This is about one third of the House’s 435 districts.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in critical but stable condition, according to a statement posted Sunday on X. Ted Goodman, a political strategist who launched a livestream program with Giuliani, posted about the hospitalization on Sunday evening. "Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition," Goodman wrote. "Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he's fighting with that same level of strength as we speak. "We do ask that you join us in prayer for
US President Donald Trump on Sunday rejected Iran’s latest proposal to end its war with the US and Israel, calling it unacceptable.
The 14-point proposal reportedly includes multiple stages of negotiations, with the sides first bringing the fighting to a close and opening the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days. The US and Iran would only later begin talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to reports on the Iranian terms. The offer also reportedly floats an up to 15-year freeze on nuclear enrichment, followed by curbs on the program.
“It’s not acceptable to me. I’ve studied it, I’ve studied everything – it’s not acceptable,”
Prayers for Jim and Joe Hoft
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Jim Hoft and Joe Hoft are twin brothers. Jim Hoft is the founder of Gateway Pundit and preparing for heart surgery in Florida on Tuesday. Then, last night, Joe Hoft suffered a stroke while preparing to go to Florida to support his brother Jim. Terrible news. Prayers for both.Heavenly Father, we have need for You today. Please provide Your healing power and grace upon Jim and Joe Hoft.
Lord of mercy guide those who tend their afflictions. We accept Your works through those You guide and love powerfully, completely and unconditionally. Our first, last and final healing is always found in You. \
The first drones intended to stop school shootings from Campus Guardian Angel are set to go live Friday at Deltona High School.
Florida’s legislature has appropriated $557,000 to have drones in the Broward, Leon, and Volusia school districts, with Deltona High School being the first.
Georgia has also appropriated $550,000 for drones in five of their high schools, yet to be decided by the State’s Department of Education.
“Georgia went from first conversations to funding a pilot through the legislature in maybe 120 days,” CEO and co-founder of Campus Guardian Angel Justin Marston told The Center Square, which is lightning speed for Congress.
Many other states are interested in piloting these drones.
A search and rescue operation is underway in southern Morocco after two U.S. service members were reported missing off the southern coast of the North African nation during annual training exercises.
A defense official told CBS News that the soldiers were last seen near ocean cliffs near the Cap Draa Training Area. Initial reports indicate they may have fallen into the ocean, the official said. No foul play is suspected, sources told CBS News. Defense officials confirmed to CBS News both missing service members were U.S. Army soldiers. The names of the soldiers and further details have not yet been released
Ground teams, aerial assets and maritime elements from
Dying ex-Rep. Barney Frank delivers stark
warning from hospice about Dems swinging
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warning from hospice about Dems swinging
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Liberal icon, former Rep. Barney Frank, who is dying of congestive heart failure, spoke out from hospice to deliver a stark warning to Democrats for swinging too far to the left on social issues — and said it will cost them with voters.
The 86-year-old former congressman, who is famous for fighting to legalize same-sex marriage and pushing to regulate Wall Street after the 2008 financial meltdown, hopes his lefty bona fides will help his message resonate with the far left. “It’s precisely because I have been on the left that I have undertaken this,” Frank told CNN’s “State of the Union”
Jim Hoft, the founder and publisher of the Gateway Pundit, is currently in the hospital awaiting a much-needed surgery on his heart. Like Jim, his beloved twin brother, Joe Hoft, is a fearless patriot who loves America and fights every day to expose the truth behind the mainstream media’s lies. Joe is an international auditor, conservative talk show host, and founder of his own conservative news site, JoeHoft.com, and continues to be a contributor at the Gateway Pundit. Last night, while making flight reservations from Florida to visit his twin brother Jim before his scheduled heart surgery this week, Joe Hoft suddenly began feeling lightheaded. He lay down,
‘Is there anything Gavin hasn’t destroyed?’
California 911 system upgrade reportedly
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California 911 system upgrade reportedly
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California’s emergency telephone service has become another victim of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s dismal leadership.
After seven years and nearly $500 million spent, California’s 911 emergency system overhaul is a failure, as Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, reported.
“During his first year in office, the governor confidently projected that he would replace the state’s emergency call system within three years, a goal that officials previously estimated would cost $132 million. But nearly seven years later, the state has spent more than $450 million on a regionalized ‘Next Generation’ digital system that suffered such appalling failures
A two-alarm fire erupted inside a lab at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg on Saturday, and video shows green flames coming out of the building.
The blaze at the university’s Marine Science Laboratory was reported when a witness saw the flames from outside, according to Fox 13. [Tweet]
Approximately 200 firefighters and multiple units rushed to the scene to quell the blaze and St. Petersburg Fire District Chief Michael Lewis told the outlet on Saturday crews would monitor the scene overnight.
“We are just mopping up some hotspots. We are going through and confirming all of the hazardous materials that were on scene.
A University of Alabama student apparently picked the wrong ex-girlfriend to allegedly beat up — when the victim’s dad, a Long Island cop, showed up the next day on his porch and had things to say that got him arrested as well.
Ryan DellaFranco, 20, allegedly attacked his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend inside his off-campus apartment, according to the Tuscaloosa Police Department, news outlets reported.
Police have been tight-lipped about the details, but not social media, according to the New York Post, which featured one online account in its coverage.
“He slammed her head into a toilet and was over top of her choking her,”
Stephen Cooper, a Satanist biological male who identifies as a woman named Katrina DeVille and is running as a Democratic Socialist in the 2026 primary for Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District, has been forced to delete a campaign-related video showing him at a gun range shooting at targets that included President Donald Trump.
Cooper was subsequently banned from speaking at the Democrat Party’s 8th Congressional District convention being held this weekend at UW-Green Bay.
After facing the severe blowback for the unhinged video, Cooper posted a TikTok video attempting to walk back the controversy,
Southwest Airlines finds itself under fire as one of its flight attendants has been busted for calling for President Donald Trump’s assassination in a series of social media posts. (Snip) As first uncovered by Libs of TikTok, Southwest flight attendant Meesh Carpino pleaded for Allen to finally take out Trump once and for all.
“Oh, sweet baby Jesus,” she wrote while following the incident.
She then grew angry after learning the third attempt on Trump’s life had failed.
“WE NEED BETTER ASSASSIN’S! [sic],” she angrily stated.
A despondent man was saved by a Jacksonville, Florida, police officer and a team of other cops who talked the individual out of jumping as he was perched on the edge of a bridge nearly two hundred feet above the St. Johns River.
Recently released body cam video taken on April 12 on the Dames Point Bridge shows Officer Antonio Richardson talking to the man and evoking faith — faith in God and faith that the man has a better future. [Tweet, video]
“Whatever you’re going through, man, you can get through it,” Richardson can be heard saying in the video.
A man running for the U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania has been arrested for leaving voicemails threatening President Donald Trump and the family of an unnamed member of Congress.
Raymond Eugene Chandler III has been charged with Influencing, Impeding or Retaliating against a Federal Official by Threatening a Family Member and Influencing, Impeding or Retaliating against a Federal Official by Threat, according to an unsealed affidavit from May 1.
One voicemail message Chandler allegedly sent to the unnamed member of Congress graphically depicts a scenario Chandler hoped the congressman would imagine where wealth protestors have surrounded his home
Erika Kirk slammed attendees at the White House correspondents’ dinner who inspired the shooter’s hate but had intended to enjoy a luxury dinner with Donald Trump undisturbed, calling it the “ultimate hypocrisy” to “manufacture the hate and then profit off the results.” The crazies were “willing to have dinner with ‘Hitler’” if it meant free champagne.
Leftists believe in hurling the most inflammatory and vile rhetoric at their opponents, ginning up as much violence and chaos as possible, but never personally experiencing the negative results of any of their own lies. The same journalists and media anchors who spent years calling Donald Trump the greatest threat to democracy
An illegal migrant on Long Island fatally butchered a beloved mom of two and another woman in separate savage attacks — before calling cops and calmly confessing he “killed somebody,’’ police said.
Rony Yahir Alvarenga Rivera, 22, of El Salvador — who entered the US as an unaccompanied 12-year-old in 2016 — knifed a 42-year-old coworker to death at an Island Park Wendy’s around 12:30 a.m. Friday, authorities said.
The victim, identified by CBS-TV News as Ana Maria de Aguila Cordova, a mother of two from Long Beach, was taking out the trash when she was ambushed.
“I can’t stop crying,’’ a weeping female Wendy’s coworker told The Post on Sunday,
A crazed United Airlines passenger has been arrested after allegedly attacking a flight attendant and trying to storm the cockpit as the plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport.
United Flight 1837 had just arrived from the Dominican Republic at around 6 p.m. Saturday when the pilot was forced to declare an emergency on board.
Wild audio of the conversation between air traffic control and one of the crew members captures the chaotic scenes on arrival at the New Jersey hub.
“We’re declaring an emergency, seems like someone just attacked one of our flight attendants,” the crew member tells air traffic controllers.
At least one person was killed and three were injured in a mass shooting at a post-prom party in Indianapolis early Sunday, cops said.
Police were called to a rental house on the city’s north side at around 3:30 a.m. to reports of gunfire, WTHR reported.
When officers arrived, they found one woman who was critically wounded. She was rushed to the hospital and later died of her injuries.
Cops later received reports of two more victims who had managed to walk into a nearby hospital for treatment. All four victims are believed to have been shot at the same property, a short-term rental where a post-prom party was being thrown.
What would be unpardonable is if US President Donald J. Trump simply replaced a brutal Islamic dictatorship with an equally brutal non-Islamic dictatorship -- as seen in other adversaries of the West such as Russia, China, and North Korea.
At the height of the violence in mid-January, Trump memorably told the Iranian protesters that "HELP IS ON ITS WAY", while calling on the anti-regime activists to "seize control of your destiny."
Iran is still drawing out negotiations as it reconstructs its nuclear and missile sites.
Meanwhile, concerns are growing that Trump is losing interest in the plight of ordinary Iranians. He has recently been stating that he no longer regards regime—
MILAN, Italy — While President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni may have been somewhat feuding over Trump’s criticisms of Pope Leo XIV and NATO during the Iran war, there remains deep ties between the movements that elected both of the leaders in their respective countries. Matteo Salvini, the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Lega or League political party that rounds out the coalition that put Meloni in as Prime Minister, held a huge rally a couple weeks ago in Duomo Square here in Milan alongside other major European conservatives like Jordan Bardella from France and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands.
A senior Iranian military official warned Saturday that a “renewed conflict” with the United States is “likely” after President Donald Trump said he is “not satisfied” with Tehran’s latest proposal and signaled military options remain on the table, saying he “can’t imagine” the offer would be acceptable given Iran has “not yet paid a big enough price” for its actions over the past 47 years. Speaking to reporters before departing West Palm Beach, Florida, President Trump said he would review the proposal after being briefed only on the “concept of the deal,” noting, “They’re going to give me the exact wording now…
In 1994, Democrats tried to undermine pro-life Republicans by passing the original FACE Act. In the beginning, the law was intended to protect those who visited medical facilities from intimidation, harassment, violence, threats of force, and other illegal actions. Over the years, the Democrats have watered down and abused the law, applying it primarily to pro-life demonstrators and rarely, if ever, to pro-abortion demonstrators.
In April, a report was issued by the Weaponization Working Group, which confirmed that the FACE Act had been used to weaponize the Justice Department against pro-life groups:
The report accuses the Justice Department and FBI under former
Does Islam Work?
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Is Islam good for you? Is it actually beneficial for individuals and societies?
These questions have seldom, if ever, been asked. Most people in America today, having been the unwitting victims of a quarter-century of propaganda, assume that Islam, like all other religions, is peaceful and benign, beneficial to both individuals and societies, albeit “hijacked” at the hands of a “tiny minority of extremists,” the likes of which we see in all religious traditions.
Yet the constant drumbeat continues: there are jihad attacks around the world virtually every day, and increasingly in the United States. All of their perpetrators insist they acted in accord with Islamic teachings. There is a distressingly