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Democrat voters would understandably like to be involved in selecting their presidential nominee, and some found themselves frustrated that they didn’t get a chance to do it in 2024.
For example, actor Jerry O’Connell visited Bill Maher’s show recently to reveal that his family got angry and physical with him when he suggested the unthinkable in Democrat orthodoxy about the 2024 presidential campaign.
“There was no planning,” he told his family, continuing to say that “this [defeat] is what they get. There should have been a primary.”
He naively claims that the lack of a primary to allow Democrat voter influence reflects a lack of planning.
Luke Rosiak, a fine reporter at the Daily Wire, has uncovered an explosive story about the Biden Administration's conspiracy to funnel $90 million in forgivable small business loans during the COVID pandemic.
They knew Planned Parenthood was not eligible, so in order to hide the transactions, they created a codename for the organization to hide their discussions from FOIA requests, violating the law. (X) Credit where credit is due: Joni Ernst ferreted out the scheme, which is yet another example of the massive Democratic fraud that was enabled by the COVID "emergency."
It all began when the floodgates for forgivable loans were opened in 2020, and the Trump administration
A routine Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspection of a commercial truck last Tuesday became the most recent in a string of drug apprehensions when officers discovered $8.1 million worth of methamphetamine, commonly referred to as meth, disguised as a shipment of tiles. The apprehension is an example of the many ways smugglers attempt to bring narcotics across the U.S. border and sparked praise from officials for CBP’s operations.
"As this significant seizure aptly illustrates, CBP officers work tirelessly to ensure that commerce flows and hard narcotics are stopped in their tracks,"
The Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge's decision to block its enforcement of a new press access policy, an appeals court ruled Monday.
The ruling by a divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit isn't the final decision in The New York Times' lawsuit against the Pentagon. But the panel's majority opinion said the Trump administration is likely to succeed in showing that the policy's escort requirement is legally valid.
The panel granted the government's request to suspend an April 9 decision
A watchdog group released a pair of reports exposing how teachers’ unions across the United States have funneled more than $1 billion into left-wing political causes over the past decade.
Research from Defending Education reveals that national teachers’ unions alone appear to have poured approximately $669 million toward left-wing causes, PACs, organizations, and campaigns since 2015, Fox News first reported. When including state and local affiliates, the figure skyrockets to more than $1 billion in total political spending.
The report tracks political spending from the two largest teachers’ unions in the U.S., the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), as well as their state-level affiliates.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin slammed Rep. Rosa DeLauro for being “uninformed” Monday after the Connecticut Democrat completely lost it and suggested he drink weed killer during a heated congressional budget hearing.
DeLauro, the purple-haired ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, argued Zeldin’s budget proposal “reads like a climate change denier’s manifesto” as she asked the EPA chief to “justify abandoning [the EPA’s] duty to protect Americans” from climate change.
Zeldin, a former Republican New York congressman, wasn’t having it. “Following the law,” he responded. “Section 202 of the Clean Air Act. Where does it say anything about fighting global climate change?” DeLauro, 83, remained silent.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pleading with the City Council to sign off on a budget extension — as the freshman city leader scrambles to try to milk Albany for more money with his wish list of new taxes DOA, The Post has learned.
Sources said Speaker Julie Menin — who has been a check on the mayor’s bloated budget spending — agreed to the request, with the caveat of the socialist mayor agreeing to find savings to fill the nearly $6 billion gap. Hizzoner requested the delay from the council with hopes that Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state lawmakers —
A “selfless and caring” Costco employee, who was his elderly mother’s sole caregiver, was killed in a senseless shooting after he tried to stop a gun-carrying shopper from entering the Ohio big-box store on Saturday, new court records show.
Randy Corrigan, 61, was working at the Strongville, Ohio Costco last Saturday when witnesses say he told a man walking up to the entrance with a “drum magazine protruding from one of his pockets” that he could not enter the store with a gun, according to court documents obtained by FOX 8.
Mamdani’s plan to delay pension payments
echoes the schemes that brought NYC to
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echoes the schemes that brought NYC to
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Despite a $7.1 billion hole, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pushed back against any serious cutting to his budget and instead wants to delay required payments to city pension funds.
That’s precisely the kind of tactics that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in the ’70s.
At the least, it will saddle future taxpayers with unnecessary costs.
For the moment, the city is on-track to meeting its long-term pension-funding obligations by its 2032 deadline.
Yet to help close his budget hole, Mamdani would push $1 billion worth of payments into the 2040s.
That would be both costly and risky.
Viktor Orbán, the valiant populist, the restorer of the Christian faith in Hungary, the welcome thorn in the side of the EU establishment, and the strong ally of President Trump since his first bid for office, has lost his own re-election bid. I had a feeling it would come to this.
Sixteen years of uninterrupted administration as a strong force for conservative, right-wing nationalist populism have come to an end, at least with Orbán as the head of it.
Sometimes, voters have a strange fatigue when it comes to governments. Fourteen years of a “conservative” UK government ushered in the Labour Party in 2024. However, fatigue doesn’t explain Orbán’s crushing loss.
Teachers’ unions have spent more than $1 billion in member dues and fees on political activism and left-wing social causes since 2015, according to a new watchdog report.
The spending captured in Defending Education’s report includes both national and local unions, including $669 million from national unions and $339 million at the local level.The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), two national teachers’ unions, spent a combined $669 million over the past ten years, including $44 million to For Our Future, a progressive political group focusing on social equity and climate justice in key battleground states;
Just 18 hours after the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump and high-ranking officials in his administration, Democrat candidate for the California governorship Katie Porter sent out an expletive laced email aimed at Trump. The language used in the email is highly profane, so fair warning. While the expletives are incredibly asinine, the real kicker is the second to last paragraph.
“We know what Trump is willing to do and how far he is willing to go — he’s willing to kill people in the streets, to rip healthcare away, to ruthlessly attack our democracy,” the email read.
Earlier, RedState reported on a statement made by Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) a day after the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in less than two years.
In a Sunday night tweet, Jeffries wrote that "America will not be lectured about civility by far-right extremists in Congress. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January 6." He added, "Now is a time to unify," which was a rather strange remark considering he just called his political opposition, which has legit concerns about incendiary Democrat rhetoric, "far-right extremists."
The latest controversy hovering over liberal comedian Jimmy Kimmel is leaving a sour taste among those in ABC's orbit. Kimmel is under fire yet again, this time for a poorly-timed joke he made targeting President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump just two days before Saturday's shocking assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) Dinner, where the Trumps and nearly the entire Cabinet were located.
On his own program, the late-night host depicted his own version of the WHCA Dinner where he emceed the annual gala, and leveled several jabs at both the president and first lady.
Assassination, Normalized: WHCD Gunman
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Cole Tomas Allen, the gunman who tried to murder President Donald Trump and other senior officials at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday, is the latest would-be assassin whose radicalization owes less to the juvenile rantings of left-wing influencers than to the everyday rhetoric of mainstream Democrats and media figures.
Many have pointed out that just days before the failed assassination, the New York Times hosted a roundtable discussion in which radical left-wing pundits Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino endorsed shoplifting and other crimes while expressing sympathy for Luigi Mangione, the gunman accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Piker is a beefcake moron who hates America and routinely
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attacked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for criticizing Democrats for their violent rhetoric after a shooting took place in the vicinity of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
During a press conference on Monday, Jeffries labeled Leavitt a “stone-cold liar,” and accused her of reading “talking points” and being critical of words Democrats had said.
“I know you said you stand by your comment, but at the same time you have been a subject of threats as well, so, with respect to this comment about maximum warfare, even if it’s about redistricting, why not tone down the language
Hearings on Virginia’s Tuesday redistricting special election began Monday with the fate of four additional Democratic congressional seats hinging on whether the state’s 45-day early voting period constitutes an ongoing election.
Following the hearing, former Virginia Attorney General and head of the Election Transparency Initiative, Ken Cuccinelli, laid out the current and potential future cases before the Virginia Supreme Court that are challenging the state’s attempt to gerrymander its congressional map in favor of Democrats as the midterm elections approach.
Cuccinelli said there are four constitutional challenges focused on how the amendment was passed and two statutory challenges alleging the vote should be invalidated.
The vehicle kill switch may be getting another chance to be killed in Congress this week as a member of the House Rules Committee wants to repeal legislation that directs automakers to install surveillance technology on all new vehicles starting in 2027.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas,opens in a new tab a committee member and influential congressman on the conservative House Freedom Caucus, says the Biden-era mandate poses “a direct threat to our Fourth Amendment rights.”
“Republicans should not be continuing a blatantly invasive Biden-era policy that enables round-the-clock monitoring of Americans in their own cars,” Roy told The Daily Signal while the possibility of the amendment was still being discussed
First, it becomes very important for people to understand some of the inside baseball in Washington DC circles in order to hold context for what has been made public today by the office of Senator Chuck Grassley.
Inside Chuck Grassley’s office there is an investigative team that every GOP senator and congressman will admit consists of the very best researchers and knowledgeable staff officials on how the Deep State operates. Grassley’s office is the venue, the vehicle or vessel, for those investigators to operate; Chuck Grassley is not organizing this group – he facilitates it.
No Conspiracy Required
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"The Democratic Party has created monsters among them," Jan. 6 criminal defense attorney Marina Medvin posted to X in the wake of yet another assassination attempt on President Donald Trump Saturday night. "The most interesting part" of attempted assassin Cole Allen's manifesto and social media posts is that they're "generally indistinguishable from most liberal social medial accounts belonging to Democrat voters in America."
Dems, you have a problem.
"The same week the New York Times published a cozy interview justifying the murder of people whose politics you don’t like, the same week we learned that the Unite the Right Charlottesville rally was funded by the Left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center,
No King but King of comedy!
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President Trump appeared last night for an interview by correspondent Norah O’Donnell on 60 Minutes. O’Donnell seems to me a vile partisan hack along with the rest of the 60 Minutes crew. CBS News has posted the transcript of her interview online here.
In the course of the interview O’Donnell inadvertently provided Trump the opportunity to refute the ridiculous No Kings protest movement that has found such popularity among Trump haters across the land and close to home in the Twin Cities. O’Donnell observed that the attempted assasssin of Trump this past Saturday evening had attended a No Kings protest in California. Winding up for a second or two, Trump
John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, has weighed in on Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which took place at the same hotel.
Speaking to TMZ, Hinckley said the recent shooting attempt was “spooky” because it occurred at the same venue where he carried out his 1981 attack.
Hinckley stated that the Washington Hilton “is not secure” and urged the hotel to stop hosting major high-profile events “because bad things keep happening there.”
A flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and false claims about the shooting at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents' Association dinner spread online at a notable and concerningly speedy rate, mostly about the baseless theory that the incident had been staged. (Snip) This time, it was less than two or three hours. The response highlights how conspiracy theories and a knee-jerk skepticism of current events have become the default response for a growing number of Americans, deepened by the loss of trust in institutions and supercharged by starkly partisan politics. “I would have been surprised if they hadn’t developed because we’re
She wrapped up what she thought was going to be her final press briefing on Friday, as she was scheduled to go on maternity leave. After Saturday night’s assassination attempt by a crazed leftist against President Trump and his cabinet members at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, however, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt felt that Monday was too important a day to stay home. It would be nice to rest up on the couch and prepare for her soon-to-be-born baby, but instead, she brought her usual fire to the podium and blasted the Left for their incendiary rhetoric. Asked what the administration could do to bring down the temperature