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President Donald Trump finally got to deliver his first White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech as president Friday night, three months after a gunman brought the original event to a terrifying halt.
Trump mixed a tribute to law enforcement with an extended roast of the press, Democrats, and celebrities. He capped it by pulling out a red “Trump 2028” hat and joking that he planned to run for a fourth term.
The rescheduled dinner was held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C., with heightened security and a smaller guest list. The April 25 event at the Washington Hilton ended after an armed man charged a security checkpoint
Working on the VIP post this morning about the continuous problem at the Southern California border, I ran across a Steve Hilton video addressing it, and it made me wonder how his campaign was going. I have to be honest and say I hadn't paid much attention to it lately.
Like the savvy guy he is, he is firing on all cylinders, and it is not hurting his case in any way, shape, or form that Xavier Becerra, his Democratic opponent, is confirming his reputation for denseness and being a bit of a dolt.
For instance, Becerra's in hot water with Latino restaurant owners for recent comments
Trump’s Success, and AI’s Bias
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My colleague David Zimmer dug into the data to assess the success of President Trump’s immigration policies. He found them to be very successful, indeed:
There has been a concerted effort by “open immigration” advocates, “anti-Trumpers,” and a supportive legacy media, to portray the immigration enforcement efforts of the Trump administration in the poorest light possible.
Many detractors have virtually ignored the success the Trump administration has had at securing the border, while others have suggested the administration has not held to its “stated goal” of focusing on the “worst of the worst.” A common tactic has been to use selective data and narrow parameters
Nuremberg Trial For Trump?
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We have followed the sad descent of Tucker Carlson into madness. Here, he accuses President Trump and the entire Republican Party (except for Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, now gone from the party) of treason. He wants them subjected to Nuremberg-style show trials. Why? It has something to do with Israel.
As best I can reconstruct it, some tinfoil hat types are saying that the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2027 provides for a merger of U.S. and Israeli intelligence. That seems to be what Carlson is talking about, as he refers to “merge them formally.” Here it is:
Washington — President Trump on Friday ordered federal officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History that correct what he says is "inaccurate" information presented by the institution about American history.
Mr. Trump's directive cited a 162-page White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of adopting "an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens."
The report, titled "Saving America's Story," demonstrates that Smithsonian leadership views "American history as a 'prime tool' to advance ideas of social justice
ICC prosecutor whose Netanyahu warrant
fueled Mamdani arrest threat is fired
over sexual misconduct replies
fueled Mamdani arrest threat is fired
over sexual misconduct replies
The International Criminal Court prosecutor whose arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became central to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s threat to arrest the Israeli leader was dismissed Friday after member states voted to remove him over sexual misconduct allegations.
Karim Khan, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, was removed after a vote by the Assembly of States Parties, the court’s 125-member governing body, following disciplinary proceedings tied to allegations involving a junior female staffer in his office. Khan has denied wrongdoing.
Key House Republican moves to end ABA’s
role in accrediting law schools after
explosive DEI hearing replies
role in accrediting law schools after
explosive DEI hearing replies
The chairman of a congressional task force examining civil liberties abuses tells Just the News he plans to pursue legislation to strip the nation’s most powerful legal profession body of its ability to accredit law schools after a bombastic hearing over the group’s past promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
“I do think that we ought to be stripping the American Bar Association of its status as a law school accreditor,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, said Thursday night
SevenCatholic churches in northwest Minnesota will stop holding Sunday Mass.
The diocese has been seeing declining attendance at the services, as well as a shortage of priests. Last fall, Bishop Andrew Cozzens began meeting with parishes to come up with a long-term plan for the diocese.
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This will bring the total number of parishes down from 65 to 58. Cozzens said that half of the diocese's 32 priests will be eligible to retire over the next decade.
A newly-uncovered Biden White House memo from the administration's final days revealed plans that could have expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 3 million noncitizens while acknowledging that previous court challenges had blocked many of President Donald Trump's efforts to end the protections.
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill spurned the Department of Justice’s request for information on the nearly 6,600 noncitizens who were improperly added to the state’s voter rolls, raising the ire of Trump administration officials who are making election security a priority heading in the November midterms.
The move follows Sherrill’s announcement on Tuesday that thousands of noncitizens had been added to New Jersey voter rolls, with 400 individuals casting ballots. Later that day, the DOJ requested the names, addresses, nationalities, and registration locations of the 6,600 non-citizens who were marked as voters, even though they identified themselves as noncitizens. Noncitizens convicted of voting in U.S.
Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued a temporary stay blocking the Trump administration’s State Department policy that restricted visas for foreign nationals involved in efforts to censor Americans online.
Boasberg issued the sweeping 58-page memorandum opinion on July 14, siding with the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, or CITR, which represents leftist researchers, fake fact-checkers, nonprofit activists, and so-called “trust and safety” professionals.
President Trump on Friday blasted the European Union for fining American tech companies.
Trump said the European Union is robbing the American taxpayer.
The European Union fined Apple $15 billion, Meta $3 billion and Amazon $2.5 billion.
President Trump said he launched a 301 investigation after the European Union fined Google another $1 billion. Full statement from President Trump:
The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!
After having fined Apple, for no reason at all, 15 Billion Dollars, Meta, 3 Billion Dollars, Amazon 2.5 Billion Dollars,
Alaska has sent 3,048 letters to voters asking them to verify their citizenship status ahead of the August 18 primaries.
The more than 3,000 voters who received the letters were moved to inactive status. They will be able vote with provisional ballots if they do not respond to the letter before the primary election.
ABC News reported:
The state has sent more than 3,000 letters to Alaska voters asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of the Aug. 18 primary, a number a top state elections official said is unusually high.
The letters have raised concerns among some state lawmakers, including one who said some constituents who received them are U.S. citizens.
OK, so here's the deal:
With the news cycle full of stories about the war in Iran, Democratic Socialist (Marxist) mayors' latest destructive nonsense, election fraud, Medicaid fraud, and other such fun stuff, I decided to take a short trip off the beaten path and write about an intriguing case involving face tattoos, inalienable rights, and the U.S. Constitution. Sound like a fun diversion? It was. Read on.
As many, if not most, of us are aware, free speech cases are often messy and usually replete with uncomfortable facts. This is one of those cases.
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The oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf are stepping up their efforts to divert shipping away from the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has been launching terror strikes on civilian vessels.
The Associated Press (AP) noted on Thursday that “at least seven major pipeline projects are under construction, in the planning stage, or being discussed as possibilities.” Work on all of these projects accelerated after Iran delivered a “wake-up call for Gulf oil producers” by shuttering the Strait of Hormuz twice so far this year.
The goal is to build and expand pipeline networks that would allow countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iraq to bypass the traditional—
Cornyn, Tillis Drag Their Feet On Blanche
Nomination After Voting For Obama, Biden Appointees replies
Nomination After Voting For Obama, Biden Appointees replies
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing two potential bumps on the road to full-time confirmation. And their names are John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
Over the past several days, reporting broke indicating the two Republican senators — who are both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — have trepidation about advancing Blanche’s nomination to the Senate floor. While slated to consider his nomination on Thursday, the committee postponed a vote on Blanche’s AG bid by a week, as “per standard committee practice,” according to a representative for Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
A veteran Uber driver said DFW’s airport queue displayed a wait of zero to 15 minutes, but he received no rides for more than 45 minutes. He said regular Uber requests resumed after he left the airport’s geofenced queue.
DX documented drivers using multiple phones and tablets, vehicles with partially obscured plates, and one man denying that he had a work permit, green card or H-1B visa.
Federal prosecutors have charged rideshare schemes involving fraudulent or rented accounts, GPS spoofing, bots and hacked phones that allowed drivers to enter airport queues while physically elsewhere.
Democrats have spent years attacking voter identification requirements as voter suppression. A new national poll found that argument is collapsing, including with their own voters. Eighty-three percent of registered voters support requiring a valid photo ID proving U.S. citizenship before someone can register to vote, while 77 percent support requiring one before a ballot can be cast. Among Democrats, support stood at 72 percent for registration and 62 percent for voting.
The numbers caught Bret Baier's attention during Thursday's "Special Report." He called the results "pretty overwhelming" before asking panelist Ben Domenech, a conservative commentator, whether Republicans should make voter ID a bigger issue heading into November.
Baier said:
South Korea’s Crackdown on U.S. Companies
Threatens South Koreans’ Access to Advanced Technology replies
Threatens South Koreans’ Access to Advanced Technology replies
Europeans are learning a painful lesson. Just this week, the EU slammed Google with a roughly $1 billion fine for Digital Markets Act violations involving its Google Play app store and search practices that deliberately favor European competitors over American innovation. These and other heavy-handed EU regulations unfairly targeting U.S. e-commerce and tech giants are now actively denying European consumers access to advanced American technology—including the new Siri AI system, which will soon roll out on iPhones and iPads in the United States, and Google’s Gemini AI system.
Not only do similar South Korean actions against American firms risk cutting off —
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk just delivered a devastating reality check to the legacy media in a fiery interview with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes.
The fiery exchange occurred during a 90-minute interview recorded at a Tesla factory in Texas and published Thursday.
When the globalist outlet accused Musk of supporting not only the “populist right,” but also the “far right” and “very fringe parties” in Europe.
Musk immediately rejected her loaded characterization. No, I support the normal people—what you call the far right, falsely,” Musk fired back.
He then challenged Beddoes to explain which of his supposedly “extreme” principles she found so objectionable.
The Department of Education announced Thursday it is scrapping regulations the Obama administration “weaponized” to discipline students differently based on their race.
Responding to the Department of Justice’s move in December to eliminate “disparate-impact liability” for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs — the Education Department is rescinding multiple “disparate-impact” provisions from its implementation of Title VI.
There’s a dark mood creeping into American politics that has even the most die-hard gun control politicians worried. Democrats, typically (but not always) aligned with gun control, are facing the prospect of their political party turning their gaze to complete control.
Enter the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
These candidates for political office aren’t your grandfather’s Democrats or even limousine liberals. They can’t even honestly call themselves socialists. They’re cosplaying communists who are shredding any pretense of respect or admiration for the U.S. Constitution.
This is what George Orwell warned of in his novel, “1984.” They want complete and total control of the American government, including openly calling for abolishing of the U.S.
Florida Pizza Kitchen. It doesn’t have quite the ring to it that California Pizza Kitchen does. But had the iconic chain been dreamed up in the 2020s rather than the 1980s, it would have been FPK rather than CPK, not because the California Pizza Kitchen’s co-founders moved to Florida, though one did a couple of years ago, but due to the Golden State’s corrosive business policies.
Not that long ago, California was “the greatest place to do business,” Rick Rosenfield, the CPK co-founder who fled to the Sunshine State, told Fox News Digital.
Meet Sophie Cunningham, the WNBA Superstar
and Scrappy Feminist Standing Up for Women's Sports replies
and Scrappy Feminist Standing Up for Women's Sports replies
Sophie Cunningham is one of the most talented players in the WNBA. In a sport where attractive white women have long been marginalized and underrepresented, the Indiana Fever guard has repeatedly defied the odds to become the superstar she is today. Her success is a powerful testament to the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Cunningham made headlines this week by using her platform to stand up for female athletes, telling ESPN that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against biological girls.
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham said.