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Western Europe has been sweltering under a heat wave, and quite a few people have died as a result. The heat wave is unusual, but the phenomenon isn’t: every year, lots of Europeans die from extremes of heat and cold, far more than in the United States. And European climate deaths vastly exceed deaths in the U.S. from gun homicides, which many Europeans like to decry.
A sane response to death and discomfort due to heat would be to promote air conditioning. But that isn’t what is happening in the U.K., where air conditioning is often illegal, or in France, where calls for more air conditioning are being resisted
Socialist candidate Melat Kiros won her primary in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, defeating incumbent Democratic Representative Diana DeGette, who has held the seat for nearly three decades.Kiros, a virulently anti-Israel political newcomer who was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, is the latest far-left progressive challenger to oust an establishment incumbent in a Democratic House primary in recent weeks.The 29-year-old Ph.D student and barista
We reported on some of the bilge that Jill Biden had been trying to serve us up in her book, "View From the East Wing."
If the purpose of the book was to salvage her reputation, I don't think it did that since it raised even more questions about how she dealt with Joe's cognitive issues. (X) Not only did it make her look worse — if that's possible — she also upset Democrats that she's bringing this all up again just as they approach a tough midterm. She even ticked off some former Biden aides, and there was some ugly back and forth. Probably not a good idea
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, perhaps best described as "seven lying serpents in a skinsuit," just told a lie so big that even my jaded self had to sit back, take a sip of coffee, and admire the handiwork of whoever steam-cleaned the soul out of his body.
According to a video statement posted Tuesday to X, California under Newsom's management "grew from three trillion dollars to four and a quarter trillion dollars. That's a roughly 40 percent growth."
In just seven years? Impressive, if true.
Meanwhile, poor Florida's economy grew just 31.2% in that time, and those lazy laggards in Texas eked out even less growth than that, at 30%.
Mitch McConnell was found ‘unconscious’
in DC home last month, may have suffered
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in DC home last month, may have suffered
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was found “unconscious” and may have suffered a heart attack at his DC residence before being rushed to a local hospital last month, according to a District Fire and EMS dispatch call made public Wednesday.
The June 14 call referenced medical personnel in an ALS, or Advanced Life Support, ambulance being sent to the home shortly before 9 a.m. and mentioned there was “CPR in progress” for a “cardiac arrest.” Punchbowl News first reported on the EMS radio traffic.
Reps for the former Senate GOP leader did not comment on the communications.
We've written extensively about the growing panic among establishment Democrats about the wave of recent wins from "Democratic" Socialists of America (DSA) party candidates in states like New York, where two Mamdani-backed candidates won their House primaries last Tuesday, with one defeating an incumbent.
And as we also reported, another DSA member, Bernie Sanders-endorsed Melat Kiros, won her primary race in Colorado's 1st Congressional District (CD1) Tuesday night, beating 30-year incumbent Diana DeGette in a district drawn for Democrat victories, and that hasn't had Republican representation since 1973.
But there was another Colorado congressional Democrat primary that flew under the radar a bit nationally,
In 1948, 11 minutes after Israel declared itself an independent state, the United States recognized it when Democratic President Harry Truman issued an executive order to grant de facto U.S. recognition to Israel. From that time forward, Democrats were the strongest supporters of Israel in Congress.
Until now. The recent victories of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in New York and Colorado have called into question the party's commitment to supporting the existence of the Jewish state.
The 2024 Democratic Party platform stated that party leaders “believe a strong, secure, and democratic Israel is vital to the interests of the United States” and that the party’s “commitment to Israel’s security
The United States has chosen not to renew its trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, senior administration officials confirmed on July 1.
“In accordance with the Agreement, the United States, Mexico, and Canada met virtually today to discuss the operation of the USMCA,” U.S. Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement, referring to the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement.
“The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form. As a result, the USMCA is not renewed.”
After victimizing his party’s political enemies for more than two years, far-left Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is asking a Dane County trial court for a protective order to lock away discovery documents from public scrutiny.
(snip)The “matter” is Kaul’s weaponized witch hunt against Jim Troupis and Kenneth Chesebro, the lawyers who represented Trump’s Wisconsin campaign in legal challenges following the rigged 2020 presidential election. Each faces multiple felony forgery charges for advising and carrying out a legal strategy that used alternate electors to protect Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes for Trump should he prevail in his lawsuits.
A 31-year-old Florida woman died after an alligator bit off one of her arms and mauled the other at a state park near Orlando, authorities and a 911 call revealed Monday. The victim had been hiking with her boyfriend and her best friend Sunday in Little Big Eco State Forest when they waded into the Econlockhatchee River to cool off, said Grant Eller, a lieutenant with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
They were kneeling in 3-foot-deep water when the alligator suddenly attacked around 1:30 p.m. and bit her arms, Eller said.
The victim was later identified as Orlando resident Brittany Clark, wildlife officials said.
During the attack,
What is proposed below is regulatory, lawful and entirely intended to create hardships and burdens. Thus, a new era in State Department visa requirements respond to newly established guidelines by the Supreme Court.
As a pragmatic and patriotic American I respectfully suggest and recommend the U.S. State Department immediately institute the “Roberts Requirement” following similar visa entry protocols previously used for COVID-19 tests prior to U.S. admittance.
The Roberts Requirement: Each female visa applicant must present a valid negative pregnancy test taken no longer than 10 days prior to travel to the United States.
The certified document, negative pregnancy test, together with all related visa approvals must be presented to
The U.S. Treasury said on Tuesday it had imposed sanctions on two Mexican nationals and nine entities tied to a cartel-linked smuggling scheme that moves fuel from the United States into Mexico without paying a hefty tax on the imports.
In a statement, the Treasury said the scheme is linked to Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and part of an illegal enterprise generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the cartel. Smuggled fuel and stolen crude oil have become the second-largest revenue source for Mexican cartels after drugs, according to the U.S. government.
It is both amazing and sad how the United States Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship has taken up all of the oxygen in the news cycle and in the minds of many Americans. This has overshadowed some of the other equally important decisions, like the one in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., holding that states may reserve girls' and women's sports teams for biological females without violating Title IX or the Constitution.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion:
The Court concludes that separate sports teams for biological males and biological females are reasonable given the inherent physical differences between the sexes.
A pro-Palestinian protester was sentenced to one year in county jail and two years of probation on Tuesday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish man who he attacked at a California rally.
Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, a professor at the local Moorpark College, struck 69-year-old Paul Kessler in the head with his megaphone at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Hamas demonstrations in November of 2023, weeks after the October 7 attack. Kessler then fell backwards and struck his head on the ground, and died the next day. The district attorney’s office for Ventura County objected to Alnaji’s sentence,
No one who’s kept up with U.S. politics even minimally over the last four decades should be surprised that the Democratic Party has been the launching pad for a wave of socialism. The party has long been rooted in socialist principles. It was inevitable that what the Democrats have long covered up is now out in the open and its zealots adherents are threatening our republic.
Granted, the wave is not overwhelming and our country has survived previous flirtations with socialism. But the boldness from the outright socialists, who are hiding behind the label of “democratic socialists,”
Feminism has sold women a very rotten bill of goods. They’ve told them a lie that success means becoming more like men. They’ve been told to climb the same ladders, chase the same titles, enter the same institutions, and prove that anything men can do, women can do just as well, if not better.
That’s so untrue and has set women up for a string of massive failures. Meanwhile, the things that actually make women powerful have been treated like backwoods liabilities. Nurturing is now seen as a weakness. Emotional depth is now shameful, and motherhood has been downgraded to something only “trad wives” do. Being the backbone of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at ports of entry in Texas have seized more than 9,000 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of more than $80 million in just four incidents during the month of June. The thwarted cartel smuggling attempts occurred in Laredo, El Paso, and Pharr, Texas.
In two interdictions on the Juneteenth holiday, officers seized more than $72.3 million in methamphetamine as smugglers attempted to push through two south Texas ports of entry. The larger of the two seizures occurred on June 19 at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, when a CBP officer referred a 2011 Dodge Ram stake-bed truck purportedly hauling
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has once again proven herself to be an utter embarrassment to the judicial branch and all those who came before her on the court.
Tuesday saw the Supreme Court rule in a 6-3 decision that President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship conflicts with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
According to NBC News, Trump’s order, dated Jan. 20, 2025 — his first day in office after being sworn in for his second term — interprets
California schools will be required to offer students access to at least one all-gender bathroom starting Wednesday under a new statewide mandate — a move that’s stoking anger from conservatives and concerned parents who say Sacramento is putting politics ahead of education.
The requirement, which takes effect July 1, stems from a 2023 law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom as part of a package of legislation aimed at supporting the state’s LGBTQ community. Supporters said the measure would make schools more welcoming for transgender students.
“These measures will help protect vulnerable youth, promote acceptance, and create more supportive environments in our schools and communities,” Newsom said in September 2023.
Nothing in Commonwealth
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As July begins, Virginians brace for higher gas taxes, hoping that the $68 price of a barrel of crude oil will start to bring the price at the pump back down. However, they will very soon be hit with a 7% increase in their electric bills.
Iran? No. Trump tariffs? No.
This is because, as Gov. Abigail Spanberger promised the lords of the Green Energy Cabal, Virginia has reentered the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. This is the classic cap-and-trade scheme with a cool new, hip name.
Not a week passed after she announced the reentry into the initiative before Dominion filed with the State Corporation Commission for —
The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding tells Iran that Hezbollah survives and Israel leaves. The Trilateral Framework says that Hezbollah disarms and that, until it does, Israel stays in Lebanon.
The negotiations with Iran were led by Vice President JD Vance, who never wanted this war and made no secret of his wish to end it cheaply. He produced the Islamabad MOU, the paper Iran's regime wanted to hear. The Trilateral Framework was created by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has spent his career treating Iran's proxy network as a threat to be dismantled rather than soothed.
President Trump will take his new Air Force One for its first flight on Wednesday when he heads to North Dakota to open the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
The trip is part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations. The president will also take a train ride, boarding the BNSF Freedom 250 Train as part of the journey to the library site.
A ceremonial Rough Riders Troop will accompany the presidential motorcade to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. The group on horseback will evoke the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and the volunteer cavalry regiment that helped define his public image, a White House official told The Post.
Trump’s Supreme victory
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Bummed by the news reports about the Supreme Court as it flooded the end of June with key decisions? Don’t be.
Reporters cover the courts about as well as they cover the White House, election polls and war.
Let’s start with NBC’s “Supreme Court rules Trump can’t fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.”
Except he can.
Two paragraphs underneath the headline, the story said, “In a 5-4 vote, the high court said Trump does not have the constitutional authority to fire a Fed governor without cause. While the landmark ruling limits a president’s authority over the central bank, a majority of the justices separately ruled Trump has free rein to
President Donald Trump mourned Village People singer Victor Willis, who died at 74.
Trump, who has turned the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” into his theme song, voiced his condolences to the music group and his family. “He was a great and happy guy who loved that I used his groups song, YMCA, at my Rallies. It became a ‘monster’ hit, again, 30 years after its original launch. Many singers and groups wanted to get on board at the Rallies after all of the Rally Attendance Records were set – The crowds were, and are, enormous – But Victor and the group was there for us right from the beginning!"