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The fast-food drive-thru was not born in California. But the idea was perfected by California cultural icon In-N-Out, which is fitting because the double-double chain has become the main villain in Culver City’s effort to ban drive-thrus.
Red’s Giant Hamburg on Route 66 in Springfield, Mo., was likely the first drive-thru restaurant in the country, says the American Automobile Association, serving customers as early as 1947. But In-N-Out created a year later “the drive-thru as we know it today, complete with an intercom ordering system,” at its Baldwin Park restaurant, which had “only enough room for the cooks.”
Left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has railed against doctors who don't accept Medicaid, arguing that they "discriminate" against "black communities" and perpetuate "long-held deep racism and structural racism." That criticism would apply to his wife, a psychiatrist who operates a private practice that does not accept Medicaid, Medicare, or any other insurance.
In a June campaign video captioned "Clinics and hospitals can discriminate against you based on your health insurance coverage," El-Sayed lamented what he called America's "multi-class healthcare system."
As Maine Democrats prepare to replace Graham Platner as their Senate nominee, eight candidates pitched themselves as best prepared to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins over two hours of debates Thursday night. (Snip) The debate laid bare the reality of how difficult replacing Platner and mounting a serious challenge against Collins will be. None of the candidates in Thursday night’s debate could replicate the political skills that allowed Platner to emerge as a viral sensation, elbow a two-term governor out of the race and poll neck-and-neck with Collins before he ended his campaign after a woman accused him of
The State Department is considering requiring some green card applicants to hand over thousands of dollars in the Trump administration’s latest bid to ensure new arrivals to the US can support themselves.
Some officials have floated making would-be legal permanent residents submit a $100,000 bond if applying at a US consulate overseas, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Others said the deposit amount could fluctuate depending on individual cases.Green card holders would likely be repaid upon becoming US citizens, a process that takes at least five years.
“President Trump has made clear that those who wish to immigrate to the United States must be financially self-sufficient,”
COVID-19 vaccine injures are so common many of the legislators who pushed them have also been severely injured—but still won't admit it. This culture of silence around these injuries must end.
One of the things which has always fascinated me about the world is how certain invisible laws govern the “spontaneous” events that occur around us (e.g., radioactive decay).(Snip) When the COVID-19 vaccines were initially released, I had a large number of patients immediately show up with “moderate” reactions to the COVID vaccines, with many of them stating something to the effect of: “I have gotten a flu shot for years and I have never experienced anything like this.”
Things just keep getting worse for the Democratic Party, and at this rate, they may need a new metaphor because "keeps getting worse" barely covers it anymore. We already told you the polls are tightening heading into the midterms in November, which was bad enough on its own. Now it turns out the party's situation is so much worse than we already know, and the people running the show apparently don’t want you to know just how bad it really is
In a bizarre move, the Democratic National Committee required its senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party's finances, according to
It turns out that the “conspiracy theorists” weren’t so crazy after all. President Donald Trump says that foreign governments and corrupt domestic bureaucrats have so compromised our election system across the country that it is worse than a Third World banana republic.
“No country could be great without fair and honest elections,” Trump insisted during his Thursday night primetime address. “You have to trust your country because if there can be no trust, there can be no greatness, and that's very simple: no trust, no greatness.” Unfortunately, according to him, between our enemies around the world like the Chinese and Iranian regimes and their collaborators in the American media and
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has admitted that Republicans may have found a real problem. Washington remains standing, the sun rose on schedule, and no trumpet has sounded from the heavens, but the moment still feels unusual.
Blumenthal said Republicans are “rightly concerned” about a possible breach of Justice Department norms and improper access to communications gathered during former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of President Donald Trump. From Fox News:
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital his Republican colleagues are right to be troubled that the Justice Department spied on lawmakers to aid former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations.
Democrats Melt Down and Break
Out the Talking Points After Trump Speech
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Out the Talking Points After Trump Speech
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President Donald Trump's Thursday speech to the nation was short and compact. The new teleprompter person was a bit rusty, but he pulled it off without too many hiccups. As expected, the hiccups came from Democrats and the NeverTrumpers, who had already decided what the substance of the speech would be before Trump even uttered a word.
The takeaways from the Democrats and the Left: Trump is a raving lunatic and is setting the stage to steal the 2026 midterms.
And they accuse Trump of being a conspiracy theorist?
Democrat Socialist Rep. Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) teed it off, deciding five minutes
In a highly-anticipated primetime speech Thursday night, President Donald Trump announced "the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," including evidence of "China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files" in the 2020 election, and a DHS evaluation of state voter rolls and public records revealed that 278,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in federal elections.
Those documents have all been posted to the White House's website.
It beggars belief that the Disney Grooming Syndicate benefits from our publicly owned airwaves, which it is allowed to use for free, and is still permitted to abuse this gift by broadcasting two full hours of leftist propaganda every weekday.
Monday to Friday through the ABC broadcast network Disney airs two hours of unanswered attacks on over 50 percent of the country–Jimmy Kimmel and The View–without any repercussions.
Until now.
Tee hee.
WASHINGTON — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his “very flirtatious” habits with others may come back to haunt him, The Post has learned.
The 46-year-old lawmaker admitted to the two relationships — both with aides to Texas Democrats — to one source while a second person said they had recently learned of the romantic entanglements.
A third source confirmed one of the dalliances, both of which are said to have been consensual and occurred during Gallego’s decade representing Phoenix in the House.
The Tina Peters trial became a fight over
whether the system could withstand public inspection. replies
whether the system could withstand public inspection. replies
The American people have been told, over and over, to trust institutions that have not earned that trust. Not Republican institutions. Not Democratic institutions. Not partisan prosecutors. Not judges who hide behind procedure while the public asks basic questions. Not media outlets that decide in advance who the villain is and then write every story backward from that conclusion. That is the frame through which the Tina Peters case should be understood. Tina Peters was a county clerk who tried to preserve evidence inside a black-box election system, and the machine responded by making an example out of her.
President Donald Trump announced nearly $10 billion in investments into the defense industry in Pennsylvania on Wednesday afternoon at Sen. Dave McCormick’s (R-PA) Defense and Innovation Summit.
After arriving at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Trump joined McCormick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and top defense, banking, and tech executives for a roundtable event, where he made the announcement.
“This afternoon, we’re announcing nearly $10 billion of new investments in our defense industrial base, right here in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and these investments will create more than 4,000 jobs,” he said.
78-year-old Ann Widdecombe was a well-known conservative in British politics. She was a staunch defender of free speech, a direct opponent to leftist cultural Marxism and an advocate for the commonsense Reform Party. Widdecombe was against abortion, gay rights, transgender advocacy and wokism writ large.Ms. Widdecombe was beaten to death in her home Wednesday July 8th around 12:30pm by an assailant who drove 270 miles to kill her. Immediately the police said her murder was not politically motivated and not connected to foreign or domestic terrorism.
Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Under
Federal Scrutiny After Making Over $100K
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Federal Scrutiny After Making Over $100K
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President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is believed to have made “tens of thousands of dollars” through placing bets on the president’s speeches, ABC News reported Thursday.
Gabriel Perez, who has been operating the teleprompter for President Trump since 2016, made the bets on the prediction market Kalshi. Perez is now in talks to settle the allegations the used inside knowledge of the speeches to “win more than $100,000,” ABC News reported.
'Slap on the wrist': Illegal immigrant
trucker's sentence ignites outrage after
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trucker's sentence ignites outrage after
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Trump administration officials and conservatives torched a California judge's sentence for an illegal immigrant trucker who killed three people in a fiery California semi-truck collision, after he was given less than five years behind bars. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who called the sentencing a "slap on the wrist," said his agency will not stop "until ALL illegal alien truckers are put out of business and held accountable," while the Department of Homeland Security said immigration officials were standing by to arrest the trucker "upon his release, so he is never allowed back on our roads." Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Pentagon will begin annually screening service members’ testosterone levels and offering testosterone replacement therapy to those who need it, part of a broader push to sharpen troops’ physical readiness.
Hegseth unveiled the initiative in a video posted to X, describing it as a way to keep American forces at what he called “the leading edge of lethality.”
Under the new policy, testosterone testing will be folded into troops’ periodic health assessments and required for service members age 30 and older. Those younger than 30 may request the test voluntarily, Hegseth said.
An imam from Texas named Omar Suleiman who has led prayers before Congress is facing a formal rebuke over horrible comments he made, celebrating the news of the death of Senator Lindsey Graham.
Celebrating the death of Republicans has become commonplace on the left. We saw the exact same thing play out following the death of Charlie Kirk.
They don’t even try to hide it. They gleefully celebrate the death of their political adversaries openly on social media, then often act surprised when others react to them with disgust, or if there are consequences.
This case is especially repulsive, given that this is supposedly a man of God.
Earlier Wednesday, we reported on Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche's Senate confirmation hearing and the “extraordinarily obnoxious” questions lobbed at him by the insufferable Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and other Democrats. But it wouldn’t be a true clown show without one of the hardest to stomach lawmakers in the entire metro D.C. area, Adam Schiff. The truth-challenged California senator went toe-to-toe with Blanche, who has been acting director since April following Pam Bondi’s departure, but he probably wished he hadn’t.
I hope you're sitting down for this one. The 'ladies' at The View don't like something Republicans did. Shocker, right?
In this case, it's the fact that Gov. Henry McMaster appointed the late Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to hold his place in the Senate until a new senator for South Carolina is elected. Now, I know some of you didn't like this idea, but you didn't like it for legitimate reasons. The ladies at The View didn't like it because... um, well, because she's a woman.
"I don't love it," Sunny Hostin said.
Consumer prices fell in June 0.4 percent, following a renewed, short-lived ceasefire in the Iran war, with 12-month inflation dropping from 4.2 percent to 3.5 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That’s good news, with average weekly earnings for private sector workers back up to 3.8 percent the past twelve months.
The decreases were led by falls in the energy prices as gasoline fell 9.7 percent and fuel oil dropped 9.2 percent.
With U.S. strikes in Iran resumed after Iran attacked ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz — that led President Donald Trump to declare the ceasefire with Iran was terminated —
For fresh proof of how little New York authorities care about social-services fraud, consider the curious case of adult daycares in Flushing.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, puts out that within a one-mile radius in the Queens neighborhood, a full 64 Social Adult Day Care centers operate, with thousands upon thousands of supposed elderly enrollees.
Flushing’s Medicaid-eligible senior population grew by 20% from 2018 to 2024, yet the number of seniors billed by social adult daycares surged by 390%. How convenient that electronic sign-up sheets are usually the only thing SADCs need to provide to get reimbursed.
Four years ago, the Senate voted unanimously to ditch the switch and stick with daylight saving time year-round. Nineteen states have passed laws that would make DST permanent, if the federal government would let them. And this week, the House approved the Sunshine Protection Act by a 3-to-1 margin.
But don’t count on it becoming law.
As Politico reports, it “faces an uphill battle in the Senate despite strong lobbying from the White House and personal engagement from President Donald Trump.”
The problem is that enough Senators are likely to be swayed by critics to block it, even though the arguments against the bill are entirely specious.