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Texas killer Raudel Orozco who executed
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A Texas man was sentenced to 40 years in prison for executing a mechanic over a $500 repair bill before he warned his victim’s family that he would “be out someday.”
Raudel Orozco, 25, unleashed his chilling outburst on Tuesday when he learned his fate in the 2022 killing of Luis Manuel Casillas, a father of two who was shot in the head outside his north Houston auto shop days before Christmas, WFAA reported. Orozco had pleaded guilty to felony murder while his brother Rolando has also been charged with murder and is scheduled to appear in court May 26 for a pre-trial conference.
In a fitting pairing of two like-minded individuals who are best known for taking care of themselves in the most shameless ways possible, Candace Owens hosted Hunter Biden in her home studio for a two-hour interview. I’d like to say it was a wide-ranging interview, but it wasn’t. It was pretty narrowly a two-hour propagandistic narrative delivered in stereo. Seeing the two of them on screen together, they are the perfect couple, actually. Kind of like Bonnie and Clyde.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tore into leaders who’ve tried to turn the military into “woke Princeton” and stained the American spirit, ripping DEI in a fiery speech to graduating cadets at West Point Saturday.
With President Trump considering renewing strikes against Iran, Hegseth directed his toughest talk toward military leaders who backed diversity programs he said were sapping the Armed Forces of its strength.
Opening his remarks on a rainy day at the storied military academy overlooking the Hudson River, the secretary slammed the woke agenda. “We saw woke and weak leaders trying to make West Point look like woke Princeton, which happens to be my long lost and
Thirty years ago, Congress decided that parents deserved a way to monitor what the entertainment industry was beaming into their homes. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 recognized that children are influenced by what they see on television and that the entertainment industry has a role to play in helping parents navigate their children’s media consumption.
That law led to the creation of the television content rating system we all know today: TV-G for episodes appropriate for all ages, TV-PG for when parental guidance is suggested, TV-14 for content suitable for teens but not younger children, and TV-MA for episodes inappropriate for minors. The rating system is especially concerned with protecting kids:
A Texas congressional race already marred by scandal is facing new controversy after veterans condemned political ads sent ahead of Memorial Day weekend that mock a President Donald Trump-backed veteran over his military disability.
With days left in a bitter Republican primary runoff election between John Lujan and Carlos De La Cruz in Texas’ 35th Congressional District, a mail ad sent this week by the Lujan-aligned political action committee Protect and Serve knocked De La Cruz over his disability status, referring to him as "the ‘100% disabled’ kickboxer."
Well, that certainly didn't take long. Within minutes of U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's announcement of murder charges against Cuban leader Raúl Castro, leftist groups immediately leaped to the withered old commie's defense, and within nine minutes, according to one account, started fundraising. This, again, just goes to show that there is no communist dictator so vile that the American and international left won't support him.
On Saturday, Fox News released the first in a multi-part investigation into these groups and what they are doing.
Just nine minutes after U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced murder charges against Cuban leader Raúl Castro for the 1996 shootdown
Democrats refuse to get on the winning
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side of 80/20 issues because that side
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Some issues are no-brainers for politicians: Transexuals in women’s sports and girl’s bathrooms. Showing an ID to vote. Securing the border. Enforcing the criminal laws. Judging people by merit. These are 80/20 issues where 80% of the citizens are on one side and only 20% are on the other.
Being on the 20% side of 80/20 issues is not a winning election strategy. We saw that in 2024. Therefore, the big thinkers in the Democratic Party are preaching that Democrats need to shift over to the 80% side on these 80/20 issues.
President Trump told CBS News that negotiators for United States and Iran are "getting a lot closer" to finalizing an agreement between the two countries.
Sources familiar with the negotiations told CBS News that the latest proposal includes a process to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the unfreezing of some Iranian assets held in foreign banks, and a continuation of negotiations.
Mr. Trump declined to provide specifics about the agreement, but said that "every day it gets better and better."
CONCORD, N.C. — Kyle Busch died after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications, according to a statement released by his family.
Dakota Hunter, vice president of Kyle Busch Companies, said in a news release the family received the medical evaluation on Saturday.
Busch, a two-time NASCAR champion, died at 41 on Thursday, a day after passing out in a Chevrolet simulator.
Sepsis is considered a life-threatening medical emergency that occurs when the body has an extreme, overactive response to an infection, causing the immune system to damage its own tissues and organs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Typically the immune system releases chemicals
Ghoulish Democratic bosses promoted a dead man as a candidate in southern Brooklyn while soliciting petition signatures to help get House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries back on the ballot, The Post has learned.
Robert Gevertzman, a longtime community leader who died in March 2025 at the age of 76, shockingly cleared the petition-checking process, records show.
He is now slated to be below Jeffries on the Democratic ticket and run unopposed in next month’s primary for a seat on the Kings County Democratic Committee.
The Democratic dirty tricks didn’t end with raising the dead.
Borough party leaders also deployed a one-armed man who was caught in a series of bizarre videos this week
Some Democrats are concerned that after a decade of fighting President Donald Trump they are now held captive by anti-Trump resentment with little chance of escape.
That’s the conclusion of a report published in the Hill Saturday, which pointed out that the long-awaited post-2024 election autopsy of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reinforced that point.
Democrats leaned too heavily on negative partisanship, the nearly 200-page autopsy concluded, and focused too much on attacks on Donald J. Trump in messages to Americans who would ultimately cast the votes.
That autopsy was not without its controversy as members of Congress and some pundits are calling for DNC chair Ken Martin, who ordered it, to resign,
Lying politicians are nothing new in American politics, so we do well to always recall Jonathan Swift's warning that "falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it." But the good news is that in the age of the internet, there is no reason why truth cannot also fly.
Thus, today is the first installment of what will likely make frequent appearances in these pages: "When Reality Bites — a Lying Politician With Actual Facts." In today's edition, Reality Bites Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Democrats, respectively, from Georgia and Maryland. Do not be surprised when future installments feature Republicans, because lying in politics is an equal opportunity
This week in pictures
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Greetings from Palermo, where I’m currently on a diplomatic mission to sort out the Europeans. Meanwhile, the salient news of the week is that Republicans seem to dealing with the anti-Semites in their midst while Democrats nominate theirs for higher office. More significantly, in purging Sen. Bill Cassidy and Rep. Thomas “Hot Mess” Massie (did Trump ever call him that?—he should have if not), Trump has achieved what Franklin Roosevelt failed to accomplish with his attempted purge of anti-New Deal Democrats in the 1938 election cycle.
A Rhode Island teenager who was out on bail for a gun charge was charged Friday in connection with the stabbing of three people as hundreds of teens crowded the beach
Willy Medina, 18, was identified as a suspect in the stabbing that broke out at Narragansett Town Beach just after 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Narragansett Police Department.
Medina is accused of slashing three beachgoers as the rowdy crowd went into a frenzy, according to video obtained by WJAR.
The three victims were hospitalized with minor stab wounds.
While the Trump administration is actively trying to rewrite American history, this Memorial Day would be a good time to remember and honor the sacrifices of the tens of thousands of Hispanic Americans who have served in our country’s wars.
Sixty have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Here is the story of one of these brave Americans.
Alfredo “Freddy” Gonzalez grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. In the summers, he helped his family pick cotton.
Two Chinese nationals in Virginia face federal money-laundering conspiracy charges connected to two of the world’s most notorious and dangerous Mexican drug cartels, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
Ruhan Zhen and Hongce Wu have been charged by the Department of Justice, accusing the pair of conspiring to launder money in connection with transnational criminal organizations, including the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels. Both groups have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the Trump administration.
Scrambling to repair its mail-ballot boondoggle, the Maryland State Board of Elections began reprinting ballots Thursday, with plans to have more than 500,000 ballots resent to voters by next Friday.
The elections board first announced last week that an undetermined number of mail ballots for the June 23 party primary were sent to the wrong voters, which it blamed on an error. While an undetermined number of voters will be voting a second ballot, the state’s top election official assured the public that only one ballot will be counted per voter for Maryland’s June party primary.
The good guys are winning. Plain old facts are obliterating the lies of the left, and the leftists don’t know what to do with themselves.
A recent congressional hearing had Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono trotting out the ever tiresome litany of leftist lies on slavery, elections, and racism. Violent leftists usually expect to get away with their big lies because that’s the way it’s been in the past.
But something’s changed in the world, primarily because of the threats from an increasingly violent left and the looming implications of the midterm election season. It’s become clear to the pro-freedom community that we must push back
Iran's regime has been using two tactics. It says: "We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided." Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf, it says it does not know what it wants. "The Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go," Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; "they are also just a fractured country."
That is exactly what the regime wants: that you are dumb enough to believe that. The Iranian regime knows precisely what it wants.
A couple of weeks ago, it made big waves when a Pennsylvania Jewish Supreme Court justice very publicly left the Democrat party over its antisemitism. He is not the only one. I belong to a Jewish Facebook group, and I’m seeing several of these renegades start eying the Republican party longingly as they finally see that antisemitism is the rot at the heart of the Marxism that’s overtaken the Democrat party.
It’s not always about antisemitism. Others have broken with the Democrat party because of its relentless attempts to sexualize children straight into the LGBTQ+ cult, its open border policy that is destroying communities, or its soft-on-crime approach.
Outwit the Gerrymander
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Politicians of both major parties are up to no good. Across the nation, Democratic and Republican legislatures are redrawing congressional districts in order to tighten their own party’s grip on power. In the process, they are disempowering Republicans in blue states, Democrats in red states. It doesn’t matter now who started it. The net effect will be millions of Americans without real representation in the House of Representatives, the body meant to be the people’s house. For most normal humans, any conversation about the arcane aspects of voting systems will quickly send them into a stupor of boredom.
"Georgia's political future is being shaped by black women," the Atlanta-Journal Constitution declared on Thursday after former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms became the Democratic nominee for the Georgia governor's race earlier this week.
"A seismic political shift is underway in Georgia that is impossible to ignore. The rise of Black female elected officials within the Democratic Party is not simply a moment — it is a movement," the op-ed reads. "Tuesday’s primary elections confirmed what many of us have witnessed building over the last decade: Black women are becoming the most powerful and effective political force in Georgia politics."
The situation in Cuba is quite dynamic at the moment, and while I'm a little short for time on this Friday night as I write this, I wanted to make sure I've covered the latest, including Donald Trump and Marco Rubio's continued high-pressure moves against the regime, the fallout from the Raúl Castro indictment that the Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed this week, and a bit of an update on the humanitarian crisis.
Here's what's happened since my last "Cuba Falling" update, which you can read here: Cuba Falling: Today Is 'the Beginning of the End' — and Rubio's Powerful Message. On Thursday, Marco Rubio announced
Iran's regime has been using two tactics. It says: "We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided." Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf, it says it does not know what it wants. "The Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go," Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; "they are also just a fractured country."
That is exactly what the regime wants: that you are dumb enough to believe that. The Iranian regime knows precisely what it wants.
The supposed "moderates" will say, " Oh please wait for us. We are so fractured!