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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!
It is no secret that RFK Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, doesn’t like psychiatrists, and he has had good reason, based upon his personal life experiences. For example, his aunt, Rosemary Kennedy, was treated with a prefrontal lobotomy at age 23 in 1941, a dark chapter in the history of psychiatry that left her institutionalized for life. He credits his own recovery from addiction to abstinence-based 12-step programs, focusing on spiritual principles and peer support, rather than on psychiatrists or medication.
So, it is no surprise that he is drawn to curtailing psychiatrists’ powers. And he has begun to do
Jeffries Desperately Tries to Distance
Dems From 'Vile' TX Candidate, but He
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Dems From 'Vile' TX Candidate, but He
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Democrats have a real problem on their hands in Texas.
We reported on some of the wild things said by the top Democratic candidate in TX-35, Maureen Galindo. This is just a small sample.
In an Instagram post last week, Galindo wrote that she will "turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking. (It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles which will probably be most of the Zionists)."
Galindo came in first in the primary, but without enough votes to avoid a runoff, which is next week against the Democrat who came in second, Johnny Garcia.
The pressure applied over the last three months has produced more coercive leverage over the Islamic Republic than at any point in its 47-year history. The US naval blockade is costing the regime an estimated $450 million a day.
Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has been severely degraded. Its air defenses are in ruins. Its ballistic-missile program has collapsed from production of 100 missiles a month to zero.
Increasingly desperate and eager to take advantage of the cease-fire, Tehran is moving fast to reopen one artery Washington has not yet closed: the sky.
Iran’s airlines are flying again. Mahan Air,
President Donald Trump swore in his pick to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, on Friday, saying he wants him to be independent in the role.
“I want Kevin to be totally independent,” Trump said. “I want him to be independent and just do a great job. Don’t look at me, don’t look at anybody, just do your own thing and do a great job.”
Trump said Warsh will restore respect to the Fed. Trump repeatedly criticized Warsh’s successor, Jerome Powell, for failing to cut interest rates.
Israel established a secret elite intelligence task force in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre to track down and kill or capture every terrorist involved in the attack — from senior commanders who orchestrated the assault to individual gunmen who crossed into southern Israel during the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. According to a detailed Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday, the unit — known as NILI, a Hebrew acronym derived from a biblical verse meaning “The Eternal One of Israel Does Not Lie” — was formed by Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service and military intelligence shortly after the Hamas-
The government of Saudi Arabia reassured visitors on Friday that it is prepared to screen for and otherwise address any public health threats during the upcoming Hajj season, responding to growing international concern about the spread of Ebola and hantavirus.
The hajj is the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city in the religion, which Muslims are mandated to make, if possible, once in their lifetimes. Saudi Arabia typically welcomes upwards of one million Muslims to the city for the hajj on an annual basis, most coming from all over the world, including countries hostile to Saudi Arabia such as Iran.
Reports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office. This is not a big surprise. Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life.
In his quest to imprison an American president, Jack Smith accused Trump of engaging in a conspiracy to “overthrow” the 2020 election, as well as retaining possession of classified documents after leaving the White House. Both allegations are ridiculous,
If that sounds to you like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith jinked when she should have jived, yeah.
It sounds like that to a lot of people.
As you know, if you've read any of my posts over the past year, the question of a referendum being on the Alberta ballot to begin the process of a formal separation from the Canadian confederation has been a long, twisty process. At the moment, the petition to get the independence question on the ballot has been declared pretty much moot thanks to a victory in a lawsuit by the First Nations tribes. They had sued, asserting that the petition drive was unconstitutional to
The Dems Are Hurting For ’28
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Democrats think they have the GOP on the run for this year’s midterms courtesy of their Iranian allies, but a problem looms: they need a presidential candidate for 2028. It has been a while since the Democrats have fielded a strong presidential nominee. Joe Biden was pedestrian at best in 2020, and Kamala Harris was awful in 2024. Surely they can do better in 2028. Right?
Perhaps not. Rasmussen reports that Harris is still the front runner, by a wide margin:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that, if the 2028 primary were held today, 34% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters would vote for Harris….
As I wrote last week ...
Democrats: Racist Republicans want to replace black legislators with whites! It's the new Jim Crow!
Also Democrats: Vote for Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida's remaining majority-minority district!
Even at that time, though, it seemed difficult to believe that Democrat leadership would act this shamelessly. After Democrats went all-in on redistricting in Virginia (and lost), they claimed that the Supreme Court ruling in Callais amounted to "Jim Crow 2.0," or maybe 3.0, or possibly even World War Eleven. Republicans would use the ruling, as well as their own redistricting, to steal congressional seats from black Democrats, they claimed.
So when Debbie Wasserman Schultz – a former DNC
It's no longer in the public consciousness, but domestic terrorism was very much a thing in the United States and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.
There is no one hard count, but in those two decades, about 20,000 bombings happened in the United States, with actual revolutionary groups trying to overthrow the United States government.
They failed, of course. But domestic terrorism was very much a thing, and a significant fraction of our cultural elite were at least somewhat supportive. That's one of the reasons the working class started moving rightward, alongside crime, cultural, and economic issues.
The radicalization of the left in recent years has already inspired
Warsh took the oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the East Room after President Donald Trump delivered remarks, in which he predicted Warsh “will go down as one of the truly great chairmen of the Federal Reserve that we’ve ever had.”
Warsh was honored to receive the oath from Thomas. He called Thomas “a brilliant and independent thinker, a man dedicated to our Constitution, and no less important, a joyful and collegial presence on our highest court.”
The newly minted Fed chair noted his relationship with former chairman Alan Greenspan, whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the role in 1987.