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The World Cup, as everyone knows by now, has been taking place across several cities in stadiums that have surprised foreign visitors by being gigantic and air-conditioned. [snip] Overwhelmingly, they are blown away by the abundance of food, both in restaurants and in grocery stores, not just in amount but in variety (e.g., the dozens and dozens of varieties of coffee, or cereal, or snacks). They have been likewise overwhelmed by the size of everything, from onions to sandwiches to steaks to stores to cars. They found refreshing the unashamed patriotism, evident by all the flags.
President Donald Trump on June 24 canceled the scheduled signing of a bipartisan housing bill aimed at lowering home prices, saying that an election integrity bill should be passed by Congress first.
“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
The SAVE America Act would require voters to prove their U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections. The House has passed the legislation, while the Senate has struggled to get the necessary 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. Democrats have objected to the bill, arguing
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To commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, we will post next week an op-ed from Pepperdine economist Gary M. Galles, who reminds us of the inspirational words left behind by those who won our liberty. One statement, a warning from George Washington, stands out in a time when this nation is electing some of the worst candidates imaginable.
“Government,” Washington said, “is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
We see irresponsibility in government all
Hillary Clinton still fuming over Electoral
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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is still railing against the Electoral College, which cost her the presidency in 2016, calling it an "abomination" in a trailer for the new Netflix docuseries titled "The American Experiment." In a trailer for the upcoming series, which is executive-produced by Tom Hanks, Clinton remarks, "Well, I personally think the Electoral College is an abomination. For obvious reasons." (Snip) The push for abolishing the Electoral College, which was instituted in 1787, has gained increased support in some corners of the left, especially after Clinton’s 2016 loss to President Donald Trump. Though Clinton won the national
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New York just gave America a preview of who's actually running the Democrat Party, and it isn't Hakeem Jeffries.
On Tuesday, all three socialist candidates endorsed by socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept their targeted congressional primaries. Three races, three wins, zero exceptions. Three Democrat incumbents in safe districts all lost. "Their positions are some of the most extreme & far left Dems have seen,” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin said on X. Trust me, he’s not exaggerating.
Darializa Avila Chevalier took NY-13 on a platform built around abolishing prisons, abolishing ICE, abolishing borders, defunding the police, and opposing the deportation of every illegal immigrant, including violent criminals.
ABC is going all-in to shore up support for its extremist, left-wing daytime gabfest, The View by hosting TV ads urging viewers to contact the FCC to show support for the hardcore, leftist fake news-pushing show.
ABC is facing several proceedings before the FCC, led by Trump-appointed Chairman Brendan Carr, as detractors of The View, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other shows begin pushing for sanctions against the network for violating equal time for opposing viewpoints and other rules.
ABC debuted its first spot on Monday urging fans to tell the FCC that The View is a “bona fide” news program. The ads will also air online,
Gavin Newsom’s carefully guarded wine empire is still netting a pretty penny while he’s in the governor’s office.
Details of the governor’s sprawling network of wineries, hotels and booze ventures are revealed in the California governor’s economic disclosures.
Federal Department of Justice probes involving Newsom’s wife, associates and family tax issues has ramped up scrutiny of the governor’s personal assets as he pledges to eventually release his tax returns to the public. Newsom called the investigations, which he revealed in a prerecorded video last week, politically motivated.
A foreign-born federal judge in D.C. ruled Monday that Americans are not allowed to check the citizenship of prospective voters because doing so might “purge voter rolls.”
D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, blocked the Trump administration from using an updated database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system in order to ensure that only American citizens vote in American elections. Sooknanan became a U.S. citizen in 2009, but seemingly still retains citizenship in Trinidad and Tobago, which she said she would only renounce “if required by law.”
The Trump Department of Energy will issue loans worth a total of $17.5 billion to help fund 10 new nuclear power reactors nationwide, administration officials said on Tuesday.
The loans, provided by the agency's Office of Energy Dominance Financing—the Trump administration's renamed Energy Department loan program—will back the construction of reactors manufactured by the American nuclear power firm Westinghouse. According to the Energy Department, seven utility companies have entered into letters of intent with Westinghouse, but the agency will select just five that will ultimately receive funding to construct two reactors each.
A federal judge has rejected an attempt by the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump to force Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro off the prosecution team. In an 18-page order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden denied defendant Cole Tomas Allen's motion to disqualify both officials from the case stemming from the April 25 attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
According to prosecutors, Allen traveled to the Washington Hilton intending to kill President Trump after tracking the event through public reporting. He allegedly rushed through a Secret Service checkpoint carrying a shotgun, wounded a Secret Service officer, and was
Think lower crime rates are an unalloyed win for law-abiding residents? Think again — at least if you’re in California’s notoriously woke Bay Area.
Sure, San Francisco’s KTVU-TV knows that vehicle break-ins are down in Oakland. That’s a positive thing, particularly given that just a few years ago, people were literally leaving their car trunks open there to prove there was nothing worth stealing in their vehicles. Ergo, there shouldn’t be a downside to crime falling.
And in this case, it’s falling fast in Oakland: a 37 percent decrease in car break-ins year over year, KTVU reported last week. Great news, right?
Iranians tied to Revolutionary Guard crossing
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National security leaders are growing increasingly concerned about Iranians with ties to the Revolutionary Guard attempting to enter the United States illegally from Canada and harm Americans as the war overseas continues.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin disclosed this week that federal immigration authorities from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Canadian police had begun to encounter Iranian nationals attempting to enter the U.S. illegally along its northern border, with the number of encounters increasing day by day. Mullin did not provide additional details. “Because of the amount of pressure President Trump has put on Iran with the peace through strength, is we’ve seen an unusual amount of Iranian nationals
The Trump administration on June 23 proposed increasing the cost of becoming an American citizen in a move that would nearly double the price of naturalization. The proposal would raise the government’s fee for filing an online naturalization application form, the N-400, from $710 to $1,280, an 80-percent increase, according to the proposal from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), published in the Federal Register on Tuesday.
For paper filings of the N-400, DHS said that it wants to raise the fee from $760 to $1,330, an increase of 75 percent.
For online filings of the N-336, a form requesting a hearing on naturalization proceedings, the fee would increase from
Seventeen Republican attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a California environmental law they argue impacts the entire country.
The lawsuit, led by Republican Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, is challenging California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, according to the suit. The law — which Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2022 — imposes extensive requirements for companies, manufacturers and distributors that package or ship products to California.
“The act offends state sovereignty,” the lawsuit claims. “California is not entitled to pronounce nationwide policies; it has no power to ‘project its legislation’ into other States as if it were among equals.”
Taxpayers stuck paying off student loans
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for nonprofits’ employees: ‘It’s
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U.S. taxpayers are paying off the student loans of those who go to work for nonprofits, even nonprofits one wouldn’t consider a charity, or whose mission doesn't align with many taxpayers' values.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program allows those who work for a U.S. federal, state, local, tribal government, the military, or qualifying nonprofit organizations to have their student loans forgiven after making 120 qualifying payments.
“Qualifying employment for PSLF isn’t about the specific job that you do for your employer—it’s about who you work for,” the PSLF website says. While many taxpayers might agree with providing the benefit to accept military service, public safety, health and disability work,
Voter turnout for this year’s congressional Democratic primaries has been substantially lower so far than last year — with far fewer younger voters expected to cast ballots.
The Democratic Socialists of America and liberal leaning insiders had hoped to replicate the results of 2025, when Mayor Zohran Mamdani shocked the political establishment by toppling ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other candidates in the mayor’s race largely boosted by younger voters.
“In my part of the world, turnout is a little low,” said Manhattan Democratic leader Keith Wright, referring to the 70th Assembly District in central Harlem, where his son, Assemblyman Jordan Wright, is facing a challenge from DSA challenger Conrad Blackburn.
The Zo-mentum is real.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s far-left slate of Big Apple congressional hopefuls prevailed in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — with firebrand Darializa Avila Chevalier projected to pull off an AOC-style upset.
Former city Comptroller Brad Lander and state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez were quickly projected by the Associated Press and NY1 to win over their establishment Democrat opponents.
Avila Chevalier held a razor-thin 49.3% to 46% lead over Rep. Adriano Espaillat with 86% of votes counted late Tuesday, leading the five-term incumbent to concede. The projected win by Avila Chevalier and the congressional race victories — coupled with a likely clean sweep of Democratic Socialists of America candidates in state races
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a massive increase in global climate spending, arguing that governments and financial institutions must devote significantly more resources to addressing climate-related challenges.
In a special address at London Climate Action Week on Monday, Guterres said that governments must invest more heavily in climate-related initiatives.
“We must do far more to protect people and communities from the here-and-now effects of climate chaos,” Guterres said. “Because even at full speed, we cannot outrun climate change. Its impacts are already here, compounding and cascading.”
The massive warehouse fire in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles has been burning and spewing toxic chemicals into the air for a week now.
As RedState’s Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported, Gov. Gavin Newsom was slow to declare a state of emergency, as he and LA Mayor Karen Bass were in Chicago rubbing elbows with the Democrat elites at the Obama Presidential Center opening.
The Mayor seems to have a habit of being out of town when major conflagrations break out. To be fair, she couldn‘t have known that a warehouse would go up in flames — but she was warned about the dangerous conditions that led to the disastrous
Two Texas Senate polls put Republican Ken Paxton ahead of Democrat James Talarico: one has Paxton up by two points, while another finds the race moving from a previous Talarico lead to a narrow Paxton edge.
A new YouGov poll of registered voters dated June 12 showed Paxton leading Talarico, 49 percent to 47 percent, in the Texas U.S. Senate race. The same YouGov poll showed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott leading Democrat Hinojosa, 47 percent to 40 percent, in a Texas governor matchup.
A separate University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll showed Talarico moving from an eight-point lead over Sen. John Cornyn in April, 42 percent to 34 percent, to
The Montreal shooter’s manifesto makes it clear that he was a deranged leftist who was bitter against women, blaming capitalism and “white men” for the problems in his life, and that he was also antisemitic. Hatfield was a philosophy student at the University of Lethbridge, according to Rebel News.
Seth Hatfield from Alberta murdered a police officer, Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, and a local Jewish man, Michael Mizrahi, on Monday in a crazed shooting spree in a Jewish section of Montreal. Police ended up killing Hatfield, too, during the shootout. Hatfield apparently left behind him a long, angry, and rambling manifesto condemning private property and the capitalist system, raging
Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing yet more scrutiny after archived social media posts surfaced containing graphic remarks, controversial political statements, and comments about military veterans.
The posts, recovered from Platner’s former Reddit account and reviewed by multiple outlets, remained accessible through internet archives despite efforts to remove much of his online activity. Among the material drawing attention was a response Platner posted in 2014 to an online discussion asking users to share offensive jokes.
Under the username P-Hustle, Platner responded to a Reddit prompt asking users to share
Mamdani-endorsed state assembly member Claire Valdez secured the Democratic nomination Tuesday after defeating a crowded field in the primary for New York’s 7th Congressional District. The democratic socialist, who had been leading in the polls, defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, City Council Member Julie Won and civil rights attorney Vichal Kumar to fill the seat being vacated by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y. Velázquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress, announced she would not seek re-election in November after more than three decades in office.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to halt U.S. military action against Iran, the latest rebuke of the Republican president from an increasingly restive Congress.
The Senate voted 50-48 in favor of the war powers resolution, which passed the House of Representatives early this month, reflecting growing concern even among some of Trump's Republicans about the unpopular conflict that began on February 28. It was the first time both chambers of Congress had passed a resolution directing a president to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities since the War Powers Resolution