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While at a Rochester, Minnesota, playground with her son last April, Shiloh Hendrix watched as an 8-year-old Somali child allegedly ran to her diaper bag and stole something. Hendrix reportedly shouted at the child and called him the n-word. A fellow Somali bystander, Sharmake Omar, began following and recording Hendrix and asked if she called the child a racial slur. Hendrix confirmed she did, (snip)
told Hendrix that her speech was “hate speech” and that he would post the video for the world to see. (Notably, Omar was charged in 2022 for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. The charges against him were later dismissed “in the
Troy Jackson Picked to Replace Platner
at Maine Democratic Convention - but He
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at Maine Democratic Convention - but He
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On Saturday, Troy Jackson was officially picked as the replacement for Graham Platner to be the Democrat candidate for the Senate from Maine.
As we reported, this was the likely result after the other main candidates dropped out and endorsed Jackson about a week ago. This was after it became clear that he had about two-thirds of the Democratic delegates who would be voting on a replacement. What was pretty humorous is a guy who's been in state politics for 25 years trying to paint himself as some kind of "outsider" or change agent. He also just lost another race for governor.
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s descent from its once-vaunted role as a sentinel against extremism has been precipitous and ironic. An organization whose “hate map” promiscuously equates parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty with neo-Nazi organizations now stands indicted by the Department of Justice on charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Federal prosecutors allege that, between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled millions of donor dollars—more than $4 million by some accounts—to individuals associated with the very groups it professed to combat, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist outfits.
Zohran Mamdani spent 18 months promising New Yorkers that he would arrest a foreign head of government.
On Tuesday night, he admitted that he cannot.
But it is hard to believe Mamdani did not know all along the promise was legally untenable. He made it anyway because its real purpose was not enforcement but delegitimization — to put Israel and the U.S.-led international order on the docket.
His administration reviewed every avenue available under applicable law and found no independent authority to enforce the International Criminal Court’s warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In 2023, the New York Times ran an article entitled, “Increasingly, Women Are Running the World’s Great Museums.” Some of the museums mentioned were the Louvre, the Vatican Museum, and the National Gallery of Art.
But it’s not only museums where women dominate. Other arts and cultural institutions seem to be on a permanent trajectory to hire women as CEOs. On the surface, this shouldn’t be a problem. Qualified women should certainly take their place at the top if they are the best candidates for the job.
But…. There seems to be a troubling common denominator here. The vast majority of the women in these positions fit a certain mold.
Budweiser closed out its 150th-anniversary Super Bowl campaign this year with Clydesdales, a bald eagle, and the tagline “Made in America.” The ad won USA TODAY’s Ad Meter as the game’s most popular commercial and leaned hard into the same red-white-and-blue imagery Anheuser-Busch has used for its “American Careers, American Beers” push, which celebrates the roughly 65,000 U.S. jobs the company says it supports. What the ad didn’t mention is that Anheuser-Busch is a subsidiary of AB InBev, the Belgium-headquartered brewing giant, and its parent company has spent this year both closing American breweries and lobbying U.S.
Speaker Mike Johnson pulled off another unlikely feat getting a divided Republican conference to pass a bill providing Iran war funding and supporting state voter ID requirements. This time, he had a hand from Vice President JD Vance, who worked the phones behind the scenes to get skeptical conservative members on board, sources familiar with the matter tell the Daily Signal.
Overcoming numerous divisions within the conference, House Republicans on Wednesday successfully passed a framework for reconciliation 3.0, which included $95 billion in spending for the Iran war and parts of the SAVE America Act.
Many in Atlanta also celebrate its popularity because it's a successful black-owned business, co-owned by Tamara Young and Chef Virgil Harper. And that's fine; it's a free country, and people are welcome to celebrate what they want and what matters to them. Personally, when I go out to eat, I really only care about things like flavor and service, not the race of the owners. I grew up with parents who never considered someone's skin color a defining factor in who they are or what they're capable of achieving, and I've always followed their lead.
watchdog group is calling on Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) William Pulte to review the security clearances of certain members of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team following allegations they mishandled classified information.
The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) has sent a letter to the DNI asserting allegations against members of Smith’s team and requesting an investigation to revoke security clearances if needed.
“As recent documents from Senator Grassley’s office have shown, several members of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office were extremely careless when handling classified documents and with the security of designated classified areas,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick said in a statement.
California rejected nearly 150,000 mail-in ballots during its June primary, the highest total in recent election cycles, as a surge in late-postmarked ballots sparked concerns about changes to U.S. Postal Service processing.
According to data from the California secretary of State’s office, 148,241 mail ballots — or 1.73 percent of all mailed ballots cast — were rejected in the state’s June primary, up from roughly 109,000 rejected ballots in the 2024 primary and up from about 106,000 in the 2022 primary.
More than 93,000 ballots were disqualified because they were deemed late, making timeliness the most common reason the ballots were rejected.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Evan Barker, a former Obama intern and lifelong Democrat, who left the party after what she saw as a volunteer at the Democratic National Convention.
In 2024, in an op-ed for Newsweek, she expanded on why she became so “disenchanted” with Democrat leadership despite raising “tens of millions of dollars” for them and why she left the party.
Next week, Baker’s memoir, “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative,” is set to drop.
The Wall Street Journal’s Barton Swaim previewed the book noting:
President Donald Trump has a winning strategy on Iran. The military campaign should not stop until Iran's regime delivers an unconditional surrender, as Germany and Japan did in World War II.
House Speaker Mike Johnson should be cautious about telling Trump to "wrap it up." The US strikes on Iran have been as breathtaking as they were overdue – and massively complex. What would the world look like today if in 1942 the US and its allies had been told to "wrap it up"?
Trump should not listen to anyone who tells him to slow down or ease up. The Gulf Arabs are being hit hard again --
US government loses up to $521B annually
to fraud as key GAO recommendations still
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to fraud as key GAO recommendations still
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The federal government continues to lose an estimated $233 billion to $521 billion each year to fraud, while most agencies overseeing the nation's largest federally funded programs have yet to implement one of the Government Accountability Office's top recommendations for preventing those losses, according to a new GAO report.
The report, Managing Risks in Federally Funded, State-Administered Programs, reviewed the 20 largest federally funded, state-administered programs, which accounted for approximately $1.1 trillion in federal obligations in fiscal year 2025.
The GAO found in the report released Thursday that most agencies have not completed documented fraud risk assessments.
Former Maine state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate on Saturday, setting up a November showdown with longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a race that could play a key role in determining control of the Senate.
Jackson was selected after Democrat Graham Platner, who won the party’s June primary, withdrew from the race earlier this month following a sexual assault allegation that he has denied. Maine Democrats gathered Saturday to choose a new nominee to take on Collins in the general election.
Amid celebrations of our nation’s 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation’s core institutions.
“Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low,” reports Gallup.
Of 14 core institutions—banks, big business, labor, the presidency, Congress, schools, health care, etc.—only 27% say they have “a great deal/quite a lot of confidence,” one point above the all-time low for this average.
In 1979, the percentage expressing “a great deal/quite a lot of confidence” in these 14 core institutions stood at 48%.
One explanation is the double-edged sword of the growth of government. More government means more inefficiency.
City Jewish leaders Friday demanded Mayor Zohran Mamdani “stop fanning the flames of hatred and division” after a nut stabbed a religious man in a suspected antisemitic hate crime on the Upper West Side — but Hizzoner offered nothing more than a canned tepid response.
Raul Morales, 51, allegedly yelled “Allahu Akbar!” as he attacked the two victims — Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus, a 50-year-old Jewish man, and Chok Sung, a 57-year-old Asian man — in vicious separate attacks blocks from Central Park and minutes apart Thursday afternoon, police said.
“We’re horrified and heartbroken by yesterday’s attacks. But to be clear, we’re no longer surprised,”
Chances are, if you go online, you’ll stumble across plenty of controversial stories and posts from one popular online figure who practices what some are calling “Islamo-Marxism.” It’s a blend of Islam and Marxism, and it’s sweeping across social media.(snipThis is the new, powerful arm of the Dem Party, and the guy who goes by “HasanAbi” online isn’t going anywhere.
(anip) Hasan Piker. He’s a self-proclaimed Marxist who calls himself “culturally Islamic.”Mr. Piker is 34 years old, and he was born in New Jersey, but he grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. (s nip)a dual citizen of the US and Turkey. Piker graduated from Rutgers, where he started developing his love of
They’re dolling up the trans agenda — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
“First-of-their-kind” transgender dolls — complete with removable genitalia — will debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall to kids as young as 4 years old. The paper dolls, with gender-neutral names like “Sam,” “Rory,” “Avery” and “Parker,” have removable internal and external genitals, along with more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing, accessories and hairstyles — like a trans Mr./Mrs. Potato Head.
There is a level of no-so-subtle pretense within this messaging from President Trump that is not good.
As noted in this Truth Social message, President Trump notes it is unlikely that people around Chairman Xi and people around President Putin would be providing military, logistics, targeting or weapons support for Iran for the same reason President Trump is not providing military, logistics, targeting or weapons support to Ukraine.
TRUTH SOCIAL – “President Xi, at our recent meeting in Beijing, China, told me that he would not, under any circumstances, give or sell Weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran — And that statement included Chinese Companies. Considering our relationship, I
Most casual EU observers have missed the connection between President Trump eliminating the U.S-Europe Marshall Plan via entirely new trade and tariff policies, and the aggregate financial collapse of the European Union.
Over four years (1948-1952), the United States provided $13.3 billion (equivalent to approximately $137 billion in 2025) directly to 17 Western European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The intent was to rebuild Europe after World War II. However, included in the plan was a later system of one-way tariffs, where EU Countries would high-tariff U.S. goods and the U.S. would not tariff EU goods imported.
The Odyssey” is taking hits from conservatives, rightly so, for its “woke” casting. Some of director Christopher Nolan’s choices are indeed odd and distracting. (Why does the Bard look like a Rastafarian?)
But it’s leftists who should be even more upset about the people chosen for key roles.
Sure, the movie checks all the diversity boxes, which, according to our friends at Unleash Prosperity, is mandatory if you want your film to be considered for Best Picture in today’s leftist-controlled Hollywood. So, Nolan appeased the left’s diversity gods with a cast that, according to one count, is 50% white, 24% Latino and Hispanic, 12% black, and 9%
Three more subcontractors that worked on the Obama Presidential Center have filed legal claims saying they are owed nearly $900,000, adding to a growing list of payment disputes surrounding the project.
The companies each filed mechanics liens against the Obama Presidential Center property, a routine legal tool used on construction projects to recover unpaid construction costs. The subcontractors claim they are owed money for structural steel, excavation and concrete, and gymnasium flooring work performed on Home Court, the Center's 60,000-square-foot basketball and events facility.
The socialists are feeling their oats right now.
They think they are on the rise in the face of a weak Democratic Party that seems largely okay with being eaten alive, and already has been largely taken over by radicals.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — the guy with the perpetual smirk — is one piece of evidence of this trend. He apparently thought he could dictate foreign policy and get Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested. Then when he found out he doesn't have that kind of power, he had to resort to encouraging leftists to protest.
That has now ticked off the local police,
Friday night's episode of The Five gave viewers a masterclass in what happens when a liberal co-host way out of her depth tries to lecture the panel and ends up lecturing herself into a corner. Jessica Tarlov set out to catch her conservative colleagues in a supposed contradiction on socialism. She walked out of the segment looking like a fool in the process.
Tarlov opened by accusing Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters of hypocrisy over the Trump administration's equity stakes in companies such as U.S. Steel and Intel, arguing that conservatives have been throwing around the word "socialist" for years without meaning it.