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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court blocked further construction of President Trump’s planned White House ballroom Friday, ruling that the massive project must first receive congressional approval.
A divided panel of DC circuit judges determined that “Congress has exclusive authority to regulate the construction and demolition of White House structures.”
“We are aware of no instance in American history in which a President unilaterally and using privately collected funds demolished substantial portions of the White House that Congress authorized to be built and American taxpayers paid for. Until now,” wrote judges Patricia Millet and Bradley Garcia in their majority opinion. “The Constitution’s Property Clause vests Congress with plenary control
Disappointing Job Numbers?
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It was reported this morning that the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. That was considered disappointing, and appropriately so. However: in reality, this is part of an excellent long-term trend, as the Committee to Unleash Prosperity explains:
The bad news: the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. The good news: 53,000 of them were in government. The private sector gained 30,000 jobs.
We’d call this right-sizing the economy.
The Democratic establishment could be facing a seismic political reckoning not seen since MAGA’s historic overhaul of the Republican Party.
A progressive flavor of Democratic candidates has swept their establishment opponents this election cycle, most recently with Abdul El-Sayed’s primary win in Michigan against Rep. Haley Stevens. Sayed’s upset victory is just the latest in a string of progressive primary wins, many of which are associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Sayed is not a DSA-endorsed candidate himself, but his anti-establishment appeal and progressive campaign promises echo several DSA candidates who have enjoyed political success. Much like MAGA’s successful takeover of the Republican Party just a decade ago,
Remember That Radical TN Dem With the
Weird Preacher Act? Yeah, He Might Be
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Weird Preacher Act? Yeah, He Might Be
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This is turning out to be quite the year for the Democrat Party to trot out their oddest oddballs and run them for office. Michigan might have the highest concentration of freaky Dem candidates in 2026, but the seemingly sane state of Tennessee is in the running for that honor, too, because of one man: Justin Pearson. On his best day, this guy exudes the weirdo aura of ten standard Democrats. On his worst day, he dances like an epileptic James Brown and talks like a revivalist preacher, usually on the floor of the Tennessee legislature. It's performative politics at its worst.
He first made headlines back in 2023
Eric Swalwell leveraged his past sexual relationship with Katie Miller, wife of top Trump official Stephen Miller, to keep potentially embarrassing FBI files behind lock and key, a shocking new report revealed Thursday.
The news that the disgraced former Democratic Congressman from California — who resigned after several women claimed sexual assault and rape — once dated the now-wife of a top conservative leader stunned Washington.
“I was an intern working on Capitol Hill,” Miller posted on X about the situation. Then Katie Waldman worked as both an intern and communications director on Capitol Hill in her 20s before moving to the executive branch in 2017. The relationship with Swalwell was before
EXCLUSIVE — The Transportation Department has proposed a new rule to codify English-language proficiency requirements for American truckers, as Secretary Sean Duffy looks to ensure that current language safety standards last beyond the Trump administration.
Under Duffy, the Trump administration has cracked down on making sure big-rig drivers are proficient in English before they hit the road and have to operate while reading English road signs. The administration’s stricter enforcement ramped up after several high-profile fatal crashes, including one on a Florida interstate, involved non-English proficient truckers driving in violation of nearby English road signs. In April 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring truck drivers to speak English.
So much for the idea that tariffs would damage U.S. productivity and manufacturing.
Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House and especially since Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcement, the economic press has reported that American manufacturing is struggling under President Trump’s tariffs. Even worse: stories have frequently claimed that manufacturing is struggling because of the tariffs. The Wall Street Journal declared manufacturing “in retreat.” The Associated Press said tariffs were “hurting American manufacturers instead of helping them. There’s just one problem: none of that is happening. If tariffs are hurting American manufacturing, someone forgot to tell the factories.
A subject I feel is important to keep covering, despite the puzzling disinterest of the political and media class, is the extraordinary industrial growth that is occurring in the United States. There is effectively a massive “stimulus package” of spending going on, it is being privately funded. For once, taxpayers are benefiting from this vast “shovel-ready” stimulus, unlike recent government stimulus spending, in which money was simply redistributed from taxpayers to favored recipients. electricity. There is also massive re-shoring due to President Trump’s tariffs and America-first policies that are making the U.S. a manufacturing powerhouse again.
'I hate Mackinac so much': Abdul El-Sayed
says he 'hates' iconic Michigan island
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A resurfaced clip from a 2020 documentary shows Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed saying he “hates Mackinac so much” while visiting the island during his 2018 campaign for governor. He lost that bid before aiming to represent the state at the federal level. The footage comes from the documentary “How To Fix A Primary,” which followed El-Sayed’s unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign. In the scene, El-Sayed can be seen walking toward the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan as one of the island's iconic horse-drawn carriages pass by. “I hate Mackinac so much,” El-Sayed says in the video. He then references the island’s being the governor’s official summer residence,
The new Michigan Democrat Senate candidate received a large donation from a terrorist front group, which also endorsed him in the primary.
Abdul El-Sayed won the Democrat Senate primary and will face Republican Mike Rogers in a key race in the midterm election. More ominously, between employees and leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), El-Sayed has raised over $115,000. But CAIR is little more than a front group for Islamic jihad, with close ties to Hamas. Fox News reviewed evidence that resulted in the exposé on El-Sayed, who ironically has made “money out of politics” a rallying cry in his campaign. Then again,
(The Center Square) — The Trump administration unveiled a dashboard on Thursday to track fraud investigations and enforcement actions.
The dashboard, Fraud.gov, reports that the administration uncovered $229.9 billion in fraud since January 2025. The dashboard said the administration stopped $56.4 billion in annualized fraud and $55.5 billion from indictments or settlements.
The administration's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, formally announced in February, sought to partner with agencies across the executive branch to combat fraud.
The dashboard reports three figures from each executive agency: fraud uncovered, fraud stopped and fraud enforced.
Remember how CBS “journalist” Scott Pelley breathlessly touted the 2020 election as 'the most secure in history'?
Pelley, oh so seriously, touted the statement from White House Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Christopher Krebs, who called it just that, and then the rest of the mainstream press repeated it in three-part harmony.
Christopher Krebs called the 2020 vote “the most secure in American history,” which promptly got him fired. Tonight, in his first interview since he was dismissed, Krebs tells us why he believes the vote was accurate and why saying otherwise puts the country in danger.
Chris Krebs:
Staten Island patriot artist and relentless Trump-supporting activist Scott LoBaido suffered cardiac arrest Tuesday night at a pro-police National Night Out Against Crime event after attempting to confront radical socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and later revealed from his hospital bed that he “actually died for 2 minutes.”
LoBaido, 61, the hard-charging conservative known for his massive American flag murals, anti-left stunts, and fierce defense of cops and America, collapsed at the Midland Beach boardwalk event in Staten Island shortly after Mamdani was mercilessly booed off the stage by the crowd.
Former Bill Clinton pollster, Mark Penn, appeared on FOX News today to talk about the Michigan senate race and what he expects to happen.
Penn suggested that if as little as five percent of Haley Stevens voters cross over and vote for Republican Mike Rogers, which is not only possible, but likely, that Abdul El-Sayed is cooked.
The Gateway Pundit has already shown videos of Michigan voters saying that is just what they are going to do, so this is not a longshot theory from Penn.
Mediaite has details:
Veteran political operative and former pollster for the Clintons, Mark Penn, joined Fox News —
Bombshell: Hacker Admitted to 2020 AZ
Voter Data Theft, Destroyed Evidence —
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The suspect later confessed to federal agents and acknowledged destroying the data by wiping hard drives and deleting Google Cloud copies after realizing investigators were closing in.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation here is what happened next.
Nothing. Nothing happened next.
The FBI presented the full case, including the confession, to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, and two county prosecutors. All of them declined to bring charges.
"Today, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released intelligence community and FBI documents detailing an election cyber incident in which a self-described hacker extracted 633,000 voter —
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton will have to take his fight over the "gun-free" state fair to the Texas Supreme Court after an appellate court upheld the ban on Thursday.
Paxton, along with several individual plaintiffs, filed suit after the State Fair of Texas announced in 2024 that the lawful carrying of firearms would no longer be allowed. The move came after a shooting during the fair in 2023, one that was committed by someone who couldn't legally carry a gun.
The lawsuit contended that the State Fair of Texas and the City of Dallas,
Acting AG Todd Blanche Narrowly Clears
Confirmation Threshold After Murkowski,
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Confirmation Threshold After Murkowski,
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Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Todd Blanche on Thursday secured the votes he needed to be confirmed by the Senate.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana turned out to be the decisive vote, and he announced his decision to support Blanche as head of the Department of Justice in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday morning.
“Mr. Blanche is not perfect, and he will tell you this, but the choice is not between perfection and Mr. Blanche,” Cassidy said. “It is between Mr. Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department effectively
Kayleigh McEnany spent the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic just steps from Dr. Anthony Fauci while serving as White House press secretary during President Donald Trump's first term. Now, after digging into Fauci's newly revealed diaries, she says the American people got played.
"I was in the Situation Room with Dr. Fauci, I was in the Oval Office with Dr. Fauci, I had phone calls with Dr. Fauci. I spent a lot of time with this man,"[snip] while McEnany made her case publicly with real data behind her, Fauci was privately trashing the entire effort in his own diary.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei continues to govern in ways that conservatives in America can only dream of. Now he’s come up with a new proposal that the U.S. would do well to copy.
When Milei came into office, he promised to slash government spending, balance the budget, embrace free trade, deregulate the economy, and get hyperinflation under control. (“Experts” such as Paul Krugman said it would end in disaster.)
Milei’s lived up to his promises. Month-over-month inflation was running at 25% when he took office; it’s below 2% now. Argentina ran a budget surplus in 2024, the first time since
We’re hearing a lot of charges since Oct. 7th that Israel has committed a litany of war crimes. Let’s examine them very carefully because I think they tell us more about the accuser than they do the accused.
We’re told by a lot of representatives in our own Congress, mostly on the Democrat side, not all—Tucker Carlson, for example, Candace Owens, but also Zohran Mamdani and others have said that Israel is an apartheid state. In other words, it has racial enclaves.
But there’s nothing in the Israeli constitution that requires you to be Jewish. In fact, there’s 2 million Arabs living freely, voting freely inside Israel.
In contrast,
e Center Square) - A 37-year-old Spokane man is facing formal arson charges after allegedly confessing to starting dozens of wildfires across Spokane County over a year-long period, culminating in a massive 3,200-acre blaze that has destroyed hundreds of structures so far.
According to court records filed Wednesday in Spokane County Superior Court, Aaron Farinacci was arrested and charged following an investigation into the fast-moving Old Trails fire.
Detectives with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office stated in an affidavit of facts that probable cause exists to hold Farinacci responsible for the catastrophic wildfire, as well as a series of serial arson incidents dating back to July 2025.
Records show that at least 22 Democrat attorneys general joined a coalition called the Project for Federal Accountability starting in April 2024, roughly seven months before Trump defeated Kamala Harris. Seven attorneys general signed the agreement on April 28, 2024. Thirteen more joined in May and June.
The pact was called "Privileged & Confidential Common Interest Agreement." It was built to do exactly what it sounds like: Keep the states' coordination hidden from the public and from anyone who might dare oppose them in court.
After more than two years of litigation, a coalition of Second Amendment groups and advocates have reached a settlement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department over its policies and practices related to our right to bear arms.
California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners of California, and Gun Owners Foundation filed suit against LASD and the city of La Verne in December 2023, alleging that the sheriff's office was taking well over a year to process concealed carry applications, while La Verne officials were imposing exorbitant fees on residents who applied for a California Handgun Permit.
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"The whole notion of a 'private sector' in China is fanciful..." — Roger Robinson former chairman of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, to Gatestone Institute, August 3, 2026.
China's regime has sold more than MANPADs to Iran. The CM-302 missiles Iran fired at the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group during the ongoing war — President Donald Trump said Iran fired 101 of them — were Chinese. There are images of Chinese military transports, during the war, landing in Iran after turning off their transponders.