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Federal prosecutors will seize James Comey’s book sale profits after he was indicted on two felony counts on charges related to his Trump assassination Instagram post.
The Justice Department issued a forfeiture notice because prosecutors believe Comey posted the ’86 47′ Trump threat to help with sales of his forthcoming book, “Red Verdict.”
“Upon conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the said offense,” the indictment read. James Comey posted his threatening ‘8647’ Instagram post shortly before his book launch last May.
Democrat-dominated Ann Arbor is raising eyebrows and garnering widespread mockery for removing all of its anti-crime watch signs across the city to be more "inclusive."
The move even prompted a New York City Council member, Republican Vickie Paladino, to say, "They’re just insane."
The Michigan city announced on Tuesday that, at the direction of the City Council, it completed the citywide removal of more than 600 neighborhood watch signs. In a statement, the city explained that "removing the signs aligns the city’s environment with its commitment to inclusive, evidence-based public safety." The decision to remove the signs was made in a unanimous 10-0 City Council vote in December,
Rep. Keith Self has introduced legislation that would effectively outlaw cousin marriages by denying federal recognition and benefits to such unions.
“Cousin marriage—which is permitted under Sharia—is fundamentally incompatible with American culture and values. It should not be allowed anywhere in our country,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal. “The vast majority of states have already banned this third‑world practice. It’s time for Congress to finish the job and enact a nationwide prohibition.”
Marriage between close family members is legal, with few or no restrictions, in 18 states and the District of Columbia. Self argues that blood‑related marriages are common in certain ethnic and cultural groups, with rates reaching
The Domino Effect: SCOTUS' Louisiana v.
Callais Decision Unmoors Democrat Plans
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Callais Decision Unmoors Democrat Plans
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The United States Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais was good news for Louisiana. However, for other states whose redistricting maps have fallen under the specter of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the news is even better. The SCOTUS decision produced a domino effect where other cases that fell under Section 2's umbrella will either end up on the Supreme Court's docket or be recalibrated by SCOTUS and by the lower courts in light of this decision.
The first domino to fall: Alabama.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is withdrawing his surgeon general nomination for the second time.
Trump announced the nomination of Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist and director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, replacing “Make America Healthy Again” nominee Dr. Casey Means. Before Means, Trump had nominated Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for the role before withdrawing her nomination.
“I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be the next SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “Nicole is a STAR physician who has spent her career guiding women
The lawyer for White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen gave an absurd reason why the CalTech grad should be allowed to walk free pending trial, claiming he was “not a danger to anybody” — despite charges that he attempted to assassinate President Trump.
Defense attorneys claimed that Allen, 31, was not prepared to carry out a mass shooting in the room where Trump, first lady Melania, and most of the top members of the administration were in attendance, because he had a pump-action shotgun, his team wrote in papers Wednesday.
“Mr. Allen has no criminal history — not even prior arrests, which alone would rebut the presumption of detention,”
The House passed by voice vote on April 30 a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.
The bill goes to President Donald Trump’s desk and will end a shutdown that began on Feb. 14.
Democrats wanted immigration enforcement reforms in exchange for funding ICE and Border Patrol following the deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration enforcement agents. These reforms include agents being maskless and carrying identification.
Washington — Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that she is suspending her campaign for Senate, all but ensuring Graham Platner will get the Democratic nomination to take on incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in one of November's most important Senate races. (Snip) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had recruited Mills, the only Democrat to have won statewide in Maine in 25 years, to challenge Collins. But her age — she will be 79 when a new Congress convenes next year — had been a concern for Democrats in the state. Platner, a 41-year-old oyster farmer and political newcomer, announced he
For a party that screams about 'No Kings,' the Democrats sure seem to have no problem with declaring themselves our de facto kings or — in the case of Jasmine Crockett — queens. Crockett went on the "Sherri" show yesterday, where she lamented the "disrespect" she's received as a black woman, before going on to tell voters she's our superior. (Snip) You know, for me ... I am one of the 535 most powerful people in this country and for some reason, you think we on the same level, but you gonna disrespect me? Like it's not gonna happen."
Here's another Leftist with a high-profile job calling for the death of President Trump. Matt Doogen is reportedly a pilot with United Airlines, and he changed his Facebook cover photo to the "8647," which is known to symbolize killing President Trump. It's why James Comey was just charged by the DOJ, too. [Tweet]
We're sure that Trump supporters fly United. This writer flew United when she traveled to Hawaii in 2024, ironically the day of the first assassination attempt in Butler, PA. [Tweet]
This makes us very uncomfortable. [Tweet]
Remember, Democrats got a rodeo clown fired for wearing an Obama mask,
Cole Allen, the latest alleged wannabe Trump assassin, was an enthusiastic user of the rancid left-wing echo chamber known as the social media platform Blue Sky.
A breakdown of Cole’s most-liked accounts over the past month, before he tried to kill Trump at the Washington Hilton Saturday night, shows a classic grab bag of Trump-haters and liberal activists, with lefty Trump-deranged lawyer Will Stancil at the top, boasting 28 likes.
But a curious account in the middle of the radical left soup, coming in at number 12 with seven likes, is a little-known China apologist, James Palmer, the deputy editor of Foreign Policy, who uses the handle “beijingpalmer.”
The ongoing redistricting war has turned into a nightmare for Democrats. The new gerrymandered map of Virginia was blocked last week, and now, on the same day, the Supreme Court has chucked racial gerrymandering and Florida Republicans just passed their new map. And, let’s just say, Democrats aren’t handling it well. In fact, one Florida lawmaker couldn't handle the news without a bullhorn.
The Florida Legislature passed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new congressional map on Wednesday. The state House approved it 83–28, strictly along party lines, before the Senate followed suit 21–17. DeSantis is expected to sign it, and when he does, Florida's congressional landscape will look dramatically different
The 435 members of the House of Representatives represent the people of specific geographic areas. Those areas are drawn up to include equal populations.
The population of a Congressional District is currently about 762,000 people. The intent is for each citizen and 762,000 of his close friends to have a voice in Congress.
This necessarily means that Congressional Districts have vastly different geographic sizes and shapes reflecting different population concentrations. Alaska has only one Congressional District covering the entire sparsely populated state, while one of the 26 Congressional Districts in New York State is just a few square miles of densely populated Manhattan.
Once upon a time, there was a societal pact in this country that, when a depraved lunatic committed an atrocity, no one would breathe a word of his motives, speech, or writings. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kicked off the school shooting craze at Columbine High School in 1999, we didn’t speak of what they thought they were accomplishing. Their so-called basement tapes were never publicly released, and authorities destroyed them in 2011. "Law enforcement officials have always regarded the tapes as a particularly infectious form of toxic waste, a primer in mass murder that could inspire more violence and must never be released,"
Oh boy, this indictment puts Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in a really precarious position. If President Sheinbaum gives up the Governor of Sinaloa, Mexico, Ruben Rocha Moya to extradition the Sinaloa cartel will go ultra-violent against Sheinbaum and Moya will likely take down the entire government apparatus with him.[Ancillary to this, it now makes sense why all the various Mexican federal officials were publicly criticizing the Trump administration and CIA in recent days. They knew this in advance.]
The DOJ (SDNY) has indicted Mexican Governor Ruben Rocha Moya along with nine current and former Mexican officials for participating “in a corrupt and violent drug trafficking conspiracy with the Cartel
As Dr. Anthony Fauci’s right-hand man, David Morens, was charged this week with conspiracy and destruction of federal records in the COVID-19 cover-up, another scandal over the vaccine was unfolding on Capitol Hill.
According to a new Senate report and congressional testimony on Wednesday, Biden administration health officials deliberately ignored warning signs of possible serious reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine, including heart attacks, strokes, Bell’s palsy and sudden cardiac death.
Within three months of the vaccines being rolled out, in March 2021, red flags were fluttering out of the weekly data dumps from doctors and patients reporting health problems after the shots, according to internal emails and meeting notes
In a decision that shouldn’t have surprised anyone, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Democrats can no longer create safe electoral fiefdoms based on race to win elections, calling it “racial gerrymandering.” It’s about time.
The ruling essentially “neuters,” as some put it, Section 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. PJ Media scribe Matt Margolis called the decision “one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation.” That’s not hyperbole. And it was long overdue.
While still upholding the landmark Voting Rights Act, a 6-3 conservative majority found that a redrawing of Louisiana’s congressional
Bongino says he fears retaliation after
finding 'mother lode' of Crossfire Hurricane
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finding 'mother lode' of Crossfire Hurricane
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Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confessed in an interview Tuesday that he lives in constant fear that he’ll face retaliation after he shed light on corruption in the bureau and because of a document he found related to Crossfire Hurricane.
Bongino, who left the bureau in January after roughly 10 months in the job, said he found the document in a burn bag that was related to the FBI probe into allegations of Russia collusion in President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
The former deputy director claimed on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast that the document was clearly meant to be destroyed
A former Minnesota state trooper alleged this week that his bosses at the state Department of Human Services tried to bully him into quashing his findings of fraud in the state’s child care funding program.
Jay Swanson, a former criminal investigator for the DHS, also revealed that it was well known among Somali refugees in East Africa that Minnesota was the best place to go in the US to pull off child care fraud schemes.
And then Gov. Tim Walz came into office — and Swanson’s entire department investigating waste, fraud and abuse was eliminated, according to Republican lawmakers.
The allegations, which came out Tuesday at a hearing
Americans love arguing about free speech. We invoke the First Amendment as a kind of political force field: You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, without consequence.
But the First Amendment only restricts government action. It does not guarantee you a career, a platform or immunity from backlash. The real question is not whether certain speech is legal but rather what kind of speech deserves social consequences — and what kind doesn't.
And if we're talking about reckless political speech, we should talk about Jimmy Kimmel. Years ago, he abandoned comedy in favor of applause lines, tearful monologues and the occasional performance of empathy. He's an unfunny
We’re in the eighth week of the Iran waropens in a new tab, and things are starting to heat up even though there’s not kinetic action. What do I mean by heating up? The Iranian government has ceased to exist. We don’t know, and the Iranians don’t know who holds power.
There is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. There is the theocracy, there is the elected people in Parliament, and there is a regular military. And those four groups operate in schizophrenic fashion. By the same token, sometimes they give off signals that they would like to negotiate because that is predicated on popular resistance.
The issue was simple for New Jersey: We can't protect consumers from deception about abortion services without requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to identify donors.
The response from the Supreme Court on Wednesday was just as simple: Have you read our precedents?
Chief Justice John Roberts further cemented his reputation as "Mr. First Amendment" by wrangling the high court's perceived conservative ideologues and institutionalists as well as the liberals into a unanimous ruling for both donor privacy and access to federal courts, with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing the opinion and no one muddling the message with a concurrence.
Blind spot: Media amplified white supremacy
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In the wake of the Charlottesville rally in August 2017, the media relied on Southern Poverty Law Center experts to explain an apparent rise in white supremacy in America after Donald Trump’s election.
But, while SPLC’s experts helped the media understand America’s racism problem after the rally, it was allegedly funding an organizer of the event, a member of a racist group prone to extremism. At the same time it was double-dipping, the Charlottesville rally launched SPLC’s credibility to new heights and boosted its fundraising hauls. Throughout the last decade, SPLC also covertly funded members of racist groups prone to extremism, including the Aryan Nations,
Trump Forces Departure of Chinese Solar
Firm Roy Cooper Lured to North Carolina
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Firm Roy Cooper Lured to North Carolina
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A Chinese solar company whose wholly owned American subsidiary won millions of dollars in tax incentives from former North Carolina governor Roy Cooper (D.) in 2024 is now seeking a full exit from its U.S. business in what one domestic advocacy group said is the direct result of President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
Cooper, now the Democratic nominee for North Carolina’s open Senate seat, rolled out the welcome mat for Boviet Solar in April 2024, gifting the company’s CEO with a hand-made pot emblazoned with the North Carolina seal during a televised press conference in which he touted a $32.6 million state and local incentive package to help the firm open