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The Dem Party has many problems, too many to count. But one biggie is their obsession with identity politics.
Race, gender, sexuality, and gender-confused status, AKA “transgender,” matter more than competence, judgment, character, or basic common sense. ip).Does the name Stacie Marie Laughton ring a bell?
Stacie, whose actual name is Barry, was once a rising star in New Hampshire politics. But that all came crashing down when authorities uncovered that he’s a horrific child predator and abuser.
But in the early days of his political career, the New Hampshire community embraced him, mainly because he fit the agenda: a mentally ill man masquerading as a woman. How progressive, right?
Team Algae and Filth has been busy at work, supported by CNN, ABC and various leftist media, in an attempt to grow algae back in the DC reflection pool, and cut out the newly installed lining. A few arrests have been made by DC park police.Yes, these folks are that unstable. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
President Trump responds to the effort via Truth Social:
“We’ve cleaned, renovated, and beautified over 45 Monuments and Memorials, 28 Statues, and 22 Fountains in Washington, D.C. Things are really looking good in our Nation’s Capital,,(snip) However, we’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool, which sits between The Washington
One industry in America pumps out toxic waste day and night, but suffers no penalty for the damage it causes.
It operates at enormous public and private expense, sucking up hundreds of billions of dollars in government money.
Its toxic bilge poisons much of society, but those who complain about it are often dismissed as ignorant or bigoted.
Its product is largely free of state and federal regulation.
That industry is higher education.
And the toxic waste it emits isn’t chemical but intellectual sludge, in the form of racial bigotry, antisemitism and crude Marxism.
LOS ANGELES — James Burrows, who helped create volumes of laughter as director of more than a thousand episodes of such classic television comedies as “Cheers,” “Taxi,” “Friends” and “Will and Grace,” died Friday. He was 85.
His family confirmed his death in a statement to People, saying he “passed away peacefully today surrounded by his family.” No location or cause of death was provided.
Burrows spent his career behind the camera specializing in situation comedies. Few viewers recognized him or knew his name, other than to see it flash quickly on the screen in the opening credits. But they knew his work.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom slammed the “tradwife” trend on social media and blamed sexism for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris’ presidential election losses in a recent wide-ranging interview. She stopped in for the interview to promote her new movie, “Miss Representation: Rise Up,” while the Justice Department investigates the tax conduct of her and her husband, California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Siebel Newsom says the “tradwife” trend — which originated from the prominent roles women played in households within the 20th century and prior but has evolved into a social media subculture — oversimplifies women. “For the tradwife phenomenon, it’s like, you
There are two primary obstacles to finding the truth in any given situation: Cognitive dissonance and propaganda. One always feeds into the other. Effective propaganda works because it caters to the biases or fears of it’s target audience. Cognitive dissonance is the open door through which propaganda enters the mind and controls it.
When it comes to Donald Trump and his administration, there is a LOT of propaganda and cognitive dissonance, and the vast majority of it is weaponized against him rather than for him. If you are unbiased,
On Friday, in a decision that's sure to bear some interesting fruit, a judge denied former President Biden's request to block the release of the tapes of his interviews with his ghostwriter.
A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden’s request to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts from his conversations with biographer Mark Zwonitzer.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the former president’s motion for a preliminary injunction in the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Heritage Foundation and its employee, Mike Howell.
The materials come from former special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
Sometimes, there's just so much smoke; you know there's got to be a fire there somewhere. Such would seem to be the case with the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been ducking and weaving frantically to avoid various investigations and inquiries ever since Joe Biden shambled out of the White House.
RedState's own Susie Moore reported on Fauci's latest woes earlier on Friday: Susie writes:
Thursday was Tulsi Gabbard's last day as the Director of National Intelligence, as she departs the Trump administration to address her husband's battle with bone cancer.
Biden administration buried whistleblower
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An intelligence community whistleblower formally accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of lying to Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Biden administration took the unusual step of yanking the complaint from the government's independent watchdogs and referring it instead to the political appointee overseeing the Health and Human Services Department, bombshell memos released by departing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard show.
The effort to divert the investigation of Fauci to then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra occurred shortly after the government's top pandemic doctor engaged in a discussion with the CIA
This week was Steve Hayward’s turn for TWIP, but this afternoon I got an email from him, saying that he was “in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean not far from the Kamchatka peninsula right now, sailing east to Vancouver from Tokyo, in a raging gale with high seas (I love it!), but am having trouble logging in to Power Line to post.” To the best of my knowledge Steve is still among the living. He followed up that missive by sending me some memes and headlines via email, to which I have added more. So this is a collaborative WIP.
The White House has compiled a secret “blacklist” of prominent MAGA influencers who have been accused of taking money to post social media content aimed at shifting the discourse on important political issues or offering access to President Donald Trump, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The White House is now monitoring signs that influencers may have been paid off by domestic or foreign lobbies to target the president and his supporters, according to the Daily Mail. The outlet named MAGA influencers C.J. Pearson, Rob Smith, Arynne Wexler, Emily Wilson and Ryan Fournier, co-founder of Students for Trump, as among the alleged offenders. “I just have utter contempt for them, there’s
As he prepared to sign his “memorandum of understanding” with the Islamic dictatorship of Iran, President Trump again insisted that his deal was much different than that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
He’s right — it’s probably worse.
Obama’s treaty did not prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, it simply punted the issue down the road in exchange for cash.
Trump’s agreement has the same vague promises, the same payouts, but with the added twist that Iran can and will take the world hostage by shutting the Strait of Hormuz at will.
On Friday, just days after the signing of the MOU, Iran moved to close the Strait,
Two political dynasties flamed out in Maine’s ranked-choice gubernatorial primaries earlier this month.
Republican Jonathan Bush, the nephew of former President George H. W. Bush and a cousin of former President George W. Bush, was eliminated from contention following the sixth round of tabulation.
On the Democratic side, Angus King III, the son of Sen. Angus King (D-Maine), was eliminated following the first round.
Democrat Hannah Pingree — the former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) — and Republican Bobby Charles will compete this fall to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, the Maine Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Friday.
The Trump White House is lashing out at some of its most reliable allies as a bitter civil war erupts on the right over the administration’s controversial Iran agreement.
Conservative commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon became the latest target Friday after she blasted the deal as an “utter humiliation” for the US and accused Vice President JD Vance of unfairly attacking Israel while defending Tehran.
Within hours the official White House rapid-response account on X unloaded on the conservative pundit in a pair of scathing posts.
“The only humiliation here is Batya desperately begging for an additional brain cell because her failing TV show—
Ex-hospital CEO accused of funneling $14M
for lavish lifestyle, son’s $109K Beverly
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A former hospital executive siphoned at least $14 million from a health system and used company money to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included a $109,000 Beverly Hills baptism celebration for his son, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
Michael Sarian, the ousted founder and former CEO of Healthcare Systems of America, was accused of diverting millions of dollars from hospitals in Florida and other states into personal accounts, family trusts and other unauthorized uses while the facilities struggled to pay bills and maintain operations.
The lawsuit, which was first reported by the Miami Herald, alleges Sarian treated company accounts as his personal piggy bank,
Virginia’s Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger has chosen and LGBT activist who has fought against protections for girls’ bathrooms to sit on a state board that directly influences related policies.
During the election, Spanberger regularly dodged questions on this issue when asked by reporters. No we know why.
Her decision to appoint this person to this role just shows that Democrats have not changed at all. They are not budging on this issue and will go right back to where they were before the 2024 election the instant they retake power.
Homeland Security Clocks Anti-Ice NJ Dems
Mad That DHS Denied Access to Delaney
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Mad That DHS Denied Access to Delaney
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You know the sensation - the annoying feeling of continually having to swat away swarms of gnats that insist on circling your summer BBQ fixin's. It serves as an especially apt metaphor for Democrats and anti-ICE leftists (but I repeat myself) ahead of Father's Day cookouts this weekend. Things have been heating up at Newark, New Jersey's Delaney Hall detention facility in clashes between ICE agents and the protesters. RedState's Nick Arama wrote about violent disturbances that stretched across two nights in late May:
Republicans are largely skeptical that President Trump’s deal with Iran will deliver a geopolitical win, but they are bullish about its impact on the midterms, with gas prices already dropping.
One national Republican operative described feeling “relief” after the agreement, pointing to positive reactions from markets. Oil prices have fallen to their lowest point since the war began at the end of February following the announcement of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran this week. Brent Crude, the international oil benchmark, sat at $79.53 per barrel on Thursday, while West Texas Industrial, the U.S. benchmark, was at $76.55.
The cackhanded pursuit of Net Zero by Ed Miliband and his predecessors has left Britain having to pay France and other countries to take excess power off our hands for a significant portion of the year. The Telegraph has more.
It’s the Ed Miliband paradox: why does Britain have among the highest power prices in Europe when we have so much electricity that suppliers have to pay customers to use it?
It was a question repeated across the energy industry last week after power prices briefly turned negative, meaning customers and countries abroad were paid to use surplus electricity generated in Britain rather than having to pay for it.
Thursday morning, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, announcing a six-month review of American force posture and funding relating to NATO as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to build “NATO 3.0.”
In 2026, the U.S. is forced by geopolitical necessity to prioritize deterring China, a monumental effort that will require a shift in resources and a change in force posture, with the U.S. moving forces and funding into the Pacific.
The chief medical examiner for New York City reportedly determined the death of Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) executive Kendal Ascher was related to a cosmetic procedure.
His death was due to acute respiratory failure because of pulmonary embolism linked to foreign material following cosmetic filler injections, the New York Post reported, citing the city medical examiner’s statement Tuesday. (snip) His husband, William Howe, attempted to assist, but Ascher tragically died in his arms.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as a leader and a candidate forged his reputation disapproving of Donald J. Trump, but his own approval rating in his state has now dipped below that of the president whom he has consistently targeted.
The former vice presidential candidate continues to lose support over revelations of the massive fraud scandal that was underway during his watch, Fox News Digital reported.
It’s heartening to see foreign soccer fans, especially the Europeans, marvel at their U.S. discoveries. They’ve been awed by Buc-ee’s, Waffle House, and Bass Pro Shops, the best examples of Americana. But what we’re seeing also makes us wonder how long America will still be America.
“Soccer fans like Freddy from Germany are embracing U.S. culture as they crisscross the country — and going viral,” says Danielle Shapiro of the Manhattan Institute.
“Thousands of Europeans are seeing more of America this summer than many New York Times staffers ever will,” tweets Jimmy G.
Germans and Scots are singing “American Pie” while the English sing “Sweet Caroline” at a … Texas rodeo.
A federal judge on Thursday said she’ll only consider parts of challenges to President Trump’s executive order that seeks to restrict mail-in voting, ruling the plaintiffs need to wait before raising concerns about elections beyond this year.
A group of voter education nonprofits and Democratic-led states separately sued the Trump administration in April in an attempt to block the executive order, which also requires states to verify that only U.S. citizens are registered. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani denied the administration’s bid to dismiss the claims entirely, allowing challenges pertaining to the November midterms to go forward.