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As we move into this great weekend, a weekend that should be devoted to patriotic celebrations, fireworks, burgers on the grill and cold beers in the cooler, many of our major urban areas are instead having to worry about another wave of what's being euphemistically called "teen takeovers," or, in other words, riots, in which packs of feral youths invade the city streets, leaving destruction and mayhem in their wake.
The cities affected are making an effort now to head these events off with a combination of technology and curfews. Will it work? That remains to be seen.
The Fourth of July is undoubtedly a special time for every American. It is an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and origin of American freedom. It is a day full of picnics, parades, barbecues, and fireworks. It is a highlight of patriotism and a celebration of proud sovereignty and independence.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, July 4 wasn’t marked by the festivities we experience today. July 4, 1776, was mired in a time of uncertainty, sacrifice, fear, and desperation. Yet through all this, bravery, courage, and perseverance persisted, and a nation was born.
There is no way we can put ourselves in the shoes of the American colonists,
Why This Old 1984 Photo of the Statue
of Liberty Provides Some Great Nostalgia
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of Liberty Provides Some Great Nostalgia
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What a photo. Tomorrow marks our 250th birthday, but it’s always a great time to be an American. Well, when isn’t it? We all know this country is great, despite what the blue-haired freaks and the liberal media clowns say. The World Cup has crushed any propaganda they had, as a) it’s now the most-attended tournament in FIFA history, and b) Europeans constantly post loving comments about the culture, the food, the hospitality, and the air conditioning. Oh, and Japanese fans are loving Texas barbecue.
Yet in 1984, the Statue of Liberty underwent a renovation, leading to this iconic photo of a worker kissing Liberty's forehead. It wasn’t without risk.
A U.S. Army captain will serve 12 years in military prison after he pleaded guilty to secretly slipping his pregnant girlfriend, another soldier, a mail-order abortion drug that killed their unborn baby.
Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams impregnated a junior enlisted soldier when the two became romantically involved on rotation in South Korea in May 2025. A couple of months later, the pair was reassigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
This year’s America 250 celebrations are the biggest national celebration since the Bicentennial. We’re a much different nation than we were back then. Even a few years after Watergate and President Richard Nixon’s resignation, the urge to politicize everything just didn’t dominate people’s minds.
I was only three in the summer of 1976, so my memories of the Bicentennial aren’t all that vivid. I remember seeing the logo everywhere and hearing people talk about it, but the only specific memory I have is seeing the parade of the tall ships on television. My mom said that the parade of ships is her only strong memory of the Bicentennial
Explosive testimony before the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets reveals decades of CIA crimes against unwitting Americans, evidence destruction, secret torture sites in Germany, and a continuing deep state effort to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) chaired a powerful hearing Tuesday titled “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Experiments,” dropping bombshell after bombshell on one of the darkest chapters in American intelligence history.
The CIA’s infamous MKULTRA program, which ran from 1953 to 1973, subjected countless unwitting victims, including American citizens, hospital patients, prisoners, and veterans,
Despite claiming to be the most bipartisan member of Congress, Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) said in June that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made her want to“beat the sheet*out of him.” “I do want to be bipartisan. I want to work across the aisle. That’s the only way to get things done,” the lawmaker, who is seeking reelection, told an audience at the Sun City Liberal Club in Las Vegas, Fox News reported Friday.
“Another issue, Hegseth comes in front of my committee. Now listen, it’s so easy. Like, it’s just so easy. Like, you just wanna to beat the sheet* out of him,” she said
The two teen suspects wanted in the murder of Penn State student Billy Schmidt have been taken into custody.
22-year-old Billy Schmidt was studying journalism at Penn State and was set to graduate this December.
Schmidt was killed last month as he was returning home from an NBA Finals watch party at a bar when the two armed suspects fatally shot him.
The suspects, identified as 16-year-old Azzubair Outen-Fleming and Kaiseem Smith, 16, shot Schmidt in the chest in an attempted robbery ambush.
Azzubair Outen-Fleming was arrested in Colorado on Friday.
Kaiseem Smith turned himself in to the Philadelphia police.
Former Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, gives a speech outlining the mechanics of the Deep State and how the people within it operate.
At around 3:30 of the presentation, Gabbard gives a specific example of the attitude of the employees on assignment to the ODNI. Obviously, I am not certain, but Tulsi seems to be describing the FBI liaison desk within the DNI as she explains how this federal government employee refuses to participate in the DNI request. Listen and you gain an appreciation of the challenge that exists for any appointed leadership. WATCH:
Can Europe Be Saved?
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As a result of third-world migration–some say, invasion–much of Western Europe is no longer recognizable. Mass third-world immigration is unpopular nearly everywhere, but European elites, being unhappy with their populaces, seem determined to replace them.
Campaigners including Eva Vlaardingerbroek and Martin Sellner have proposed the Save Europe Act, which you can read about here. The proposal strikes me as entirely reasonable. It petitions the European Union to exercise its right of initiative to propose legislation that would declare a moratorium on non-European, non-Western immigration; fundamentally reform EU migration and asylum systems; ensure and accelerate the return of illegal migrants; establish an EU-wide framework to incentivize voluntary remigration; and remove
Pirro Steamrolls Lame Reporters Who Tried
to Minimize Vandalism at the National
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to Minimize Vandalism at the National
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One of the many ways Democrats continue to prove how pathetic they’ve become, and how they have no ideas to better the lives of regular Americans, is their endless attempts to scandalize Trump administration projects intended to repair and beautify the nation’s capital.
It baffles me that cleaning up Columbus Circle, outside the major D.C. travel hub, Union Station, is somehow controversial. Democrats would rather the fountain was still covered in pro-Hamas graffiti and didn’t, you know, actually work.
They’ve really worked themselves into a lather over Trump’s actions to reseal the bottom of the iconic Reflecting Pool and fix leaks.
Sen. Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized, his office said in a statement Thursday — without offering details about a recent medical episode that has renewed concern about the health of the former Republican majority leader.
McConnell “continues his recovery in the hospital” and “continues to improve,” his office said. “Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital,” the statement said. “The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.”
The statement did not explain why he was hospitalized last month.
Middle Class White Woman Radicalized on
Social Media, Converted to Islam, Sent
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Social Media, Converted to Islam, Sent
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After 9/11, there was a lot of talk about ‘radical Islam.’ There is no ‘radical Islam’ or ‘moderate Islam’, but lately there is more of a trend of middle class white women becoming radicalized on social media, supporting Islamic terrorists and sometimes converting to Islam. To some degree this is just BLM 2.0 or Transgender 3.0 with bored empty people becoming caught up in social media contagion. But it’s also an entry point for the enemies of our country who are happy enough to recruit these useful idiots.
A middle-class upstate New York mom has been charged with allegedly supporting an Islamic terrorist organization after donating $30,000 in cryptocurrency to
The Trump administration has officially ended the federal government's decades-old paper retirement processing system, replacing a notoriously slow, manual operation housed inside a former Pennsylvania limestone mine with a fully digital process. The milestone, dubbed the "Last Day of Paper" by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), marks one of the Department of Government Efficiency's biggest victories after years of failed reform efforts. Located more than 230 feet underground in Boyers, Pennsylvania, the OPM retirement processing center stored more than 400 million paper records and manually processed roughly 10,000 federal retirement applications every month. Strangely though, for decades, retirement paperwork was physically mailed between agencies before arriving
The CIA investigated thousands of unvaccinated employees as if they were potential foreign espionage and sabotage threats, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
In September 2021, former President Joe Biden mandated that federal employees and contractors receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Shortly after, the CIA’s chief operating officer directed the Counter Espionage Department (CED) to begin investigating employees and contractors who did not comply, the lawsuit alleges. Former CIA officer James Erdman, who uncovered Langley’s alleged surveillance of its own unvaccinated employees, said in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation that he repeatedly pressed CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s office to remove the marks on unvaccinated employees’ personnel files
MUST SEE: The Moment Actual Rough Riders
Escort Trump's Motorcade to the Teddy
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Escort Trump's Motorcade to the Teddy
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President Donald Trump visited the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Wednesday and received a memorable welcome courtesy of the Rough Riders.
The 26th president’s new library is set to open on the Fourth of July in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Despite being a New Yorker by birth and spending a considerable portion of his early career in politics there, Roosevelt had a love of the great outdoors. He sought refuge in the Dakota Badlands territory in 1884 as he grieved the death of his first wife and his mother, who died on the same day. Wednesday saw the 45th and 47th president pay his respects to the life of the 26th president, delivering a
The father of socialist Melat Kiros (D), who unseated 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette (D) in Colorado’s first congressional district Democrat primary this week, legally immigrated to the United States when his daughter was an infant thanks to the federal government’s Diversity Visa Lottery.
Running on Medicare for All, abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), mass amnesty for illegal aliens, and so-called “restorative justice programs,” Kiros, 29 years old, was able to defeat DeGette, who has served in Congress since 1997.
Kiros’s website details her immigration history, mainly that her father was a beneficiary of the Diversity Visa Lottery in May 1997, just weeks after her birth.
A Secret Service counter drone operator futilely searched the internet for the location of the rooftop President Trump’s would-be assassin was spotted on as shots rang out at the July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a Department of Homeland Security inspector general report released Thursday.
The report concluded Secret Service “missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt” deranged gunman Thomas Crooks’ attempted assassination of Trump, including shocking communications failures that resulted in the president’s protective detail never being warned that an armed man had climbed onto the American Glass Research International (AGR) complex’s roof just 155 yards from the stage.
A Somalian flag that was raised outside of Buffalo’s City Hall to commemorate Somali Independence Day was stolen in an overnight heist, the city’s leftist mayor decried.
“The City of Buffalo’s flagpole in Niagara Square sustained damage after unknown vandals broke the access panel, cut the cable, and removed the Somali flag during the overnight hours of Wednesday, July 1,” Mayor Sean Ryan wrote on Facebook.
Ryan said the Buffalo Police Department was investigating the alleged vandalism after the city approved non-profit HEAL International to raise the white star, blue flag on July 1.
“The flag had been raised by an organization called Heal International in honor of Somalian Independence Day.
Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico was caught on video describing a “Christofascism movement” as he criticized legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and the state’s abortion law.
During an appearance on Texas Impact’s Weekly Witness, Talarico argued that legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and Texas’s abortion ban stemmed from what he called a “Christofascism movement.” (X) “You saw it in the anti-LGBTQ legislation, including the bill that would have denied gender-affirming health care to trans children,” Talarico said. “And then, of course, famously, infamously, we saw it last session with the most extreme abortion ban in the country. All of these ideologies stem from this Christofascism movement.”
There are a couple of more intense columns that I had planned on writing, but now that we are this close to the big America 250 party I'm overwhelmed by the mood to churn out "Yay USA!" content. I am forever grateful that I write for a company and an audience that's perfectly OK with that. Let's clear up the headline first. People who read everything literally are going to struggle with it, of course. I'm obviously alluding to the lack of air conditioning back in the Old World.
We reported earlier on how the hotly contested Senate race between Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and her Democrat opponent, Bernie Sanders-backed Graham Platner, had tightened up significantly in recent weeks, with fresh polling numbers out on Thursday showing Collins taking a three-point lead over Platner for the first time.
Another poll released this week, which had Platner up by two, also contained some big warning signs for his campaign, indicating his extensive baggage is starting to catch up with him to the point that it has cost him support - even among voters who say Democrats winning back the Senate is a top priority.
The weather might not be the only thing heating up this week. As America heads into Independence Day and the nation's 250th birthday, the country has plenty to celebrate.
The United States, alongside Canada and Mexico, is hosting the biggest sporting event in the world, the World Cup. The U.S. Men's National Team advanced to the Round of 16 Wednesday night with a 2-0 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina and now faces Belgium in a highly anticipated rematch of their 2014 World Cup showdown. FIFA projects the tournament will generate billions of dollars in economic activity and support roughly 180,000 jobs. As Just the News reported last month,
50,187-acre wildfire in Colorado has been declared the nation's No. 1 firefighting priority.
Spanning Pueblo and Custer counties, the Aspen Acres Fire is expected to cost $15 million of taxpayer's money to fight, according to an estimate from The National Interagency Fire Center.
But the final cost will be determined by a wide range of factors, including which resources are used to fight the fire.
“Colorado was moved to No. 1 as priorities for the entire Western United States, and the Aspen Acres fire was moved to the No. 1 priority [for the entire nation],” Mike Morgan,