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A recent poll out of Texas showed Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico with a two-point advantage over his opponent, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton.The independent Wedgewood Polls surveyed 800 likely voters on Thursday and Friday, and the results showed Talarico at 48 percent while Paxton was at 46 percent:
President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton in May, according to Breitbart News.
“The Highly Respected Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First Patriot, and someone who has always been extremely loyal to me and our AMAZING MAGA MOVEMENT, is running for the United States Senate, to represent a place I love and WON, BIG, three times,
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., revealed he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against a judge on Monday.
“SCOTUS made it very clear that lower courts cannot suspend TPS. Yet, an Obama-appointed judge is defying the Court and the Constitution in an attempt to subvert the will of the President," Ogles said in a statement provided to Just the News.
"This judicial activist’s obstruction of the people’s will must be stopped. Judge Burroughs must be impeached," he added.
Ogles wrote on X that U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs' decision to block Trump from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis was unconstitutional.
Trump's remarks were seen as a rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is — quite rightly — opposed to F-35 sales to Turkey on the grounds that it could ultimately prove a direct threat to Israel's security, as well as to Cyprus and Greece, which Erdogan has repeatedly threatened.
Turkey was suspended from the multinational F-35 program during Trump's first term in 2019, after acquiring Russia's S-400 air defence system. The purchase of the S-400 also prompted US sanctions against Turkey's defence industry, imposed in 2020.
Although Turkey tested the S-400 following its delivery and has not returned it to Russia,
California Democrats defy Gavin Newsom
and Xavier Becerra as they vote to back
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and Xavier Becerra as they vote to back
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California Democrats officially endorsed a controversial billionaire wealth tax on Sunday, putting the state’s Democratic Party at odds with Gov. Gavin Newsom as well as their own gubernatorial nominee Xavier Becerra ahead of November’s election. Delegates at the California Democratic Party convention in San Diego voted to back Proposition 40, a ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% tax on roughly 200 California billionaires. “Every endorsement we make is earned, not given,” California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks said in a statement to the Post.
Italy has temporarily suspended its free-travel pact with Spain after 60,000 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa suddenly poured into the Spanish city of Ceuta last week — rattling EU leaders. Italy’s dramatic move, announced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is meant to prevent migrants from entering her country after they flooded into the Spanish territory following socialist leader Pedro Sanchez’s immigration-friendly policies. She said Italy is taking “an extraordinary measure, adopted to safeguard national security and prevent possible repercussions for our nation.”
Standing against what he calls “selfish” motives of European leadership, Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says tolerance for mass illegal migration must win over the loud voices of short-sighted nationalism.
According to Sanchez, these EU regulations and rules against the dreams of sub-Saharan Africans are polarizing and stopping migrants from fulfilling their greatest aspirations.Telegraph – via MSM – Pedro Sánchez has criticised “selfish” EU leaders after 22 European prime ministers and presidents attacked him for the sudden migrant surge in Ceuta.
Spain’s prime minister wrote a letter to the heads of the EU institutions after Italy and France ramped up border controls in response to the 60,000 Moroccan migrants
A judge approved Bryan Kohberger's request for a new lawyer in his attempt to secure a new trial, despite his previous guilty plea for murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022. Legal analyst Mehek Cooke discusses the high bar for overturning a guilty plea, while the victim's family expresses the pain of reliving the tragedy. Snip)"I just want to make sure I understand correctly… because I haven't heard this before — so you're saying, based on the data you saw, the latitude-longitude for Bryan Kohberger’s Samsung was in the living room?" Entin asked.
Luigi Mangione’s radical supporters are leading the charge pushing for a rarely-used legal loophole that could let the suspected healthcare CEO killer walk free — even if the jury believes he is guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the cold-blooded murder.
The December 4 Legal Committee, which has raised more than $1.5 million for Mangione’s defense fund, is raising awareness about jury nullification, a legal power by which a defiant jury can find a defendant not guilty if they believe the law the accused is charged with breaking is unjust, The Times reported.
While rare since the 19th century, it’s used when a jury wants to “send a message about some social issue
The Democrat Party is in real trouble. Just ask Bill Maher.
Maher took direct aim at the Democratic Socialists of America and the wave of far-left candidates the party keeps promoting, and he did it by simply reading their own words back to the audience.
"Trump has told 1 trillion lies, but when he says the DSA are actually communists, that's not one of them," Maher said. "And it's not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates."
Maher recalled telling Vice President J.D. Vance that his vote was "in play" if the Democrat Party kept drifting toward the DSA, only to be mocked for it during his vacation.
In Twin Falls, Idaho, an utterly evil piece of human detritus opened fire at an In-N-Out burger shop, killing three and wounding at least seven (some critically), and, it appears, killing himself (although officials haven’t confirmed his cause of death). What seems to have ended the spree is when an armed civilian, at great risk to himself, started firing back, driving the shooter away from the scene. This is a recurring pattern: Mass shootings end, and shootings that are obviously intended to be mass casualty events cannot escalate, when an armed civilian is there to engage the shooter. This is not a slight to the police;
New York Plunges New Depths
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At the end of May, the New York State Assembly introduced Assembly Bill A11509. The proposal would permanently prohibit anyone born after December 31, 2007, from purchasing tobacco or nicotine products for the rest of their lives.
In practice, the State is claiming permanent ownership over the autonomy of part of its population. It is deciding today that these individuals will never be considered capable of making their own choices. The distinction it creates is not based on any assessment of individual responsibility or capacity. It rests solely on an arbitrary date of birth.
RFK Debunks Sen. Warren's Hypocritical
Attack on His Supposed Big Pharma ‘Conflict
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Attack on His Supposed Big Pharma ‘Conflict
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Democrats are never ones for context. They love to have reasons to pretend they are destroying corruption when they are really going after personal political opponents. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), for instance, had her warpaint and Tomahawk out as she screeched, “Is RFK Jr.'s son getting a cut of a $50 MILLION settlement that his dad could have influenced? I'm investigating.” Naturally, she needs something to investigate to avoid investigating Anthony Fauci and the pharmaceutical companies that pushed COVID vaccines that we now know, courtesy of Fauci‘s journal, were quite ineffective and sometimes injurious.
Trump administration creating ‘incubators’
to develop new tech to counter drone terror attacks replies
to develop new tech to counter drone terror attacks replies
Drone warfare is at the forefront of every nation's developing defense technology and the Trump administration is utilizing private sector "incubators" to bring America's best and brightest together to protect the country, including one new company's groundbreaking product to counter malign drones within seconds.
"We are acting as an incubator, as a catalyst for all of those potential solutions in the private sector...a competition for the best athlete to find out not only what drones we need, because we're not going to be buying drones from other countries, we're going to be building them here for our war fighters,
You've heard it before. I know you have. We all have. It’s an arrogant, attention-seeking, look-at-me statement. It’s designed to hide moral lethargy behind a smokescreen of independent freethinking. And the statement is this: I’m very spiritual. I just don’t buy into organized religion.
Wow. That’s deep, my man. I’d ask you to explain what the hell that even means, but I doubt you’ve thought that far past your bumper sticker talking point. But let’s break it down.
You specifically call out organized religion. Is there a difference between religion and organized religion? Is any religion unorganized? And if not, what specifically about the organization of religion negates its value?
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that he can’t go a week without seeing a “newly-chosen exciting new face in the Democratic Party” that is a Communist or some other version of crazy and he would back Sarah Palin over the DSA. Maher began by saying, “Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually Communists, that’s not one of them.”
He added that his vote would be “in play” if the Democratic Party kept trending in the DSA’s direction, “And here’s why:
Democrats and LGBTQ+ activist groups say they want to empower parents on their children’s programming, but they also vehemently oppose putting labels on TV and streaming shows that would alert parents to transgender content.
Concerned Women for America analyzed the streaming shows on Netflix geared toward young audiences, and found that more than 40% of most children’s programming includes some sort of LGBTQ+ theme.
The Federal Communications Commission sought comment from the general public, asking for suggestions on how the Television Oversight Monitoring Board can update TV ratings to alert parents to content such as the introduction of a male character “becoming” female or same-sex romance themes.
A heroic armed citizen tried to take out a gunman as he opened fire on an Idaho In-N-Out, according to heart-stopping video and witnesses.
Harrowing footage shows a man with a handgun exchanging fire with the shooter outside the restaurant in Twin Falls, ID.
Two people were killed and seven wounded. The gunman is believed to have killed himself, according to police.The actions of the good Samaritan may have saved lives by distracting the gunman long enough for diners and workers at the crowded burger joint to get away, according to Lane Koehn, who took the video from his car.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez broadly blasted fellow European leaders for their response to the surge of tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco to the Spanish border, seemingly criticizing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for deciding to resume European border controls in the wake of the incident.
Sánchez appeared to take issue with Italy's decision to temporarily suspend Schengen Area free-travel arrangements with Spain. The Schengen Area is an agreement between 29 European countries that abolishes passport controls and allows people to travel across European borders without providing documents.
"In the current international context, the European Union cannot afford this kind of selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction,"
President Trump announced on Saturday night on TRUTH Social that the “perimeters” of a peace deal with Iran have been agreed to.
FYI: It’s not clear if he meant ‘parameters” – a boundary or limit – rather than “perimeters” – the boundary – of the peace deal. Either would work.
Trump posted the message on TRUTH Social at 9:05 PM on Saturday. This president never sleeps.
President Trump also mentioned that he had Israel’s commitment to this latest peace deal and ceasefire. The US hit Iran with aerial/airstrikes on Iranian targets, primarily military sites such as missile/drone facilities, coastal surveillance/radar, air defenses, command centers,
Scott Galloway is a left wing political commentator and professor at NYU. He hates President Trump and has never heard a far left policy he didn’t like.
But now he is complaining that he has been hit with Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax, which hits New Yorkers who own a valuable second home.
Galloway is complaining that he has been ‘doxed’ because his name appears in the Mamdani administration’s searchable database for these properties. Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway called out New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly accessible database, saying it endangers landowners like himself.
President Donald Trump has called for an immediate peace deal with Iran after U.S. allies made unusually vocal calls to hold off on any massive attack.
In a Saturday night Truth Social post, Trump made the announcement, while still leaving the threat of military action on the table. The USA is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II," Trump said. "Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in —
In an ongoing civil election fraud case in Zapata County, hundreds of voters requested assistance to vote. Among them were those who were also sworn in to assist others requesting assistance, according to Secretary of State data.
The pattern raises concerns about voter integrity in a close election, Democrat Martha Morales, who is contesting the election results, argues. She’s requested help from the Republican Texas Secretary of State and Attorney General.
Morales, a Zapata ISD school board member who challenged incumbent Democrat Zapata County Judge Joe Rathmell, lost by 66 votes in the March 3 primary election. She argues she would have won if illegal voting hadn’t occurred.
The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is just over a month away, and the families of those murdered in the World Trade Center are making plans for a dignified remembrance of their loved ones on this painful and solemn occasion. There's just one problem: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani insists on being there despite the growing chorus from the families telling him to stay far away. They'd rather not have a practicing Muslim and avowed socialist mar the day that belongs to them and their memories – feelings that are completely understandable.
Here's what I wrote about this a few days back in a VIP article:
Trump says Mideast allies have reached
outlines of deal to end Iran war, says
US to stop new strikes replies
outlines of deal to end Iran war, says
US to stop new strikes replies
President Donald Trump in a Saturday evening social media post claimed that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and said that he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month old conflict for now.
Trump added that the emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat.”
“Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Trump said.