Epoch Times,
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Zachary Stieber
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The U.S. Military Academy has apologized for falsely saying President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, Peter Hegseth, was never accepted into the school, known as West Point.
“A review of our records indicates Peter Hegseth was offered admission to West Point in 1999 but did not attend. An incorrect statement involving Hegseth’s admission to the U.S. Military Academy was released by an employee on Dec. 10, 2024,” a spokesperson for West Point told The Epoch Times in an email.
“Upon further review of an archived database, employees realized this statement was in error. Hegseth was offered acceptance to West Point as a prospective member of the Class of 2003.
Epoch Times,
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Sam Dorman
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Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, fought extradition to New York during a hearing in a Pennsylvania court on Dec. 10.
During the hearing, Mangione was denied bail—something he has 14 days to challenge—while prosecutors raised concerns about him being a flight risk.
Mangione’s attorney, Thomas Dickey, said his client wanted a hearing on extradition. He also questioned whether a second-degree murder charge from New York might be eligible for bail.
Epoch Times,
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Owen Evans
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An estimated 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
In a social media update on Dec. 8, Zelenskyy also said that 370,000 have been wounded since the Russia–Ukraine conflict started on Feb. 24, 2022.
He said updated data on Russian losses show that 198,000 have been killed and more than 550,000 wounded.
Newsweek,
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Katherine Fung
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The suspect in last week's UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting may have suffered or known someone who suffered from chronic pain, according to his Goodreads profile.
New York officials on Monday identified Luigi Mangione, 26, as a person of interest in the case. He was detained at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a city about 275 miles from New York City.
On December 4, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in front of a Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan. As of midafternoon, Mangione had not been charged in Thompson's death.
Mangione Chronic Pain UnitedHealthcare
A screenshot of Luigi Mangione's Goodreads account. GOODREADS
While the investigation into Thompson's killing is
The Fedealist,
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Breccan F. Thies
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Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., introduced legislation on Wednesday that would federally ban mutilating transgender procedures for children and punish so-called “physicians” who perform such procedures.
The legislation would block doctors from being able to prescribe or administer puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, as well as perform mutilating transgender surgeries like mastectomies.
The Safeguarding the Overall Protection of Minors (STOP) Act would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to place a minimum $100,000 fine on doctors who do not follow the law.
Substack,
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Don Surber
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20 Republican senators are up for re-election in 2026. It is time to shake some of them up because they have forgotten for whom they work.
The Republican leadership allowed party senators (the caucus) to vote to impeach Trump in 2021. Seven did. While some of the names in leadership have changed the attitude remains the same as many Republican senators try to block Trump’s appointees to the Cabinet.
Given that most Republican senators represent one of the 31 states that went for Trump, that is a big FU to the voters.
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
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Syria is a hot mess. There’s only one face with a genuine smile today, Turkish Leader Recep Erdogan who has been attempting to leverage support for the “rebels” in Syria for a decade. Through the years U.S. policy in Syria essentially armed and supported various factions of al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and eventually Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), whose leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, is essentially the Defacto head of the rebels who now control it.
What happens next is anyone’s guess. The various elements of Islamic rebellion fall under the political umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood; however, they have yet to show an ability to effectively govern
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
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President Trump suggested on his Truth Social account to review the commentary by Mark Levin this past weekend.
Within his opening monologue, Mr Levin walks through the historic background of the attacks against President Trump, and by extension the larger American electorate, and how all of that White House triggered weaponization underpins the nervousness of the Obama/Biden administration. It is an interesting review and revisit to the issues of great familiarity to all of us. WATCH:(videp)Why don’t we ever hear her name?
If there is one Lawfare operative who has escaped scrutiny for her corrupt endeavors, it would be Mary McCord.
More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice,
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
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Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi is being guided through the Senate confirmation process by a lawyer named Chad Mizelle who was previously the 2017-2018 general counsel to Rod Rosenstein in Main Justice. Within the former position at DOJ Chad Mizelle was the guy who wrote the set of scope memos that authorized the Mueller investigation…. However, I am assured by those watching, it’s no big deal.
I’m reminded of a conversation with Eric Dublier Esq, when he said, essentially, “when analyzing motives of DC lawyers, remind yourself they do the thing they are paid to do.” The compass heading on a DC lawyer points directly to his/her bank account.
The Federalist,
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Shawn Fleetwood
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12/7/2024 6:05:11 PM
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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, previously endorsed allowing trans-identifying individuals to serve in the U.S. military, a position military specialists and reports have warned hampers the force’s overall readiness.
The recently unearthed revelation stems from comments the GOP senator made during an Aug. 9 interview on PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.” The host asked Ernst, an Army veteran, whether she agrees with Republicans’ sentiment that the military “has become too woke.”Ernst said she doesn’t believe “those [who] serve in uniform” are woke but admitted that “there is civilian leadership of the military that is woke.” She then cited trans-identifying individuals serving in the armed forces
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
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As the kids like to say with a wink and a nod, “if you know, you know.”
In the first White House briefing since the Hunter Biden Pardon, White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre worked her way through a tangled mess of justifications for why Joe Biden changed his mind and gave a pardon to his son, Hunter. However, within the remarks she relied heavily on a name that apparently has leaned-in to the issue of Preemptive Pardons by the outgoing administration. WATCH (prompted):
It is transparently obvious why Jim Clyburn would be seeking a preemptive pardon from Joe Biden.
ConservativeTreehouse,
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Sundance
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Anytime the professional leftists lose anything, they immediately become victims. Whether defeated in the battle of ideas (retreat to safe spaces), defeated in the field of pop culture, or even defeated linguistically through debate (words are violence). Whenever the professional left loses, they immediately become victims. It’s what they do.
The professional political left, newest version from the Chicago spawn of Dohrn/Ayers, has been waging full combat Lawfare via a weaponized government for the past 16 years. However, Obama/Plouffe were defeated, “their kind” rose again and won the 2024 U.S. Presidential electionWhat we see in this “preemptive pardon” narrative, is a repeat of the victim narrative.