Posts on Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown made clear during a farewell speech Tuesday that he does not plan to abandon his career-long fight for American workers despite suffering a bitter defeat last month in Ohio, where it’s become nearly impossible for his party to win statewide elections. “This is my last speech on the floor this year, but it is not, I promise you, the last time you will hear from me,” [Snip] The state’s political observers are already floating his name as a possible contender for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican JD Vance, the vice president-elect, or for the governorship.
Automakers are furious after California moved forward with plan to ban the sale of all gas-powered cars by 2035.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday granted two requests from California to enforce strict standards for vehicle emissions after it found opponents were not able to meet the legal burden to how it was inconsistent with the federal Clean Air Act.
'California has longstanding authority to request waivers from EPA to protect its residents from dangerous air pollution coming from mobile sources like cars and trucks,' EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
Two decades ago, while the insurgency was raging in Iraq, an Army commander of Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion of the 187th Infantry Regiment, which was gearing up for a deployment, got an unusual request.
Pete Hegseth, a National Guard officer at the time, was seeking to go on their mission.
“I had never heard of anybody — before or since then — volunteering to serve as an infantryman, especially as a platoon leader, going to Iraq in like 2005,” Sgt. Maj. Eric Geressy, who served on that team, recounted in an exclusive interview with The Post on Wednesday. (Photo) Upon first glance, Geressy was also skeptical. Hegseth had shown up
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., while speaking at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., called out House Republicans for breaking a bipartisan agreement to fund the government and avoid a government shutdown, accusing them of hurting everyday Americans across the country.
On Wednesday, House GOP leaders scrambled to search for a backup plan after reaching an initial bipartisan deal to avoid a partial government shutdown this Friday was buried by a barrage of opposition from conservative leaders.
Jeffries spoke about the failed deal, accusing Republicans and their leaders for not reaching the agreement.
The teen student who was shot and killed along with a teacher inside Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin has been identified as freshman Rubi Patricia Vergara, according to reports.
The 14-year-old girl was gunned down Monday morning when fellow student Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, 15, opened fire inside the private Christian school in Madison before turning the gun on herself.
Vergara was remembered in her obituary as someone who loved to sing and play keyboard in the family worship band and who “shared a special bond with her beloved pets,” that included a dog and car, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that cited an obituary.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) favorability is declining, sinking even lower than Democrat President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, a new poll shows.
Polling from The Economist/YouGov shows Johnson with a 30 percent favorability rating, well below Biden’s 40 percent rating and Harris’s 44 percent. Thirty-six percent of poll respondents say they have an unfavorable view of Johnson, and 34 percent who “don’t know.” The results show a slight decline in public opinion from last month, when another YouGov survey showed Johnson with 33 percent approval and 34 percent disapproval.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived back at her California home on Wednesday after suffering a fall in “very high” heels and undergoing hip replacement surgery during her trip to Europe.
The California congresswoman, 84, was spotted apparently talking into a pink cellphone in a black vehicle outside her San Francisco home in the first pictures of her in the US exclusively obtained by The Post. (Photos) Pelosi was visiting a World War II battlefield site in Luxembourg on Friday when she fell down marble steps while wearing heels — and posed for a picture immediately after.
A couple of members of the Cackling Coven known as The View flaunted their elitism during Mondays show as the ABC News hosts boasted about attending Washington, D.C. Christmas parties hosted by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Sunny Hosting showed off pictures of her in the White House while fake Republican Ana Navarro gushed about dancing the night away with the failed presidential candidate.
They were so excited about attending the White House Christmas party; one could easily think they were handing out pardons as party favors.
Canada is tightening its immigration rules to reduce cheating and illegal entries only days after President-elect Donald Trump criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his liberal policies.
On Wednesday, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced several changes to the country’s immigration laws as Americans have voted to put Donald Trump into the White House with his pledge to implement the biggest deportation policy in American history. Trudeau’s retreat from his unpopular mass migration policy comes as he faces the imminent collapse of his majority in Canada’s parliament.
The 1500-page spending plan that had conservatives outraged for the last 24 hours has been pulled, multiple reports are now indicating.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be heading up Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency in the coming administration, came out hard against the bill early. Late on Wednesday, Trump himself let his feelings on the subject be known.The rebuke, which built steadily through the day and culminated with a long written statement from Trump in the late afternoon, has forced Johnson back to the drawing board on a plan to prevent a Christmastime shutdown — and maintain the support of his chaotic conference
House Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) might have a hard time retaining his position if Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), one of his most vocal critics, has anything to say about it.Massie recently told The Hill that he would not back Johnson for Speaker next time around due to a series of issues.
He said his refusal to support Johnson was because of “all the grievances I had this summer, when we tried to vacate. And then this bill,” referring to the current debate over the 1,547-page continuing resolution that the speaker and other lawmakers are trying to pass to avoid a government shutdown.
Massie’s vote could be critical in determining whether Johnson
George Stephanopoulos was repeatedly told by his executive producer not to “use the word rape” before going on the air to discuss Donald Trump but the ABC News anchor ignored the warning — a decision that cost the network $16 million, The Post has learned.
Parent company Disney’s capitulation last week in the defamation lawsuit by Trump against ABC News and Stephanopoulos shocked media and legal experts, but the damning revelation could help explain why Mouse House CEO Bob Iger signed off on the settlement so quickly.
The “This Week” host uttered that Trump was “liable for rape” while discussing the civil lawsuit won by journalist E. Jean Carroll during an interview
President-elect Donald Trump revealed that he is “totally against” the proposed continuing resolution (CR), which is weighed down with many unrelated and expensive provisions.
Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones reported in a post on X that he had spoken with Trump and that the president-elect was “totally against” the CR. (X) Vice President-elect JD Vance released a joint statement from him and Trump criticizing the CR, stating that the bill “would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee.”
California and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) are planning to repeal the 2023 call for a national constitutional convention, given Donald Trump’s recent victory and the possibility of Republicans proposing their own new amendments.
As Breitbart News reported last June, Newsom called for a constitutional convention to propose amendments to limit the Second Amendment, such as setting a minimum age of 21 for gun possession, and universal background checks.
But there were political obstacles, as Breitbart News noted:
[S]ince a two-thirds vote of Congress is generally required to launch the process of amending the Constitution, it is unclear how Newsom intends to begin if, as he says, Congress is responsible for inaction.
President Joe Biden appears to be struggling with the prospect of retiring from public life, according to a New York Times report published Tuesday.
After Democrats ousted him as their presidential candidate in July, Biden, 82, who has been a public official since 1973 (51 years), is not enjoying the prospects of sunsetting his over half a century long career at the center of American politics, the NYT’s Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs reported.
Biden reportedly told allies after he dropped out of the race that he was bored, moody, and angry. He’s apparently angry because many Democrats opposed his pardon of his son.
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Congressional leadership slipped a provision into the stopgap spending bill that would bar or stymie investigations into Congress.
Tucked within the stopgap spending bill is a provision that has enflamed controversy amongst many conservatives on and off Capitol Hill.
The provision, titled “Treatment of electronic services provided for House offices,” sounds vague but could could stop or limit investigations into Congress.
Part of the section states:
Upon a motion made promptly by a House office or provider for a House office, a court of competent jurisdiction shall quash or modify any legal process
An illegal alien is on the run in Florida after having been accused of filming himself raping a child in Martin County.
Jesus Tamanis-Peralta, a 37-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, is wanted by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office on charges of sexual battery of a child. He has an active warrant for his arrest.
According to police, Tamanis-Peralta fled Martin County when he discovered he was wanted by the sheriff’s office and is currently running from town to town. Tamanis-Peralta was last seen on December 12.
The allegations against Tamanis-Peralta are gruesome. According to police, he raped an 8-year-old, filmed the abuse, and recently started distributing the footage.
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points or 0.25% – on Wednesday as the Down tanked by more than 1,100 points.
The latest rate cut comes after the Fed slashed rates 25 basis points in November and 50 basis points in September.
The benchmark rate is now between 4.25% to 4.50%
CNBC reported:
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point, the third consecutive reduction and one that came with a cautionary tone about additional cuts in coming years.
In a move widely anticipated by markets, the Federal Open Market Committee cut its overnight borrowing rate to a target range of 4.25%-4.5%,
George Stephanopoulos may be OUT at ABC News after CEO Bob Iger decided to pay out a $15 million defamation settlement, plus $1 million to cover Trump’s attorneys fees.
Trump’s defamation case against ABC News was related to statements made by “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos.
Trump sued ABC News earlier this year after Stephanopoulos claimed Trump was “found liable for rape” by a Manhattan jury in the E. Jean Carroll case.
In 2019, E. Jean Carroll alleged Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
Trump has denied the allegations and called E. Jean Carroll a “whack job”
The incoming House Oversight Committee Democrat Ranking Member has promised to carry out “trench warfare” against Donald Trump’s political agenda.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who narrowly defeated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to serve as the head Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement that he would go all out to try and quash Republican reforms.
“We know what the Republican playbook will be,” Connolly wrote in a statement following his victory. “We’ve seen it before. They have demonstrated that they are willing to traffic in debunked conspiracy theories and enable the worst abuses of the Trump administration.”
“This will be trench warfare.
J6 Bombshell: Trump Didn't Just Offer
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On the eve of former President Donald Trump's return to power, a new report is turning the story of the 2021 Capitol incursion on its head.
For four years, a Democratic-run "select" committee on Jan. 6, anti-Trump Republicans, and the establishment media have blamed Trump for the violence in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, but the report released Tuesday accused Trump's acting defense secretary at the time, Christopher Miller, of defying Trump's specific orders.
It's the very first finding of the report, and it paints a scathing picture of Nancy Pelosi's "select" committee -- and former Rep. Liz Cheney's role in the whole affair.
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In early 2018, members of the House Intelligence Committee investigating the FBI’s malfeasance in the Russia Collusion hoax met with then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Kash Patel, then serving as senior aide to that committee, attended the meeting on behalf of the committee’s chair at the time, California Republican Devin Nunes.
Rosenstein had good reason to be worried about that investigation. In early 2017, he signed one of the FISA warrant applications the Justice Department used to spy on Trump campaign figure Carter Page. it was based on false information provided by a subcontractor for the Clinton campaign.
President-elect Trump’s attorneys have accused a member of the New York jury that convicted him of wrongdoing, seeking to overturn the historic guilty verdict.
In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan unsealed Tuesday, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove claimed the legal team has “evidence of grave juror misconduct during the trial.”
“The jury in this case was not anywhere near fair and impartial,” they alleged.
But prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office called the allegations “untested” and “unsworn,” casting the claim as an effort to undermine public confidence in the case.
Tech mogul Elon Musk continued his tirade against the newly unveiled end-of-year funding deal Wednesday, calling for any lawmaker who supports the continuing resolution to be voted out of office.
“Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” Musk wrote in a post on his social platform X.
“Please call your elected representatives right away to tell them how you feel!” he added in a separate post. “They are trying to get this passed today while no one is paying attention.”
Musk also called for a moratorium on all legislation until President-elect Trump takes office.
Biden DOJ opposes court decision allowing
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Derek Chauvin chance to examine George
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Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are asking a judge to reconsider his decision to allow former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to re-examine George Floyd's heart as part of an appeal after he was convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights. [Snip] Magnuson, however, said the evidence would help Chauvin's defense investigate information from Dr. William Schaetzel, who contacted Chauvin's original trial lawyer, Eric Nelson, and argued that Floyd died of a specific type of heart attack. Chauvin's new legal team said Nelson never told his client about the doctor's theory, and therefore, no testing was done to try and confirm it.
The US central bank has cut interest rates for a third time, despite concerns that the move will deliver a boost to the economy that risks re-igniting price inflation.
The decision was expected, setting the Federal Reserve's key lending rate in a target range of 4.25% to 4.5%.
That is down a full percentage point since September, when the bank started lowering borrowing costs, citing progress stabilising prices and a desire to head off economic weakening.
Reports since then indicate the job market has been more resilient than expected while price rises have continued to bubble.
President-elect Donald Trump’s most striking characteristics today are clarity, confidence, and calm. This is extraordinary in a man renowned for chaos, confusion, and the thin-skinned hurling of demeaning insults. But it is a truth that needs to be acknowledged and accounted for to understand what we are witnessing as Trump prepares to resume the presidency.
His press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 16 revealed a man almost preternaturally at ease with himself, his mission, his domestic support, and his acceptance abroad. His tone was measured, even somewhat humble, despite some bragging. When he dismissed questions, as he justifiably did once or twice, it was not done angrily
I know the saying is "better late than never." Still, I'm not so sure that should apply to Democrats who are finally admitting the obvious about Joe Biden: He clearly could not have served another four years as President of the United States.
You see, the thing is when you wait until not only after he dropped out of the presidential race, but after the election is over as well, the timing of that admission seems just a little bit suspect. [Tweet]
TO STATE THE OBVIOUS — From Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs’ NYT assessment of President JOE BIDEN’s final chapter: “Time is catching up with Mr. Biden.
President-elect Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, revealed her celebrity crush during a new YouTube Q&A.
The 17-year-old shared a video Tuesday so fans could get to know her better after being thrust into the limelight when her famous grandfather, 78, was elected for his second term as president of the United States.
During the Q&A, one follower asked her, “Celebrity crush?”
The young golf player had to fetch her phone to verify her crush’s name before asking herself, “Why do I need my phone? His name is Drew Starkey, and he is on ‘Outer Banks.'”
Florida Announces Charges Against Would-Be
Trump Assassin - but Why Are the Feds
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Trump Assassin - but Why Are the Feds
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Since his thwarted assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump on September 15, in West Palm Beach, Florida, Ryan Routh has been held in federal custody, where he faces charges of attempted assassination and assaulting a federal officer in addition to firearms charges. His trial is currently set to begin in February, though Routh has requested a continuance of the matter, and we await Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling on that request.
That the matter — involving the attempted assassination of a former and future president — is being handled via the federal system makes sense. However, it does not remain solely within the feds' purview.
The drones above American airspace that’s set social media ablaze continue, but it’s not a conservative media fascination. We have Democrats now witnessing this phenomenon. Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) caught some spooky images. Journalist Michael Shellenberger obtained an audio recording of a Biden White House conference call with mayors, who were infuriated at the administration’s lackadaisical response. It’s disinterested, to say the least, with one mayor claiming a drone the size of a car hovered over their house. Now, we might have Chinese spy drones humming overhead
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said he was "proud" to block a proposal from Democrats to protect federal workers from potentially getting reclassified as political appointees under the incoming administration.
The measure was introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) as a way to prevent such reclassification without congressional approval. He asked for unanimous consent to pass the Saving the Civil Service Act, warning about “attempts in recent years to erode the independence of the federal civil service,” a reference to efforts President-elect Trump made in his first term.
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider TikTok’s case against a law that would ban the app in the U.S. unless the platform’s Chinese parent company agrees to sell it.
TikTok asked the Supreme Court to step in after a federal appeals court upheld the law earlier this month.
The Court agreed to hear oral arguments on January 10, nine days before the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is set to take effect. In the meantime, the Court did not provisionally block the law.
Outside of rare exceptions like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in 2018, it's not often we see a member of Congress from either party go full "thug life" out of sheer frustration over media-driven narratives or lines of questioning they think are ridiculous.But on Wednesday, we got just that and who would have guessed that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) would be at the center of it all?
Durbin, who as the Majority Whip is second only to Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in the United States Senate, was taking questions from reporters Wednesday morning
The House Ethics panel secretly voted to release a ‘damaging’ lawfare report of Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to CNN.
The panel previously voted not to release the report after Gaetz resigned from Congress last month.
Earlier this month the House of Representatives voted to block resolutions by Democrats to force the House Ethics Committee from releasing their report on Gaetz.
CNN reported:
The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.
Congress Must Respect the Mandate of the
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As the sun begins to set on the 118th Congress, our “leaders” are preparing to pass a bloated, out-of-control spending bill in the form of a Continuing Resolution (CR) crafted by Senate Majority Leader-for-Now Chuck Schumer. As you might imagine, the CR is a gift to Democrats, special interests, and other D.C. swamp creatures, the product of a sad party looking to squeeze out a win for itself on the way out the door.
As a Schumer product, it of course flies in the face of the American people’s clear mandate delivered unmistakably in November to drain the swamp
Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s
Senate Confirmation Hearing Scheduled
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Senate Confirmation Hearing Scheduled
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Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for the second week of January, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee told CNN.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the incoming-chairman of the committee, told CNN’s Manu Raju that the hearing, where members of the committee will grill Hegseth in a public hearing on various issues, will take place on January 14. The scheduling of the date is significant, after Democrats and several establishment Republicans tried to tank his nomination earlier this month and casting doubt over whether he would make it that far.
On December 14, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson demonstrated that not only is she intellectually weak (something we all know as she can’t even define what a “woman” is), but that her lack of self-awareness really makes her unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. And in reality, being a Supreme Court justice isn’t even what she really wants out of life! In her own words, she really achieved her lifelong dream this past week by being in a Broadway show.
Her dream has always been to be in the spotlight on stage;
Hey, remember all those wonderful promises that Kamala Harris made? Just five or six weeks ago, she was running for president because she wanted to do all kinds of great things for the American people — and she couldn’t wait to get started!
After all, she could truly relate to our plight, being from a “middle-class family.” (She might’ve mentioned that a few times.)
And just a few months before that, Joe Biden was determined to run for reelection himself, because there was just too much gosh darn work to be done. Age is just a number — let’s finish the work, dagnabbit!
He even released a groovy campaign spot.
In 2016, a scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state dogged her campaign. The sending and receiving of classified and top-secret information on the server, which didn’t meet government security protocols, left sensitive information vulnerable to being hacked by foreign enemies.
Apparently, she wasn’t the only one in the Obama administration trying to get around disclosure requirements.
According to a report from Just the News, “New email records released by the National Archives show then-Vice President Joe Biden was briefed about sensitive foreign policy matters by then-advisor Antony Blinken on his private email account
Floridians will no longer be able to access the most popular porn site next year due to a row about age verification laws.
Pornhub will geo-block people in the sunshine state from accessing its website from January 1, like it has done for a dozen other states.
The move is a response to a new bill in Florida that requires adult websites to verify the age of people who use their sites, by using government-issued IDs or similar documentation.
Pornhub said it does not want minors accessing its site, but believes the law puts 'everybody's privacy at risk.'
At this point we've probably heard from all quarters on the question of the mysterious drones.
Regular citizens and lawmakers have been ticked off that they don't feel like they've gotten real answers. We've even had a New Jersey sheriff try to chase one down, the Coast Guard allegedly reporting on of their boats being followed by drones, reporters getting them on video. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) ) expressed concerns that those that were flying over military bases were adversarial and expressed his opinion that he thought they were from China.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) got down to brass tacks, saying whatever they are,
Stephanie Ruhle, host of "The 11th Hour" on MSNBC, explained recently that Donald Trump was far more accessible as a candidate than Kamala Harris.
So approachable was he that Ruhle decided on a whim to call and ask for an interview, which he promptly declined. But still, he answered the phone. That's the point.Even if he shot her down in typical Trump fashion.
“If I were to want to connect with VP Harris or President Biden, there’s 50 people between me, and that I could write a note that maybe could get to somebody to get somebody that (through) Pony Express and a pigeon, something might end up in a mailbox
Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow was moved from home to home throughout her childhood as she suffered through her parents' turbulent marriage, court records have revealed.
Rupnow, 15, had a troubled home life that included long bouts in therapy, while her parents Jeff and Melissa divorced and remarried multiple times, according to the Washington Post.
Following three divorces by July 2022, the parents then agreed they would share legal custody of Natalie but that she would now live mostly with Jeff. Records showed her therapy at this time was to help her decide which parent to spent weekends with.
Jill Biden: Joe ‘Talked to a Lot of
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During an interview with Boston 25 on Tuesday, First Lady Jill Biden defended President Joe Biden pardoning their son, Hunter, by stating that the President “talked to a lot of legal experts,” about the prospects of pardoning Hunter and “circumstances changed.”
Boston 25 Host and Investigative Reporter Kerry Kavanaugh said that she asked Biden if there are things she wished resonated more with the American public and then played a clip of Biden saying, “I think some of the accomplishments of the White House, some of the things that Joe did, opening our schools, ending the pandemic, the infrastructure, just so many things that he accomplished.
We're accustomed to seeing illegal immigration issues in the border states, but these days, after almost four years of the border not even registering on the Biden administration's Give-A-Hoot-O-Meter, every state is a border state. New York is certainly not an exception. Case in point: A suspected terrorist, initially detained in Texas but then set free, has been caught in Brooklyn. But the question is — why was he released into the country in the first place? (Snip) I have some questions.
First: This suspected terrorist was "detained" — it's unclear as to why this word is used,
It's no secret that Washington, D.C., is a place that occupies its own bubble. It's a separate world of up is down and down is up, and trying to convince people that what they see and hear is not really what they are seeing and hearing. It takes a certain kind of person to survive in a place like that — feel free to insert your own definition of what that might be. No one will say that politics is an honest business. But in the past four years, we have seen the Biden administration take that concept to a whole other level. (X) Recently, Fox News Digital
The key issue in particular that is perhaps the most grating of all on Republican members of Congress is the one that has taken center stage in recent years involving so-called "transgender rights" including the inclusion of transgender "women" in women's sports, bathrooms, dressing rooms, etc.
It's an issue that has seen prominent female athletes strongly take public stands in favor of leaving women's sports as they were originally intended. One of those athletes, LGBTQ icon Martina Navratilova, has loudly spoken out on the matter only to see the same far-left groups who had previously praised her for being a groundbreaker in sports turn around and try to cancel her
Since the election, not-soon-enough-to-be-former President Joe Biden has provided a steady stream of reminders as to why the nation will be glad to be rid of him. His unique mixture of incompetence, cluelessness, disdain, arrogance, and sleaziness has been on full display.
Consider what Biden managed in a few short weeks.
The unprecedented, sweeping pardon of his son Hunter made a mockery of not only his solemn pledge that he’d trust the justice system but managed to infuriate every Democratic leader and media fanboy who’d sung his praises for that pledge.
There's an old saying: When you're in a hole, the first thing you should do is to stop digging. The United States of America is in a hole $36 trillion deep, and we're not only digging, we are frantically burrowing toward the earth's very core. We are in a major spending and debt crisis, and sooner or later, the bill will come due. Few in Congress seem to understand this, but Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is lashing out about the spending in the current continuing resolution (CR) being debated in Washington. And boy, howdy, is he ever on fire about it.
I thought it was just me, but it transpires there are fewer Christmas decorations in Hong Kong this year than in previous years. A colleague confirmed, under orders from China, Hong Kong had been instructed to tone down the outward manifestations of the Christmas festivities this year.
I often find myself in Hong Kong in the run up to Christmas and in years gone past, the Christmas light show on both sides of the harbour, but especially on the island side has been dazzling.
Dear Gen Z,
The 2024 election of Donald J. Trump will be a defining moment in your lifetime.
In 1984, as a 20-year-old first-time voter and newly naturalized citizen, I was elated by the landslide victory of Ronald Reagan. Not knowing the significance of this at the time, in retrospect it is clear: Ronald Reagan’s presidency was a defining moment in my President Reagan told us that hard work and ingenuity and limited government begets prosperity and peace and freedom – and spreads the hope across the world that freedom, both economic and personal, is obtainable for all.
Jill Biden Announces Retirement, Makes
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Comments About Joe and Kamala That Are
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Joe Biden will finally be going off into the sunset on Jan. 20 after more than 50 years occupying public office.
He managed to completely finish off his reputation over the past few years and is leaving having fully earned the title of the worst person to occupy the Oval Office in the last 50 years. Jill Biden will be out the door with him and a lot of this failure is on her head for having him stay in long after he should have retired. She even ridiculously wanted him to run again. How power-hungry can you be?
Dec. 6 was a historic day. It was the first time since July 2015 -- since Donald Trump entered presidential politics -- that more Americans have said they have a favorable impression of Trump than an unfavorable one. All that time, from Trump's first Republican primary campaign to the 2016 general election to his years as president to his defeat in 2020 to his post-presidential years to his comeback in 2024 -- in all that time, Trump has been underwater in the RealClearPolitics average of polls measuring favorability and unfavorability. Now, for the first time, he's above the water, in positive poll territory.
Russia’s security service said Wednesday that it has detained a suspect in the killing of a senior general in Moscow.
The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. His assistant also died in the attack. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, didn’t name the suspect, but said he was born in 1995.
South Africa... has an active and influential Muslim sector supportive of Hamas and Palestinian land claims. Coupled to its pathetic intelligence services, and its lamentable military and police forces, South Africa is ill-equipped to counter Islamist infiltration from neighboring regions or its growing internal extremist movements.
Apart from succeeding in overcoming Apartheid, all that the ANC and allies have put their minds to since, ends in dismal failure. Every state-owned enterprise is broke and/or dysfunctional.... The same applies to government departments....
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is said to be 'apoplectic' and 'humiliated' following the network's decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit between ABC and Donald Trump.
The settlement, which includes $15 million towards a presidential foundation and $1 million for Trump's legal fees, has sparked a firestorm within the Disney-owned news organization.
Stephanopoulos, a former aide to Bill Clinton in the 1990s, was particularly incensed at being compelled to issue a public apology, according to the New York Post.
Insiders explained how the veteran anchor remains 'defiant' amid the fallout.
Four Canadian ministers publicly unveiled on Tuesday a border security plan they had privately presented to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, with an emphasis on surveillance, intelligence and technology.
Canadian ministers had an "encouraging" meeting with Trump's border czar Tom Homan, Public Safety, Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters. (snip) LeBlanc and his colleagues announced Tuesday a plan to beef up the U.S.-Canada border with helicopters, drones, surveillance towers and sniffer dogs, as well as a "joint strike force" to target transnational organized crime.
A top-ranking US Air Force officer has revealed that the upcoming deployment of the new F-15EX aircraft at Kadena Air Base, Japan, will be aimed at countering China’s “essentially bully” behavior towards its neighbors. Brig. Gen. Nicholas Evans, Commander of the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, discussed the upcoming deployment in a recent interview and highlighted the evolving security challenges posed by Beijing. The F-15EX Eagle II, an upgraded version of the iconic F-15, is expected to boost the US’s regional air capabilities. The aircraft’s sophisticated radar, weapons systems, and upgraded performance make it a powerful asset in countering China’s growing military presence.
Trump-Sanctioned 1st Batch Of Abrams M1A2T
Tanks Reach Taiwan; Chinese Media Calls
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Tanks Reach Taiwan; Chinese Media Calls
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Taiwan’s military has taken delivery of its first batch of US-made Abrams M1A2T tanks; a move hailed as an important step in modernizing its armed forces. The M1A2T tanks are part of a $1.25 billion (NT$40.5 billion) arms deal announced in 2019 under then-US President Donald Trump. This first shipment, which arrived at the Port of Taipei in New Taipei’s Bali District on December 15, includes 38 tanks out of the total 108 units ordered. Equipped with a 120mm main gun and advanced aiming systems, the Abrams offers Taiwan’s armed forces a major upgrade in firepower, precision, and speed.
As the Gateway Pundit recently reported, Democrat Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has met with Trump’s pick for Defense, Pete Hegseth and Trump’s pick for U.N. Ambassador, Elise Stefanik.
Some people on the left are angry at Fetterman over this, while people on the right are encouraged. How and when did John Fetterman become one of the most reasonable Democrats in the Senate?
Fetterman recently posted on Twitter/X reaffirming his intentions to keep an open mind on Trump’s nominees, saying that he would rely on his informed opinion.
Breitbart News reports:
President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Georgia United States Senate candidate Herschel Walker to serve as a U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump highlighted that Walker is a “successful businessman, philanthropist,” and a “former Heisman Trophy winner” who has “been a tireless advocate for youth sports.” Trump added that Walker has “traveled to over 400 Military installations around the World” in an effort to remove “the stigma” around mental health.“I am pleased to nominate Herschel Walker as United States Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas,” Trump wrote. “Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation’s youth,
Hang on a minute here. Every time I start feeling like we're darn near the good old US of A again, BAM.
Some same dystopian, authoritarian, sneaky asterisk Democratic Schlitz pops out from behind a screen to remind me we are living in a simulation. And they are the EE-VILLE wizards behind the curtains.
What in the wild world of creepy, unAmerican sports is THIS? I mean, I've despised al-Reuters since the First Gulf War, but good God almighty.
They even won a Pulitzer for the paid dirty digging they did. That's like doubly schweet. The money is all right here in an official government accounting document called "USA Spending."
Almost 8 million illegal aliens reside in sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States, new analysis reveals.
The analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which tracks sanctuary jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from federal immigration law, found that roughly 7.9 million illegal aliens are residing in sanctuary states, counties, and cities.“Although there is much imprecision in the data, the bottom line is that close to eight million illegal aliens, equaling 56 percent of the estimated nationwide total, live in sanctuary jurisdictions,” CIS’s Jason Richwine writes.