Posts on Thursday, December 26, 2024

CNN's stubbornly leftist journalists think they know why their viewers are abandoning ship in record numbers - they're not going hard enough against Donald Trump anymore. That is the suggestion from reporters who spoke anonymously to The Washington Post this week as the network recovered from some of its lowest ratings ever. Insiders claim a decision to hold a town hall with the president-elect back in May 2023 upset staff and viewers, as did the decision not to fact check Trump during his debate earlier this year. 'It is widely felt at CNN that we didn't meet the mark,' one CNN journalist, who requested to remain anonymous,

One of the defining features of America in the last 60 years is really horrible decisions by judges. At the Supreme Court level, we’ve repeatedly witnessed nine unelected autocrats abandon the Constitution and traditional principles of judicial construction to remake society according to their crazed leftist vision. State court judges don’t have quite the same reach (thank goodness), but they can certainly wreak havoc (look at the judicial war against Trump in NYC, D.C., and Georgia to understand that). Most recently, judges on Iowa’s Supreme Court seemingly have written the Fourth Amendment right out of the Constitution. One of the most hated British acts in Colonial America was the “general warrant”

Representative George Santos hinted at a major shift on Capitol Hill, suggesting that Democrat Henry Cuellar, who was recently indicted on serious charges, might switch parties following a potential presidential pardon. Santos hinted on Christmas Day, writing, “Who’s ready for some more tea on Capitol Hill? I have some interesting news coming your way tomorrow…” (X) Santos followed up Thursday, claiming that a prominent Democrat—widely speculated to be Cuellar—is poised to receive a pardon and switch allegiance to the GOP. The tea is as follows: It’s alleged someone is going to receive a pardon and flip from blue to red in the House of Representatives.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed legislation this week that requires major fossil fuel companies to contribute fees to support New York's climate change mitigation efforts. Under the new law, companies with significant greenhouse gas emissions will be required to contribute to a state fund dedicated to infrastructure projects aimed at mitigating future climate change damage and repairing existing impacts. The legislation, approved earlier this year, compels major oil and gas companies to help cover the costs of recovery after extreme weather events. The funds will also support resilience projects, including coastal wetland restoration and upgrades to critical

The University of Michigan (UM) is hosting a workshop to teach graduate students how to recognize “racism in everyday life.” The event promises to teach about “racism, anti-racism, power, and oppression” and help prepare students to identify and address instances of bias and “microaggressions,” according to the university’s event webpage. UM is currently considering abandoning its entire multi-million dollar diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program.

If North Korea’s elite troops were expecting an easy campaign against Ukrainian forces entrenched in Russia’s Kursk region, they faced a harsh reality on the ground. About 1,100 North Korean special forces have been killed or injured in Russia since entering the fray against Ukraine a few weeks ago, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported on December 19. A general was reportedly among those killed. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, though, doesn’t seem to be fazed by the rapid losses. The authoritarian leader is reportedly doubling down in his support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in exchange for critical supplies of oil, cash, and military technology.

“It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to deport every undocumented immigrant in our country,” Senator Dick Durbin warned. After losing the open borders debate and the election, Democrats and their media stopped arguing that mass migration is a right and that mass deportations violate human rights. 6 out of 10 registered voters were polled in favor of deporting illegal aliens. The American people had spoken. So Democrats and their media instead argued that mass deportations would be too expensive.

Donald Trump Jr brought his new flame Bettina Anderson to the Trump family Christmas celebration at Mar-a-Lago.[Snip] It comes as insiders and friends of the Trump family are reportedly doing everything they can do to get Don Jr. to end his new relationship with the Palm Beach socialite.[Snip] Someone who works in the modeling business and knows Anderson from years in the industry speculated to DailyMail.com that she is gunning to get into the inner circle of billionaire Elon Musk.[Snip] Those in Palm Beach who have known Anderson for decades say she regularly dates wealthy older men who fit into her upper class lifestyle.

The Hill has floated a plan to stop Donald Trump from taking office next month and declare Kamala Harris the next president of the United States. According to an opinion piece by Evan A. Davis and David M. Schulte, who worked as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal respectively, Congress has the power to block Donald Trump from taking office because he has previously engaged in a so-called “insurrection.” The piece explains: The Constitution provides that an oath-breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be president.

The Biden-Harris White House has wished Americans a “Happy Kwanzaa” — a holiday invented in 1966 by a racist extremist who served prison time for torturing a woman. Vice President Kamala Harris — who was born just two years before the holiday’s inception — claimed in 2020 that she and her family used to gather around, “across multiple generations,” and discuss Kwanzaa’s “seven principles” — which are identical to the principles of left-wing terrorist organization Symbionese Liberation Army. Harris wrote on X in 2020 that her family’s “Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories,” garnering thousands of critical comments pointing out

Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary slammed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, branding the New York congresswoman 'one of the worst managers' he's ever seen and claiming he would 'fire her' if he lived in her district. The business mogul unleashed on AOC during an appearance on Fox News' 'The Story' on Monday, calling out her track record in Congress - and accusing her of spending all her time posting on social media. 'I admire AOC for her marketing prowess,' O'Leary said. 'But she's one of the worst managers I've ever seen.'

Two liberal attorneys claimed Thursday that Congress can still prevent President-elect Donald Trump from taking office — and elect Vice President Kamala Harris in his place — if they act fast. Congress can reject electoral votes on when they gather to certify them on Jan. 6 because Trump is disqualified from holding office under 14th Amendment, which restricts anyone who took an oath to support the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection” from holding office, attorneys Evan Davis and David Schulte wrote in a column for The Hill. “The unlikelihood of congressional Republicans doing anything that might elect Harris as

Ivanka Trump spent Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago while her dad, President-elect Donald Trump, played DJ, sources tell Page Six. Ivanka, 43, appeared at her dad’s private Palm Beach, Fla., club in a “form-fitting, below-the-knee, all white dress with bare shoulders, but long sleeves,” a spy told Page Six. She attended the event with husband Jared Kushner, 43, and their three children, we hear. Ivanka also posted another pic at the club from Christmas night in a one-shoulder, form-fitting black dress with a dramatic white flower print on it. The insider added that, “Melania wore a perfectly fitted chic black pantsuit with discrete jewelry and her large diamond wedding ring.”

WNBA star Caitlin Clark won The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year with 35 total votes, and Olympic gold-winning gymnast Simone Biles came in second, but another nominated athlete, who came in third with four votes, is stirring up controversy due to questions about gender. Imane Khelif is an Olympic gold medalist boxer from Algeria who had failed past gender tests — per the IBA — and was later allegedly proven to be a biological male, according to a French journalist who obtained a medical report, as The Daily Wire previously reported. IBA President Umar Kremlev said the boxer has “XY chromosomes.” The boxer was allowed by the IOC

In recent days President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear that Panama's friendly policies towards the Chinese Communist Party and fees the government is charging in the Panama Canal are unacceptable. On Christmas day Trump went into more detail about his focus on the region, in addition to America's neighbors to the north. "Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), (Snip) Trump's statement came shortly after announcing his pick for the next U.S. Ambassador to Panama.

Departing President Joe Biden has only a matter of weeks left in office but that didn’t stop him Wednesday from ordering more weapon deliveries to Ukraine. His directive to the Department of Defense came on the same day Russia launched a missile attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in multiple cities even as more Americans stand opposed to such moves. (X) The strikes targeted power stations in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and the south-eastern Dnipro region killed at least one person and injured six more as the country woke on Christmas Day, ABC News reports. In the aftermath of the missile strikes, half a million people in the Kharkiv region

On Sunday, December 22, a US Navy guided-missile cruiser, the USS Gettysburg, mistakenly shot down an American fighter jet over the Red Sea. This was not the first incident of friendly fire by the U.S. Navy, nor the most tragic. On Sunday morning, July 3, 1988, at the tail end of the Iran-Iraq War, an Aegis cruiser in the Persian Gulf, the USS Vincennes, fired two Standard Missiles at a commercial Iranian Airbus, IR 655. Captain Will Rogers III and his crew had mistaken the ascending passenger jet with 290 people on board for a descending Iranian F-14, a fighter plane.

The man accused of two unprovoked slashings at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday night cried out for his mother at his Christmas Day court proceeding — as a Manhattan judge ordered him held on $150,000 bail. Jason Sargeant, 28, was arraigned on charges of assault and attempted assault for what prosecutors described as “incredibly serious” knife attacks on two people in the city’s biggest train station on Christmas Eve. (Photo) After his brief Wednesday night appearance, Sargeant, a Brooklyn native, noticed that his mom was in the courtroom. “Wait, mom, I didn’t know you were here! I didn’t know you were here!,” he called out frantically as he was swarmed

Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres got it 100% right this month when he slammed progressives for their “perversion of compassion” in allowing vagrants to haunt our transit hubs and streets. Particularly those who are mentally ill and in need of help. They make life miserable — and dangerous — for everyone. Including themselves. Progressives think they’re being kind, considerate, compassionate to these troubled people. Civil libertarians think they’re protecting their freedoms. Many of them truly believe they’re doing the moral thing by letting these people fester. They’re horribly wrong, It’s not compassionate to let to someone sleep on the floor of Penn Station or to permit violent ones to attack innocent people.

The new $9 toll to drive into Midtown Manhattan could soar another 25% — to $11.25 — on “gridlock alert days’’ starting next year, The Post has learned. The MTA’s right to jack up the already hotly controversial commuter tax was listed in a footnote in the revised congestion pricing plan filed with the state’s rule-making publication, the New York State Register. “If whacking hardworking Jersey and New York families with a new, $9 a day Congestion Tax wasn’t enough, the MTA is now pouring extra salt on the wound with a 25 percent extra Uber-style surge pricing tax on so-called ‘Gridlock Alert Days’ —

California has made a big bet on a technology to meet its self-imposed green energy target. It could work. Maybe. Might happen. If the real world matches the optimism. But there are challenging hurdles ahead. One, the concept is untried on an industrial scale. Floating offshore wind turbines, which California believes will provide a full quarter of the state’s electric power by 2045, “is largely underdeveloped in the United States,” host Kevin Sliman says in an interview with two Penn State University Institute of Energy and the Environment professors. “There’s a few kind of like one-off test turbines that are typically much smaller than what you would do on a fixed platform,”

Donald Trump’s victory, combined with Republicans regaining the Senate majority and keeping control of the House, made 2024 a bad year for Democrats. Signs suggest it could be something even worse: a historic defeat that puts Republicans in the political driver’s seat for a generation or more. That’s because the exit poll showed that more voters said they were Republican than Democrat — for the first time in a presidential election since 1928. Such a result hasn’t happened since talking pictures were new and Babe Ruth clobbered homers in the original Yankee Stadium. No one alive today has ever voted in a presidential race where this has occurred.

Indiana University (IU) is teaching students that they are inherently "oppressors" because of their race, sex and religion, documents show. According to the school’s website, the course "Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society" prompts students to examine "theories and models" in order to "enhance understanding of our diverse society."The course "provides content about differences and similarities in the experiences, needs, and beliefs of selected minority groups and their relation to the majority group."

President-elect Donald Trump refused to wish federal death-row inmates granted clemency by President Biden a merry Christmas on Wednesday – telling them to “go to Hell.” “[T]o the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!” he added.

The man accused of lighting a woman on fire on a New York City subway and fanning the flames as she burned to death made his first appearance in court on Tuesday, while authorities were yet to publicly identify the victim. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was arraigned on murder and arson charges on Tuesday afternoon in a Brooklyn court, where he was remanded back to custody. He did not enter a plea and his lawyer did not speak to reporters assembled inside the courthouse. Authorities allege Zapeta — who federal immigration officials say is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally —

The Bilderberg Group - a secret organization of the global elite - is undergoing a leadership transformation as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House. The society, which consists of leaders in politics, industry, academia and the military, has selected former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to chair its 'steering committee.' Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security.

The world is on notice that things will not be business as usual come Jan. 20, 2025, when President-elect Donald Trump takes office once again, with one of those countries hearing from him with strong force being the Republic of Panama. Earlier in the week, my colleague Bob Hoge wrote about Trump's trading barbs with that island nation's president over the Panama Canal's future. Read more: Of course, Trump also made that (possibly) tongue-in-cheek post about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau being a future U.S. governor, and he's riffed quite a bit--both during and after November's election--about tariffs for several nations in our hemisphere. Bonjour, Governor Trudeau?

Ryan Wesley Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump at his Florida golf course earlier this year, won’t stand trial until September 2025, a federal judge ruled on Monday. US District Judge Aileen Cannon pushed back Routh’s previously scheduled Feb. 10, 2025, trial start date to Sept. 8, 2025. Routh, 58, has pleaded not guilty in the case. (Photo) The delay was requested by the alleged would-be assassins lawyers, who argued that they needed more time to assess the evidence against Routh as they weigh whether to pursue an insanity defense.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit the first candle of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, Israel, on Wednesday evening, and warned Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been firing missiles and drones from Yemen that they are about to learn a lesson. The Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Israel early Wednesday (Christmas) morning, which was intercepted by Israel’s defense systems, though pieces of shrapnel fell on the country. A drone from Yemen reached Israel but landed in an open area, causing no injuries.

A few years back, on a sunny Sunday in late May, I was out on my deck with an ice-cold beer and a fine cigar, enjoying a fine, sunny Susitna Valley afternoon. After a bit, I heard a motorcycle stop on the road out in front of the property. Then I heard someone’s voice calling to something and heard him crashing into the brush. So, being the curious sort, I went down to see what was going on. The motorcycle rider had seen a bald eagle with a broken left wing in the brush alongside the road. As near as we could figure,