Posts on Tuesday, January 7, 2025
House lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday afternoon requiring federal agents to detain illegal immigrants suspected of committing non-violent crimes, the chamber’s first action of the 119th Congress.
The House voted 264-159 to pass the Laken Riley Act, with 48 Democrats joining 216 Republicans in voting for the legislation, which is named after the Georgia nursing student brutally murdered last year by an illegal immigrant.
“I’m thankful that the House passed the Laken Riley Act in an overwhelmingly bipartisan manner. No family should have to go through what Laken’s has endured,” said Representative Mike Collins (R., Ga.), who first introduced the legislation last year and represents the area where Riley was murdered.
A Jordanian national, who violated the terms of his admission to the United States, is accused of making a bomb threat to a South Carolina Highway Patrolman after having been pulled over for missing a license plate.
Ahmad Jamal Khamees Alhendi, a 28-year-old legal immigrant from Jordan who came to the U.S. in September 2018 but who violated the terms of his admission, has been arrested and charged in Greenville County, South Carolina, for breach of peace, falsely making a bomb threat, and operating an unregistered vehicle.
According to investigators, a South Carolina Highway Patrolman pulled over Alhendi on January 2
President Trump on Tuesday held a fiery press conference at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago.
In his first presser after being certified the winner of the 2024 election, Trump announced he was changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico, issued an ultimatum to Hamas, and announced $20 billion to build data centers across the country.
Reporters asked Trump questions after his presser.
One reporter asked Trump about his military strategy regarding Iran.
“The US launching a preemptive strike on Iran. You said you don’t want to answer that,” a reporter asked Trump.
“I don’t talk about it. It’s military strategy,” Trump said.
On Joe Biden’s first day in office, he signed a raft of executive orders, one of which we said was “almost entirely overlooked but could easily end up having the biggest impact.”
Turns out we were right.
The executive order – “Modernizing Regulatory Review” – would, we predicted, “unleash the regulatory state with a ferocity never before seen in this country.”
With this one executive order, Biden shows that he’s intent on giving regulators carte blanche to impose massive new rules on businesses and households, on virtually anything and everything they do, regardless of costs. There’s little else Biden has done so far that will have as wide-ranging an impact.
Let me be blunt: Merrick Garland is a foul carbuncle on the derriere of the worst of American politics. He has viewed his position as Attorney General of the United States as the vehicle for being the Democrat party’s enforcer. With the power of the DOJ and FBI at his back, he has worked hard to destroy anyone who threatens Democrat party power.
Nowhere has Garland’s un-American mission been more obvious than with his approach to the events of January 6. For those who need a brief refresher course, January 6 came after a year of violent,
Pope Francis on Jan. 6, 2025 named Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, as the new archbishop of Washington. As the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal McElroy succeeds Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who has served in that role since 2019. On Jan. 6, Pope Francis also accepted the resignation of Cardinal Gregory as the archbishop of Washington. As required by Church law, Cardinal Gregory had submitted his resignation to the pope two years ago after he turned 75 on Dec. 7, 2022.
Joe Biden will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history, according to the latest Gallup poll.
While Biden and the White House seek to rewrite his legacy as someone who improved the lives of Americans and people worldwide, the American public clearly feels differently.
A majority of Americans—54 percent—believe Joe Biden will be remembered as a “below average” (37 percent) or “poor” (17 percent) president.
In contrast, only 19 percent think he will be seen as “outstanding” (6 percent) or “above average” (13 percent).
Meanwhile, 26 percent say he will be regarded as “average.”
Joe Biden, especially since becoming president, has benefited from corporate media portraying him as a unifier, civil, and even a “decent” man. He is not. In fact, when the going gets mildly tough, Biden flies off the handle.
That’s exactly what he did during a question-and-answer session at the White House on Sunday night. My being the oldest president, I know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your whole g-dd-mn life!” Biden barked at the press. It’s far from the first time Biden lashed out at Democrat propagandists and cheerleaders that make up the corporate media.
Mere months into his White House tenure,
Iran’s nuclear facilities would be “extremely” difficult for Israeli forces to strike, defense sources have told The Post, adding that the Jewish state is willing to take such a bold step if officials deem it necessary — since President-elect Donald Trump has not objected to the possibility.
Israel has been at indirect war with Iran since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists murdered roughly 1,200 civilians and kidnapped hundreds more.
Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen comprise tentacles of Iran’s “octopus” threat, as Israeli officials describe it.
Now, with Tehran severely weakened following more than a year of conflict,
Like a lot of people, I was a smoker back in the day. Smokes weren't taxed then as horrendously as they are now; I remember paying under a buck a pack for unfiltered Camels. I haven't touched a cigarette in decades, but I still enjoy a good cigar now and then, and yes, you pay handsomely for them as well.
There are always ways around those onerous taxes, of course. Ask any smuggler. This is, however, something the outgoing Biden administration, in particular the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), doesn't seem to understand. On Tuesday, we learned that the FDA is moving ahead with a rule
New Yorkers could get surprise $250 in
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New Yorkers could start 2025 with some unexpected green.
Instead, the state comptroller’s office has the green light to just send checks to residents from a pool of money owed to them – including funds from old bank accounts, investments, gift cards and insurance checks that were turned over to the state after they weren’t claimed in enough time.
Empire State residents could find surprichecks of up to $250 in their mailboxes starting this month thanks to a new state law that cuts down on red tape.
Trump taps Nassau County Judge Joseph
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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Nassau County Judge Joseph Nocella Jr. to be the next US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
“Judge Nocella has a strong record of bringing Law and Order to the incredible people of New York, serving as a Nassau County District Court Judge, and Family Court Judge,” Trump said in a Monday night Truth Social post announcing the pick. “A proud graduate of Columbia Law School, he has also spent over ten years in private practice,” Trump added.
Nocella also worked as an assistant US attorney in the same office from 1991 to 1995
How thrilled am I to have President-elect Donald J. Trump going back to the Oval Office? Extremely, and I bet every legitimate political reporter is. Sadly, as we have discovered over four years of Biden-Harris, legitimate political reporters are few and far between. If you are a legitimate political reporter/analyst/commentator, what you want from any politician, but especially your president, is to be given information and insight that you can analyze, comment, and report on without a super-sized serving of stage management, spin, and regurgitated lies.
Trump's Tuesday morning press conference from Mar-a-Lago gave us a bunch of information and much to analyze and comment upon.
Is Sunny Hostin the most empty-headed person on the planet? That's a legitimate question given some of the things she's said on "The View" over the years. Recently, she claimed that January 6th was comparable to the Holocaust and chattel slavery, and that's just a taste of how ridiculous she can be. (Snip) So yeah, Hostin has a history of shooting off at the mouth and saying things she shouldn't. This time, though, the topic is hitting a lot closer to home. According to The Daily Mail, Hostin's husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, has been named as a defendant in a massive RICO case involving insurance fraud.
More Fani Failure: Judge Orders Fulton
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County DA to Pay Big Bucks for Not Turning
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Disgraced Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who was disqualified for multiple conflicts of interest from her case prosecuting President-elect Trump over election interference, was hit with another setback as a Georgia judge ruled that her office must pay conservative watchdog Judicial Watch more than $20,000 in fees related to their open records request.
She’s got two weeks to pony up. Judicial Watch and its founder Tom Fitton took to X/Twitter Tuesday to announce the news: [Tweet]
They added two more tweets. “'Fani Willis flouted the law, and the court is right to slam her
Could leftists be planning an insurrection during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration?
It’s certainly possible – even after all their caterwauling about the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol building.
A coalition of left-wing organizations has announced a “We Fight Back” National Day of Action set to take place on January 20 as Trump is inaugurated. The purported aim of the demonstrations is to “defeat Trump’s extreme right, billionaire agenda,” according to its website.
The coalition claims that the president-elect “ran a con game during the election” and that his “real agenda is to destroy worker’s rights, deport millions of immigrant families,
A majority of U.S. parents support “reducing the size and influence of the U.S. Department of Education,” according to polling released on Monday by Parents Defending Education (PDE).
PDE, which describes itself as a grassroots organization “working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,” found that 52 percent of parents back scaling back the Department of Education. Forty-five percent oppose doing so, while three percent are unsure. Republican parents (67 percent) and independent parents (53 percent) are more likely than Democrat parents (29 percent) to support reducing the size and influence of the department, the survey found.
Not a single Capitol police officer was killed on January 6, 2021, yet Attorney General Merrick Garland’s dishonest statement about the protest released Monday may have people thinking otherwise.
“On this day, four years ago, police officers were brutally assaulted while bravely defending the United States Capitol(snip “Today, I am thinking of the officers who still bear the scars of that day as well as the loved ones of the five officers who lost their lives in the line of duty(snip)
But not a single officer was killed by any January 6 defendants — which is perhaps why not a single defendant was charged with manslaughter or murder.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday in a 5-1 vote blocked the state from certifying Democrat incumbent justice Allison Riggs as the winner of the race as her GOP opponent, Jefferson Griffin, challenges the election.
As previously reported, North Carolina’s Supreme Court race headed for a recount due to a close final tally as the Democrat pulled ahead two weeks after Election Day.
Democrat incumbent Sarah Riggs closed the race with 2,770,818 votes to GOP challenger Jefferson Griffin’s 2,770,193 votes.
The race went to a recount since the vote difference is fewer than 10,000 votes.
I was watching MSNBC the other day – I know, but it is fun to look into a parallel universe where progressive ideals appeal to the vast majority of Americans, it makes me appreciate reality all the more – and I had to check my phone to make sure I had the right year. You wouldn’t know it was 2024 if you’d just gone by the rhetoric belching its way over the airwaves. Donald Trump is a Russian stooge – a tool of Putin – who is only interested in…well, you know the rest of that song. In fact, you know the rest of all the songs,
President-elect Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that he would not rule out using military force to annex Greenland, leaving many Americans asking: “But why?”
In fact, the ice-covered Danish territory, the largest island in the world, has long been a hot topic among strategists in Washington and elsewhere — despite Copenhagen’s insistence it is not for sale — due to its location along vital shipping routes and the presence of key raw materials that are rarely found anywhere else.
“Why? A few critical reasons,” a source close to the Trump transition efforts told The Post on Tuesday when asked about the president-elect’s goal. “Sending a strong, deliberate message to Beijing. Not just talk.
A first of its kind, behind the scenes documentary on the work that goes into being the first lady has landed a $40 million distribution deal. Melania Trump’s concept, which centers around her life and work as she reenters the White House, kicked off a bidding war between major Hollywood studios and resulted in a blockbuster deal with Amazon.
The Melania Trump documentary, which is set for a global theatrical and streaming release, formed from a series of conversations between the first lady and her longtime senior advisor Marc Beckman.
Winter weather is sweeping the nation. While most people aren't too excited about the cold temperatures and inches of snow accumulation, a couple of Washington, D.C.'s cutest residents are utterly delighted with it.
Bao Li and Qing Bao are fairly new to the National Zoo in D.C. — the three-year-old giant pandas arrived in the United States in October after flying aboard the "Panda Express," a 19-hour FedEx flight — and it appears that they've made themselves right at home.
Because of the weather, the National Zoo has been closed this week, and the pandas haven't yet made their public debut —
On Tuesday, a federal judge granted a significant exception to the travel restrictions imposed on a January 6 defendant. William Pope, a Kansas resident and nonviolent J6 participant has been allowed to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 in Washington, D.C. The motion, granted by Judge Rudolph Contreras, is a rare departure from standard pre-trial release conditions, which typically prohibit defendants from engaging in certain behaviors. Pope had been under the condition of release preventing him from entering Washington since March 2021.
This decision marks a turning point in the handling of such cases, especially given the Justice Department’s staunch opposition to Pope's motion and similar requests
Elizabeth Warren Finds One of Those Right-Wing
Extremists the Biden Regime Has Been Warning
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Extremists the Biden Regime Has Been Warning
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Our moral superiors have warned us about this again and again. The destroyer of the Justice Department, Merrick Garland, has assured us, as has Old Joe Biden, as has the destroyer of the FBI, Christopher Wray, as well as the leftist top dogs at the Department of Homeland Security. They have all agreed, and told us repeatedly, that “white supremacists” were the biggest terror threat America faces today. The only thing they lacked to complete their scenario were actual white supremacist terrorists. But now, Heap Big Squaw Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Cherokee Cheekbones) has found one: Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense.
Fourteen current and former police officers with the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) have signed sworn declarations which say they believe MPD Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell perjured herself when testifying in former MPD officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. (snip) Those 14 statements were among dozens of declarations submitted by lawyers representing Alpha News in a defamation lawsuit brought by Blackwell last October against Alpha News, Alpha News reporter Liz Collin, producer J.C. Chaix, and a publishing company. In her lawsuit, Blackwell alleged that the Alpha News documentary film The Fall of Minneapolis and a book authored by Collin wrongly accused Blackwell of lying.
If Washington is Hollywood for ugly people — or at least average-looking people with bad haircuts — Jill Biden is Washington’s Meghan Markle.
It’s a tale as old as time: Cinderella becomes accustomed to all the nice things that come with her castle and forces the prince to make a fool of himself on the world stage so she can keep a good thing going.
Like Montecito’s most controversial jam merchant, after a failed first marriage, Jill Jacobs bagged a guy who was well on his way to a life of power and influence. Once she got there, she ate up the magazine covers, the glitzy vacations, and the paparazzi appearances.
Some Big Apple motorists were recently spotted with license plates subtly obscured using ultra-low-tech methods — which could potentially be used to evade New York’s wildly unpopular congestion toll that just went into effect.
The Post spotted a variety of these sneaky, DIY tactics in action — often deployed on newer or high-end vehicles — reminiscent of the ongoing “ghost plates” problem that costs the city hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Washington Post editors 'killed' piece
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The Washington Post is planning on eliminating its "gender columnist" position after the writer penned a piece that was ultimately scrapped by the paper's editors, Fox News Digital has learned.
Monica Hesse, who made headlines in 2018 by becoming The Post's first-ever "gender columnist," will not hold that title much longer after writing a column about gender was "killed" by her editors, two sources tell Fox News Digital. It is unclear what Hesse had written in the column and what the editors objected to.
Hesse, currently a columnist for the paper's Style section, is expected to be reassigned
McDonald's announced Monday it is ending some practices that are part of its broader mission to be inclusive, becoming the latest major corporation to scale back on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies that critics deem "woke."
The fast-food giant is the first company to adjust its DEI policies in 2025. Last year, a slew of companies made similar changes, including Walmart, Ford Motor Co., John Deere, Lowe's and Toyota, after activist pressure. In an open letter to its franchisees, employees and suppliers, McDonald's touted its achievements in its commitment to inclusion, one of its "core values," and the company also said it wanted to "highlight a
Diddy is furious that alleged CEO murderer Luigi Mangione is seen as a bigger star by inmates at the Brooklyn federal prison where both are locked up, it's claimed. The rapper[Snip]is reportedly raging that the alleged killer is more beloved than he is among inmates.'Diddy has been throwing tantrums over the fact that Luigi is getting all of the attention in prison and is being revered as a hero after literally murdering someone on camera,' the source said.Diddy is reportedly upset because he claims he is innocent of sex trafficking yet he continues getting 'so much hate inside the lock up while Luigi gets so much love.'
he would not rule out using “military force” to make Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone US territories.
“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two,” the incoming president told a reporter who inquired about the possibility of US military or economic coercion to acquire the disputed land. “We need them for economic security,” Trump, 78, said during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida. “It might be that you have to do something.”
The 45th president and 47th president-elect has repeatedly spoken out about his desire to get Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone under US rule
The illegal immigrant accused of torching a woman to death on a Brooklyn subway train was so blacked-out drunk that he was shocked when cops showed him video of the shocking attack, newly released court records reveal.
“Oh damn, that’s me!” Guatemalan native Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, allegedly told NYPD detectives when he was shown footage of the Dec. 22 attack at a Brooklyn F train station. (Photos) “No, the truth is I don’t remember,” he said. “Oh my goodness!”
Zapeta-Calil looked disgusted at the images, wiping his eyes and putting his head down on a table, according to a transcript of the interview unsealed in Brooklyn Supreme Court Tuesday.
In a bombshell revelation during an appearance on Sara Gonzales Unfiltered, investigative journalist Steve Baker has accused General Mark Milley, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of authorizing the use of heat and sound-directed energy weapons against protesters during the violent riots that rocked Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2020.
Baker claims to have photographic evidence to substantiate these allegations, with a full exposé promised in the coming days.
It can be recalled that during the summer of 2020, a series of protests and riots erupted across the United States following the death of George Floyd.
These events, often referred to as the “Summer of Love,” resulted in
As Donald Trump re-enters the White House on a pledge to end national security state overreach, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still hiding critical details on the Russia conspiracy investigation that engulfed his first term.
In response to a Freedom of Information request filed by RealClearInvestigations in August 2022, the FBI on Dec. 31, more than two years later, released a heavily redacted copy of the document that opened an explosive and unprecedented counterintelligence probe of the sitting president as an agent of the Russian government.
WASHINGTON — The federal judge who oversaw the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump issued an order Tuesday temporarily blocking the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation.
The injunction lasts until three days after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules on a pending request to block the release of the report over a separate matter involving Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. Lawyers for Nauta and De Oliveira filed a motion Monday night asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to block the report, citing the judge’s previous ruling that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
The Biden administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a new rule preventing credit reporting agencies from using unpaid medical debt to determine a consumer's credit score.
This is welcome news to deadbeats. Not so much for the rest of us.
Medical debt, like all other debt, is money borrowed from someone else. When people don't pay back what they borrowed, the cost of borrowing goes up for the rest of us. "People who get sick shouldn't have their financial future upended," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a press release.
Canada is a lovely country with many lovely people. And while its federal government is dysfunctional and occasionally tyrannical when it comes to defending civil rights, it has much to offer. It has a well-educated populace with remarkably good manners, some fine educational institutions, and a largely functioning economy. I suggest that we only take half the country and leave the rest to sink or swim on its own. [snip] But then what? After all, this is a country that suffered under Justin Trudeau for nine years! Something must be wrong with it--at least with certain parts of Canada.
Two people were found dead inside the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane that landed in Florida on Monday evening, the airline said.
JetBlue Flight 1801 had departed from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York before landing at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, FOX5 New York reported.
The bodies were found during a routine maintenance inspection of the plane after the plane landed in Fort Lauderdale, a JetBlue spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Today’s statement from Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram, among other things), is a remarkable cultural artifact. If Zuckerberg means even half of what he says in it, we may well be seeing a genuine shift in how Silicon Valley regards free speech, dissent, and pluralism.
As NBC notes:
Zuckerberg said that Meta will end its fact-checking program with trusted partners and replace it with a community-driven system similar to X’s Community Notes.
But it is how this is to be done that is so interesting.
This morning, I watched one of the most unintentionally hilarious and absolutely maddening videos I think I've ever seen.
Mark Zuckerberg, lizard-like bazillionaire founder of Facebook and creator of Meta World, parked at a table earnestly addressing what's wrong with censorship online.
EXCUSE ME, WHUT?!
It was as if the reviled reptilian replicant we've known and despised all these years had suddenly awoken from a deep slumber, like a slick Rip Van Winkle. Only instead of waking up under a tree in Tarrytown, Zuckerberg shed his skin to reveal something akin to a human
On Sunday, December 22, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his desire for America to take control of Greenland, saying it is an “absolute necessity.” The very next day, Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, said the autonomous island, part of the Danish kingdom, was not for sale. But Trump’s plan—like that of William H. Seward, who, as secretary of state, oversaw the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867—is not without tremendous geopolitical advantage to America.
It’s all about gaining greater American control over the Arctic, where Russia and China are cooperating to build a strong presence. Fears that such cooperation will extend to include North Korea and Iran are not unfounded.
In an op-ed published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman accused Denver Mayor Mike Johnston of not being truthful about how migrants, including Venezuelan gang members, ended up in Aurora. Coffman said he filed an open records request that shows Johnston used the cover of non-profits to quietly dump migrants in other cities. Johnston denied the allegations, stating, "The City of Denver never places anyone anywhere." Johnston said he was blindsided by the op-ed that included a headline claiming, "Denver's Mayor offloads immigrants on Aurora." I'm surprised by this because Mayor Coffman and I have a collaborative
Mark Zuckerberg Promises Less Censorship
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Mark Zuckerberg has announced major changes to Meta’s content moderation policies and practices on Facebook and Instagram, citing a desire to embrace free speech and avoid censorship. Zuckerberg’s changes begin with scrapping Facebook’s third-party “fact check” system which is notorious for its leftist bias.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, is undergoing a major overhaul of its content moderation practices. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the company will end its fact-checking program, plagued by severe leftist bias, and replace it with a community-driven system similar to X’s Community Notes. The changes come as a response to what Zuckerberg perceives as a “cultural tipping point”
Donald Trump Jr. is visiting Greenland just weeks after his father argued “ownership and control” of the autonomous island “is an absolute necessary” for U.S. national security.
"I am hearing that the people of Greenland are 'MAGA,'" Trump said on Truth Social, sharing a video. "My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!"
Bubonic plague is a severe infectious and potentially fatal disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is the most common form of plague and is primarily spread through the bite of infected fleas that typically live on rodents.
The disease, also known infamously as the Black Death, ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351, causing between 75 million and 200 million deaths (which included about 50% of the total population in Europe at the time). Those horrifying numbers still grip the imagination.
Now, in an intriguing development, COVID-19 vaccine scientists have developed a new shot that would protect against Yersinia pestis infections.
For the last 4 years, Democrats, their media, and the Biden administration have lied thousands of times about who was responsible for the violence on January 6, 2021.
We now know that three things had to happen in order for the violence to take place.
1.) Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser had to block the National Guard from protecting the US Capitol. Pelosi did this be banning the President Trump’s request for the National Guard troops at the Capitol that day. And, then on January 6, Nancy Pelosi stalled in calling in the National Guard until late in the afternoon.
2.) Capitol Police were ready, and eager
On Joe Biden’s first day in office, he signed a raft of executive orders, one of which we said was “almost entirely overlooked but could easily end up having the biggest impact.”
Turns out we were right.
The executive order – “Modernizing Regulatory Review” – would, we predicted, “unleash the regulatory state with a ferocity never before seen in this country.”
With this one executive order, Biden shows that he’s intent on giving regulators carte blanche to impose massive new rules on businesses and households, on virtually anything and everything they do, regardless of costs. There’s little else Biden has done so
NYC now most expensive US city to drive
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With the introduction of congestion pricing, New York City has become the most expensive US city to drive into — costing car drivers up to $27 in fees just to enter Manhattan.
That’s more than double the $10.25 maximum charge to enter San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge, or the $7.80 maximum Skyway charge to enter Chicago.
In NYC it now costs drivers of two-axle cars between $9 and $20 with an E-ZPass and $13.50 to $27 without to enter or drive into the “Congestion Zone,” as The Post’s map shows. Larger vehicles and trucks pay even more.
French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front far-right party, has died at the age of 96. In a statement to AFP, his family said he had died in the Paris region. "Jean-Marie Le Pen, surrounded by his family, was called to God this Tuesday at 12:00." During his career, Le Pen carved out a position in French politics and society as one of its most infamous politicians, who found support among voters for his rhetoric. With the ascent of his daughter Marine Le Pen, with whom he had several deep political disagreements, he introduced a political dynasty into French politics.
The Biden administration withdrew seven far-left proposed rules at the end of December, potentially due to receiving hundreds of thousands of critical public comments.
The withdrawals are being hailed as wins by conservatives, who have submitted comments against the rules, which would have compelled allowing male participation in girls sports, prohibited religious exemptions for birth control coverage, taken federal funding away from pregnancy resource centers, and more.
“On balance, withdrawing these rules is a win for everyone who submitted comments opposing them,” Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Rachel Morrison told The Daily Signal. “It means these bad policy proposals by the Biden administration will not go into effect.”
It’s Tuesday, January 7. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Coming up: the case for banning masks, the dangers of ignoring Islamist terrorism, and why “queer people” are buying guns.
But first: Trudeau resigns.
I am an American, but I still remember when Justin Trudeau was elected as prime minister in 2015. Young (by politicians’ standards), handsome (by regular ones), cosmopolitan, and liberal (he was a sort of French Canadian Obama), the legacy press adored him. A Washington Post headline from 2016 effused: “How Canada’s Prime Minister Became a Superhero,”
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Just for a change, our regular and increasingly obnoxious feature of "As I said twenty years ago..." is being pre-empted by the marginally less obnoxious feature of "As I said ten years ago..."
Exactly a decade ago - January 7th 2015 - two Muslim fanatics burst into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed a dozen people, including the bulk of the senior editorial staff and some of France's best known cartoonists.
(Snip) Throughout the very bad ten years for free speech that followed, I have thought often of Stéphane "Charb" Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo and a great cartoonist in the French style.
Is Jack Smith Breaking the Rules? Trump
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Two of Donald Trump’s former co-defendants, Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, are asking the court to halt Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a "Final Report" tied to the dismissed Florida prosecution.
In an emergency motion filed in the Southern District of Florida on Monday, the two argue that the report, if released, would violate court orders, infringe on their constitutional rights, and prejudice any potential future proceedings against them.
The Case Against the Report
Nauta and De Oliveira claim that Smith, whose appointment as Special Counsel was ruled unconstitutional by the court, lacks the authority to issue a report under federal regulations.
Donald J. Trump won the 2024 election. The results were certified, with Vice President Kamala Harris taking a front-row seat in making her defeat to Mr. Trump official. The capital got slammed by a snowstorm, but that didn’t stop this piece of business from getting done. It’s amazing how there was no drama partially due to the weather--no one was protesting in this--but also the general feeling that voters didn’t feel cheated (via Associated Press):
(Videos) Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings that unfolded Monday without violence or mayhem,
NYC now most expensive US city to drive
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With the introduction of congestion pricing, New York City has become the most expensive US city to drive into — costing car drivers up to $27 in fees just to enter Manhattan.
That’s more than double the $10.25 maximum charge to enter San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge, or the $7.80 maximum Skyway charge to enter Chicago.
In NYC it now costs drivers of two-axle cars between $9 and $20 with an E-ZPass and $13.50 to $27 without to enter or drive into the “Congestion Zone,” as The Post’s map shows. Larger vehicles and trucks pay even more.
MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill, also a former Democratic U.S. Senator, said on Monday’s “Deadline” that she felt “bitter” President-elect Donald Trump did not pay a “higher political price” for what he did on January 6.
McCaskill said, “Well, today was certainly a bittersweet day. And, candidly, I’m bitter. I mean, I’m bitter that a higher political price wasn’t paid for what Donald Trump did on January 6. Something is broken and we need to acknowledge that. And the other thing we have to keep front of mind, Nicolle, is that Donald Trump didn’t win 50 percent of the votes. This is an evenly divided country.
There is truly a bright side to every situation, the challenge is looking for it.
In the case of Liz Cheney and the January 6th Committee, conservative commentator Mollie Hemingway sees one positive thing that came out of all this.
While she acknowledges the seriousness of the situation and all of the injustices that were done, she is happy that Liz Cheney has moved her ‘toxic and neocon’ politics firmly into the Democrat party.
She made the comments while speaking to Maria Bartiromo on FOX Business.
A nonsensical, contradictory portrait of the Tesla Cybertruck bomber is emerging just days after the Army veteran supposedly killed himself before detonating his vehicle at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.
While the left has tried to frame 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger as a MAGA fanatic, new evidence reveals he was neither a Republican nor a conservative.
Rather, Livelsberger was a registered “No Labels” voter, Fox News reported. According to its website, the “No Labels” group claims to be a centrist, nonpartisan organization.
“We may be Democrats, Republicans, or independents, but we won’t mindlessly follow anyone,” the group wrote.