Posts on Saturday, January 18, 2025
Georgia House leader relents, allows senator
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arrested Thursday to return for bicameral sessions replies
State Sen. Colton Moore will now be allowed to attend future joint sessions of the Legislature after the north Georgia lawmaker was arrested Thursday for trying to do just that. House Speaker Jon Burns, a Newington Republican, banned Moore from entering the House chamber last year after Moore spoke ill of the late former GOP Speaker David Ralston while Ralston was being honored posthumously during a Senate session.
When President-elect Donald Trump takes the Oath of Office on Monday, it's likely that only one of his hand-picked national security team will have been confirmed by the U.S. Senate: Marco Rubio, Trump's pick for secretary of State. Republicans like Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) have been beating the drum for weeks about the importance of quickly confirming Trump's team to ensure there are no lapses or gaps in national security. He took to the Senate floor last week, noting that Trump had nominated his core team before Thanksgiving and, given his electoral mandate, must have his nominees in place when he takes office.
Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are now sending threatening letters to people and companies that donated to Trump’s inauguration.
This is from the same party that has spent the last eight years calling Trump a fascist.
You may also recall that they have no problem with contributions like this when they are made to to Democrats, just Trump.
Hot Air reported: Democrats Now Threatening People Who Donated to Trump’s Inauguration
Democrats are the political equivalent of mafia bosses who basically run protection rackets.
“Nice company you have there. Shame if something happened to it.”
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has re-hired Maher Bitar, a former White House staffer who spent his student years as a pro-Palestinian radical in Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and played a major role in the Biden administration.
Bitar’s new job is confirmed by Legistorm. He also previously worked for Schiff during the first impeachment effort against then-President Donald Trump, who will return to office on Monday.
As Breitbart News reported last year:
Maher Bitar, the White House Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC), was a radical pro-Palestinian activist and a leader within Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
The worst attorney general in history, Merrick Garland, exited the Justice Department Friday, we hope for the last time (unless he enters it again as a defendant). As this senior Biden regime corruptocrat walked out of the department that he did so much to wreck and politicize over the last four years, far-left Justice Department wonks actually lined the hallways to cheer and applaud him, as if his disgraceful tenure as attorney general were something that he and all Americans could look back upon with pride.
Steak ‘n Shake announced that they will switch completely from cooking in vegetable oil to “100% all-natural beef tallow” by the end of February. This announcement came after Steak ‘n Shake posted a poll to their X account Monday. Over 90% of the respondents expressed their desire for the chain to switch to a healthier cooking option.
TikTok has shut down.
The wildly popular social video app has gone dark in the U.S. as the divestiture bill is set to became law at midnight on Jan. 19.
When The Hollywood Reporter opened the app around 10:30 p.m. ET Saturday, a message popped up which read, “sorry TikTok isn’t available right now.”
“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now,” it continued. “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office Please stay tuned!”
There was “no excuse” for California not to be prepared for the wildfires engulfing Los Angeles County, Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), a former aerial firefighter, explained during a Friday interview on The Alex Marlow Show with Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.
Sheehy detailed the scope of the Los Angeles wildfires, the government’s role in the disaster, and the environmental policies that make firefighting more difficult.
Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL who founded the aerial fire fighting company Bridger Aerospace, explained that “the entire wildland fire community” has been sounding the alarm for years that “we are entering an era of complete unpreparedness” in fighting wildfires.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) introduced legislation this week that would prevent states from banning rifles and/or shotguns that are legal federally.
The legislation, the Second Amendment Guarantee Act (SAGA), would operate as a national preemption law, preventing states from banning firearms the federal government has not banned. Moreover, it would undo bans contained in laws like New York’s SAFE Act.
Rochester First quoted Tenney. “The SAGA Act nullifies New York’s unconstitutional SAFE Act and prevents other states from enacting laws that violate the Second Amendment,” she said. “This legislation upholds our country’s founding principle of protecting the rights of law-abiding Americans, even from liberal states with anti-gun policies.”
A California woman was overcome with joy when she realized her flock of sheep survived the devastating Palisades Fire.
A woman named Vanessa captured the moment on camera when she found several of her sheep in the aftermath of the fire, ParadePets.com reported on Wednesday.
In the clip, she is heard crying as her sheep approach her. “Hi honey. Hi baby,” she tells one of the animals. “The firemen have been feeding you,” she adds through her tears: [Tweet, video]
She then asks the sheep how they survived, then states, “Thank you, God. Thank you, God. I’ll come tomorrow and get you guys out of here, okay?
A report of an abduction in Florida led to the discovery of a U-Haul filled with 21 migrants, most of whom were Chinese citizens, on Friday.
A Cuban man, a Brazilian woman, and a man from Ecuador were also inside the rented moving van.
The report came from a security guard for a homeowners’ association in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables at approximately 9:35 a.m.
Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak Jr. told reporters during a press conference that the guard told an officer that a Toyota and a U-Haul truck were involved in the alleged abduction.
Fox News reports, “The vehicles were stopped by officers,
As one of his final disgusting moves in office, Joe Biden has granted clemency to two men convicted of killing Virginia Police Officer Allen Gibson.
Officer Gibson was shot and killed by Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson as he confronted them during a drug deal on April 25, 1998.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, “Upon confronting the suspects, a struggle ensued, and Officer Gibson was shot once in the abdomen with his own weapon. The round struck the edge of his bullet-proof vest. He was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his wound.”
“The prosecutor struck a plea bargain with the two suspects,
A modest defense of tariffs
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From publications like The Wall Street Journal, you might conclude that tariffs as an economics practice is in the same category as piracy, slavery and child labor, but worse.
Economists’ main complaint with tariffs is not that they’re destructive and immoral. Economists don’t make moral judgments, after all. There’s a reason they call their profession “the dismal science.”
No, economists’ main complaint about tariffs is that they’re stupid. “Tariffs are stupid” is Economics 101. It’s a given. It’s econo-dogma. The Pope may or may not be Catholic, but popular business publications preach from their printed and pixeled pulpits that tariffs are indisputably, irrevocably, universally, invariably stupid.
One of the better aspects of seeing the Biden administration in the national rear-view mirror is the return to some sanity for our service men and women. One aspect of this lies in a bill now in consideration, sponsored by, among others, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) that promises not only reinstatement but also back pay for American servicemen and women who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
A pair of Republicans are introducing legislation that would offer service members who were fired over the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate a chance to get their jobs back and receive back pay.
The incoming Trump administration is still staffing up key roles, replacing the Biden appointees with people who actually know what they're doing. That's an unalloyed good thing, but in this process, President-elect Trump is also bringing some justice to some people who were unfairly separated from the Armed Services. People like former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Matthew Lohmeier, who was discharged after criticizing the Space Force's "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion" (DEI) horse squeeze. LTC Lohmeier will be serving the Trump administration as Under-secretary of the Air Force.
President-elect Trump announced Friday that Matthew Lohmeier will serve as the under secretary of the Air Force.
WATCH: Hack MSNBC Host Blasts Voters for
'Giving Up on Democracy,' Embracing 'Authoritarianism' replies
'Giving Up on Democracy,' Embracing 'Authoritarianism' replies
Jonathan Capehart's resume reads like a who's who of left-wing quackery. The Washington Post associate editor, co-host of "Brooks and Capehart" on "PBS NewsHour," and host of "The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart" on MSNBC is as detached from political reality as they come.
The hack "journalist" clearly illustrated "all of the above" during the Biden era’s final installment of "Brooks and Capehart" on Friday.
After David Brooks, also a New York Times columnist, asserted that President-elect Donald Trump's decisive election win over Vice President Kamala Harris showed that President Joe Biden failed to protect democracy in America, Capehart went full-metal Hillary Clinton and Biden,
Who would have thought that Stephen Colbert would have it all figured out?
President Donald Trump really isn't focused on picking nominees to staff his administration, planning his transition, preparing for his inauguration, shaping up his day-one plans for the country, or any of that unimportant stuff. What he's really focused on dealing with is Colbert, his leftist Hollywood colleagues, and their small-minded hate for him. That's what he seemed to be saying in his last show this week, anyway.
Colbert bemoaned how it was his last show of the "Biden administration." "It's been a good run," he reminisced in a counterfactual way.
We're within hours of Donald Trump reassuming the White House and sending befuddled old Joe Biden off into the sunset - or back to Rehoboth Beach, not that Joe will know the difference. Our long national nightmare is drawing to a close, Donald Trump will carry out his historic non-consecutive second term, and we have a brilliant understudy in JD Vance - in fact, the younger generation of the GOP is full of stars, making us feel a little better about the country's future.
The occasion prompts one to take a look at President Trump's history - everything that has led us up to this moment.
There are plenty of 82-year-old men who are strong, vital, capable, and competent. My Dad was. Many men (and women) are. People age differently; some people age very well, remaining sharp and capable into the 80s, 90s, and even past the century mark.
Joe Biden is not one of those people. Throughout his presidency, his physical and mental decline was sadly apparent, as were Democrats' attempts to hide his deterioration from the public. His appearances were carefully managed, and his "interviews" were carefully scripted, until the one unscripted event he couldn't avoid finally made the decline too obvious to ignore: His one debate with Donald Trump,
It’s official: the Biden era is ending, and the return of Donald Trump to the White House is just 48 hours away. Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson posted a video on X with the caption, “Moving day in the West Wing.” As the outgoing president participates in the inauguration ceremonies, the White House staff undertakes a rapid transformation of the executive residence to accommodate the incoming first family. This operation is typically completed within a span of approximately five to six hours, according to abc News.
Rick Levine Leaves Office Claiming He’s
an Admiral, a Woman and Fires are Caused
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an Admiral, a Woman and Fires are Caused
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A man in a lunatic asylum shouted, “I am Napoleon.” Another man asked,, “How do you know?” The first patient said, “God told me!” Just then, a voice from another room shouted, “I did not!”
The very real state of contemporary identity politics. Dr. Rick Levine, who likes to go by ‘Rachel’ and ‘Admiral’, and was made Assistant Health Secretary and an admiral by the Biden administration (which still couldn’t make him a woman) was deemed worthy of a high-profile exit interview at Politico since he will now leave office to pursue whatever it is men in admiral and female drag do.
Scenes From the People's March
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As I described yesterday, the rebranded Women's March is taking place in Washington, DC and some other cities around the country today. The original Women's March brought out hundreds of thousands of protesters but this year's People's March has less lofty goals.
The march, two days before Inauguration Day, is a joint effort among civil rights, racial and social justice, and reproductive health organizations. Organizers hope that the march can inspire people who have who felt exhausted and resigned and that protesters can turn their passions, outrage and fears into collective opposition...
Mr. Trump goes to Washington — again.
President-elect Donald Trump started his official return to Washington Saturday afternoon to prepare for his historic inauguration.
The Republican, along with wife Melania and youngest son Barron, waved to a crowd of supporters as he boarded a US military airplane supplied by President Biden in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Photos) His daughter Ivanka, 43, and her husband Jared Kushner, 44, were spotted boarding that aircraft Saturday afternoon.
Economic “wreckage” is occurring across the globe as the result of Russian aggression, Erik Prince, veteran and founder of Unplugged Technologies, discussed during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, highlighting the Russian seizure of an American-owned business.
He described the war in Ukraine as a “very unnecessary slaughter that’s gone on for multiple years now,” calling for its end.“There is no possibility that it’s going to end in some armistice moment of Ukrainian victory. There are thousands of people, thousands of soldiers on both sides, dying daily and very unnecessarily,” he began, laying out the bigger picture globally.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to travel to China after he takes office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, quoting people familiar with the discussions.
Trump has expressed interest in traveling to China in his first 100 days in office, the report said, citing one of the people.
Trump's inauguration is Monday, and Chinese state news agencies said on Friday that Chinese Vice President Han Zheng will attend as Beijing stands ready to strengthen cooperation.
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, through their representatives, have discussed meeting in person,
Democrats are the political equivalent of mafia bosses who basically run protection rackets. (Snip) We saw a lot of this behavior over the past few years. One of the techniques used to bully social media companies into censorship was the use of open (and private) threats to use antitrust laws to break up Meta, Twitter, Google and all the tech companies if they did not comply with demands to suppress the speech of conservatives and, frankly, anybody including dissenting Democrats.
Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennett are trying the same thing by going after people and companies that contributed to the Trump inaugural.
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel announced his resignation just days before Trump’s return to the Oval Office. Werfel, who had three years left in his term, made the decision to step down on President-elect Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day as Trump has nominated former Missouri Congressman Billy Long as the new IRS Commissioner to revitalize the corrupt agency. “After significant introspection and consultation with others, I’ve determined the best way to support a successful transition is to depart the IRS on January 20, 2025,” Werfel said in a memo obtained by Wall Street Journal.
Girls came back from Christmas break at one Denver school to an unpleasant, woke New Year’s innovation: a girls’ bathroom transformed into an “all-gender” bathroom. Cue the pixie dust and gender unicorns.
Even as Congress just moved along legislation to ban biological males from female sports, radical leftists in schools across the country are doubling down on their groomer insanity. Administrators at East High School in Denver, according to Libs of TikTok, are among these woke wackos, and they decided to convert a girls' bathroom into an all-gender restroom.
One administrator is claiming that no specific agenda drove this move, but before wokeness took over schools,
The horns may not be as prominent. The tail might be a little shorter. But Donald Trump, alias "Orange Man Bad," alias "Satan," is not being seen as quite the devil he was portrayed as in 2017, when he entered the presidency for the first time.
Not only is Donald Trump, the man, more popular than he's ever been, but his policies generally receive high marks from the American people. He is receiving high marks for his handling of the transition, and Democrats should be forewarned that their obstructionist policies will not be seen in a favorable light by the American people.
Old Joe Biden is about to make his final shuffle out the door of the White House, and not a moment too soon. Inside his decomposing regime as it entered its final weekend, the mood was grim. Instead of feeling satisfaction at a job well done, regime wonks are clearing out their offices amid overriding feelings of dissatisfaction, loss, and failure. And for that, every patriotic American can be thankful.
NBC News reported Thursday that it’s “like a morgue” inside Old Joe’s White House and that longtime Democrat hatchet man James Carville was ready to shed bitter tears for what might have been:
South Fulton, Georgia Mayor Khalid Kamau — who once went by the name Mayor Khalid but apparently goes by the name Mayor Kobi now — likes to tell people he's "America's first Black Lives Matter organizer elected to public office." (Snip) But rather than donations, he's doing it with public funds. Specifically, he's doing it with $26,000 worth of public funds.
Members of the public in South Fulton, along with City Councilwoman Helen Willis, believe Kamau used a city-issued card to make what appears to be thousands of dollars of personal purchases between October and December 2024.
Mandarins vs Oligarchs
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The contrast between Donald Trump's cordial conversation with Barack Obama and Elon's wildman posts versus the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer provides a clue into the incoming admin's governing strategy. It's a combination of a stable element and a disruptive cutting edge. One part provides reassurance while the other stirs the pot. People in other governments and even the mainstream media have subconsciously apprehended this duality.
Pundits now say, "The Trump admin says wild things but what really matters is what they do and it's not so scary." That's the Good-Cop-Bad-Cop
President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday that he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the U.S. after he takes office Monday.
Trump said he hadn’t made a final decision but was considering a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell to a non-Chinese-buyer or face a U.S. ban. “I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate. We have to look at it carefully.
The 2025 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump is expected to be a far cry from the former president's inaugural events of 2017.
This year's inauguration, which takes place on Monday, January 20, will be filled with a flurry of balls, musical acts, and political conferences throughout the weekend.
Perhaps the most stark difference between Trump’s first inauguration eight years ago are the musicians willing to perform at the event - including country music star Carrie Underwood, Gavin DeGraw, Rascal Flatts, Billy Ray Cyrus and Jason Aldean.
Festivities kicked off Saturday ahead of the 47th presidential inauguration — as thousands of ticket holders scrambled to find a choice viewing spot after the last minute venue shake-up.
President-elect Trump is expected to arrive at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, and will host a Saturday night reception and fireworks display at his Virginia golf course. He’s scheduled to host a rally Sunday at the Capital One Arena, with performances by the Village People, Kid Rock and Billy Ray Cyrus.
The eleventh hour decision to move inauguration indoors upended plans for thousands of ticket holders who had prepared to brave the bitter cold, but will now be unable to squeeze into
The Vietnamese Communist Party has decided to embark on a bold path towards restructuring its state apparatus, following the global trend recently led by other countries. The new plan is inspired by the radical reforms implemented in Argentina by President Javier Milei, which seek to drastically reduce the size of the state and ease the bureaucratic burden.
Under the banner of "administrative reform", the Vietnamese government has announced its intention to reduce approximately 20% of government ministries and agencies, as well as the number of public employees.
When I found out that the New York Times was ending Charles Blow’s regular column, it was like the boot of truth had slammed onto my shoulders with a thunderous clap. [Snip]a bisexual man who has written two memoirs (too many memories for just one) is without question the worst writer I’ve ever made sure to read as part of my professional career.[Snip]shed no tears for Blow. On the same day it was announced he would no longer be a columnist for the Times, Harvard named him as its “inaugural fellow”for[Snip] “commitment to nurturing voices that challenge, inspire, and transform our understanding of the African American experience.”
On day two of his presidency, President-elect Donald Trump plans to ignite a massive immigration raid in Chicago, sending a strong message that his administration will take a hardline stance on illegal immigration. The mass deportation raid is part of Trump’s broader plan to enforce immigration laws aggressively and send those who entered the United States illegally back to their home countries. With growing concerns over border security and the impact of unchecked immigration on local communities, the move will be seen as a fulfillment of Trump’s promise to prioritize American citizens and uphold the rule of law.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) faced a monumental political chore: telling Joe Biden, the leader of his party, he needed to step down. It’s no small feat, and it’s not like the Democrats had much time. The June debate on CNN, where Biden got rolled by Donald Trump, has set off alarm bells. The cover-up of the president’s mental health got exposed—there was no pivoting away. Then, he caught COVID a few weeks later during a Nevada campaign stop. It reinforced the narrative that was now firmly entrenched in the minds of voters
The U.S. Senate Friday voted to advance a bill that would require the expansion of mass detention for immigrants charged or arrested for property crimes, setting it up to be one of the first measures signed into law by incoming President-elect Donald Trump. In a 61-35 procedural vote, 10 Senate Democrats joined with all Republicans to limit debate on S. 5, known as the Laken Riley Act, named after a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered by a man who immigration authorities say entered the country illegally and was previously charged with shoplifting.
Jeffrey Epstein was offered a sweetheart plea deal by federal prosecutors in return for incriminating information that would lead to President Trump’s impeachment, according to the late pedophile’s cellmate.[Snip]“He said, ‘They told me they’d let me plead out something small, and I’ll do just a couple of years in a camp, if I can give them something on Trump to get him impeached.’ “He says, but the government told me I don’t have to prove what I say about Trump, as long as Trump’s people can’t disprove it,” Tartaglione said
Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was always unconstitutional. I knew it. You knew it. Democrats knew it. Obama knew it. Yet somehow it always seemed to survive legal challenges. Well, finally, a federal appeals court has ruled that this Obama-era program is, in fact, unconstitutional—a timely gift for Trump mere days before he takes office.[Snip] Unfortunately, there’s a bit of a catch. According to the article, “the panel of judges kept DACA alive for current recipients and closed to new applicants.” The ruling is nevertheless long overdue.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reportedly "broke down in tears" during a private meeting discussing President-elect Donald Trump, a moment that many will see as a sign of the deep emotional and political grip Trump continues to have on Washington bureaucrats. His liberal meltdown shows Trump still has a hold over Democrats who feel threatened by him. While some may view Schumer’s emotional reaction as a sign of vulnerability, others may see it as a reflection of the left's fear about Trump's return to power
President Trump is assembling an administration stocked with prominent gay and lesbian Americans — defying hysterical Democratic rhetoric.
“When it comes to whether you’re gay or straight, black or white and all those markers others calculate — President Trump is decision blind. He bases his decision on the kind of job he knows you will do, period,” said Bill White, a top Trump fundraiser — who was tapped to serve as the US ambassador to Belgium.
Among the picks:
Scott Bessent, 62, treasury secretary. If confirmed, the hedge fund manager would be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history.
The “clicks” you hear around town are the sounds of “public” toilet locks snapping shut. The Great Loo Lockdown is gathering steam as businesses protect their bathrooms, and their customers, from the insane, incontinent souls who move in and leave them unusable and disgusting for everyone else.
Starbucks is the latest chain to announce that its locations nationwide are henceforth off-limits to loiterers, drug users, panhandlers, and bathroom vandals.
Restricting toilets that were previously truly “public” is typically done in the name of providing better service to paying customers.
Soon, open border advocates will step up their agitprop against the new Trump Administration for alleged migrant family separation at the U.S. border. A number of broader points about the family separation phenomenon are worth remembering.
The overwhelming majority of migrant family separation decisions are not made at the U.S. border by DHS. They are made by parents or others — including cartel criminals — in home countries.
Daily, thousands of border violators abandon some or all of their children in their home countries to make the trek into the U.S. illegally to find work.
How much more damage can President Biden do to this country on his final days in office?
A lot.
Before dawn Friday morning, the octogenarian Democrat proudly pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of a record number of individuals the far-left hailed as guilty of “non-violent” drug offenses.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, or even a Republican, to see that many of these hardened criminals are anything but peaceful.
Take, for example, Dwayne Appling, 37, of Illinois.
He’s just one of the thousands of soon-to-be-freed drug traffickers, an armed and dangerous career criminal and gang banger.
New polling from the New York Times shows that Americans, regardless of political party, agree with Republican positions on numerous transgender issues, including gender transitions for minors and sports inclusion.
The New York Times/Ipsos Survey, which was conducted earlier this month, found that a stunning 79% of Americans believe males should not be permitted to participate in female sports, even if the athlete identifies as transgender.
“Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female
Trump aides are calling it "Shock and Awe." There will be 100 executive orders (EO) and other executive actions starting Monday, Jan. 20.
Indeed, most executive actions aren't going to "shock" a lot of people. Trump has talked about all of them in the campaign and during his years in exile since his defeat in 2020. The scope of some of the EOs is broader than some on the left have been predicting, and narrower than some on the right were hoping for.
The audacious nature of the 100 EOs masks the probability that almost all of them will be challenged in federal court. Even if the challenges are eventually unsuccessful, some
WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defense alliance.
A ship carrying parts of a mechanized infantry battalion arrived early Saturday in the port of Riga, the Latvian capital, escorted by the Swedish air force and units from the Swedish and Latvian navies, the Swedish armed forces said in a statement.
Latvia borders Russia to its east and Russia ally Belarus to its southeast. Tensions are high across Central Europe due to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Every intellectually honest person knows exactly what is going on here, including Judge Aileen Cannon.
Judge Cannon had previously blocked the Jack Smith effort to release his politically framed report on the Trump Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. (snip) DOJ is still prosecuting other defendants in the case in her courtroom. A release of this report, even to congress, would be tantamount to the DOJ releasing public information negative toward the accused who have not even stood trial yet.
(sni[p) the DOJ tried to argue they should be allowed to release the report to congress. Judge Aileen Cannon was not buying their story
Which is the bigger cover-up—Biden’s frailties or Bidenflation?
The so-called experts, Nobel laureates, and leftist media elites have the chutzpah to hoodwink Americans into believing inflation is ‘under control’ just because CPI dropped from its 9.1% peak under Biden. But ask any hardworking family, and they’ll tell you the truth—prices didn’t go back down; they just stopped rising as fast. Americans are still hurting and will continue to hurt in the coming years. That’s the disconnect. Wages haven’t kept up, grocery bills are still painful, and homeownership is a pipe dream for millions. While the experts cheered a “cooling” inflation rate, voters felt the real cost of Bidenflation
That’s what our purportedly most astute and seasoned political commentators would have you believe about the ceasefire agreement that was reached just a day or so ago between Hamas and Israel.
These pearl-clutching, handwringing, anxiety filled savants have now become 2025’s Doomsday Squad. But it sounds to me like they all participated in the same Zoom session, so similar are their dire messages and predictions.
And so wrong-headed!
The esteemed Harvard Law professor emeritus, Alan Dershowitz, opined that “it wasn’t a deal; it was a crime.”
“This was not the result of a negotiation between equals. If an armed robber puts a gun to your head and says, ‘your money or your life,’
“Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe?” the speaker asked. “I didn’t do that,” Biden replied. He had, three weeks earlier—but he wasn’t aware of what he’d signed.
The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has had a front-row seat to the intellectual decline of Joe Biden. On Friday, in an interview with Bari Weiss for Honestly, Johnson shared an anecdote that demonstrated just how checked out the outgoing president has been. During the third week of January 2024, Johnson was invited to a meeting at the Oval Office with several of Biden’s top national security advisers and cabinet chiefs.
Michelle Obama ‘checked out’ of DC
life with Barack, as couple try to quiet
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life with Barack, as couple try to quiet
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After weeks of speculation that the most famous marriage in politics was in trouble, Barack Obama posted a fawning tribute to the “love of his life,” Michelle Obama, in honor of her 61st birthday on Friday.
“You fill every room with warmth, wisdom, humor, and grace — and you look good doing it. I’m so lucky to be able to take on life’s adventures with you. Love you!,” he wrote on Instagram, beneath a photo of the casually-dressed couple holding hands over dinner.
“Love you, honey!” his wife quickly replied.
On Friday, the Senate voted to clear another hurdle when it comes to passing the Laken Riley Act. By a vote of 61-35, with 60 votes needed, the chamber voted to end debate on the bill. All 51 Republicans who voted did so to advance the bill, with 10 Democrats joining. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) did not vote, although he is a cosponsor of the bill and in strong support. Democrats voting to advance the bill included Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona, Jon Ossoff of Arizona, Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Jeanne Shaheen and
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel will go into effect in less than 24 hours, said Qatar’s foreign ministry on Saturday.
In a post on X, Qatar’s foreign minister Majid al-Ansari, said the ceasefire will start at 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) Sunday. He advised people to exercise caution when the agreement goes into effect and wait for directions from officials.
Early Saturday morning, Israel’s Cabinet approved the deal for a ceasefire in Gaza that would release dozens of hostages and pause the 15-month war with Hamas, bringing the sides a step closer to ending their deadliest and most destructive fighting ever.
A lot of us Catholics have been weirded out by President Trump's closeness to Catholic culture. We couldn't figure out where it came from. Last year, he wished the Virgin Mary a happy birthday. He tweeted an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He issued praise for All Saints Day. (Snip) It all began a few years ago when Father Mann was walking through a Queens cemetery and came upon the gravesite of Trump’s parents and grandparents.
“It was slightly overgrown,” Father Mann recalled. “I thought this shouldn’t be. This is a historic site. So, I went and bought a weed whacker and some decorations and fixed up the plot.
The US Treasury Department will start taking "extraordinary measures" next week to avoid risking a default on government debt, Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday, days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
With the government reaching its borrowing limit, the department would start making the moves on Tuesday, the day after the inauguration, Yellen said in a letter to congressional leaders. That will mean Trump's administration has to grapple immediately with the issue of the debt ceiling. In the past, Congress has routinely voted to lift this bar, but that tool has become a contentious issue, with Republican budget hawks calling for drastic spending reductions instead.
President-elect Donald Trump held a "very good" phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday, discussing critical issues like the ongoing fentanyl crisis and the U.S. ban on TikTok. As the United States grapples with skyrocketing drug overdoses and concerns over Chinese-backed apps infiltrating American society, Trump’s direct approach to these matters stands in stark contrast to the lackluster responses from the current administration. By engaging with Xi, Trump signals his commitment to holding China accountable while safeguarding American interests, especially as the nation faces challenges that impact both national security and public health.
Judge Aileen Cannon during a hearing on Friday appeared skeptical of Merrick Garland’s plan to give Jack Smith’s Volume 2 final report on Trump’s classified documents case to Congress.
Cannon repeatedly asked DOJ lawyers why they needed to show the classified documents report to lawmakers. The Judge also asked if the final report was safeguarded from being leaked to the public.
“Why is there such urgency to disclose this to Congress right now, prior to the conclusion of the criminal proceeding — which would seem to be the ordinary course?” Cannon asked DOJ attorney Elizabeth Shapiro,
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass got into office promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and promising to tackle homelessness and pollution — but she never promised to drain the swamp. Now she stands accused of adding to it, through “legalized corruption” and a number of eye opening scandals which have come to light after renewed scrutiny in the last two weeks following the revelation Bass and her cronies defunded the Los Angeles Fire Department by $17 million, contributing to them being underprepared to tackle the wildfires currently destroying the city.
Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Kristin Crowley, the first woman and openly gay person to serve in the position, is facing calls to resign as the destructive wildfires rage on in Southern California.
Crowley has found herself in an awkward situation with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D), who has also received demands to step down, after she said the city “failed” her department and claimed that budget cuts “limited” their ability to respond to “large-scale events.” The fire chief, who was appointed by then-Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) in 2022, then “disappeared” into a closed-door meeting in Bass’s office last Friday “for so long that they missed
Washington— President Biden and his aides have spent their final days in office announcing 32 executive actions — on topics from immigration to offshore drilling — aimed at tying up President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
The lame-duck 82-year-old’s flurry of late moves to try to make himself a hero to Democrats and obstruct his successor’s agenda include: (Photo) Deportation protection
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Granting Temporary Protected Status to almost 1 million people, meaning they are protected from deportation and entitled to work permits. The action, decreed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Jan. 10, shields 234,000 Salvadorans, 1,900 Sudanese, 104,000 Ukrainians and 600,000 Venezuelans for a period of 18 months.
As relieved as I am that Trump will take the helm of the nation on Monday, I will watch Joe Biden wander off into the sunset and the sand dunes of Rehoboth Beach with a slight pang of regret.Hear me out: Joe Biden was a one-man blooper reel. He was a never-ending source of fodder for columnists and humorists and never failed to amaze, baffle, and sometimes even terrify those of us tasked with chronicling and commenting on the last four years. Potential senility aside, were it not for the fact that he is a mean-spirited, corrupt, avaricious, and vindictive old man who felt entitled
A group of California firefighters stopped an alleged looter from robbing a burned-down house and jetting off with an Emmy Award that had miraculously survived the fiery carnage of the Eaton Fire.
Smoke eaters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department were working in a burned-down Altadena neighborhood on Thursday when they came across two suspicious people who were leaving one of the properties.
One of the firefighters confronted a woman – wearing a dark sweatshirt and skirt over sweatpants – carrying possessions from the home including the prestigious award.
New York Times Berlin bureau chief Katrin Bennhold made Tuesday’s front page with a “News Analysis” titled “MAGA Forces Push Message Across Europe.” Bennhold’s reporting focuses solely on the dangers of the “far right” in Germany, or at least groups and personalities which she identifies as such.
There were eleven uses of "far right" in this article, and no "far left." This time, Bennhold’s designated villain out to disrupt the world is well-known to Americans: space entrepreneur and Trump pal Elon Musk.
For the last decade or more, Europe’s governments have been trying to resist covert influence operations from adversaries like Russia and China.
This was all so predictable. It was clear years ago that Biden's decline was worse than the White House wanted to admit. And as the evidence kept adding up, it was clear the people around him were lying.
As Chris Cillizza admitted last month, the White House was working very hard to discourage the media from looking into this and for the most part the media just went along with it.
But in addition it was also clear that, at some point in the not so distant future, the truth would come out. And so it has. Today the NY Times published another now it can be told story
Fact check: True. And false in another way, or at least incomplete.
The Los Angeles Times may not have gotten to the Dem Demo Dystopia story first; we've covered it here from other sources, for instance. However, it takes on more significance in light of the distillation of progressive Democrat governance in the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles. People had already begun fleeing California in droves over the last few years, with the Golden State holding U-Haul's top exit position for five years running.
The LAT catches up to the political implications for progressives in this Great Migration, or better put, a national flight to sanity: