Posts on Thursday, January 30, 2025
President Trump confirmed Thursday that there are no survivors after an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided in the air over Washington, DC, Wednesday night. The search-and-rescue operation became a recovery mission in the early morning hours, officials said.
The flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with the military chopper while approaching Runaway 33 at Reagan National airport around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.(Photos) There were 64 people aboard American Flight 5324, with 28 bodies recovered from the river so far, officials said Thursday afternoon. The bodies of all three soldiers who were on the Army helicopter had been recovered as well.
Put your pith helmets, body armor, and sandals with toe covers on.
The unthinkable happened in Germany yesterday, and it has drawn the Gorgon from her lair, breathing fire.
I mean - holy smokes.
I cannot get over even this picture alone, less mind the seismic goings-on.
Alice Weidel, Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader, as she clasps the hand of Christian Democrat Union (CDU) head with a YUGE grin on her face. Freidrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had alluded to what he had in mind after the horrific attacks just a few days ago.
...Christian Democrat (CDU) leader Merz is rattled enough to know which way the populist wind is blowing
President Donald Trump on Thursday appointed Christopher Rocheleau, who has a 22-year career in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as the agency’s acting administrator. Trump announced Rocheleau’s appointment during a White House briefing, where the president addressed the horrific crash between a Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines flight 5342 over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, leaving 67 dead and no survivors.
The Senate confirmed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as Interior secretary Thursday in a 79-18 vote, with the majority of Senate Democrats joining every Republican in the chamber.
Burgum, a one-time candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination-turned-visible Trump campaign surrogate, has been among the president’s least controversial nominees. He advanced out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week in a nearly unanimous vote, with only Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) voting against the nomination.
Wyden, the mastermind of the renewable energy tax credits within the Inflation Reduction Act, cited President Trump’s opposition to the cuts
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, best known for the song "As Tears Go By," has died. She was 78.
"It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull. Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed," a spokesperson for Faithfull confirmed to Fox News Digital.
The British pop star and muse inspired and helped write a few of The Rolling Stones' greatest songs. Her breakthrough hit, 1964's "As Tears Go By," was one of the first songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Justice Jackson punches out her frustrations
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WASHINGTON — One of three liberals on a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she has found an outlet for the frustration that can result from being in the minority on the nation’s highest court: boxing. “I take boxing lessons,” Jackson said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press at the Supreme Court. “And I think that helps you to really get out any frustrations.” There have been more than a few dissents for the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, including the end of affirmative action in college admissions and a grant of
Tulsi Gabbard took Washington by storm as she exposed the rot of deep state corruption, slamming 51 intelligence officials, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party for their blatant weaponization of America’s intelligence agencies.
As she stood before the Senate Intelligence Committee for her confirmation hearing as President Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard delivered a devastating indictment of the intelligence community’s failures and abuses over the last two decades.
Gabbard, a combat veteran and former Democrat presidential candidate, wasted no time calling out the politically motivated intelligence fiascos
The much-anticipated showdown between President Trump’s FBI Director nominee, Kash Patel, and crooked Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) became an easy rout for Patel as Schiff face-planted over a simple word.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, Patel sat down this morning to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation beginning at 9:30 A.M. Patel’s impressive qualifications include several high-ranking positions in the intelligence and defense communities, such as Department of Defense Chief of Staff and Deputy Director of National Intelligence under President Trump.
DNI Nominee Tulsi Gabbard Lays Out Weaponization
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of Biden Admin: Trust Is at an ‘All-Time Low’ replies
Trust in the intelligence community is at an “all-time low,” Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), said during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
“I’m honored and grateful to President Trump for his trust and confidence in nominating me to serve our country as the Director of National Intelligence at a time when trust in the intelligence community, unfortunately, is at an all-time low,” Gabbard said during her opening statement, citing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who “admitted a few years ago, quote, ‘You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.'”
Connecticut Bureaucrat Charged With Fraudulently
Changing Republican Voter Registrations
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Changing Republican Voter Registrations
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A Connecticut state mental health worker has been accused of fraudulently changing Republican voter registrations to Democrat following a September voting event.
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services employee Arlanda Brantley, 57, faces “five counts each of Fraudulent Registration and Primary or Enrollment Violations,”(snip)
After a “national voting event” at the Western Connecticut Mental Health Network in Torrington, Connecticut on Sept. 17, Brantley allegedly changed “several” voter registration cards with an affiliation of “Republican” or “No” to “Democrat” “without the consent of the registrants.” Police said she then submitted the cards to the Torrington Registrar of Voters clerk,(snip)
Officials noticed white out on the voter registrations,
Democratic California Rep. Norma Torres is doubling down on holding President Donald Trump responsible for contributing to the fatal aircraft collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Wednesday night despite the president being in office for just over a week.
Torres fired off two tweets late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning appearing to attribute the aviation disaster to executive actions Trump took related to a federal hiring freeze and firing several agency heads. There is no indication that the president’s actions contributed to the midair collision, a White House official told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Trump administration notably exempted air traffic controllers from the president’s hiring freeze,
While talking to the press in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that 25 percent tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico could be coming as soon as Saturday. The president is also considering the same tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil.
President Donald Trump said his 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are coming on Saturday, but he’s still considering whether to include oil from those countries as part of his import taxes.
“We may or may not,” Trump told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office about tariffing oil from Canada and Mexico. “We’re going to make that determination probably tonight.”
President Donald Trump's nominee to become the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, was on Capitol Hill Thursday for his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Public trust in the FBI is low. Only 41% of the American public thinks the FBI is doing a good job. This is the lowest rating in a century. It’s no surprise that public trust has declined in an institution that has been plagued by abuse, a lack of transparency, and the weaponization of law enforcement. Nevertheless, the FBI remains an important, even indispensable institution for law and order in our country," Chairman Chuck Grassley
President Donald Trump slammed CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins at a press conference Thursday during a testy exchange after she pressed him about “blaming” Democrats and diversity and equity and inclusion policies for the Washington, DC, air crash.
“We don’t yet know the names of the 67 people [who] were killed, and you are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and air traffic control, and seemingly the member of the US military who was flying the Black Hawk helicopter,” Collins said. “Don’t you think you’re getting ahead of the investigation right now?”
(Photo) “I don’t think so at all,” Trump shot back. “I don’t think the names of the people —
Failed Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz has a bad case of sour grapes.
Talking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Waltz lamented the “pure hell” of losing bigly in the election to President Donald J. Trump.
And while that sentiment isn’t surprising his attempt to keep alive one of the most ridiculous conspiracies of all time was.
“We spent three days debating trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute… Of course he did.”
Good grief, we’re back to this?! [Tweet, video]
The good news is, Walz’s empathic “of course he did” could land him in legal trouble which might squash the Dem narrative for once and for all.
Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security chief, Kristi Noem, has frozen government funding for the progressive groups that aid migrants, pending a 90-day review.
Appearing on Fox News’s Will Cain Show on Wednesday, Noem said all grant funding “abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration” has been stopped.“It’s amazing to me the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent by the federal government that has been sent to NGOs to facilitate this invasion of our country,” Noem told Cain.
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The person who was arrested Monday for allegedly plotting to kill Trump officials has been identified as 24-year-old Ryan Michael English, who prefers to go by Riley Jane.
WWLP reported that English was arrested Monday after traveling from Massachusetts to D.C., allegedly to kill some high-ranking Republicans.English’s alleged would-be targets included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The Associated Press noted that English “was arrested at the Capitol after he approached police and said he had knives and Molotov cocktails in his possession and wanted to surrender, according to a Capitol police officer’s affidavit.”
President Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Thursday.
Thursday’s confirmation hearing before the HELP Committee comes one day after Senators on the Finance Committee grilled RFK Jr.
Once again, the confirmation hearing devolved into chaos as Democrat Senators showboated and asked RFK Jr. ridiculous questions.
RFK Jr. did a great job hitting back at Democrat Senator Angela Alsobrooks (MD) during a testy exchange.
Investigators are going to have to look at every possible reason a military Black Hawk Helicopter could crash into an American Airlines passenger jet landing at Reagan Airport in D.C.
The calls from air traffic controllers for the helicopter to “return to base” raise serious concerns over what may have caused this crash.
We even pulled the altitude and flight tracking data that revealed sharp zig-zags and a sudden drop in altitude moments before the crash. Here are the possible reasons behind the disaster:
Mechanical Failure
Air Traffic Control Failure
Human Error
Nefarious Action
Pilot Suicide
Computer Hack
A preliminary FAA report indicated that staffing at the DCA Air Traffic Control tower was “not normal” at the time of the helicopter-plane collision.
According to NBC News, at the time of the collision, one controller was overseeing both helicopter and airplane traffic.
Typically, one controller focuses on helicopter activity.
An American Airlines flight carrying approximately 64 souls collided with a Blackhawk helicopter near Washington D.C. Reagan National Airport (DCA) late Wednesday evening.
Watch out, Nancy. Accountability is coming!
Senator Ted Cruz questioned Kash Patel on Thursday during his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to protect the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Finally, the truth is coming out!
Senator Ted Cruz: What were you doing on that day?
Kash Patel: On that day, specifically, responding to, preparing to mobilize and employ the National Guard once we got the lawful request from the local governing authority, which was the mayor of DC and the speaker of the House.
Senator Ted Cruz: Now, how many days in advance were you working to prepare the Department of Defense
RFK Jr. Torches Bernie Sanders for Screaming
'Health Care for All' While Taking Big
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'Health Care for All' While Taking Big
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On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Robert F. Kennedy sat before yet another Senate committee to answer questions, and it went about as well as expected. When Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, he was questioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who went on a wild rant about whether he supported onesies with an anti-vax message on them. It was comedy gold.
Sadly, Sanders also sits on the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee, so he had a chance to dig deeper into the mystery of the onesies and other matters. Broken Record Bernie wants universal healthcare,
Senior FBI leaders promoted by former
Director Wray have been demoted or reassigned,
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Director Wray have been demoted or reassigned,
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At least five senior FBI leaders who were promoted by former Director Christopher Wray have been notified they are being demoted or reassigned, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department across the street from the FBI headquarters.
The senior officials are at the executive assistant director level and include those who oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations, the sources told CNN. The leadership changes have drawn internal consternation, in part because these officials didn’t have anything to do with prosecutions of Donald Trump, which have been the focus of the president’s ire.
Teen figure skaters from Boston, their moms and two Russian-born former world champions are among the dozens of passengers feared dead after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, DC, Wednesday night.
The identities of the 60 passengers and four crew members on board began to emerge Thursday as authorities revealed there were no survivors of the fiery tragedy that was shaping up to be the deadliest commercial crash in the US in more than two decades.
Those who boarded the flight, which went down over the frigid Potomac River late Wednesday, included at least 14 members of the US Figure Skating team, officials said.
With hours left to go as of this writing, Kash Patel's confirmation hearing has already started with a bang. All but certain to become the next FBI director, Patel lit into the weaponization of government that targeted him and others under the Biden administration before cooking Democrats during their initial questioning. Sen. Chuck Grassley began the hearing by reading some never-before-released emails exposing the FBI's malfeasance over the last several years. (X Video) What Grassley is referring to is the origins of "Artic Frost," which was the codename given to the government's attempts to prosecute Donald Trump for supposed election-related crimes.
President Donald J. Trump addressed the nation after the horrific air disaster at Reagan National Airport last night. Around 9 pm EST, an American Airlines flight from Kansas collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter on approach. There are no survivors. The 64 people on board and the three soldiers in the chopper were all killed. It’s an unimaginable tragedy, though the liberal media was waiting in the tall grass to attack the president. He was waiting for them. The swipes at DEI programs, though, will trigger the most in the news media, who, if they did their job, would discover that Trump is right.
President Donald Trump's nominee for the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, had her confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence.
Right out of the gate, she got some great assistance from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who blew up the Democrat smears against her, specifically calling out Hillary Clinton for her comments. He explained that Gabbard has served in the military for more than 20 years, with multiple combat tours. [Tweet, video]
"She has undergone five FBI background checks. I spent more than two hours last week reviewing the latest. Putting eyes on more than 300 pages. It's clean as a whistle." [....]
In the aftermath of the tragic mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., authorities have identified Ryan O’Hara as the crew chief aboard the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.
The collision occurred on Wednesday around 9:00 PM local time, involving a military helicopter with three soldiers and a civilian airplane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members. (Snip) Ryan O’Hara, a 2014 graduate of Parkview High School in Lilburn, Georgia, has been identified as the crew chief of the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in the collision. (Photo) O’Hara was an active member of the school’s Marine Corps Junior ROTC program during his time there. He is survived by his wife and
Senate Dems Know They Have One Job—Getting
Video of Themselves Yelling at RFK Jr.
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Video of Themselves Yelling at RFK Jr.
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This week, Senate confirmation hearings continue for several of President Trump's Cabinet nominees. Most Americans on both sides of the aisle agree that any President, Republican or Democrat, is entitled to have the people he wants in his Cabinet. But for Senate Democrats who are still reeling from the butt-whoopin' they took in November at the hands of the man they tried for so long to imprison with their various impeachment and legal antics, Trump Derangement Syndrome appears to be overtaking them at every turn. While Senate confirmation hearings should be serious events, the behavior of Senate Democrats is anything but.
Trump's Evolution
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Recently, I communicated thoughts to a friend on the evolution of Trump and dealing with “Berkeley Liberals”
The Achilles heel for the left is their inability to separate policies from personalities. The Left loved Trump when he was a New York real estate developer with all his panache and bravado and being somewhat of a playboy, all the while donating to politicians. When Trump became a Republican candidate his brash/rude/semi-weisenheimer traits made him an easy target for criticism. His rude insults (e.g. "Little Marco" "Look at That Face” re Carly Fiorina) may have carried the day to get the nomination but damaged his reputation as a bully.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to be Health and Human Services secretary, took the hot seat for the second day in a row on Thursday, this time appearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, where he was peppered with questions right off the bat about his position on autism and vaccines.
After listening to Democrats batter Kennedy on this issue, Sen. Rand Paul used his time to advocate for medical freedom and humility in science.
“The discussion over vaccines is so oversimplified and dumbed down that we never really get to real truths and it’s why people up here are so separated
Bakari Sellers, a top CNN commentator, on Wednesday apologized and deleted a post blaming President Donald Trump for the horrific plane crash in Washington, DC.
A mid-air collision between a regional American Airlines jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter late Wednesday night close to the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport reportedly left no survivors.As Americans were reeling in the aftermath of the crash, one CNN commentator, Sellers, swiftly took to X, formerly Twitter, to blame Trump for the tragedy. “Eight days ago,” Sellers wrote, referring to Trump’s recent inauguration to become president. At the time, it remained unclear what caused the crash.
WASHINGTON — President Trump used a White House briefing about Wednesday night’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter over the Potomac River to rail against the Obama and Biden administrations for allegedly lowering standards for air traffic controllers through diversity programs.
The disaster resulted in 64 deaths aboard the American Airlines flight attempting to land at Reagan Washington National Airport from Wichita, Kan., and also killed three Army Black Hawk helicopter crew members.
“I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary. You remember that, only the highest aptitude, the highest intellect, and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers,”
Good Lord, Tim Walz Is Insane
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I realize you probably haven’t given Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and former running mate of Kamala Harris, much thought since the election. Hell, most people didn’t give him much thought during the election either. He’s crazy. More than that, he’s incoherent, which is a side-effect of literal crazy. His recent appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show demonstrated not only this, but just how awful the judgment of Kamala Harris was to have picked him in the first place. Bullet-dodged, America.
To understand how the nominee of a major political party could pick a running mate whose communications skills consist of vomiting up a Jumble,
We thought we would never get tired of all the winning, but we had no idea. Tired? We have more energy than the freshly unleashed Permian Basin. In a mere ten days, our new president has comprehensively repudiated everything the left has tried to build over the last half-century. He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored – appropriately since the Democrats are almost as mad about us deporting their illegal alien serfs as they were about us freeing their slaves. He has destroyed the Potemkin village to save it. Donald Trump has not only gotten inside their OODA Loop
Jontay Porter may not have been the only NBA player involved in manipulating performance for sports bettors.
Federal investigators are looking into unusual betting activity relating to current Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier during his time with the Hornets, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The 30-year-old Rozier left a March 23, 2023 game after less than 10 minutes played against the New Orleans Pelicans and received a strong amount of betting interest on his Unders for the game. Rozier has not been accused of a crime or wrongdoing, the report said.
Democrats have been downright embarrassing themselves during Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing for FBI Director.
So far, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has had the most absurd exchange with the nominee when he asked about potential action against FBI agents who aided in special counsel Jack Smith’s politically motivated investigation into President Donald Trump.
The senator began by referencing the news that the Justice Department fired prosecutors involved in the effort to convict Trump over January 6 and the mishandling of classified documents.
“You’ve committed that the FBI will not be politicized,” Blumenthal began. “Here’s your first test.
Donald J. Trump’s 2024 electoral victory was so decisive that, for the first time since 1988, congressional Democrats did not challenge the certification of a Republican presidential victory. Trump won the popular vote, swept the swing states, and ran ahead of down ballot Republicans. Unquestionably, he has a mandate to govern. That mandate belongs to the MAGA agenda, not to conventional Republican priorities.
President Trump best defined his political mission in his 2016 address at the Republican National Convention: “The most important difference between our plan and that of our opponents, is that our plan will put America First. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.
As of Wednesday evening, at least three fires have broken out in Western North Carolina in areas that were decimated by Hurricane Helene, according to Fox Weather. The fires are largely located in McDowell County, which is just northeast of Asheville. [Tweet, video]
So far, there have been no injuries, though numerous outbuildings have been destroyed. Many of the homes in the area were already destroyed in late September when Helene hit the region. Even so, evacuation orders were in place, and a shelter has been opened at a local Baptist church. [Tweet, video]
CBS reported that nearly 250 acres had burned
U.S. senators’ private concerns with Tulsi Gabbard’s history of unconventional national security views burst into public view on Thursday when the director of intelligence nominee — a former Hawaii congresswoman, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve — sat before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a tense confirmation hearing that did little to dispel the narrative that her path to confirmation remains narrow.
Senate Republicans have a 53-seat majority this Congress and Vice President JD Vance can break a tie in a confirmation vote on the floor. But she must first clear the Senate Intelligence Committee, where Republicans have a one-seat majority and a single defection
Trump’s FBI Director pick Kash Patel promised to protect other Americans from the same weaponization of government that targeted him so unjustly.
During his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Patel fearlessly affirmed that he knows from personal experience what it is like to have the “full weight of the United States government barreling down on you.” If he is confirmed as director of the FBI, he vowed, that will certainly change. No wonder FBI whistleblowers support his nomination. [Tweet, video]
Kash’s promise is especially encouraging news as a number of political prisoners of the Biden administration, J6 prisoners who received a pardon or a sentence commutation from Donald Trump
Mere days into the job, Pete Hegseth has already impressed me as Secretary of Defense.
Under the Biden administration, wokeness was prioritized over military readiness, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's remarks concerning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) signal a refreshing shift back to meritocracy, unity, and lethality in our military. During his appearance on "Jesse Watters Primetime," he was asked about the changes being made in the Department of Defense.
“What's happening with DEI?” asked Watters. “How's that going at the Defense Department?”
Hegseth was unapologetic: “DEI is not going well at the Defense Department because it’s dead.”
Boom! After years of DEI initiatives weakening our military,
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, sat for a confirmation hearing Thursday where lawmakers focused on high profile instances of FBI misconduct and Patel’s inflammatory political commentary.
Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) brought up an FBI memo listing Catholic parishes the bureau believed harbored extremists and could offer opportunities for recruiting informants.
The memo, which was leaked by former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin, targeted “Radical Traditionalist Catholics” and was authored by the FBI’s Richmond field office. Appearing before Congress in July of last year, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray refused to tell Representative Jim Jordan who specifically authored the memo.
The Big Guy’s Treason
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To me it was obvious from the start that claims about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, although pushed intensely and for a very long time by the leftist media, were nothing but a gigantic hoax. Joe Biden was the head of a lucrative crime family – even if the Democratic Party, the legacy media, the CIA, FBI, IRS, Department of Justice and even if 51 high-ranking veterans of intelligence organizations asserted that Hunter Biden’s laptop bore all the marks of Russian disinformation. Seeing through these bald-faced lies wasn’t brain surgery.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that many bishops and cardinals favor President Donald Trump but are afraid to say it publicly. In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the former head of the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith said that he “personally prefer[s] Donald Trump to Joe Biden.” [Snip] He added that “many cardinals and bishops think like me, even if they are afraid to say so. And in the United States, the percentage is even higher.” [Snip] “And Trump will help the Church because he represents natural law values: the inviolability of life, the importance of marriage, religious freedom.”
Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass made her big play this week to rebuild Pacific Palisades in her own image. Needless to say, it won't be pretty.
During what the Los Angeles Times called "a freewheeling half-hour walking tour in Pacific Palisades," with reporters and "chief recovery officer" and former LAPD commissioner Steve Soboroff, Bass announced that the city plans to hire "an outside consultant to handle a significant rebuilding contract for areas devastated by this month’s Palisades fire," as the Times put it.
“They’re going to represent you and make sure that everybody does exactly what they say they’re going to do,” Soboroff told reporters.
Pacific Palisades residents were not
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams of Georgia asserted Vice President J.D. Vance was a “DEI graduate” during a Wednesday evening MSNBC appearance. President Donald Trump issued an executive order within hours of taking office on Jan. 20 that mandated an end to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the federal government.
A California bill that would allow higher education institutions to prioritize slave descendants in college admissions is drawing harsh critique from some civil rights experts.
Introduced in December, the bill, AB 7, is a project of Democrat Assemblymember Isaac Bryan who represents part of Los Angeles.
If passed, it would allow the state’s two public higher education systems, the California State University and the University of California, as well as private colleges and universities to “consider providing a preference in admissions to an applicant who is a descendant of slavery, as defined, to the extent it does not conflict with federal law.”
Chicago mayors Brandon Johnson and Lori Lightfoot allegedly did not properly report hundreds of gifts and the inspector general’s office is recommending an overhaul to an unwritten agreement dating back to the late 80s.
The IG report, released Wednesday, has to do with city employees being tasked with reporting gifts to the Board of Ethics and the city’s comptroller.
The inspector general’s office claims hundreds of valuable gifts, dating from Feb. 1, 2022 through March 31, 2024, were accepted by Lori Lightfoot and Brandon Johnson without properly reporting them.
WGN News spoke with Inspector General Debra Witzburg and she believes the practice of not reporting gifts by the mayor’s office,
Ghoulish Democrats and Press Rush to Blame
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On January 29th, 2025, the United States suffered its first hull loss of a passenger airliner since the Colgan crash of 2009. Tragically, 67 people appear to have perished after a mid-air collision between a CRJ-700 regional jet operated by PSA (contracted by American Airlines) and a military UH-60 Blackhawk. The CRJ was flying a circling approach to runway 33 at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), which sits directly across the river from the nation's Capitol. In layman's terms, they were flying down the Potomac with the end of the approach being a low-altitude left turn onto short final to land
Everyone aboard the commercial airplane that crashed Wednesday night in Arlington, Virginia is feared dead, local authorities announced after trying to find survivors and assessing the damage.
“We are switching from a rescue to a recovery operation,” said D.C. fire chief John Donnelly at a Thursday morning press conference. “At this point we do not believe there are any survivors.”
The airplane collided with a Blackhawk in clear conditions as it was landing at Ronald Reagan International Airport, the D.C. area’s most active airport
It was like yesterday. Nearly 50 years to the day, on Dec. 31, 1977, the Shah held a state dinner for U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Watching on television from my family’s middle-class home in western Tehran, I was eager to hear Carter’s speech. Having visited the U.S. as a curious tourist the previous summer, I had learned a few things about the American political system.
In the middle of the speech, Carter toasted the Shah, saying Iran was “under your majesty, an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world.” At that, I turned to
The new president threw official Washington into a spinning tizzy when on Tuesday his Office of Management and Budget announced that he was temporarily freezing $3 trillion in “all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.” The executive order was blocked by a federal judge and the administration rescinded the memo. But the message was sent. This president is serious about removing the dead wood from the federal machine.
An interesting secondary effect of the order was to show just how dependent politicians, party and government functionaries, institutions, and far too many private individuals
President Trump’s no-nonsense border czar Tom Homan delivered a verbal haymaker on MSNBC’s Joy Reid, going after the liberal commentator on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” Tuesday night in spectacular fashion.
Watters queued up a clip of the far-left activist news commentator grousing on her nightly show about the Trump administration’s sweeping nationwide immigration raids, which Reid dismissed as “performative.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who was Reid’s guest that night, called the government “reckless” for the raids, which have so far snared more than 4,500 violent criminals including convicted murderers, gang members and kidnappers.
First responders are in a desperate search for survivors after a military helicopter collided with a plane near Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia Wednesday night, according to officials.
The American Airlines flight traveling from Wichita, Kan., collided with the military chopper while approaching Runaway 33 at the DC airport around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
First responders have recovered at least 19 bodies from the river as of early Thursday, CBS reports. (Photos) Some 300 first responders endured dark, cold and windy conditions as they continue to execute “a rescue operation” hours after the crash.
Follow The Post’s Live blog for updates on the midair tragedy.
Several US figure skaters and coaches — including two world champions — were onboard American Airlines Flight 5342 when it collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport Wednesday night.
The skaters had participated in the National Development Camp at the US Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, KS. last week, US Figure Skating confirmed to The Post.
Spencer Lane, a rising star in the skating community, snapped a photo of the plane’s right wing moments before takeoff. The post read, “ICT to DCA,” showing the airport codes for Wichita Eisenhower and Reagan National.
UPDATE (11:40 CST)
A police official on the scene told CBS News that three debris fields were spotted in the water and at least 18 bodies had been recovered as of 10:30 p.m. CT.
The official confirmed that no survivors had been found, contradicting initial reports from media that four had been discovered.
Please stay tuned as this is a developing story and information may change.
Original Report. A passenger aircraft departing from Reagan Washington National Airport crashed into the Potomac River, leading to a swift and coordinated rescue operation.
Vice President JD Vance claimed Wednesday that the Biden administration was aware of the names and addresses of violent criminals in the country illegally but took no action.
Vance, 40, described it as “one of the craziest things of the last week” to learn the previous administration knew the whereabouts of some of the criminal migrants recently taken into federal custody as part of President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
“What is shocking to me is that many of these violent criminals – we knew their addresses, we knew their names. We just needed to send somebody to go to their house and get them
Conservatives on social media rallied around Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday as the Trump nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) faced questions from senators in his confirmation hearing. "RFK crushed it," conservative commentator Charlie Kirk posted on X. "Very proud of him. Confirm him, now!"
"RFK killed it today," RNC national committeewoman Amy Kremer posted on X." So proud of him! LFG."
"RFK Jr is crushing this hearing," former GOP Rep. Scott Taylor posted on X. "Dems look unhinged and very petty. America is sicker, more obese, and more unhealthy than ever. Something has to change!"
Any NYT reader looking at the buzzy front page headline below would immediately think that Robert F Kennedy Jr. is a madman. Can he really be an advocate for repealing the polio vaccine, a disease that has killed and crippled tens of millions of kids?
“Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine”
To the ordinary reader, the headline says pretty clearly that Kennedy asked his lawyer to revoke the polio vaccine. The headline makes the shocking accusation that Kennedy is in favor of banning the polio vaccine. There is no other way of interpreting it.
But it is flagrantly false and a gross distortion of the truth.
A first-term House Democrat is attacking White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on X after she sought to clarify a White House memo rescinding an earlier policy statement on President Donald Trump's federal funding order. "Karoline Leavitt is a Fake Christian, like so many in this Golden Calf administration," Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., wrote on Wednesday.
It comes after the White House rescinded an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo that ordered the freeze of most federal grants and assistance, which was blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday.
A husband revealed that he received a text from his wife minutes before her American Airlines flight collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, DC.
“I’m just praying that someone is pulling her out of the river right now. That’s all I can pray for,” Hamaad Raza told WUSA from near Reagan National Airport.
Raza was asked when he last spoke to his wife. (Photo) “She texted me that they were landing in 20 minutes,” he told the outlet, showing them the messages on his phone.
As reported earlier, former Democrat Senator Bob Menendez, 71, sobbed in court as he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery and corruption.
A tearful Menendez sobbed as he begged SDNY Judge Sidney Stein to have mercy on him.
The judge showed no mercy to “Gold Bar Bob” and sentenced him to 11 years. (X) Last summer a jury convicted Senator Bob Menendez on all bribery and corruption charges. (Snip) Following his brutal sentencing, Menendez stunned reporters as he praised President Trump.
“President Trump was right. This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool
Newly-confirmed Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy is already moving to overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s stringent fuel economy standards for vehicles. Shortly after Duffy was sworn in as transportation secretary on Tuesday, he signed a memorandum to begin the process of resetting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
We could also ask how well it’s going for Republicans. But what fun is that?
Earlier today, the New York Times reported that Democrats can’t decide on the next steps after an embarrassing national-election loss. Should they make some significant changes, or stay the course and hope that Donald Trump will make them look better in comparison? Well, Quinnipiac just dropped a big data point on that question: Just 31 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, while 57 percent have an unfavorable opinion, the lowest mark since Quinnipiac started asking that question.
In the opposite direction, Republicans have a new high in Quinnipiac