Posts on Monday, February 17, 2025
The head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered billions of fraudulent transactions, exposing another false left-wing narrative. The Trump Administration, through DOGE, is hitting a nerve among the left-wing media. First, they wanted you to believe that what DOGE is doing is unconstitutional. However, when polls showed that Americans overwhelmingly supported its efforts to uncover wasted spending by the federal government, they switched gears, now claiming that despite DOGE exposing billions in waste, there is no fraud.
SpaceX personnel met with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday to discuss potential improvements in safety protocols following recent plane crashes. The meeting is part of an ongoing effort to enhance aviation standards and ensure that SpaceX's operations comply with the highest safety regulations. The discussions are expected to focus on identifying key areas where procedures can be strengthened to prevent further incidents.Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy recently welcomed a team from SpaceX to the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeks input from Elon Musk’s company
Passengers who miraculously survived the upside-down crash of a Delta Air Lines flight at Toronto Pearson International Airport shared their amazement after they scrambled to safety onto the runway.
One passenger even managed to record herself upside-down — belted into an airline seat before she fled the wreckage. (Photos)
John Nelson, a passenger on the flight, posted a video on Facebook as he and the other passengers stumbled out of the wreckage.
Governor weighs removing NYC Mayor Adams
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NEW YORK —
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday she is weighing removing New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office after four of his top deputies announced their resignations in the latest fallout from the Justice Department's push to end his corruption case.
Hochul, a Democrat, said she will convene a meeting of key leaders Tuesday in Manhattan “for a conversation about the path forward." She said the departures of First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer and other top officials raise “serious questions about the long-term future" of Adams’ administration. Adams, also a Democrat, has been under increasing scrutiny since the Justice Department’s second-in-command ordered
According to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La), Elon Musk has figured out how to break the deep state by using the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
In an interview with Mark Levin on Fox News’ “Life Liberty and Levin,” Johnson said that he met with Musk for an hour last week at his office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. He added that Musk was working out of the old Secretary of War Suite.
'Fake News': Karoline Leavitt Sets the
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Associated Press Straight on Story About
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As RedState has documented, the Trump White House and the Associated Press (AP) have been at odds in recent weeks over the latter's refusal to use the term "Gulf of America" to refer to the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump renamed via an executive order on his first day back in office. The dispute has cost the AP access to the Oval Office for the informal pressers (known as "gaggles," which President Donald Trump holds often) as well as Air Force One, but they still retain access to the White House complex, including the press briefing room.
Further, in remarks reported on Monday,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he has already picked investigators who will look into the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
“We’ve already identified folks that’ll be in charge of that full investigation inside the Pentagon,” Hegseth said in the interview Thursday. “I don’t have a timeframe on it. Sadly, we’ve already waited two-and-a-half years, three years since what occurred. I don’t want to wait longer, but I always want to get it right,” he said.
Acting Commissioner Michelle King, who was appointed last month, has been forced out after attempting to stonewall an investigation into massive fraud within the agency—an investigation spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
King’s abrupt departure comes after Musk’s team requested access to critical data that could expose widespread abuse and fraudulent claims draining the Social Security fund.
Far-left Washington Post reported:
The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over their attempts to access sensitive government records,
The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered an identification code linking U.S. Treasury payments to a budget line item, which accounts for nearly $4.7 trillion in payments which was oftentimes left blank. "The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process)," DOGE wrote in a post on X. "In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Feb. 17 that Ukraine will not recognize any peace agreements negotiated without the participation of Kyiv, as top U.S. and Russian officials prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia for talks on mending strained ties between Moscow and Washington and advance U.S. President Donald Trump’s initiative to put an end to the Russia–Ukraine war.
“Ukraine regards any negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine as ones that have no result, and we cannot recognize .. (snip)
The Ukrainian president also urged the inclusion of a special European representative in the negotiations,
Elon Posts Jaw-Dropping Info About 'Vampires'
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Elon Musk has been taking a fine tooth comb through the government finances with his DOGE team and he's come up with some more information that's likely to raise a few eyebrows and a lot of questions. (Snip) His chart showed more than 20 million over 100 years old "including more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range." Not to mention the couple of folks who must be the original vampires who are between 240 and 369 years old.
When presidents leave the White House, the next chapter of their life begins, that of a former president. Americans don't have a problem with things like lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents and their families; that is necessary. But in the modern era, former commanders-in-chief have a vast array of income streams to choose from. Again, no problem — people want to hear about their experiences in the White House. But if former presidents have the means to support themselves, how much of their post-presidential lives should taxpayers be on the hook for?
Kemi Badenoch has said the chicken nugget immigration case shows how migrants are weaponising the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to avoided deportation.
The Conservative leader told the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London that Western civilisation had been “hacked” in recent decades because of “loopholes in liberalism”, including in the ECHR. Speaking on Monday, Mrs Badenoch said: “The current system is being exploited. The public are enraged at the perception that the UK has become a haven for foreign criminals.
Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan, in a seeming reversal, is now expressing some skepticism about efforts to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the government data it would need to carry out its task of finding wasteful spending. The Judge is expected to issue a ruling within the next 24 hours.
A federal judge expressed skepticism of efforts seeking to bar President Donald Trump's administration from accessing federal data and firing federal workers when hearing remarks from the bench on Monday.
Judge Tanya Chutkan has yet to issue a ruling in the case, which relates to billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may be only pretending to comply with an Executive Order keeping men out of women’s sports that was signed by President Trump on Feb 5.
Jennifer Sey, who is a former U.S. gymnastics champion, says the NCAA’s new policy claims to comply with Trump’s order, yet leaves itself two loopholes through which men who identify as women may continue to participate as student athletes in women’s sports.
Pope Francis has a “polymicrobial infection” of his respiratory tract that will require his hospital treatment to be changed, the Vatican said Monday, with tests indicating a “complex clinical picture” for one of the oldest popes in the church’s history. The test results implied a further change in treatment requiring “adequate hospitalization” for the 88-year-old pontiff – who has long been plagued by a string of lung-related medical struggles. (Snip) Polymicrobial infections are acute and chronic diseases that can be caused by a combination of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, according to the US National Insititutes of Health. Worshipers outside
ICE handles shrill Carolina woman trying
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While a Florida sheriff touted his department’s efforts to crack down on illegal aliens, efforts at interfering with ICE continued with a North Carolina woman confronting officials.
After advancing President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations as a priority in the state legislature, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill last week to empower state and local law enforcement to aid with federal efforts. Speaking with Fox News Digital, St. Johns County Sheriff Robert Hardwick explained how that work was underway to “take the tip of the spear and go to a different level.”
“Deputy sheriffs have been working on Interstate 95
Half of New York City’s deputy mayors dramatically resigned Monday in the wake of Eric Adams’ controversial reprieve from his historic corruption case by President Trump’s Justice Department.
The resignations of Adams’ four senior aides — led by First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer — thrusts City Hall even deeper into uncharted territory as the mayor faces mounting questions about whether he can govern the city.
The four deputy mayors — Torres-Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi, Deputy Mayor for Health Human Services Anne Williams-Isom and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chauncey Parker — resigned as a rally in support of Adams unfolded in Rehoboth Cathedral in Brooklyn.
CRY MORE, Michael Steele: Fmr. RNC chair
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takes TDS rage to new level with entertaining meltdown replies
The former chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) delivered an insulting on-air fit of rage over Elon Musk and his presence at the White House.
Michael Steele’s drama-filled meltdown on MSNBC included calling on Democrats to “get off your fat ass” and do something about President Donald Trump’s power and Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“What would you have us do?” Symone Sanders Townsend asked Steele on “The Weekend.”
The former RNC chair erupted in his response. (X) “I would like you to show that you give a damn!” Steele replied.
“That you got a little emotion about the fact that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately!
Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims his family was targeted by the outgoing Biden administration with an audit from the IRS.
“Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef. Total sham,” Hegseth wrote on his official X account Monday, including a photo of an IRS document addressed to him and his wife.
The document said the couple owes the government $33,558.16, which needs to be paid immediately to avoid further penalties.
(Photo) Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers his closing press conference after a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Feb. 13. Getty Images
It’s unclear what year or years the document is addressing.
Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Delta Air Lines plane that arrived Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
CP24 in Canada reports as many as eight people were hurt in the emergency, though the extent of their injuries was not immediately clear.
The FAA released this statement following the crash:
Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada around 2:45 p.m.local time on Monday, February 17. All 80 people on board were evacuated.
President Donald Trump on Feb. 14 signed an executive order barring funding to universities and schools with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The order, detailed in a fact sheet provided by the White House, will prohibit all federal funding to any schools that implement COVID-19 vaccine mandates and directs the secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services to issue compliance guidelines and plans to end existing mandates. The secretaries will also create a report of non-compliant institutions and a process for blocking funds from supporting any that impose mandates.
Eric Swalwell is a legend. Even in a party that features Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), the California Dem Rep. is famous for his often preposterous takes, his affair with a Chinese spy, and his apparent gaseous emissions live on air.
But his angle on a recent small plane crash in Georgia is perhaps his most intellect-challenged opinion yet. The plane crashed in Covington, Georgia and tragically left two people dead. Rather than mourn the lost souls and show some dignity, Swalwell decided it was a good time to cast blame—before all the facts are known—and he knows just who’s at fault: Donald Trump.
A Polish woman claiming to be missing British toddler Madeleine McCann has released her latest set of DNA test results. Julia Wandelt, became an internet sensation...claiming to be the missing daughter of Kate and Gerry McCann. Also known as Julia Wendell, the 23-year-old ended up on American talk show 'Dr Phil' to discuss the far-fetched possibility before later apologising and saying she 'regretted' the entire ordeal in an interview with the BBC last year. But now Ms Wandelt has taken to her new social media account...to share the 'results' of a fresh DNA test that she said Kate and Gerry 'refused' to participate in.
David Hogg Took Just Days to Wear Out
His Welcome at the DNC As He Makes It
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His Welcome at the DNC As He Makes It
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You know how the Democrats have been whining about the youthfulness of the Department of Government Efficiency staffers, claiming that Elon Musk’s DOGE team couldn’t possibly understand what they’re doing because some are in their early twenties and at least one is in his late teens?
Yeah, well that same bunch voted in early February to make 24-year-old liberal activist David Hogg the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Hypocrisy, much?
As our friends at PJ Media reported, Hogg’s already wearing out his welcome because he seems to be using his new position as a giant personal piggy bank:
Karoline Leavitt, 27, is trolling Democrats who are afraid of DOGE with a reminder that their party leaders Barack Obama and Joe Biden wanted to cut federal spending in the past.[Snip]'To all of the Democrats who are planning to protest this week, here’s an explanation on DOGE, from your party’s own beloved leaders!' Leavitt posted to X alongside a video of Obama and Biden lauding the same efforts DOGE is now undertaking. In the video the two former Democratic presidents are shown talking about the importance of reforming the government to reduce frivolous government spending and waste
Imagine working at a large company like Exxon Mobil and being told that an audit was underway. Managers would be busy justifying spending and personnel and how they were enabling the company to prosper.
If the auditor found that someone had deliberately hidden or misclassified expenditures for personal gain or ideological reasons, company lawyers would not call it merely “waste” or “mismanagement.”
They would call it “theft” or perhaps “embezzlement,” and they would call the authorities.
Meret Schneider, a Swiss National Council member from the Green Party, recently criticized Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) as a “threat to democracy,” suggesting it should be banned in Switzerland.
Schneider, an outspoken vegan activist, claims that the platform promotes conservative viewpoints, which she argues poses a risk to democratic values. Schneider is an active advocate for reducing meat consumption in Switzerland and is the co-manager of Sentience Politics, an organization focused on animal rights. Her political career includes serving as a municipal council member
Rush: Four Years On
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Four years ago today, just about this time, I was pottering about getting ready to guest-host The Rush Limbaugh Show when the telephone rang. It was Kraig Kitchin, his longtime friend (and head of the network that distributed his show), calling to break the news that Rush had died earlier that morning.
Post-Limbaugh talk radio seems smaller to me than it once did - not just because Rush had a big personality, but because he managed to fit the flotsam and jetsam of the news cycle into the big picture.
Presidents' Day is a stupid holiday. We used to have two presidential holidays. One for Washington, who showed noteworthy restraint in setting the precedents that his successors ought to live up to — and that's on top of successfully commanding the armies that won the Revolutionary War. The other was for Lincoln, who saved the Union from rupture and was murdered for his efforts.
Washington (1789-1797): First president. Revolutionary War hero. 'Nuff said.
Adams, J. (1797-1801): Kept us out of Europe's wars except for an undeclared naval war with France. Expanded army and navy, good. Signed Alien and Sedition Acts into law, bad. One of our most thoughtful Founding Fathers. Worth remembering.
We go to the legal guys for their views.
A(snip) law prof Jonathan Turley was perhaps the first out of the gate to point out that the EOs were well thought out. What he meant(snip)was that the EOs (snip)showed clear evidence that they had been framed with an understanding of the likely legal challenges they might face. Turley professed himself to be quite impressed. (snip)Shipwreckedcrew (snip):
TROs being sought against the Trump Admin are, in many respects, great opportunities for the Admin to assert its Article II authority over the Admin[istrative] State and push back against encroachments by Congress and the lower courts into Executive power.
In determining citizenship, the United States has a very unusual approach. You’re a citizen if you were born here. (You’re also a citizen if you were born abroad under certain circumstances, but that’s a different issue.)
That’s a bit crazy, because it means that if a woman (aren’t you glad we don’t have to refer to them as “child-birthing persons” anymore?) makes it into the United States, legally or illegally, in time to give birth – right on the north bank of the Rio Grande, for example – her baby is an American citizen.
The mother doesn’t magically become an American citizen by giving birth in America,
If you’ve been following Revolver News, you know we’ve had Norm Eisen’s number for years. But who is Norm Eisen, really?It’s a loaded question, but here’s the short version of how he got started: Norm’s a Harvard Law grad. Back in 1991 he met his BFF Barack Obama. While he was there, he also served as Assistant Director of the Anti-Defamation League (a left-wing anti-free speech/propaganda group) and worked as a research assistant to his professor, Alan Dershowitz.
But Eisen’s story takes a much darker turn the moment he and his Deep State buddies saw their power apparatus crumbling, thanks to a political outsider named Donald J. Trump.
Leftists’ Claims The SAVE Act Won’t
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Let Married Women Vote Are An Insult To
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Hey there, little lady, here’s another reason not to get married: If the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility” (SAVE) Act passes, it will be too hard for married gals to figure out how to vote.
The ridiculous claim that married women won’t be able to vote was presented as legitimate news in the Feb. 11 Newsweek piece, “Married Women Could Be Stopped From Voting Under SAVE Act.” Their source: the left leaning Center for American Progress, which is actively working against the SAVE Act.
Glamour Magazine is suddenly all worked up about this issue too, publishing a Feb. 12 piece, “The SAVE Act Could Stop Millions of Women From Voting,”
A Times Square drug kingpin nabbed in an “around-the-clock” crack-peddling operation is back on the streets of the Big Apple — thanks to former President Joe Biden, The Post has learned.
Johnny Perez, a 32-year-old convict nicknamed “Ghost,” was one of nearly 2,500 convicted federal criminals who had their sentences commuted by Biden on Jan. 17 before he left office — including at least three other dealers busted with him in 2021, records show. Federal prison records show that Perez, who was one of eight suspected drug dealers rounded up in a raid by the NYPD and federal agents, is listed as due for release in May
I enjoy Kevin ‘Sid‘ Hassett very much. (snip) awesome in Trump’s first term as an economic advisor, and he’s even better in term two as the Director of the National Economic Council (NEC).
When the people who controlled Joe Biden lost the 2024 election, they were angry. They wanted to leave President Trump with as big a mess as possible I(snip)
Part of their chaos operation was to drive up the cost of food, intentionally create inflation that Trump would have to handle. The “bird flu” issue was part of the plan. (snip). Agriculture ordered millions of chickens to be killed. Simple quarantine
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr slammed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for claiming Trump administration "incompetence" is putting Americans "at risk," pointing to a multi-billion dollar project under the Biden administration that he said yielded no results.
"You worked for an Administration that got $42 billion to connect millions of Americans to the Internet," Carr said in an X post on Saturday responding to Buttigieg. "1,163 days later, that Admin exited without connecting even 1 person & without turning even 1 shovel worth of dirt."
"If we need expertise in incompetence, will reach out," he added, accompanied by the peace sign emoji.
Vice President JD Vance made news in Munich by accusing the European political elite of not really believing in democracy. But another line stood out for me that I think is also worth noting. Vance defended the unique dignity of human life. From the speech:
Contrary to what you might hear a couple mountains over in Davos, the citizens of all of our nations don’t generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable cogs of a global economy.
It’s just one sentence in a 20-minute speech. But I think it is important and urge the vice president to expand upon that thought
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears on Meet the Press to discuss his position toward ending the conflict with Russia. Within the conversation [04:11], Zelenskyy said, “I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine.”
President Zelenskyy represents the interests of the European Union, multinational corporations, various elements of NATO memberships, the World Economic Forum, the CIA division within the U.S. State Dept., western banks and a confab of various western intelligence operations. After that, he represents the interests of Ukrainians. This is why he will not permit elections. (Video)
JD Vance rightly warns Europeans against
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The panic that gripped Europe’s political elites after JD Vance delivered some overdue home truths in Munich found expression back home in the most embarrassing question ever asked by a network anchor.
Our vice president had accused smug Eurocrats at the Munich Security Conference of abandoning free speech and allowing unchecked migration to roil their countries, warned them to respect their voters and told them America should not bear the primary burden of funding Europe’s security.
“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected
What is the long-term Democratic Party’s strategy to return to power? Americans may ask that only because so far, the Democrat agenda seems to entail polarizing and alienating as many voters as possible. They gleefully double down on their 2024 defeat. And they seem almost to grow ecstatic at ensuring that Donald Trump and his record poll at unprecedented highs. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) rants on national TV that Trump is a d—k and promises to go to “war” against him. Democratic representatives chant “f—k Trump” on national television.
A German diplomat once best known for laughing at Donald Trump’s warning that Germany’s dependence on Russian energy would become a problem was unable to finish his speech at the Munich Security Conference as he apparently found the implications of emissary JD Vance’s message from the Trump White House too upsetting.
Top German diplomat Christoph Heusgen, infamous for being one of the group of chuckling Germans laughing off Donald Trump at a 2018 United Nations General Assembly broke down in tears on the podium at the Munich Security Conference as he gave the closing speech of the three-day event. Heusgen spoke in a conscious repudiation
Jessica Tarlov, one of the liberal voices at Fox News, made a hilarious claim on a podcast last week that I couldn’t help but laugh at. According to her, the “chaos” of the Trump administration is already turning off his voters.
Her proof? She shared a conversation she supposedly had with a 20-year-old college student from the Midwest who comes from a conservative, pro-Trump family. The student, who had previously reached out for career advice, recently emailed Tarlov to express his changing perspective on Trump.
“I’ve really appreciated hearing what you have had to say the past week on ‘The Five’ and your podcasts with Scott,”
FBI director nominee Kash Patel has often joked that on day one in office he would shut down FBI Headquarters and reopen it the next day as a Museum of the Deep State. Rueful joke aside, he may not know how close to the truth he really is. The FBI has a sneaky little secret that has probably escaped the attention of its most ardent fans at DOJ. It's even possible that the cloistered and suited gangsters on the 7th Floor don't even know how easy it could be to topple the entire enterprise.
The FBI has been in the middle of countless scandals, illegal behavior,
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer declared his willingness to deploy British troops to Ukraine “in harm’s way” to deter Russian aggression hours before he is set to join an ’emergency summit’ on the matter in Paris on Monday.
The United States and Russia are meeting to discuss the Ukraine war in Saudi Arabia this week, but European leaders have not been invited to send delegations. Apparently prompted by being left behind in this regard, and likely too by the Trump White House’s suggestion that European nations actually decide what they are actually capable of doing on Ukraine, European leaders are meeting in Paris today for an “emergency summit”.
President Donald Trump has been forced to take his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court after an Obama-appointed judge reinstated Hampton Dellinger, a Biden-era bureaucrat, as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
This latest legal battle comes after a series of judicial oversteps by the activist judiciary.
Last Friday, President Trump exercised his constitutional duty to dismiss Dellinger from his position at the Office of Special Counsel, an agency tasked with safeguarding federal whistleblowers.
Rather than accept his removal, Dellinger filed a lawsuit to reclaim his job.
CBS News was a dumpster fire on Sunday. Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan thought the Nazi Holocaust occurred because there was too much freedom of speech and the press in Germany. Then, 60 Minutes decided to produce a segment about Germany waging a total war on freedom of speech, taking offenders away…on a train ride. Finally, there is this pity segment on government workers who are lost after getting fired.
Parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic could be in for their biggest snowstorm of the season later this week if all the pieces come together, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
Confidence is increasing, with computer forecast models showing an impactful winter storm developing in the Plains and tracking across the central and eastern US. However, uncertainty remains about the system’s exact track and what the impacts will be for those along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor.
The energy for this storm moves out of the Rockies and into the Plains on Monday before heading east.
Thank You and Goodnight
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I confess it's a wee bit demoralising to find JD Vance has stunned Europe with a speech that contains nothing that would be remotely surprising to any reader of this website for the last quarter-century. Of course, he's the Vice President of the United States and I'm a "niche Canadian". And in fairness JD was still in high school back when I started boring on about this stuff.
Nevertheless, the German defence minister Herr Großer von Wich ser spoke for the entire European establishment when he magisterially pronounced Mr Vance's remarks "not acceptable". Germany, France and the rest of Western Europe are dying before our eyes, but it remains "not acceptable"
I came across an article today with a graphic showing a map of Washington, D.C. with tags indicating asking prices for homes that had just gone on the market. The article claimed that the D.C. housing market has dropped 36% in one week. I've been utilizing the "Bongino Rule," waiting 24-72 hours before commenting on an inflammatory story until more facts are revealed.
But I quickly came across similar, related stories, as well as a phenomenal thread on ‘X’ from Ted Cruz. Why is it, do you suppose, that so many people (some 15,000 at last report) in D.C. have put their homes up for sale that the glut has
At the end of January, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian ally the Christian Social Union (CSU), the neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party voted together for much stricter asylum rules, triggering a heated debate that has yet to subside.
Before the vote, the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) and the Catholic German Bishops' Conference (DBK) wrote a joint letter to all parliamentarians urgently warning against such collaboration. The letter was signed by leading figures from the two denominations, prelates Anne Gidion and Karl Jüsten.
White House press briefings are often tedious affairs, but sometimes a reporter will ask a question so inane that it provides comic relief. On Jan. 29, for example, the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc put this howler to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “Egg prices have skyrocketed since President Trump took office. So, what specifically is he doing to lower those costs for Americans?” The average price of a dozen eggs escalated from $1.47 to $4.95 during former President Biden’s term
It is not coincidental that mere days after Vice President JD Vance went into the Munich Security Conference and denounced European censorship regimes, CBS’s 60 Minutes would air a report extolling the virtues of German censorship. The report filed by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi makes sure to highlight prosecutors who go after memeposters as defenders of civility.
The report opens with Alfonsi laying its predicate- censorship as protective of “civility” and “discourse”, and with the airing of a predawn cartoon deemed to be racist (click “expand” to view full transcript): SHARYN ALFONSI: If you've ever dared to read the comments on a social
USDA Axes Millions in Contracts, Including
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has slashed millions in contracts that were active under the Biden administration, including for a “Brazilian forest and gender consultant” and a “Central American gender assessment consultant.”
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the cuts on Friday, saying that the department has terminated 78 contracts totaling more than $132 million. Rollins said 1,000 contracts are also currently under review for potential termination.
The findings are the result of a review by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Associated Press Refuses to Use ‘Gulf
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The Associated Press is still refusing to refer to the Gulf of America by its new official name, despite the publication having previously changed its style guide to conform to the renaming of other geographical locations and ethnicities around the world.
The oceanic basin, settled between the southern coast of the United States and the northern coast of Mexico, was known as the Gulf of Mexico until President Donald Trump changed the name in an executive order on his first day back in office. While the order, referred to as “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness,” only officially applies within the U.S., many companies
J.D. Vance rightly warns Europeans against
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the dark cloud of censorship — and critics
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The panic that gripped Europe’s political elites after J.D. Vance delivered some overdue home truths in Munich found expression back home in the most embarrassing question ever asked by a network anchor.
Our vice president had accused smug Eurocrats at the Munich Security Conference of abandoning free speech and allowing unchecked migration to roil their countries, warned them to respect their voters and told them America should not bear the primary burden of funding Europe’s security.
“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) appeared on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday and proceeded to blame Donald Trump for every problem the United States faces despite the fact that the new commander-in-chief has been in office less than a month and the Democrats were in power for most of the last four years. OK, Hakeem.After describing how Jeffries droned on about the high cost of living and how it was Trump’s fault, my colleague Becca Lower wrote:
Trump has been in office for just over three weeks. Unless someone invents a time machine for him to hop into and correct the liberals' mismanagement and malfeasance,
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove just delivered a civics lesson to a now-former top New York prosecutor who was apparently confused about who she worked for.
It all began when Bove, as authorized by Attorney General Pam Bondi, directed Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon to dismiss the federal indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The Biden Justice Department had indicted Adams on a somewhat questionable bribery charge after he had voiced public criticism of President Biden’s policies on illegal immigration.
Well, this is interesting. What a surprise. Dirty Judge Jack McConnell, who believes he was recently elected US president, halted President Trump’s current spending freeze. But Judge McConnell is not some innocent bystander. Judge McConnell’s organization has received $117.6 million in government funding in total (ending in 2023). Maybe that’s why he wanted the money to keep flowing. He’s expecting several more million this year!
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, according to documents obtained Sunday that would mark the first appeal to the justices since President Donald Trump took office.
The emergency appeal is the start of what probably will be a steady stream from lawyers for the Republican president and his administration seeking to undo lower court rulings that have slowed his second term agenda. (Photo) The Justice Department’s filing obtained by The Associated Press asks the conservative-majority court to lift a judge’s court order temporarily