Posts on Monday, March 17, 2025
A thaw between Canada and India might be on the horizon with Justin Trudeau stepping down and being replaced by Mark Carney as Canada's prime minister.
Trudeau had openly clashed with New Delhi since September 2023, when he linked the death of a Sikh separatist leader and Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar to Indian government agents. New Delhi angrily denied any involvement in the killing, which took place near Vancouver, and the ties between the two countries plunged to historic lows.
Polls? Trump is in a better place than
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Democrats, who are fighting each other
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There are a lot of questions these days about poll numbers, both President Donald Trump’s and those of his Democratic opponents. First, job approval. The president’s rating has tipped slightly underwater, by 0.4%, in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. But what is striking about Trump polls is the wide variation in approval between the different polls. The current RealClearPolitics average contains a Quinnipiac poll from March 10 that showed Trump 11 points underwater. It also contains an RMG Research poll from March 13 that showed Trump 10 points above the water. A 21-point spread is a pretty broad range. Better to look at the average.
The Autopen is a fascinating device. Developed to allow celebrities to mass-produce autographs for hordes of swooning fans, it was never intended to enable a Muppet to serve as president of the United States. But that seems to be exactly what happened. Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after his first few days in office — every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) — was signed with not one, but two Autopens.
WASHINGTON - The administration of President Donald Trump was consulted on Monday by Israel on its deadly strikes in Gaza, a White House spokesperson told Fox News' "Hannity" show.
"The Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis on their attacks in Gaza tonight," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a Fox News interview. Palestinian medics in Gaza reported dozens of people were killed in the aftermath of a series of the most violent air attacks by Israel on the Palestinian enclave since a ceasefire was reached on January 19 between Israel and Hamas militants.
A senior Hamas official said Israel had unilaterally overturned the ceasefire agreement.
Ceasefire over as Israel strikes Gaza
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The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is over as Israeli fighter jets began striking the Gaza Strip after Hamas refused repeated hostage deal offers, officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began striking Hamas terrorist targets across Gaza "in order to achieve the war objectives set by the political leadership, including the release of all our hostages—both the living and the fallen," the office of Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a letter.
"This decision comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release our hostages and rejected all proposals presented by U.S. President’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, as well as the mediators," the letter states.
US President Donald Trump has warned Iran that it will face "dire" consequences if Yemen's Houthis continue to attack international shipping lanes.
He said the Iranian leadership would be held responsible for "every shot fired by the Houthis", which have long been backed by Tehran. The group later said it had targeted a US aircraft carrier three times in the past two days.
The Houthis first tried to attack the USS Harry S Truman in the Red Sea on Sunday following deadly US strikes on Yemen.
The Pentagon said it had struck 30 targets in Yemen since Saturday
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has ordered the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, said on Monday that his administration will make public around 80,000 pages of files related to the former president on Tuesday.
"People have been waiting for decades for this," Trump told reporters during a visit to The Kennedy Center in Washington. "It's going to be very interesting."
Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to present a plan to release records related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Democrats spent the weekend destroying the last remaining credibility the party had with the American people. On Saturday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg tried to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, where they will serve prison sentences for gang activity. Boasber, a rogue Obama-appointed judge most famous for signing FISA warrants to spy on President Donald Trump and overseeing the Clinton email scandal, ordered Trump to return a plane filled with MS-13 and Tren de Aragua criminals back to the U.S.
A radical judge who ordered the Trump Administration to turn around planes deporting Venezuelan gang members argued with DOJ lawyers about his “equitable powers” on Monday during a dramatic hearing.
As previously reported, on Saturday morning, Judge James Boasberg, an Obama-appointee, granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the Trump administration from deporting thousands of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act.
Far-left America-hating leftist groups such as the ACLU and Democracy Forward, rushed to a DC court in a desperate bid to shield dangerous illegal aliens from deportation.
Later Saturday, Judge Boasberg issued an emergency injunction (it wasn’t filed yet) and ordered the Trump Administration to
President Donald Trump's Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (EEOC) sent letters to 20 white shoe law firms on Monday requesting information about their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, arguing that many of the firms' practices appear to violate civil rights law.
The letters, signed by acting EEOC chair Andrea Lucas, ask the firms to provide detailed information about their diversity fellowship programs—some of which explicitly limit eligibility based on race—and to explain how the firms achieved rapid changes in their demographic makeup without recourse to race discrimination.
Kristi Noem is going to the ends of the earth for the staffers at the Department of Homeland Security.
President Trump’s DHS Secretary co-piloted a C-130 surveillance plane on Monday during a visit to US Coast Guard service members stationed in Air Station Kodiak in Alaska.
Noem said the visit was intended to greet and support the service members who serve more than 1,300 miles from the continental US.
“Got the chance to fly a C-130 out of our US Coast Guard base in Kodiak, Alaska. Air Station Kodiak is essential to our mission success for reconnaissance and search & rescue in Alaska and the Arctic,”
President Trump revoked Hunter and Ashley Biden’s Secret Service security detail on Monday after the former first son, surrounded by more than a dozen agents, was spotted on an “ultra-luxurious” getaway in South Africa when he was due for a deposition in court.
“Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous!”
“He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned,”
Venezuela’s socialist regime on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization, comparing it to “slavery” and “Nazi concentration camps.”
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry levied the protest in a lengthy statement published on Sunday evening shortly after the United States deported 238 Venezuelans suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization to El Salvador as per the terms of an agreement with President Nayib Bukele.
President Trump said he would “look” into revoking Hunter Biden’s Secret Service security detail on Monday after the former first son, surrounded by more than a dozen agents, was spotted on an “ultra-luxurious” getaway in South Africa when he was due for a deposition in court.
“I would say if there are 18 [Secret Service agents] with Hunter Biden, that will be something I look at this afternoon,” Trump said at the Kennedy Center when asked by a reporter about the taxpayer-funded visit.
Former President Joe Biden’s son was staying in a $500-a-night villa in Cape Town
The radicalism of the far left judges all over the country, but especially in the Federal Court of the District of Columbia, is reaching the point where each succeeding account of a new injunction or a new expession of outrage against the President they despise and whose authority they deny seems to get more and more ludicrous prompting one to say “you just cannot make this stuff up”!
It is hard to keep a straight face when liberals whose favorite judges are the very definition of authoritarianism, such as the judge we will discuss here,
Talk about karma!
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been slapped with a $54,000 penalty for blatantly violating Georgia’s open records laws in her politically motivated prosecution of President Donald Trump.
“The county’s Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause formalized her ruling Friday and ordered Willis to pay $54,264 in attorneys' fees and litigation costs after ‘intentionally’ failing to provide records requested by Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney who filed the motion to disqualify Willis from prosecuting Trump on charges of allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election,” reports Fox News Digital.
Democratic strategist Basil Smikle on Monday blamed former President Barack Obama and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for weakening the party’s brand as a champion of working-class Americans.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten in September highlighted how strongly former President Donald Trump was performing with “working-class voters,” a demographic that traditionally leans Democratic. Smikle, on “Chris Jansing Reports,” argued that both Obama and Sanders contributed to a long-term perception that the party does not prioritize the working class — without even mentioning Trump.
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced Monday that she is pregnant with her third child.
McEnany, the mother of 5-year-old Blake and 2-year-old Nash, announced on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” that she is expecting her third child in June with her husband, Sean Gilmartin. She presented a photograph of her baby’s ultrasound picture to her fellow panelists.
“Sean and I are expecting our third child which we’re so excited about,” McEnany said. “Yes, to join our daughter, baby Blake, who’s 5, and our son Nash, who’s 2.”
A legal firm with deep ties to George and Alexander Soros’s network of left-wing nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), is partially behind a lawsuit attempting to block President Donald Trump from deporting illegal alien gang members from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act, Breitbart News has learned.
Over the weekend, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to begin deporting illegal alien gang members to El Salvador under a deal with President Nayib Bukele. The agreement allows for the United States to fly foreign gang members to the country to be held in a mega-prison for an annual fee.
Soon after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act
As the COVID coverup unravels--at least for normies, it is unraveling, I and many others have been censored since 2020 for stating the obvious--the Pravda Media is looking to cover their behinds by claiming to have been "misled."
We all know they were co-conspirators, of course, but they can't admit that. And they wouldn't, but for the raft of leaks from various intelligence agencies in recent weeks revealing that they all knew that the virus was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Raccoon dogs? Bats from a wet market? The raccoon dog theory was based on finding a fragment of the virus at the wet market
Were they 'misled'? Or did they lead the charge against anyone who dared question the consensus?
Now that the cat has come out of the bag, suddenly the New York Times feels the need to get out in front of the backlash. For years, the NYT ran story after story, scathing column after column, about anyone who dared to challenge The Science®. How dare people suggest that a novel coronavirus might have emerged from the nearby lab being run under questionable practices doing exactly the kind of research intended to produce novel coronaviruses! Those dissenters were all raaaaaacists, remember?
Now, the NYT -- and not even in its own editorial voice --
Radio host Charlamagne Tha God on Monday dismissed Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s defense of her party amid its dismal popularity. The Democratic Party’s favorability has fallen 20% since January 2021 to a record low of 29%, according to a Sunday CNN/SSRS poll conducted March 6-9. Crockett had defended her party on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, arguing that it has effectively fought back against President Donald Trump, but Charlamagne suggested on “The Breakfast Club” that her remarks were futile.
The Trump administration deported a Lebanese doctor who was an assistant professor at Brown University’s medical school after investigators found “sympathetic photos and videos” of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, the Department of Justice said.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, was arrested after arriving at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Thursday. Her family claimed that officials provided no reason for her deportation, and they argued her rights were being violated because she had an active visa to live and work in the US.
The DOJ has since alleged that the Providence, Rhode Island, resident has an affinity for the Lebanon-based terror group, with pictures and videos of Hezbollah leaders found
I confess to a tiny drop of pity for Trump-haters within the tidal wave of amusement I experience watching them deal with the successes President Trump already has experienced. The worst of it for TDS sufferers right now must be the border, where within mere weeks, and to the enthusiastic approval of the American people, President Trump has stanched the flow of millions of unvetted foreigners down to an almost undetectable trickle.
Consider the dilemma this creates for the Ministry of Progressive Propaganda, also known as the New York Times.
Federal judge calls hearing on Trump authority
to deport alleged gang members, court
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A federal judge has called a hearing Monday on whether the Trump administration has the legal authority to deport alleged gang members and proceeded this the effort this past weekend amid a judge temporarily halting the process.
The will take place in Washington, D.C. at 5 p.m. local time, according to NBC News.
On Saturday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from using the 1789 Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal migrants. However, the flights were in the air at the time of the ruling.
President Trump signed an executive order over the weekend gutting the federal agency that oversees the Voice of America, the news outlet that for more than 80 years broadcast news and information into countries where independent reporting is restricted or censored.
Hours after Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the elimination of the US Agency for Global Media, numerous journalists, executives and staff at the organization’s Washington headquarters were notified that they were being placed on paid leave, according to National Public Radio.
The White House on Saturday put out a press release titled “The Voice of Radical America,”
Senate Democrats are bracing for a painful post-mortem as they try to avoid a September rerun of their latest government funding defeat. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, and nine of his members helped get a House GOP-authored government funding bill to the finish line, saying a vote to advance legislation they loathed was the least bad option. The alternative, they argued, was allowing a shutdown that could empower President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to accelerate their slashing of the federal bureaucracy. (Snip) Schumer’s strategy exposed major fissures within the party, marking for many of his members a disappointing
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is postponing several events across the country this week to promote his new book amid Democratic backlash to his handling of last week's government funding fight.
“Due to security concerns, Senator Schumer’s book events are being rescheduled,” said a statement provided by Risa Heller, who is handling communications for Schumer’s book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning.” The postponement comes as protesters were expected to attend the events after Schumer led a group of Senate Democrats to provide key votes to pass a Republican-led government funding bill backed by President Donald Trump to avert a shutdown. Schumer and nine others in the Senate Democratic caucus voted
The U.S. Navy has entered sustained combat operations in the 5th Fleet Area of Operations after U.S. President Donald Trump promised “overwhelming lethal force” against Iranian-backed forces threatening U.S. forces in the region. The campaign will involve multiple rounds of proactive strikes on various targets, not limited to the retaliatory strikes seen in past strikes on Houthi positions, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized an extended campaign to dismantle the rebel group’s ability to target ships at sea. The effort to dismantle Houthi anti-ship systems could include the direct targeting of Iranian assets like the intelligence gathering ship MV Behshad
William Shakespeare has long been considered one of England’s great men because of his extraordinary output of timeless plays and sonnets. They that shaped the English language as well as exporting ideas about British culture...not because the Brits foisted his works on others, but because others recognized their beauty and universality. Now, though, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, as part of the nation’s push for national suicide
The White House on Monday debuted a video showing the deportation of heavily tattooed gang members to the sound of "Closing Time" by Semisonic.
The 17 second clip begins by showing a deportee in handcuffs and body restraints being loaded onto a plan, along with several others. "Closing time. You don't have to go home by you can't stay here," blasts the 1998 hit. "I know who I want to take me home."
The video comes after the administration invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport gang members belonging to Tren de Aragua, leading to a legal showdown with a U.S. District Judge who ordered the return of outbound deportation flights.
The irony is striking for John Eastman, a constitutional attorney and one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers in the litigated post-2020 election.
One week before a California panel is set to hear an appeal regarding Eastman’s disbarment, a group of Democrat attorneys general claim a Trump executive order runs “roughshod over the First Amendment” and sends “a menacing message to attorneys nationwide: unless they advance positions or represent clients favorable to the current administration, their livelihood may be at risk.”
“The shoe is on the other foot and they are complaining about things they have been doing for years,” Eastman told The Daily Signal. “This is just absolute projection.”
Family Ties and Desperate Housewives star Justine Bateman has accused Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of turning being victims into an Olympic sport. [Snip] 'I don't think she cares if you like the show. This has nothing to do with making a good show. It is just her subtly roasting the Royal Family. This isn't made for us. This is made for like 30 people in that castle. That's all she's doing', she said in a video. [Snip] She also said it 'does feel like she has lied about whether she knew who Prince Harry was' and that 'details about her childhood change and don't add up'.
Former UFC fighter and everyone's favorite Irishman, Connor McGregor, spoke at the White House on Monday and didn't mince words about how important stopping the flood of illegal immigration is.
The former UFC champ recapped the issue happening in Ireland right now, calling it a "travesty" where unwelcome immigrants from North African and Middle-Eastern countries — as well as Rosie O'Donnell — are flooding the country and causing havoc and chaos.
McGregor had choice words about the Irish government.
"Our government is a government of zero action and accountability," said McGregor. "Our money is being spent on overseas interests that has nothing to do with the Irish people."
In a blockbuster move sure to make American taxpayers happy and leftists "literally shake" with rage, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Monday that it would be phasing out treatments for gender dysphoria, using the money saved to assist disabled veterans.
VA Secretary Doug Collins made the announcement on X, noting that veterans who want "to attempt to change their sex" can "do so on their own dime."
The official announcement by the VA referenced President Trump's "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" executive order
The Wall Street Journal has consistently criticized Trump’s economic policies, particularly his ongoing “trade war” with Canada, over the past several weeks. And certainly, the tensions are regrettable. Trump’s trolling of the insufferable Justin Trudeau, with talk of Canada becoming the “51st state,” perhaps only galvanized the Canadian left. It unfortunately may ensure that the only real hope for a Canadian return to normality, the election of Pierre Poilievre, may be lost.
Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly gets rid of his
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Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., traded his electric Tesla Model X for a gasoline-powered Chevy Tahoe, citing his criticism of billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as the reason for the change.
“When I bought this thing, I didn’t think it was going to become a political issue,” Kelly said in a video on his social media accounts on Friday. “Every time I get in this car in the last 60 days or so, it reminds me of just how much damage Elon Musk and Donald Trump is doing to our country.”
While Chevy makes several electric and hybrid vehicles, Kelly decided to get the Chevy Tahoe, which averages about 21 miles
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a Mexican national who was convicted of kidnapping on Thursday. The criminal alien has a lengthy criminal history and has been deported eight times.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers deported 43-year-old Baltazar Pantoja Calderon to his home country late last week, according to information received from ICE officials in Houston.
According to ICE, Pantoja illegally entered the U.S. eight times. After his first arrest in May 1999, the Mexican national voluntarily deported himself to Mexico.
Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), a 2028 presidential hopeful, is doing an about-face by excluding older illegals from a budget-busting healthcare program he signed into law just three years ago.
After enjoying their plans for only three years, thousands of illegal migrants now stand to lose their state-funded health care to budget cuts in Illinois as Gov. Pritzker seeks to balance a huge budget deficit.
Pritzker and state Democrats earned national coverage in 2022 by creating a healthcare plan that covered illegal migrants from the ages of 42 to 64 and up, along with those under 18. But now, Pritzker is seeking to cut the plans of the 42 to 64 age group,
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has postponed his book tour scheduled this week in Baltimore, New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia amid an intense backlash from fellow Democrats over his controversial vote to advance a House Republican-drafted funding package that cuts deeply into non-defense programs.
A spokesperson for Schumer’s book tour said that it would be rescheduled due to “security concerns.”
Schumer was scheduled to barnstorm East Coast cities this week to promote his new book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning.”
Once considered the undisputed leader in the electric vehicle (EV) revolution, Tesla is now grappling with a dramatic decline in its stock value, mounting competition, and an impending wave of boycotts. The company's struggles come amid growing concerns over CEO Elon Musk's political entanglements, including his controversial role in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has sparked nationwide protests.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) attacked President Donald Trump over the weekend for using the law to deport members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.
Crockett made the remarks after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport members of the hyper-violent organization on Saturday.
“That gang is obviously associated with a lot of crime, human trafficking, drug dealing theft, shootings, including in your state of Texas, right outside of your congressional district,” Tapper said.
“Do you agree with this?” he asked. “And, if not, what’s your issue with the U.S. using any tool at its disposal to remove undocumented violent people from this country?”
Crockett responded
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend announced live on air that she’s quitting her beloved Democratic Party because she is so “p----” at Chuck Schumer siding with the Republicans on the latest spending bill.
Sanders Townsend — a former press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and senior adviser for both former President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris — said she was done with her party because Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) folded “like a paper napkin” to President Trump.
“There’s actually little that the Senate minority leader can say, and the 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say, to appease somebody like me,”
The first border wall contract of President Donald Trump’s second term, valued at approximately $70 million, was announced Saturday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it awarded the contract, worth $70,285,846, to the Watsonville, California-based Granite Construction Co., mandating the company to erect “approximately seven miles of new border wall in Hidalgo County, Texas, within the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector.”
The areas the new wall is expected to close off were “critical openings in the border wall that were left incomplete due to cancelled contracts during the Biden Administration,” according to CBP.
An MSNBC panel argued Monday that unchecked falsehoods from President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk are to blame for Democrats’ tanking popularity.
The Democratic Party’s favorability has plunged 20% since January 2021 to a historic low of 29%, according to a Sunday CNN/SSRS poll conducted March 6-9. On “Morning Joe,” when host Mika Brzezinski asked former MSNBC host Chris Matthews about the party’s poor ratings, he asserted Americans are absorbing right-wing “lies,” claiming that “nobody” fact-checks them.
The United States Senate has overwhelmingly passed the HALT Fentanyl Act (S.331), which designates fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act.
The legislation, sponsored by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), was backed by 84 senators.
However, 16 Democrats inexplicably voted against the measure.
Their reason? Either blind partisanship or a preference for soft-on-crime policies—I’m leaning toward the latter.
If you have had difficulty finding some reason to support the Democratic Party and its increasingly bizarre policy positions, you are not alone. Two national polls released on Sunday reveal that the party’s favorability ratings have plunged to catastrophic lows. According to a new NBC News survey, just 27 percent of registered voters hold a positive view of the Democratic Party — its lowest rating since 1990. Likewise, a new CNN poll indicates that only 29 percent of U.S. adults regard the party favorably — a low not seen since 1992. These two polls confirm an equally ominous Quinnipiac survey conducted last month.
Both surveys clearly illuminate why the public
Woman Wearing MAGA Hat Denied Service,
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Leftists never seem to pass up a chance to demonstrate that for all their claims that Trump is a “fascist” who is bent on destroying “our democracy,” they’re the real totalitarians who are absolutely intolerant of dissent and determined to stamp it out. This played out yet again on Friday at a club called Chatterbox Jazz in Indianapolis, where a he/she/they bartender threatened a woman wearing a MAGA hat with a baseball bat and unceremoniously threw her out of the bar, as patrons sat by and laughed at the spectacle. And it’s understandable that they’d be amused: after all, this wasn’t something serious, like a Christian baker
Elitist Dinner Party Didn't Do This for
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It’s an insult that President Donald J. Trump would likely relish. All the right people hate him at this event, so he’d be happy to know they didn’t toast him. The Gridiron Dinner is a long-standing off-the-record event where the political elite, journalists, and politicians hobnob for the evening. It returned in 2022 after a lengthy hiatus due to the COVID pandemic (via The Hill).
This year, the president was not toasted for the first time in its 140-year history. The First Amendment, however, was
Sacré bleu! Talk about a Napoleon complex.
Some stories don’t require a lengthy set-up. They speak for themselves (and today, they’re parlez-vous-ing exclusively in French):
France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French Euro-deputy said Sunday.
"Give us back the Statue of Liberty", centre-left politician Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique centre-left movement.
"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" he told cheering supporters.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she is skipping the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner slated for April 26.
Leavitt made the announcement during a podcast appearance with Sean Spicer, who served as President Donald Trump's White House press secretary for the first six months of 2017.
"I will not be in attendance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and that's breaking news for ‘The Sean Spicer Show,’" Leavitt said.
Leavitt said the WHCA "has truly become a monetized monopoly over the White House and the coverage of the president of the United States in America."
Over the past few years, more Americans were surprised to learn that their bank suddenly closed their accounts, purportedly for their political views.
The process is called debanking, when a bank chooses to kick a customer out, often without any notice or explanation.
Critics say the Biden administration encouraged banks to remove politically controversial customers in the name of reputational risk. Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis sent a letter to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, calling on him to investigate federal pressure on banks to oust customers.
“Debanking has exploded under Biden-Harris administration,” the letter said. “It must stop and bad actors must be held accountable.
“When customers are debanked and frozen
The U.S. border was illicitly crossed fewer times last month than in any February in the country’s history. There were 28,654 encounters and apprehensions of illegals reported nationwide. For those who might see border security, and deportations, as cruel acts against the poor and hopeless who want only to escape to a land of plenty, we offer another way of looking at illegal immigration.
Because the February number is actually good news.
The phrase “moral hazard” comes to us from the insurance industry. It refers, says Law & Liberty, “to the possibility that insuring against costly outcomes actually increases the reckless
President Donald Trump has said that Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons of members of Congress who investigated the January 6 attack are "void, vacant and of no further effect." a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopen—a device that replicates a person's signature.
President Trump is likely to have another phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week according to Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff was in Moscow Thursday for talks with President Putin and he shares how many specific details and issues were discussed. The conflict zone in Ukraine is 2,000 kilometers long, with Russian and Ukraine fire on multiple points. Despite a ceasefire on such a complicated scale, Steve Witkoff is optimistic it is possible. MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to President Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who joins us this morning from Miami Beach. Welcome back to “Face the nation.
I think a lot of people are chomping at the bit for the Kennedy and Epstein files.
So when "Full Measure" host Sharyl Attkisson interviewed President Donald Trump, she knew she had to ask that question. Bondi said she hadn't been provided all the Epstein files from the NY FBI field office when there was a big controversy about releasing old, incomplete information. But then she demanded they turn over the rest of it. The last word was that they'd turned over a "truckload of information" that she believed was all the information on March 3.
I don't know if it's maturity or just weariness, but over the past few years, I've somehow managed — finally — to develop some emotional callouses that keep me from feeling every darn thing so very much. I can see the drawbacks of that, but I also see the benefits. If I were to allow myself to perpetually swim in the emotional stew prompted by life and the world we find ourselves living in these days, I'd swift become a basket case. And ain't nobody got time for that. Consequently, I've not really allowed myself the luxury of dipping deeply into the feels of The COVID Times,
She's About to Find Out - Canadian Ambassador
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The issue of Canada becoming the 51st state arose from a conversation in Mar-a-Lago between Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S President Donald Trump.
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined, Trudeau said if President Trump was to make the Canadian government pay reciprocal tariffs, open the USMCA trade agreements to force reciprocity, and/or balance economic relations on non-tariff issues, then Canada would collapse and cease to exist.
In essence, Canada cannot survive as a free and independent north American nation, without receiving all the one-way benefits from the U.S. economy. To wit, President Trump then said, if Canada cannot survive in a balanced rules environment,
A DC judge ordered the Trump administration to turn around flights deporting known members of the Venezuelan-based designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Tren de Aragua and return them to the US after he entered a temporary restraining order on the part of five gang members and created a "class" of similarly situated criminals; see Activist Nation: Judge Orders Plane Carrying Gangsters Kicked Out by Trump to Turn Around. As it turned out, the judge may not have had all the power he imagined. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who doesn't have to care what some desiccated megalomaniac in a black robe says, had a harsh message in response to the order.
We are in what may best be described as a swarm of Federal Judges vying for the title of the most audacious giver of laws violating the President’s Article II executive powers under the Constitution and the one whose audacity will get his or her ruling to the Supreme Court first. While we proles down here where we live with and interact with average, law-abiding, tax-paying American citizens everyday of our life may find it impossible to understand how a lawyer who took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States-
On Saturday, we learned that Donald Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport violent members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). Shortly after that, an Obama-appointed activist judge said not so fast and ordered for planes carrying these criminals to turn around.
As Matt Margolis wrote earlier, "Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, apparently more concerned with the rights of foreign criminals than American safety, issued a temporary restraining order against Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act. This centuries-old law has been successfully used by multiple presidents to protect our nation from genuine threats."
If you have had difficulty finding some reason to support the Democratic Party and its increasingly bizarre policy positions, you are not alone. Two national polls released on Sunday reveal that the party’s favorability ratings have plunged to catastrophic lows. According to a new NBC News survey, just 27 percent of registered voters hold a positive view of the Democratic Party — its lowest rating since 1990. Likewise, a new CNN poll indicates that only 29 percent of U.S. adults regard the party favorably — a low not seen since 1992. These polls confirm an equally ominous Quinnipiac survey conducted last month.