Posts on Tuesday, April 8, 2025
On average, Americans pay about twice what other countries do for prescription drugs. Thanks to President Trump’s aggressive tariffs and the global trade war they are inciting, they might soon pay even more. [Snip] Although pharmaceuticals are currently exempt, it’s widely expected that won’t last. In his remarks announcing tariffs last week, Trump said, “The pharmaceutical companies are going to come roaring back. … because if they don't, they've got a big tax to pay,...” When they do, one of the biggest losers would likely be generic drug manufacturers...they account for about 90% of all prescriptions in the United States, a huge segment of Americans...
President Trump on Tuesday did the honors of planting a “MAGAnolia” sapling and descendant of the 200-year-old “Jackson Magnolia” tree on the White House Lawn to replace the original historic White House fixture.
The White House shared photos and video of the President digging the hole and planting the new tree, which they dubbed the “new MAGAnolia sapling.” (X Photos) WATCH: (Photo) Per USA Today:
The White House has planted a new sapling to replace an ancient magnolia named for President Andrew Jackson.
The Trump administration is freezing more than $1 billion in federal funds to Cornell and $790 million in funding for Northwestern University in response to civil rights investigations at both schools.
“The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” a Trump admin official told Fox News. The pause largely involves grants and contracts to both schools with the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services, two administratiA spokesperson for Northwestern told The Post they haven’t received any notice from the federal government regarding a funding freeze – stating they were informed of President Trump’s supposed decision
Biden Admin Allegedly Suppressed Report
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Linking Service Members to Early COVID
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In another troubling revelation, the Biden administration is facing scrutiny after reports emerged that it allegedly suppressed a crucial document suggesting that U.S. service members may have contracted COVID-19 as early as October 2019, possibly in Wuhan. The report, which could have far-reaching implications for the timeline of the pandemic’s origins, was reportedly hidden from the public eye, sparking concerns over transparency and accountability within the administration.
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war,” Winston Churchill reportedly said.
We will soon know if Iran agrees.
The talks scheduled for Saturday between Iran and the United States are shaping up as a crucial test of the mad mullahs’ intentions. If they are hell-bent on building nuclear weapons, war is inevitable.
It would be war with Israel and probably with America, too. For Iran, that means taking on the Little Satan and the Great Satan simultaneously.
That’s what the crazy mullahs always said they wanted. If it hasn’t occurred to them yet, soon they will realize what a colossal mistake they have made.
The North Carolina Supreme Court halted a previous order from the state appeals court requiring the verification of 65,000 questionable ballots.
This case has been bouncing around between state and federal courts.
Last week the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that approximately 65,000 ballots — cast by voters with incomplete registration information, missing photo identification, or submitted by individuals who have never lived in North Carolina — may be invalid under state and federal election law.
The 2-1 decision was authored by Judges John Tyson and Fred Gore both registered Republicans.
A federal appeals panel appeared sympathetic toward a claim that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has failed in its duty to veterans but also raised concerns that a trial judge may have overstepped his authority in a broad order requiring the agency to build more housing on its West Los Angeles campus.
“When you look at things that have occurred on this property, I struggle with how some of the things the VA did benefited veterans at all,” presiding Judge Consuelo M. Callahan said early in the proceeding.
But she added, “I guess the remedies here are what caused me concern, the reach of what Judge Carter [ordered].”
Ten years ago I wrote a Taki’s Magazine article on one of the more self-destructive acts in the history of the U.S. government when the defeated Carter Administration intentionally hamstrung state capacity by throwing out the brand new, superbly validate civil service exam in the name of racial equity: (Snip) Of course, blacks and Hispanics did less well on this test than whites and Asians. Therefore the EEOC tacitly sponsored a lawsuit and filed it under the name of a Mexican-American plaintiff who had failed the test, Angel Luevano. (Snip) Finally, 44 years later, the new Trump Administration is trying to get out from under the Luevano consent decree:
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the Associated Press’s access to presidential events, saying that the decision to impose limitations violated the news organization’s free speech rights.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that it was unconstitutional for the Trump administration to punish the AP because it refused to change its style guidance for the Gulf of Mexico, which President Trump renamed the Gulf of America. McFadden ordered the White House to restore the AP’s access to the Oval Office, Air Force One, “and other limited spaces when such spaces are made open to other members of the White House press pool.”
Illegal Tries Kicking at Kristi Noem,
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took part in early-morning deportation raids in Arizona Tuesday, almost getting kicked by an illegal alien as he was detained in the back of a police vehicle.
Noem, who takes part in the raids to remind criminal aliens that there's a new sheriff in town, was speaking with a suspect who had just been cuffed and placed in the back of the SUV.
"Do you understand the charges against you?" she asked Jose Escobar-Robles, who was being picked up for reportedly illegally funneling money to Mexican drug cartels.
Escobar-Robles's response was muffled, but Noem replied, "Yeah, well, you're gonna be prosecuted."
I don't even know where to start with this one. Every time this woman opens her mouth, she says something dumber than the last time she spoke. Yes, you may have guessed that I'm talking about the most obnoxious person in politics at the moment, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas).
Apparently, Crockett was the guest speaker at the 125th Anniversary Program at Grace Baptist Church in Connecticut over the weekend, and while I've only seen a minute or so of her speech, it didn't come across as very Godly or Christian-like. In fact, it's extremely racist and offensive. But considering the source, are we surprised?
A teacher who expressed anger over the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Nicholas John Roske was arrested outside Kavanaugh's home last year, allegedly armed with a firearm, a knife, and zip ties. Out of rage over the Court's landmark decision, he confessed to the crime. His actions highlight the alarming and dangerous rhetoric emanating from the left as violent threats against conservative justices and public figures continue to escalate.
The way Trump is fighting the globalists, you'd think they tried to bankrupt, imprison, and assassinate the man.
I've had fun watching my leftoid, Chicken Little, dunder-butt friends (I still have a few) frantically selling off their 401ks the last few days, despite every indication that the stock market would eventually return to baseline.
FACT-O-RAMA! Liberals hate Trump so much they will gladly sell off their stocks for a loss and forever blame "Orange Hitler" for the beating. I watched two friends do just this in the past two days.
Just one week after Trump's "Liberation Day," when he walloped the world with new tariffs, roughly 70 countries have bent a knee
Vice President JD Vance Lights Up Mitch
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Vice President JD Vance lit up Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after the senator voted against the nomination of Elbridge Colby to serve as Under Secretary of Policy at the Defense Department, describing the move as a grand display of “political pettiness.”
“Mitch’s vote today — like so much of the last few years of his career — is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance said, as Colby’s nomination brought out the worst of globalists. (X) In a statement explaining his vote against President Donald Trump’s choice, McConnell asserted that Colby’s public record “suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America,
CNN’s Senior Data Reporter, Harry Enten, delivered unwelcome news to Democrats who rage against President Trump and call him a “king.” According to a recent poll, a majority of Americans disagree.
Further, for those worried Trump’s second term would be as a “lame duck” Enten said far from that, Trump is “a soaring eagle.”
Harry Enten: I think there was this concern among some folks that Donald Trump would come in for a second term and be a lame duck. He ain’t no lame duck. If anything, he’s a soaring eagle.
PHOENIX — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty on President Trump’s deportation raids.
Noem led about 100 federal agents on an early morning raid Tuesday in Arizona’s capital, where they nabbed three illegal migrants wanted on charges from weapons and drug offenses to running a money laundering operation.
The Post was there as she dodged kicks from a suspect wearing slip-on shoes and gamely told him, “You’re not scaring me with your Croc.” (Photos) The multi-agency task force — led by Phoenix Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and joined by a coterie of federal law enforcement and immigration agencies — nabbed three illegal immigrant felons
It’s time for Wall Street to get a grip.
The Trump tariff policies are a calculated gamble that the threat of tariffs can fundamentally remake the global economy and retilt it in the direction of the United States — and away from China and other beggar-thy-neighbor countries.
But whether they work or not, Wall Street elites have convinced themselves that these tariffs are worse than the pandemic that stopped the entire economy, or the 2009 economic crisis that put 10 million people out of work. And so far, nothing has happened. It’s all speculation about what could happen.
The Trump administration is proposing a $998 a day fine for illegal migrants who refuse to self-deport.
The suggested policy could also result in the confiscation of property if the migrants do not pay the fines. A similar plan was put in place in 2018 during Trump’s first term in office and is reportedly based on a law passed in 1996, according to a report by Reuters. The policy in 2018 was far more narrowly invoked. Trump used the 1996 law to levy fines on nine migrants who had taken shelter inside churches, eventually imposing a $60,000 per migrant fine in that case.
As virtually the entire country — not the least of which are the social media keyboard jockeys — continues to follow the latest White House developments and stock market reactions to President Donald Trump's currently-fluid "reciprocal tariffs" policy on products imported to the U.S. from much of the world, a noted former economic advisor to President Ronald has explained how Trump can create a "win-win" exit strategy.That is, as author and economist Arthur Laffer explained during an interview on Fox Business’ “Varney & Co.,” that Trump’s initial plan — to use tariffs solely as leverage for negotiating fairer trade relationships all around —
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government. The justices acted in the administration’s emergency appeal of a ruling by a federal judge in California ordering that 16,000 probationary employees be reinstated while a lawsuit plays out because their firings didn’t follow federal law.
The effect of the high court’s order will keep employees in six federal agencies on paid administrative leave for now. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have kept the judge’s order in place.
All the Ukrainian Known Knowns
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Aside from the rhetoric, there is a growing consensus among Western diplomats, military analysts, military officers, heads of state, and even much of the media about how to end the endless Ukrainian war. A proposed peace will see a DMZ established somewhere along an adjusted 1,200-mile Ukraine-Russia border. [Snip] If and when peace comes, we can already foresee the misinformation that will follow: Trump deserves no credit. Zelenskyy remains the true hero. A now hollowed-out Russia was the real winner. The only mystery? Since when did the anti-war left prefer an endless and horrific war to a difficult, messy peace?
DOGE Official Confirms What We've Known
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All Along: Illegal Immigrants Are on Medicaid
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Democrats love to portray themselves as the compassionate ones. They just want to help people, especially the poor and downtrodden. When you ask them about illegal immigration, they will tell you that these are just poor people looking for a better life for themselves and their families. That's why they were perfectly okay with a wide-open southern border and letting millions of people into the country. It was all about compassion. However, as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to dig into the twisted story of America's finances, we are finding out that the compassion ruse is just that, another Democrat party scheme.
he U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a move to bring back federal workers who were fired by the Trump administration, handing a win to President Donald Trump as he works to downsize the government.
Trump asked the high court to intervene after a lower court judge ordered the administration to reinstate thousands of probationary workers to their jobs after they were terminated earlier this year.
Tuesday’s emergency ruling by the Supreme Court, presented to Justice Elena Kagan, is not final and is stayed pending the disposition of an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that Washington D.C. District Court Judge James Boasberg did not have the jurisdiction to hear the case involving President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport a group of Venezuelan nationals and alleged gang members. [Snip] “Boasberg effectively usurped the president’s power and mandate to combat illegal immigration by thwarting his policy and micromanaging his operations to deport the terrorist illegal aliens of Tren de Aragua,... [Snip] The Federalist’s senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland said ... “IF there was no jurisdiction … why is SCOTUS saying what ‘due process’ is required,...”
Love Donald Trump or not, you can't deny that the man has grit.
He made history by Grover Clevelanding himself into a non-consecutive second term, and when we reflect on the utter shambles the Biden administration made of things, it's easy to see why. In that election, he was fortunate in his adversary, the worse presidential candidate in history; Kamala Harris couldn't string together a coherent sentence if you spotted her two verbs and an article. She may have been even worse than Joe Biden would have been had he remained the candidate, dementia and all.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says his forces engaged a squad of Chinese citizen fighters inside the territory of Ukraine, implying this means Ukraine is now fighting China as well as Russia and North Korea.
Footage of a restrained soldier appearing to explain his experience in a battle in a mix of Chinese and English to his captor has been published by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Speaking alongside Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever during that nationalist politician’s first trip to Kyiv, Zelensky said during a battle in Donetsk — a Ukrainian region since the end of the Cold War — his armed forces engaged a squad of half a dozen Chinese soldiers.
Recent incidents of vandalism targeting Tesla vehicles with swastikas has raised questions amongst leftists about the limits and interpretation of hate crime laws. As violence and domestic terrorism by Trump haters against Elon Musk and Tesla escalate, many on the left are trying to excuse extreme acts of vandalism.
The New York Times reports that in recent weeks, a series of vandalism incidents involving swastikas being drawn or carved onto Tesla vehicles in New York City has sparked a complex debate about the definition and application of hate crime laws. While the use of swastikas, a symbol of Nazi Germany and antisemitism, would typically be considered a clear-cut case
The federal judge who blocked the Trump administration's use of a 1798 wartime law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals canceled a planned Tuesday court hearing to review the case after the Supreme Court handed a win to the president. In a minute order published Tuesday morning, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg announced that the previously scheduled Tuesday afternoon hearing would be vacated in light of the high court's ruling, which determined, among other things, that the "appropriate venue for such proceedings is the Southern District of Texas," or wherever plaintiffs that are subject to potential removal are currently being held.
Fear of Russian revanchism may set back decades of work by European governments to erode individual responsibility in favour of a more collectivist model, with the public now increasingly told to be ready to take control for their own survival.
The German Interior Ministry led by social democrat-left caretaker minister Nancy Faeser is intervening to introduce civil defence into the school curriculum, a report by the Handelsblatt newspaper states. In Germany, education is the responsibility of individual states but the Federal government wants to push this matter and will prepare education material to be distributed to the states, it is said.
The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, according to six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter.
Discussions among White House, Defense Department and intelligence officials, which are still at an early stage, have included possible drone strikes against cartel figures and their logistical networks in Mexico with the cooperation of Mexico’s government, the sources said.
Still, the administration has made no final decision
Billionaire Elon Musk, a top donor and adviser to President Donald Trump, is escalating his feud with Trump’s pro-tariff trade adviser Peter Navarro.
Musk took to X, the social media platform he owns, to respond to Navarro’s commentary on Tesla’s supposed reliance on foreign components.
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote in a Tuesday morning post. “By any definition whatsoever, Tesla is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in America with the highest percentage of US content.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a senior US officer assigned to NATO, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, saying her removal was due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.
Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield is the latest in a string of top officers to be dismissed by Donald Trump’s administration, part of a rare major shakeup of senior US military leadership since the president returned to office in January. Hegseth removed Chatfield “from her position as US representative to NATO’s military committee due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead,
New York — After markets plunged over the course of the past three trading sessions, Wall Street investors were looking for any excuse to catch their breath ahead of another planned tariff escalation at midnight.
They seem to have found one — at least for now.
US stocks opened higher Tuesday, setting the stage for a rebound. The Dow rose 1,360 points, or 3.6%. The broader S&P 500 gained 3.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 3.76%. Over the course of the past few days, stock prices got absolutely hammered as Wall Street grew fearful that President Donald Trump’s tariff policy would plunge the US and global economies into a recession. But
From diversity and gay rights to freedom of speech and protest, anti-Trump activists in New York shared their visions of an "ideal America" during interviews with Fox News Digital on Saturday, at the 'Hands Off!' protest movement.
"For me, an ideal America is one where people can protest like this and have their voices heard, and they are the ones who are running the country — not somebody who's taken over the country and no longer allows the First Amendment to be spoken," said one unnamed, masked protester, holding a sign which had the scientific symbol for "resistor."
I count myself as one of the lucky ones to have grown up without the distraction of cell phones, social media, and the lure of the internet. That is why I am glad to see the growing movement to ban cell phones from schools. This movement is reinforced by Trump’s new Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Kennedy recently announced he is working with various states to remove all cell phones from schools in what many are dubbing the “Bell to Bell” initiative. Secretary Kennedy believes cell phones are not only detrimental to a child’s mental health, but have also been shown to cause physical damage
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is used to these antics, but they are unspooled. The Republican congressman and gubernatorial candidate encountered a crazy white liberal woman who couldn’t engage with him on any level. She was intellectually and emotionally immature—totally haywire. To Donald's credit, this is what you must do in public life: talk to people who hate your guts. There was no reasoning with this woman. Where things went off the rails was when she asked him about transgender kids.
Claims that President Trump inherited a thriving economy from President Biden are not just misleading—they’re dishonest. The Biden supporters measure economic “growth” from the lowest point of the COVID lockdowns in 2020, when businesses were shuttered and unemployment was artificially high. This makes even mediocre recovery look like booming progress. But if we compare Biden’s economy to 2019—the last full year before the pandemic—many key indicators show not a robust rebound but an economy weighed down by inflation, debt, and diminished purchasing power.
Real wages are down. From January 2021 to May 2024, average hourly earnings for private-sector workers fell by 2.24% when adjusted for inflation.
In a move that common sense Americans are hailing as a victory for personal freedom and military readiness, the U.S. Army has begun reenlisting soldiers discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine following an executive order from President Donald Trump. Signed just days after his inauguration, Trump’s directive demanded the rehiring of these troops—whom he called “patriots”—along with back pay for their time away. As of Monday, over 23 soldiers have rejoined the ranks, with three returning to active duty and more than 20 reentering the National Guard or Reserves. Yet, the fine print of the Pentagon’s implementation reveals a less generous reality than some might have hoped.
China vowed to “fight to the end” after President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 percent duty on imports if Beijing does not withdraw the retaliatory 34 percent tariff it imposed on American products last week.
China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement that it “resolutely opposes” the president’s escalating threat of tariffs and will not back down. “The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake,” the statement said, according to a CNBC translation. “China will never accept it. If the U.S. insists on its own way, China will fight to the end.”
While the latest aviation safety issues and accidents over the last few months scare some, to seasoned professionals the aviation tragedies and near misses do not come as a surprise. The only question is: Why did it take so long?
There’s a long list of safety failures in the airline industry. United Airlines B777 plunged to the Pacific during climb in 2023, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), United, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) didn’t investigate it for months. A 265-pound main tire fell off a B777 taking off out of Los Angeles; it fell from over 200 feet — still spinning — into an airport parking lot.
In the dumpy little borough of Millbourne, Pennsylvania, three elected Democrats cheated in the 2021 election in almost every imaginable way. Their candidate, one of the three cheaters, still lost his bid for mayor by some 30 votes. Two are still in office as of April 4, according to a phone call to the borough hall.
The three pleaded guilty April 1 to a host of election fraud offenses at separate hearings before United States District Judge Harvey Bartle III.
To examine their scheme is to see in play many of the red flags election integrity experts have warned about. It is a textbook for cheaters to study,
Now They Tell Us: How Top Democrats Changed
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Mainstream journalists spent the last four years "speaking truth to power" by helping Democrats lie to the American people about the extent of Joe Biden's cognitive decline. The truth can finally be told now that the election is over.
The first of several books about the Democratic Party's scandalous cover up, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, came out earlier this month. Excerpts from the upcoming titles, such as Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History by Chris Whipple, have leaked to the press in an effort to juice sales.
The Trump Justice Department summoned US Marshals to deliver a letter to fired Biden-era pardon attorney Liz Oyer to warn her about her testimony at a ‘shadow’ hearing by congressional Democrats.
President Trump’s Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche fired Elizabeth Oyer last month.
Elizabeth Oyer told The New York Times she was fired for refusing to restore actor Mel Gibson’s gun rights.
“Giving guns back to domestic abusers is a serious matter that, in my view, is not something that I could recommend lightly because
The bombshell reports came quickly after Donald Trump won the presidential election, took back the Oval Office, and directed Elon Musk to head the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk, the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, quickly uncovered, along with his DOGE team, staggering amounts of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, including jaw-dropping expenditures at agencies like USAID for woke social justice projects and funding to folks with ties to terrorists.
We thought at first that it must be an April Fool’s joke until we saw the date the story was posted. On April 3, Bloomberg reported that Republicans “are weighing the creation of a new bracket for those earning $1 million or more to offset some of the costs of their tax bill.”
Earlier in the year, Politico reported that members of the House Freedom Caucus were considering boosting the corporate tax rate to 25% to “pay for” a doubling of the cap on state and local tax deductions.
As our friend Steve Moore put it: “I mean, Republicans, are they crazy?”
“Crazy” is putting it mildly.
Pete Hegseth Brags That Terrorists Have
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth provided updates on the military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, signaling the armed terror group was getting shelled and things were only about to intensify. Hegseth made the comments during President Trump's Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Pentagon chief indicated that the United States military would continue to protect American interests in the region and would only relent if the Iran-backed proxy group ceased firing upon American ships.
“It’s been a bad three weeks for the Houthis, and it’s about to get worse,” Hegseth told reporters.
An Indian government official reportedly told Bloomberg News on Sunday that his government is “unlikely to immediately retaliate against President Donald Trump’s tariff imposition.”
Instead, New Delhi hopes to work out a deal to reduce tariffs and trade barriers on both sides, according to the media outlet. The unnamed bureaucrat expressed India’s desire to seek “dialogue and not confrontation” and “work toward a balanced and equitable trade deal with the U.S.” The South Asian nation was hit with a 26 percent tariff last Wednesday, plus the standard ten percent applied to every other country, when President Trump revealed his schedule of levies
The desperate Dems, pole-axed by Trump’s fast start on his second term, have revved up their TDS Rube Goldberg scandal machine. The so-called SignalGate affair is being vigorously flogged, with the usual help from Republican Fifth Columnists. But the “-gate” suffix doesn’t mean what the Democrats think it does.
Recently, a group meeting including Trump, Vice President Vance, Def Sec Peter Hegseth, and other defense and national security officials, convened to discuss a punitive attack on Yemen’s Houthi terrorists, and inadvertently included Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, best known for his inveterate, hysterical hatred of Donald Trump, and his eager peddling of the preposterous Russia hoax.
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It has been a while since Democrats have assassinated a Republican president, but that peaceful interlude may be ending soon. You likely have heard about a survey report by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, which examines the growing tolerance for violence in American society. Or, rather, on America’s Left:
Political violence targeting Donald Trump and Elon Musk is becoming increasingly normalized. Following the July 13, 2024 attempted assassination of President Trump, tolerance – and even advocacy – for political violence appears to have surged, especially among politically left-leaning segments of the population. This pattern builds on a broader trend NCRI identified in two
MTA, Trump admin reach congestion pricing
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Congestion pricing will likely remain in the heart of Manhattan until the fall under an agreement struck between the Trump administration and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — before a federal judge then ultimately decides the controversial toll’s fate, according to court documents.
The revelation came Monday after the deal was conveyed to Judge Lewis Liman on Friday — the same day US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy rode the beleaguered city subway system with Mayor Eric Adams and ripped the MTA for its high spending.Congestion pricing will remain in the heart of Manhattan until at least the fall, according to court documents.
A tony New Jersey city is considering approving a controversial new ordinance that would fine or jail homeless people found sleeping in public spaces.
Summit Councilman Jamel Boyer, a Republican, introduced the ordinance last Tuesday, claiming it serves to “preserve the safe and accessible use of public property for all residents, pedestrians and businesses.”
The ordinance in Summit would prohibit the homeless from camping in public areas, including parks, sidewalks, alleyways, and benches.
If approved, anyone found violating the ordinance would face a fine of up to $2,000 “and/or imprisonment or community service for a term not to exceed ninety days,” the order says. A similar ordinance was presented in Morristown, NJ,
Get ready for the crazy train because it’s leaving the station and picking up steam. That’s what Democrats are doing now, having fallen completely out of power. They know they have no argument FOR their policies, so they make arguments AGAINST anything Republicans are trying to do. Simply saying “no” means that they absolve themselves of any responsibility, which only really flies with people you obey without question – very good dogs willing to do whatever they are told. In other words, Democrat voters.
No society can function without police enforcing the law, yet who can expect them to do that if thugs who kill cops don’t pay a sufficient price?
As The Post reported Sunday, gangbanger David McClary — who put five bullets into the head of 22-year-old rookie Eddie Byrne — is up for parole this month, poised to become the 44th cop-killer sprung early from prison these last eight years.
That’s right: Forty-three savages who had the audacity to murder cops, a clear attack on civilized society, who have already walked free.
Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te on Sunday proposed zero tariffs, lower trade barriers, and more investment in the United States instead of retaliating against President Donald Trump’s tariff increases.
President Trump’s tariff announcement on Wednesday included 32 percent on all Taiwanese exports except semiconductors, which are Taiwan’s most celebrated and economically significant product. Trump had threatened in March to include Taiwanese semiconductors on his tariff list, because he said Taiwan “stole” the industry from America with unfair trade practices.
DOGE and State Department eliminate DEI
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the State Department worked closely together to eliminate the requirement that foreign service officers' performance be evaluated based on the principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This change ends a measure put in place during the Biden Administration, which dictated that 20% of diplomats' performance evaluations must be based on DEI-related efforts. Through a social media post, DOGE reported that, in conjunction with the State Department, it has worked to eliminate this requirement, which did not reflect the true merit of officials. DOGE maintains that evaluations should focus exclusively on professional performance and efficiency,
An appeals court on Monday cleared the way for billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to once again access people’s private data at three federal agencies, a win for the Trump administration as the underlying lawsuit plays out.
In a split ruling, the three-judge panel blocked a lower court decision that halted DOGE access at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has also sided with the Trump administration in other cases, including allowing DOGE access to U.S. Agency for International Development and letting executive orders against diversity, equity and inclusion move forward.
President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs have helped open trade negotiations between the United States and one of its key economic partners — Japan.
Last week, Trump announced reciprocal tariffs, a policy that has the United States set tariffs based on the rate that each country in the world imposes on the U.S. For Japan, the tariff rate with the U.S. is now 24 percent.As a result, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is looking to negotiate trade with the Trump administration.
“Countries from all over the world are talking to us. Tough but fair parameters are being set. Spoke to the Japanese Prime Minister this morning.
On Monday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed recent rhetoric on abortion from Democrats in Colorado.
Marlow stated, “A Colorado Democrat said birth is more expensive than abortion and they’re calling [abortions] now, ‘averted births’. So, this is anti-human, … if you’re talking about, basically, the life of a human being as just an economic problem. Remember this, that the left sees everything as a money issue.”
He added that many horror movies start with premises that aren’t as sinister as averting births and “this is the road to genocide. … It is not about safe, legal, and rare abortions.
The United States is speaking directly with Iran regarding its nuclear program, as President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are committed to preventing Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon.
Trump detailed the “direct talks with Iran” while speaking with reporters alongside Netanyahu in the Oval Office, after the prime minister noted America and Israel remain “united in the goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons.” “We’re having direct talks with Iran, and they’ve started… On Saturday we have a very big meeting, and we’ll see what can happen, and I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious,” Trump said.
Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump’s top adviser on trade and manufacturing, has become the subject of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk’s criticism as Musk denounces the administration’s latest tariffs.
Navarro, who has a PhD in economics from Harvard University, is widely considered the “architect” of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs unveiled last week at the White House, according to Reuters.
Despite also having a senior role in the Trump administration, Musk unleashed his opinions in a Saturday reply to an X clip of Navarro explaining that the president wants to charge other countries “what they charge us.”
WASHINGTON — The White House warned Monday that President Trump would veto a bipartisan bill that would mandate congressional approval of all tariffs should it arrive on his desk.
Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said the measure introduced last week by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) “would severely constrain the President’s ability to use authorities long recognized by Congress and upheld by the courts to respond to national emergencies and foreign threats.”
The Trade Review Act also “eliminates leverage over foreign trading partners, inhibits reshoring and supply chain resilience, fosters market uncertainty, and introduces procedural micromanagement,” the OMB Statement of Administration Policy added.