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Los Angeles funded and enabled a massive population of drug addicts to set up tent camps and banned effective ways of killing vermin. Medieval diseases returned. What’s to blame? Global warming! The county health department’s report indicates that California also had the highest number of flea-borne typhus cases in the modern era at 277. Number 1 in the modern era. Or perhaps California is going medieval. Shannon Bennett, the chief of science and a microbiology curator at the California Academy of Sciences, said the disease has been around for centuries and is “as old as the plague.” “It’s always a...

On March 28 2026, Cuban Heritage LA organized a rally demanding freedom for Cuba, an end to Cuba’s 67-year-long Communist dictatorship, and support for the Cuban people enduring political repression and economic privation. The rally took place at the Federal Building at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Veteran Ave. in the Los Angeles community of Westwood.

The March report on employment from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows non-farm payrolls increasing by 178,000 jobs. This exceeded expert predictions of a 60,000 increase. Since Trump's inauguration in January of 2025 the US private sector has added 609,000 jobs. Average hourly wages are 3.5% higher than a year ago. During the Biden Administration annual blue-collar wages declined by $1,703. In the past year these wages have risen by $1,186. The annual inflation rate that peaked at over 6% during the middle years of Biden's term have fallen to 2.5% in the first year of Trump's current term....

*** And now ***a woman was murdered by a left-wing former coworker who was angry over her support for President Trump and saw her as “racist.” The media won’t touch the story because they helped build the climate that made this kind of hatred feel righteous in the first place. This was the targeted killing of a Trump supporter by a former coworker who hated her politics and had been hostile toward her before the murder. And the press, which never misses a chance to spin every story into a lecture about how dangerous the right is, suddenly has nothing...

I posted the events nearly in real time as they transpired. I was called a liar and ridiculed; of course, no apologies are expected. They wouldn't come anyway. The following is pieced together from my Pentagon source speaking on background: The current picture of the F‑15E rescue mission inside Iran is beginning to take shape, and it’s one of the most daring U.S. combat search‑and‑rescue (CSAR) operations since the 1980 Tabas disaster — ironically, over nearly the same landscape.

KAROLINE LEAVITT: “You can and you should do both because actually being a mom and having a family and having a job, it gives you the greatest perspective.” @PressSec live at the This Is the Turning Point

Before Angel Studios released the animated movie David late last year, it released an animated movie based on the life of Jesus Christ, called The King of Kings, around Easter. The movie did remarkably well at the box office, and it was a movie that sparked my curiosity due to the fact that its approach was different in the sense that it was framed by how Charles Dickens taught the account of Jesus Christ to his kids. The Story: The movie opens up during the part of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, where the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, the self-absorbed...

"It's going unnoticed because so much other news is happening but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they've been chasing for thirty years, an all out regime change war against Iran. A new war in the Middle East would be a catastrophic mistake..."-Charlie Kirk "X" Post April 3, 2025... Intense fighting reported in southwestern Iran Saturday night amid a US effort to rescue a second crew member of a downed US warplane. Video was posted claiming to show Iranian civilians in vehicle convoys seeking to...

My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is now SAFE and SOUND! This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of...

The US has “recovered” the second crew member from the downed F-15E jet in Iran following a “heavy firefight”, a US government official says. US President Donald Trump warns that “all hell” will rain down on Iran if it does not reach a peace deal within 48 hours. Tehran rejects the “helpless and nervous” ultimatum.

67,000 arrests. Violent crime arrests up 100%+. 1,800 gangs dismantled. Murder and robbery rates dropping to historic lows. We put 1,000 agents back in the field, backed our cops, and went to work — because Donald Trump lets good cops be cops. Criminals are on notice. We’re not slowing down.

According to the political ideology that I subscribe to (libertarian), I’m supposed to be in favor of ending government funding of NPR. And from a theoretical point of view, I agree with that position.But for me, the real world always supersedes any theory. NPR, along with its government funding, is a long standing tradition in this country, just like the national parks, the national museums, and the Post Office. So even though it goes against libertarian theory, I support a continuation of all of those things.I like to call myself a “bad” libertarian because I am always happy and willing...

US President Donald Trump slamming President Emmanuel Macron under pressure over the Iran War. One aspect of the Iran War is a refugee crisis in Lebanon more than one million people driven from their homes most in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border... In Japan Macron signed a deal with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on critical minerals and nuclear power. Defense minister of South Korea and France also discussed closer cooperation between the two nations on defense. While US President Donald Trump may be threatening to leave NATO what will really happen may not bear resemblance to his public...

It's Easter weekend, and most people are with their families. But I guess for some folks on the Left, they couldn't even leave their obsession with President Donald Trump for even a moment. Trump called a lid at 11:08 AM on Saturday and didn't go to Mar-a-Lago. He had "executive time" on his schedule. Given all the things going on, it's likely related to the Iran conflict. That immediately got the rumor going that something must be wrong, which then managed to morph into, "He's at Walter Reed Hospital." Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen BREAKING: Speculation is rising that Donald Trump is...

🚨 do you understand what New York City just accidentally admitted.. NYC spent $81,705 per homeless person last year.. the median American household earned $81,228.. the government spent MORE to keep someone homeless than most families earned to keep themselves housed.. that $81,705 isn't going to the homeless person.. it's going to the system around them.. shelters, administrators, case managers, contracts, overhead.. the industry that manages homelessness.. not the end of it.. if NYC gave every homeless person that money directly.. they could afford nearly 2 years of rent.. most of them wouldn't be homeless anymore.. instead the money goes...

Did The New York Times publish a headline saying "A North American Treaty Organization Without America?" Yes, that's true: The mistake appeared in the April 3, 2026, print edition of the paper. Instead of saying "North American Treaty Organization," it should have said "North Atlantic Treaty Organization." The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @sissenberg account on X on April 3, 2026. It read: " Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?" snip

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) argued against the SAVE America Act, saying "can you really trust the government with your name, address, date of birth, driver's license number, and biometric information like height, weight, hair color, and eye color? The SAVE Act asks you to place that trust in them. I personally would not. States would be required to report their full voter rolls to Department of Homeland Security and certify that there are no non-citizens on their list. And the federal government can require, then, states to purge their voter roles of any non-citizens." The State of Rhode Island currently...

What the video is about: The video covers a heated legal and political battle in Riverside County, California. Republican Sheriff Chad Bianco (who is running for governor in 2026) used a judge-approved search warrant to seize over 650,000 ballots from the 2025 special election on Proposition 50 (a redistricting measure). Key events: Bianco's team (Riverside Election Integrity Team) flagged major discrepancies — for example, more votes tallied than ballots cast in some cases (over 45,000 in one reported instance). He launched an investigation into potential voter fraud. California's Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta and other Democrats strongly opposed the move,...

AI is here to stay, the experts say. Don’t fight it. Embrace it and give students a legitimate way to use AI in their writing. I’ve heard those claims since ChatGPT exploded onto the scene in late 2022 and sounded the death of the college essay. I’m an AI skeptic. As a historian, I know that teaching students to write and think for themselves is a crucial part of my job. But I’m also open-minded. As a historian, I know well the many examples of people resisting new technology simply because it’s disruptive—before embracing the same tech as an essential...

Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States. Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the "Great Satan." This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter's legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States. The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.