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November 11 could be the final Veterans Day for many of the World War II vets, now well into their 90s. Filmmaker Mel Brooks, 98, is one of them. Actor, comedian, composer and filmmaker Mel Brooks was born Melvin James Kaminsky in 1926. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1944, he was drafted into the Army. Due to his high scores on his military entrance exam, Brooks was placed in the Army Specialized Training Program at Virginia Military Institute, where he learned combat engineering and other fighting skills. Twelve weeks later, he was sent to basic training at...

I’m surprised by the ease with which I’m taking this. I was far more worried in ’16, but Trump will have far fewer constraints on his worst impulses this time around, and is poised to bring on average a much worse group of people to his admin than during his first term. The main reason this doesn’t seem nearly as dire a prospect is that Trump himself has declined so noticeably in vitality, and so rapidly that he may well already lack the energy to really yeltsin things up. We might even be lucky enough to have this be an...

WASHINGTON — The three NASA astronauts who returned to Earth on the Crew-8 mission declined to discuss the medical issue that prompted a trip to the hospital after their return and, for one of them, an overnight stay. NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, returned to Earth Oct. 25 on a Crew Dragon spacecraft, concluding the 235-day Crew-8 mission. But later that day NASA said that the four were taken to a Pensacola, Florida, hospital for additional medical evaluations “out of an abundance of caution.” One of the NASA astronauts was...

Mexico will continue pursuing measures to stop migrants from reaching its northern border with the United States, its top diplomat said on Friday, days after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election vowing a new crackdown on illegal immigration. Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente stressed that Mexico's model is working and will stay in place, pointing to data that shows the number of migrants caught by U.S. authorities at the border had fallen 76% since last December. "It's working well and we're going to continue on this path," he told a press conference. At the same conference, President...

Oct. 26 falls on a Thursday this year. Ask the significance of the date, and you're likely to draw some puzzled looks — five more days to stock up for Halloween? It's a measure of men like Col. Mitchell Paige and Rear Adm. Willis A. "Ching Chong China" Lee that they wouldn't have had it any other way. What they did 58 years ago, they did precisely so their grandchildren could live in a land of peace and plenty. Whether we've properly safeguarded the freedoms they fought to leave us, may be a discussion best left for another day. Today...

Russia has consistently cautioned Western nations against supplying Ukraine with long-range weapons. President Vladimir Putin has stated that using such armaments to carry out strikes deep within Russian territory would represent "a serious and dangerous step."UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron may make a last-ditch attempt to tackle efforts by the incoming Trump administration to cut US aid to Ukraine, British government sources told The Telegraph.The two leaders are meeting in Paris on November 11 to discuss the potential for persuading outgoing US President Joe Biden to approve Ukraine's use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles deep...

SummaryKremlin denies Trump and Putin spoke Kremlin says reports are 'pure fiction' Kremlin says Europeans are nervous about Trump Russia will continue Ukraine operation, Kremlin saysThe Kremlin on Monday denied reports that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days, and said Putin had no concrete plans yet to speak to Trump. The Washington Post, opens new tab first reported that the call had taken place, citing unidentified sources, and said that Trump had told Putin that he should not escalate the Ukraine war. Reuters also reported on the call, citing an unidentified source....

The editors of the New York Times blamed "voters who failed to see how serious a threat Donald Trump is to our democracy. They will now reap the whirlwind of the despotism they have empowered as Trump moves to censor and imprison those who disagree with him. Hopefully, they will grow to realize that the freedom and prosperity they have chosen for America is an inadequate substitute for the unity and equity lost by abandoning the vision bestowed upon us by former President Obama." CNN pundit Scott Jennings pointed out that "Democrats have already used the FBI to threaten social...

Donald Trump Jr. shared a social media post suggesting his father, the president-elect, will stop funding Ukraine in its war against Russia. Don Jr. on Saturday shared a video that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin posted on Instagram. The clip showed a stone-faced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy standing next to President-elect Donald Trump, with the overlay reading: "POV: You're 38 Days from losing your allowance." Also on Saturday, Don Jr. used X to repost a comment that included a Newsweek story with the headline, "Zelensky Spurns Donald Trump's Alleged 'Peace Plan.'" "DJT will be UN-'spurned' as soon as the endless...

On Day Two of testimony, Daniel Penny was merely known as "the white man." That's what Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's deputy reduced him to in front of the jury, as part of the prosecution's latest attempts to racially charge the New York City subway case.The race-based label began when witness Ivette Rosario took the stand. Rosario, then a 17-year-old high school student, was trapped on the train with Jordan Neely that day he had threatened to kill other commuters, which in turn prompted Penny to step in and subdue him.A visibly shy and nervous Rosario, whose voice was barely audible...

Why are many leftist reacting so viscerally to this election's loss? https://youtu.be/JnFbkPmpLzM

What Donald Trump told Joe Rogan is correct: tariffs are the best way to raise federal revenue in a constitutional system like ours.On his blockbuster interview with Joe Rogan last Friday, Donald Trump discussed reverting the United States’ top revenue source to taxes on imports — tariffs — instead of the income tax.This was the greatest interview EVER!JOE ROGAN: “Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tariffs? — Were you serious about that?”DONALD TRUMP: “Sure, why not?” pic.twitter.com/t7an2Mbe3j— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) October 26, 2024Trump went into American political history to...

President-Elect Donald Trump had made peace in Europe a key campaign pledge, but several NATO member states are dedicated to total Ukrainian victory and will discuss how to “thwart” him and keep Kyiv in the war even if Washington withdraws support. London, Paris, and Warsaw are to form the nucleus of a European effort to keep Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia going even if the Trump Presidency from January 2025 tries to bring an end to the Ukraine war. Exactly how he will achieve this campaign pledge has not been publicly articulated to date. However, a ‘land swap’ between Kyiv...

Last month, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance said he worried about the U.S. government bond market in the early stages of a Trump presidency. Because of Biden-Harris spending, the U.S. is adding about $2 trillion to the national debt every year, he said, and “The only thing that makes that serviceable is that interest rates are still pretty low.” If interest rates go much higher, say to 8 percent, “that can become a huge spiral that could take down the finances of this country.” Vance said that international investors and foreign countries — beneficiaries of globalization —...

The Trump Effect: America Is Already Scoring Massive Wins and He Isn't Even in Office Yet

We grew up in a home of strict Constitutionalists. I was writing pro-gun rights letters to congress by the time I was 12 years old. My father has now passed, but my mom and I are still firm in our beliefs on the Constitution and our Republic. My sibling, not so much, definitely suffering from TDS. This sibling wrote me off about a month before the election due to my political views. It was like a knife to the heart, and I am still struggling. I know if I extend the olive branch I will be rejected, and it just...

Kate Smith first performed “God Bless America” the day before Veteran’s Day in 1938. She was a patriotic American, who wanted to encourage fellow citizens as they suffered through a terrible depression and saw a world being torn apart by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. She wanted to reach Americans with the faith she felt for the future of the nation.As a leading performer in a radio market reaching nearly every household in the country, her way would be through song. So, Kate asked Irving Berlin to write a song that would cause citizens to embrace a positive perception of...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce Stephen Miller will be White House deputy chief of staff for policy in his second term. The vice president-elect, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), congratulated Miller on his new role, first reported by CNN. Miller is one of the leading voices behind Trump’s immigration plans — advocating for more restrictive policies — and served as a senior adviser on the topic in the first administration. The new position as deputy chief of staff for policy would allow him to have a more expansive role in the White House, as he would be working under...

Tom Homan clashes with Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill: I'm a taxpayer you work for me Retired ICE Director Tom Homan said Friday that House Democrats continue to push falsehoods about his former agency and illegal immigration, one day after an explosive clash between him and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., at a hearing on border detentions. Homan, a Fox News contributor, told "Fox & Friends" that he believes he got his point across and he feels it's his "responsibility to set the record straight." "I'm not gonna sit there and let them tell lies about my president, tell lies about...

According to this Daily Mail article, George Clooney feels he’s being scapegoated over Donald Trump’s triumphant presidential victory last week. “George Clooney feels he is being used as a ‘scapegoat’ in the furious blame game over who could have cost Kamala Harris the election – and will now take a step back from politics,” reports the Daily Mail. Clooney “threw his support behind Harris after penning a blistering op-ed on why Joe Biden would cost the Democrats the win if he didn’t abandon his campaign,” the report continues, adding, “but it still wasn’t enough to prevent a historic victory for...