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CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings said Monday that President Joe Biden will be remembered as a “complete and total disgrace” over his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden. Biden issued a formal pardon for his son Sunday evening after the White House assured the American public for months that he would not do so. Jennings argued that this action made the “strongest possible case for [President-elect] Donald Trump” by proving that the president blatantly lied to the American people only to ultimately protect his son in the end. “Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case...

The Dog’s Breakfast Syria is a mess with up to 70 factions fighting. The typical maps of Syria don’t do the conflict justice and show the sheer scale of independent factions as well as factions within factions. But why did anti-government forces make such quick gains after years of static front lines? Here is a basic rundown of the conflict in a nutshell: Bashar al-Assad is the President and Dictator of Syria. Bashar al-Assad He became the president of Syria in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad

The budget for 2025, which was published Sunday, allocates about $126 billion (13.5 trillion rubles) to national defense – amounting to 32.5% of government spending.

No more freaks in the military. No more America-hating freaks in our (executive) Government. Dozens if not hundreds of Biden-reversing EO's to be issued. I honestly don't mind if Trump misses most of the festivities to get these done. My sister has become active in state (TX) Republican politics and was at a meeting the other day detailing the way forward. It will be at least a hundred Executive Orders signed on Day 1, and the signing of these will be released ONLY to alternative, legitimate media outlets little by little. The left won't know where to aim, and their...

Biden buys a book by contemptible lying Palestinian BDS propagandist Rashid Khalidi, who falsely asserts that Jews and Arabs had no conflict before Zionism Over the weekend, President Joe Biden was seen having purchased a book by professor Rashid Khalidi called " "The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017" Khalidi has been called the most significant Palestinian intellectual of his generation, the successor to Edward Said, and the preeminent living historian of Palestine. He recently retired as a professor at Columbia University. This year he was a leader of the anti-Israel protests...

Many transgender people in the US are scrambling to shore up their treatments out of fear the incoming Trump administration will follow through on threats to restrict their healthcare. “My goodness this subreddit has exploded ever since Emperor Trump’s ascendency. Literally overnight almost a thousand newcomers,” read a post just after the 5 November election in one Reddit forum dedicated to sharing advice on gender-affirming hormone therapy. A popular underground hormone manufacturer stopped taking new orders in order to get through a backlog.

Reaction on both sides is mixed in response to Joe Biden’s sprawling pardon last night of his son, Hunter. Claiming his son had been “singled out” and “treated differently” by the Department of Justice and federal judges, Biden not only absolved Hunter of the two criminal convictions for which he was set to be sentenced this month but any crime over a nearly 11-year period: Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto ROBERT HUNTER...

In one of American cinema’s most riveting scenes, Vito Corleone, the Godfather, rebukes a distraught undertaker whose once-beautiful daughter has been beaten to a pulp by two young men — one of them the son of a powerful politician. Though the case was a slam dunk, a corrupt judge had let the brutes off with no jail time. That the system is rigged against those who play by the rules suddenly dawns on the law-abiding undertaker, whom the film’s co-writer, novelist Mario Puzo, named Amerigo Bonasera — as in Goodnight, America, where threats lurk around every corner, and the rules...

Daniel Penny's subway chokehold trial resumes Monday, with attorneys expected to begin their closing arguments after a break for Thanksgiving. The 26-year-old architecture student and Marine Corps veteran faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter for the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old mentally ill homeless man who was high on synthetic marijuana when he barged onto a subway car and started screaming threats at the passengers. Neely had a warrant out for his arrest at the time, the case's final witness revealed before the defense rested its case – as well as a lengthy criminal...

In yet another O'Keefe Media Group undercover video, Raja Cholan, Chief of the Health Data Standards for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), admitted that "the vaccines don't prevent you from getting COVID. I haven't gotten the latest COVID shots, and I'm not going to. For people that are 30 or under, it really increases your risk for heart conditions. The data does show that. I'm close enough to 30 to where I don't want to have a heart attack." Cholan also predicted that "incoming Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won't be able to accomplish...

Ever since Hunter Biden was convicted on federal charges of possessing a firearm while an unlawful user of drugs (and lying about that fact on the background check forms he filled out when purchasing a revolver), Joe Biden has insisted that he wouldn't be pardoning his son. That all changed late on Sunday when Biden announced he'd issued a full pardon, just a few weeks before Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced for his felony crimes. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he...

New York City officials are reacting to a bombshell new report by The Post that shows an alarming 58,626 migrants with felony records or facing criminal charges are freely roaming the Big Apple, with some 670,000 in total across the country. Out of the 759,218 illegal border-crossers who now call the five boroughs home, 7.7% were either previously convicted of crimes or had criminal charges pending, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data. But instead of rounding up and deporting tens of thousands of known criminals, critics say the city has rolled out the red carpet with its...

Following the news that President Joe Biden pardoned his embattled son, Hunter Biden, despite repeatedly reassuring he would not do so, some Democrats are speaking out against the move. One Democrat governor and one Democrat member of U.S. Congress voiced anger against the pardon, which covered every crime he committed “or may have committed or taken part in” over an 11 year period. Far-left Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted on X: “While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the...

BREAKING: Some Democrats push for President Biden to preemptively pardon Special Counsel Jack Smith ahead of Trump re-entering the White House - Newsweek

Keith Olbermann blasted his former protégé Rachel Maddow for lacking “principle” after the MSNBC host reportedly signed a rich new contract to stay at the network — despite layoff fears and cratering ratings at the left-leaning cable channel. Olbermann, who hosted the MSNBC prime time show “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” from 2003 to 2011, responded on X to journalist Jeff Jarvis’ observation that the Comcast-owned network “might have to change its identity” after parent company Comcast announced plans to spin off its cable assets. Jarvis then wondered whether Maddow — who reportedly signed a five-year, 125-million deal last month on...

Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies President Trump said, “Does anyone notice that the election-rigging Biden administration never goes after the riggers, but only after those that want to catch and expose the rigging dogs?” One of the most high-profile examples of the government’s prosecution of the innocent—is former Mesa County Clerk, Tina Peters. After Peters’ sentencing last month to nine years in prison—new information has surfaced showing that Colorado officials were working for Dominion and Runbeck, while simultaneously orchestrating Peters’ reputational and legal downfall through back channels. PETERS PROTECTS HER ELECTION RECORDS FROM BEING ERASED BY DOMINION,...

Below is my column in Fox.com on President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter of not just his convicted crimes but any crimes that he may have chosen to commit. President Biden has set a standard that is not merely a new low but positively subterraneous for future presidents. Here is the column: President Joe Biden’s decision to use his presidential powers to pardon his own son will be a decision that lives in infamy in presidential politics. It is not just that the President used his constitutional powers to benefit his family. It is because the action culminates...

Many Evangelical leaders have increasingly aligned with the leftist ruling class, while many in the pews maintain more conservative views.Over the past decade, a clear political divide has emerged within American evangelical Christianity. Institutional leaders have increasingly aligned their organizations with the leftist ruling class, while many in the pews maintain more conservative views and resist these shifts. Trump’s recent victory has intensified this balancing act for leaders and further deepened the divide within the movement.Signaling approval for the left’s cultural dominance while maintaining Religious Right credentials has never been easy. In the 2010s, the strategy was to expand the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years Monday and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in the war, just weeks after he was rebuked by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for having a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The conflict is approaching a pivotal new phase, with the new U.S. administration of Donald Trump taking office next month and potentially determining the trajectory of the war after the president-elect´s pledge to end the fighting. Ukraine is sensitive to whether cracks might be appearing in the unity of its...

The best way to promote fertility isn’t funding parenthood. It’s stopping the government programs that discourage people from having babies.Birth rates are plummeting in the United States and globally, forecasting a political and financial crisis. The most recent estimate predicts the average American woman will have 1.6 children in her lifetime, far below the rate of 2.1 required to maintain a steady population and even further below the 2.5 rate observed in the United States as recently as 1970.Many cultural and technological factors have contributed to this dramatic decline, and public policies play a role in shaping people’s decisions about...