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...Trump was a threat to business as usual. Thus, a cabal of intelligence agencies cooperated to stop him from making changes to foreign policy or scrutinizing the outsized military-industrial complex. Contrary to the media’s dire pronouncements, these insiders were the real threat to democracy and self-government. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, was one of the worst offenders. As documented in Bob Woodward’s book Peril, Milley spent a lot of time after the 2020 election caballing with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and reassuring her that the military would resist certain orders from President Trump. He...

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed that he will not resign no matter the result of Wednesday’s no confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier, which is likely to collapse the second Macronist government this year. Speaking from the sidelines on his trip to Saudi Arabia, during which France has descended into outright political chaos, President Macron reaffirmed his plans to serve out the remainder of his second term, which is planned to run until April of 2027. In his first comments since the planned no confidence vote in his prime minister was announced, President Macron said per Le Figaro:...

Notable Birthdays for December 3 Henry A. Wise (1806-1876) - The 33rd Governor of Virginia. Thomas Alfred Davies (1809-1899) - Brevet Major General of the Union Army. George B. McClellan (1826-1885) - The 24th Governor of NJ. Cleveland Abbe (1838-1916) - Considered the Father of Weather Bureau. Phoebe Hearst (1842-1919) - Founder of the University of California Museum of Anthropology. Charles Alfred Pillsbury (1842-1899) - Founder of the Pillsbury Company. Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) - Founder of the home economics movement. Mildred Wiley (1901-2000) - Olympic bronze medal winner of the high jump. Len Lesser (1922-2011) - Actor remembered for...

YMCA singer Victor Willis has U-turned on his opposition to Donald Trump using the song in his rallies - while urging fans not to call it a 'gay anthem'. The 73-year-old founding member of Village People band previously urged the incoming president to stop playing their 1978 disco hit at his political demos. But on Sunday Willis changed his tune, saying he 'didn't have the heart' to continue fighting Trump's team after seeing how much the president-elect 'seems to genuinely like YMCA'. The airtime has pushed the song towards the top of the Billboard charts.

Illegal immigration cost American taxpayers a whopping 2.6 percent of the entire U.S. government's $6.1 trillion in federal spending for the entire 2023 fiscal year. This amounts to $150.7 billion, according to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). If the figure is correct, the staggering sum of money going toward illegal immigrants entering and living in the U.S. would rival spending across some other agencies.

Controversial billionaire Mark Cuban has floated the idea of running for president with Charles Barkley after insisting the NBA legend is 'somebody America needs'. Cuban, who was a surrogate for Kamala Harris before the Democratic nominee lost this month's election, has been tipped to make a run for the White House in previous election cycles but is yet to throw his name into the hat. During an appearance on The Steam Room podcast with Barkley and host Ernie Johnson, the minority Dallas Mavericks owner was asked about the tribalism in American politics and how the country can begin to have...

Nothing can be said for certain, except death, taxes — and now, speculation about AOC running for president. The latest round comes courtesy of a Black Friday story in The Hill about contenders for the Democratic nomination in 2028. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was thrown in as the 11th and last name, a fun little kicker. “She’s somebody who can cut through the noise and doesn’t talk like Washington,” an anonymous Democratic strategist told The Hill. AOC for president hype started three weeks after she first took office in 2019 when Axios found three-quarters of Dems would consider voting for her...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vented his displeasure Monday after two Democratic-appointed federal judges reversed their decisions to retire in what appear to be efforts to stop President-elect Trump from nominating their successors. McConnell called the unusual decisions to forgo retirement following Trump’s sweeping victory last month a “partisan” gambit that would undermine the integrity of federal courts. “They rolled the dice that a Democrat could replace them and now that he won’t, they’re changing their plans to keep a Republican from doing it,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “It’s a brazen admission. And the incoming administration would...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) - New York on Jan. 1 will become the first state to require employers to provide up to 20 hours of paid time off during pregnancy. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the goal of the program is to make sure expecting mothers don’t have to decide between losing pay and missing appointments. “That means they can not be missing the prenatal appointments — which are so important for a mom’s health to keep a regularly scheduled appointment with her doctor to make sure that if anything is going wrong with her health or the baby’s, they’re...

The United States will provide more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid for people displaced by drought or conflict in 31 African countries, US President Joe Biden said in Angola Tuesday. The assistance would address food insecurity and other urgent needs of refugees, internally displaced persons and affected communities in 31 African countries, a statement from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) added. "Today, I'm announcing over $1 billion of new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts," Biden said in an address in the Angolan capital Luanda, where he arrived late Monday for his...

On Monday on CNN’s “News Central,” former German Chancellor Angela Merkel told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that President-elect Donald Trump was fascinated by dictators’ power. Amanpour asked, “I remember very distinctly when Donald Trump was first elected. You did one– You were the only one to actually welcome his election conditionally. In other words, based on the respect and the adherence to mutual values, democracy, freedom, diversity, rule of law, human rights, etc. And I just wonder whether you thought he did act in that way, and especially because you said he was clearly fascinated by the Russian president. ‘In the...

A congressional subcommittee concluded its two-year investigation on the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, finding that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, and that social distancing and masking were not backed with scientific data. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final 520-page report that stated "COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China." In support of the "lab leak" theory, the report said the subcommittee learned that the virus had a biological characteristic that is not found in nature and that data showed all COVID-19 cases stemming from a single introduction to humans....

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, on Sunday is exceptional not just because of the pardon’s recipient — the closest family member to receive a pardon in history — but also for its sheer breadth, according to experts on presidential pardons. Biden didn’t just pardon his son for his convictions on tax and gun charges, but for any “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024.” That’s a nearly 11-year period during which any federal crime Hunter...

"Wen obtained firearms, ammunition, and export-controlled technology with the intention of shipping them to North Korea — a violation of federal law and United States sanctions against that nation," the agency says An illegal immigrant from China was arrested for allegedly shipping "firearms, ammunition and other military items" to North Korea from California, according to a Justice Department indictment released on Tuesday. Shenghua Wen, 41, of Ontario, California, was arrested on Tuesday after hiding the weapons "inside shipping containers bound from Long Beach," the agency said. Wen, who was a Chinese national illegally residing in the United States, was expected...

Joe Biden admitted on Sunday that his Department of Justice (DOJ) is “infected” by politics. It’s an admission that’s entirely true — but not for the reasons Biden thinks. Biden issued a blanket pardon for his son Hunter for “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” That means Hunter is off the hook for the federal gun and tax charges he was being prosecuted for, as well as other potential crimes he committed like FARA violations and money laundering....

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data obtained by NBC News revealed in October that at least 600 Tren de Aragua gang members, all from Venezuela, are now living in at least 15 states and possibly 8 more.Experts, though, called that estimate “disturbingly low.” The actual total number of Tren de Aragua gang members living in the United States is likely far higher, they suggested.This year alone, Tren de Aragua members have been accused or convicted of heinous crimes. In particular, two members of the gang are accused of murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas after they were both released...

Kirk Cameron is joined by Pastor Jack Hibbs to discuss several key aspects of the 2024 election outcome that some may be overlooking. Don't miss this insightful episode of Takeaways with Kirk Cameron on TBN! This is a 12 minute video

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported the precise number of NICS checks at 169,906 for the day. There were over 613,000 NICS checks conducted during Black Friday week, which began on Saturday, November 23, and ended at the close of business on November 29. There have been 64 consecutive months of over one million NICS checks a month for gun sales at retail. On November 4, 2024, Breitbart News reported October was the 63rd consecutive month for over million such checks, and during a phone call, NSSF’s Mark Oliva confirmed November 2024 proved to be the 64th consecutive month....

VIDEO Commies and their Democrat allies HATE transparency in government. They much prefer to work in secret so as to keep their real agenda out of the public eye. One of these odious types is one Arben Istrefi who in his role as vice chair of the Loudoun County (VA) School Board. Despite running for school board on a platform supporting "transparency" this lying weasel voted AGAINST the use of cameras at public meetings of the school board. He also tried to glom onto another government job by running for the Virginia House to be a Delegate but, fortunately, was...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic women urged to 'strike' over inequality in the churchWhat would the Catholic Church do without women? If some activists have their way, we're about to find out.A new project is urging women to strike by withholding time, labor and financial resources from the church during Lent, which begins March 5. The planned action is in response to the Vatican's synod on synodality, which concluded in October without action on women's leadership, including the opening of ordination to the diaconate or priesthood."The strike is for Catholics who are looking for a way to express their disappointment, frustration or...