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There were so many big lies from the left that PolitiFact naturally ignored.I can only imagine how much delusion filled the room of the PolitiFact “brainstorming” session to choose the “winning” selection of its latest “Lie of the Year.”Bonchie at RedState nailed it with a post on X musing about what the meeting must have looked like through the eyes of a fresh-faced intern yet to realize that PolitiFact is nothing more than a leftist propaganda operation. Politifact intern: “What if we go with the lie that Joe Biden was fit to serve? Or how about the lie that Biden...

That the incoming Trump administration will go after its political enemies, using all levers of state power to intimidate and persecute those who previously sought to hold the president-elect accountable, can no longer be portrayed as hysterical speculation, nor as something that would surely be opposed by cooler heads in a Republican-led Congress. Donald Trump ran as the candidate of “revenge” and "retribution," filling his meandering campaign speeches with complaints about those who had investigated him over his connections with Russia and incitement of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Anyone hoping an electoral victory would spur a change in heart —...

Donald Trump’s total humiliation of ABC News over its most recent slander, delivered through the flapping gums of malignant dwarf George Stephanopoulos, was one of those delicious examples of how the New Rules keep coming around to bite the left on its collective fourth point of contact. Even a decade ago, this would not have happened. Defamation cases, particularly against public figures, were almost impossible to win and were less about money than about enraged plaintiffs tormenting those who talked bad about them. But that’s all changed. There’s big money at stake now. The left decided it was going to...

<p>KYIV — Ukraine currently doesn’t have the military strength to retake all the territory Russia has occupied since 2014, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told French daily Le Parisien on Wednesday.</p><p>But that doesn’t mean Kyiv is about to recognize its Moscow-controlled lands as belonging to Russia, he added. “Legally, we cannot give up our territories. This is prohibited by the constitution. But let’s not use such big words. Russia actually controls part of our territory today,” Zelenskyy said in response to a question as to how far Kyiv is prepared to compromise to end the war following Moscow’s February 2022 full-scale invasion.</p>

Liberal Justin Trudeau has suddenly launched a Trump-style crackdown on immigration as the Canadian government crumbles around him. Canada's newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced on Tuesday that the $1.3bn CAD ($930m USD) slate of new measures 'will secure our border against the flow of illegal drugs and irregular migration.' The new measures will include 24/7 surveillance of the border using 'helicopters, drones and mobile surveillance towers', and upgraded detection tools to catch drugs slipping over the border. The legislation is based on five pillars: Slowing the trade of fentanyl, improving border patrols' coordination, providing new tools for law...

As far back as two years ago, we were reporting here at PJ Media that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might be running secret Chinese police stations in American cities. Even though the CCP wanted us to believe that these entities were convenience centers for Chinese nationals, it became obvious that these stations were a little slice of Red Chinese authoritarianism in the U.S. In October 2022, my PJ Media colleague Kevin Downey, Jr. first brought this to our attention:The human rights watchdog group Safeguard Defenders is claiming that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has established a network of Chinese...

Though they claim to stand for the little guy, pro-crime progressives are making life worse for low-wage workers everywhere: Witness the latest development from America’s theft-slammed retail sector — Walmart testing out bodycams for employees. The idea is to get “unruly” customers on tape, presumably both as a deterrent and as legal butt-covering in case things go south. This comes after retail outlets large and small have moved to locking up some, most or all of their items to guard against theft. And after a raft of high-profile stories of employees — remember, these are people earning very little, with...

On November 5, 2024, there was a seismic event of immense magnitude: Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. The Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Most of the country moved right, but Oregon, with its broken, corrupt election system, moved farther left into the New Dark Ages. There were thousands of illegal registrations in the election, without any resolution on whether or not these illegal ballots were used to vote. But Oregon’s governor and secretary of state certified the election with...

A Georgia appellate court Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and removed her from prosecuting Donald Trump and co-defendants in a case she brought in relation to the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The decision is likely to cripple the case and bring a halt to the efforts to try Trump and his allies for their efforts to overturn his loss. Federal prosecutors have already dropped the other criminal case related to the 2020 election in the wake of Trump winning the 2024 election. "After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that...

A Georgia court of appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her team from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump in his election interference case on Thursday. The court did not toss Trump's indictment entirely, but Willis and the assistant DAs working in her office now have "no authority to proceed." "After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office," the filing states. "The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety...

President-elect Trump hasn’t even taken office again and the chattering classes are already having a meltdown about what they see as the negative effects “mass deportations” will produce. A significant amount of the pearl-clutching is based on claims that it’s somehow cruel to deport uninvited guests who happened to have avoided the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) long enough to put down roots in the United States. This is an utterly illogical argument and one that would never be tolerated in connection with any other crime or civil violation.This specious argument persists because people who advocate for illegal aliens deliberately...

If I had the opportunity to go back in time, knowing what I know now, I would reconsider the decision regarding the "special operation" in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his annual press conference, APA's Moscow correspondent reports. that this was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual press conference. He emphasized that preparation was needed before launching the "special operation": "But we began the operations without any special preparation.

As President-elect Donald Trump's comments tanking House Speaker Mike Johnson's short-term government funding bill sent House Republicans into a tailspin Wednesday night, Senate Republicans were left to try to make sense of the remaining pieces. Congress must act to fund the government by midnight on Friday or risk a shutdown. With the House back at the drawing board, the clock is ticking. The nature of government funding bills means that the Senate is usually in a wait-and-see posture until the House acts. That's particularly true this time around, where Johnson has to wrangle his slim House majority into passing legislation...

President-elect Donald Trump provided a path on Thursday for House Speaker Mike Johnson to save his job as Speaker in the next Congress. Johnson’s Speakership is in jeopardy after he tried to rush a spending measure packed full of pork, which drew ire from Trump and Elon Musk, the president-elect’s designated chief of axing government waste. Trump’s roadmap for Johnson appears to set a series of reasonable demands, although achieving Trump’s requests might be difficult in the context of a potential government shutdown before Christmas. Johnson will “easily remain speaker” if he “acts decisively and tough” and eliminates “all of...

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on drone operations in several areas of New Jersey until Jan. 17, unless operators are granted special permission from the government due to "special security reasons." Uncrewed aerial drones have been lighting up the sky at night in New Jersey and nearby states for weeks, since about mid-November, leading to concern from residents and speculation online. Some had demanded answers from local and state officials for answers.

Elon Musk, self-described "First Buddy" of President-elect Donald Trump, went all out to thwart a last-minute funding deal to avert a government shutdown. The move was a direct challenge to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who rolled out the sweeping plan on Tuesday night. Now, it appears Musk has successfully killed the stopgap measure in its cradle - before it was even brought to a vote. In a manic posting spree on Wednesday, the world's richest man bombarded his platform X, formerly Twitter, with attacks on a proposed funding bill, which would've kept the government funded through March 14 and...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) suggested Wednesday that the ongoing spending battle in the House is being waged among Republicans, saying “I’m just gonna sit back.” “We’re looking at this like, this is their problem,” Crockett told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner. “We have seen this play out over and over in the entire two years that I’ve been in Congress.” “But here’s the deal: There is no fixing this without the Democrats,” Crockett added later in the interview. “We have seen this over and over, and I’m just gonna sit back and sip my tea and wait on them to figure it...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) snapped at a CNN reporter after he was asked about pay raises in the massive spending bill. A stop-gap spending bill to fund the government through March 14 was unveiled by lawmakers on Tuesday evening. If it passes, it would give members of Congress their first pay raise since 2009. Lawmakers currently make $174,000 a year, with those in leadership making more. Durbin was confronted by CNN reporter Manu Raju, who asked him, “Do you guys deserve a pay raise?” The Democrat senator seemed surprised. He responded, “Well, that’s news to me, that’s good news. What’s...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday suggested a missile 'duel' with the United States that would show how Russia's new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile could defeat any US missile defense system. Addressing Western skepticism about the Oreshnik, Putin suggested that both sides select a designated target to be protected by US missiles. "We're ready for such an experiment," Putin said.

With a 4:15 a.m. ET social-media post on Wednesday, Elon Musk declared that a must-do spending bill “should not pass.” By early evening, the bill was dead, leaving the government barreling toward a weekend shutdown just before Christmas. Lawmakers who might have underestimated Musk’s ability to shake up Washington were suddenly having second thoughts. Over the course of Wednesday, Musk pressed for Congress to kill the bill. He encouraged his more than 200 million followers on X, the social-media platform that he owns, to call their representatives to vote against it, and he warned that Republicans who voted for it...