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Sen. John Fetterman is the lone Senate Democrat cosponsoring a Republican-led bill that would require federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes. The bill, passed with bipartisan support in the House on Tuesday, is slated to come up for a Senate vote on Friday. In addition to requiring federal detention of undocumented immigrants who commit theft, it would allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their citizens because of illegal immigration, greatly expanding the authority of state attorneys general. Lawmakers named the legislation after Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing...

I have long believed that Richard Nixon was the most seriously under rated American president in my lifetime. When John Lennon sang: “No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky ....... ” I had no effective retort ...... to either the invective or Lennon’s proud assertion of the moral importance of having enough money to be able to participate in drug culture. Now I do. Historical website www.onthisday.com appears to present Nixon, POTUS 37, as the single most significant thespian ever to be born on the 9th of January, beating out Bob Denver in second spot and Nicola Peltz, whoever she...

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Sunday said one of his top objectives will be to address the country’s “fiscal mess” — even while acknowledging upcoming expected GOP tax cuts may not be fully funded. Thune (R-SD), 63, who officially took the baton from Mitch McConnell as the Senate’s boss Friday, stressed his intent to focus on problems for the long term. “I would like to see us as a nation do things that affect the long-term stability, future of our kids and our grandkids,” the Republican told NBC’s “Meet the Press” when asked about the “mark” he wants...

LA officials say they do not have enough firefighters… they literally TERMINATED firefighters for not taking a COVID vax ... Let me get this straight. • California is burning. • All of its fire chiefs were selected based on their LGBTQ status. • Gavin Newsom spent all of the state’s fire resources on illegals. • He hasn’t called in the National Guard. • The LA Mayor is nowhere to be found. Gross incompetence. Gross mismanagement. ... First rule of Government You do not tell the truth about government ... In 2020 Janice Hahn worked overtime to fire the firefighters that...

Gov. Spencer Cox plans to discuss unlocking energy potential on public lands among other issues as he heads to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday along with Republican governors from across the country to pitch their priorities to President-elect Donald Trump. “I plan to talk to him, if I get the opportunity, about energy and about public lands and how we can unleash the energy potential, especially in the West,” Cox told reporters Wednesday after his ceremonial inauguration. “We need significant reform in the energy space, especially when it comes to nuclear, being able to permit nuclear.” One of Cox’s main goals for...

They did it. The UK Labour Party has formally rejected the proposal to make a formal inquiry into the Muslim Grooming Gangs/Rape Gangs scandal that has plagued Britain for over a decade and perhaps for decades. If they think that a formal parliamentary rejection of the idea rather than the anti-Elon Musk propaganda campaign will put this issue to bed, they have another thing coming. An issue that has been simmering for years has turned into a firestorm that may turn out to be bigger than the fires in California, all thanks to Elon Musk. JUST IN: UK's Labour Party...

Afgantsy Redux: How Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to bleed U.S. forces at the end of America’s longest war Roman Dobrokhotov, Christo Grozev, Michael Weiss 8 January 2025 The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, spent years financing terrorist groups in Afghanistan to target U.S. and coalition forces. An investigation by The Insider has not only confirmed the existence of the program but also identified GRU officers responsible for its coordination. The Russian intelligence agency used a gemstone trading company as a front to run a network of Afghan couriers who delivered money to Taliban fighters and other militant groups....

“The wake-up call has already happened.” The acrid smell of charred wood still permeates the air as Sasha Berleman, a fire ecologist, and I walk along a dirt path up through the middle of a canyon in the Bouverie nature preserve in Sonoma Valley. On the left side, the earth is black as tar, and scorch marks as tall as a person scar the trunks of the mature oak trees scattered throughout the field. But on the right side, the ground is tan and brown, and you have to look hard at the still-green oaks to see any evidence of...

The terrible murders and outrages in Palestine last August with the slaughter of harmless women and children, and the burning and destruction of property caused a wave of horror and disgust throughout the world. The British Goverment, taking the only course possible, appointed a Committee of Investigation into the cause of the outrages; but long before it had a chance to make its report the campaign re-opened in Britain for the Government either to throw up the Palestine Mandate. or for the nation to go back on its pledged word ahd abandon its policy of giving facilities to the Jews...

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In Ukraine, a commander has been arrested on suspicion of desertion. The special investigation service writes that he also urged his subordinates to run away. The man was leader of the brigade trained in France from which many hundreds of soldiers reportedly fled or did not show up at all. The commander led a company, which usually consists of 100 to 150 soldiers. As far as is known, he is the highest-ranking soldier in the brigade, with several thousand soldiers, who has been arrested so far in the scandal. Earlier, the supreme commander of the brigade was suspended. "Fled without...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Firefighting departments nationwide have tried to diversify their ranks for years. They have made only modest progress. Today, the profession remains overwhelmingly white and male. From member station KQED, Farida Jhabvala Romero reports on one program in California that's trying to change that. FARIDA JHABVALA ROMERO, BYLINE: I first met Lupe Duran in 2017, just weeks after his home was destroyed by a massive wildfire in northern California. The 23-year-old welding student was overwhelmed with loss, sleeping on relatives' couches. But the disaster made Duran realize he didn't want to feel powerless against any fire. LUPE...

President Joe Biden's Department of Education reached an agreement with Johns Hopkins University to settle civil rights complaints that alleged widespread campus anti-Semitism in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack. The agreement will see Hopkins, which did not admit wrongdoing, implement underwhelming reforms like general anti-discrimination training...Anti-Semitism at Hopkins especially reared its head in May when an Israeli Ph.D. student said she was "hit by a girl holding a Palestinian flag, right at the campus entrance." The girl "shouted at me to go back to Europe and hurled insults at me and Israelis," the Israeli student said in...

USA Today. Click the link.Joe Biden gave lip service and did not go to Lahaina after their horrific wildfire. And what is his response to this catastrophe?I'm a Great Grandfather!President Biden Becomes a Great-GrandfatherMr. Biden said his eldest granddaughter, Naomi, gave birth to a baby boy in California.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Restoring History! A newly refurbished U.S. Air Force T-33 Shooting Star is displayed at the Lee County Veterans Museum, Bishopville, SC, Nov. 11, 2024. The T-33 was originally designed for training pilots and was flown by the U.S. Air Force from 1948 to the early 1980s. The T-33 continues to embody Air Force excellence and readiness as a display model at the LCVM. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Steven Cardo) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members...

Matt Van Swol @matt_vanswol 🚨 #BREAKING: FEMA has confirmed that 3,500 households in #WNC will lose their Transitional Sheltering Assistance, just days before the worst winter storm rolls in. Videos from the non-profit, Beloved Asheville, show a car line "1 mile-long" for portable heaters and propane

Shukairy narrowly escaped capture by Israeli forces in Jerusalem and many of his "Liberation Army" are now prisoners of the Israelis. "We will wipe Israel off the face of the map and no Jew will survive," Shukairy declared two days before the war broke out June 5. He vowed to lead the vanguard of his troops into the Israeli sector of Jerusalem and set up a "purely Arab government" there for all of Palestine. The 60-year-old former lawyer was seen briefly in Amman and Damascus in the last stages of the fighting wearing a khaki battle uniform. Persons who saw...

Attorney Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday predicted that some of the “liberals” on the U.S. Supreme Court might join a ruling halting legal cases against President-elect Donald Trump. A New York appeals court on Tuesday denied Trump’s request to cancel his Jan. 10 sentencing hearing. Dershowitz predicted that concerns about “fairness and due process” in Trump’s trial would lead the more liberal justices on the Supreme Court to eventually join a ruling in Trump’s favor. “He probably didn’t even make the decision,” Dershowitz said about how the payments to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen were described. “The decision was made by...

As wildfires rage on in Los Angeles, California, and firefighters are unable to subdue the blazes, attention has turned to Los Angeles City’s lesbian DEI Fire Chief Kristin Crowley and her prioritization of hiring women and gays instead of focusing on public safety. As The Gateway Pundit reported, evacuations were underway Tuesday as a massive wildfire raged out of control and engulfed homes in Pacific Palisades, California. As residents fled and abandoned their homes and cars, and the fire became more untamable, firefighters were struggling with a loss of water pressure on hydrants and were unable to do anything.

There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that our world is facing today. Many of them are completely convinced that humans are literally a “plague” upon the Earth and that extreme measures are required to prevent us from destroying the entire planet. To the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic problems can be directly traced back to a lack of population control. They warn that if nothing is done about our exploding population, humanity will be facing a future full of poverty, war and...