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Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~John R. Fox Info from here. John Robert Fox (May 18, 1915 December 26, 1944) was killed in action when he deliberately called for artillery fire on his own position, after his position was overrun, in order to defeat a German attack in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, northern Italy during World War II. He posthumously received the...

The Nashville high school where a teen gunman killed a fellow student last week had no metal detectors — apparently because administrators think they could be racist.A former board member told The Post that the misguided administrators are responsible for keeping them out even over many parents’ objections. “I knew this day was gonna happen,” said Fran Bush, formerly a Metro Nashville Public Schools board member. Bush, who served on the MNPS board from 2018 to 2022, said she pushed for metal detectors throughout her tenure but that district Director Adrienne Battle “didn’t want to hear it” — even as...

BREAKING: Illegals with foreign flags are currently blocking off traffic in Dallas to eliminate ICE and deportations

A lawsuit filed on behalf of protesters during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in Portland has resulted in a settlement agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oregon. The settlement includes financial compensation to individuals who claimed they were harmed by the actions of federal law enforcement deployed during the unrest. The lawsuit alleged that federal agents, sent to Portland by the Trump administration, had “beaten, shot, and abducted” protesters, journalists, and medics. It argued that the force used by law enforcement violated the constitutional rights of individuals to peacefully protest.

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Former ‘Million Dollar Listing’ star and Los Angeles real estate agent Josh Altman said Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney Co.” a lack of adequate home insurance was the main reason 70% of Pacific Palisades residents won’t return. Guest host David Asman said, “I heard a figure 70% of Palisades residents would not return after the fires there. What does that mean for the county?” Altman said, Yeah, David, thanks for having me again. I want to preface that statement and explain it a little bit. They’re not gonna not return because they don’t want to return. Of course, they...

The new US President wants to take over the mineral-rich island as its rapidly melting ice sheets open it up to mining. Trump declared over the weekend “I think we’re going to have it” following what sources described as a “fiery phone call” with the prime minister of its current owner Denmark. But should Denmark decide to flog it off the UK should get first chance to snap it up, political chiefs said. Britain has a 108-year-old “right-to-buy” clause that puts it in poll position to acquire the island. According to the last Danish minister for the Arctic island Tom...

A Florida Democrat Party official was arrested on charges of transporting child sex abuse material after sending child porn to an undercover police officer. Matthew Inman, 39, who served as Orange County’s Democratic Party treasurer in Orlando, Florida, was arrested after being caught in a sting operation by undercover law enforcement officers. Orange County, FL Democratic Party treasurer Matthew A. Inman arrested on child porn charges He faces up to 20 years in prison ... Between “August and October of 2024, Inman received and saved several videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to his phone. These videos depicted adults...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., rebuked Democratic Party figures who attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Omar, a member of the progressive "Squad," told CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that because of Trump’s alleged lack of respect for his political opponents and his "dismantling" of democracy, Democratic lawmakers should not have shown him respect by attending his swearing-in. "So just the level of indignity that was shown and disrespect to tradition, to me, said, no one should show him dignity and respect," the lawmaker said on CNN. The lawmaker grilled Democratic Party members for attending the event on...

To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump. I’ll illustrate. Traditional Approach: 1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights. 2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security. 3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper. 4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday announced 25% tariffs on US imports, in a tit-for-tat move after US President Donald Trump hiked taxes on Colombian goods and sanctioned the country's leaders after Petro refused to accept migrant deportation flights. Writing on X, Petro initially said he would impose 50% tariffs on US goods, but later deleted the post and announced that he had instructed his minister for external trade "to raise tariffs on imports from the US to 25%."

Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi: people keep talking about American electoralism as if this is a legitimate nation with a legitimate governing body… flat earthers have more dignity. Jan 15, 2025. https://x.com/AyeshaASiddiqi/status/1879629066158117339 Archived

Nine people were shot, one of them fatally, outside a nightclub on Polk Street in Amarillo, Texas, early Sunday morning. KVII reported the shooting occurred around 2 a.m. FOX 4 KDFW noted that police received “numerous 911 calls” regarding the shooting, which “possibly stems from an earlier altercation inside the bar.” The alleged shooter is identified as 23-year-old Robert Kenney Knox, who allegedly left the bar earlier in the night then returned in a vehicle from which he exited and opened fire. He then got back into the vehicle and the driver sped away. A witness followed the vehicle and...

Hunter Biden looked visibly troubled this week as sales for his paintings plummeted by approximately 100%. "You said these were masterpieces!" cried a forlorn Hunter Biden to his handler. "How come all of a sudden no one wants my colored glass blocks that I put in a little spiral? I worked so hard on this." Art director Stefan Wilminstein, who reportedly discovered how much attention Biden's work was getting among foreign leaders, says that Biden's career is likely finished. "Zero sales in the last week. We used to get billions of dollars from art lovers all over Ukraine and China....

The US officer and German citizen were shot dead during a vehicle check near the Canadian border. Both he and a companion had been under FBI surveillance. A German citizen has been shot dead in an exchange of gunfire near the border with Canada. Both he and his companion Teresa Youngblut, a US citizen, had been under surveillance by the FBI for several days. Youngblut, who was shot, will be brought before a US federal judge on Monday. When US Border Patrol officers conducted a vehicle check on Interstate 91 around 32 kilometres south of the border, the driver of...

President Donald Trump and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, have spoken over the phone and agreed to “meet soon”. The two leaders spoke for 45 minutes on Sunday in their first call since Trump’s inauguration. According to Downing Street’s readout of the call, they discussed trade and the economy and security in the Middle East. Trump began by sending his condolences to the prime minister after the death of his brother Nick, who had cancer and had died on Boxing Day. Starmer thanked Trump “for his kind words and congratulated him on his inauguration,” Downing Street said. “The Prime Minister...

Sabrina Singh was Deputy Press Secretary at the Biden White House until she became Deputy Press Secretary at the Pentagon in 2022. On MSNBC's The Weekend on Saturday morning, Singh was still shilling for her old boss, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Displaying some mixture of chutzpah and obliviousness, Singh repeatedly criticized incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as unreliable: "The job of the Secretary of Defense is a 24-hour job. You can get calls in the middle of the night, at all times. I remember my boss, former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, being in the Indo-Pacific and getting a call...

A New York congressman is urging Dems to return to their working-class roots and target “corrupt elites who’ve been in power far too long” to escape the political “wilderness” during President Trump’s reign. Progressives have been grappling with a considerable cultural-vibe shift and an apparent leadership vacuum since Trump’s return to the White House. But moderate Rep. Pat Ryan of the Hudson Valley is expressing optimism that the party is starting to regain its footing. “Democrats got our butts kicked in November. No two ways about it. We stopped meeting people where they were. We became the party of the...

The problem with promising all things to all people is that eventually tradeoffs become inevitable.While running for president, Donald Trump pledged he would tackle the scourge of inflation that sparked a cost-of-living crisis for many Americans, while simultaneously leading the country to record wealth and prosperity—a difficult balancing act to pull off.Now, just three days into his new administration, he’s already pressuring Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell to stimulate the economy by reducing the cost of borrowing. This comes in spite of the U.S. central bank’s concerns that recent consumer price data is coming in hotter than it would like.“I’ll...