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“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon Musk. “In private meetings and at public events, elected Democrats appear leaderless, rudderless and divided. They disagree over how often and how stridently to oppose Mr. Trump. They have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.” — The New York Times. Maybe that’s because the four years of “Joe Biden” was little more than a vaudeville show in front of the curtain, distracting you from what was...

An international panel of 14 neonatal and pediatric specialists on Tuesday raised grave doubts about the evidence used to convict the British nurse Lucy Letby, who was found guilty in 2023 of murdering seven babies at the hospital where she worked. In a dramatic news conference in London, the chair of the panel, Dr. Shoo Lee, a Canadian neonatologist, said that the extensive independent review he chaired had found no evidence that Ms. Letby had murdered or attempted to murder any of the babies in her care. He also highlighted damning findings pointing to serious errors in medical care at...

What was once the world’s largest solar plant of its kind may soon shut down more than a decade earlier than planned. This potential closure comes as the facility has struggled to compete with newer, cheaper solar technologies and faced accusations of causing thousands of wildlife deaths. Why is this solar plant closing so much earlier than expected? Opened in 2014 , the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Power Plant spans five square miles in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border. The facility operates using concentrated solar power technology, which utilizes thousands of mirrors to focus sunlight onto towers to...

It seems shocking that a government entity that has the word "aid" in its acronym would ever be accused of doing dirty tricks and worse against the friends and foes of the U.S., much less be defanged or shut down by Donald Trump. For the world's lefties this defanging is unthinkable. But now, we're finding out all kinds of skullduggery attributed to our color revolutionistas at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Victoria Nuland, and Samantha Power and their kindred through the years. And color revolution coups have been their specialty. See Ukraine 2014. Need a race riot in...

FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, Feb. 2, via BALTIMORE, Friday, Feb. 3. Messrs. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, R.M.T. HUNTER, and Judge CAMPBELL, the Confederate Peace Commissioners, arrived here this afternoon from City Point, in Lieut.-Gen. GRANT's special dispatch steamer, the Mary Martin. Secretary SEWARD was on board the steamer River Queen waiting to receive them. Immediately upon the arrival of the Commissioners both steamers proceeded to an anchorage in the stream, side by side. At this writing, a quarter past 5 o'clock, as the Louisiana leaves for Baltimore, the steamers are still out in the stream. Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON,...

Egg-flation is getting the Big Apple scrambled. The price of eggs is so clucking ridiculous that New York City’s food carts, bodegas and delis are charging more for the iconic — and usually affordable — bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Cafe Manhattan in Midtown put up signs last week declaring all egg sandwiches will have a $.50 surcharge — and its manager Gin Yun told The Post he still can’t make ends meet because he’s shelling out four times more than just a few months ago to buy cartons. “Oh my God, the price of eggs has gone crazy,” Yun...

According to recent statistics from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2022, approximately 991,000 people over the age of 12 in the United States misuse fentanyl. This data does not specify the exact number of people addicted to fentanyl, as misuse can include non-addictive use, but it provides a significant insight into the scale of the problem. For a more precise figure on addiction specifically, one would need to consider those with an opioid use disorder where fentanyl is the primary substance involved. However, specific statistics on just fentanyl addiction are less commonly delineated in national...

Back in November, I attended the annual convention of the Federalist Society in Washington. If you should want to understand the constitutional law issues confronting this country after a century of corruption of our institutions by the progressive movement, I would highly recommend that you start attending these annual events as well. Last November’s convention took place on the 14th to 16th of the month — in other words, just over a week after Donald Trump had been elected to serve another term as President. One of the panels that I attended on November 15th had the title “What Is...

The Clinton Foundation raked in Millions from USAID. In 2010, USAID managed $4.4 billion for Haiti under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Clinton Foundation was a significant player in those Haiti "efforts". Where did the money go? ... Clinton Foundation audits were done by Doug Emhoff's law firm DLA PIPER. Peter Comey (1963-2023) brother of FBI James Comey, worked for DLA Piper. FOIA the audits for the "non profit". James Comey connections with HSBC Bank. Attorney General Kamala D. Harris handled the HSBC mortgage fraud settlement. They are all related by money and secrets. ... Wow. Democrats are such...

Laura Ingalls Wilder did not cross the country in a covered wagon and triumph over wolves, floods, Indians, and malaria to have her life’s work rewritten by Los Angeles green juice yuppies, but here we are. Netflix officially announced a “Little House on the Prairie” reboot is in the works, and we should prepare for the worst. Both Wilder’s autobiographical book series and the television series that ran from 1974 to 1983 are deeply popular with Americans because they tapped into a pivotal moment in the country’s history — the westward expansion and the settling of the frontier. The story...

I am a fan of these type of safety campaigns. I personally cannot get enough of them.

MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Monday on “Inside” that the Trump administration was orchestrating a “hostile takeover of the U.S. government.” Psaki said, “Okay so we all have our coping mechanisms for this moment or we’re developing them at least. And I’ve kind of settled into wanting to know more about what’s happening and most importantly, what can be done to stop it.” She continued, “I invite you to join me in this, because the more our eyes are wide open, and the more we stop ourselves from looking away and just talking about just how terrible it is, the...

At least five people have been shot at a school in Sweden "with an automatic weapon". "Several people" were initially said to be injured at Risbergska School in Orebro, southern Sweden - with police locking down the building and urging the public to stay away. "Listen to the police officers at the scene," a police statement read shortly before 12.30 UK time. "The operation concerns threats of deadly violence. The operation is still ongoing." A later statement confirmed: "There has been a shooting at the school. Four people have been shot. The extent of the injuries is unclear. The operation...

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Trump admin 'must conduct rigorous oversight of this type of funding, which the Biden administration quietly noticed at the 11th hour,' says Rep. McCaul.. The Biden administration, weeks before leaving power, funneled more than $3 million in taxpayer cash to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), according to a nonpublic notice transmitted to Congress that was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those funds allowed the PASF to conduct "firearms and ammunition" training—and came after its members carried out scores of attacks against Israelis.... The Jan. 3 funding notice outlined more than $20 million in funding for regional security projects,...

Disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has sounded the alarm over growing panic inside the FBI, as President Donald Trump continues his brutal crackdown on deep-state corruption, targeting officials involved in the politically motivated January 6 cases. Recenlt, Trump fired David Sundberg, the top official at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, along with nearly 90 other high-ranking FBI officials last Friday. According to insiders, this is just the beginning—another wave of firings is expected soon, as Trump moves to hold accountable those involved in the weaponization of federal agencies against the American people.

🚨 Rep Harriet Hageman: The IRS is ILLEGALLY surveilling Americans“We have learned is that the IRS, in fact has been using AI to access bank accounts of American citizens without any kind of a search warrant or even without any specific claim that they have committed a crime”… “An undercover journalist. — what they found is that the IRS has claimed that they have access to every single person's bank account.” “This person also indicated that they've been working with the Department of Justice, and that they have absolutely no problem whatsoever going after the little guy to make sure...

Rehovot, Israel – An Israeli man turned over a cache of weapons, accumulated by his grandfather and father over decades, to Israeli authorities. The cache was discovered while the man was refurbishing his parent’s home. Israel was born in military conquest three millennia ago, rebuilt after Babylonian destruction 2.5 millennia ago, destroyed by the Romans as a nation two millennia ago, and reborn as the homeland of the Jews 100 – 78 years ago. Jews have always “occupied” the land that we call Israel.War, conquest, and military strife have been part of the nation of Israel throughout its history. Before...

In the last few days, Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the General Services Administration (GSA) tech division, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Treasury, and fired corrupt people in the FBI—and that’s just the short list. With the war on USAID, GSA, OPM, and the Treasury alone, DOGE is saving taxpayers at a rate of one billion per day. All of this has driven the Democrats into a frenzy as they insist that an elected president managing the government is a coup. Unfortunately for them (but not for...