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JUST IN: Elon says DOGE will look into government officials who have a high net worth while making just a salary in government. How did they accrue all that money??? https://x.com/i/status/1889427640450425258

The DuPage County Board voted 10-5 at its Tuesday meeting to remove the Republican congressman’s name from the building and related offices in Wheaton. While Democrats and Republicans voted along party lines on the issue, Democrats Lynn LaPlante and Lucy Chang Evans abstained from the vote and expressed disappointment that the matter was raised. […] “Here in DuPage County, public buildings serve all people, regardless of race, gender, faith or … economic status,” board Chair Deb Conroy, a Democrat from Elmhurst, said ahead the vote. “This resolution reinforces the notion that the buildings on this campus support the rights of...

‘Subjugation of women’ and ‘socialist literature’ among topics of discussion “Abortion bans” and “anti-LGBTQ+ legislation” are two of the topics that an Ithaca College course will explore this semester using an “intersectional feminist lens.” The private college in New York says the course’s questions, including the abolition of prisons, are “increasingly relevant and consequential to our daily lives.” The political science course focuses on “the subjugation of women and members of the LGBTQ community, historical and contemporary,” according to Homerconnect, the college’s course registration page. It is inspired by the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and other contributors to “feminist ideology”...

"The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is, in the words of former Speaker of the House Carl Albert, the most significant congressional initiative in the last 75 years. Under it the Congress is now required by law to consider the Federal budget as a whole and to act upon it before the commencement of the fiscial year." That didn't age well. I think the process has been followed only four or five times since it began in 1975. Since 1974 budget appropriation has only been completed on time FOUR years; 1977, 1989, 1995 and 1997. Congress can't follow it and...

...because of the potential Trump tariffs on Mexico. Every MAGA voter should see what they voted for:

A congressional hearing on animal cruelty revealed disturbing details about what researchers are using fetal body parts for: research involving implantation into animals. In addition, 90% of the experiments were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colo.) questioned Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President at the White Coat Waste Project, about animal experimentation through taxpayer funding. Goodman said Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly the director of NIAID, knew that the body parts of preborn children were being implanted into animals. “I’m seeing here with NIAID the budget of spending $6.5 billion in taxpayer...

Super Bowl LIX shattered records as NFL fans tuned in or streamed the Philadelphia Eagles’ blowout win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night, 40-22, in New Orleans. FOX Sports announced on Monday that a projected average of 126 million watched the game across FOX, FOX Deportes, Tubi, Telemundo and NFL Digital properties. The game was broadcast on FOX and streamed live for free on Tubi for the first time ever. About 135.7 million viewers tuned in at the peak, which FOX Sports said was between 8 and 8:15 p.m. ET in the second quarter of the game. By...

The Hamas terror organization on Tuesday night issued an official response to Israel's ultimatum, under which Hamas will either release hostages on Saturday, as per the deal, or the fighting will restart. In its announcement, Hamas claimed that it is committed to the ceasefire deal, but that its commitment is dependent on Israel - "as long as the occupation is committed to it." The terror group also claimed that Israel is not meeting its obligations, and blamed Israel for "delays and complications" in the deal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a Cabinet meeting following Hamas' violation of the agreement...

...exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR. It’s not even close.

“The message of Christianity is being distorted,” claimed Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, known for her sermon at the Trump Inauguration. In a culture where people seek to reshape the Gospel, we must return to the heart of Jesus — a heart that values, cherishes, and defends life from his or her very beginning. Her perspective has been gaining traction, suggesting that a Christian can uphold the “spectrum of Life” while supporting a woman’s “right to choose” abortion. As Reverend Budde put it, “I think you can be adherent to the spectrum of Life and still respect a woman’s right to...

The liberal media were apparently still trying to suggest President Trump was a Russian asset during Tuesday’s edition of CNN This Morning. Anchor Jim Sciutto and senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen’s redux of the Russia Collusion Hoax involved them juxtaposing Trump’s desire to bring the War in Ukraine to a close with an ad put out by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). At one point, CNN even did a crossfade putting the SVR emblem over Trump’s face (pictured in this piece).

Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity… OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions. Stop. Panicking. First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal...

@DOGE, a single district judge has issued a ruling blocking the executive branch from access to Treasury data. There’s a simple fix: DOJ should demand injunction bonds. This will be a repeat problem for the Trump administration, just like it was in the first term, unless something is done to rein in frivolous injunctions. Activist judges could single-handedly gum up the entire Trump/DOGE agenda. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), judges can issue injunctions “ONLY IF” the suing party posts a bond to cover potential damages if they’re wrong. But guess what? This rule is hardly used! When I...

The U.S. plans to review the deployment of its troops around the world but is not going to send them to Ukraine, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a press conference on Feb. 11. Hegseth's remarks come amid ongoing discussions among Western countries about the possible deployment of peacekeeping forces if a ceasefire is negotiated. "We are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine," Hegseth told reporters in Stuttgart, Germany, during his visit to U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command headquarters. Hegseth added that Washington currently has no plans to reduce the U.S. contingent abroad but will review its...

For example, obviously the "calculator" cannot differentiate between muscle and fat. If one walks regularly and has stronger legs (for carrying weight) than a sedentary person, how might the calculator factor in those differences?

Analysis As Donald Trump embarks on his second term as the US President, the nation faces a turbulent landscape of climate disasters and economic uncertainty One of the first executive orders signed by Donald Trump after his inauguration as US President was the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, overlooking a whole lot of climate disruptions that the country has faced since his election campaign. At least 335 human deaths were attributed to Hurricane Beryl and Hurricane Milton, making 2024 the deadliest hurricane season in the continental US since 2005. What followed each time was damaged buildings, roads and bridges...

Video Summary: Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, newly appointed chairman of a congressional task force on government transparency, announced an ambitious initiative aimed at declassifying key federal records. She framed the effort as a historic step toward restoring trust in government and ensuring the American people receive long-denied truths. Luna highlighted former President Donald Trump’s recent commitment to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. She emphasized that transparency is essential to democracy and pledged that her task force, working under the House Oversight Committee, would aggressively pursue declassification without...

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1886110888731840537Just love how uneducated both Americans and Canadians truly are.Here are just some historic tariffs Canada hits America with.Milk: 270%Cheese: 245%Butter: 298%Chicken: 238%Sausages: 69.9%Barley seed: 57.8%Bovine/meat: 26.5%Cars: 25%HVAC: 45%Vacuums: 35%Cable boxes: 35%TVs: 45%Steel: 25%Aluminum: 45%Copper: 48%Take a guess how much financial aide the U.S. sends Canada EVERY YEAR and how much military defense $$$$ we provide?

DOGE is shifting attention to the Department of Education sparking a mini revolution among agency bureaucrats as Elon Musk's nerd army stormed into the building on Tuesday and saved over $900 million. Musk's lieutenants Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran, both 22 years old already have access to the department, NBC News reported. And there are reportedly as many as 16 team members are on the directory and have entered the premises as the agency begins to be ripped apart. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, (D-MD) described the terror agency staff are feeling after Musk's team entered to 'actively dismantle' the department. 'They...

Trump ally Anna Paulina Luna made a stunning claim about former President JFK's assassination as she takes over as chair of a new task force that will expose some of the most scintillating government secrets. Luna says her team will declassify some of the most sought after secrets like documents about John F. Kennedy's murder and files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. She will also push to expose what the U.S. government knows about UFOs, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and other areas of national interest.