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During an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) declared that the problem in 2024 was “not enough Americans believed that, we, as Democrats or Vice President Harris and myself, were on their side, and we are. Our policies are popular. But that didn’t resonate.” .. I think the thing I learned is, is we need to be in every space, everywhere. Saturday night, I was up in Helena, Montana.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly told Fox News on March 4 that there are no plans to sign a mineral resources deal with Ukraine following Donald Trump’s speech to Congress. His statement comes after earlier reports suggesting Trump intended to announce the agreement during his upcoming address. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Feb. 28 visit to the White House was originally intended to finalize the long-debated agreement on jointly developing Ukraine’s mineral resources. The meeting instead turned into a public clash, with Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance berating Zelensky. The Ukrainian president later left the White House without signing...

Their actions tonight speak louder than words. Can anyone here tell me what they stand for?

MIAMI – A woman who was pistol-whipped through an open car window in was fired at by the assailant after she went back to the scene to meet with Miami police, an arrest report states. But authorities say she had a gun, too — and turned the tables on the suspect. Antwon Rashaad Wimberly, 24, appeared in court Monday morning with his left arm in a shoulder sling after police said the victim shot him in early November in the Overtown neighborhood, sending him to the hospital. He’s now facing five felonies, including one count of attempted murder. According to...

Several dozen House Democrats are holding up small circular signs during the joint address in protest, reading “Musk Steals,” “Save Medicaid” and “Protect Veterans." The signs were distributed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, according to a person with knowledge of the strategy, with the messages intended to keep the focus on Trump’s policies. House Democratic leadership had stressed to lawmakers to present a solemn response to Trump rather than taking the bait. Lawmakers have mostly responded been silently waving the signs at Trump and Republicans during the speech.

"A secularized, atheist leaning Europe that has forgotten its roots, has demonstrated that it will NOT protect the personal freedoms of its citizenry.” — Jim Shea See if you can get this straight: So, Keir Starmer says: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wants to “put boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine so as to lead a “coalition of the willing” (NATO) against Russia. Sounds a little like the British PM is holding seances at No. Ten Downing Street to channel the spirits of bygone European leaders who launched doomed bear hunts...

Democrats in the chamber for Trump’s speech have behaved like petulant children from the very beginning of his speech. One of them even had to be removed from the chamber.Trump got tired of it and called them out to their faces, saying that nothing he could ever do or say would cause them to stand, applaud, or even smile.He is absolutely right, and this admonishment called these people out for the vicious, petty, horrible people that they are.Partial transcript via Twitter/X:“I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to...

Among his remarks tonight, Trump declared an end to weaponized government, specifically, the kind that was used against him for years.He then turned to the Democrat side of the chamber and asked, “How did that work out?”It must absolutely kill these Dems to have to sit there and take this. They threw everything they could at this man, and yet here he is delivering his first address as president in his second term.Quote via Collin Rugg on Twitter/X:“We have ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me.”“How did...

Facing the potential for tariffs on Mexican assembled autos, Honda has cancelled plans to invest in a new auto factory in Guanajuato, Mexico, beginning in November 2027. Instead, the car company will retool the Civic auto production facility in Greensburg, Indiana, keeping jobs in the USA.TOKYO, March 3 (Reuters) – Honda has decided to produce its next-generation Civic hybrid in the U.S. state of Indiana, instead of Mexico, to avoid potential tariffs on one of its top-selling car models, according to three people familiar with the matter.The change underscores how manufacturers are scrambling to adapt to U.S. President Donald Trump’s...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, was fired from his post last month, along with several other high ranking military officials. Many of the Left rushed to say that President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were “politicizing” the Pentagon. However, “This is not the politicalization of the Pentagon. It's the depoliticalization”, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ They said, ‘This is reckless, it hurts morale, and it will depress recruitment.’ Let's analyze that just for a second. Recruitment reached near-record levels after...

Health experts wary as US health secretary fails to endorse effective vaccines and instead calls them a ‘personal choice’Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, has caused alarm among pediatricians, vaccine experts and lawmakers with an opinion piece that focuses on vitamin A and nutrition as treatments for measles.In response to a measles outbreak in Texas, which resulted in the first American measles death in nearly a decade, Kennedy wrote for Fox News about the benefits of “good nutrition” and vitamin A – but did not explicitly recommend highly effective vaccines.“In fact, relying on vitamin A instead of the...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Judge blocks Trump's order to end funding for hospitals providing youth gender-affirming care From justthenews.com 7:57 PM · Mar 4, 2025

“You don’t have a mandate,” yelled Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, who stood up holding out his cane and pointed it at the president, after Trump recounted his election win. Republicans stood and chanted “USA” to drown him out. A House chamber staffer approached Green several times to attempt to defuse the situation.

The Trump administration’s multi-agency task force to combat anti-Semitism is launching a review of Columbia University's contracts and grants, citing the Ivy League institution's "apparent failure" to protect Jewish students. It will probe more than $5 billion in federal funding commitments and could issue stop orders impacting more than $51 million in active contracts. The Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the U.S. General Services Administration announced the move in a Monday night press release. It came almost immediately after Secretary of Education Linda McMahon's confirmation. "Americans have watched in horror for more than a...

I don’t know how else to interpret this tweet by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He got bad advice from Democrats before meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance, unfortunately tried to score points in the press through that meeting, lost the opportunity to sign the mineral development agreement, and now realizes his mistake: Zelensky tweetPlease read it all. Key points: None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. … My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership...

Some are bringing fired federal workers. Others plan to hand out stickers accusing Elon Musk of “stealing Social Security.” Several will boycott President Trump’s speech altogether. Congressional Democrats are planning to use Mr. Trump’s first address to a joint session on Capitol Hill since returning to the White House to protest his agenda and his actions — by skipping it, wearing messages of dissent, or by packing the House chamber with Americans who have been adversely affected by the administration’s actions. “The state of the union is that the president is spitting in the face of the law and he...

California Democrat activist Joseph Sanberg, a multimillionaire who fashioned himself an anti-poverty crusader, was arrested Monday on suspicion that he conspired to defraud investors in his “green” finance company, Aspiration. “Joseph Neal Sanberg, 45, of Orange, the co-founder and largest shareholder of the financial and sustainability services company Aspiration Partners, Inc., was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint alleging that he conspired to defraud two investor funds of at least $145 million,” Joseph McNally, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement. Aspiration Inc. was backed by actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr....

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In the Four Quartets TS Eliot wrote “humankind cannot bear very much reality”. At moments in history like these, when there is simply too much head-spinning change and too many postwar assumptions being ripped from their moorings, it sometimes appears too much for any human to absorb, let alone offer a response. In particular in the weeks between JD Vance’s speech to the Munich security conference to the moment when Donald Trump cut off all US military aid to Ukraine, a concept is being tested – and possibly to destruction: that the US president remains open to European persuasion. For...

Meet the special people who will join the First Lady and President Trump at the U.S. Capitol when President Trump delivers his address to a joint session of Congress. These men, women, and families come from all different walks of life with incredible stories about the disaster wrought by the previous administration, and the historic achievements President Trump has already enacted to usher in the Golden Age of America. Elliston Berry from Aledo, TX: Elliston is a 15-year-old who was the victim of computer-generated deepfakes created by a bully at her school intended to humiliate and degrade Elliston and her...