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The White House went on to document $8 million in federal spending on transgender mice. One of President Donald Trump's more astounding claims during his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night ended with egg on the face of "Fake News losers" at CNN when they tried to fact-check him. "$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of," he said during the address. "$60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in central America, $60 million. $8 million for making mice transgender. This is real!" CNN reporters initially said...

Conservatives are ramping up their calls for Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to be held legally accountable for his role in pushing a now well-debunked claim that President Donald Trump was a dupe for Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first term. The so-called “Russian collusion” narrative, which Schiff and many others in the media pushed for years during Trump’s first term, was the subject of multiple investigations by the House and by independent prosecutors, including John Durham, a former U.S. attorney, and Robert Mueller, a former FBI director.

A Florida man has been busted for allegedly threatening to assassinate President Trump and “launch f–king missiles” at New York City in a series of bizarre phone calls to police. Justin Blaxton, 34, of Loxahatchee, made multiple threats against the president on Feb. 26 while repeatedly calling 911 in Palm Beach, where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is located, according to audio released by police, CBS 12 reported. “I need a ride to the airport to be taken to The White House so I can assassinate the president,” Blaxton, who identified himself as “Justin Blaze,” told a dispatcher in one of the...

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The Kremlin rolled out its team of talking heads on Thursday morning to pour scorn on French President Macron, accusing him of everything from duplicity, nuclear sabre-rattling, bad manners, and even being the living embodiment of both Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler at the same time. French President Emmanuel Macron addressed his nation and the world on Wednesday evening to lay out his vision of Europe taking up the slack in supporting Ukraine and taking responsibility for its own defence. While President Donald Trump is committed to bringing peace to Europe, the continent, at least not being totally reliant on...

Another shocking statistic from the budget hawks at EPIC.Based on the government’s own data, we spend twice as much on welfare as it would take to move every family in America above the poverty line. In other words, if we just gave these families enough cash to increase their income, no one would be in poverty.Yet we spend twice that much and STILL have 36.8 million people who live in poverty.One idea is the old Milton Friedman negative income tax. Scrap all the scores of welfare programs and the massive bureaucracy and simply provide a cash subsidy to any family...

Donald Trump's genius was shown once again on Tuesday night. He ran through a myriad of his accomplishments in his first two months in office and deservedly so. The border was a highlight. Trump's securing the border made clear how impotent Biden was. After three years of Mayorkas telling us the border was secure, it became unsecure as the election approached. Biden repeatedly said he was helpless to do anything about it as he flew in criminal after criminal. A Haitian migrant charged with triple murder in Fayetteville, North Carolina, who allegedly killed several members of his family last week,...

AL GREEN CENSURED - DEMOCRATS SING WE SHALL OVERCOME.

This motorcyclist lands in the flatbed of a truck and only suffers minor injuries. It happened Tuesday in Irwindale, CA.

Democrat mayors refused to answer whether they would turn over illegal immigrant criminals to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a hearing on Wednesday. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson would not explicitly answer Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer’s (R-KY) question. “Would you turn this criminal over to ICE on a detainer?” Comer asked Johnson, to which the Chicago mayor replied by dodging the question, stating, “Our local law enforcement works hard every day to get criminals off the streets of Chicago.”

Ukrainian opposition leaders Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko have dismissed the possibility of elections in the country during Russia's full-scale invasion after media reports suggested US officials had approached them about the idea. -snip- The latest comments come after Politico reported that four senior members of US President Donald Trump's "entourage" met with Poroshenko and Tymoshenko for "secret discussions" about holding elections. The discussions focused on whether Ukraine could have quick presidential elections, according to the report. -snip- Russian President Vladimir Putin has widely claimed there can't be peace talks with Ukraine because Zelenskyy is not the country's legitimate leader...

Progressive ideas around race, gender, and immigration are under scrutiny by both the Republican-controlled federal government and Democrats chastened by the loss of the 2024 election. In this modern context, it’s easy to forget how persuasive these ideas once were. In 1995, just 25 percent of Democrats identified as liberal, while 46 called themselves moderate. Twenty years later, a sea change in public opinion had happened: In 2015, 45 percent of Democrats called themselves liberals. Two political scientists and a researcher found that from 2011 to 2020 the attitudes of Democrats and independents became notably more liberal on racial inequality...

AN ACTUAL AD FROM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, REST IN PEACE.

In recent weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with several government watchdog groups have uncovered a growing mountain of waste, fraud, and abuse stemming from the unmitigated catastrophe at the U.S.-Mexico border during Joe Biden’s presidency. Just as conservatives warned, the Biden administration was using taxpayer dollars to line the pockets of left-wing NGOs and facilitating an all-out migrant invasion. In one of the most shocking findings, a report from Open the Books uncovered that the Biden Department of Health and Human Services “spent $20 billion on cars, home loans, other services for migrants” through the Office of...

After House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ejected Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) from President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, the House formally censured Green on Thursday. Democrats had tried to block the measure but failed. The measure passed with Republican backing and support from 10 Democrats. The ten Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera (D-Calif.), Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Jim Costa (D-Calif.), Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.), Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.). Green and freshman Rep. Shomari Figures...

Los Angeles County officially sued utility company Southern California Edison on Wednesday, claiming that its power lines caused the spark that ignited the Eaton Fire in high winds on January 7. The Los Angeles Times reported: The lawsuit is the latest to allege that Edison’s equipment caused the blaze, which destroyed about 9,000 homes and killed 17 people, making it one of the most destructive wildfires in California history. Residents have filed more than 40 lawsuits against the utility, focusing on transmission towers where the first flames were spotted. The cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre also plan to sue...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump reached an estimated 36.6 million television viewers for his address to Congress on Tuesday night, the Nielsen company said. That beat the 32.2 million people who watched former President Joe Biden's final State of the Union address last year, but was smaller than any of Trump's audiences for the annual address during his first term, Nielsen said. Trump's first speech to Congress as president, in 2017, was seen by 47.7 million people. Television viewing in general has decreased since then. Nielsen measured viewing on 15 different television networks, including those whose feed was carried...

Russia will have to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine in any peace deal, a potential future leader of the country has demanded. In a statement made in London, Gen Valeriy Zaluzhny, who was sacked as commander-in-chief by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just over a year ago, also warned that the cohesion of the Nato alliance was at stake with America attempting to “delegate” security to Europe. -snip- Gen Zaluzhny, who was appointed ambassador to Britain shortly after his dismissal as armed forces chief in February last year, set out his terms for a lasting peace agreement that includes Russia...

West Virginia House members have introduced a bill to remove rape and incest exceptions in the state’s pro-life law. State law currently protects most preborn children from abortion, but House Bill 2712 would extend those protections. Under the bill, an induced abortion — the direct and intentional killing of a preborn child — would not be allowed unless a licensed medical professional determines the “embryo or fetus is nonviable,” “the pregnancy is ectopic,” or a “medical emergency exists.” West Virginia law defines abortion as “the use of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device with intent to...

MADISON, Wis. - 'Fromagination' Cheese Shop has sat across the street from the Capitol for 17 years. But the owner says this year, with executive orders and federal policies, he's concerned about the future of his business and the dairy industry. “We want to showcase Wisconsin's rich treasure, and that's cheese,” owner and founder Ken Monteleone said. And for 17 years, Ken Monteleone has been the final stop in that treasure's long journey. “You know, from our dairy farmers, from our cheesemakers to the people that sell the cheese, it's a big industry that's not only important in Wisconsin, but...