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‘Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice. … Those days are over.’ The Department of Justice was persecuting Donald Trump with sham trials just last year. But today, now-President Trump spoke at the DOJ, calling out the “communist” federal persecution of conservatives. “They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and Third World country, but in the end, the thugs failed and the truth won. Freedom won, justice won, democracy won, and above all, the American people won,” Trump said. “There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the...

If you’d have asked a Roman citizen on New Year in the year 1 AD what kind of a nation he lived in, he’d have likely said a Republic. And he would have been right. That year, just a few years after Jesus was born, Rome was ostensibly a proud republic. While they had a Senate, which was an unelected aristocratic, they also had Consuls, a two-man quasi executive which was elected by representatives of the people. They had Tribunes, who were elected by the people (sans the aristocrats) and who acted as a check on the Senate and Consuls....

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to a US-proposed ceasefire in Ukraine is “not good enough,” Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, after hosting a virtual summit aimed at drumming up support for Kyiv and piling pressure on Russia. After hosting a meeting of the “coalition of the willing” – a group of Western nations that have pledged to help defend Ukraine against Russia – Starmer said leaders had agreed that “the ‘yes but’ from Russia is not good enough” and that Russia would have to come to the negotiating table sooner or later. “We agreed collective pressure will be put...

A California middle school student suspended for allegedly wearing "blackface" to a football game in October 2023 had his record expunged in a settlement with the school after he said he was simply wearing eye black, a common practice in many sports ...

Emerald Robinson ✝️ @EmeraldRobinson It's Day 43 of Pam Bondi's tenure as AG and here's her record so far: Arrests: 0 Investigations: 0 Strongly-worded Letters: 2 Fox News Appearances: 43 When is she going to do something? 11:48 AM · Mar 13, 2025

@SenRandPaul Someone must make cuts to the budget. That’s why today I'm forcing the Senate to vote on my DOGE 1.0 Amendment to codify the cuts made by @elonmuskand @DOGE .

that, because they drive up prices, which makes manufacturers and consumers very sad. However, I’m not worried (I’ll explain why) and Michael Lind is even less worried (and he does a great job of explaining why ). I won’t rehash all of Trump’s tariff actions here. I’ll just make three points that are why I’m sanguine about what he’s doing: First, Trump’s focus in pushing tariffs isn’t to benefit specific industries at home, although he certainly hopes they will benefit. That’s been the traditional approach to tariffs. Trump, instead, is using tariffs as a non-military cudgel against foreign nations that...

The FBI's relentless witch hunt against Donald Trump has taken yet another bizarre turn. New revelations show the bureau secretly obtained Trump and Pence's government phones from Biden's White House in May 2022, as part of their “investigation.” “The Biden White House turned over government cellphones belonging to President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence to the FBI in May 2022 as part of a bureau probe into the aftermath of the 2020 election, tying Trump to that investigation without sufficient predication,” Fox News Digital reports. According to the report, the FBI did not need a warrant to...

DOGE isn't popular in many government quarters, but there's one where it is: The Voice of America, whose parent company, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, is led by President Trump's appointee, Kari Lake, a former television journalist, of Arizona. Lake's title is actually senior advisor to USAGM, but she's obviously calling the shots there -- and she's doing it in a DOGE-ian way. She put out these tweets, prompting texts of delight from my sources at Voice of America: I've been in fact-finding mode at the USAGM, & boy, am I finding a lot of nonsense that the American...

Senator Rand Paul's amendment to codify reductions in foreign aid as identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was defeated in the U.S. Senate with a vote of 27-73. The amendment sought to amend the House-passed Continuing Appropriations Act to reduce USAID funding, but it did not garner the necessary simple majority. This vote highlighted a division within the Republican Party, as 26 Republicans, alongside all Democrats, voted against the cuts.

When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President's envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? The task was complicated by the fact most of the money – $20 billion – would go to just eight nonprofits that, like the Environmental Protection Agency itself, had never handled such gargantuan grants. In hindsight, it’s easy to suspect that corners were cut, or laws were broken, or, at the very least, extraordinary measures were taken....

Could the 2028 presidential campaign line up with Marco Rubio taking on Rahm Emanuel? That may or may not be what happens, but it’s what I am guessing will be what unfolds. The Democrat party is in dire need for a level-headed politician to emerge above the fray, and I suspect that will be Rahm. The problem that may pose for Republicans is that he was an important part of the Obama administration, and much of America probably still thinks of Barack as one of the good guys. Most voters failed to recognize that the “fundamental transformation of America” we...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to rein in lower court rulings that have prevented a ban on birthright citizenship from taking effect nationwide. Judges should not be able to govern “the whole Nation” from their courtrooms by issuing universal injunctions that block policies across the entire country while litigation is pending, the administration told the justices in its application. “District courts have issued more universal injunctions and TROs [temporary restraining orders] during February 2025 alone than through the first three years of the Biden Administration,” the application states. “That sharp rise in universal injunctions stops the...

FAA regulations require Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting units to be on site at all commercial airports when a pilot declares an emergency... DENVER — Federal investigators are working to determine what caused an engine fire on American Airlines Flight 1006 at Denver International Airport, which forced passengers to evacuate onto the wing. The fire broke out after the Boeing 737-800 landed and was taxiing to the gate Thursday, prompting a chaotic evacuation that has raised questions about why passengers had to go out onto the wing, why emergency responders were not in position when the plane touched down and...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) stated that he would have preferred if Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had told Republicans “we need A., B., C., and D. for the Democratic Party and force the Republicans to meet him halfway on those issues and deliver something for the folks who are worried now” or else he’d vote for a government shutdown. Host Bill Maher asked, “Republicans proposed a budget and Chuck Schumer said he would vote for it and then did and got ten Democratic senators to vote with him. The other...

BALTIMORE, Tuesday, March 14. A returned Union prisoner, who reached Annapolis to-day, direct from Richmond, communicates same interesting intelligence in relation to the state of affairs at Richmond and SHERIDAN's movements. He says he was confined in Castle Thunder, and, through the friends of Union citizens incarcerated there, obtained much information relative to events transpiring, about which Richmond papers are silent. On Saturday night last Richmond was thrown into a state of intense excitement, by the announcement that SHERIDAN was near the city. The alarm bells were rung, and all the Home Guards, and every available man that could be...

ITEM 1: Max Cohen tweeted with a video, “After returning from Ukraine, Mark Kelly tells reporters he heard from injured soldiers in a hospital that ‘they’ll fight with rocks and sticks if they have to.’ ”Good. Next time send them rocks and sticks and leave our tanks and missiles here.ITEM 2: Sure, Trump’s ending the Ukraine War, but Democrats ask what about the price of eggs?Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said, “The average cost of a dozen eggs has now gone down $1.85 since we announced our plan about a week-and-a-half ago.”The plan is simple. Stop killing laying hens.ITEM 3: Newsweek...

Cuba’s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness. “At around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric System,” Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a statement. Efforts to restore service are underway, the ministry added. Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed streets and buildings shrouded in total darkness, as people used electric torches to navigate the streets. It marks the...

Barack Obama used an autopen to sign condolence letters to families of fallen soldiers and he used the same form letter for each family. The Gateway Pundit discovered this back in 2012 when we were talking to the families of the SEAL Team 6 members who were shot down by the Taliban after the death of Osama bin Laden. On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. 17...

A Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA astronauts on a rescue mission to the International Space Station, where two people have been marooned since last year. The flight was scheduled for Thursday but was postponed due to a reported equipment issue.