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US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Sunday expressed optimism ahead of high-stakes talks to end the war in Ukraine and said on Fox News he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted peace.

Whenever the far left in the U.S. loses an argument — called an election — it suddenly decides it’s time to take to the streets and get violent. Now is just such a time, as America experiences a new spasm of home-grown anti-Trump, anti-Musk terrorism. It shouldn’t be tolerated. Whether it’s taking pot shots at the president, violently demonstrating in support of murderous terrorists, “swatting” people they don’t like, or destroying cars made by a person they now despise, our country once again finds extremists threatening us and our liberty. And, no surprise, it’s nearly all from the far left...

LAS VEGAS, NV — After several Tesla vehicles suddenly exploded into flames at a Las Vegas facility, Democrats blamed climate change as the most likely culprit behind the detonations. Shrouded in the thick, black smoke of burning electric vehicles, Democrats issued remarks at a press conference to underscore the existential threat posed by climate change and the need to reduce carbon emissions. "The Trump and Musk administration has done nothing to tackle the climate crisis, and now we're seeing the consequences," said Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. "It is a sad day when climate change is so bad that it causes...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that in 2026, congressional Republicans “will feel like rats on a sinking ship.” Host Kristen Welker said, “Some Democrats are saying they want leadership to show more fight in this moment. They think that’s what’s required and you were instrumental in urging President Biden out of the 2024 race when he wasn’t convinced. I’ve had conversations with Democrats who says this moment feels similar. Are you making the same mistake that President Biden did?”

We have lived in a bizarro world in which up is down and in is out for so long, it can start to seem normal. Of course billions of dollars in taxpayer funds have been going to America’s most vicious and determined enemies. Of course career politicians making $174,000 a year becomes a multimillionaire in short order, and no one thinks twice about it. Of course Joe Biden’s was an autopen presidency in which nameless leftist wonks were making key decisions of state: you wouldn’t want Old Dementia Joe making those decisions, now, would you?

THE REBEL CONGRESS ON JEFF DAVIS. From the Richmond Sentinel, March 20. The following is the report of the Senate Committee on the recent message of President DAVIS. It was read and adopted in secret session, and the seal of secrecy removed on the 16th instant: The Select Committee to whom was referred so much of the President's message of the 13th instant, as relates to the action of Congress during the present session, having duly considered the same, respectfully submit the following report: THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF JEFF. DAVIS. The attention of Congress is called by the President to the...

The other day, this headline from Elizabeth Nickson’s Substack appeared on a website I visit daily: “’Give Us Back Our Fu**ing Money.’ How Washington Stole Everything.” Breitbart ran the following headline the same day: “Kyle Busch Threatens Opposing Driver: ‘I’m Gonna Wreck His A**!’” As reported in the article, that was the mildest of the NASCAR driver’s profanities.A post covering the appointment of talk show host Dan Bongino to the position of FBI Deputy Director included an obscenity-laced rant Bongino wrote in 2022 after that agency’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. You can read it here.These headlines aren’t unusual...

The University of Pennsylvania has laid off its communications lecturer—who published a slew of anti-Semitic cartoons—just a year after standing by him, citing the school’s "bedrock commitment to open expression." The dismissal coincided with the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $175 million in federal funding to the school. The Annenberg School for Communication lecturer, Dwayne Booth, announced his unemployment in a Patreon post on Friday. Booth said "the reason for the termination was budgetary," but accused universities nationwide of being "way too complicit" with a "largely Republican-led effort" to target left-wing voices. "I was informed that the reason for the...

A defiant Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed that he will not step down from his leadership role any time soon while strenuously defending his decision to vote against blocking a GOP bill to avert a partial government shutdown. Schumer (D-NY), 74, who has been facing a progressive revolt over his shutdown vote earlier this month, reiterated that he “did this out of conviction” and fired back at detractors such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday. “I did it out of...

Nearly 33,000 Illinoisans without legal status — including 22,000 in Cook County — could be left without health care if lawmakers approve Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget proposal to eliminate a costly program that has covered thousands of people since COVID-19 hit. Once held up by Democrats statewide as a beacon of progressive governance protecting some of Illinois’ most vulnerable residents, the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults program has been put on the chopping block by the governor due to ballooning costs in the face of a massive overall budget shortfall. Now, advocates are pushing to salvage funding for a program...

Never has a red hat caused so much anger. In a video posted to Instagram Thursday, a confrontation was filmed inside a New York City subway between a very angry leftist and another passenger — a presumed supporter of President Donald Trump sporting a MAGA hat. The clip was later reposted on social media platform X by a user known as “I Meme Therefore I Am.” That post had more than 1.4 million views by Friday afternoon. “If you f***ing voted for Trump you’re a racist,” the woman said, doubling down. “How can I be racist?” the man asked, through...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’ He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’” Luke 13:7–9Imagine for a moment that you were the owner of the orchard in which this fig tree was planted. After the gardener asked you to wait for one...

Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience with over 19 million subscribers. The podcast was filmed several weeks ago but a clip from this discussion is making the rounds this week on social media. During their conversation, Mike Benz shared how Barack Obama was using money to USAID to pretend to send “aid” overseas. In actuality, Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it to train “rent-a-mobs” instead!

The Department of Justice is exploring potential criminal charges against former U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) officials who attempted to block the Trump administration’s leadership changes at the federally funded think tank Monday, a senior DOJ official told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The official, who requested anonymity, told the DCNF the DOJ is examining whether certain USIP actions — such as the removal and destruction of internal and external door locks — created illegal fire hazards. The official also flagged the widespread distribution of internal flyers instructing USIP staff not to cooperate with incoming Trump administration officials as potentially...

According to Aleksandar Vulin, "same actors are behind attack on president Dodik and Republika Srpska"MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. American plotters against US President Donald Trump and several European intelligence services are behind the protests in Serbia, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said in an exclusive comment to TASS. "The color revolution in Serbia has been organized by US deep state, same one which is trying to obstruct peace efforts of President Trump, as well as several European intelligence services," Vulin said. According to him, "same actors are behind attack on president Dodik and Republika Srpska" (an entity of Bosnia...

WASHINGTON — A defiant Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed that he won’t step aside as the chamber’s top Democrat, rejecting calls from some House colleagues and liberal advocates critical of his move to help pass a Republican funding bill. “Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer said in a pretaped interview that aired Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” Schumer told moderator Kristen Welker he knew there “would be a lot of controversy” when he cast his vote to prevent a shutdown. But he maintains that while the GOP’s six-month bill was “certainly bad,” a shutdown “would be 15...

Senate minority leader’s handling of the recent government funding bill has divided his party and prompted calls for him to step aside. When Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet held a town hall in Golden, Colo., on Wednesday, he expected to hear from people enraged by what’s happening in Washington. But the name on his angry constituents’ lips wasn’t necessarily Donald Trump. For some, it was the head of the Senate Democrats, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. A man who identified himself as Colin from Denver asked Bennet to consider the “dire times” facing the nation. “Schumer had no plan...

You can feel it everywhere you turn. Shock and despair are starting to give way to rage and action.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers and law firms that engage in actions that violate the laws of the United States or rules governing attorney conduct must be efficiently and effectively held accountable. Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public safety, or election integrity. Recent examples of grossly unethical misconduct are far too common. For instance, in 2016, Marc Elias, founder and chair of Elias Law Group LLP, was deeply involved in the...

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump has “broken the Democratic Party,” adding that it has become “leaderless” and party members are “fighting among themselves.” “It is a huge mess,” McCarthy said of the present state of the Democratic Party in a conversation with radio host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” Sunday on WABC 770 AM. “It wasn’t just that President Trump won the election. He has now broken the Democratic Party,” he said.