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Democrats in Washington, D.C., are furious — not because violent crime was spiraling out of control, but because President Donald Trump did something to stop it.A new Washington Post-Schar School poll found that roughly 8 in 10 D.C. residents oppose Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. The poll was conducted between Aug. 14 and Aug. 17 and surveyed 604 D.C. residents with a +/- 4.1 percentage point margin of error.This outrage was unsurprising, given that the propaganda press peddled the same narrative in recent days. A quartet of so-called journalists at CNN reported on Aug. 14 that a crowd in...

Fascist’ is not a synonym for ‘someone you don’t like.’I’m not going to recite the whole thing, because it was banal and stupid on a level you good people shouldn’t be subjected to, but on social media Thursday after I noted the interesting fact that Washington, D.C. had gone a full week without a homicide, an obvious consequence of President Trump’s decision to federalize law enforcement there, I found myself subjected to the same treatment that Trump officials seem to be getting. Namely, this… A deranged leftist entered the thread to first admit that the federalization of Washington’s police had...

Trump called those opposing the mine ‘Anti-American’ and said the country needs copper ‘NOW!’ Opponents of the mine, including the San Carlos Apache Tribe, said they will never stop fighting to protect the land. President Trump this week threw his full support behind a massive project to turn a sacred Apache site outside Phoenix into one of the world’s largest copper mines, meeting with mining executives at the White House and ridiculing a recent court decision that temporarily halted the transfer of federal lands to their companies.Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met in the White House on Tuesday with...

National Guard members participating in the military deployment that President Donald Trump has ordered in Washington, D.C., will “soon be on mission with their service-issued weapons,” the Pentagon said in a statement Friday, following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s formal authorization allowing troops to carry firearms in the nation’s capital. The authorization applies to members of Joint Task Force-D.C., the military mission that includes both members of the D.C. National Guard and six states that are involved in the deployment, the Pentagon said in a statement. The use of firearms will be consistent with the National Guard’s mission and training, with...

Counter-Strike changed first-person shooters forever with its deliberate team-based combat. Twenty-five years after the game’s official release, one of its college creators reflects.Late one night in his dorm room, Minh Le, a computer science major, was having a hard time concentrating on his studies.Le was a whiz with computers and had little trouble with the material at Simon Fraser University, a public research school just outside Vancouver, British Columbia. But a video game he had designed in his spare time was earning Le and his co-creator more than $20,000 every month from advertising.More than 100,000 players at a time —...

As Texas Republicans and California Democrats redraw U.S. House districts to their advantage ahead of next year’s elections, they’re potentially disrupting a rare partisan balance in American politics.The 220-215 majority that Republicans won over Democrats in last year’s elections almost perfectly aligns with the share of the vote the two parties received in districts across the U.S., according to an Associated Press analysis. Although the overall outcome was close to neutral, the AP’s analysis shows that Democrats and Republicans each benefited from advantages in particular states.The AP used a mathematical analysis designed to measure how many more U.S. House seats...

VIDEOMORE Karmatic Kickback! John Bolton who was all in enthusiastic over the FBI raid on President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home just had his own home raided by the FBI searching for classified documents. One wonders if Bolton, while standing outside his home clad only in his underpants during the FBI search, had flashbacks to his own gloating over the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

The committee will review the Justice Department’s production before releasing any material publicly.The Justice Department is expected to release a portion of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files to the House Oversight Committee as soon as Friday, marking the culmination of a rare bipartisan demand for records. The scope and contents of the documents remain unknown. We don’t know if this information coming out is new. We don’t know if these are things that members of Congress have seen before. We don’t know if this is information that’s already made it out into the public eye through reporting or through previous...

THE COLONY, Texas — Midwest-based White Castle is opening its first Texas location in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company announced In a press conference Thursday, White Castle executives announced it will open up a new location in Grandscape at The Colony. The chain is known for its square sliders and steamed onions. The restaurant is expected to open in the summer of 2026. The fast-food restaurant is well-established in the Midwest and has just a few locations in Florida, Arizona. Its Grandscape location will become only its seventh location outside of the Midwest.

Summary Plan aims to neutralize Trump-backed redistricting in Texas Fast-track passage hands victory to California Governor Newsom Voters to decide on redrawn congressional districts in November LOS ANGELES, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The California legislature approved on Thursday a redistricting plan aimed at giving Democrats five more seats in the U.S. Congress, countering a partisan advantage President Donald Trump sought from a Republican move to redraw political maps in Texas.California Democrats pushed their three bills through the state Senate and Assembly in a remarkable flurry of fast-track action, ahead of a Friday deadline to get the changes on the ballot...

Police officer draws his gun on a high school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after receiving a report that the student had a gun. Five guns were found on or near school campuses in Albuquerque on Wednesday. Two students at West Mesa High School are facing charges and are in juvenile detention. The student in the video allegedly had a gun in his book bag, and another student at the school reportedly had a gun in his waistband. On the same day, two students at Albuquerque High School also brought guns on campus. According to police, there was a similar...

KEY POINTS Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Friday gave a tepid indication of possible interest rate cuts ahead as he noted a high level of uncertainty that is making the job difficult for monetary policymakers. “With policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance,” he said during his annual address at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. While not addressing White House demands for rate cuts specifically, Powell did note the importance of Fed independence. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday gave a tepid indication of possible interest rate cuts ahead...

The rogue judicial branch continues to overstep its bounds. In the latest example yet, a federal judge just ordered the effective shutdown of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention facility. Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, ruled that no new illegal alien detainees can be brought in to Alligator Alcatraz. In addition, she has barred further construction and given orders for many parts of the facility to be dismantled within 60 days. Here are the details: JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump admin and FL from bringing new detainees into “Alligator Alcatraz” and to dismantle some aspects of the...

Rep. Eric Swalwell’s latest attack on President Donald Trump has backfired after he shared a post on X, ripping the president for his federal takeover of Washington, D.C., police and the deployment of National Guard troops. “It’s been 10 days since Trump militarized DC. Crime is on the rise. Trump owns it,” the post reads. But despite his claims, video clips have been circulating showing law enforcement taking criminals off the streets in large numbers, with many of them being illegal aliens, according to Twitchy. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK..................... The report also took a swipe at Swalwell, reminding him that...

"Mayor Muriel Bowser must immediately stop giving false and highly inaccurate crime figures, or bad things will happen ..."President Donald Trump threatened early Friday morning to take “complete and total” control of Washington, D.C., if Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Metropolitan Police Department don’t address “false and highly inaccurate crime figures.”In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised the National Guard and local law enforcement for their significant presence on the capital’s streets as the administration seeks to address violent crime in D.C. Trump also said that D.C. has gone more than a week without a murder, a statistic...

Another sanctuary state policy with deadly consequences.In this great country, the freedom to travel is a right – but does that right extend even to the illegal immigrants who, by federal law, aren’t supposed to be here at all? Even with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, 19 states and the District of Columbia still hand out driver’s licenses to those who shouldn’t even be in the US – some of whom go on to commit violent crimes. That includes, ironically, vehicular manslaughter.Illegal Immigrants ‘Legally” Behind the WheelOn August 12, a truck driver – who was in the country illegally yet...

On Febuary 3rd 2023, one of the most controversial train wrecks in recent history would occur in a small Ohio village all because of a burning bearing on a hopper car. But digging deep into the investigation it becomes apparant this derailment and subsequent chemical spill was a lot more than just a simple hotbox as Norfolk Southern's negligent buisness practices become enlightened to the public. Probably the most anticipated documentary of all time if I'm honest. I cannot tell you how many times people requested this video to be made espesially before the NTSB final report was released but...

The FBI raided the D.C.-area home of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton on Friday.According to the New York Post’s Caitlin Doornbos, who initially broke the story, “Federal agents went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post.” Per Fox News, agency officials were later spotted at Bolton’s Washington, D.C. office “removing boxes and Bolton was seen in the lobby.”Patel seemingly confirmed the raid in an early Friday morning post. At roughly the same time the raid reportedly took place, the FBI...

Democrats seem to think they can talk their way out of the political wilderness. Listen closely and you can hear it through the din of their all-caps Trumpian X feeds, their hourslong “manosphere” podcast interviews and their more frequent swearing. Nearly 10 months after the 2024 elections, and the party is still embroiled in self-recriminations over where they’re talking, what they’re talking about and, now, the actual words they’re using. Or, more precisely: which words they shouldn’t utter. In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37–39We are very familiar with this passage above. It is Jesus’ answer to the Pharisees who came to test Jesus. Prior to this, a group of Sadducees tried to trap Jesus and failed. So now it was the Pharisees who gave it their best shot to trap our Lord. Of course, Jesus’ answer was perfect....