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When President Trump deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., condemnation from Democrats was swift and withering. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - NY) declared, “No f‑‑‑ing way” would he agree to extending the deployment beyond 30 days, saying. “We’ll fight him tooth and nail.” After Mayor Muriel Bowser said, “The fact that we have more law enforcement and presence in neighborhoods, that may be positive,” she reverted to the official Democrat Party line, telling community leaders they need to “protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our Home Rule, and get to the other side...

Following the shooting incident by a trans man in a church in Minneapolis, many people are trying to ignore that the shooter was trans. But he wanted to make clear that those who read his manifesto would know that he regretted his decision to transition:He wrote that he only kept his long hair because it would be an ‘embarrassing defeat’ to cut it, according to a translation by the New York Post. ‘I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed...

Growing up in the 1960s, I spent many pleasant hours reading comic books — mostly Superman and related characters. There was an odd group of characters called the “Bizarros” in that series. These were monstrous duplicates of individuals from the universe inhabited by Superman and his cohorts. Their defining characteristic, besides their hideous appearance, was that they did everything backwards: Good was bad, ugly was beautiful, and so on.Such is the case with today’s Democrat (they’re not democratic) party. Much has been written on their being on the wrong side of every 80/20 issue. I have previously noted here that...

WASHINGTON — Online rumors of President Trump’s demise were greatly exaggerated — much to the dismay of creepy leftist critics. The president took a brief hiatus from public appearances this week, sparking morbid theories and social media posts speculating he had died. But the haters had their hopes dashed Saturday morning when Trump appeared alive and well at the White House. Trump was photographed in a white polo, black pants and his signature red MAGA hat about 8:45 a.m. , appearing alongside his granddaughter, Kai Trump, as they loaded up in a vehicle headed for his golf club in Sterling,...

The software company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel has enabled his buddy, President Donald Trump, to conduct hardcore AI lawfare beyond its previous bounds. Those bounds appear to now include the Federal Reserve Board after Trump told its Governor Lisa Cook she was fired earlier this week. The hit was achieved with - snip - Bill Pulte, who seized a chance to make a mark for himself when President Trump appointed him to the usually low-profile position of director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Pulte took his first big step toward becoming his own man back in May,...

It was 230 years ago Sunday that Robert Carter III, the patriarch of one of the wealthiest families in Virginia, quietly walked into a Northumberland County courthouse and delivered an airtight legal document announcing his intention to free, or manumit, more than 500 slaves. He titled it the “deed of gift.” It was, by far, experts say, the largest liberation of Black people before President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Emancipation Act and Emancipation Proclamation more than seven decades later. On September 5, 1791, when Carter delivered his deed, slavery was an institution, a key engine of the...

One of the judges that threw a lifeline to Sir Keir Starmer by ruling that asylum seekers can stay at the Bell Hotel in Epping is a Labour activist, it has emerged. Lord Justice Bean, who delivered the ruling today, is a member of the the Society for Labour Laywers. He led a panel that decided a temporary injunction preventing asylum seekers being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping will be overturned. It meant the Home Office and Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, have successfully challenged a High Court ruling that would have forced...

The short answer is: NO. The real answer is: It's slowly losing value.

Palestinian activists are huddling this weekend to devise the "next phase" of their protestsRadical Palestinians are planning and moving again on multiple fronts, raising the question: will we experience a violent fall semester on college campuses, in workplaces, in our places of worship and on our streets? The answer appears to be yes.On this Labor Day weekend, the nation’s top Palestinian and pro-Hamas strategists are gathering in Detroit, Michigan. We should pay attention as they plan for what they call the “next phase” of their campaign against Israel and against Jews. We saw a glimmering of this incipient uptick over...

They finally got him — but forgive me if I’m not popping the bubbly. The monster who randomly sucker-punched me in the gut while I was walking to work two years ago was arrested on Aug. 18 — and given an insulting $1 bail by infamously soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Luckily, he’s behind bars on Rikers Island — because he allegedly tried to sell drugs to an undercover cop just before he was collared. That case was given to Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan and bail was set at $200,000. Kamieo Caines, 36, a violent recidivist with 20 prior...

An angry mob set fire to a local parliament building in an Indonesian provincial capital, leaving at least three people dead and five others hospitalized, officials said. The blaze in Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi province, began late Friday. Television reports showed the provincial council building ablaze overnight, causing the area to turn an eerie orange color. Rescuers retrieved three bodies by Saturday morning, while five people were hospitalized with burns or with broken bones after jumping from the building, said Fadli Tahar, a local disaster official. Protesters in West Java's Bandung city also set a regional parliament...

You’ve heard the problems. A $2 million interceptor to shoot down a $2,000 drone. U.S. anti-ship missiles expected to run out on day eight of any war over Taiwan. If Ukraine teaches anything, it is that a stockpile of existing weapons is less important than a manufacturing base—the ability to produce lots more weapons fast, and to adapt them and innovate on the fly.

The mother of transgender Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman once appeared in a movie made by her daughter — who she gave up for adoption as a child, a report revealed. Mary Grace Westman, 67, starred in the short film “Mary Meets Grace,” written and directed by her biological daughter, Faryl Amadeus, 44, who was adopted as a child from Kentucky, the Daily Mail reported. Faryl Amadeus, 44, is the filmmaker daughter of Mary Grace Westman, the mother of transgender mass shooter Robin Westman.In 2005, Amadeus traveled to Minnesota to meet her ‘five half-siblings,’ which would include a then 3-year-old...

VIDEOIn 2023, the Burning Man Festival was hit by extreme flooding. Last year, dust storms hit. And this year a heavy sand storm completely destroyed the "festival" including, tragically, the Orgy Dome. And yet dumb shmoes will continue to pay thousands of dollars to go to a festival that Mother Nature obviously hates to the extent that She destroys it every year.However, there is an incredible upside to Burning Man because it acts as a fantastic Man Filter. In this video someone points out that the week of Burning Man is also the one week of the year that women...

The left is lashing out as the Trump administration prepares to use Chicago’s Great Lakes Naval Station as a base for immigration enforcement sweeps in Chicago and Illinois. The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly asked the Navy facility to gear up for “limited support in the form of facilities, infrastructure, and other logistical needs to support DHS operations,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The plans are still in the early stages for the facility situated about 35 miles north of downtown Chicago. Trump border czar Tom Homan told reporters that the administration plans to dedicate a “large contingent”...

Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order,

Taco Bell is rethinking its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to power drive-through restaurants in the US after comical videos of the tech making mistakes were viewed millions of times. In one clip, a customer seemingly crashed the system by ordering 18,000 water cups, while in another a person got increasingly angry as the AI repeatedly asked him to add more drinks to his order. Since 2023, the fast-food chain has introduced the technology at over 500 locations in the US, with the aim of reducing mistakes and speeding up orders. But the AI seems to have served up the...

Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next year’s congressional elections. Kehoe made the announcement just hours after Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain five more seats in the 2026 midterm elections. It marked a win for President Donald Trump, who has been urging Republican-led states to reshape district lines to give the party a better shot...

Yemen's Al-Jumhuriya channel and the Aden Al-Ghad newspaper reported that Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli attack on an apartment in the capital Sanaa, with the latter reporting that several of his companions were killed as well.It appeared from the reports to have been a separate strike from the one that was said target 10 senior Houthi ministers as they gathered in a location outside of the capital to hear a speech by the group's leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.The IDF on Friday confirmed that the Houthi defense minister and chief of staff were targeted in that...

Several postal services around the world have paused package deliveries to the United States this week, and it's not because they're overwhelmed with shipping demand. The suspensions, which affect shipments of goods valued under $800, follow a recent executive order that President Trump signed that effectively ends the de minimis exemption on August 29. The fallout has been swift and global. We're talking about major disruptions from Europe to Asia that might impact many American small businesses, limit where you can shop, and make it more complicated and expensive to receive the items you order. What countries have limited deliveries,...