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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Gavin Newsom's California gave 62,000 CDL PERMITS to illegal aliens and migrants to drive commercial vehicles. This is an outrage. "The federal audit found California issued 62,000 CDLs drivers who entered illegally, who do not have a permanent legal status, as required by the feds." "California sanctuary laws prohibit asking applicants their immigration status...Governor Newsom said there's not a problem." Gavin Newsom is DERELICT. This is endangering millions of Americans, DAILY. VIDEO AT LINK.....................

SNIP “This historic project will transform a natural cove on Nova Scotia’s eastern shore into a refuge 100 times larger than Marineland’s tanks,” wrote Animal Justice. “The whales will be able to swim in real ocean water, feel the rhythms of tides and seasons, and explore a natural environment while still receiving the human care they need to survive.” Canada banned whale and dolphin captivity in 2019, which was a roundly approved of move, unless you’re one of those callous types who thinks that — and I quote from an email I received after writing this — “Animals are wild...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? If you are to go with your opponent before a magistrate, make an effort to settle the matter on the way; otherwise your opponent will turn you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the constable, and the constable throw you into prison. I say to you, you will not be released until you have paid the last penny.” Luke 12:57–59The Church Fathers offer many different interpretations of this passage. Among them, Saint Bede says that our “opponent” can be seen as...

Veteran CNN broadcaster Christiane Amanpour has revealed that she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer for the third time. Amanpour, 67, revealed her diagnosis on the Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story podcast on Thursday, but said it is 'being very well managed'. 'I obviously had all of the relevant organs removed, but it came back a couple times in a lymph node,' she told host Hannah Vaughan Jones. Amanpour's oncologist explained that she has a rare type of ovarian cancer that makes up less than 10 per cent of cases. 'Most women, by the time they get a diagnosis, might...

Club for Growth President David McIntosh said the powerful free-market PAC is undecided on whether it will support Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) as he faces a Trump-backed challenger — despite its previous strong support for the incumbent. “I don’t really understand what Thomas has been doing recently, you know, siding with the Democrats all the time,”

The new editor-in-chief of CBS News wants Fox News anchor Bret Baier to helm the channel's flagship evening news program, network sources have revealed. Bari Weiss floated The Special Report star's name along with several others during high-level talks meant to find a fresh face for the broadcaster after Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson stepped in for Norah O'Donnell in January, insiders told Status. Ratings for CBS Evening News have dropped from 4.8 million to 4.1million since. Weiss, 41, has begun 'quietly canvassing' the industry as a result, sources said. The news comes after Weiss was minted as CBS News'...

President Trump’s construction of a grand ballroom attached to the White House — starting with the demolition of part of the East Wing this week — will not be the first time a president has left a lasting mark on the people’s house. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama have remade parts of the building to their liking. And Harry Truman oversaw a major modernization of the White House, built in 1792.

Chelsea Clinton is so concerned about Trump making improvements to the White House (that we're not paying for) that she ran to lefty rag USA TODAY to write a preening op-ed about how much better she and her family were to the White House. Or something. Sure, her dad had an inappropriate relationship in the Oval Office (notice we didn't say 'banging an intern,' we've matured), and her mom stole silver and furniture BUT she always knew it wasn't HER HOUSE. Ouch. Our sides. Uh huh. Blah blah blah. Me me me. Talk about sanctimonious drivol. Still, with less than...

It’s finally started to really hit home. At our store, we placed a regular order for replacement change last week, and we got NO PENNIES in. I took some bills and went to the next door bank, and they said they’ve gotten fewer pennies in than usual, and could only give me a limited amount. So the PENNY, which we’ve all taken for granted all our lives, is really finally going to become a collector’s item, as they’re really following through on their promise to do away with it. In a way, it makes sense (no pun). It costs more...

China’s Sinicization of Religion DeepensThe Sino-Vatican deal continues to empower the CCP to subjugate Catholicism in China under Marxist ideology.On September 29, 2025, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping demanded that the pace of Sinicization of religions—that of bringing them in line with the principles of Maoism, which sought the total eradication of religion through the destruction of thousands of houses of worship and the imprisonment, torture, and murder of religious leaders and laypersons—be stepped up. The “Red Emperor” explicitly demanded an “acceleration” of this process, describing it as essential to promote “religious meekness, ethnic harmony,...

Just information. The SSA website has an announcement at the bottom of the page. lol

A top deputy to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten has been accused of “fostering a culture of anti-semitism that alienates Jewish members” by a key Republican senator. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, noted in a Thursday letter to Weingarten obtained by The Post that AFT vice president Todd Wolfson hosted a “Scholasticide in Palestine” webinar in March that characterized anti-Israel protests on college campuses — which have included harassment and intimidation of Jewish students and faculty — as “antigenocide speech.”[T]he Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Academic Engagement Network (AEN), Hillel...

Chelsea Clinton has chided President Donald Trump for renovating the exterior of the White House, lamenting he demeans its stature by his actions – the same building where her father demeaned himself and the nation in his scandalous Oval Office dealings with intern Monica Lewinsky.

I have a niche hobby of looking at church websites. I consider myself a super sleuth, combing through church websites to figure out their theology and politics. Though I am not especially religious anymore, there is nothing I love more than uncovering secret, conservative evangelicals. Church Clarity. It was also born of necessity. I’ve lived in Boston for over a decade where you must be able to read between the lines on a church’s website or social media as more conservative churches try to fly under the radar in this notoriously secular city. As a scholar of religion, I’ve also...

Chinese and Russian operatives are using “sex warfare” to seduce and spy on Silicon Valley professionals, industry insiders have told The Times. James Mulvenon, the chief intelligence officer of Pamir Consulting, which provides risk assessments for American companies investing in China, said he was one of the many men recently targeted by foreign seductresses hoping to gain access to US tech secrets. “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman,” said Mulvenon. “It really seems to have ramped up recently.” Mulvenon also described how, at a business conference on...

Consumer prices rose less than expected in September, government data showed Friday, clearing the path for further rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and suggesting that tariffs are not weighing on household budgets. The consumer price index increased 0.3 percent last month, down from the 0.4 percent in August. Economists had forecast a 0.4 percent increase. Compared with a year ago, consumer prices are up 3.0 percent, slightly below the 3.1 percent forecast. Core prices, a metric that excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.2 percent, below the estimate for 0.3 percent. Over the past 12 months, core prices are...

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New York Attorney General Letitia James will be arraigned Friday for her charges of lying on a mortgage application, a prosecution pushed by President Donald Trump. James' arraignment will be in Norfolk, Va., in the first court appearance since her indictment on Oct. 9. A grand jury in the U.S.District Court of Eastern Virginia indicted James on the criminal charges after the Justice Department alleged she falsely claimed a Norfolk, Va., property that she bought in 2020 would be her primary residence to get better mortgage terms. James is expected to plead not guilty to one count of bank fraud...

The illegal alien truck driver responsible for a fatal crash earlier this year in Florida failed his commercial drivers’ license (CDL) test in Washington a staggering 10 times within a two-month window. Between March and May 2023, Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India, tested 10 times to try to obtain a CDL license to drive trucks in the state of Washington. He failed every single time, according to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin and the Florida attorney general’s office. Yet, insanely, not only did the state of Washington eventually give Singh a CDL license anyway, but the state...

Purana Shala villagers in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district Friday rallied outside a gurdwara in support of California truck accident accused and local boy Jashanpreet Singh. Jashanpreet Singh, 21, has been charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) by the US authorities. Refuting allegations of drug use, Jashanpreet Singh’s father, Ravinder Singh, said at the rally, “He is an Amritdhari Gursikh, someone who has lived by the principles of Sikhism his entire life. He has never consumed drugs – he hasn’t even been near them. These accusations are completely unfounded.” “We mourn the lives lost in this tragic incident, but our son...