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WASHINGTON — Former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore resigned from the conservative Heritage Foundation on Thursday amid fierce backlash — and pressure from donors — over think tank president Kevin Roberts’ defense of Tucker Carlson platforming white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Moore served for more than a decade as a fellow at one of the largest right-of-center think tanks in Washington, DC, yet didn’t reference the internal revolt over Roberts’ embrace of Carlson or subsequent apology for his choice of words — though sources told The Post the economist was facing pressure to depart. “After 12 happy and productive years, I...

“Several KATU viewers contacted us overnight to say their SNAP benefits loaded onto their cards late Thursday night. One viewer even sent a photo of their $748 dollar balance. The Oregon Department of Human Services confirmed on their website that SNAP benefits have started to load onto cards”

Well, here's another tolerant lefty in elected office. This ranting and raving lib is now the mayor of Couer d'Alene. [Warning: Language] New mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Dan Gookin: “"Christian conservatives are mindless, cult-member morons. They are white, racist supremacists. They can **** themselves and go to hell.” pic.twitter.com/eyvFgsE8uU— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) November 5, 2025Here's the local CDA Press: Longtime Coeur d'Alene City Councilman Dan Gookin ran for mayor on a campaign of providing stronger leadership at City Hall. He'll have the next four years to deliver on that pledge ... Gookin found a following...

The man who predicted the 2008 financial crash could soon be proven right again. On Tuesday, Michael Burry — who became a household name after predicting the 2008 crash and inspiring the film The Big Short — had wagered more than $1 billion that Wall Street's AI boom will end in tears. Now the cracks are showing. US tech stocks are on track for their worst week since Donald Trump's 'liberation day' tariffs rattled global markets in April. Eight of the most valuable AI-driven companies — among them Nvidia, Meta, Palantir and Oracle — have lost a staggering $1.1 trillion...

What was said in the former ICIG Atkinson’s interview regarding the first Trump impeachment, that Adam Schiff did all he could to keep it hidden to this date? We know: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/05/the-hidden-transcript-of-intelligence-community-inspector-general-michael-atkinson-testimony-is-the-key-to-reveal-cia-targeting-of-president-donald-trump/ We knew that the interview with ICIG Atkinson must have been bad because Adam Schiff kept it hidden till this date. https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1986168316365242647? ...more

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) called out a truck driver for failing to obey multiple signs before crashing into a ditch. On November 5, 2025, troopers with CHP’s Hollister-Gilroy Division took to social media to detail how ignoring signs got a truck driver into trouble in the Gilroy, California, area. CHP “After failing to obey three regulatory signs advising not to take this road, this commercial driver drove onto San Juan Highway towards San Juan Bautista anyway and realized that his vehicle was not going to be able to negotiate a tight roundabout ahead. He was left no choice but...

BREAKING: Kari Lake put Congress on notice today that she is ending the tax-funded European Union and globalist mouthpiece Szabad Europa, the Hungarian Language Service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which is attacking and trying to destabilize Hungary’s nationalist government She writes in a Congressional Notification to House and Senate Appropriations Committees, House Foreign Affairs, and Senate Foreign Relations: “It is the position of the Trump Administration that the original justification for adding Szabad Europa to RFE/RL’s programming lineup in 2019 is not aligned with U.S. national interests. This programming has undermined President Trump’s foreign policy by opposing the duly...

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine joined 'The Brian Kilmeade Show' to discuss the Fox Nation special, 'Cocaine at 1600,' which investigates the mysterious bag of cocaine found at the White House during the Biden admin. 16 min

Emboldened by Tuesday’s encouraging election results, veteran political strategist James Carville said he would “bet money” that Democrats will not only win the presidency in 2028, but then proceed to pack the Supreme Court to ensure permanent one party rule. While taking questions during Thursday’s installment of he and co-host Al Hunt’s “Politics War Room,” one listener asked how the Biden Administration could have prepared for “the possibility of Trump winning a second term.” While Hunt argued in favor of new legislation and guardrails, Carville gleefully predicted that the next Democrat president will fundamentally redefine American government. “I’m going to...

She did more than just pass the Bar! A powerful Iowa judge was busted driving intoxicated after allegedly zonking out behind the wheel and drifting into oncoming traffic on a major highway, according to police and witnesses. State judge Adria Kester, 55, landed on the wrong side of the law after another motorist reported she “looked unconscious” and was “slumped over the steering wheel” on US Highway 30 in Boone Tuesday night, the Des Moines Register reported. As her new pickup truck veered across the highway’s median, a witness climbed into it through the back window and put it in...

Princeton University is launching a new anthropology course on "Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide" in Gaza, a class whose description puts the Israel-Hamas war on par with the Holocaust. The for-credit, graded course is being taught by a "noted Palestinian feminist" who has made provably false claims that Hamas did not kill babies or rape women on Oct. 7, and also called for an end to the Jewish state. "Drawing on decolonial, Indigenous, and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures, and community survival," the course description reads. "Students will engage reproductive justice frameworks,...

Would you care to guess how many of those 21 Congressmen are Republicans, representing that 41 percent of the population that voted GOP for president in 2024? Can we talk about gerrymandering? A year ago, in the six New England states, 3,095,520 people voted for Donald J. Trump. That works out to just under 41 percent of the overall electorate. Next statistic: New England has 21 of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Would you care to guess how many of those 21 Congressmen are Republicans, representing that 41 percent of the population that voted GOP for...

Gun-control advocates in Maine have a new reason to celebrate following the 2025 off-year election. Pine-Tree State voters officially approved ballot Question 2 Tuesday night by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent, according to the Associated Press. The measure will expand the authority of state authorities to temporarily confiscate firearms from people deemed a threat to themselves or others, in the form of a so-called red flag order. “Do you want to allow courts to temporarily prohibit a person from having dangerous weapons if law enforcement, family, or household members show that the person poses a significant danger...

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY — Outraged residents have turned to social media to express their concerns after a surge of ICE activity in Westhampton Beach and Hampton Bays Wednesday. Large, unmarked SUVs in dark and silver colors were seen at multiple locations, including 7-Eleven in Westhampton Beach and the King Kullen parking lot in Hampton Bays. According to Minerva Perez, executive director of OLA of Eastern Long Island, a Latino advocacy organization, it is believed that about six or seven individuals were detained and arrested in the Hampton Bays area and, possibly, four in Westhampton Beach.

A study presented at the recent 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) has found that the apparent rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), at least in gay and bisexual men with HIV in France, are due to more frequent testing rather than more infections. Dr Sophie Novelli of the Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) of the French national scientific health research agency INSERM presented data from 2016 to 2023 taken from the PRIMO cohort. PRIMO is a long-standing cohort, founded in 1996, of people diagnosed with HIV during very early infection. It includes men and women of all...

Top 20 Chilling Insights from Yuri Bezmenov How the KGB's Playbook Is Destroying the West Today Doug Ross Yuri Aleksandrovich Bezmenov (1939–1993), also known as Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist and KGB operative specializing in propaganda and ideological subversion. Ideological subversion is the process of bending a society’s perception of reality so completely that it destroys itself. In the Cold War era, few voices pierced the veil of secrecy as profoundly as that of Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector whose chilling exposés on ideological subversion still resonate today. His warnings, drawn from firsthand experience in Soviet active measures,...

China’s exports shrank unexpectedly in October, Beijing’s official commerce data showed, dragged down by a sharp fall in shipments to the U.S. amid the trade battle with President Donald Trump. There was a 25 percent drop in Chinese shipments to the U.S. during the month, according to the data released Friday. This was compounded by a 1.1 percent drop in China’s global exports in October compared to a year earlier, the weakest since February, following an 8.3 percent increase in September. October 2024 was a high comparable base, which sharpened the fall this year, because American firms had loaded up...

Meanwhile, Rhode Island bureaucrats give a big thumbs-up to SouthCoast Wind transmission line plan. President Donald Trump clearly has the climate cultists and green grifters among his top targets during his very busy second term, which began with his signing an executive order in January to halt new or renewed offshore wind leases. Now it looks like the plug is going to be pulled from a massive offshore East Coast wind farm project. Back in September, I reported that federal regulators were moving to revoke approval of SouthCoast Wind’s construction and operations plan, the final major permit required before offshore...

Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property. He summoned him and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.’” Luke 16:1–2There is much to ponder in this parable and many lessons from which we can learn. To begin, the rich man should be understood as God and you as the steward. This is an important first lesson to learn because it reveals to us that, when it comes to material things...

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) objected twice to Senator John Kennedy’s (R-LA) proposals that would have blocked members of Congress from receiving pay during the ongoing government shutdown, legislation Kennedy says is necessary to make lawmakers feel the same pain as the Americans affected by Washington’s dysfunction. Paul, reserving the right to object, said the focus should be on re-opening government and paying those who are working, not punishing members of Congress. Paul argued that withholding pay from lawmakers distracts from the larger problem of bureaucratic dysfunction and the unfair treatment of federal workers who are continuing their duties during the...