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In a significant procedural victory, the Senate just cleared the path for dozens of Trump nominees to be confirmed. A total of 74 appointees were advanced in a single en bloc vote. The final vote in the Senate was 50-47. Watch the moment the measure advanced here: We are well into the second year of President Trump’s second term. Yet, there are still over 100 Trump nominees pending confirmation. It’s great to see the Senate finally moving towards clearing out a major chunk of that backlog. The Senate website provided a list of some of the specific nominations: This batch...

Delay, delay, delay, then dismiss the scandal as old news. Clinton 101. Democrats always lie the same way, so pattern recognition becomes a kind of vaccine, except that it actually creates immunity. Once you know how they do it, they can never fool you again. Unless you’re also a Democrat, in which case you were born to be fooled, and you can just go back to sucking your thumb in a basement. Back in the political Pleistocene, a slippery American president who was known as “Slick Willie” slogged through scandal after scandal, often in the company of his amoral...

Republicans and Democrats used to have a grand tradition of presidential candidates heading up to New Hampshire, putting on LL Bean jackets and trying to talk down to small groups of skeptical senior citizens in diners. It was a stupid way to choose leaders, but, like democracy itself, it was also the least bad option because it forced national candidates to get out of their comfort zones and talk to random people in a state that they would have otherwise ignored. Then the Democrats decided to run a senile presidential candidate in 2024 and to make sure that he had...

The State Department on Thursday proposed changes that would expand and clarify the grounds for ceasing participation in the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program, while also updating how sponsors manage extensions and reinstatements of status. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published in the Federal Register on July 30, focuses on regulations governing nonimmigrants who come to the United States for educational and cultural exchange programs. These visitors hold J-1 visas, also called exchange visitor visas, while their spouses and children typically hold J-2 visas. The department monitors them through the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), a database overseen by...

Modern semiautomatic firearms are flying off the shelves in Colorado in the days before a new "permit to purchase" scheme goes into effect, according to a local media outlet. In April 2025, Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation initially introduced as an outright ban on so-called "assault weapons" that requires anyone wishing to buy a modern semiautomatic firearm, including the AR-15 rifle, to first receive a firearms safety course eligibility card, then to complete a firearms safety course within five years. One firearms dealer had restocked three times, according to the Pikes Peak Courier. "We are jam-packed," Justin Green,...

During a March 2025 stop on socialist senator Bernie Sanders's "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said President Donald Trump's "deplorable and disgusting" tax cuts benefited "folks who don't really need more money." Months later, he claimed a $26,000 income deduction that was created as a part of that legislation, records show. El-Sayed and his wife claimed a "qualified business income deduction" of $26,171 on their 2025 tax return, according to a partial copy of the return. Passed as a part of Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 and then made permanent as part of...

Insane, but true. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a flawed but fairly sensible piece of legislation, put into places measures like the ability to classify foreign terrorist groups and ban funding to them, as well as keeping terrorists out of America, and it also created the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC). That was 30 years ago. ATRC had the ability to remove terrorists based on secret evidence, but was never used despite the obvious need for such a thing. Then Judge James Boasberg suggested that the DOJ go to the ATRC instead of going to...

The Peace Council on Friday published the full roadmap for ending the war in the Gaza Strip, outlining a phased process that includes Hamas’ disarmament, the transfer of civilian and security authority in Gaza to a new Palestinian governing body, an Israeli withdrawal, and a broader political process that could ultimately lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state. The document, titled the "Roadmap of July 30, 2026", serves as the framework for continued implementation of US President Donald Trump’s Comprehensive Plan. According to the document, the roadmap is designed to transform the principles of the 20-point plan from a...

The breaches signal that AI’s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts long feared. ========================================================================== Anthropic said Thursday that its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue-agent episode involving AI firm Hugging Face. Anthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be isolated, leading to unauthorized access to three organizations’ systems. The company said it identified the incidents after reviewing 141,006 test sessions, a process it launched following...

“Judge them not by the color of their skin, but the contents of their crack pipes.” The Atlantic, the last liberal magazine, which still occasionally runs good articles questioning leftist insanity, has an article that touches on the consequences of leftist pro-crime policies and features insane moments like this one. Nelson also asked pointed questions about what had become the received wisdom in Seattle, such as why the county government paid millions of dollars to supply kits to addicts with tinfoil, pipes, and instructions on how to smoke fentanyl. (Incongruously, these kits came emblazoned with an image of Martin Luther...

The principal weakness of Western policy has been not an excess of diplomacy or pressure, but a misunderstanding of what keeps the Islamic Republic in power. For decades, Western policy toward Iran has been shaped primarily by concerns over nuclear proliferation, missile capabilities, sanctions, and regional deterrence. These issues have dominated diplomatic engagement with Tehran. Human-rights abuses—including executions, political imprisonment, internet shutdowns, and the systematic suppression of dissent—were repeatedly condemned, particularly through United Nations resolutions. Yet they rarely became a determining factor in shaping Western strategy toward Tehran. That was not simply a moral failure. It became a strategic miscalculation,...

With shark sightings on the rise along much of the Northeast coast this summer, the New York Police Department (NYPD) is using drones to patrol city beaches, giving lifeguards an aerial view to spot sharks before they get too close to swimmers. The NYPD’s Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) uses drones for a wide range of public safety missions — from rescuing distressed swimmers and assisting search-and-rescue operations to monitoring crowded beaches and tracking sharks offshore. Working alongside lifeguards, officers in the specialized, high-tech unit patrol the skies above city beaches, providing a precautionary aerial line of defense against the...

Wisconsin’s former lieutenant governor dropped out of the tumultuous Democratic primary for governor Thursday as news broke that the state Democratic Party last year reviewed anonymous allegations about his sexual encounters.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she will skip the Michigan Democratic Party’s August convention because she believes she will be harassed, chased around, and booed off the stage by members of her own party.This is Michigan’s sitting attorney general saying she does not trust her own political party to provide a safe environment for her. Nessel also accused Democratic leaders of failing to address complaints she previously made about party members who allegedly harassed her.

A Muslim organization has bought a former Catholic seminary on Long Island with plans to establish a boys’ boarding school. Local residents have objected to the proposal as it moves through the planning process A former Catholic seminary on Long Island has been sold to a Muslim organisation that plans to reopen it as a religious boarding school for Muslim boys. The United American Muslim Association, based in Clifton, New Jersey, has purchased the three-storey, 70,000-square-foot building and its 14.6-acre grounds at 26 South Saxon Avenue in Bay Shore for $5.2 million. The property, currently zoned for residential use, sits...

An Arizona grandmother who beat cancer twice was killed after a brutal attack by a career criminal, court papers revealed. Susan Gehrke, 61, died from her injuries after being punched so hard her dentures were knocked out outside her apartment complex in Tucson last Friday. Prosecutors in the state claim Dahseir Edward Jefferson, 27, lashed out at Gehrke after Jefferson attacked a friend of hers in what authorities said was a random act.

The jihadists among us, taking a page from the successful radicals in the gay liberation movement, are no longer hiding their agenda. Most people understand a conspiracy theory to exist in a realm where disparate, unrelated facts slot into a person’s monomania to create a threat manifest only to that person. In this realm, the most persuasive evidence is the absence of evidence. The mere fact that no one has ever seen a secretive Jewish cabal nor read the cabal’s “plan” for world domination is, in itself, proof to the monomaniacal antisemite that such a plan exists. But is it...

This interview features Melania Trump discussing her relationship with Donald Trump, from their first meeting to their life together. Key Highlights: How they met: They met at a fashion party in New York City in September 1996 (0:13-0:28). Melania noted his charm and energy despite him arriving with another date. The courtship: Melania famously took the initiative, asking for his number so she could call him herself rather than the other way around (1:11-1:43). They went on their first date to a place called Mumba in downtown New York (1:46-2:00). Commitment: They dated for seven years before getting married, with...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (7/31/26)[Prayer]Personalities1 Samuel 25:1-44 David, Nabal and Abigail 25 Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.[a] 2 A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. 3 His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his...

Just wondering why more people are not noticing or pointing out the following: NAZI translates to National Socialist German Workers' Party. Seems a lot like Democrat Socialists of America.