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Congressional Democrats have plainly ditched their affordability campaign in favor of political reprisals against the president, his cabinet — and you. Rep. Robert Garcia’s cringey “LAWYER UP” post on X cut to the chase: Dem legislators are champing at the bit to go after President Trump and his team. But a disturbing new threat from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) shows they also have every intention of going even further and continuing an ugly Biden-era tradition. Namely, legal and political harassment of private citizens for protected political speech and free-association action. Blumenthal issued a demand that various companies that made donations...

Since the start of his second term, President Trump has gone after the federal work force, shearing 17 percent of employees, stripping away centuries of experience in medicine, law and science, and politicizing jobs meant to be nonpartisan. Embattled current and former workers are now looking to Democrats, newly empowered after the Republican rout in the midterm elections, for help. But the sweeping Democratic victories came with competing ideas for change, starting with issues like affordability, health care and the war in Iran. That could mean that any reversal of Mr. Trump’s cuts may have to wait. Then there is...

There’s a new fad unfolding on social media, where liberal women hop online, usually dressed in Muslim garb, and celebrate converting to Islam. But they’re not just celebrating in the traditional Muslim sense. They’re online trying to convince everybody that Islam is the new “feminist” religion, empowering women all over the world. Yes, really. We’re talking about young liberal women who’ve grown up enjoying freedoms that women in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Africa can only dream of, suddenly cosplaying, and dressing up for TikTok and explaining how “empowering” it is to embrace a religion that comes with some...

Van Zandt is looking to make his own mark in the world of Holocaust education through his educational initiative, TeachRock, which has, since 2013, provided K-12 lesson plans on a range of subjects.Steven Van Zandt is worried about the Jews. “There is that pre-Holocaust vibe,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency recently about what he sees on social media, where he is a prolific user. “They spread lies around year after year after year, and if you say something often enough, people start to believe it. “And that’s what happened that led to the...

California father, who plied his daughter with alcohol before he had sex with her, has been freed from behind bars a shocking move that cuts his sentence in half. Stephen Chavez, 41, was convicted incest with his daughter, 18-year-old Makayla Settles, and providing alcohol to a minor in June. But on the morning of November 9, just one week shy of six months since his booking, he was released Chavez entered a guilty plea as part of a deal, but was handed just one year in jail by Judge Dusty Kawai who explained that he couldn't impose the maximum sentence...

BlazeTV host Nick Freitas and Hillsdale College politics professor Dr. Kevin Slack trace how a quiet shift in American government reshaped who actually makes the nation’s laws. Dr. Slack examines how the Progressive Era broke from the founders’ vision of citizenship and self-government, while Nick draws on his years as a state legislator to reveal what happens when lawmakers would rather hand off responsibility than exercise it. They further explain how the consequences reach all the way to Americans’ respect for the rule of law itself.

Laws have force only to the extent that their legitimacy is recognized. The United States does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. Well, Marco Rubio has done it again. Just weeks after his extraordinary address in front of the Parthenon, he delivered a magnificent keynote address on November 13 at the Federalist Society’s annual national lawyers’ convention in Washington, D.C. Coming so hard on the heels of the midterm elections—elections that were a disaster for Republicans—it is not surprising that Rubio began by reminding his audience that the fate of the Republic is not determined by a single election....

The Biden Administration was an FAA disaster. Everything they touched turned bad. Big money spent unwisely, making an old and broken system worse than when they began. We have the knowledge and plan for the Flight Control Systems, we need Congress to give the money, FAST! Our FAA is doing a great job, and is ready to go. President DJT

Former Vice President Mike Pence tells Meet the Press he disagrees with Vice President JD Vance’s assessment of Republican midterm losses, and says the problem Americans have with the Iran war is that the U.S. “stopped short.”

A Filipino migrant waiting in the dunes near Calais has told reporters that Britain was never his preferred destination, admitting he would rather have gone to the United States but lacked the money for the longer journey. Speaking to a Daily Express crew filming in the camps, the man said: “I didn’t originally want to go to Britain. "I actually longed for the United States because I could learn English there, too. But the journey to the United States is too far, and I don’t have enough money, so I had to choose Britain instead. I know that there are...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has once again reiterated that his party's support for Israel is a key factor in whether or not he will remain a Democrat. In his first interview since the midterm election earlier this month, Fetterman revealed that the election of Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland senator challenging Chuck Schumer for the job of majority leader, would see him reassess his party allegiances. Speaking with Fox News anchor and former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on her show Saturday in America, Fetterman stated that he could walk away from his party if it continues a leftward...

Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-OH) detailed the “stark consequences” he was warned he could face if he refuses to support Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for House Speaker, including losing committee assignments and being denied support for his reelection campaign. Leonard told TMZ DC’s Jacob Wasserman on Wednesday that senior House Democrats had warned him about the potential fallout from withholding support for Jeffries unless two conditions were met: a vote on a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and an end to U.S. support for the war in Iran. In a video posted Tuesday by Drop Site News’ Ryan Grim,...

Cruisin' for a bruisin, ' Claudia? Mexico's ruling leftists don't seem care very much about Mexican citizens. They're apparently thumbing their noses at President Trump's threat to double tariffs on all Mexican goods if the government doesn't stop the illegal migrant caravans from Central America from making their way through Mexico into the U.S. Actually, they're aiding them. According to Breitbart News Foundation: Mexico’s government began providing the migrant caravan headed to the U.S. with police escorts and is allowing them to sleep in municipal auditoriums as the growing group makes their way towards Mexico City and eventually the U.S....

It took Alana Grant years to find the strength to set foot in the basement of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where her grandfather, the Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons, attended his final Bible study. Her fears have been replaced by gratitude and hope now that there is a completed memorial in a courtyard by the front door for the “Emanuel Nine,” the Black churchgoers killed by an avowed white supremacist in 2015. On Saturday, the long-planned memorial at the South’s oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church opens to the public. Emphasizing remembrance and reflection, the marble memorial is anchored by...

***Power-mad Democratic Socialists of America members are plotting to use their growing clout after the blue tsunami to drown the party’s big fish — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)*** On a members-only online discussion board, socialists laid out efforts from the national organization to flood members of Congress with thousands of letters and calls as they mount a public opinion campaign against the two establishment Democrats. That’s despite both having backed DSA candidates — Jeffries endorsed Mayor Zohran Mamdani last year and Schumer gave a speech at a 2023 re-election fundraiser for City Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán...

A record number of women veterans are headed to Congress following last week’s midterm elections, including a retired three-star Navy admiral who was removed from her post last year by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Do you notice something very obviously MISSING in Politico's story by Blake Jones on Thursday about Gavin Newsom's possible political move in the near future? The headline was "Newsom says he’ll decide on presidential run in ‘early January’."Read the first three sentences and see if you can guess the absurdly MISSING bit of information.

Biden’s handlers' Afghanistan withdrawal debacle in 2021 is largely forgotten by many Americans, even though it was only five years ago. Photographs of desperate Afghans falling from cargo aircraft, the horror of 13 American soldiers killed and Joe Biden checking his watch as their caskets were unloaded on American soil, the $50 billion in arms and other material left behind--all of that forgotten. So too is the fact that Biden’s handlers allowed some 200,000 Afghans, unvetted, into America. These were almost entirely third-world Islamic tribesmen, people as far from American culture as it’s possible to be, yet they were brought...

A single malfunctioning FAA router in rural Arkansas appears to have caused the air travel chaos that grounded all flights across the US Friday, according to a new report. The problem originated at an FAA radio site in El Dorado, Arkansas, where a newly installed router flooded the network with excessive data traffic, disrupting communications between pilots and air traffic controllers, the Wall Street Journal reported. “We saw two places that were actually pinging our network at a very high rate, a thousand connections over every four to five seconds,” Rebecca Guy, the FAA’s technology chief, said on Saturday. The...

A New York think tank just came out with its own proprietary college rankings, and the results probably aren’t what you’d expect: the University of Texas at Austin at number one, Yale all the way down at number ten, and Arizona State ranked higher than Stanford. The rankings may be surprising, but, according to the Manhattan Institute (MI), they’re meant to subvert academic snobbery and scrutinize the value of an education. In their own words, the rankings “judge schools by present performance, not past prestige.” “Other prestige-focused rankings offer little insight into the content of the education students will receive,...