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Attending oral argument last week in the case touching on birthright citizenship pending before the Supreme Court, I observed a combination of confusion, omissions, and outright lies from some of the justices. As the lawyer for one of the amici, I witnessed the Court address the propriety of the nationwide, universal injunctions that have been issued by several district court judges blocking the execution of President Trump’s day-one executive order on birthright citizenship. Let’s begin with the lies. Early in the argument, Justice Sotomayor unequivocally stated that the Court had held 127 years ago that anyone born on U.S. soil...

On May 14, 2025, Governor J. Kevin Stitt signed Oklahoma HB 2818 into law. This type of law is known as a Defensive Display law. It codifies and clarifies actions that are allowed during the defense of self, others, and property while being armed. HB 2818 was passed by the House with a 73-16 vote on March 25, 2025. It passed the Senate 39-7 on May 8, 2025. The law took effect immediately. From oklegislature.gov: 4. For purposes of this subsection, “defensive display of a firearm” includes, but is not limited to:a. verbally informing another person that the person possesses...

The Trump administration is, for the first time since the emergence of the full-blown DEI regime in higher education, looking closely at what that movement has produced and where it runs counter to educational and political norms. The administration is using its authority to pressure colleges and universities to move away from practices that are not in conformity with those norms. This has led to bitter complaint from the advocates of DEI ideology. In a recent Inside Higher Ed article, writer Sara Weissman ponders the “DEI Hills Higher Education Is Willing to Die On.” Naturally, DEI advocates want people to...

A bombshell report from the office of U.S. Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed that the FBI was present and involved in the events of January 6, 2021, with IG Horowitz saying that the initial reports from the FBI related to January 6 were “inaccurate” and not reflective of what actually transpired at the U.S. Capitol. For context, in a press release from December 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, Michael E. Horowitz, confirmed that after a thorough review, it was clear that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was involved in responding to the...

Genocidal Hamas-linked Qatar's MEE is upset at UK: 'no genocide' in Gaza. UK VS (terror PFLP's) Al-Haq. It was UK's response to Al Haq. Al-Haq’s General Director Shawan Jabarin has been linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. https://ngo-monitor.org/ngos/al_haq/

only God can judge the human heart, the extent of understanding & the level of freedom & consent The above words were entered by George Pell into his prison journal on May 22nd, 2019. Lest We Forget a great Man of God.

American political commentator Charlie Kirk has described Britain as "a husk of its former self" during an interview with GB News. The founder of Turning Point USA delivered a scathing assessment of the UK's current state as he claimed American conservatives increasingly view Britain as "a conquered country" lacking firm opposition to restore it to greatness. This comes after JD Vance made claims earlier this month that free speech is "in retreat" in the UK and Europe and there had been a "backside" of rights for religious Britons. Kirk told GB News: "I mean as a country, and I'll get...

I just thought this was hilarious. Common sense in a movie? WHODATHUNKIT?! RedLetterMedia mentioned it in a movie commentary years ago and I thought I would share it with my FRiends.

It's only taken Joe Scarborough 441 days to "handle the truth." As late as yesterday, in a conversation with Mark Halperin in his excellent "Next Up" series, an intransigent Scarborough was still defending the absurd claim he made on March 6, 2024: "F-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.">/B> [snip] But finally, on today's Morning Joe, in a conversation with "Original Sin" co-authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, Scarborough finally admitted that in making his "best Biden ever" claim, "I was obviously wrong."Get the rest of the story and...

his article was updated on May 21 at 2:38 p.m. The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, once again asking the justices to take action on their emergency docket. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the court to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would require the Department of Government Efficiency to provide information in a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act. Sauer told the justices that requiring DOGE as a “presidential advisory body” to respond to the plaintiffs’ requests, a process known as discovery, “clearly violates...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As debate continued over President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," the United States Congress was said to be split between those who want to spend a ridiculous amount of money and those who want to spend an even more ridiculous amount of money. "My colleagues are out of line!" Republican Senator Kevin Cramer said during open debate on the Senate floor. "They want to spend a whole, whole lot of money. I want to spend slightly less because I'm responsible!" The ongoing struggle in Congress only served to highlight a near-even split along ideological guidelines between those...

President Trump truths a meme of him driving a golf ball into Bruce Springsteen's noggin. Congrats to on the posting of his meme. 👊

Charged with "causing fear" to someone or other a year ago, criminal proceeding to commence right after release. He supposedly was leading the South Port riots from Spain. Transcript linked below video.

In testimony before the Congressional Committee on Appropriations this week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy, Jr. wrangled with Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Id) over whether governments should be adding fluoride to drinking water. Simpson questioned whether Kennedy's opposition to fluoridating was wise, saying "as a dentist I am acutely aware of statistics showing that where water is fluoridated cavities are rarer. I fear that removing it will lead to an epidemic of rotting teeth among our population. Are you indifferent to this risk?" Kennedy responded saying "the National Toxicity Program issued a report in August 2024, a...

Let's all act as if we have wax in our ears and cannot hear or even understand Putin's simple set of claims he has always put forward if the SMO is to end. Let's all pretend Putin is Genghis Khan 2.0 wanting to take over the 'free' and 'democratic'(laughs) world. Let's all pretend everything we say and do is destroying Russia, its economy, and Putin's government. Let's also pretend Russia is also running out of weapons and many more of its soldiers are dying than those in Ukrainian forces. Let's pretend that there is no BRICS or SCO Let's pretend...

An autopen is a device that mechanically reproduces signatures. On Tuesday, Rep. Burchett appeared on “The Benny Johnson Show” and stated, “You are gonna find staffers that were able to take forms, get them and run them through some sort of bogus legal system, then they auto-penned them.” Burchett said he believes there was a pay-for-pardon scheme happening, and pointed to a historical scandal involving former Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton, who was implicated in selling pardons in the 1970s. “Tennessee has had a history of this; we had a governor … he sold pardons,” Burchett said. “You can look it...

Sorry, I have time on my hands, and I don’t trust ANYBODY in politics except Scott Adams and he’s not long for the world 🥺😥😱

WATCH: JFK assassination files hearing with Rep. Luna LiveNOW from FOX Luna Opens Second Hearing on the JFK Assassination Files WASHINGTON—Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) delivered opening remarks at today’s hearing on “The JFK Files: Assessing Over 60 Years of the Federal Government’s Obstruction, Obfuscation, and Deception.” In her remarks, Task Force Chairwoman Luna detailed how the federal government has lacked transparency when releasing federal documents that are in the public interest and praised President Trump and his administration for declassifying documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. At...

Today, I learned that faking town halls for presidential campaigns is a thing, but only when you use that footage on top of real town halls. And not only could Biden not do either, but when he tried to fake a town hall, it was so bad they couldn’t even use the fictitious footage. Some in his campaign tried to chalk it up to bad lighting, despite paying millions to make this happen. Whether or not that’s the case is for you to decide, but the conclusion remains the same regardless of the premise: this was the most pathetic and...

CNN anchor and slick-haired blowhard Jake Tapper’s tell-all book on how Democrats covered up President Joe Biden’s mental decline the past four years was just released today. Not surprisingly, website traffic cop NewsGuard is still giving the liberal media outlets that helped perpetuate this cover-up stellar marks for journalistic credibility. Outlets like CNN, Politico, Bloomberg News, Slate and others have falsely tried to cast Biden’s conservative critics on his deterioration and on the media’s complicity in burying the story as peddling “unfounded” “conspiracy” theories, which now look utterly ridiculous in retrospect of Tapper’s new book. As syndicated radio host Chris...