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The Beginning: “A day after OSI training ended nobody knew what to do with me and they had me filing and typing when a Major taped me on the shoulder.” Even then there was less of men actually touching a woman but the idea of sexual harassment or inappropriate touching was slow to catch on. There was nothing inappropriate, I was just startled to be touched by a senior officer. “Colonel Blom* wants to see you. Now.” (An asterisk indicates name changed. Colonels don’t send Majors to fetch a Captain. With a shiver of dread, I knocked at the door...

Independence Day makes Progressives squirm. They despise the principles of the American Revolution. If they could, their scotus judges would gut the Declaration as thoroughly as they have the Constitution. To them, our Noble Declaration, this expression of God-given reason subverts social justice; they are right. Since the Declaration is indeed hostile to their moral relativism, the Left has long attempted to minimize our founding to a fuzzy faith in the people. The “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and “all men are created equal,” translates in their Marxist minds as widespread democracy accompanied with equal...

Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary and is poised to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. He’s young, personable, has amazing charisma, and is being touted by some as the new face of the party. Others are suggesting that Mamdani, with all his attributes, is offering a path forward for Democrats to win in both the midterms and in 2028. These people are just as stupid as Mamdani himself. Mamdani is an avowed socialist who advocates for socialist policies, which are always going to resonate with people who are idiotic, jealous of other people’s wealth, or too lazy...

Happy 250th our beloved US. God bless

Today is a double occasion for me: Independence Day and my birthday, both o which I celebrate. A bit o Independence Day trivia: One President was born on this date; three died on this date. Can you name them? Also, what do Mickey Mantle and Adam Dunn have in common? (It relates to the Fourth of July.)

Oh, and he is much better than they are at talking!... Congress passed the cornerstone legislation of Trump’s second presidency, eclipsing my desire to look at past Fourth of July jubilations. The Big Beautiful Bill was worthy of our Founding Fathers, who would be appalled by the size and breadth of the government. DC controls just about every facet of a citizen’s life while siting on a mountain of IOUs no one ever will collect. The bill, which will become law when President Trump signs it tonight at 5 PM Eastern (Lord willing), trims spending for the first time in...

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A Ukrainian drone attack on an urban district of Moscow...one man wounded... United Parcel Service offering buyouts to its full-time drivers... In a late night vote the Dutch House...approving tighter immigration laws... 200 US Marines deploying to Florida to support US Immigration and Customs Enforcement... Explosions throughout Kiev early Friday morning during a major Russian attack... The US Supreme Court voiding a federal district judge's injunction against deportation flights... China critical of the new US-Vietnam trade deal saying it hurts China... Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, testifying to a special police... Russia formally recognizing Taliban rule...

The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1780, the nearest available Census Bureau population estimate to the signing, nearly 2.8 million people lived in the first 13 states of the U.S. There are now around 342 million people living across the U.S., according to estimates for July this year.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith warned on Monday that Democrats will be electorally doomed if they embrace the politics of presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani of New York City. Mamdani is a democratic socialist and has pushed for a slew of left-wing policies during his campaign, such as city-run grocery stores, a $30 minimum wage, free buses and free childcare. Smith, on “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” argued that socialism conflicts with America’s capitalistic values and that socialists would not generally be viable candidates. “Ladies and gentlemen, let me be very, very clear: If the Democratic Party becomes the likes...

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark and her WNBA contemporaries just took a step closer to an offseason strike following a weak first collective bargaining agreement proposal from the league. There have been rumblings for months that the WNBA and its players could be headed to a work stoppage after this season. How much players make has always been a hot-button topic around the league. And throughout its existence, its athletes did not have much leverage in CBA talks with the WNBA often taking losses. However, Caitlin Clark and the class of 2024 rookies helped expand the league’s popularity. And led...

On the third day of a union strike of municipal workers, garbage is piling up in Philadelphia, and some workers are resorting to threats and vandalism against residents who dare to break the strike. The City of Philadelphia is negotiating with members of the AFSCME District Council 33 union, who are asking for a wage increase of 8% per year. The city has offered to increase wages by 7% over three years, which led to the worker strike beginning Tuesday. Since then, residents are reporting that garbage is piling up and threatening their standard of living. "This is a nightmare,"...

I'm asking Secretary Burgum to put Trump on Mt. Rushmore. Given the scale and scope of President Trump’s recent achievements—especially the impending enactment of the Big Beautiful Bill, the historic act that will ignite America’s Golden Age—it is essential that we immortalize President Trump’s likeness on Mount Rushmore. Like Washington, Trump did not seek his position for glory but out of love for his country, championing American independence and reshaping the presidency with dynamism, clarity, and purpose. Like Jefferson, he expanded America’s horizons by pursuing new frontiers and breaking away from deep state tyrants. Like Teddy Roosevelt, Trump took on...

WORLD — Millions of people instantly died today after the Big, Beautiful Bill passed Congress. Mere moments after the deciding vote was cast, a horrific tragedy played at across the world as throngs of humans immediately dropped dead. "They tried to warn us," sighed Speaker Mike Johnson, surveying the carnage. "They tried to tell us that this would kill everyone, but we didn't listen. How foolish I was! Curse you, Big, Beautiful Bill!" At publishing time, death squads had begun hunting down Medicaid patients, just as Democrats had warned.

Now this is just getting sad, isn't it? I thought maybe once he left office, they would let Biden sort of wither away in peace and solemnity. But now it appears as if the former president is still being led to believe that he's super important and necessary on the world stage. From HuffPo: Biden later revealed, 'I'm getting calls. I'm not going to go into it, I can't. From a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged. I'm not, but I'm giving advice. Because things are different. You know, I often ask the question, if America doesn't...

#ArmyOfParents #IStandWithRiley @ArmyOfParents. Who in Northern Virginia has children at @NysmithSchool for the gifted? If you do, you need to demand the resignation of the headmaster or pull your children out immediately. The rapid rise of antisemitism has emboldened antisemites, who are singing the praises of Hitler and targeting Jewish students. This is not only disgusting, but a blatant violation of civil rights. @JasonMiyaresVA MUST address this immediately and @GovernorVA MUST condemn the actions of Nysmith School. @EndAntisemetism @StandWithUs @JCRCgw @Yael4Hanover @KatzForChair @WMALDC @JulieGunlock @LarryOConnor @ChrisPlanteShow @marklevinshow @wapo @dcexaminer Quote: Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin · Jul 1. A northern Virginia...

On Thursday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish gave a platform to left-wing actor and gay rights activist George Takei to promote his new "graphic memoir" "It Rhymes With Takei" [spoiler alert: gay]. Cornish teed up Takei to equate Trump's deportation of illegal immigrants with FDR's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (he and his family were interned). Takei said both were based on "lies" and "hysteria" and are "completely anti-American." Of course, there is a vast difference that Cornish and Takei chose to ignore. FDR interned Japanese AMERICAN CITIZENS. People who were either born here or were...

… Put yourself in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s shoes against the backdrop of 35 previously exiled Russian officials from the United States as a result of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment and Joint Analysis Report {BACKGROUND}.QUESTION: What exactly would Vladimir Putin think about this admission from the CIA?[Source]CIA Director John Ratcliffe admits the former CIA and FBI fabricated the intelligence that led to the expulsion of Russian officials under the false premise of Russia “hacking” the 2016 election. Why now?How would Putin interpret this very public message?Then, consider the sequence….President Trump said publicly he had no prior knowledge of the...

VIDEOOMG! A small puddle has formed inside a tent at Alligator Alcatraz during a rainstorm! Instead of just sweeping a mop across it a few times, let us turn that puddle into a FLOOD of epic proportions in order to pathetically try to discredit Alligator Alcatraz!If you hear liberals decrying a supposed "flood" at Alligator Alcatraz, keep in mind they are referring to a single minor puddle. In fact the images of the "flood" they present as evidence is always the same small puddle. What does that tell you? It tells you the Left is DESPERATE to discredit Alligator Alcatraz...

At a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F Kennedy jr and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) locked horns over the issue of vaccine safety. It started with Pallone impugning Kennedy's approach to vaccines, saying "you've fired the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) without input from the dedicated medical experts who support the work that this committee has done to try to keep Americans healthy. You yourself have consistently sided with the conspiracy nuts who oppose the vaccines this committee has mandated every child be given before being allowed to...