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When you use skin color and chromosomes as criteria for filling positions of trust, as opposed to filling those positions with the best people regardless of skin color or chromosomes, you will not, unless by accident, get the best people for the job. No public figure in recent memory exemplifies this maxim more than Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. But that does not even tell half of the story. According to The New York Times, Jackson has found herself increasingly at odds not only with SCOTUS’ nominally conservative majority, but also with her fellow liberals, Justices Elena Kagan and...

National broadcasters dedicated zero air time to informing the public about the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” scandal, a sprawling surveillance operation after Jan. 6 that probed more than 150 Republican lawmakers and entities close to President Donald Trump. According to analysis by media watchdog group NewsBusters, while documents continue to reveal Operation Arctic Frost ensnared more and more GOP legislators, major networks ABC, CBS and NBC over the past week have thus far failed to report on the bombshell developments. NewsBusters’ Curtis Houck highlighted the networks’ lack of coverage, noting Fox News’ Brett Baier did the story justice. However, even after...

There’s a peculiar phenomenon in nature where lemmings supposedly march off cliffs in mass suicide. While that myth has been debunked, something eerily similar is happening in New York City, where voters appear ready to elect their own economic executioner.Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, commands a commanding 15-point lead in the mayoral race, polling at 46 percent to Andrew Cuomo’s 31 percent. His platform reads like a Bernie Sanders fever dream: rent freezes, free bus services, fully-funded daycare, city-owned grocery stores, and a $30 minimum wage. Young voters under 30 give him an astronomical 35-point advantage.The Uganda-born assemblyman, who...

Is “Christian Zionism” an oxymoron? Worse still, is it a heresy? And whether it is an oxymoron or a heresy, is it a recent creation, dating back no earlier than the 19th century? Before we answer these questions, let’s first define our terms. If Zionism is the belief that Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, then Christian Zionism is the belief that the Bible affirms that Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. It’s that simple. We can now answer the first question: Is “Christian Zionism” an oxymoron? Not at all, since it can easily be demonstrated...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democratic lawmakers quietly admitted on Friday that they can't seem to remember why they shut down the government in the first place. Washington insiders confirmed that the party had held several closed-door meetings to try and figure out what the government shutdown was all about. Thus far, none of them has been able to remember. "What was it that we started this over again?" asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "I'm sure it had to do with something really meaningful and important, like demanding black people be allowed to vote or something, right? Wait, I'm black and...

President Javier Milei won a landslide victory in the October 26, 2025, election. This election is a midterm election in Argentina. There are 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 72 seats in the Senate. Half of the Chamber of Deputies’ seats were up for election, as were one-third of the Senate’s seats. President Milei’s party scored 41.5% of the vote, increasing its share of seats in the House of Deputies from 37 to 101. Milei’s party increased its number of Senators from 6 to 20. This is a significant increase in power for President Milei. It is likely...

Federal transportation officials have confirmed that more than 7,200 foreign truck drivers have been removed from America’s highways after failing mandatory English proficiency tests — an alarming revelation that raises serious questions about how thousands of non-English-speaking drivers were ever licensed to operate massive commercial vehicles in the first place. According to data obtained by Breitbart News, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has decertified thousands of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) after discovering widespread irregularities in the testing process, particularly in states that issued CDLs to foreign nationals. These individuals failed to demonstrate a basic understanding of English —...

The phrasing here is ... interesting. "My campaign manager called me up to say we need 200k more votes that we cannot find" Kamala recounts losing to Trump: pic.twitter.com/hPUUADVsLY— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 30, 2025================================================================ Normally, you'd hear a candidate say something like, "We need to turn out 200,000 more voters in key swing states," or "it doesn't look like we have the 200,000 votes we need." But "we need an additional 200,000 votes that we can't find"? Lest we forget, Trump was impeached (the second time) and later indicted as a result of a phone call in which he...

Europe: Nationalism on the RiseThe political earthquake in Europe just went nuclear. Geert Wilders, the firebrand Dutch nationalist, has shattered the illusion of EU unity, turning the Netherlands into the latest flashpoint of revolt against Brussels. His rise isn’t just a national upset — it’s a full-blown rebellion against the bureaucrats who dictate everything from migration to green mandates.For Brussels, this is the nightmare scenario: a domino moment that could spread across Europe. From Paris to Warsaw, populist leaders are watching Wilders’ surge as a signal that citizens are done being ruled by faceless Eurocrats. The Dutch revolt may just...

Democracy vs. Republic — Why the Founders Rejected Majority RuleWhen Democrats today say they want to “save democracy,” conservatives often counter that the United States is not a democracy but a republic. Both sides are right in their own way—but they’re talking about two very different visions of government.When Democrats use the phrase “save democracy,” they mean it quite literally: rule by the majority. In that system, whoever gets the most votes wins, and the will of the majority is considered the highest form of legitimacy. This especially applies to the presidency, where Democrats argue that whoever wins the most...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing pressure on multiple fronts this week. His campaign refunded $120,000 to two PACs tied to city vendors — part of a larger pattern of nearly $290,000 in refunds and over $120,000 spent on compliance since taking office. At the same time, Johnson signed an executive order creating “ICE-free zones” across Chicago, blocking federal immigration agents from using city-owned properties such as schools, parks, and libraries for civil enforcement operations. And now, his budget plan touts a record $1 billion surplus from Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts — even as the city faces a projected $1.15...

Republicans keep waiting on Democrats to accept their clean CR bill and move on with a vote to reopen the government, but they won't do it. They want perks in there. Well, JD Vance is here to give the "Dad" explanation as to why Republicans aren't going to cave on this one. 🚨 BREAKING: JD Vance just said it PERFECTLY on the federal shutdown"This is how a CHILD BEHAVES!""They are trying to take a hostage. IF WE DO THAT - give them everything they want? In 3 MONTHS, they are gonna shut down the aviation industry and deny SNAP unless...

Despite all the media pseudo savants’s end-of-the-world predictions about the Trump economy falling flat on their faces, MSNBC is still out there banging pots and pans over an incoming Great Depression-era crash. MSNBC The 11th Hour host and economic dunce Stephanie Ruhle brought on CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin October 29 to hawk his new book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation. The book served as a pretext for Ruhle to get Sorkin to draw parallels between the speculative market euphoria of the 1920s before the disastrous October 29, 1929,...

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, it ends having given us all a small glimpse into the potential chaos that awaits us if hackers had their way. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage that took down websites, apps, payment systems, and smart-home devices across the globe. The culprit wasn’t a hack — it was a software automation bug in AWS’s internal DNS management. But that’s exactly what makes it terrifying. A simple misfire in one system cascaded through hospitals, banks, airlines, and retailers in minutes. Now imagine if it hadn’t been an...

CNBC host Joe Kernen, a conservative, did not mince words during a Wednesday segment with Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT). Asked if he was ready to vote to reopen the government yet, Welch replied, “You know, I’m not there yet. Because we have had literally, Joe, no discussion whatsoever about how we’re going to deal with the spikes in premiums.” Kernen, clearly exasperated, shut him down. “This is the right way to do it, senator? By people not getting paychecks at the TSA? This is extortion! … In your conscience, you think it’s the right way to do it?” WOW. When...

Kamala Harris throws a fit over the Trump ballroom on “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart.” Credit: The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, YouTube screenshot. ======================================================================= Kamala Harris lost her temper during a newly released interview on Thursday after being asked about President Trump’s planned White House ballroom. As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, construction began last week on the new Big Beautiful White House Ballroom that will have room for nearly 1,000 guests for future White House social events and state dinners with world leaders. Trump previously announced that he was planning to build the new ballroom at...

FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly ousted one of the leading special agents who oversaw the Arctic Frost investigation into President Trump. “Operation Arctic Frost” was a taxpayer-funded witch hunt launched in April 2022 that seized government-issued cell phones belonging to Trump and Pence while conducting a barrage of interviews across the country. The 2020 Trump alternate electors prompted the Biden DOJ to open the Arctic Frost investigation into Trump and hundreds of other individuals and organizations. According to MSNBC, Patel is ousting Aaron Tapp, one of the lead agents on Arctic Frost. Aaron Tapp is a Special Agent in Charge...

(DCNF)—Gayle King is reportedly preparing to step down as co-host of CBS Mornings next year as part of a sweeping overhaul under new parent company Paramount Skydance. King’s contract runs through May and is said to be in discussions about transitioning into a new role within the network’s news division as Paramount’s leadership reshapes the organization from the top down, according to Variety. Executives at CBS are reportedly eager to keep King under contract by offering her the opportunity to develop her own programs or specials under the network’s banner. A CBS spokesperson, however, insisted no formal talks about her...

The Brief -Superior Court Judge Kristyne Schaaf-Olson resigned days after police body camera footage allegedly showed her urinating in public near the Courthouse Plaza. -The judge’s husband, Jason Olson, was arrested at the scene for allegedly resisting arrest and obstructing a police investigation. -Both the former judge and her husband were cited for misdemeanors, and pre-trial conferences for their cases are scheduled.

Trump is not going to sit back quietly and let the crazy Democrats start another "Summer of Love" mass rioting, looting, arson and murder like they did in 2020. He's getting the troops ready in advance to take on these far left crazies if they should be stupid enough to try it.