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VIDEOOne upside of the Schumer Shutdown is that it has refocused attention on the FAILED Obamacare which was the reason why the Democrats shut down the government. They shut it down because the grotesquely misnamed AFFORDABLE Care Act is most definitely NOT affordable as Scott Jennings has pointed out and they wanted more government subsidies for it including for illegal aliens. In fact, Obamacare was NOT designed to be affordable in the first place. It was just an insurance industry enrichment SCAM designed to get it passed by Congress. And do you know who else agrees with Scott Jennings that...

MAMDANI'S PICK FOR SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR: A FIRE ALARM-PULLING POL AND OTHER SURPRISES Jamaal Bowman, the ex-congressman who once pulled a fire alarm to delay a vote (because why not?), is pushing hard to become NYC’s next schools chancellor. He’s all about leading a “revolution” in public schools, and has enlisted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to help him land the gig. But not everyone’s sold. Bowman has a history of interesting choices, like running a school without a principal’s license for years and spreading 911 conspiracy theories. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t convinced Bowman’s the right fit, and some people are...

In honor of Veterans Day today TCM will play The Best Years of Our Lives this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern). I want to draw from my previously posted comments on the movie to recall it briefly with a little background provided by Mark Harris. Harris tells the highly improbable story behind the making of the film in Five Came Back, his excellent account of the prominent directors who volunteered to use their filmmaking skills in the armed forces during the World War II (John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens). Harris’s account of The Best...

Jorge Bonilla wrote a story here on Sunday about the BBC bosses, Director General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness, being forced to resign due to their organization doctoring a clip of President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.So how did Politico cover this scandal? By treading lightly on the details while emphasizing that "the latest crisis marks a significant escalation in attacks on the BBC from the right."In addition, strongly implied that the Trump administration's reaction to the BBC scandal displayed unseemly hubris as you can see in the title of their Sunday story by Matt Honeycombe-Foster, "Trump...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would not commit Monday when CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed him on bringing a vote to the floor to address health care affordability before the ACA tax subsidies expire. The eight Senate Democrats who voted in favor of the continuing resolution Sunday night to help reopen the government did so with the belief that Republicans would begin healthcare talks. Under President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act, tax subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year and cause premiums to skyrocket. “The problem is when you’re subsidizing insurance companies, they just jack the...

When a pro-Palestine mob tried to attack an IDF soldier & peacful Jewish students in Canada, they instantly realized they’d picked the wrong man. Caught on camera — this shocking encounter shows how quickly things can turn when hate meets discipline. Watch till the end for the full story and aftermath. Transcript linked below video and above summary.

A free press is essential to freedom and democracy – and 75% of countries around the world do not have a free press. BBC Media Action supports local media around the world to deliver trusted information to people most in need. Like many international development organisations, BBC Media Action has been affected by the temporary pause in US government funding, which amounts to about 8% of our income in 2023-24. We’re doing everything we can to minimise the impact on our partners and the people we serve. As the BBC’s international charity, we are completely separate from BBC News, and...

Some artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are vacant in California because the local utility cannot provide the electricity required to operate them, according to Bloomberg. Although developers in Santa Clara, California, have completed shells of data center projects, the facilities remain empty and unpowered because the city-owned utility Silicon Valley Power (SVP) cannot supply enough electricity to meet their energy demands, Bloomberg reported. California imports the second-largest amount of electricity of any state, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), and has been phasing out reliable power sources like coal as it pursues a rapid green energy transition. Big Tech...

Millions of words have been devoted to investigating the Democratic Party’s recent “young men” problem, as it has hemorrhaged support from male voters aged 18 to 29. But on the other side of the aisle is the less-discussed fact that the Republican Party is enduring a more severe version of the Democrats’ demographic crisis: the GOP has lost an even greater share of female voters under 30. Even less discussed is the fact that while Democrats are struggling, albeit pitifully, to win back young men, the right doesn’t seem to realize the seriousness of its own predicament, much less have...

FRANKLIN, TN — Financial consultant and radio host Dave Ramsey was reported to be in critical condition Monday after learning that President Donald Trump had begun pushing a 50-year home mortgage. According to sources, Ramsey collapsed at his desk after reading a Truth Social post from Trump in which he pushed the concept of a 50-year home mortgage to combat the growing housing crisis. "It was a sudden shock he wasn't able to handle," one person close to Ramsey's family said. "Just the word 'mortgage' is usually enough to cause adverse effects on Dave. The president pushing for a 50-year...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the end of the government shutdown in sight, the United States Congress was reportedly preparing to pivot from doing nothing because of the shutdown to doing nothing because they're Congress. "Yea or nay, it doesn't really matter," since Senator Elizabeth Warren. "I'm still going to complain about the weather and randomly shout 'RACISM!' instead of listening to my constituents." In a 60-40 vote, the Senate advanced a funding bill on Sunday evening, bringing the federal government one step closer to being reopened. Lawmakers were now mentally preparing themselves for being unable to blame the shutdown for...

When the dog usually goes for a walk with the husband and stops at the pub for a beer, then one day the missus takes him for a walk 😭

Setting the stage for a major ruling on election law, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal law requires ballots to be not only cast by voters but also received by election officials by Election Day. As part of the list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, the court took up Watson v. Republican National Committee, a challenge by the Republican National Committee and others to a Mississippi law (as well as similar laws in 30 other states and the District of Columbia) that allow mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they...

VIDEOOn the night of November 4, 2025 the Democrats were in a state of bliss over the fact that Blue candidates won in Blue states and Blue cities. Yet they acted as if they were in a New Age with the end of the Era of Trump just down the road. Unfortunately for them, just 5 days later on the evening of November 9, brutal reality shattered their fantasies as the Democrats CAVED on the Schumer Shutdown. They "won" precisely NOTHING for closing down the government for 40 days. Forty days of a completely useless shutdown which gained them NOTHING....

The top secret June 2025 B-2 Bomber strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was launched from Whiteman Air Force base, which shares a fence with a foreign-owned trailer park linked to a convicted fraudster with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence ties. The Knob Noster Trailer Park in rural Missouri is located less than a mile from the runway of “the world’s only nuclear-capable stealth bomber.” Business filings and social media posts reveal the RV park is one of several properties near U.S. military interests acquired by a web of shell companies, which are ultimately owned by a couple who live in...

My jaw hit the floor listening to this Las Cruces Chief of Police in New Mexico says a man has broken the windows in City Hall multiple times, every time his felonies are dismissed He “has been arrested at least 108 TIMES, with at least 15 of those being felonies” “Mr. Garcia had had several cases dismissed because he was found incompetent, and again, that's being dismissed without consequences or treatment. He was also deemed to be not dangerous by the courts. But let me give you a few of his recent involvements:” - November 2022: Confronted by a GameStop...

The grand opening ceremony of a sprawling 150,000-square-foot “milestone for the global Shia Ismaili Muslim community and a transformative addition to the city’s cultural landscape” has opened in Houston. “The Ismaili Center opens in Houston — a first for the U.S.,” by Shafaq Patel, Axios, November 6, 2025: The stone tapestry, with its triangular patterns, illuminates at night and has shadows in the day. The Ismaili Center, Houston, an architecturally grand cultural and religious space and one of only seven worldwide, has completed construction and is opening to the public next month. Why it matters: The 150,000-square-foot center — the...

Is America about to be hit with a Mamdani-style socialist tidal wave? That’s what more than a few Americans are thinking as the dust settles on the unnerving election of socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Make no mistake, his faction of the Democratic Party absolutely has momentum after the win. So right now, much of the national political discourse is focused on the “meaning of Mamdani.” I grew up in California, the Bay Area, and got used to “fringy” leftists in local government. But to see an American city as massive and iconic as New York fall...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes: Muslims claim New York for Islam “We're done hiding. We're done. —This is the correct[sic]religion. This is the religion[sic] that all of humanity needs to be a part of Islam, and we will not stop until it enters every home. — I wanna hear it in every single district. It should tremble. Brooklyn should hear it. The Bronx should hear it. Queens should hear it. Say it as if the ummah depends on this, my brothers and sisters — There is no God worthy of worship except Allah — and final pro_het[sic], Mohammed.”

Several Trump Administration officials including top adviser Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, have felt the need to live in military housing in order to be safe from politically motivated violence. An article the Atlantic by Michael Scherer, Missy Ryan, and Ashley Parker pointed out that "this is far more frequent than what has been the case than in the Obama and Biden administrations. Maybe it's MAGA's own fault. They ought to look inward for answers as to why this might be occurring. Perhaps...