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"How do we squash the prejudice against female presidential nominees, which has always been with us, but became even worse after Kamala Harris got whomped by Donald Trump?" Asks Gail Collins in a column with a title that asks a different question, "Where, oh Where, Will the First Female President Come From?"Maybe it would be better to ask this other question, my question: When will we ever get to evaluate a female presidential candidate as just another presidential candidate? We've been nudged too many times to pick the woman because she is a woman. It makes people wary. I mean,...

Remember back in 2022 when Rep. Ilhan Omar was speaking to a gathering of CAIR and referred to 9/11 as the day that "some people did something"? Now, a woman whom New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, whose father's second cousin was afraid to wear a hijab on the subway because of that something, has endorsed for the New York State Assembly a woman who describes 9/11 as "a terror attack that a couple people did." We wonder 1) how old she was on September 11, 2001, and 2) what university she graduated from, because she hits all the talking...

Fresh off their staggering electoral losses this month, Republicans are urging President Donald Trump to start hitting the campaign trail for them next year with control of Congress on the line. And in a sign of their rising anxiety over Democrats’ renewed enthusiasm, the requests for rallies have started rolling in. Wisconsin GOP Chair Brian Schimming said Trump’s team is “certainly aware” he wants to see the president visit the purple state next year, where he won by his thinnest margin in 2024 and his party is defending two competitive House seats and trying to win statewide races. Schimming plans...

GROK Summary of the Video TranscriptIntroduction and Religious Segment: Host Dylan welcomes viewers, emphasizes faith by reading Jeremiah 29:11 ("For I know the plans I have for you... plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"), and encourages "Amen" comments and subscriptions.Breaking News: ICE Operations Targeting Criminal Illegal Immigrants:Operation Dirtbag (Florida): A 10-day joint ICE-Florida Law Enforcement raid arrested 250+ "criminal illegal aliens," including 54 sexual predators, 164 sex crime offenders, and 2 murderers. Many had prior deportation orders ignored. Highlights include convictions for child fondling, aggravated sexual abuse, and battery....

Svetlana Lokhova outlines the current happenings in the Comey case – Big picture and in Virginia. Here are her thoughts: What’s happening the in the Comey case? There is the big picture and the specific Virginia proceedings. Big Picture Comey is going to be a key defendant in the Grand Conspiracy case now underway in Florida. No statute of limitations on conspiracy. He is one of the recipients of a Florida subpoena. The case centers on the Russiagate Conspiracy against Donald Trump by Obama, Hillary, Soros, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, McCabe and others. The Conspiracy is the Hillary Clinton Plan to...

Is there a good personal injury lawyer in the house? Because anyone listening to Maria Cardona this morning might have suffered a bad case of whiplash. In a neck-straining nanosecond on CNN This Morning, Cardona, a Democrat strategist who doubles as a CNN commentator, went from piously proclaiming that the Epstein matter "should be about the survivors, this shouldn't be political," and then straight to trying to pin all the blame on the Republicans. After saying that "the problem has become political not because of Democrats," Cardona proceeded to parrot the Democrat talking point that President Trump could have already...

A handful of Democrats in Congress who served in the U.S. military and intelligence community are raising eyebrows with a new video encouraging current service members to refuse to follow "illegal orders" issued by the administration of President Donald Trump. "We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe," the lawmakers say, taking turns in brief clips. "We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now." "This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence-community professionals against American citizens. Like us, you all swore...

Of the many controversies currently raging in higher education, few arouse as much passion as the place of politics in universities. For years, the Right denounced the Left’s dominance over campus culture. After Donald Trump’s reelection, it was the Left’s turn to cry political interference. The North Carolina General Assembly has attempted to address this issue by mandating a policy of institutional neutrality in the University of North Carolina System, though even this policy is sometimes viewed with suspicion. Yet, amid this controversy, there has usually been agreement on one point: Overt campaigning on behalf of a candidate or party,...

A 67-year-old Michigan man named James Donald Vance Jr., who shares the exact initials “J.D. Vance” with the Vice President, was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for posting online death threats against President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and a member of the president’s family. The convicted man, from the Grand Rapids area, used the Bluesky handle “Diaperjdv” to post a series of violent threats in March and April. In the messages, Vance Jr. stated he did not care if Secret Service agents shot him or if he spent the rest of his life in prison,...

Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations. This bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. The move authorizes heightened enforcement actions in the state. The governor's office said in a press release that the designation bars both groups and their affiliates from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas and paves the way for expanded investigations and legal action. Abbott said the groups "have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Shariah law and establish Islam's 'mastership of the world.'" He added that their efforts to "subvert our laws through violence,...

A former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), who has been accused of being a covert Chinese agent, allegedly forged Hochul's signature on flattering letters inviting dignitaries from China's Henan province to meet with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018. Prosecutors showed court documents to jurors at Linda Sun's trial, revealing that she may have forged Hochul's signature on several letters — when she served as Cuomo's Lt. Gov. — inviting the Chinese delegation to meet with state officials and promote investment opportunities. Sun held several prominent roles under Cuomo before becoming Hochul's Deputy Chief of Staff. Letters, according...

If there’s any good that’s come from the government shutdown, it’s exposing all the fraud being committed to exploit the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. To be sure, there are millions of needy Americans who were hurting from being deprived of SNAP as they tried to support children and keep their families from going hungry. This is not about them. This is about the other people — the individuals who dip into this program unjustly at the expense of the taxpayer. Just the News reported that Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Steven Vaden has indicated his agency is engaging in data...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) revealed Monday that Bill and Hillary Clinton are reportedly refusing to appear before the House Oversight Committee for their scheduled depositions regarding their association with Jeffrey Epstein. The Clintons were among several high-profile political figures, including former U.S. attorneys general and ex-FBI directors, subpoenaed in August 2025 as part of an expanded congressional investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Epstein case. Hillary Clinton’s deposition was originally set for October 9, 2025. Bill Clinton’s was scheduled for October 14. Both were delayed at the request of legal counsel. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer...

Seattle's Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that "access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities and close stores that will leave behind food deserts. Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural, supermarkets create them when they abandon our communities. We need to require these food vendors to give 90 days advance notice for mass layoffs and fair severance pay for laid off workers." "If too many privately owned food vendors...

VIDEOYour humble correspondent has been working diligently over the past few weeks creating an Epstein Slop Generator that will auto translate meaningless Epstein Slop into plain English. In case you are unfamiliar with Epstein Slop, it is meaningless noise generated by the media to cover up the sad fact (for them) that there have been NO incriminating information about President Donald Trump found in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Since it is difficult to listen to the incomprehensible Epstein Slop for more than a few seconds without your eyes glazing over with utter boredom, the Epstein Slop Generator has been developed...

Alright guys, I need some help. What the heck is Schumer trying to say here when asked why he didn't care about Epstein while Biden was in office? REPORTER: "Why wouldn't [the Epstein files] have been released the last four years when President Biden was in office?"CHUCK SCHUMER (MORON): "That's the question every American is asking... What the hell is he hiding!?"So true! pic.twitter.com/aA6jHXIe2k— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 17, 2025That's the question every American is asking ... What the hell is he hiding! Biden sitting at home, seeing Schumer accuse him of hiding the Epstein list: Did Schumer think...

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine is calling on the FBI and Secret Service to finally produce the full truth about the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against President Donald Trump — an attack she says federal authorities have mishandled from the beginning. In a column Monday, Devine wrote that Americans are still waiting for a coherent explanation of how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to climb onto a rooftop overlooking Trump's Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally and fire eight rounds from an AR-15-style rifle, grazing Trump's ear and killing firefighter Corey Comperatore. "We are all owed a better explanation,"...

Stephen Miller just shared a shocking statistic. Forty percent of rent controlled housing in New York City occupied by migrants. That affordable housing could be held by American citizens who desperately need a hand up, but too bad. https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1990586187745276040? 40 sec How about helping Americans support their families? ...more

Epstein slop has now apparently reached the outermost limits of absurdity with Monday's New Yorker entirely incapable finding anything actually incriminating about President Donald Trump in the latest release of the Jeffrey Epstein documents. So what to do? What to do? Well, New Yorker editor Jessica Winter seems to have drawn the short stick to "earn" this assignment and completely embarrassed herself with a theory about "negative space" in "The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails."The subtitle reflects the fact that Winter found absolutely no there there since the worst allegation tossed Trump's way is something called "negative space": Donald...