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The number of Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens in Texas continued to plunge in February, thanks to the effectiveness of Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. Meanwhile, encounters spiked again in California and Arizona, where Democrat governors are in charge, as illegal aliens increasingly turned their focus to more welcoming borders. Through Operation Lone Star, Gov. Abbott has installed wire fencing at the border, deployed floating border barriers and called out the Texas National Guard to deter illegal immigration. And his efforts have been successful. Through the first five months of Fiscal Year 2024 (Oct.-Feb.), the number of...

Somehow, New York Times economics propagandist Paul Krugman managed to one-up himself on his really bonkers Bidenomics hot takes. Millions of illegal border crossings? Humanitarian crisis? No problem, suggested Krugman in his March 19 piece, “Are Immigrants the Secret to America’s Economic Success?” In his wild logic (if you even want to call it that), Krugman blathered how supposedly “the very surge in immigration that has nativists so upset has played a big role in increasing the economy’s potential.” Yes, he actually wrote that. Never mind the fact that foreign born employment is up at least 3.3 million above its...

Leonel Moreno, a migrant from Venezuela, went on TikTok and advised illegal immigrants "to move into empty houses and claim 'squatters' rights' to gain ownership. Under US law, if a house is not inhabited, anyone can seize it by breaking in and occupying it for a specified period of time." In New York City, intruders who are able to remain on a property for as few as 30 days can legally assert squatter's rights. When Adele Andaloro's parents died they left her the family home. Before she could sell the home three people broke into it, removed the 'for sale'...

The tragedy in Baltimore with the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is fresh. Brave people are currently searching the dangerous tangled wreckage for any possible survivors and the dead. But where the news media this morning is also talking about the impacts on shipping on the East Coast of the USA and the impacts on traffic on the East Coast it is a valid topic of discussion to consider the next steps. 1. Reopening the Port of Baltimore will be a priority. The NTSB will predictably conduct a speedy investigation and conclude the primary cause of the collapse...

The weekend came and gave the country a pretty good idea how the Biden campaign is going to conduct itself. Biden has a low approval rating and has screwed pretty much everything up. Americans need an extra $11,400 just to stay even under Biden. Biden keeps lying about the number of jobs created and it's actually worse than realized. Foreigners have scooped up most of the new jobs, and Americans have lost jobs. The Biden regime has routinely overstated the numbers as the revised numbers show far fewer than originally claimed. And many of the new jobs are government jobs,...

by CAPT. SETH KESHELAs Election 2024 bears down upon us, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term Black Swan flung around. An unfortunate reality of living in the post-2020 world is that we have come to expect government-inflicted bullshit that has no place in a free society, like ours was founded to be. You remember this drill – while many of your friends who still won’t fess up today were diving under their beds to hide from a virus that only infects you while you are walking into a restaurant or boarding an aircraft, you were watching local small business die on...

Federal government spending is that hideous strength that keeps on chugging along, despite higher rates. Home prices in America’s 20 largest cities rose for the 12th straight month in January (the latest data released by S&P Global Case-Shiller today), up 0.14% MoM (less than the 0.2% exp) Source: Bloomberg That pushed the YoY price up to +6.59% (in line with the +6.60% exp). “Our National Composite rose by 6% in January, the fastest annual rate since 2022.” According to Brian D. Luke, Head of Commodities, Real & Digital Assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices. “For the second consecutive month, all...

President Biden’s poll numbers have been in the tank in recent months, with several showing former President Trump beating him in November’s presidential election.But the news gets worse for the commander-in-chief as a survey released Monday by the “In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda” group shows that enthusiasm for the president among black voters has plunged since his election in 2020. The bloc is crucial to his reelection chances as he took in 87 percent of their votes last time around. The percentage he takes won’t matter much if the turnout numbers crater.The report found that...

In eastern Syria an air attack by unknown perpetrators... At least five explosions reported in the eastern Ukrainian city... The "Islamic State-Khorasan" group claiming responsibility for the terrorist attack in Moscow...criticizing the Taliban in Afghanistan... (Comment) One should deeply suspect who is ultimately behind the ISIS (Daesh) activity that has sprouted up in Afghanistan since the US defeat... Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin is saying... The US Department of Homeland Security raiding properties associated with Sean "Diddy" Combs... Police in Brazil are investigating after former President Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian Embassy... Israel's military intelligence chief says...

Look at this: http:www.globalnews.ca/news/10351645/winnipeg-pla-cyber-attacks-canada/ Canadian gov't apparently fast-tracked entry into Canada of a couple who have ties to the Chinese cyber-warfare training college, despite objections raised by Canadian Border security office upon their (separate) arrivals in Canada. They live in Winnipeg under the dubious concept of having retired there (for clean air quality). What else is dubious? They are in their 40s. You don't retire (in China) at 40. It is laughable, nobody in Canada would retire to Winnipeg, the Novosibirsk of the prairies. But it is close to that lab where Chinese scientists obtained and absconded with virus products...

BREAKING: Hail storm in Damon texas on 3/24/24 destroys 1,000’s of acres of solar farms. Who pays to fix this green energy? @StateFarm? @FarmBureau? @Allstate? Or you the taxpayer?

This move by the Spanish court to block Telegram nationwide is a blatant attack on freedom of speech and expression. It’s concerning to see media companies leveraging legal maneuvers to stifle competition and silence dissenting voices. Instead of addressing their concerns through dialogue and negotiation, they resort to heavy-handed tactics, infringing on the rights of millions of users.

Baltimore is in the throes of a policing apocalypse, and the situation is nothing short of apocalyptic. Last week, just THREE police officers were left to patrol an entire district teeming with 61,000 residents. Let that sink in. Calls for help, including reports of child assault, are going unanswered because the police simply can't keep up. It's a dire state of affairs when law enforcement is unable to respond to the most basic calls for assistance. Adding insult to injury, the department is now forced to postpone police training in a desperate bid to address the severe shortages. But how...

Adult film star Stormy Daniels says she signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for which she was paid $130,000 "because I was terrified I could be killed if I didn't. Other people who knew things about politicians have ended up dead. Both Seth Rich and Vince Foster were shot under mysterious circumstances." Daniels is slated to testify in Trump's election interference trial before Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg alleges that voters in 2016 we defrauded when NDAs Trump negotiated to avoid public embarrassment "were essential information needed to assess Trump's fitness for office." Despite the fact that NDAs are legal...

Using taxpayer money to fund such controversial initiatives is a blatant misuse of public funds. Children should not be subjected to irreversible medical procedures such as sex change surgery and puberty blockers without thorough consideration and understanding of the long-term consequences. It's appalling that a state representative would prioritize pushing a divisive agenda over the well-being and safety of our children. This must be met with vehement opposition and calls for accountability!

Fear The Talking Fed! Back in mid-December, after the Fed’s first, and very shocking, dovish pivot when just two weeks after Powell said it had been “premature” to speculate on rate cuts the Fed suddenly changed its mind (despite very strong economic reports in the interim) and unexpectedly revealed it had been “discussing a timeline to start rate cuts”… … in the process, sparking the biggest market meltup in a decade, we explained that there was no mystery behind the Fed’s sudden change of heart: it had everything to do with Biden’s woeful performance in the polls. … maybe what...

Democratic strategist James Carville lashed out at “preachy females” Saturday over the Democratic Party’s low polling. Carville told the New York Times (NYT) that “too many preachy females” caused the Democratic Party’s declining popularity, stating that seeing President Joe Biden’s low approval numbers is like “walking in on your grandma naked.” “You can’t get that image out of your mind,” Carville told the outlet. Biden’s approval rating remains at 37%, the NYT noted, despite his campaign’s hope that the president’s 2024 State of The Union address would improve polling. Carville described the Democrats’ prioritization of “woke” policies as “feminine,” stating...

In the high stakes trial the former Trump “fixer” will have to confront a new opponent: His past words and deeds. Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, will be a star witness central to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s effort to win a conviction against the former president. But first Cohen will have to address his record of perjury convictions and be confronted by his own words years ago to his own lawyers that exonerated his former boss. Memos reviewed by Just the News show Cohen in 2018 repeatedly insisted to his attorney that he had no incriminating evidence on...

To be blunt, this is what it feels like to be conquered. The British have been through it a couple of times, their kingdoms falling to the Romans, the Vikings, making deals and accepting new cultures that obliterated the former. Societies that survive too long lose themselves in their comfort and become complacent about their replacement. It happened to the Aztecs, the Inca, the Mayans, the Apache, the Comanche and the Sioux, who did it to others before that.Every single landmass has been invaded and conquered. The Marxists use that as a source of guilt, by calling it “stealing” which...

The US Army currently has about as much fighting prowess as a girls’ boarding school library staff. In the never ending pursuit of Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness, the US Army has enough female generals on active duty now to fill Yankee Stadium. Here’s a current list of these steely eyed killers. · Clara Leach Adams-Ender · Robin B. Akin[1] · Marcia Anderson · Patricia M. Anslow[2] · Deborah A. Ashenhurst · Donna Feigley Barbisch · Maria B. Barrett · Kris A. Belanger[3] · Marti J. Bissell[4] · Aida T. Borras[5] · Tina B. Boyd[6] · Heidi Brown[7] · Margaret Burcham...