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A poll released Friday shows a record 62 percent of Americans say the federal government has too much power — the highest share since Gallup first began tracking this trend in 2001. In 2024, a little more than half (51 percent) of Americans surveyed said they believed the federal government had too much power. Among Democrats, the percentage holding this belief surged from 25 percent to 66 percent this year, when President Trump returned to the White House. Republicans trended in the opposite direction, though to a lesser degree. Seventy-five percent of Republicans surveyed last year believed the government had...

It is becoming harder to get away with lying in the age of independent media. Progressives in particular are struggling to safeguard the sacred belief that the planet is on the verge of melting because naughty plebeians keep driving SUVs and using air conditioning.Climate change devotees are willing to lie to defend this article of faith. Ray Sanders, an engineer by trade, realized this as he double-checked the calculations of the Met Office, the U.K. government agency responsible for guessing whether it will rain in Blighty tomorrow.The Met is also known for making bold prognostications about the conditions expected half-a-century...

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The New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney is looking into how Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones cleared his 1,000 hours of court-ordered community service after a reckless driving conviction in 2022.…

After a whistleblower alerted The Defender, an OSHA spokesperson confirmed an internal directive telling healthcare employers not to report or track COVID-19 vaccine injuries. OSHA removed the policy from its website after inquiries from The Defender. Critics said the directive concealed the scope of vaccine injuries and made it difficult for injured workers to obtain workers’ compensation or disability benefits. =================================================================== The federal agency that oversees workplace safety exempted healthcare employers from reporting workers’ adverse reactions to mandated COVID-19 vaccines, according to a healthcare industry whistleblower who alerted The Defender The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the directive...

Evil unchecked always spreads — and Democrats are proofA party that excuses murder fantasies today will excuse real murders tomorrow.Over the weekend, we learned that Jay Jones, the Democrats’ candidate for Virginia attorney general, had been fantasizing about killing his political opponents. Jones not only told colleagues he would shoot Republicans before shooting Hitler or Pol Pot but also expressed a desire to watch children die in their conservative parents’ arms.These comments would be disqualifying in any sane political culture. But after the assassination of Charlie Kirk last month and the wave of anti-ICE violence that has followed, Democrats had...

At this point, it feels like every week brings another revelation about how far the Biden regime went to weaponize the government against its political enemies. And the American people are exhausted… not from outrage, but from watching bombshell after bombshell drop with no accountability. They’ve seen enough corruption to fill a 10-story library but still haven’t seen a single perp walk. So, the fatigue is real, and it’s justified. The latest scandal involves Operation Arctic Frost, and hopefully, this is the final straw. We now know that under Biden’s watch, the FBI and Jack Smith secretly spied on nine...

"Are you aware that James Comey used to be a communist. In a 2003 interview with New York Magazine, James Comey said before voting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, he'd been a communist. He admitted 'I moved from Communist to whatever I am now' ... The CIA Director and the FBI Director [under Obama] both had histories of not just flirtation, but serious immersion into communism. And like the KGB always said, 'No one ever leaves, the KGB,' Nobody ever leaves this way of thinking." SNIP

A favorite subject of mine over the years has been the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA. NYCHA operates hundreds of buildings housing some 500,000 people, in some 170,000 +/- apartments, mostly built from the 1950s to the 1970s. Organized on a pure socialist model of public ownership with heavily subsidized rents, NYCHA has followed the trajectory of all socialist schemes ever attempted, having gone from an excited beginning into a long, slow death spiral that has now been ongoing for at least two decades. When NYCHA was building the buildings, everyone seems to have assumed that bricks and...

An Indiana man accused of stabbing a 69-year-old at a gas station has ignited outrage after records revealed a staggering criminal history – nearly 100 prior arrests – with little to show in the way of punishment. Courtney Boose, 41, was arrested after the alleged gas-station stabbing, according to the Lawrence Police Department and Fox 59, which reported that Boose has been arrested 99 times over the years on charges ranging from theft and trespassing to battery. Despite that record, court documents reviewed by Fox News Digital show he’s never served a day in state prison. Boose’s long paper trail...

Ukrainian officials were left “bewildered and disappointed” by Vice President Joe Biden’s December 2015 trip to Kyiv, during which he gave a speech decrying corruption as a “cancer” — with the Ukrainians accusing the US of a “double standard” given Biden’s family ties to corrupt energy firm Burisma, a trove of newly declassified Obama-era intelligence reveals. In an extreme departure from normal practice, the report on Ukrainian displeasure was suppressed at the request of Biden’s then-national security adviser, Dr. Colin Kahl, and did not appear in the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), according to a senior CIA official who briefed journalists...

Even before Charlie Kirk had been pronounced dead, the narrative apparatus of the Left was in full gear trying to blame the assassination on the Right. Once it became clear that the shooter was a standard-issue leftist, the narrative shifted to “this is a both-sides problem.” But before Kirk had been laid the rest, the experts and researchers had been mobilized to assert that the original claims, if not accurate, were consistent with a pattern in which political violence in America is largely a right-wing problem. Having spent my career in academia sopping up such unctuous claims, let me assure...

Denmark followed 321 Muslim Palestinian asylum seekers and their kids for nearly 30 years. This is the SHOCKING result - Out of the original 321 Palestinians, 204 ended up being convicted of a crime - 71 of them were jailed - 176 ended up on welfare - That accounts for 63% became criminals and were convicted and more than half ended up on welfare So they followed the second generation: They had 399 children - 337 ended up being convicted of a crime - 132 of them ended up being jailed - 372 of them ended up on welfare -...

Hold on to your britches because you’re not going to believe this one. The Washington Post Editorial Board just admitted that the so-called "Affordable Care Act," one the most notorious pieces of Obama-era legislation foisted upon consumers by legislators and the liberal media as the saving grace of American health care, turned out to be an expensive mess. The Post tried to play both sides of the fence in the ongoing government shutdown stand off with Republicans and Democrats, the latter of which demanded “Republicans agree to extend the Covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it.”...

Anti-American leftist anarchists are doxing, stalking, and targeting federal agents in coordinated plots across major U.S. cities, with some groups offering thousands of dollars to kidnap or kill them, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. "So our intelligence indicates that these people are organized," Noem warned in a Sunday morning TV interview. "They're getting more and more people on their team, as far as attacking officers, and they're making plans to ambush them and to kill them. "We have specific officers and agents that have bounties on their heads. It's been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to...

Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews BREAKING - CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is demanding that charges be dropped against three Muslims who vandalized a church in Texas, claiming that “graffiti is the language of the unheard” and that vandalizing the church was their First Amendment right.

WOODFORD COUNTY, Ky. — An Indiana man convicted in the death of a 6-year-old Kentucky boy is now out of prison on parole. Ronald Exantus was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2018, but was released early on good behavior and education credits. He broke into the Versailles home of Logan Tipton in December 2015, fatally stabbed the boy and attacked the little boy's father and sisters. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity for murder, but a jury found him guilty but mentally ill on assault charges. Tipton's family also survived the attack and his father...

Progressivism isn’t just an ideology; it’s also becoming a mental health condition. Spiraling past the tendentious spin and lies that have long shaped American discourse on both sides of the aisle, the loudest voices on the left are losing the capacity to grasp reality. As a character in a recent Wall Street Journal cartoon put it: “You’ve got it all wrong. What I’m saying isn’t misinformation. It’s denial.” Take Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s recent denunciation of “White House senior aides” for “sowing fear, intimidation and vision” by, among other things, calling Democrats “fascists.” Given not just his party’s but his...

The FBI is ending its partnership with the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday. The move comes after the organization got busted labeling Turning Point USA as an “extremist” group. “James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,” Patel said in a statement. “That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies...

Left-wing activists in the West display an extraordinary tendency toward cognitive dissonance. They are able to firmly believe in mutually exclusive assertions. Such people often refuse to acknowledge the contradiction between their various beliefs. Thus it is that homosexual activists in Europe and in the U.S. join public demonstrations of sympathy for Islamic terrorists who routinely kill homosexuals for the Islamic crime of being homosexual. I remember when such an absurdity was a joke worthy of a comical movie. Now, it’s a tragic reality. In a video online there is an example of an activist who was hoping to...