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***Marco Rubio insisted Tuesday that he was misunderstood one day prior when he said the US attacked Iran on Saturday because “we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action” that would “precipitate an attack against American forces.” Rubio walked back his prior statements after President Trump flatly denied that Israel chose the timing of the attack — maintaining in an Oval Office pool spray hours earlier, as he had in interviews, that he chose to attack after unsuccessful US-Iran talks Thursday in Geneva. “This was a question of timing, of why this had to happen as a...

Sorry, Gav. Sorry, Gretch. Sorry, Pete. And nothing for you, Josh Shapiro. The DNC establishment selected newly elected Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger as the face of their party to make their official response to President Trump's State of the Union speech. And all anyone could conclude from it was 'what were they thinking?' [Rebuttal video at link] With her knobby nose and missing lips, she had the unfortunate appearance of a gnome, and not a cute one. She can't help that, but Breitbart notes that her gestures were off, too, which she could have practiced a little. Abigail Spanberger's response...

Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.” “Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people’s lives,” a spokesperson for the agency said. “That work will continue through the Gallup Poll Social Series, the Gallup Quarterly Business Review, the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Long Shadow of Vatican II: Ambiguity as Ecclesial CancerOn February 8, Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of Saint Pius X delivered a sermon in which he spoke of the necessity for the Society to consecrate new bishops. The purpose of this piece is not to address the merits or challenges of that decision, but rather to focus on some of the problems he identified as plaguing the Church today and how these flow from a reading of the Second Vatican Council that has led to profound confusion—confusion that was aggravated by Pope Francis. The Second Vatican...

[Catholic Caucus] SSPX Episcopal Consecrations: All About SoulsIn his sermon for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), announced his decision to “entrust the bishops of the Society with the task of proceeding with new episcopal consecrations, on 1 July next.” Many people — perhaps even some with good will and a basic knowledge about Catholicism— may misunderstand almost everything associated with this decision.However, as we can see from the passages from Fr. Pagliarani’s sermon that follow, one thing should become abundantly clear...

In a new interview, the former Republican congresswoman also suggested that baby boomers are the most "brainwashed generation" Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused one-time ally President Donald Trump of abandoning the core promises behind his Make America Great Again campaign. “MAGA is, I think, people are realizing, it was all a lie,” she said on The Kim Iverson Show on Wednesday, Jan. 28. “It was a big lie for the people.” Greene, 51, claimed the Trump administration is focused on serving “big, big donors,” including foreign countries. “And if they’re donating to all these things, those are the...

Donald Trump just posted evidence Democrats are stealing our elections For the 2020 Election: Pennsylvania: - 205,000 more votes than registered voters - Over 1.5 million fraudulent votes counted, and the spread is less than 82,000 votes - These fraudulent votes come from dead voters, ballots that were received before they were supposedly mailed out - Over 330,000 electronic spikes from the voting machine - 682,000 ballots that were illegally processed without any oversight whatsoever - More than 1.5 million votes in Pennsylvania is apparently what it took for Joe Biden to steal the state Georgia: - 66,248 underage voters...

NBA coach Steve Kerr spoke to reporters Friday, telling them, “It’s shameful…we can have law enforcement officers who commit murder” and a government that will “come out and lie about what happened.” The Minnesota Timberwolves held a moment of silence Thursday for the woman who was shot and killed after allegedly driving her vehicle into an ICE agent. On Friday, Golden State coach Kerr blasted ICE while speaking to reporters. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Kerr made his comments before Golden State’s game against the Sacramento Kings. He said, “It’s shameful that in our country, we can have law...

Yesterday, several videos went viral of Renee Nicole Macklin Good blocking ICE from driving down a neighborhood street in Minneapolis with a vehicle during an ICE raid. In one of the videos, several ICE agents are seen approaching the vehicle where Good was sitting in the driver’s seat. Her Honda SUV was parked perpendicular to traffic. Two ICE agents approach the window of the vehicle and demand that she move. She backs up, repositions her tires so she is aiming directly at the ICE agent standing to her right, and points her vehicle at the ICE agent in front of...

The Lebanese daily Al-Nahar on Jan. 3, 2026, quoted Lebanese Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Wehbe Katicha as saying that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro provided Lebanese Hizbullah with 10,000 Venezuelan passports, some of which were used by officers of Syria's Assad regime to flee the country.

Joe Rogan Reacts to Senator Kennedy Dropping the Jeffrey Epstein Bomb #shorts

From “Damn Lie to Egregious and Unforgivable Lie,” here are my picks for the biggest lies of 2025 (in no particular order): 10. Trump is in the Epstein files in a negative, damaging way 9. Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack.” 8. There was no collusion among drug manufacturers to hide vaccine threats and ineffectiveness. 7. Israel is the aggressor in the Middle East, and Muslims never invaded and slaughtered anyone on October 7, 2023. 6. Islam does not want to conquer the world, especially America. 5. Trump is using Nazi and Stormtrooper tactics to clean up crime 4....

President Trump lodged an eye-watering $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC on Monday, accusing the British broadcaster of defaming him through a deceptive edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the White House Ellipse. The lawsuit took aim at a 2024 documentary by the BBC, which spliced different sections of Trump’s comments before his supporters ransacked the Capitol to make it appear as though he explicitly encouraged the riot. “I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,” Trump grumbled to reporters earlier in the day, Monday. “They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to...

There are so many lies and liars, it’s hard to know where to begin, but here are my takes on this week’s unveiling of them. Let’s begin with science. Seems like just yesterday Dr. Fauci and his crew were promoting “follow the science.” Well, I follow what passes for it, and if you follow the direction it’s been heading in recent decades you’ll be trapped in a remote ditch. SCIENCE1) NeuroscienceDo you remember reading articles and books by Oliver Sacks? Perhaps the best known were Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. From 1992 to 2024,...

The Trump administration’s much-hyped Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has dissolved with months left on its mandate, federal officials say. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor confirmed to Reuters earlier this month that DOGE “doesn’t exist” as a “centralized entity.” *** “Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026 – A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time. “I am confident they will succeed!” *** “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy,”...

… There are two big takeaways from this analysis. The first one is that the actual distribution of deaths shown on the left is very different from the causes of death that the media talks about. The second insight is how similar the distribution of coverage is between the three media outlets. While there are some differences (Fox News was a bit more likely to mention homicides, for example, while the NYT did the same for terrorism), these are much smaller than we might expect. While right- and left-wing media might differ in how they cover particular topics, what they...

For nearly two years, the anti-Israel Left said Gaza was in the midst of a genocidal famine. They ignored the fact that Hamas, the governing body of Gaza, started a war with Israel in 2023 and then proceeded to start losing that war. The narrative was set, and Israel was always the bad guy. Except there was no genocide and there was no famine. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a "multi-partner global initiative and standardized scale used to analyze and classify the severity and magnitude of food insecurity, acute malnutrition, and famine conditions in specific areas or...

Yesterday I wrote about the remarkable story of Hamas going full Pallywood as it pretended to recover the body of an Israeli hostage. The remains were delivered to Israel and identified a few hours later as belonging to a deceased hostage named Ofir Tzarfati. His body had been returned to Israel two years earlier, meaning these remains weren't new and did not belong to one of the 13 hostages kidnapped on 10/7 whose bodies have not yet been returned to Israel in keeping with the ceasefire agreement. Hamas has claimed it doesn't know where those bodies are (they could be...

For those who refuse to believe: That Bill Gates & The big pharma complex is not out to kill people through vaccines, or at best are more than willing to destroy peoples healthy lives in order to make them customers of their products for most of their lives, here is an inconvenient study that was done by someone who is pro vaccinees and did this study to shut up those who have concerns about vaccines. After completing his study, he refused to publish his findings. For those who refuse to believe Find out why: For those who refuse to believe:...

🚨 Abigail Spanberger in 2024:“The question related to ‘why doesn’t Biden just shut down the border?’ It’s because there’s actually no legal authority to do so.” pic.twitter.com/18jOMDD56x— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 20, 2025