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Conservatives on the House Budget Committee on Friday blocked their party’s megabill from reaching the floor, citing concerns that the legislation to fulfill President Trump’s domestic agenda would add too much to the deficit. It was a remarkable revolt that threatened to upend the party’s drive to push the legislation through the House before Memorial Day, and sent Republican leaders scrambling to try to put down the uprising. Five Republicans — Representatives Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania — joined Democrats in voting against...

Ben Cohen, co-founder and former co-owner of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is a left-wing lunatic. In particular, he is a devoted fan of Hamas’s regime of rape, torture and murder. A loathsome human being, in other words. Now that he is out of the ice cream business, Cohen has nothing better to do than show up at Congressional committee hearings and try to disrupt them. Today, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy was testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, on the HHS budget. His testimony was interrupted by several protesters whose screaming was incoherent, and who...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok The city council of Providence, Rhode Island, is hosting a flag raising ceremony at the City Hall.What flag, you ask? A Palestinian flag... Providence, RI has been conquered.

Sally's sad again. The bitter vinegary bubble-head has written this same basic complaint before.Washington is, and has been, a Democratic town. Trump won 5 percent of the vote here in 2020; in both of his presidential elections, George W. Bush won 9 percent; Ronald Reagan never won more than 14 percent. However, throughout the years, the Washington Establishment always welcomed incoming GOP administrations. The D.C. social scene -- which connected the most powerful people in any given administration with political donors, philanthropists, lawyers, lobbyists and journalists, all Washington fixtures -- had a way of surviving, no matter the politics of...

These photos of a South African farm show the effects of the country’s land reform. I got these two photos from this link:Original: https://martinplaut.com/2024/09/02/the-utter-failure-of-the-south-africas-agricultural-reforms/Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240902055937/https://martinplaut.com/2024/09/02/the-utter-failure-of-the-south-africas-agricultural-reforms/This is the first photo. The caption says, “Irrigated fields of potatoes and other vegetables at Dawn Valley farm in 2002, six years before the land claim settlement. (Source: Google Earth Pro).”This is the second photo. The caption says, “A satellite image of the same fields in 2022, shows few signs of any cultivation. (Source: Google Earth Pro).”

Associated Press just reported:https://apnews.com/article/chickens-euthanized-animal-neglect-farm-61459549d78555f7fe121d6461b6bd41Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other when a South African state-owned poultry company ran out of money to feed them, officials said Tuesday.I’m an anti-communist who has always been very much against government owing or controlling farms, whether it be in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, Zimbabwe, or any other country.The fact that the Marxist African National Congress that was elected by the voters of South Africa couldn’t figure out how to feed these 350,000 chickens on...

On August 21, 2024, I wrote:https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/nathaniel-radimak/My prediction: Los Angeles will give parole to Nathaniel Radimak, he’ll end up assaulting an innocent person, and the people who gave him parole will have zero concern for this new victim.https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1826358720957481219My prediction: #LosAngeles will give parole to #NathanielRadimak, he'll end up assaulting an innocent person, and the people who gave him parole will have zero concern for this new victim.https://t.co/E0IRdJbxPy#Predictions #Prediction #Crime #News #California #GeorgeGascón— Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill (@DanielAlmanPGH) August 21, 2024My prediction came true.https://abc7.com/post/tesla-driver-nathaniel-radimak-arrested-hawaii-less-year-prison-release-socal-charges/16363335/

Throughout the sprawling saga of human history, every period has proclaimed its moment as the defining pivot, crafting narratives of grandeur and crisis that cast it as the fulcrum of destiny. From the marble-clad majesty of Ancient Rome to the nuclear-shadowed tensions of the Cold War, each age believed its challenges were unparalleled, shaping the course of civilization. Yet, as we stand in this era, confronting a convergence of existential threats—artificial intelligence (AI) poised to redefine the essence of humanity, nuclear arsenals capable of annihilating billions, pandemics that exploit global connectivity, and the corrosive spread of socialist propaganda promoting disgusting...

I asked Grok: Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies for trying to cover up his extramarital affair. Bill Clinton lied under oath to try to cover up his extramarital affair. Please compare and contrast these two things. Also, other than their own respective families, were their any real victims to these crimes? I’m a libertarian, and I believe that if there’s no real victim, it shouldn’t be a crime. Also, I think it’s extremely important to hold the left and the right to the same set of standards. It seems to be that there are people on both political...

Texas 🇺🇸 @MustangMan_TX Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says she doesn't have to explain why her family has been cashing their dead grandmother's Social Security checks since 2004."Our family business is our family business."Sure. Until your family business is defrauding the taxpayer...DOGE has already fixed the problem and promised to claw back as much as possible.

President Trump hosted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House this week, and again floated his idea to make Canada “the 51st state,” to which Carney replied, “There are some places that are never for sale.” Trump’s reply to that was, “Time will tell.” This insulting idea that one country can simple “acquire” another one–even if that country is not interested in being acquired–has become almost casual standard operating procedure for President Trump, and though Democrats / liberal-Leftists are generally appalled by it; strangely, I don’t see much pushback from Republicans / conservatives. Instead, I hear excuses such...

An Army Black Hawk helicopter decided to take the “scenic route” near the Pentagon—and came way too close to two passenger planes trying to land in D.C. Both jets were forced to pull up at the last second—one was just 450 feet from the ground. This is the same Army brigade involved in a January crash that killed 67 people, the worst U.S. aviation disaster in over 20 years. Officials are fuming, again. And Reagan Airport? Still dealing with controller shortages, near-misses, and—oh yeah—a literal fistfight in the control tower last year. Flying into D.C. is starting to feel like...

Late on Thursday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X.It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’” The executive order includes this argument:Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in...

Seriously, what is the point of defending Europe? Well, maybe to defend the Louvre and some monuments to a once-great culture? I can't think of many other reasons, now that the continent has descended once-again into the 1930s-style of fascism (no, not the Nazis of the late thirties and 40s, but more Mussolini-style fascism). Elections are being canceled, censorship is running amok, people are getting arrested for speaking, and now the most popular party in Germany is on the edge of getting banned because it threatens the power of the German elite. There is no doubt that the AfD is,...

Thanks to some thoughtful collaboration between researchers and traditional Inupiat whalers (who are still allowed to hunt for survival), scientists have used amino acids in the eyes of whales and harpoon fragments lodged in their carcasses to determine the age of these enormous animals—and they found at least three bowhead whales who were living prior to 1850. Granted those are bowheads, not sperm whales like the fictional Moby Dick, (and none of them are albino, I think), but still. Pretty amazing, huh? Bowhead whales reach an average length of 35 to 45 feet, and they are believed to live over...

We must remember not just South Vietnam's fall, but why it fell.Fifty years ago, April 30, 1975, the world watched in horror and disbelief as the last American helicopter lifted off from the rooftop of our embassy in Saigon. South Vietnam had fallen in the manner of Ernest Hemingway, “first gradually, then suddenly”: a decades-long war, a relative peace, and then a mad dash by the North Vietnamese Army that consumed the country in less than a month. The tragedy was simply breathtaking. And horribly, horribly unnecessary.What followed was not peace, but darkness. The swift collapse of South Vietnam, Cambodia,...

First of all, Spain apparently has North Korea envy—you know, the North Korea where it’s Net-Zero Earth Day every day:Spain & Portugal Monday night:What’s the word the day after? It seems everyone is trying their best to avoid blaming renewable energy sources—especially solar power—from the blame. But reading between the lines it is pretty clear that over-reliance on renewables is likely the trigger for a cascading grid failure. This, from Twitter: < From a deep groupchat, last night, translated from Spanish, written by an expert in transmission and distribution of power. Not my words. "What has happened on April 28...

Former second gentleman Doug Emhoff got some pretty brutal news from President Trump on Tuesday: You're fired. Emhoff, along with a slew of other high-profile Democrats, was summarily dismissed from his role on the board that oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. ...“Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Let me be clear: Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous — and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that...

A St. Louis woman was killed on Saturday night after she slid off the roof of a Cadillac Escalade while twerking and was run over by a St. Louis fire truck heading to an emergency. The woman, identified as Nyla Simmons, was killed at the intersection of South Compton and Chouteau around 11:30 PM. Nila slid off the roof when the Escalade turned left. She hit the cement and was then run over by the fire truck. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police released this statement on Sunday morning.