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NEW YORK (AP) — Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60. Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty Malo, posted on his Facebook page. He had been battling cancer. The frontman of The Mavericks had documented his health journey on social media since he disclosed in June 2024 that he was receiving treatment for colon cancer. In September 2025, Malo said on Instagram that he was battling LMD, or leptomeningeal disease, a rare complication when cancer spreads to membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. Born Raul...

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court should consider a basic constitutional reality: county officials from Boulder, Colorado, cannot force their preferred climate policies on the rest of the nation. Obvious as it seems, that is what’s at stake in Suncor Energy Inc. v. Boulder County, a climate change case the court will weigh for review on Dec. 12. Like the other thirty-odd copycat climate lawsuits filed by states and localities from Honolulu to my hometown of Charleston, Boulder’s suit weaponizes tort law to try to transform state courts into vehicles for deploying sweeping climate mandates. If Boulder gets its way,...

Thursday the Indiana Senate will vote on redistricting. There are about a dozen RINO’s that plan to vote with the democrats to oppose it. It will be a close vote, and it looks like the Republicans might lose. If the RINO’s get their way, they are helping to elect Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House, and stifle the President’s efforts the last two years.. I have made several calls, please call,,,in particular, also call the President of the Senate, Rodric Bray.

Age quiz time! Give yourself one point for each thing you've NEVER done. Lowest score wins. Used a rotary phoneUsed a 3.5 inch floppy disc (the new upstarts)Used an 8 inch floppy disc Used a typewriter Taken photos with a film camera Listened to music on a CD Listened to a cassette tape (and rewound one with a pencil). Listened to a vinyl record Listened to music on a Walkman Listened to music on a boombox outside Watched a video from a VHS tape Accessed the internet by dial-up (Was 56 kpbs "fast" for you? It sure was for me!)...

Reporting live from Central America. The General Elections from 30 November gives dysfunction a bad name. Let me bring you up to date. My source is local Honduran television, before the signal was mysteriously cut, just now. The conservative candidate from the National Party "Tito" Asfura remains in the lead by 42,407 votes (1,298,835 votes) over the moderate Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla with (1,256,428). The socialist (let's be honest, communist) Libre Party candidate Rixi Moncada is a distant 3rd with 618,448 votes. The current president Xiomara Castro is from the Libre Party and under the Honduran Constitution, cannot run...

While less prevalent these days, it’s hard to not appreciate the sound of a high-revving naturally aspirated engine. The team at Boreham Motorworks just pulled the cover off their new 2.1-liter, inline-four cylinder engine. This small-displacement powerplant puts out an impressive 325 horsepower and, as the name suggests, screams all the way to an astonishing 10,000 rpm. It may be small, but innovative engineering is significantly pushing the boundaries for what a street-driven engine can be.

One way to prove you are a patriotic red-blooded American: buying a house in Qatar — according to Tucker Carlson.The ex-Fox News star, during an appearance at the Doha Forum on Sunday, said he was going to buy real estate in the city on Monday.Carlson referenced accusations he and his media company, the Tucker Carlson Network, have accepted big bucks from Qatari investors, while interviewing Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani. He then announced his new purchase.“I have been criticized as being a tool of Qatar, and I just want to say, which you already know, which...

Greene, who is set to retire from Congress when her term ends in January,

A procurement forester was preparing to clear timber from part of some 300 acres of Mississippi land in August. But when he passed along the coordinates of the land parcel to the buyer – a standard traceability practice – the buyer suddenly asked a question he wasn’t expecting.The buyer was Georgia-Pacific, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of paper, pulp, tissues, packaging and other forestry products, and the predominant buyer of Mississippi-grown timber. But the company had noted that the landowner had converted some land from timber production to another agricultural use in 2024. If the owner had...

EXPOSED: Deputy AG Todd Blanche is hunting the people who reportedly bypassed him—while 47 leakers who sabotaged the Letitia James prosecution go untouched. Full Investigation🔗https://whitecollarfraud.com/2025/12/08/is-todd-blanche-undermining-the-letitia-james-prosecution/ Let me show you the receipts. March 21, 2025: ONE leak to the NYT. Blanche declares war: "We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump's agenda by leaking." He opened a criminal investigation. Sept-Dec 2025: FORTY-SEVEN leaks to 9 newsrooms. Grand jury secrets. Internal deliberations. Prosecution strategy. Every single one helped Letitia James. SIX made Todd Blanche the hero—the "reasonable" man who "questioned the legal viability" of the...

Alina Habba, a fiery Trump loyalist, is stepping down from her role as top prosecutor in New Jersey after an appellate court found last week that Attorney General Pam Bondi had improperly appointed her as U.S. attorney. Bondi announced Monday Habba would serve as the attorney general's senior advisor overseeing U.S. attorneys, while three Department of Justice officials are set to take on additional jobs overseeing various activities in the New Jersey court district in the wake of Habba's resignation. Habba served as President Donald Trump's personal defense lawyer before the president installed her this year as the temporary head...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost screws and tiny hunks of splintered paint. The International Space Station has to dodge it. Sometimes, space junk crashes into other space junk, creating more space junk. And while there have been many proposals for technologies to capture and destroy it, there’s not been a system-level plan for dealing with it in a comprehensive way. This week, researchers at England’s University of Surrey published a paper...

American singer Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have hard-launched their relationship on social media, laying to rest months of dating rumors. Perry, a 13-time Grammy nominee, posted on Saturday a video on Instagram that showed her eating sushi in Tokyo as Trudeau, with his arm behind her, looked on with an amorous gaze. “Tokyo times on tour and more,” Perry wrote in the caption of a carousel that included the video and also a selfie with Trudeau. The pop star was performing last week in Saitama, about 15 miles north of Tokyo, as part of her...

Flopping Aces@FloppingAcesIf you think January 6 was spontaneous chaos, buckle up.Because in June 2020...seven months before the riot, Washington insiders held a secret war game called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) that literally rehearsed a “January 6 breakdown.”Not metaphorically.Not vaguely.Explicitly. 🧵👇1/189:21 AM · Dec 7, 2025·17.7KViewsFlopping Aces@FloppingAcesWho participated?Not random academics.Not armchair punditsBut:John PodestaMichael SteeleDonna BrazileBill KristolSenior Obama Pentagon officialsCIA/State/Intel operativesNever-Trump RepublicansHigh-ranking military strategistsA full-blown anti-Trump power cartel.2/18Flopping Aces@FloppingAces·14hThe TIP documents were written as a “war game.”But what they rehearsed wasn’t “what if Trump refuses to leave?”What they rehearsed was:“How do we prevent Trump from taking office even if he wins?”And...

President Donald Trump fumed about a House Democrat — who he just pardoned — choosing to remain with the party rather than defect to the Republicans. In a blistering post to Truth Social early Sunday, the president bashed Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) for announcing his intent to run for re-election as a Democrat, despite receiving a pardon from the president. Cuellar was facing charges for allegedly taking over $600,000 in foreign bribes. (The congressman’s wife, Imelda, was also charged in connection with the scheme.) “Can you imagine???” Trump wrote. “The Democrats, under the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, who always use...

AT&T has vowed to scrap its DEI policies, including a worker training program that labeled racism as a “uniquely white trait.” The telecommunication giant’s sudden change of heart on policies that discriminate against white men comes after pressure from FCC Chairman Brendar Carr. The New York Post reports that AT&T, the Dallas-based telecom company with over 110,000 employees in the United States, has announced its decision to eliminate its DEI policies. This move comes in response to pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who has made it clear that companies will not be approved for crucial FCC licenses until they...

DrOzCMS@DrOzCMS·8hYou’ve probably heard the news by now: Minnesota fraudsters stole over $1 billion from Medicaid. And you deserve an explanation.Our staff at CMS told me they’ve never seen anything like this in Medicaid — and everyone from Gov. Tim Walz on down needs to be investigated, because they’ve been asleep at the wheel. Based on what we know now, this is a clear dereliction of duty.First, the facts:In recent years, Minnesota Medicaid launched several new programs, including Housing Stabilization Services, which helped disabled homeless individuals, and Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention, which reimbursed therapy costs for families with autistic...

If you are a retired police officer, fireman, or teacher, and also paid into Social Security prior to Jan 2024, it's likely the government still owes you money. The WEP was eliminated on 01/05/2025, and the government issued reimbursements to people who were affected by the WEP going back to 01/01/2024. But, if you retired between April 21, 1983, and December 31, 2023, what about all that time? In some cases, that could amount to tens of thousands of dollars. Do some research, and don't let the government off the hook. You were robbed! Determine if you were affected by...

Left-led UK government follows up attacking Magna Carta and frequent social media arrests by announcing it is yet again postponing elections and moving to introduce a nationwide facial camera recognition system.Brexit leader Nigel Farage eviscerated the left-wing British government for piling depredations upon depredations on the British people, as they announced yet another postponement of local elections without good reason, on the same day they moved to roll out China-style facial recognition cameras.(snip)Policing minister Sarah Jones was cited by The Daily Telegraph as having hailed the rollout of cameras as a major leap-forwards in the ability of the government to...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/05/wild-coincidence-j6-pipe-bomb-suspect-is-mentally-simple-his-father-also-brian-cole-worked-with-civil-rights-lawyer-ben-crump-a-close-personal-friend-of-pam-bondiie/ If the story surrounding the J6 pipe bomber, Brian Cole, seemed suspicious this set of coincidences takes that suspicion to new levels of interesting. . .