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Evidently, we need more places to stash illegal alien criminals whose own countries won't take them back. In a somewhat unexpected development, the Trump administration is now in talks with the African nation of Rwanda to take some of these deportees. Advertisement Rwanda's government and the Trump administration are discussing details about a potential agreement for Kigali to accept deportees from the U.S., including Africans and other non-Rwandan nationals, CBS News has learned. Decisions on potential financial compensation for taking in the deportees and other details would be discussed within the next two weeks, according to a Rwandan official. A...

On Thursday, the United States Senate voted to confirm former Rep. GOP representative and former Director of National Intelligence under Trump 1.0 John Ratcliffe (R-TX) as the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The final vote tally by voice vote was 74 in favor and 25 against. Mr. Ratcliffe has now been officially confirmed as Director of the CIA. The one Senator who did not vote, for reasons as yet unknown, was John Fetterman (D-PA). As of this writing, the formal roll call tally has not yet been released. On Tuesday, President Trump said about John Ratcliffe:Trump touted Ratcliffe’s...

This just in: Jeff Bezos is a hypocritical gasbag. But then, I think we all knew that already.Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, likes to wag his finger at us about carbon footprints. He's even met with the Pope to talk about carbon footprints. (I'll bet the Pope's carbon footprint is substantial.) But Jeff Bezos is also firmly in the "do as I say, not as I do" camp in his personal life. Example: On Thursday we learned that Bezos just shelled out $80 million for a Gulfstream G700, that being one of Gulfstream Aerospace's premiere...

It's an embarrassment of riches for the Republicans these days. Not only did they sweep the House, Senate and White House, but they're also sending many of their best and brightest to serve in the second Donald Trump administration. This leaves many vacancies to be filled, and one of the most important is the Ohio Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.Vance was elected to the U.S. Senate a mere two years ago, beating Democrat Tim Ryan to replace the retiring Rob Portman (R). Our next vice president spent his brief Senate career in the minority, but his replacement...

Healthcare, as much as the left hates to admit it, is a market item, like any other good or service. Until the mid-20th century, the provision of healthcare was like any other business; you went to the doctor, you paid him, and that was that. Granted, now modern, high-tech medicine is more expensive, and there is therefore a market for health insurance to spread that cost out. That, too, is a market item. When the government meddles in markets, they almost always screw it up. The Biden administration has never and will never learn this lesson; now, in the latest...