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On October 7, 2023, Hamas jihadists committed an unspeakably evil atrocity against Jews living in Israel. Within hours of the Nazi-like pogrom, nearly three dozen separate groups of Harvard University students blamed the Jews for it. Did the Harvard “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) chapter have, as a recently filed lawsuit alleges the Columbia SJP chapter had, advance knowledge of the massacre? [SNIP] Harvard cannot claim to care about the plight of Jews on its campus while simultaneously suing for its “right” to bilk the American taxpayer while appearing to defy the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It’s really that simple. Some circles just can’t be squared.
Conservative American writer David Horowitz lost his battle with cancer, passing away Monday at 86 years old, according to an announcement on his X account.
For over 40 years, Horowitz was a strong advocate and defender of conservatives, founding the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 1988, among his various accomplishments in politics. A six-minute video was posted on his X account by the Freedom Center, detailing the conservative’s life.
“On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz. After a lengthy battle with cancer, David passed yesterday at the age of 86."
Will U.S. taxpayers ever see a dime repaid? Probably not, because the proceeds will likely end up in the pockets of the professional political class; however, the concept is a good idea in principle. It is more than likely Zelenskyy has sold his “minerals” to several countries in his perpetual tin cup tour. The ‘investment fund’ aspect is just another way to transfer proceeds into the bank accounts of U.S. Senators.
The previously called “minerals deal” is now essentially a fund created between the USA and Ukraine where proceeds from exploiting Ukraine natural resources will be used to rebuild the country and repay the USA for prior financial support
Senate Effort to Block President Trump
Tariff Authority Fails Despite Three Republicans
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Tariff Authority Fails Despite Three Republicans
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Republican senators Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski all voted in support of removing President Trump’s ability to impose tariffs under national security grounds. However, the overall vote failed in the Senate 49-49. The vote was mostly symbolic for the upper chamber as the House previously approved a rule to block any effort to restrict President Trump’s trade authority, and the White House would obviously veto any bill that might pass. However, the vote does showcase the Republicans who are in support of multinational corporations outsourcing jobs and manufacturing. The bill was originally created by Republican Senator Rand Paul and Democrat Senator Ron Wyden.
It seems Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hudson’s controversial actions have led to a costly setback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football program.
Despite being praised by Colin Cowherd as 73-year-old Belichick's "PR director" following a questionable CBS News Sunday Morning interview, Hudson’s behavior has had far-reaching consequences. The 24-year-old played a key role in derailing the Tar Heels' opportunity to feature in the popular NFL docuseries Hard Knocks.
Several deep blue states have moved to extend healthcare to illegal aliens, but costs have exploded and enrollments have raced far past the numbers lawmakers expected, causing budget disasters across the board.
In 2019, California became the first deep blue state to allow illegal aliens to enroll in the state’s healthcare program. Since then, the costs have wildly spun out of control. This year it was reported that the costs of the program was more than three billion dollars above the estimates. Now some are asking why.
“We should not bear these costs. Period. But especially in a budget crisis,” California Assemblymember Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) said in March,
Influencer Valentina Gomez probably won’t be asked to attend next year’s Texas Muslim Capitol Day.
On Tuesday, Raw Story reported that Gomez attended this year’s event, and she posted footage to social media platform X of herself taking to the podium while ripping of a hijab and addressing a crowd of Muslims.
Gomez included the caption, “Islam has no place in Texas. Help me to Congress so we can end the Islamization of America. I only fear God.” Speaking into the microphone, Gomez unleashed on the crowd, telling them that “Islam is the religion of rape, incest, and pedophilia where they bow down to a stupid rock and a false prophet.”
Last week CTH noted, “interested political followers in the USA should pay close attention to how the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWA) respond to the corporate media narrative. … Will the International Longshoremen’s Association stand with Trump, or will they drop support as the global trade reset emphasizes domestically manufactured jobs? That will be an interesting aspect to watch because the dockworker union leadership will face massive pressure to comply with the anti-tariff narrative.” (full article)
Yesterday, we got the answer: “The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) unequivocally condemns the recent tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed.”
Ford CEO goes under the hood of massive
Kentucky plant, says it’s what Trump
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Kentucky plant, says it’s what Trump
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Ford CEO Jim Farley got under the hood of the automaker's commitment to American manufacturing Tuesday on FOX Business, telling "Mornings with Maria" host Maria Bartiromo that one sprawling Kentucky truck plant showcases President Trump's vision for the U.S. auto industry.
"This is one of the biggest, most profitable plants in the world. [It's] certainly our most important – it makes the Super Duty, the new Expedition and Navigator, [which are all] super popular vehicles…" Farley said, speaking live from the plant.
Rooted in Louisville, Kentucky, the plant houses over 9,000 employees, providing what Farley coined "good" but "hard" jobs – leaving workers to face temperatures over
As we saw previously in Term-1, President Trump has again divided and assigned trade negotiation responsibility to key cabinet members. In this interview with CNN National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett smiles and walks effortlessly through the narrative engineering attempt by CNN pundit Kassie Hunt.
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Hassett outlines the current status of trade negotiations with some of the biggest trade partners in the world. India and Southeast Asia are being handled by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is in control of the section 232 (national security) tariffs, and USTR Jamison Greer has 19 current Free Trade Agreements outlined with various partners all willing to accept
Signed, Sealed, Deported: USPS Ramps Up
Efforts to Assist Trump Administration
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Efforts to Assist Trump Administration
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stop the Trump administration from tracking down and deporting illegals. And they're reportedly using all means necessary, including the United States Postal Service (USPS), to identify those who are on American soil illegally.
According to a rather disapproving report by the Washington Post, the USPS's storied Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) has joined forces with the mass deportation efforts of President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The USPS is now apparently playing a major role in the intragovernmental DHS task force that is responsible for finding, detaining, and deporting illegals. The move makes a ton of
Hundreds of angry Chinese workers are marching in the streets of China’s industrial cities to protest layoffs and unpaid wages after President Donald Trump’s tariffs forced their factories to shut down.
Unemployment was already a big problem for China’s faltering post-pandemic economy, particularly youth unemployment, and now analysts are predicting Trump’s tariffs could wipe out more than 16 million jobs.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday quoted Goldman Sachs analysts who predicted communications, apparel, and chemical manufacturers would be especially hard hit. One of the biggest strikes and protest marches occurred last week at a factory that produces sporting goods. A company representative hastily hung up the phone
During an interview with Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul on Tuesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) responded to a question on whether he would support actions like those taken in the case of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan by stating that while he doesn’t know all of the details of the Dugan case, “they’re not illegal aliens. They are our neighbors. We care about them. We love them.”
Host Amy Hockert asked, “A lot of people read in the headlines in the last couple of weeks, the last week or so, this judge in Wisconsin who was arrested and then charged with obstructing an immigration operation at a courthouse. Would you
As the old saying goes, birds of a feather flock together.
How else can you make sense of or explain how two unrelated state court judges, 1,072 miles (Massachusetts and Wisconsin) and seven years apart, broke federal law by actively assisting an illegal alien evade capture by federal agents who had all of the necessary immigration paperwork to detain or remove the alien from the United States?
The facts of their cases are eerily similar, forcing you to ask yourself, “What the heck was this judge thinking when she knew the feds had already prosecuted another judge for doing the exact same thing?”
The Senate passed a joint resolution to repeal a Department of Energy appliance standard on Wednesday by a margin of 52-46, further advancing the roll-back of Biden-era green energy regulations on household appliances.
Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde is the lead sponsor of the joint resolution of disapproval H.J. Res. 42, which aims to nullify a rule issued by the DOE on October 9, 2024 under former President Joe Biden which added new efficiency and reporting regulations for appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines and AC units.
The Trump administration announced wide-ranging sanctions Wednesday on a vast Iranian oil smuggling network that has generated "hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit funds for Iran's destabilizing activities," according to information provided by the State Department.
The sanctions target five United Arab Emirates-based companies, a Turkish petrochemical supplier, an Iranian cargo firm, and two ships known to ferry Tehran’s illicit petroleum products to foreign markets like that of China. The State Department views the sanctions, some of the furthest-reaching to date, as key to "driving Iran’s illicit oil and petrochemical exports—including exports to China—to zero," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
Packaging giant Pratt Industries announced Wednesday it was committing $5 billion to support President Trump’s push to bolster American manufacturing.
Atlanta-based Pratt announced the investment ahead of an afternoon White House event touting America’s potential to business leaders.
“To make America great again, we need to make in America again,” owner and executive chairman Anthony Pratt said in a statement.
"That’s why I’m proud to support the president’s call to reindustrialize America and again make the US the manufacturing powerhouse of the world.”
In its announcement, Pratt predicted the investment would lead to 5,000 new jobs across the US, including in key electoral states Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Senior Cuban Regime Official and Castro
Confidant Discovered in Florida Seeking
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Confidant Discovered in Florida Seeking
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Héctor Alejandro Hernández Morales, a senior Cuban regime official identified as the once bodyguard and “trusted man” of both late communist dictator Fidel Castro and his brother and successor Raúl Castro, is presently living in Florida aspiring to obtain U.S. resident status, Cuba-focused outlets reported.
Hernández Morales, 46, was identified as a senior Cuban Interior Ministry official living in Boca Raton, Florida, after entering the United States in August 2024 using a visitor’s visa. The information was first reported by Cuban-American journalist Mario Pentón and then verified by Martí Noticias.
According to the reports, Hernández Morales is hoping to benefit from the 1996 Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA),
Serial Loser Beto O’Rourke Teases Another
Texas Senate Run — Because Three Losses
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Texas Senate Run — Because Three Losses
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Beto O’Rourke is teasing another run for Senate in Texas.
O’Rourke was asked at a recent town hall event whether he would consider running in 2026 for the seat currently held by John Cornyn.
“If it comes to pass that this is what the people of Texas want, that it’s the highest and best use of what I can give to you, then yes, I will,” O’Rourke responded.
O’Rourke, whose real first name is Robert but has styled himself as the Hispanic sounding “Beto,” is somewhat of a laughingstock for his numerous failed campaigns.
A high-ranking official at the U.S. State Department has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $650,000 in taxpayer money — and the media is barely covering it.
Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Montgomery Village, Maryland — also known by her alias Levita Brezovic — admitted in federal court today to looting $657,347.50 from the State Department over a two-year span while working as a Senior Budget Analyst in the Office of the Chief of Protocol.
According to the DOJ, Ferrer wielded her signature authority like a blank checkbook, issuing 63 fraudulent checks between March 2022 and April 2024 — 60 to herself,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a bombshell today that should frighten every conservative nationwide.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, President Trump and his team held a cabinet meeting Wednesday. Team Trump spent a good portion of the meeting touting the president’s impressive record on issues ranging from immigration to the economy.
But amid the celebration, Rubio mentioned some disturbing information. He revealed that Biden’s Department of State had created dossiers with the full intention of spying on the content and censoring Americans’ free speech rights.
‘We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,” Rubio said.
President Trump is raising the stakes once again in his quest to deport as many illegals as possible.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, President Trump and his team held a cabinet meeting Wednesday. Team Trump spent a good portion of the meeting touting the president’s impressive record on issues ranging from immigration to the economy.
Liberal reporters present at the meeting responded by peppering the Trump Administration with several silly questions, including about MS-13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But an actual journalist stepped up and asked a question concerning activist judges outrageously continuing to handcuff Trump’s executive powers, particularly on deporting illegals.
Illegal immigrant busted by ICE after
hiding in tree for 9 hours: ‘You can
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hiding in tree for 9 hours: ‘You can
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An illegal immigrant was busted by immigration agents in Texas after trying to hide up a tree for around nine hours.
Guatemalan national Raul Ical, 29, fled into the backyard of a house in San Antonio on Tuesday morning after fleeing a traffic stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), KSAT reports.
He then scaled a tree, with video showing him high up it as ICE agents waited below.
Authorities tried going up into the tree at least twice to negotiate with Ical before he finally came down
Watch: Rubio Shuts Down Reporter Trying
to Bait Him on Illegal Alien Deported
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to Bait Him on Illegal Alien Deported
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The media's obsession with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 member who was deported to his native El Salvador, continued on Wednesday. During a cabinet meeting at the White House, a reporter asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio if he's "been in touch" with the Central American country about "returning" Abrego Garcia. Let's just say he wasn't interested in playing that game. [Tweet, video]
It's just astonishing to me. There are so many important things going on in the world right now, yet all the press wants to talk about is a guy who allegedly beat his wife and was found driving a human smuggler's car.