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Virginia’s new Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger has just announced that she is signing an executive order to keep ICE agents away from polling places.
Why do you suppose such a thing would be necessary?
Democrats assure us that illegal aliens are not voting because they are forbidden from doing so by law. So why would they be worried about ICE showing up at polling places? It just doesn’t make any sense. Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Tuesday that she plans to issue an executive order on Wednesday to help election workers respond if federal agents show up at polling sites in Virginia.
Folks, I think we've officially reached the tipping point when it comes to the fall of communist Cuba. If anyone else was president, I wouldn't buy it myself, but Donald Trump is, and I do. Ironically, it happened on May 20, when the country should be celebrating its independence, but it's a day that the regime refuses to acknowledge.
"Today marks the beginning of the end for the Castro family," Rep. María Salazar said, following the big news on Wednesday.
In case you missed it, that big news was the Department of Justice (DOJ) announcing that it was charging Raúl Castro with conspiracy to kill U.S.—
President Donald Trump spoke at the Congressional Picnic on the White House South Lawn and made a point that normal folks understood straight away.
He listed better economic signs, including factory construction, housing starts, and consumer spending, then added, “We have an economy; people aren't seeing it yet.” His critics treated that line like a confession. A plainer reading points elsewhere: Trump was taking a shot at a media class that wouldn't recognize good economic news if it landed on the South Lawn with a brass band wearing bowl cuts. From The Daily Beast:
The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary—for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy.
His title derives from two passages in the first book of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides (460–400/395? BC), author of The Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides, on these two occasions, felt that the most likely cause of the Spartan-Athenian war (431–404) was Spartan fear of an increasingly powerful rival Athenian empire.
A judge has sensationally thrown out the criminal charges against the Virginia school principal who allegedly failed to stop the first grader who shot a teacher in her classroom — calling the indictment “a mashup of legal theory.”
Former assistant principal Ebony Parker sobbed in court after Judge Rebecca Robinson tossed the charges mid-trial. Robinson found that Parker was not criminally liable for teacher Abby Zwerner getting shot by a 6-year-old student....But Robinson said the eight counts of child neglect that Parker faced for allegedly failing to intervene after reports the boy brought a firearm to school on Jan. 6, 2023, “is not a crime” under Virginia law.
How many times have Democrats told us illegal aliens and other 'non-citizens' weren't getting SNAP benefits? Too many to count. In the state of Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Democratic AG Josh Kaul have both refused to turn over the state's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) information to the federal government.
Now we are getting a glimpse into why.
As of July 1, some 7,000 'documented non-citizens' — illegal aliens — will no longer be eligible for the state's food stamp program. And the media spin has already begun.
A LEGO-style campaign ad supporting Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor went viral last week because it turned the city’s public safety collapse into a blunt, darkly comic takedown of Mayor Karen Bass’s leadership. The ad’s mix of crime imagery, homelessness, drug-use scenes, and wildfire symbolism made it an amazingly memorable political ad.
Another ad from another creator is going viral, and it is brilliant.
The ad opens with three guys at a backyard barbecue, tiptoeing around the elephant in the room about the Los Angeles mayoral election. They all claim they aren’t sure who they're voting for. They each claim not to be following the race.
Thank God and the Virginia Supreme Court that Democrats' far-left redistricting power-grab got kicked to the curb. Lest you thought that the worst thing about that despicable machination was simply that Virginia Republican voters would be disenfranchised, read on and be enlightened.
Virginia Democrats weren’t just trying to shut out their right-leaning neighbors from having a voice in the U.S. House, you know. And they certainly weren’t planning to install fair-minded, rational legislators to represent the interests of all Virginians in D.C.
Rather, the Democrats who greedily gerrymandered Old Dominion saw the state as merely a stepping stone from which they could hoist a veritable freak show
Yet ANOTHER Indian illegal alien truck driver named Singh has caused a deadly accident, and once again, California Democrats are complicit, as the alien received his commercial driver’s license (CDL) from the state of Commiefornia.
Manvir Singh was driving a semi-truck near Sacramento when he killed two people in a hit-and-run crash on May 19, according to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin: [Tweet]
As Melugin noted, Singh — who tried to leave his truck and run away after the crash — now faces charges of “vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run resulting in death. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer request,
Two men accused of killing an off-duty Florida firefighter for his Nike sneakers and iPhone boasted about the murder just moments after the heinous act, according to a witness who saw the gunman “smiling about it.”
Torrey Holston, 26, and Jose Garcia Romero, 27, allegedly killed Coral Springs-Parkland firefighter Christopher Randazzo, 39, in front of a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea resort when he left his second job as a bartender at Aruba Beach Cafe around 1 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2019.
Holston was heard saying, “I can’t believe I just caught a body,” witness Cheyenne Papach testified Tuesday.
“And he was smiling about it.” [snip] “I think I got him,” Holston allegedly said after the shooting,
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., defended the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) from fraud allegations related to its funding of hate hoaxes, stating “what its donors love about the Southern Poverty Law Center is how effective it’s been.” After donors purchased a decade of race riots and left-wing violence to help Democrats, he must be right.
At a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Raskin was attempting to defend the SPLC from a federal fraud indictment which showed how the organization that claims to dismantle “hate groups” actually funds them in order to manufacture hate and then fundraise even more off the chaos.
As Democrats scramble to protect the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after it was indicted for fraud, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., attempted to have the truth about an infamous anti-Trump hoax the SPLC peddled removed from the congressional record.
At a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., launched into the heavily debunked claim that President Donald Trump praised white supremacists at a 2017 Charlottesville rally as “very fine people.” Notably, the hearing took place in light of a grand jury indictment of the SPLC that detailed its reported funding of an individual involved in planning
Aimee Bock, the convicted ringleader of the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme in Minnesota, was sentenced to more than 40 years in prison on Thursday.
The judge handed Bock a 500-month sentence and ordered her to repay nearly $243 million to the federal government.
Last year, a jury found her guilty on multiple criminal counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery. Prosecutors said she orchestrated the largest pandemic fraud case in the country, which diverted tens of millions in government money meant to feed hungry children.
House Democrats declared war Wednesday on Democratic Texas congressional candidate Maureen Galindo, who stated she wanted to imprison “American Zionists.”
Galindo wrote in an Instagram post on May 13 that she wanted to turn an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center into a “prison for American Zionists” and former ICE officers for so-called “human trafficking.” Democratic Reps. Jared Moskowitz of Florida and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey vowed to force a vote on expelling her from the House if she were to be sworn in, arguing that her statement were “insane” and “antisemitic.”
“If for some reason, Maureen Galindo wins the Congressional election in TX-35,
Local media out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, are reporting that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and federal officials including HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, will be making an announcement about federal indictments for fraud as an outcome of ongoing investigations throughout the state.Minnesota (snip)
The announcement coincides with the sentencing of Aimee Bock, the ringleader in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Also in attendance on Thursday morning will be officials from the National Fraud Enforcement Division, the FBI, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and other law enforcement agencies. (source)
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison, Federalist No. 47
Many rank-and-file Republicans and political commentators have expressed shock at the unprecedented lawfare being employed by the Democrat Party and its political allies against President Trump during his second term. Over 700 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration, and the number of executive orders impeded/blocked by Democrat/left-wing activist judges currently exceeds 200 (full and partial).
This is Part I of a two-part series that examines the politicization of the federal judiciary
You’d think that the Iran war would have been good news for EV sales, given the boost in gasoline prices and general uncertainty it sparked. Instead, it might someday mark the beginning of the end of the left’s EV dreams.
New EV sales in April – the second full month of the war – were down 6.2% compared with March, and down a whopping 23% from the year before, according to Cox Automotive.
True, overall car sales were down last month, but just by 5.4% year over year, and 1.9% from March.
In other words, people were increasingly turning to gasoline-powered cars when they bought in April.
FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match was put to death Wednesday, the first of three executions planned this week around the U.S.
Leroy Dean McGill, 63, was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. PDT following a lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. McGill was convicted of murder in the death of Charles Perez, who was attacked with his girlfriend in a north Phoenix apartment on July 13, 2002.
It was the first lethal injection carried out this year in Arizona, and McGill didn’t appear to be resisting at any point during the procedure.
This is Part II of a two-part series that examines the politicization of the federal judiciary by the Democrat left during the second term of President Trump, and the crisis it presents for our constitutional republic. Part I covered a brief history, the continuing encroachment of Article III (the Judiciary Branch) on Article II (the Executive Branch), and some case studies in judicial overreach.
A woman allegedly tied to Minnesota’s massive “Feeding Our Future” scandal has been charged in a daycare fraud scheme after being featured in a viral video by influencer Nick Shirley, authorities said.
She is accused of pocketing millions of dollars meant for children’s meals.
Fahima Egeh Mahamud was charged Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.
Earlier this year, Mahamud was indicted for her alleged role in the initial $250 $250 million “Feeding Our Future” scheme.
Prosecutors allege she enrolled Future Leaders Early Learning — a Minneapolis daycare where she served as CEO — into the federal child nutrition program, falsely claiming to serve thousands
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Price controls are in the Hall of Fame of bad ideas. They have an unbroken record of failure, stretching back literally thousands of years. And yet, they remain alluring to people with no knowledge of either history or economics, or–probably more relevant–to failing governments.
There was a time when Britain’s government was known for a certain level of financial sophistication. No longer:
[British Chancellor] Rachel Reeves is pressuring supermarkets to cap food prices in an attempt to limit inflation unleashed by the Iran war.
The Iran war has nothing to do with it. The inflation rate on grocery prices in the U.K. is lower than in mid-2025, and the world has
President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded that Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough be fired, arguing that over the years, her rulings have been “brutal” to Republicans.
The parliamentarian serves at the pleasure of the Senate Majority Leader, who can instruct the Senate Secretary to dismiss the official at any time.
Trump expressed frustration in a post on Truth Social that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has refused to take this step, raging that the “Dumocrats cheat, lie, and steal, especially when it comes to Votes in Elections, but stick together, whereas the Republicans allow the Elizabeth MacDonoughs of the World to stay in power, and brutalize us.”
The mass shooting Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego that left three men dead has renewed scrutiny surrounding the mosque — which previously drew national attention over connections to two September 11 hijackers and, more recently, criticism surrounding its imam’s repeated comments portraying Hamas’s October 7 massacre and violence against Israel as justified acts of “resistance.” Authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime after two teenage suspects identified as Caleb Liam Vazquez, 18, and Cain Lee Clark, 17 allegedly opened fire at the mosque. As the investigation unfolded, scrutiny returned to the mosque’s ties to September 11 hijackers, extreme anti-Israel rhetoric and radical pro-Palestinian activism.
The United States' aircraft carrier Nimitz and its strike group arrived in the Caribbean this week as tensions with Cuba continue amid negotiations and the wake of the U.S.'s indictment of Raul Castro.
The arrival comes even as President Donald Trump downplayed the threat of an escalation in negotiations with Cuba on Wednesday. Trump has previously hinted at what he called a "friendly takeover" of Cuba as the island's government faces an economic and energy crisis and mounting domestic opposition. The United States Southern Command said the aircraft carrier was accompanied by Carrier Air Wing 17, USS Gridley and USNS Patuxent, which it claimed "are the epitome of readiness and presence,