Posts on Thursday, February 20, 2025
Army Was Sending Junior Pilots
Straight from Flight School to Fly Top
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Straight from Flight School to Fly Top
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A recent deadly collision over Washington, D.C. involving an Army helicopter has brought sudden national scrutiny to the service and its missions over the nation’s capital, but a master Army aviator told Breitbart News that they had been at risk for years.
In fact, the aviator said, the Army was so strapped for experienced pilots that up through 2023 it was sending its most junior pilots fresh out of flight school to fly these specialized missions. At one point, an estimated 40 percent of the pilots assigned to these missions, which can include evacuating leaders in the event of an attack, were on their first assignment, the aviator said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he had a “productive meeting” with retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who was acting as President Donald Trump’s envoy for Ukraine and Russia.
The upbeat meeting seemed to scale back a growing confrontation between Zelensky and Trump over bilateral U.S. peace negotiations with Russia.
“I had a productive meeting with Special Envoy Kellogg – a good discussion, many important details. I am grateful to the United States for all the assistance and bipartisan support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people,” Zelensky said on social media Thursday afternoon.
“It’s important for us – and for the entire
Elon Musk took the CPAC stage by storm on Thursday — decked out in a “Dark MAGA” outfit and wielding a prop chainsaw to signify the Department of Government Efficiency’s financial cuts to the federal government.
President of Argentina Javier Milei gifted the world’s richest man the chromed-out chainsaw ahead of Musk’s sit-down interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in Maryland, on Thursday evening. (Photos) Melei handed Musk the power tool while on stage — with the DOGE chief then triumphantly holding the chainsaw above his head in a macho gesture to the conservative crowd.
Hold on, patriots! Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dropped the bombshell today: the Trump administration plans to abolish the IRS , that nest of leftist bureaucrats squeezing decent Americans dry.
Yes, you read that right: Donald Trump, the champion of freedom, wants to rip out the Internal Revenue Service and replace it with a tariff-based system that makes foreigners pay for our greatness.
This is not a drill—this is the conservative revolution in action!
A recent study indexed each U.S. state, which was weighted by 49 different factors that would determine the habitability of each state.No one's ever really ready to face the loss of a loved one. That's why safety matters so much—it's behind every decision we make to keep ourselves and our families healthy. We can spend hours on Google digging into stats about the safest cities, but it can feel like piecing together a giant puzzle.
Thanks to a recent comprehensive study, we now have a clear understanding of which states to be cautious of. The data used in the study is sourced from FBI Crime Data Explorer, Centers for Disease Control
Not too long ago, I decided to try a bold experiment. I returned to the University of Georgia to take some agriculture classes. The reason I considered it bold is that I was old enough to be many of the students' mothers (had I been an extremely young teen mom, of course). I learned a lot of lessons about this current generation of teens and twenty-somethings and how college has changed since my first go-round two decades prior, but what really threw me was when a professor asked for my pronouns.
My class was given a virtual assignment to upload a video introduction of ourselves
Russia Has Retaken Two-Thirds of Its Territory
in Kursk From Ukraine, General Says Adam Morrow replies
in Kursk From Ukraine, General Says Adam Morrow replies
Russia has retaken more than 300 square miles of territory in Kursk since Ukraine carried out a cross-border offensive into the Russian border region in summer 2024, a top Russian general has said.
Speaking to Russia’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, Russian Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi said on Feb. 20 that the retaken territory accounts for 64 percent of all land initially captured by Ukraine in its cross-border offensive.
Kyiv has yet to comment on the general’s assertions, which The Epoch Times could not independently verify.
Time to Cut Defense Spending
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In my opinion, there often is remarkably little correlation between spending and results. Our educational system is an obvious instance: the more we spend, the worse our schools get. I seriously believe that if we cut education spending by 50%, our kids would be better educated.
This is a basic difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives measure results, while liberals measure inputs. Thus, if we want better schools–or a better military–the liberal solution is obvious: spend more money. Whether the money actually does any good is of little or no interest. When the checks are written, the liberal’s job is done.
Which brings us to the Department of Defense:
Having been laid off in December 2022 from CNN, Chris Cillizza has been free to appear elsewhere, join Substack, and…come to his senses? That seems to have been the case more recently with one example having come Wednesday night on NewsNation as he admitted he was exasperated at Democrats being willing to die on the hill of saving the federal bureaucracy from Elon Musk. On Balance host Leland Vittert set the table in his Why It Matters Memo with the admission that “Democrats are fighting – literally dying on the hill of saving three-letter agencies that everybody in America hates” even though
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the National Garden of American Heroes will be getting statues of American sports legends.
During a Black History Month ceremony at the White House, Trump revealed that late NBA star Kobe Bryant, late boxing star Muhammad Ali and late civil rights icon and MLB pioneer Jackie Robinson will all be represented with statues in the garden. In addition to the legendary athletes getting statues, Trump announced multiple civil rights leaders in other fields, including Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King and Frederick Douglass, will also get statues.
I recently returned from a much-needed week away from arctic Michigan, and I’ll admit I (mostly) took a break from the news as well.
Holy cow, I missed a lot.
This is the new normal with President Donald Trump back at the helm. Between his many social media posts, announcements and executive orders, Trump can control the news cycle like no one else. After four years of former President Joe Biden, who essentially hid from the news media and the public for much of that time, it’s easy to feel whiplash.
Trump is just getting started, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Thursday marks his first full month in office
Trump Wants Feds to Take Over DC
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President Trump wants the federal government to take control of Washington, D.C. in order to crack down on homelessness and violent crime.
Trump said that federal authorities should take control away from local Democrat leaders who are not doing their jobs and bring law and order to the city. “I think that we should govern the District of Columbia. I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it absolutely flawless,” Trump said. “And I think we should take over Washington, D.C. We could save people from getting killed. They have a great police department there. Somehow they’re not utilized properly.
A second attempt by government unions to block the firing of government employees by the Trump administration has failed. A federal judge in Washington concluded that the unions did not have standing in the case.
A federal judge on Thursday declined to issue a temporary restraining order pausing President Donald Trump’s moves to fire thousands of employees who are on probationary status or deemed nonessential, clearing a roadblock for the new administration as it attempts sweeping changes to downsize the federal government.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled against the National Treasury Employees Union and four other labor
On Thursday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller made an appearance in the press briefing room.
The brilliant Stephen Miller opened up Thursday’s briefing with an epic monologue highlighting Trump’s first 30 days. The White House reporters looked miserable as they were forced to listen to Stephen Miller boast about Trump’s historic accomplishments.
“I want to thank you all for joining today our one month celebration of the most historic opening to a presidency in American history. No president comes close to what President Trump has achieved over just the last 30 days,” Stephen Miller said with a smile on his face.
President Donald Trump’s administration has stopped providing free lawyers to 26,000 migrant youths, many who are asking for green cards.
The lawyers argue that many of their migrant-youth clients have been abandoned by their parents and so deserve green cards via the “Special Immigrant Juvenile” loophole in immigration law.
But the lawyers’ claims of “abandonment” are often belied by the reality that the youth migrants crossed the border in search of jobs while one or both parents stayed behind in their home country.
Delta Air Lines is offering US$30,000 (£23,792) to each person on board a plane that crash-landed in Toronto on Monday - all of whom survived. As it landed in the Canadian city, the plane skidded along the runway in flames before flipping over and coming to a halt upside down. Passengers described their amazement as most of them walked away without injuries. It remains unclear what caused the incident, which is under investigation.
Although Hamas claimed that the four bodies released to Israel on Thursday included Shiri Bibas and her two young children Ariel and Kfir, an Israeli forensics team announced late on Thursday evening that the body believed to be Shiri’s was not, in fact, Shiri Bibas.
Specialists at Abu Kabir Forensic Institute determined that Ariel and Kfir were “brutally murdered by terrorists” in November 2023, and that “the additional body received” was not Shiri’s. The specialist confirmed the identities of Ariel, Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz, a retired journalist.
“No match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body,”
Over the past decade, a growing divide has emerged within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), as denominational leaders have increasingly framed left-leaning border policies as a Christian imperative.
Last week, Baptist Press, the official news service of the SBC, published an article by Trevin Wax, a vice president at the SBC’s North American Mission Board, in which he defended his denomination’s participation in “refugee resettlement” against those he claimed have a “deep misunderstanding of how disaster relief, foster care or refugee resettlement takes place.”
In his first weeks holding office, President Donald Trump has done far more than any Republican in recent history to restore the justice system, eliminate radical DEI, and dismantle the unelected bureaucracy. But what would stop a future Democrat president from undoing this? (snip)Through executive orders, Trump has brought the censorship-industrial complex to the brink of death. He has taken steps to protect children from genital mutilation in the form of “transgender” surgeries. He has sent DEI to die. (snip)But without further action, this progress could disappear in just four years.
Jason Furman is a left-leaning economist who currently works at Harvard but who previously served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama. So his recent takedown of Bidenomics is coming from an ally of the party not an outsider.
Furman's analysis starts with the fact that voters rejected Biden and Harris because in their view Bidenomics was not a rousing success. If you had to point to a single cause for widespread dissatisfaction with Biden's tenure, it would probably be inflation.
Although there are many explanations for Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S
President Donald Trump commemorated Black History Month at the White House alongside golfer Tiger Woods weeks after signing an executive order ending diversity programs and the Defense Department declaring that “identity months" are "dead.”
"Today we pay tribute to the generations of black legends, champions, and warriors that made sure to help drive our country forward to greatness," Trump told the crowd on Thursday. "You really are great."Trump criticized former President Joe Biden's approach to race, contending that he concentrated too much on slavery rather than freedom.
The captain of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that slammed into a ship near Egypt last week was yanked from the position “due to a loss of confidence in his ability,” the US Navy said Thursday.
Capt. Dave Snowden was “relieved” of his job at the helm of the USS Harry S. Truman and temporarily reassigned following the wild Feb. 12 crash in the Mediterranean Sea, according to the military branch.
“The U.S. Navy holds commanding officers to the highest standard and takes action to hold them accountable when those standards are not met,” the Navy said in a statement. Snowden was replaced by Capt. Christopher Hill, and temporarily
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Kash Patel as America’s next FBI Director.
His confirmation did not come easily. Two of the Senate’s lead RINOs, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, voted against him, while every single Democrat voted no. Surprisingly, fellow RINO Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted yes.
The Senate broke the filibuster on Patel’s nomination in a 51-47 vote earlier on Thursday.
Now, Patel has released his first comments since his confirmation, and MAGA Nation will love them. His fiery statement should also send shivers down the spines of the Deep State and America’s enemies.
Unfathomable Depravity In Gaza
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With all the political rhetoric thrown around in Washington these days, alternating between Donald Trump and Elon Musk as to whom is more Hitleresque depending on what level of government corruption they discover and bring to a halt, you'd think the October 7th attacks by Hamas on Israel alone would check that impulse to invoke Godwin's law in describing the Trump administration. But you'd be wrong.
A few weeks ago, when three hostages were released, emaciated to the point of looking like they'd spent a year inside an actual concentration camp, maybe that could get us to the place where you can disagree with policy and personnel
New Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced on Thursday the FTC is opening an investigation into censorship by Big Tech and called on Americans victimized by Big Tech censorship to submit reports to aid the investigation.
The deadline for public comment and submissions is May 21. Ferguson was appointed by President Trump last month to replace Joe Biden’s radical appointee Lina Khan.
Ferguson posted to X about the inquiry:
Big Tech censorship is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal. The FTC wants your help to investigate these potential violations of the law. We are asking for public submissions from anyone who has been a victim of tech censorship
Vice President JD Vance apparently isn’t interested in nostalgic history lessons — especially when they’re used to attack President Donald Trump’s stance on Ukraine.
Early on Thursday morning, pro-Trump conservative historian Niall Ferguson provoked Vance’s anger by invoking former President George H.W. Bush’s famous condemnation of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to criticize the Trump administration’s current approach to Ukraine.
Trump hardened his stance on Ukraine this week in a pivot that saw the country excluded from initial peace negotiations between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia. Criticism of Ukraine’s exclusion from the talks climaxed in the president branding Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Far-Left Dem Can’t Get Her Head Around
Federal Gov’t Paying Back Taxpayers
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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett could not comprehend the idea of the federal government handing out dividends to Americans over the money it has wasted for decades during a Thursday segment on ABC News. President Donald Trump expressed interest in handing out $5,000 dividend checks to every taxpayer with the money saved by the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) downsizing of the federal government. Crockett said she does not believe $5,000 will help out the average American and appeared to ignore the fact that the federal government has wasted billions of dollars in spending for several years.
Immigration advocates have filed two suits challenging the Trump administration’s stripping of deportation protection for some Venezuelans in the United States.
The suits target a move by Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to rescind Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans who have fled to the U.S. in recent years.
The January order from Noem impacts two clusters of Venezuelans.
“Secretary Noem took two illegal actions within one week of assuming her role at the head of DHS. Three days after her confirmation, she ‘vacated’ an extension of TPS protections for Venezuelans residing in the United States, just weeks after the extension was duly published in the Federal Register. Two days later,
Several cities in northern Mexico have seen a major drop in the arrival of migrants seeking to reach the US border since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The Comarca Lagunera region, which consists of five cities in the state of Coahuila and 10 in the state of Durango, experienced a 95 to 97 percent drop in migrants from the south trying to reach the US toward the end of last year, Milenio reported.
During the first couple of months of 2024, officials normally encountered groups of up to 800 migrants passing through the area, said Raul Meraz, undersecretary for the region.
I've been writing about the protests against Elon Musk as the Democrats have been whipping up hate against him and President Donald Trump over the Department of Government Efficiency and the work to cut fraud, waste, and abuse. The Democrats have been lying about DOGE, claiming Musk wants to steal people's social security, that it's a "coup" (despite Trump being the president and Musk working for him) and all kinds of other inciting lies. They've also called for action in the streets, even calling it "war."
Over the weekend they had protests at Tesla dealerships trying to make an impact on the EV company,
Alan Dershowitz suing JFK’s grandson,
Jack Schlossberg, for defamation over
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Jack Schlossberg, for defamation over
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Alan Dershowitz said he will sue Jack Schlossberg after the social media influencer and only grandson of John F. Kennedy falsely claimed the civil rights attorney and Harvard professor had killed his wife, The Post has learned.
“I hope he will preserve all of his documents because I am about to commence a legal action against him,” Dershowitz, who has been married to Carolyn Cohen since 1986, told The Post Wednesday.
“My lawyers have advised me now that I have a viable defamation action.” Earlier this month, Schlossberg, with wild, unkempt hair, filmed himself attacking the 86-year-old lawyer.
“Alan Dershowitz if you can hear me I need your help,
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) cancelled $4 million in contracts promoting “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) Thursday after the agency’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force identified them as wasteful spending.
The terminated contracts were intended for “DEI culture transformation,” including “outward mindset training and diversity and inclusion research subscription services,” HUD said in a press release.
Sec. Scott Turner, who was confirmed to lead HUD on February 5, has already identified $260 million in savings after launching his department’s DOGE task force.
“It is inexcusable the American taxpayer was footing the bill for the promotion of DEI propaganda,” Turner said
See how much of this you can stomach. I managed to get through a full minute before shutting in down in disgust, but this Hamas rally using hostages and hostage bodies must be seen to be believed: Here's a briefer look at the coffins: Trump may have seen enough, too. Reportedly, he told his advisors that the US and Israel need to take off the gloves: So far, there hasn't been any confirmation of those remarks, so take this report with a grain of salt for now. It's not too difficult to believe, though, that Trump said that in response to this flagrant defiance from Hamas and the humiliation
The Soul of the Democrats
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As Japan’s defeat during World War II became obvious, many of its soldiers performed harakiri -- a ritual suicide by disembowelment using a sword -- as an honorable alternative to surrendering. Perhaps one of the most notable moments of a U.S. presidential candidate performing political harakiri occurred in March 2004.
Explaining his vote in support of $87 billion for our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Democrat candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) responded, "I actually voted in favor of the $87 billion before I voted against it." His words famously became reduced to “I was for it before I was against it.” Critics had a field day with this,
The vote is in, and Kash Patel is the new director of the FBI in another huge win for Donald Trump. [Tweet, video]
The final vote came in at 51-49.
Surprisingly, Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who announced Thursday that he will not be running for reelection in 2026, was a yes vote. He was a no on SecDef Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (both were confirmed anyway.) [Tweet]
Alaska's GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins voted "nay."
The day started out on an ominous note
The United Nations – whose employees participated in the October 7, 2023, massacre of civilians in Israel – condemned the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas for staging a parade of coffins, including a child and infant, on Thursday prior to handing their bodies over to Israel.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk described the situation as “abhorrent,” according to Reuters, indicating that parading the bodies of dead civilians before a celebratory crowd was a violation of international law. “Under international law, any handover of the remains of deceased must comply with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, ensuring respect
Vice President J.D. Vance gave an inspiring message of support to young men during a Q&A session at CPAC on Thursday with host Mercedes Schlapp. The annual conservative gathering is being held at National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. (Photo) Vance’s message was a succinct distillation of the outreach by President Trump and his campaign to young men (and young women) during the closing months of the 2024 election that embraced ‘bro culture’ through appearances on podcasts, Turning Point USA gatherings and campaign rallies at college campuses. A key player in that effort was Trump’s 18-year-old son, Barron.
Daniel Penny, the Marine finally vindicated from false charges of murdering serial criminal Jordan Neely, just received a prestigious Marine Corps award.
Penny was acquitted last year after a highly charged case, following his restraint of a dangerous criminal on the New York subway, who subsequently died of drug-related complications. Crazed leftists smeared the young Marine as racist, but many conservatives across the country admired Penny’s insistence that he would not have changed his actions for anything, prioritizing the safety of other people over his own security and freedom. And that’s the self-sacrificial heroism the Marine Corps League wanted to honor.
Last month, Bryan Kohberger's attorneys attempted to have all of the evidence against him in his murder trial thrown out on the grounds that he was identified thanks to genetic genealogy techniques which were used without proper warrants.DNA was found at the scene on the sheath of a knife which was discovered under one of the victim's bodies. The FBI took that DNA and compared it to DNA on some publicly available database and found a familial match which directed them to Kohberger. Subsequently, they tracked his movements as he drove to his families home in Pennsylvania where they took trash
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to announce Thursday afternoon that she will not remove embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office "right now," according to a source familiar with the situation.
But Hochul plans to impose strict "guardrails" on her fellow Democrat's administration, the source said. Hochul has scheduled a 4 p.m. ET news conference to discuss her decision about Adams, who was indicted last year on federal criminal corruption charges.
The governor on Tuesday held a series of meetings with political figures to discuss Adams' fate.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled legislation that would short circuit the failed $7.5 billion electric vehicle program instituted by President Joe Biden, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Ernst proposed the Unplug the Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Programs Act to end Biden’s failed electric vehicle charging program from the so-called infrastructure bill, formally known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The program, despite its lofty goal of creating a network of charging stations across the nation, only built 59 stations in three years despite $7.5 billion in funding.
“Joe Biden’s green dreams short-circuited, and it is time to pull the plug,” Ernst said in a statement to Breitbart News.
I've done a lot of sales and marketing writing throughout my freelance career, though I'd hardly call myself an expert. Even so, I don't think it takes an expert to realize that you can keep rebranding something over and over again, but if you get the same result, the problem is with the product, not the way you're selling it.
Over the last six or seven years, Meghan Markle's attempts at selling anything substantial have failed almost every time. Her fake podcasting career was short-lived. With the exception of a "documentary" designed to mock her husband's family, the one that most people seemingly only viewed to hate-watch,
Corrections officials have ended all outside visits to New York state prisons in the wake of a growing jail guard strike and sporadic inmate unrest — as riots erupted at another upstate prison early Thursday.
The newest uprising by out-of-control inmates struck the Riverview Correctional Facility, which sits near the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Ogdensburg.
No staffers were hurt during the chaos, which WWNY 7 News said broke out overnight Wednesday into Thursday. (Photo) The newest riot came about a week after the Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County was locked down following an inmate uprising.
Terrorist group Hamas on Thursday turned over the remains of four Israeli hostages it kidnapped during its surprise attack on October 7, 2023.
The details of the exchange elicited outrage from across the globe as it put the terrorist organization’s brutality on full display. ( X Video) The murdered hostages included a woman and her two young children and an elderly journalist. The victims were identified as Shiri Bibas, 32, and her children, Ariel and Kfir. The children were four years old and nine months old, respectively. The journalist was 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz.
Toxic RINO Senator Susan Collins (ME) on Thursday morning announced she is a “no” vote on Kash Patel.
The Senate will vote to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director on Thursday. Senator Collins came out against Kash Patel just hours before the vote.
Senator Collins said her decision to vote against Kash Patel comes after a flood of firings and resignations at the Justice Department.
“The nomination of Kash Patel to serve as Director of the FBI comes to the Senate against the backdrop of recent personnel actions at the Department of Justice, including the resignations of several career federal prosecutors who felt they were being
Senator Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, announced on Thursday he will not be seeking reelection in 2026.
McConnell intends to serve the remainder of his term, which ends in January 2027. The former Senate minority leader announced the news on his 83rd birthday.
“Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate,” McConnell said in prepared remarks on the Senate floor. “Every day in between I’ve been humbled by the trust they’ve placed in me to do their business here. Representing our commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek
EXCLUSIVE — The story of a 12-year-old girl whose family claimed she was denied a heart transplant for being unvaccinated has caught the attention of House Republicans, who are introducing legislation to prevent hospitals from restricting transplants based on COVID-19 vaccination status.
Reps. Michael Rulli (R-OH) and Erin Houchin (R-IN) introduced the “COVID-19 Vaccination Non-Discriminatiion Act” on Friday. The bill, shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner, would prohibit federal funds from being made available to facilities that refuse to provide treatment based on COVID-19 vaccination status.
The legislation comes after Jeneen Deal, who is related through marriage to Vice President JD Vance,
Events are continuing to develop after the initial meeting of top American and Russian officials in Riyadh, KSA. The #1 priority that SecState Rubio presented after the meeting was the reestablishment of normal diplomatic relations between the US and Russia. Today we hear that Putin, having heard what FM Lavrov had to say after the meeting—presumably that Trump isn’t trying to play any “Gypsy tricks”—has agreed to this important step:
No new water storage infrastructure has been built in California, more than a decade after voters approved a $7.5 billion water bond in Proposition 1 of 2014.
The San Jose Mercury-News reported Wednesday that officials are deciding what to do with nearly half a billion dollars of available cash after the “collapse” of a project to expand the Los Vaqueros Reservoir, which is east of San Francisco.
Other projects have received funding for planning and permitting, but nothing has been built.
The newspaper noted:
A majority of the seven board members of the California Water Commission, a state agency that distributes funding to build reservoirs and other water projects
The hard left of the Democratic Party is trying to force Gov. Kathy Hochul to fire Mayor Eric Adams because it thinks he might help the Trump administration remove illegal migrant criminals who are menacing New Yorkers. How dare he! Forget that Adams is New York’s democratically elected mayor.
Forget that most New Yorkers want illegal alien gangbangers out of our city.
The self-described party of “democracy” wants, yet again, to kill democracy to save it. The mere fact that Adams sat on the curvy couch of “Fox & Friends” with border czar Tom Homan last week sent his Trump-deranged fellow Democrats into a tizzy.
Now that Kamala Harris is no longer vice president, can I say the quiet part out loud? She was embarrassing and clumsy. She made me cringe.
Watching Harris speak to a crowd or give an interview made me feel humiliation for our country. I'd think, this is our best? This is who we brought to the world stage to represent us? After listening to Vice President JD Vance defend free speech and blast censorship last week in Europe, I don't feel like that anymore. Vance has brought clarity, inspiration and leadership to the vice presidency, and he took it on the road to show Europeans who America is now
This week, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, raised the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump over the Justice Department’s decision to withdraw the indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The Trump administration is engaged in “an attack on the Department of Justice for engaging in corruption prosecutions,” Raskin told CBS on Sunday. Such behavior “could be impeachable in a different political environment.”
A shorter version is that you can bet the bank Raskin would be gung-ho to impeach Trump if there were only a “different political environment.” The problem, of course, is that the Constitution specifies that
A federal appeals court in San Francisco denied the Trump administration’s request to reinstate a ban on birthright citizenship.
Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office that ordered an end to birthright citizenship for children for whom neither parent is a US citizen or legal permanent resident. Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th amendment to the constitution. Civil rights groups argue an end to birthright citizenship would create a “permanent underclass” of stateless people denied basic protections.
The appeals court denied the administration’s request for an emergency appeal
Hamas terrorists created a deranged public spectacle to mark the release of the bodies of four slain Israelis, including Shiri Bibas and her two young children Ariel and Kfir, in the first transfer of dead hostages since the cease-fire deal with Hamas went into effect last month.
Hamas handed over the bodies of the three Bibas family members and Oded Lifshitz, a retired journalist, on Thursday. An Israeli forensics team must still confirm the identities of the four dead hostages, which could take up to 48 hours.
Wolves roamed Colorado for millions of years. At the end of the last ice age, they managed to survive the mass extinctions of megafauna such as mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth tigers, giant cave bears, and huge sloths, an extinction event that was probably caused in part by the arrival of humans from Asia at about the same time.
Until the much later arrival of Europeans, those early Americans were living in the stone age. Their weapons were stone-tipped spears and arrows. They didn’t even have horses. But they hunted in a way that was deadly to large herding animals and the predators of the herds: They used fire.
In our lifetimes, we’ve never seen anything like what we are witnessing at 1400 Pennsylvania Ave., as the Trump administration sets the town ablaze with rapid-fire executive orders, mass firings, and DOGE investigations. The White House is “flooding the zone” with an unprecedented sense of purpose and urgency.
But a mile-and-a-half east on Pennsylvania Avenue, Republican lawmakers act like it’s just another day at the office at the U.S. Capitol – an attitude that could end up dooming Trump’s presidency.
So far, Congress has passed one bill. And it can’t seem to get its act together on the make-or-break “reconciliation” bill
Dr. Deborah Birx is trying to save herself, isn’t she? She told Piers Morgan everything our lovely Leslie Eastman said from the beginning of COVID and about the vaccine:
Meant for the immunocompromised and elderly
Nothing like childhood vaccines
Young and healthy people didn’t need it
Wasn’t designed to prevent infection.
I’m immunocompromised with rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren’s syndrome. I refuse to get the COVID vaccine. I still get the flu and pneumonia vaccine, though. The one time I forgot to update my pneumonia shot I got it. I had pneumonia in December 2019, and I wanted to die. COVID? I just slept a lot.
I felt worse with the flu and, of course, pneumonia…
For years, my organization has been battling against a liberal attempt to transform Minnesota’s public schools from educational institutions into far-left indoctrination centers. You might think you understand how evil the Left’s assault on education is, but that is unlikely. It is worse than you probably can imagine.
In 2023, Minnesota’s then-Democratic legislature passed a law that requires every class in every K-12 public school to incorporate “Ethnic Studies” in its curriculum. So if you are a 10th grade geometry teacher, you have to figure out a way to work race into the Pythagorean Theorem. Some schools are already starting to implement this directive. What is the result?
Kids are being taught
By now, most Americans have probably heard of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Spearheaded by Elon Musk, the watchdog group has been instrumental in identifying the institutional waste plaguing America’s vast and unaccountable federal bureaucracy.
While DOGE has received much-deserved attention for its invaluable work, widespread bureaucratic waste is hardly an issue exclusive to the federal government. Across America’s 50 state governments, taxpayer money is similarly being used to subsidize profligate spending projects and feckless unelected bureaucrats whose interests often run counter to those of voters — even in states run by Republicans.
Trump Executive Order Wipes Out 90 Years
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President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that affirmatively pulled all the "independent" boards, commissions, and agencies that have proliferated since the Roosevelt administration under the management of the White House. The order, titled Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies – The White House, states, "For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President."
Though it’s been just a month since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump is making his presence felt at home and abroad, from the Department of Government Efficiency to tariffs to setting the stage to negotiate the end of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Republican Reps. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Andy Harris of Maryland, and others experienced just how Trump is shaking things up across Europe as they attended the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London this week.
“What’s loud and clear to me is that Europeans aren’t happy,” Norman said. “The people aren’t happy; the leaders are.”
President Donald Trump calls tariff "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." This refutes the orthodoxy of unilateral free trade championed for hundreds of years beginning with the 1776 "Wealth of Nations" author Adam Smith, widely known as the father of modern economics. But economist Donald J. Boudreaux of the American Institute for Economic Research and former economics department chair at George Mason University writes Smith offered four exceptions to the principle of unilateral free trade: "These exceptions are, in the order in which Smith took them up, protective tariffs for purposes of -
Just as Elon Musk’s DOGE team is pulling back the curtain on the insane grift in our government, Congressman James Comer is doing the same on the secret foreign schemes that helped turn Joe Biden into a millionaire.
On Sunday, February 23, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, please join us in the Breitbart Fight Club for a VIP online roundtable discussion with sitting congressman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) as he and renowned Biden investigators Peter Schweizer and Alex Marlow dissect Biden’s under-the-table financial maneuvers, anti-American deals, and the mounting evidence that could finally hold him accountable—even possibly behind bars.
After President Donald Trump was elected, we published a semi-whimsical list of what would be “out” and “in” after his victory as the left instantly switched gears (“What’s In And What’s Out After Trump’s Stunning Victory”). On that list:
Out: The economy is doing great!
In: Why hasn’t Trump fixed the economy yet??
Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries proved us right.
“Donald Trump and Republicans consistently promised that they were going to lower the high cost of living, and they’ve done the exact opposite,” Jeffries said. “They’ve shown no interest in lowering costs in the United States of America, which are too high.”
No Substitute for Victory
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In his 1951 farewell address to Congress and the American public (known as the "old soldiers never die, they just fade away" speech), Army General Douglas MacArthur said something the Trump administration should recall as it seeks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine: "... once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory."
Elon Musk's DOGE group recovered $2 billion from a Georgia non-profit coalition that included one entity headed by Stacey Abrams, the perennial losing candidate for something. The grant was part of a $27 billion giveaway through Biden's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This fund achieved some notoriety in recent days when EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the DOGE team had discovered $20 billion "parked" in various non-profits; see EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds the $20 Billion 'Gold Bars' the Biden Administration Tried to Jettison .
On Tuesday, Elon Musk responded to a proposal from James Fishback, CEO of Azoria, regarding a unique idea: the “DOGE Dividend.” This initiative aims to issue a $5,000 tax refund check to approximately 79 million American families, funded by a projected total savings of $2 trillion from DOGE. Fishback emphasizes that this dividend would not only compensate taxpayers for the misuse of their dollars but also help restore trust in government accountability.Fishback’s argument is compelling: the DOGE Dividend represents a social contract between taxpayers and their government, a much-needed refund given the egregious waste uncovered. As Fishback puts it,
Should the Senate confirm Kash Patel as FBI director, it will have clinched the second of perhaps the two most vital nominations President Donald Trump will make, alongside Tulsi Gabbard. These are the two individuals after Trump with the near-singular ability to prevent us from devolving into a total police state of the kind that has already targeted them.
President Trump was elected in no small part as a rebuke to a national security apparatus and intelligence agencies that have been weaponized and politicized against dissenters from ruling-class orthodoxy. From Russiagate and the fostering of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, to the first Trump impeachment and the Jan. 6 inquisition,
Trump warns Zelenskyy to quickly negotiate
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Miami— President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he “better move fast” to negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or risk not having a nation to lead.
The rhetoric from Trump toward Ukraine comes amid an escalating back-and-forth between the two presidents and rising tensions between Washington and much of Europe over Trump’s approach to settling the biggest conflict on the continent since World War II.
Trump’s harsh words for Zelenskyy drew criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans in the United States, where Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression has had bipartisan support. Zelenskyy said Trump was falling into a Russian disinformation trap —
A former NFL punter was dragged out of a city council meeting in California by police while claiming that supporting President Donald Trump is “explicitly a Nazi movement.”
Former Minnesota Viking and UCLA Bruin Chris Kluwe flipped out about the president during Tuesday’s Huntington Beach city council meeting.
Kluwe was protesting a MAGA plaque installed near the local library.
“I’m gonna take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks,” Kluwe said.
The former football player continued, “MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans.
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The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “ wokeness.”
In a memo Friday, the Education Department gave an ultimatum to stop using “racial preferences” as a factor in admissions, financial aid, hiring or other areas. Schools are being given 14 days to end any practice that treats students or workers differently because of their race. (snip)Practices that have long been commonplace could become legal liabilities, including recruiting in underrepresented areas or buying lists of potential students with certain academic and demographic information,
Two students were arrested on Wednesday for planning a “mass casualty” attack against Memorial High School.
Authorities arrested two minor teen students who were in the planning stages of the attack.
“FBI Houston received information yesterday that two underage teenagers from the Houston area were plotting a mass casualty attack at a local school. Our Threat Mitigation Team immediately responded to help Houston Police and @MCTXSheriff identify and arrest them,” FBI Houston said. (X) No other details were released.
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President Donald Trump suggested that the federal government “should take over Washington, D.C.” and govern it, citing how there was “too much crime, too much graffiti” and too many homeless encampments, according to several reports.
Jake Sherman, the founder of Punchbowl News shared words that Trump had told reporters while on Air Force One, citing Tarini Parti, a White House reporter with the Wall Street Journal as a source. “I think that we should govern the District of Columbia … I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it absolutely flawless,” Trump was reported as having said, according to the press pool.
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night barring illegal immigrants from receiving federally-funded benefits.
“My Administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans,” read the text of Trump’s order.
The president noted that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) ostensibly prohibits illegal immigrants from obtaining most taxpayer-funded benefits, but he argued that in the decades since its passage “numerous administrations have acted to undermine the principles and limitations directed by the Congress.”
The people of Los Angeles really need to fire Mayor Karen Bass.
As it is now widely known, Mayor Bass was traveling in Africa when the incredibly destructive fires broke out in the city weeks ago. When she finally made it back to LA, she was questioned by a reporter and stood there silently, unable or unwilling to explain herself.
Now, weeks later, she has done a TV interview where she explained that she is launching an investigation into why she was allowed to go on her Africa trip when people knew there was a possibility of fires.
Is this the most absurd thing you have ever heard? Is it close?
Aside from praying for their personal safety, our most fervent prayer here at Canada Free Press is that President Donald J. Trump, and DOGE leader Elon Musk, in their ongoing fight against censorship will see proof that above all others, Google is the King of Internet Censorship. As proof of the existential danger Google is to ALL Conservative and Christian news sites, simply Google a topic you want to research. Guaranteed you won’t find any of your favorite news sites if they happen to be conservative—but only ‘Fake News’ sites like CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico and other left-leaning sites on mighty Google’s first page.
President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk emphasized the role of "full transparency" in efforts to root out waste, fraud and abuse in an exclusive interview on "Hannity." [Snip] "If we don't solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care, there won't be money for Social Security," Musk said...there's no nothing. It's got to be solved. It's not optional. America will go bankrupt if this is not done...if the ship of America sinks, we're all going down with it...If the central pillar of Western civilization, that is America, falls, the whole roof comes crashing down, and there is no escape," he stressed.
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Even as the investigation continues into the terrifying crash that happened Monday involving a Delta jet at Toronto's Pearson Airport, Democrats and the mainstream media think they've already found the culprits: President Donald Trump and the Elon Musk-led Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
As we reported earlier, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in particular has been doubling and tripling down on his (false) claims that the "cuts" that have been made in FAA staffing led to the Monday incident in which the plane landed awkwardly in bad weather, lost one of its wings, and rolled to an upside down position.
Democrats Are Out of Ammo
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At a time when the Trump administration is taking actions of world-historical importance, America’s Democrats are launching the lamest attacks imaginable.
Thus, soon after President Trump’s inauguration a memo evidently went out to Democrats in the press to blame the president for the high price of eggs. It started in January, when average prices for December–prior to Trump’s inauguration!–were reported. And it has continued non-stop. The reason for the high price of eggs is obvious: supply and demand, driven by the loss of huge numbers of chickens due to avian flu. And pretty much all of the increase
President Donald Trump is posting strong approval ratings four weeks into his administration, according to several polls released Tuesday and Wednesday.
An Economist-YouGov poll published on Wednesday shows that Trump has a plus five percent net rating among 1,603 U.S. adults. Of the respondents, 50 percent approve of Trump’s performance thus far, including 32 percent who “strongly approve.” Conversely, 45 percent of respondents disapprove of his performance, while five percent do not have an opinion. Of the overall sample, 37 percent “strongly disapprove” of Trump.
Half of the 1,451 registered voters included in the sample said Trump has their approval, while 47 percent said the opposite.
Zeldin EPA discovers $2 billion stashed
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently discovered that the Biden administration awarded $2 billion to a climate group with ties to former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams – a fierce supporter of former President Joe Biden.
The money was earmarked for Power Forward Communities – a nonprofit partnered with multiple left-wing groups founded by Abrams and which the Georgia Democrat has stated she was “thrilled” to be part of, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday.
The funds were set aside at an outside financial institution – Citibank – before Biden left office and part of a larger, $20 billion pot of money the former president’s EPA received
The Kennedy Center has canceled an upcoming LGBTQIA+ Pride performance by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW), shortly after President Donald Trump took the reins as chairman of the venue’s board.
The GMCW, a 250-member singing group of gay men that has performed for the Bidens, Clintons, and Obamas, announced that they are “deeply disappointed” with the Kennedy Center’s decision in a Tuesday night Facebook post:“We are deeply disappointed with the news that our upcoming Pride performance with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) has been canceled. The piece was intended to be a part of the Kennedy Center’s Pride celebration and we were very excited to be collaborating