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It's not widely known, but over HALF of
Columba University's enrollment is now
foreign students
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Posted by snakeoil 3/12/2025 10:50:48 PM Post Reply
It's not widely known, but over HALF of Columba University's enrollment is now foreign students. Some of them are people like Mahmoud Khalil, who spent all his time agitating in support of Hamas terrorists. But if you dig deeper, the true story is even more appalling: Columbia is using the prestige of its elite undergraduate school to bring in thousands of mediocre foreigners who want a Columbia degree in computer science, engineering, or a similar field. Columbia admits them because they pay full-freight tuition, boosting their bottom line while glutting the American job market and lowering wages for STEM workers.
Bill Gates Cuts Staff at His Climate Change
Lobbying Group
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 10:39:40 PM Post Reply
Bill Gates funds a climate change policy group called Breakthrough Energy aimed at reducing carbon emissions. The group seems to combine investments in clean energy tech as well as lobbying for public policy. This pitch for the group was posted four years ago. But as of today, Gates appears to be pulling back pretty dramatically on this one-stop climate shop. He is cutting staff here and abroad. Dozens of staff members were cut, including Breakthrough Energy’s unit in Europe, its team in the United States working on public policy issues and most of its employees working on partnerships with other climate organizations, according to three people
Listen to leaked audio of DEI
activist SHARING air traffic controller
exam answers with minority candidates
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Posted by zephyrgirl 3/12/2025 10:35:57 PM Post Reply
A top 'DEI' activist is caught on voicemail allegedly offering minority air traffic controller candidates the chance to cheat in a make-or-break entry exam. Shelton Snow, a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard promising advance access to test answers in a shocking audio clip obtained by DailyMail.com. 'There are some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot of and I am going to send that to you via email,' says Snow, an air traffic operations supervisor based out of New York.
Thune Calls Senate Democrats’ Bluff,
Moves Forward on Trump-Backed, House-Passed
Funding Plan
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 10:35:35 PM Post Reply
Senate Democrats are dancing with the devil in the sinister form of a Schumer shutdown. Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) announced Wednesday afternoon following a lunch with his Democrat caucus that he would reject a House-passed government plan to keep the government funded past the Friday deadline through the end of the fiscal year, September 30. “Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
It Seems the Schumer Shutdown Is Coming replies
Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 9:41:26 PM Post Reply
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is, to put it as politely as possible, a real piece of... work. He's never seen a tax he wasn't in favor of; he defines "bipartisanship" as "Republicans do what I tell them to, and nothing more," and now he's about to shut the government down, or at least give it his best old college try. Because shutting the government down is only bad when Republicans do it. Sen. Schumer spoke (and, yes, I listened to him, so you don't have to) on the Senate floor on Wednesday about the House passing the CR: Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But
James Carville: The Trump Administration
Is in ‘Total Meltdown’
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 9:36:04 PM Post Reply
Democratic strategist James Carville declared Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story” that the Trump administration was “in total meltdown.” Carville said, “Total meltdown!’ Carville said, “I think people are afraid to death. They see markets collapsing! They see people calling Mark Kelly a traitor. They see disorder everywhere. You know, Trump was going to bring the price of eggs down from day one.” He continued, “We can’t call the Enola Gay, the Enola Gay. I mean, what’s coming out of Washington would scare the living bejesus out of anybody, independent, Republican or Democrat. This administration is in total meltdown, in total collapse.”
Trump is deworming Washington — now
to keep the parasites out for good
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 9:25:39 PM Post Reply
Washington, DC, is riddled with parasites sucking the life out of our nation. Time for a thorough deworming. Jonathan Rauch, in a book by the same name, called it “demosclerosis.” Mancur Olson, in his classic “The Rise and Decline of Nations,” called it a “web of special interests.” I call it the “parasite class.” All refer to a collection of bureaucrats, lobbyists, contractors, nonprofits, non-governmental organizations and connected unions and corporations that have increasingly run our federal government for their own benefit, fattening themselves with the help of diverted taxpayer dollars. I confess that until recently, I assumed nothing could be done about these problems until an unmistakable financial collapse took place
Here are the five radical leftist groups
protesting Elon Musk – one of which
received $7.6M from George Soros
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 8:08:44 PM Post Reply
George Soros gave $7.6 million to one of five groups accused of targeting Elon Musk’s Tesla company, The Post has learned. Tesla cars, Cybertrucks, dealerships and charging stations have been set on fire, shot at and sprayed with graffiti across the nation in acts of politically charged vandalism since Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency started making government cuts. While the motives behind individual attacks vary, Musk has identified certain groups who organized protests against him and his company. “An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,” he said in a recent X post.
Census Shows Joe Biden Inflated Foreign
Population to Record 15.8% of U.S. with
8.3M People in 4 Years
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 7:56:00 PM Post Reply
The federal government’s latest data showed that President Joe Biden’s deputies exploded the foreign-born share of the United States by at least 8.3 million, up to a record 15.8 percent, or one in six people. “The January 2025 household survey is the first government survey to be adjusted based on a new methodology developed by the Census Bureau to better estimate migration,” said Steven Camarota, the chief researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). “The January data shows the foreign-born grew an unprecedented 8.3 million in the last four years,” he said.
Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Promotes Fundraiser
For Pro-Hamas Activist in ICE Custody
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 7:33:19 PM Post Reply
Isra Hirsi, the daughter of "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), championed a fundraiser supporting Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national facing deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Hamas campus organizing. The online fundraiser was launched after ICE took Khalil into custody Saturday night after the State Department revoked his visa and green card. By Wednesday afternoon, the fundraiser had raised nearly $270,000, surpassing its $250,000 goal and prompting administrators to set a new target of $500,000.
Chief Justice Roberts isn’t your hired gun replies
Posted by Big Bopper 3/12/2025 7:23:23 PM Post Reply
The Republican-appointed Justices on the Supreme Court are now six of the nine. Unsurprisingly, the ideological tilt of the Court is more conservative than it’s been in two or three generations. It shows. Last year, the Court took the conservative side in reducing deference to administrative agencies; deciding expansively in favor of presidential immunity (which of course benefits both liberal presidents and conservative ones, but the particular case that was decided benefited a conservative one, namely Donald Trump);
Disturbing: DEI Activist Caught on Voicemail
Allegedly Helping Minorities Cheat on
Air Traffic Control Exams, Potentially
Endangering Millions of Lives
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 7:02:15 PM Post Reply
Shocking audio has emerged revealing how a radical DEI activist allegedly tried to help minority candidates cheat on an entrance exam and put lives in danger in the process. The Daily Mail on Wednesday reported that Shelton Snow, a key figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), vowing to tell the minorities advance answers to the entry exam. “There are some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot of, and I am going to send that to you via email,” he told the candidates. “I’m gonna send it to each of you, and as you progress through the stages, refer to those images
Here's the Latest Sign That the Woke 'Snow
White' Reboot Will Be a $300 Million Flop
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/12/2025 5:52:00 PM Post Reply
Walt Disney studio chiefs might be feeling their own brand of flop sweat, as one indicator after another piles up that that company's $300 million bet on a live-action "Snow White" is going down faster than the Titanic if the iceberg had been armed with torpedoes and antiship missiles. The Mouse House "won’t be rolling out a robust red carpet like it usually does" for a big-budget premiere next week, Variety reported Tuesday. Instead of a parade of movie stars and celebrities vying for attention on the red carpet and all the attendant big media names, the "Snow White" premiere
Our Constitutional Rights and Freedoms
Trump Manners and Civility
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Posted by Harlowe 3/12/2025 4:59:30 PM Post Reply
Long before Donald Trump berated Ukrainian president Volodymir Zelenskyy, the president has been criticized for his lack of decorum, manners, politesse, and political “norms.” [Snip] But complaints about manners and proper behavior generally reflect the mores and sensibilities of privileged elites...all policed by professional and political guilds. ...tools for silencing rival factions’ free speech rights... [Snip] We’ve seen this dynamic for over a decade... [Snip] ...in the case of Trump, ...subjectivity and hurt feelings are not as important as good policy predicated on the Constitution and its central purpose--to protect our political freedom and equality, the two major bulwarks against tyranny.
Democrat Prospects for 2026 Have Taken
a Very Dark Turn
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 4:53:43 PM Post Reply
Midterms are rarely kind to the party in power, and that's given the Democratic Party new hope as we approach another election season in 2026. But a slew of largely unexpected retirements in the Senate has breathed new life into Republican prospects of not just keeping the chamber, but expanding its majority. As RedState reported, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) announced on Wednesday morning that she will not be seeking reelection. Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) recently made the same announcement. At least two of those three seats lean Democrat according to prognosticators like Cook Political, and you could argue Michigan
Even CNN Has to Admit Good News on Economy
With Latest Inflation Numbers
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 4:50:40 PM Post Reply
Democrats have been trying to whip up anger against President Donald Trump over the economy. That's a pretty hypocritical move — given that Trump was left with a huge mess in that department left by Joe Biden, and the Democrats were not speaking out against Biden when he was driving inflation up. It wasn't a particularly successful narrative for anyone who has been alive for the past five years. I've also been writing about how things have been turning around under Trump. As we reported, eggs have now dropped about $1.85 a dozen in trading prices, as the Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins explained.
Michael Mann Sanctioned for False Testimony,
Bad Faith
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 4:47:14 PM Post Reply
My wife and I attended several days in court, near the end of the Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg trial in Washington, D.C. We witnessed a dramatic moment, when Mann’s lawyers had introduced into evidence a document, which was blown up for the jury and about which Mann testified, that contained a list of grants that Mann allegedly didn’t get as a result of the defendants’ purported defamation. The value of one of those grants, per the exhibit, was $9 million. On cross-examination by Simberg’s lawyer, Victoria Weatherford*, it turned out that the exhibit reflected sworn interrogatory answers that had been served by Mann, but later superseded
Don’t get panicked by the dramatic stock
market drops
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 4:38:32 PM Post Reply
Leftists are celebrating the drop in the stock market over the past few business days because they hope that a recession brings down Trump’s presidency. Conservatives who wish Trump well have the same view of the stock market risk, although they’re worried, not celebratory. I think the conservatives can stop worrying and the leftists can stop celebrating. I happen to be one of those who believes that the stock market was seriously overvalued because, as happened during the Obama years, the Biden government was printing money like crazy and was churning out policies antithetical to innovation and creation.
Trump buries Bidenflation replies
Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 4:36:19 PM Post Reply
Two months in office and sure enough, President Trump's economy today is starting to look a lot like President Trump's economy four years ago. According to U.S. News & World Report: Consumer prices rose 0.2% in February, or 2.8% annually, coming in below the forecasts of economists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. Although housing costs rose, accounting for nearly half of the overall increase in the consumer price index, the cost of gasoline dropped 1% while the price of air fares fell 4%. Food prices continued their upward trend, with the cost of eating out rising 0.4% in the month, while the grocery index was unchanged. The core index that strips
Left-Wing Punished in Surprise Greenland
Election Result, Next Govt May Be More Trump-Friendly
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 4:30:13 PM Post Reply
Dramatic and unexpected election results in Greenland saw long-governing legacy parties kicked out of power and more right-wing, pro-American politicians set to dominate parliament for the first time. The provisional results for the Greenlandic elections held on Tuesday show a historic result not forecast by pollsters, with the longstanding political establishment parties punished and relegated to third and fourth positions, respectively. The election comes amid intense discussion of Greenland’s potential independence domestically and global attention over U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated overtures to the country to become part of the United States. As things stand, Greenland is now a region of its former colonial master Denmark
More Stunning Numbers Come Out From DHS,
ICE, Further Humiliating Biden and His
Border 'Misinformation'
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 4:17:06 PM Post Reply
We all knew that under Joe Biden, the southern border was a disaster, with millions of illegal aliens being welcomed in by a feckless administration that did little to nothing to stop them. Sex trafficking was rampant, as were endless humanitarian crises and suffering. Meanwhile, the front pages of the news had story after story of murders and crimes committed by criminals who never should have been here in the first place. Biden kept saying we need a new congressional bill to solve it, but since Trump's inauguration in January, he has exposed that lie over and over and has dramatically stemmed the flow to a trickle. Meanwhile his team
Musk is right about entitlements, but
the media are lying about what he said
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 4:09:23 PM Post Reply
The cast of Republicans in the crosshairs of progressives may cycle through the years, but from Paul Ryan to Elon Musk, the attacks from Democrats and their allies in the media remain the same. Just as Tea Party Republicans faced left-wing fury over daring to tell the truth over a decade ago, the Tesla tycoon-turned-DOGE master has started another prime-time contretemps for pointing out that the single greatest chunk of waste to cut from federal spending is likely contained in its single largest category of overall spending: the entitlements of Social Security and Medicare. Do not merely trust the reporting about Musk’s interview with Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow —
SpaceX launch: Mission set to retrieve
astronauts stranded on ISS
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 4:01:33 PM Post Reply
Space X is scheduled to launch its Crew-10 mission craft on Wednesday at 8 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to retrieve two astronauts who’ve been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months. NASA said the exact return date is unclear but could be as soon as March 16. Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams departed in Boeing’s Starliner capsule in June 2024 for what was supposed to be an eight-day stay at the ISS. However, a malfunction in the spacecraft during takeoff deemed it too risky for the astronauts to return. The Boeing Starliner returned to Earth without its crew in September 2024.
Old Joe's Fake Oval Office — and Its
Fake News Apologists — Exposed
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 3:56:42 PM Post Reply
Joe Biden's stage set is to the Oval Office what Dylan Mulvaney is to women: completely fake. We know that now, but there was a time when the media said all claims that Joe Biden was working from a virtual or fake Oval Office were considered to be "fake news." Now, with Trump White House adviser Alina Habba personally finding the fake Oval Office set and showing it to the public in a video, people are discovering the story all over again. From January through September 2021, Joe Biden's water carriers in the media went out of their way to "debunk" the claims that he was doing appearances from a phony
Border czar Tom Homan says ICE agents
will flood NY if Hochul doesn’t cooperate
on federal immigration crackdown
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 3:51:15 PM Post Reply
Border czar Tom Homan on Wednesday warned that the feds could flood New York state with agents if Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn’t cooperate on immigration crackdowns — all while praising Mayor Eric Adams for his work with the administration. Homan, standing alongside Albany Republicans in the state Capitol, warned Hochul and state Democrats against defending sanctuary city policies. “Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want: more ICE agents in your community,” he said. “We’ll double the man-force if we have to. Rather than one officer arresting a bad guy, now I have to send a whole team.”
Just In: Kash Patel’s FBI Charges High-Ranking
CBP Official in FEMA Fraud Scheme Scandal
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 3:39:57 PM Post Reply
Kash Patel took to X on Wednesday to announce a major breakthrough in the fight against public corruption. “Following efforts with our interagency partners, I can report that a career Director level employee at US Customs and Border Protection has been charged with allegedly attempting to defraud FEMA, as well as lying to federal agents,” Patel wrote. He continued, “This is part of the new FBI’s renewed efforts to crack down on public corruption and deliver accountability for the American people. Justice will be done.” A career Director-level employee at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been slapped with federal charges for allegedly scamming the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and lying
EPA announces ‘endangerment finding’ reconsideration replies
Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 3:25:35 PM Post Reply
EPA will reconsider its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday, along with dozens of other regulatory rollbacks. The reconsideration comes after Zeldin encouraged the White House to revisit the “endangerment finding.” That finding underpins EPA climate rules, and unraveling it would have broad implications for rules aimed at clamping down on greenhouse gas emissions. A move to unravel the finding is certain to face lawsuits, and some legal experts contend the Trump administration would have a tough time defending that action in court. Zeldin announced the reconsideration Wednesday as part of what he called “the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history.”
Does Congress Need to Impeach Judges to
Make Them Behave?
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Posted by Christopher L 3/12/2025 3:20:08 PM Post Reply
Members of Congress are currently filing resolutions to impeach federal judges who are blocking the work of the Trump administration. But what does the Constitution actually say about how long a federal judge may serve on the bench? ART III, Section 1 states, “The Judges, both of the supreme & inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior…” It does not say that the judges will hold their offices until they resign, die, or commit “a high crime or misdemeanor.” just while their “behavior” is good.
'Hysteria': White House shuts down concerns
over USAID document purge
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Posted by Harlowe 3/12/2025 1:18:49 PM Post Reply
The White House dismissed concerns that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is instructing employees to destroy classified documents amid efforts by the Trump administration to shutter the agency. [Snip] But the documents remain available on computer systems--and the order comes as U.S. Customs and Border Protection is poised to move into the USAID building,... [Snip] Everyone involved in the process of eliminating the documents had a secret security clearance or higher, and were not among those placed on administrative leave,...those involved were familiar with the content they were handling and were specifically appointed by the agency to review and conduct the purge,...
AOC Advances Trump's Campaign Pledge to
Cap Credit Card Rates at 10% Under New Law
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Posted by MaximusP 3/12/2025 1:14:35 PM Post Reply
US Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, and Anna Paulina Luna introduced a bill late last week to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. The H.R. 1944 bill aligns with US President Donald Trump's campaign pledge to cap credit card rates at 10%. 'We're making that pledge more than a talking point by introducing legislation to protect working people from remaining trapped under mountains of debt,' Ocasio-Cortez said in a press release
US toughens visitor registration rules
for Canadians
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 11:58:28 AM Post Reply
The United States is cracking down on long-term visits from Canadians by now requiring visitors in the U.S. longer than 30 days to register with the government. Those who are over the age of 14 will also need to apply for fingerprinting with authorities, according to the mandate uploaded Wednesday to the Federal Register. It firms up an existing law from which Canadians had typically been eThe move comes as Canada, Mexico and the U.S. remain entangled in a trade war spurred by President Trump’s new levies on imports from both foreign countries.xempt.
US Senator Warren demands Medicare nominee
Dr. Oz sever industry ties
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 11:54:26 AM Post Reply
President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the agency overseeing Medicare should divest financial ties to healthcare and pharmaceutical companies that could benefit from his policy decisions, Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Wednesday. Television personality and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz is scheduled to appear on Friday before the Senate Finance Committee, on which Warren sits. The panel will hold a confirmation hearing for his nomination to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a wide-reaching agency with annual spending of $2.6 trillion. In a letter addressed to him seen by Reuters, Warren called on Oz to divest from his financial holdings related to industries regulated by the agency
Longtime Senate Democrat Announces She
Will Not Seek Reelection
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 11:37:07 AM Post Reply
New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen announced she will not seek reelection in a video posted to social media Wednesday morning. The announcement from the 78 year-old senator came after the New Hampshire Democrat faced intense speculation about whether she would retire instead of seeking a fourth term. Shaheen’s retirement announcement will likely put the open seat in play for Senate Republicans during the 2026 midterms. Shaheen becomes the third Democratic incumbent representing a competitive state to not seek reelection in 2026.
HUD Secretary Scott Turner Rejects Asheville’s
$225M Disaster Relief Request After Shocking
DEI Clause Exposed
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 3/12/2025 11:34:30 AM Post Reply
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner has decisively rejected Asheville, North Carolina’s outrageous $225 million disaster relief request. The reason? A jaw-dropping Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) clause buried deep in the city’s draft action plan—a clause that prioritizes woke ideology over the urgent needs of everyday Americans still reeling from Hurricane Helene’s devastation six months ago. In an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, Secretary Turner condemned the city’s initial draft action plan for prioritizing assistance based on race and gender identity rather than need. “This draft action plan that the city of Asheville presented at first has elements of DEI, and that is not acceptable to HUD,”
USAID Employees Told to Destroy Documents,
Shred and Burn Everything
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Posted by earlybird 3/12/2025 10:40:01 AM Post Reply
If USAID was the charitable wing of the U.S. State Dept., why would the remaining senior leadership be instructing all employees to urgently start destroying all records? The answer is easy, the charity mission of USAID was a front for the real operational mission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). USAID has always been a CIA operation within the U.S. State Department silo. The documents they are now being told to shred and burn with urgency are the CIA operational details of how USAID manipulated foreign governments and CIA assets. This is one big coverup operation.
Eagles to Celebrate Super Bowl Win at
the White House on April 28
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 10:39:38 AM Post Reply
A mere seven years after President Trump withdrew a White House invite when it became clear that only ten Eagles players planned to attend, the Eagles have agreed to a specific date to celebrate their Super Bowl win with President Trump. The date for the festivities will be April 28. If that date sounds dangerously close to draft time, that’s because it is. The NFL Draft will take place on April 24 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. However, the draft will conclude on Saturday, April 26, giving the Eagles a couple of days to collect themselves and get back to Washington, D.C. One interesting thing
Trump Administration Cuts Funding to Maine
Universities After State Defies Trans Ban
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 10:35:23 AM Post Reply
The Trump administration has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to pause federal funds to the University of Maine System (UMS) over the state’s refusal to protect women’s sports. The UMS holds a network of eight public colleges in Maine—the state’s “largest educational enterprise,” according to the UMS website, with an annual enrollment of nearly 30,000 students. As Breitbart News reported last month, the president signed an executive order to “re-write federal Title IX education rules to withhold federal funds from schools that allow transgender athletes to play as females.”
NASA spent $20M in Biden DEI push that
brought ‘anti-racist’ trainings to
agency: report
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Posted by Ida Lou Pino 3/12/2025 10:34:39 AM Post Reply
NASA forked over more than $20 million in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) grants and contracts during the Biden administration, shelling out for “implicit bias” trainings, talks with so-called “anti-racist” authors, “gender-affirming” workplace guidelines and an aggressive, left-wing media presence. Prodded by executive action from former President Joe Biden, NASA officials also implemented a strategic plan to suffuse all agency operations with DEI, altering criteria for recruitment, performance evaluations and promotions. The taxpayer-watchdog group Open The Books revealed the politicization of the space agency in a report published Wednesday, which shares a trove of documents obtained from various public records requests.
Internal Democrat Polling Shows Party
in Complete Brand Collapse
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 10:32:33 AM Post Reply
Democrats are in deep, deep trouble, according to their own internal polling. Politico’s Elena Schneider, revealing the Democrat numbers, wrote on Tuesday that the Democrat brand is in the gutter. “The Democratic Party’s brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds,” Schneider wrote. “Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are ‘more focused on helping other people than people like me,’ according to an internal poll conducted by the Democrat group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them,
European Union Enacts Retaliatory Tariffs
as Trump Trade War Escalates: ‘We Deeply
Regret This’
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Posted by Dreadnought 3/12/2025 10:16:54 AM Post Reply
The European Union is enacting retaliatory tariffs against various U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump’s 25 percent steel and aluminum tariffs that went into effect Wednesday. The EU tariffs will impact up to $28 billion of U.S. exports once they are implemented next month in two phases beginning April 1 and April 13. U.S. goods that will be impacted by the tariffs include steel and aluminum products, textiles, bourbon, motorcycles, and numerous agricultural products.
Inflation cools in first full month of
Trump term
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/12/2025 9:25:21 AM Post Reply
Consumer prices rose 2.8% in February compared to a year ago, easing slightly over the first full month under President Donald Trump and offering welcome news for markets roiled by a global trade war. Inflation cooled more than economists expected. Price increases slowed from a 3% inflation rate recorded in January, though inflation remain nearly a percentage point higher than the Federal Reserve's target of 2%. Egg prices, a closely watched symbol of price increases, soared 58.8% in February compared to a year ago, accelerating from the previous month. Bird flu has decimated the egg supply, lifting prices higher. The
Amazon forest felled to build road for
climate summit
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Posted by snakeoil 3/12/2025 7:28:12 AM Post Reply
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November. The state government touts the highway's "sustainable" credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact. The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit.
How a Black Movement About Freedom Became
a Movement About Welfare
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Posted by FlyRight 3/12/2025 3:23:43 AM Post Reply
The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump's address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Al Green, shook his cane and shouted at the president. When he refused to desist, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered him removed from the chamber. Two days later, in a bipartisan vote, the House censured Green. The Congressional Black Caucus stood in firm support of Green's actions and, in their own move to disrupt, CBC members sang "We Shall Overcome," an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, as Johnson read the censure on the House floor. When they refused to stop disrupting, the Speaker gaveled the session to recess.
Republicans’ Spending Addiction Fuels
Latest Proposed Raid On Medicare
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Posted by 4250Luis 3/12/2025 3:16:24 AM Post Reply
Even as the Trump administration focuses on making government efficient in ways it has not been in decades, lawmakers still can’t stop their spending habits. That’s the unfortunate takeaway from spending legislation House Republican leaders released over the weekend. The legislation may pass with Republican votes and President Trump’s support. It represents a better fiscal vision than a bill crafted with more Democrat input. But when “better” in this case equates to “slightly less irresponsible,” it speaks to the chasm between Congress’s spendaholic ways and fiscal reality.
Trump Slashes ALL South Africa Aid, Cites
Anti-White Government Policy
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Posted by 4250Luis 3/12/2025 3:13:51 AM Post Reply
The communists who’ve run South Africa into the dirt since the end of apartheid — increasingly brazen in their genocidal anti-white rhetoric and deeds — may have not expected any real pushback on their illiberal racism. And why wouldn’t they expect immunity? They had gotten away with it for decades under all previous U.S. presidents, even while they touted the “international rules-based order” that is neoliberalism. (As a side note, you can always tell that Trump's writing his own communications, whether on Truth Social or elsewhere, by his telltale use of random ALL CAPS and random capitalization of the first letter of non-proper nouns in the middle of sentences.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon says
mass layoffs are ‘first step’ toward
eliminating agency: ‘We’re not taking
away education’
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Posted by Mercedes44 3/12/2025 3:08:51 AM Post Reply
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said massive layoffs Tuesday were the “first step” toward accomplishing President Trump’s goal of eliminating the agency — and insisted the cuts won’t affect educational programs. McMahon, during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, was asked if the termination of nearly half of the department’s 4,000-person workforce was part of a broader plan aimed at a “total shutdown” of the federal agency. “Yes – actually, it is,” the 76-year-old responded. “That was the president’s mandate,” McMahon added. “His directive to me clearly is to shut down the Department of Education.”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford apologizes to
Americans amid tariff war: ‘I love the
American people’
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Posted by Mercedes44 3/12/2025 3:06:24 AM Post Reply
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is now apologizing to the American people for the fallout from the ongoing trade negotiations between Canada and the United States — and calling for an end to the “chaos” to save “millions of jobs.” Ford made assurances that a trade deal would be settled between the two North American nations prior to the Apr. 2 deadline during an interview on WABC’s “Cats and Cosby” — and added a very Canadian “sorry, eh,” directed toward US citizens. “I want to apologize to the American people. I spent 20 years of my life in the US, in New Jersey, in Chicago.
Demokraatit wins Greenland parliamentary election replies
Posted by Moritz55 3/12/2025 1:37:54 AM Post Reply
With the majority of votes counted, the opposition Demokraatit Party is considered the winner of Greenland's election, receiving nearly 30% of the votes. The world took unusual notice of Tuesday's parliamentary election after US President Donald Trump said he wanted to take control of the Arctic island. The Demokraatit Party, which favors a slow approach to independence from Denmark but not US control, won 29.9% of the votes with over 90% of ballots counted.
A Premature Death for DEI at the U.S.
Naval Academy?
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Posted by PNWSkipper 3/12/2025 12:18:35 AM Post Reply
During a tour of duty at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) as a Company Officer in the 1980s... ...the Naval Academy had already abandoned strict meritocracy for affirmative action. I have watched with alarm for years as the Armed Forces subsequently embraced Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and have published about it extensively, most recently in Real Clear Defense.... ...Although information concerning DEI on publicly available websites at USNA has largely been scrubbed, there remain strong indications that USNA DEI efforts have merely gone underground.
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