Posts on Sunday, April 6, 2025
A former federal bureaucrat and an executive for a green nonprofit have been arrested and charged for allegedly vandalizing Teslas in Washington, D.C., according to The Washington Post. Justin Fisher, 49, and his wife, Emily, 50, have been arrested and respectively charged with eight and five counts of defacing private property in connection to their alleged vandalism of Tesla vehicles in and around the capital’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, according to the Post.
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.— President Donald Trump plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in what would be their second White House sit-down since Trump’s return to office.
The visit, confirmed by a White House official and Netanyahu’s office Saturday, comes as Israel deploys troops in a new security corridor across Gaza to pressure the Hamas militant group. Netanyahu’s defense minister has said Israel will seize large areas of the territory and add them to its so-called security zones.
Last month, Israel shattered the ceasefire with a surprise bombardment in Gaza after trying to pressure Hamas to accept proposed new terms for the ceasefire,
Virginia’s ‘Fierce’ Lt. Gov. Winsome
Earle-Sears Becomes Sole Republican Nominee
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Earle-Sears Becomes Sole Republican Nominee
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Virginia’s Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears is being congratulated for becoming the only Republican nominee in the governor’s race that will culminate on November 4.
The news comes after former state Sen. Amanda Chase and former Del. Dave LaRock did not make it onto the ballot after they were unable to gather enough signatures, WTOP reported Sunday.
In a social media post Saturday, the Virginia GOP announced Earle-Sears was the nominee and praised her work over the past four years:
As the sole candidate to qualify for the Republican primary ballot on June 17th, Sears will be the Republican Party’s nominee for Governor on the November 4th ballot.
Washington, DC — Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the Senior Director of Counterterrorism for the National Security Council (NSC) and a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News in a lengthy exclusive interview at the White House that Trump has totally reframed how the United States approaches elimination of jihadist terrorists.
“Let’s be clear—President Trump through his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and it’s not an accident for the first time in history a former Green Beret is the National Security Adviser, has done a 180 on our counterterrorism policy,” Gorka told Breitbart News. “Let me illustrate this by an incredible story that’s now declassified from the second week
President Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, is expecting her first child with husband Michael Boulos this month.
This will be President Trump’s 11th grandchild.
Tiffany, 31, was spotted out in Miami this weekend in a beautiful chocolate brown maxi dress with pink accessories hinting that she may be having a little girl.
Tiffany Trump carried a pink Chanel handbag, pink phone case and wore pink Chanel sandals.
With a president like Donald Trump, who would have thought a vice president could add any more entertainment value or personality to his administration? Yet J.D. Vance is doing that very thing.
Last weekend, Vance made a noteworthy trip to Greenland. He and Trump have been toying with adding the island to the great American melting pot. Yet the portion of the trip that received perhaps the most buzz didn’t come from serious talks of annexation.
(snip) can be seen telling soldiers, “Please, at ease! Good Lord, sit down and eat!” and, “It’s cold as sh** here! Nobody told me!” His nature is jovial, his tone relaxed, and the laughter
Who decides what statutes say in Congress? The obvious answer is that Congress itself decides. But if Senate Republicans are not careful, they will set a new precedent to outsource this power to the Senate parliamentarian and the left-wing bureaucrats at the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
At issue are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waivers Joe Biden granted to California under the Clean Air Act. As attorneys Michael Buschbacher and James Conde recently explained, these waivers wreak havoc on the domestic automotive and fossil-fuel industries, limiting consumer choice, hurting workers, and upending the Constitution by forcing 49 states to, in essence, do California’s environmentalist bidding.
According to French media, quoting multiple corporate leaders and company directors throughout France [LINK], the leadership of France’s biggest companies told Macron to ‘get stuffed’ following the French president’s demand to divest their interests from America.President Macron ordered 50 of the largest companies with positions in the USA to attend an emergency economic meeting at Elysée Palace.(snip) "some of us fell out of our chairs,” (snip)
“We are not in an administered economy,”(snip CEO of a CAC 40 giant bluntly asserts: “I don’t give a damn about what Macron says. We have operations in the United States. There is no question of abandoning them just like that.
The artist behind a portrait of Donald Trump in the Colorado State Capitol says her career could be in tatters now that the president has besmirched it on social media.
Sarah Boardman’s painting of the president had hung in the Denver building for six years before Trump called it “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst” on his Truth Social platform in January, prompting state lawmakers to yank it off the wall.
Now the artist’s 41-year career “is in danger of not recovering” from the backlash, Boardman said in a statement on her website on Saturday.
Tampon Tim Walz was unhappy on Sunday when confronted with the fact that one of the Democrats’ biggest unions has sided with Trump on tariffs.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025.
(Snip) Far-left CNN host Jake Tapper brought Walz on to discuss the impact that the tariffs have had on his home state. But during their discussion, Tapper dropped this mini-bombshell.
It turns out the United Auto Workers, a reliable Democrat ally, is bucking the party and going all in with President Trump.
Far-left “Face the Nation” Host Margaret Brennan, who infamously became a meme in January after getting humiliated by Vice-President JD Vance, face-planted once again on Sunday after trying to mock the Trump Administration on international trade.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025. The worst offenders will be hit with even tougher measures on April 9.
Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, President Trump proclaimed April 2 as “Liberation Day,” marking a new era of economic independence. He emphasized that this measure is essential to protect American jobs and revitalize domestic manufacturing.
In a bold move that champions both economic growth and practical forest management, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Friday that it will greenlight logging in America’s national forests. This decision, spearheaded by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, follows President Donald Trump’s executive order last month aimed at revitalizing the nation’s timber industry. For Americans, this is a long-overdue step toward restoring common-sense stewardship of our natural resources while bolstering rural economies battered by years of overregulation and neglect.
As predictable as the sun rising in the East: the media’s silence in the face of President Joe Biden’s evident cognitive decline is met with a deluge of books, by some of those same media types, chronicling that decline in detail.
This helps explain the rationale behind this weird exchange between CNN’s Jake Tapper (co-author with Axios’ Alex Thompson of “Original Sin”, to be released next month) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, wherein he presses Walz on whether Biden running for re-election was a mistake: (X) Jake Tapper was one of the chief pushers of “Biden has a stutter” as cover for the decline that was obvious to the rest
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has suspended the senior Department of Justice attorney representing the administration in a high-visibility deportation case. Enez Reuveni, the acting deputy director of Justice’s immigration litigation division, was suspended from duty and had his email terminated in a letter from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche accusing him of failing to “follow a directive from your superiors.” Reuveni is a 15-year veteran of the Department of Justice and was only promoted to acting deputy director of the immigration litigation division two weeks ago.
Accompanying Reuveni on vacation will be his boss, August Flentje, the acting director of the immigration litigation division,
A federal judge has doubled down on her seemingly unreasonable demand that the Trump administration return an illegal alien gang member to the United States. In a 22-page opinion filed at 1 a.m. Sunday, Obama-appointed Judge Paula Xinis reiterated her order that the Trump administration locate Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal from El Salvador who was deported in early March, saying the Trump administration’s “grievous error” “shocks the conscience.”
Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador, who is portrayed as a "Maryland father" in most news reports, entered the US illegally in 2011.
On Saturday, conservative journalist and warrior for justice Julie Kelly uncovered a bombshell in the transcript from Thursday’s hearing in a radical District judge’s courtroom regarding whether the Trump Administration has the authority under the Alien Enemies Act to deport violent illegal aliens.
As Jim Hoft previously reported, Judge James Boasberg, who is running a coup-d-etat of the executive branch, is considering holding Trump officials in contempt for not turning planes around mid-flight and returning over one hundred killers, gangsters, r*pists, and other criminal illegals back to the US.
You Got A Better Plan?
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People can bellyache about Donald Trump’s tariff program. Do you have a better idea?
The last time the US had a trade surplus was 50 years ago. The statistics being presented by the Trump administration:
*$1 trillion world trade deficit last year
*90,000 factories have closed down over the past decades
*6 million factory jobs have disappeared
A while back, I had an opportunity to visit a friend in Cleveland. He is a brilliant scientist and has a couple of ventures in the city. When my business partner and I arrived at his office, I was stunned at what I saw. His office is in a former factory that made elevators.
A horde of a thousand protesters marched to border czar Tom Homan’s residence in New York to demand the release of a mother and her three children who Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested during a search at a dairy farm.The Jefferson County Democratic Committee organized the protest. New York Attorney General Letitia James supported the demonstration, issuing a message saying she was “heartbroken and angry” over the decision to detain the family on March 27 as authorities executed a search warrant for a separate investigation, NBC News reported.
Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President Donald Trump was “wrecking our economy” by imposing tariffs, freezing federal funds and laying off government workers.
Host Kristen Welker said, “Let’s start out by talking about President Trump’s tariffs. He calls this an economic revolution. He says these tariffs are necessary to reset the global economic order and so that the United States is treated fairly on the world stage. How do you respond to that? Do you agree with any part of that?” Schiff said, “I don’t agree with any part of that, and unfortunately, he’s wrecking our economy.
Ever wonder about the layout of the White House? We all have seen a plethora of images of the Oval Office, going back to the beginning, but most of us aren't all that familiar with the rest of the West Wing, where the most powerful man in the world works - as do the people who work directly for him. CNN has produced a map of the offices in the West Wing, and it's interesting to see just who sits where: (X ). However, I question the angle they take in sussing out why people sit where they do.
The offices in the West Wing
As World War II raged, the US became the reluctant home for hundreds of thousands of Nazi soldiers – many still rabidly loyal to Hitler and determined to keep fighting for him at any cost. Even if it meant murdering their own comrades in cold blood.
Living in more than 600 hastily set-up POW camps, scattered in small farm towns across rural America, nearly 400,000 German soldiers settled into their new routine – enjoying a set up so comfortable, many dubbed the camps the Fritz Ritz.[snip]
the most dangerous Nazis carried on the war from inside the barbed wire, establishing small but devoted enclaves of Nazi Germany on American soil.
When Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that she was joining a multi-state lawsuit to block President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) on election integrity, she declared the action a defense of democracy itself. But while Griswold accuses President Trump of federal overreach, her own record suggests a pattern of constitutional violations that have unfolded under the banner of election protection.
In fact, her treatment of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters has become a case study in why federal oversight of elections—as President Trump’s EO proposes—may be more necessary than ever.
Multiple people were slashed with a meat cleaver in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, including several children, before the deranged attacker was shot by police, sources said.
The violence erupted around 10 a.m. on 84th Street, when the man attacked several people, including a woman and three girls between the ages of 8 and 16, before being stopped by the NYPD, the sources told The Post.
“I was watching through the window and the girl covered in blood came out,” said a neighbor who asked to be identified only as Maria. “And then there was another girl. The two girls were just covered in blood.
KYIV, Ukraine— Ukraine will send a team to Washington next week to begin negotiations on a new draft of a deal that would give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable mineral resources, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko told The Associated Press.
“The new draft agreement from the U.S. shows that the intention to create a fund or jointly invest remains,” Svyrydenko said Saturday, during a trip to northern Ukraine.
The delegation from Kyiv will include representatives from the Ministries of Economy, Foreign Affairs, Justice and Finance.
The long-running negotiations over a mineral deal have already strained relations between Kyiv and Washington.
It’s been a couple of weeks since the infamous “Signalgate” controversy erupted. Just as most Americans had moved on from this non-scandal, we have finally learned how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, got into the encrypted group chat on Signal in the first place.
For sure, this story was overblown from the get-go. Goldberg clearly oversold the chat as containing classified war plans, though a review of the chat, which Goldberg eventually published, proved the chat to be a real nothingburger. That said, the mainstream media quickly pounced on the story, and Democrats used the incident as a pretext
Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Trump administration’s tariffs are already making countries negotiate
Rollins said, “I think it’s really important to realize that last Wednesday was when the president announced this new american order, the new american economic plan. We’re now two days in, right? You’ve got two days of data.” She added, “This whole concept is about rebuilding an American economy around American goods, around American industry. We do already live under a tariff regime in this country, but it’s the tariff regime of China, of Mexico, of Brazil, of Australia, of countries that Mexico won’t take our corn,
Most of our kids can't read. And it's a big problem.
This year's "Nation's Report Card" showed something alarming: 69% of our 4th graders cannot read proficiently; for 8th graders, that number rises to 70%. That's not just a school problem. It's a future problem—for our kids, economy, and public safety.
National surveys show that parents have been in the dark about this crisis and didn’t know how much they didn’t know.
In Texas, one group is seeing the same issues up close. According to state test scores in Fort Worth, with more than 170,000 students, only 43% are reading at grade level.
The 60,000 contested ballots in the North Carolina state Supreme Court race should be recounted and verified, according to a ruling Friday from a panel of the state appeals court.
The 2-1 ruling is a win for Republican state Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin, who is trailing incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs by fewer than 1,000 votes.
Riggs and the Democratic Party declared victory months ago after all the votes counted had her ahead, but Griffin has challenged the validity of certain ballots for various reasons, pursuing a lawsuit that’s prevented the state elections board from certifying Riggs as the winner five months after Election Day.
On Friday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began the process of cutting its workforce by at least 25%.
In addition to the layoffs, the agency will also eliminate its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance.
In an email sent to employees on Friday, the agency noted that the reductions will “be implemented in phases” and employees will be offered early retirement incentives beginning next week.
Fox News reports:
“This action is being taken to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the IRS in accordance with agency priorities and the Workforce Optimization Initiative outlined in a recent Executive Order,”
It all began with William F. Buckley, Jr. It is worth noting that 2025 marks the centenary of Buckley’s birth.
In 1955, the young Mr. Buckley founded National Review magazine. Famously, he is noted for saying this: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.”
What could not be seen in 1955 was that Buckley was opening the floodgates on what would come to be known as conservative media. Just a short recall
Will Musk’s Nightmare Come True?
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Elon Musk was recently asked what kept him up at night. His greatest fear was the possible collapse of the United States. In Musk own worlds, "I worry generally about the strength of America. America is the central column that holds up all of Western civilization... If that column fails, it's all over. You can't run off to New Zealand or some other place. It's over. So either we strengthen that column and make sure America is strong, and we'll be strong for a long time, or that roof’s coming down."
Musk is a hard-headed, data-driven businessman, so his pessimism cannot be ignored. Is his apprehension justified?
Musk’s worry is
This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission.
Tesla owners across the country are being targeted—cars vandalized, keyed, painted with swastikas, or even set ablaze. According to reports, “Over eighty reports of Tesla vandalism have been filed since January.” (Article/Photo) But instead of condemning the attacks or calling out the criminals, the cast of Saturday Night Live decided to point the finger at Elon Musk.
In the latest sketch, Mike Myers played a parody version of Musk and opened with this line:
The New York Times seemed invigorated in its coverage of nationwide "Hands Off" anti-Trump protests on Saturday. The funniest part? The story by a trio of Times reporters had zero ideological labels -- no "liberal," "left-wing," "progressive," "socialist," you name it. Reporters Shaila Dewan, Minho Kim, and Katie Benner began with gush: They came out in defense of national parks and small businesses, public education and health care for veterans, abortion rights and fair elections. They marched against tariffs and oligarchs, dark money and fascism, the deportation of legal immigrants and the Department of Government Efficiency. Demonstrators had no shortage of causes
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed new controls into law last week, including one that allows credit cards to track ammunition purchases.
She described the ammunition control as one that “[refines] how credit card companies track purchases at gun dealerships.”
Hochul noted, “This gives law enforcement the opportunity to find out exactly who may be stockpiling ammunition. And this is an indicator that something untoward could be happening, so it’s an important data point for us to have.” North Country Now pointed out the credit card tracking will occur via the use of a new merchant code,
A fundraiser for the Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf and leaving him to die in his twin brother’s arms has raked in over $60,000 as of Sunday — as the teen maintains he acted in self-defense.
The GiveSendGo campaign was purportedly set up by the family of Karmelo Anthony, 17, who cops say confessed to the horrific stabbing at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, last Wednesday.[snip] The company, which also hosted a fundraiser that brought in hundreds of thousands for Daniel Penny’s legal defense after he was charged in the NYC subway chokehold death,
“We should replace our piece of crap Constitution.”
Those words from author Elie Mystal, a regular commentator on MSNBC, are hardly surprising from someone who previously called the Constitution “trash” and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of “all voter registration laws.” But Mystal’s radical rhetoric is becoming mainstream on the left, as shown by his best-selling books and popular media appearances.
There is a counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country. And although Mystal has not advocated violence, some on the left are turning to political violence and criminal acts. It is part of the “righteous rage” that many of them
President Donald Trump is more popular now than before he sent the global markets into a frenzy by enacting sweeping new tariffs.
An exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners survey of over 1,000 registered voters conducted from March 31 to April 3 found that the Republican remains largely popular in the U.S.
The poll found that Trump's approval rating rose to 53 percent, a 4-point increase over last week when it was 49 percent.
Trump's rising approval rating is surprising given the flak the White House has received over the tariff order signed Wednesday.
It is up by 13 points since March 7 among those aged 18 to 29.
After being criticized for saying in an October speech to the Chicago Economic Club that “‘tariff’ is the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” Donald Trump puckishly acknowledged his critics had a point about his priorities. “Let’s put God number one. Let’s put religion number two. Love, I don’t know, we gotta put that number three, I guess, right? And then it’s tariff, because tariffs will make us rich as hell!”
Not everyone shares President Trump’s faith in tariffs, notably the stock markets. The aggregate value of U.S. securities traded on U.S. exchanges is some $6 trillion lower after “Liberation Day,” as the administration’s calculation of the amount
Tucker Carlson caused a stir in a recent interview that may cause some Americans to do a double take on the vehicles they are driving.
During an interview with automotive designer and internet personality Casey Putsch last week, Tucker mentioned that he is a lifelong fan of Chevrolet trucks but felt he had to “immediately” sell his latest one after spotting a disturbing message on the car’s dashboard.
“I bought a truck last year…A Chevy truck, which I’ve always had, and I was at a gas station, he said. “And all of a sudden at a gas station, it says, ‘Stop, we’re downloading information from the internet.'”
Elie Mystal, a far-left columnist for The Nation, is so petrified of the Trump administration snatching him off the street because of his articles that he has allegedly hired security to keep him safe.
This, according to Mystal himself.
The author of the new book "Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America" appeared with Charlamagne the God on "The Breakfast Club" late last week and promptly demonstrated little to no grasp of current law.
Mystal is not an illegal immigrant (he was born in Queens, and his father was a prominent political figure in Suffolk County, New York—a legal Haitian migrant), nor does he have a student visa.
Federal authorities arrested 133 illegal aliens during an enhanced immigration enforcement operation focused on criminal offenders and other immigration violators. The five-day operation in western, central, and northern New York involved federal agents from myriad agencies, including ICE, FBI, DEA, CBP, USCIS, and U. S. Customs and Border Protection.
In what has become common practice in recent weeks, multiple federal agencies have banded together to conduct a targeted deportation operation in New York as part of President Trump’s “Operation Take Back America.” The operation calls for all federal law enforcement agencies to collaborate in the fight against illegal immigration, drug cartels, and the trafficking of dangerous drugs and human beings.
As we told you earlier Saturday, an abortion fan was arguing with a pro-life advocate who was reporting for advocacy group Live Action when the woman suddenly launched a barrage of surprise punches—right to the face—stunning the 23-year-old journalist and leaving her bloodied. The victim, Savannah Craven Antao, said she’s been getting flashbacks from the attack, which she deemed emblematic of the entire pro-choice movement.
Warning: Violent imagery. (X Video) Now the attacker has identified herself on social media as Bronx resident Brianna Rivers, and she gave an “apology” that made it sound like she wasn’t sorry in the slightest.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday announced the U.S. will revoke visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and no others will be issued, effective immediately.
Rubio attributed the change to "the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner," according to a statement posted on X.
The U.S. Department of State on Saturday wrote in a statement that it is time for the transitional government of South Sudan to "stop taking advantage" of the U.S.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to admit that he understands the rationale behind US President Donald Trump’s tariff push, according to a report.
The center-left Starmer will announce on Sunday that he understands the reason why the economic nationalist framework imposed by the Trump tariffs is popular with voters — while arguing that tariffs are still wrong, The Times reported. (Photo) “Trump has done something that we don’t agree with but there’s a reason why people are behind him on this,” a spokesperson for the Prime Minister said in a statement to the outlet.
Remember during President Trump's speech to the Joint Session of Congress in early March, when Rep. Al Green (D-TX) behaved so badly that House Speaker Mike Johnson had to instruct the Sergeant at ArmsThen, he held court outside the chamber with a gaggle of reporters, who allowed him to spout nonsense about Trump and the Republicans planning to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
When one of the journalists asked Rep. Green if that was the only reason he decided to disrupt Pres. Trump's address, the Texas Democrat used it as an excuse to share an astounding non sequitur. to kick Green out of the chamber?
Ford is working closely with the Trump administration to streamline its car production and delivery processes, especially as the company faces challenges with the president’s tariffs. Ford CEO Jim Hackett recently pointed out that while tariffs offer the company a "better chance" at increased manufacturing flexibility, critical details regarding parts supply and production still need to be ironed out. This collaboration between the auto giant and the administration highlights the growing impact of trade policies on the automotive industry and the push to bring more vehicles to American consumers.
As the Gateway Pundit recently reported, an Islamic mega-city that is Sharia Law compliant is being planned near Dallas, Texas.
There are a lot of red flags around the project, so much so that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been speaking out about it.
Now there is a video of a retired police lieutenant, who is a recognized expert in SWAT activity, speaking out about some of his findings on this. It’s very serious stuff.
Via Twitchy:
In explosive public testimony, Deaton warned Texas officials that this wasn’t some future plan—it’s already happening.
Wall Street’s Trump supporters — and they are legion — were riding high.
They cheered a completely sentient president who took office promising to enact a bold agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and un-woking college campuses, including Ivy League institutions many of them attended.
Then came the trade war. Trump is not only blowing up the markets (aka their livelihoods), they fear, but the economy and probably his presidency along with GOP control of Congress when the midterms come next year.
He could even be paving the way for the word-salad queen, Kamala Harris to re-emerge in 2028.
I’m not saying I subscribe to this doom and gloom.
The two biggest stories of the week, as I see it, are the effects of demanding reciprocity in barriers to trade and the Supreme Court putting the leash on out-of-whack federal district court judges.
It’s my personal belief that the strongest nations have a large, productive middle class. In recent decades, domestic fiscal profligacy and unfair international trade practices have hollowed out countless working-class communities, emptied middle-class pockets, and steadily eroded middle-class lives. Both the Administration’s ordering of reciprocal tariffs and cutting wasteful and corrupt use of tax revenues seem to me an effort to return these people and communities to once-commonplace normal, decent, and dignified living.
The apparent normalization of jihadist-Islamist radicals, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, became frighteningly real when a video revealed that two Muslim immigrant nurses working in a Sydney hospital boasted that one of them had "killed Israeli patients" and the other had sworn to "let them die."
After local Sheikh Wesam Charkawi declared his support for the two nurses, "Pro-Palestinian teachers led dozens of schoolchildren in chants of 'Allahu Akbar' outside a western Sydney public school" in support. Charkawi, who is employed by the New South Wales Department of Education, was "ordered to work from home after defending the two nurses in an Instagram post."
When President Donald Trump slapped a fresh round of tariffs on European and Asian imports, the professional hand-wringers and legacy press clodpolls sprang into choreographed action.
Headlines and television anchors blared warnings of trade wars, economic isolation, and diplomatic fallout. The bureaucratic priesthood that worships at the altar of “free trade” without reciprocity—from Brussels to Brookings—launched into familiar homilies: tariffs are regressive, Trump is reckless, and globalism is gospel.
But let’s pause the hysteria momentarily and apply something vanishingly rare in today’s media-industrial complex: perspective.
The prevailing orthodoxy treats tariffs as anathema to prosperity—an outdated relic of 19th-century mercantilism. But this overlooks a simple truth:
A flood of discounted Chinese imports is set to compound the economic dangers to Europe from Donald Trump’s tariffs, analysts warn, prompting Brussels to prepare measures to protect itself from a wave of cheap goods from Asia.
The direct impact of the US president’s 20 per cent levy on EU products has sparked fears about the outlook for the bloc’s embattled manufacturers, who are already reeling from US levies on cars and steel.
But the severity of Trump’s tariffs on economies such as China and Vietnam means Brussels is now on alert for an influx of Asian products such as electrical goods and machine appliances being diverted into its own markets.
There is no Trump Bump in the ratings for far-left CNN or MSNBC. Meanwhile, Fox News made ratings history.
Below are the average viewer numbers for January 1, 2025, through the end of March 2025. The number in parentheses reflects the percentage difference in the ratings compared to this same quarter last year.
TOTAL PRIMETIME VIEWERS / DEMO VIEWERS
Fox News: 3.012 million (+46 percent) / 380,000 (+63 percent)
CNNLOL: 558,000 (-6 percent) / 121,000 (-1 percent) ... MSNBC: 1.024 million (-18 percent) / 96,000 (-21 percent)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is already collecting over $200 million per day in extra revenue as it enforces a massive new wave of tariffs under President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" plan. "CBP has successfully implemented 13 tariff-related presidential actions during this Administration," a CBP spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Business. "Serving on America’s frontline, CBP strictly enforces all laws and Presidential directives to secure our economic sovereignty."
Using powers under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the Trump administration is targeting goods from dozens of countries, including China.
A pregnant woman sitting in the passenger seat of a Tesla EV was injured by a two-pound rock that smashed through the car windshield in Vancouver, Canada. Authorities are now investigating if the rock was intentionally thrown at the vehicle made by Elon Musk’s company.
Police said the Tesla was headed north on Nanaimo Street on the evening of March 30, and was struck by a rock as the electric vehicle passed East 27 Avenue, according to a report by Global News. The rock reportedly smashed through the car windshield and seriously injured a pregnant woman in the passenger seat before landing on the floor of the Tesla.
Former President Obama made an appearance at Hamilton College this week and tried to take some cheap shots at the Trump administration.
He was clearly trying to echo the talking points currently being pushed by his party and the media.
For some reason, Obama thinks no one remembers anything about his presidency.
From NBC News: Former President Barack Obama said he is “deeply concerned” with some of the actions that President Donald Trump and his administration have taken and seemed to call out the Republican Party