Posts on Thursday, June 5, 2025
A third Biden autopen was discovered on Thursday amid a federal investigation into “who ran the United States while Biden was in office.”
House Oversight Chairman James Comer is also spearheading a congressional investigation into Biden’s health coverup.
On Wednesday President Trump directed his White House Counsel, David Warrington, in consultation with Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”
Jean-Pierre Reportedly Had Hopes of Hosting
Popular Lib Hack TV Show, but Opted for
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Popular Lib Hack TV Show, but Opted for
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Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reportedly wanted to be the next co-host of ABC's "The View" before she had to opt for a tell-all book to try and rewrite history and her part in the Biden cover-up.
Following the news about KJP's book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," those in former President Joe Biden's circle came out and blasted her as a grifter and more, Politico reported.
In the book, Jean-Pierre claims that she's done with the Democratic Party after working in former Presidents Barack Obama's and Biden's administrations, embracing life now as an Independent.
You'll Love This: Representative for Family
of Accused Boulder Attacker Has a Most
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of Accused Boulder Attacker Has a Most
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On Wednesday, we learned that a federal judge in Colorado has blocked the deportation of the family of the accused Boulder firebomber, Mohamed Soliman. The family is represented by a "Next Friend," Susanna Dvortsin; it was she who was the petitioner in the case wherein that federal judge blocked the deportation.
Turns out, as The Federalist has uncovered, that Susanna Dvortsin has quite the checkered past herself.
Susanna Dvortsin, the attorney trying to prevent the family of Mohamed Soliman — the illegal alien charged with setting Jewish demonstrators on fire in Boulder, CO — from being deported, has an integrity problem.
In 2019, Dvortsin was suspended from practicing law
Texas on Tuesday removed BlackRock (BLK.N), opens new tab from a list of companies seen as boycotting the energy industry, a step the New York asset manager won only with steep cuts to its climate ambitions.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar said the decision reflected BlackRock's retreats from industry climate groups like the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. He also noted how the firm has lowered its support for shareholder environmental resolutions and backed a new Texas Stock Exchange. BlackRock "has acknowledged the real social and economic costs, both here in Texas and globally, that come from limiting investment in the oil and gas industry," Hegar said in a statement.
As the Trump administration continues to enact the will of the voters by tightening the borders that the Biden administration opened wide to import millions of illegals to vote Democrat, panicked Left-wing media propagandists desperately try to prop up their narrative that the President is a cruel, xenophobic dictator.
Case in point: the Chicago Tribune posted today a maudlin, 1300-word profile of an immigrant worried about her legal status, called “‘I’m really not safe’: A Venezuelan poet’s fight to stay and write in the US.”
Oriette D’Angelo, 34, “came to Chicago on a student visa over a decade ago, seeking professional opportunities
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is back in the public eye, complaining about her time in the White House in a new book about fashion in which she whines about how people constantly "commented on her looks."
A press release from Penguin Random House about Obama's book "The Look" from the Crown Publishing Group announced that it "is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama's style evolution, in her own words for the first time. In this celebration of style, from the moment she entered the public eye during her husband's U.S. Senate campaign through her time as the first Black First Lady and today as one of this
Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that he was “worried” the “courts won’t hold until we have the midterm elections” when asked about his concerns over President Donald Trump.
Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Mr. President, I agree with you, we need to talk about the future. And beyond President Trump’s big, beautiful bill, he is working to dismantle, in my view, our foundational institutions, right? He’s intimidating law firms and universities, he’s stifling media, he’s illegally disappearing people and deporting people. And he’s now threatening to impeach judges. So are you confident that the courts will hold? And what concerns you most about what he’s doing now?”
World leaders and organizations are learning quickly in the second Trump administration that things aren't business as usual when it comes to how they treat the U.S. and its allies.
Sure, when President Joe Biden was behind the Resolute Desk, they could say and do what they wanted willy-nilly. One of those orgs. that got the wrong message is the International Criminal Court (ICC).
RedState previously reported extensively on the ICC, The ICC has already suffered some fallout for its prosecutors from the U.S., including for the Hague-based international justice body's lead lawyer: (emphasis added)
The US has already sanctioned the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, because of his role
It's been a mixed year for Second Amendment advocates, but on Thursday, came a significant win from the Supreme Court on that front. The Court announced a decision in "Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., Et Al. Petitioners v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos." In this case, Mexico in effect sued American gun manufacturers for the plague of violence that is sweeping Mexico. The Supreme Court, in its decision, noted that Mexico's case runs afoul of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, or PLCA.
Best of all, the decision was unanimous. Here's the main point of the decision:
Because Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant gun manufacturers aided and abetted
Deporter in chief
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In the debate about which U.S. President has the record for deporting the most illegal aliens, it looks like former Pres. Obama still holds the title.
The UK Independent did an in-depth look into the question in late 2024, just after Trump was elected to a second term. The outlet produced this confusing graph. For our purposes, the red bars at the bottom are what we would consider to be deportations: involuntary departures facilitated by a formal order. “Returns” come in a variety of flavors and include people leaving voluntarily (a good thing). The rest of the figures in the blue, light blue, and pink bars represent
Military families homeschool their children at about twice the rate of the general population. About 12% of military kids are homeschooled, pointing to the many advantages of giving children continuity in a job given to frequent relocation.
Otherwise, the same issues that drive non-military parents to homeschool their kids apply, including academic quality, ideology, flexibility, and safety concerns.
Realizing this, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum in May directing subordinates to conduct a review of what their departments are doing to support homeschooling in the military.
"Homeschooling offers an individualized approach for students and highlights the significant role parents play in the educational process. I hereby direct
Palestinians at an American-backed aid site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) cheered for the U.S. and President Donald Trump on Thursday, as millions of meals were distributed without incident.
“America, very good!” one man shouted. Other Palestinians chanted, “Trump! Trump! Trump!”, in unison. Thursday marked the first day that the GHF aid sites were reopened after closing for one day on Wednesday to build up additional security measures. The sites are secured by soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who also secure the corridors that Palestinians use to access the sites.
On Sunday, Hamas fired upon Palestinians trying to reach the first GHF site, and falsely
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday ordered his aerospace company to immediately decommission its Dragon capsule, which NASA uses to service the International Space Station, amid a public feud with President Donald Trump.
The cancellation is retaliation for Trump's proposal to end government contracts and subsidies it has with Musk's companies in order to balance the federal budget.
The feud between the former allies escalated in the past 48 hours after Musk publicly slammed the president's "big, beautiful bill" as a "disgusting abomination" for its failure to address deficit spending. Musk first started the fight last week when leaving public service.
Whites Need Not Apply?
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The civil rights laws prohibit discrimination in employment and education on the basis of race, sex, etc. But there has long been a question whether those laws protect only various minorities, or whether they can be invoked on behalf of a member of a “majority.” While the laws by their terms are race- and sex-neutral, and the Supreme Court has never suggested that “reverse discrimination” is somehow legal, the reality is that over the last 50 years, a great deal of discrimination has been directed against non-minority members–the large majority of it, in fact–under the rubrics of affirmative action and DEI.
Today the Supreme Court decided a case
Tech billionaire Elon Musk backed a call to impeach President Trump on Thursday, one of the latest swipes at the president by the billionaire in an ongoing war of words between the former allies.
“President vs Elon. Who wins? My money’s on Elon. Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him,” Ian Miles Cheong, a Malaysia-based right-wing writer, said in a Thursday afternoon post on Musk’s social platform X.
“Yes,” Musk said in response to Cheong’s post about 20 minutes later. On Thursday, Trump and Musk’s relationship quickly fell apart in a very public way. In an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the president told reporters
A cargo ship carrying 3,000 cars, including 800 electric vehicles, caught fire off the coast of Alaska and continues to burn. The Coast Guard says that all 22 crew members escaped the ship and were picked up by two nearby freighters.
The ship, a Liberian-registered car-carrier named "Morning Midas," was on its way to Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico, from Yantai, China, having left on May 26.
It appears the fire may have started in one or more of the lithium-ion batteries that power the EVs. What's certain is that the Coast Guard is going to let the ship burn, since trying to put out a lithium-ion fire is nearly futile.
President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Wednesday evening directing a probe into “who ran” the U.S. during former President Joe Biden’s time in office.
Questions regarding Biden’s mental state have rapidly developed among Democrats since the release of Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin,” detailing the former president’s mental decline while in office. In the White House’s press release, Trump said the memorandum will direct the investigation into “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo won Wednesday night’s Democratic mayoral primary debate — because his opponents’ relentless attacks did more to elevate him than drag him down, a Post panel of veteran campaign strategists said.
The thrice-elected Democrat took some gut punches, but there was no knockout blow or major blunder on his part, the political analysts on both sides of the aisle said.
“I tuned in to see a mayoral debate, not a debate about Andrew Cuomo,” quipped campaign strategist Ken Frydman of the nine-person debate moderated by NBC 4 -
What happens when the richest person and the most powerful politician have a knock-down, drag-out fight? The world may be about to find out. A disagreement between Elon Musk and Donald Trump started at a simmer last week, began bubbling on Wednesday and is now in full-on boil. And like everything these two men do, it is all spilling out into public view. These two men have two of the world's biggest megaphones, and they clearly enjoy using them.
Donald Trump has hit back after Elon Musk landed a "really big bomb" which has left their once cosy relationship in tatters.
It is not long since there was concern that the tech billionaire was getting too close to the United States president but now the two have been at each others throats in an ugly war of words played out on social media. Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud as he suggested he would use the US government to hurt him financially.
President Trump enjoys campaigning. The first campaign was in 2016 when he criticized the ill-advised deal that Obama had struck with Iran the year before.
Under that deal, Iran promised not to develop nukes – but only for a few years. Moreover, the inspection requirements were toothless, and Iran began violating them immediately by continuing its nuke program.
Trump rightly called that deal “a disaster” and “the worst deal ever” (which is saying quite a lot when it comes to deals made by Obama). After he was elected in 2016, Trump cancelled the deal.
And Iran continued its nuke program.
President Donald Trump on Thursday publicly acknowledged for the first time his deteriorating relationship with Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who once held a high-level advisory role in his Administration, saying he was “very disappointed” in Musk’s recent turn against the President’s flagship tax-and-spending bill.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.” Trump’s remarks confirmed what had already been visible behind the scenes: a once-close alliance between two of the most powerful figures in the Republican Party is unraveling
The Knives Are Out for KJP
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This is gonna be fun to watch.
Ed wrote a great piece this morning about the "reviews" of Karine Jean-Pierre's book, which is currently vaporware.
It's not the book that is the target of all this bile pouring forth, but Karine Jean-Pierre herself. After years of pent-up anger, the opportunity to strike out at her has attracted all comers. Ed's piece focused on the "external" reviews--Scott Jennings and Stephen A. Smith taking KJP apart. And they were hilarious. After all the "now it can be told" books basically ignored KJP's role in Biden Brain Boondoggle, the actual appearance of KJP has reminded people of why they hated her so much.
Trump Doubles Down on Biden Autopen Allegations:
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President Donald Trump dismissed former President Joe Biden’s insistence that he “made the decisions” while president, calling his predecessor’s regular use of the autopen to sign executive orders a “scandal” in response to a question from National Review in the Oval Office.
Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday directing the White House counsel, Justice Department, and other relevant authorities to investigate the matter, claiming that it has “become increasingly apparent” that White House aides used the president’s mechanical signature pen to “conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.”
22 crew members rescued from lifeboat
in North Pacific after ship carrying 3,000
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in North Pacific after ship carrying 3,000
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The crew of a cargo ship carrying 3,000 vehicles to Mexico, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned ship after they could not control a fire aboard the vessel in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain.
A large plume of smoke was initially seen at the ship’s stern coming from the deck loaded with electric vehicles Tuesday, according to US Coast Guard photos and a Wednesday statement from the ship’s management company, London-based Zodiac Maritime.
There were no reported injuries among the 22 crew members of the Morning Midas. Crew members abandoned ship, were evacuated onto a lifeboat and rescued by the crew of a nearby merchant vessel
Hmmm: China Says Xi Got Chatty With Trump
-- Over Tariffs? Update: 'Very Positive Conclusion' replies
-- Over Tariffs? Update: 'Very Positive Conclusion' replies
Gee ... what might the two leaders of the world's largest economies have to discuss? The Knicks firing a coach that got them into the finals? The latest episode of The Last of Us?
For the moment, we don't know -- and in fact, we only know about the call because China's state media got its spin out first. While they didn't offer any specifics of the discussion, the context of the call is the escalating retaliatory moves in the trade war and the apparent collapse of a 90-day truce. And the CCP mouthpieces made sure to note that Donald Trump asked for the call rather than Xi
An interesting interview between Tucker Carlson and Former CIA Counterintelligence Operations Officer John Kiriakou about being targeted by the CIA and FBI after telling the truth about CIA torture ops.
Kiriakou outlines how no U.S. President ever controls the CIA, and why politicians are seemingly afraid of holding them accountable. WATCH:
(Video)Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:41 Speaking Out Against the CIA’s Torture Program
7:20 Why the CIA Loved Obama
19:05 Why John Brennan Hated Kiriakou
23:23 The CIA’s Torture Techniques
32:01 How the FBI Tried to Bait Kiriakou Into Committing Espionage
Facing a federal investigation into his use of an autopen to sign executive actions, former President Joe Biden insists he was in control of the White House for the past four years.
“I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump declared his predecessor’s last-minute pardons void early this year after the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project discovered the pardons were signed by a mechanical autopen rather than by the president’s own hand.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday in favor of a straight woman who sued her employer for discrimination when she was denied promotion and demoted because of her sexual orientation.
The decision will make it easier for members of majority groups to sue for discrimination in parts of the country and comes amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Justice Katanji Brown Jackson wrote the opinion for the court.
“By establishing the same protections for every ‘individual’ — without regard to that individual’s membership in a minority or majority group
As New Yorkers worry about crime and sky-high living costs, Albany is moving to stop a different threat: supposedly poisonous pans.
State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal’s bill to end the sale of nonstick cookware has cleared the Senate and is zooming to an Assembly vote — because the progressives who dominate the Legislature just love banning things, especially on trendy (though psuedoscientific) health grounds.
Internet buzz about “forever chemicals” in these pans has it that PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances) cause cancer, though the FDA has long maintained the pans are perfectly safe
So say the grifters that tried to get another four years in power by pretending Joe Biden was Sharp As a Tack. I mean, point taken about the Karine Jean-Pierre and grifting, but come on, man.
Of course, Jean-Pierre acted as Chief Propagandist for Sharp As Tack and Cheap Fakes narratives. Are the other grifters worried that KJP will spill the beans on everyone else? Or just miffed because she got there first?
Inquiring minds want to know:
Karine Jean-Pierre’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party — timed with the rollout of a new book — has detonated long-simmering grievances among her former White House colleagues
The Champlin Park Rebels girls' softball team controversially reached the Minnesota State Championship for the first time in history on Wednesday night - thanks in part to their transgender pitcher. Marissa Rothenberger threw a complete game and then hit two doubles as the Rebels narrowly beat White Bear Lake 3-2 for their historic achievment.
'She’s always clutch,' Champlin Park coach Bryan Woodley was quoted as saying by TwinCities.Com. 'I think she’s the best centerfielder in the state. She’s just a great all-around player.'
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson noted a vessel carrying activists, including Greta Thunberg, was sailing toward Gaza, saying that Israel has experience “and will act accordingly.” Thunberg, 22, set sail from an Italian port on Sunday with 11 fellow activists from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), aboard a vessel delivering a symbolic shipment of aid to Gaza, according to The Times. “We are prepared for this case as well,” said Brigadier General Effie Defrin, the IDF spokesperson. “We’ve gained experience in recent years and will act accordingly.”
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she was “horrified” by Saturday’s antisemitic terror attack in Colorado after having previously backed a controversial anti-Israel measure that critics say fuels hatred and violence. “I am horrified by last night’s horrific attack in Boulder.” Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez wrote in her post to X, “My heart is with the victims and our Jewish communities across the country. Antisemitism is on the rise here at home, and we have a moral responsibility to confront and stop it everywhere it exists.” (X) It was back in 2019 that AOC co-sponsored a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN),
Ukraine’s surprise June 1 drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet has crippled a significant portion of Russia’s nuclear strike capability.
It has also become the latest obstacle in President Donald Trump’s path to resolving the three-year war.It remains to be seen exactly how much the Ukrainian drone attack, orchestrated by Ukraine’s Security Service and codenamed “Spiderweb,” will impact the efforts to facilitate a broader peace.Nevertheless, Trump said the surprise attack was a focal point of a Wednesday phone call he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a post on his Truth Social account following the call, Trump indicated the Russian president is in no rush to settle the conflict.
Trump Tries to Save Science
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Science has fallen into disrepute. Widespread fraud, studies that can’t be replicated, corruption in the World Health Organization, politics masquerading as science, the covid disaster–these and other developments have severely damaged the public’s trust in science and scientists.
Can trust in science be restored? President Trump is going to try. On May 23, he issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science,” which hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves.
The order begins with a statement of Policy and Purpose:
Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
When the Congressional Budget Office reported that the Republicans’ “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill would boost deficits and throw millions off insurance rolls, it was treated as gospel truth.
The CBO is, after all, a “non-partisan” agency, staffed by just-the-facts-ma’am budget and economic experts who don’t have any axes to grind.
Maybe that’s true. But it’s not partisan bias that is the problem. It’s the CBO’s terrible track record when it comes to predicting the impact of tax and health care policies.
By the CBO’s accounting, the House reconciliation bill would cut tax revenue by $3.7 trillion
More details about the Boulder Pearl Street Mall suspect, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, are surfacing days after the attack. Soliman, who lived in El Paso County, entered the U.S. in August 2022 on a B-2 tourist visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The visa is used for foreign tourists’ visits to the U.S. DHS further confirmed that the visa expired in February 2023. (Snip) On Monday, June 2, Congressman Jeff Crank reported that Soliman had received a Colorado-issued driver’s license in July 2024, a year after his visa had expired. “Instead of turning him over to ICE
When future economic historians examine the fates of U.S. Steel and America’s industrial base, they will find a perfect case study in two competing styles of leadership: Joe Biden’s passive, protectionist failure and Donald Trump’s confrontational, results-driven success.
Consider the facts. In December 2023, Nippon Steel offered to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion. It was a bold bid by a top-tier Japanese firm eager to invest in U.S. manufacturing and benefit from America’s bipartisan infrastructure push. But what began as a potentially transformative industrial partnership immediately ran into political headwinds – not because it lacked promise, but because Joe Biden bowed to union pressures
The disasters of Joe Biden’s open border policy are coming home to roost. The Molotov cocktail attack by a Hamas-loving Egyptian illegal migrant on a group of American Jews in Boulder, Colo., is just one deadly consequence.
The national police blotter is bulging with rapes, murders, robberies, assault, antisemitic attacks and all manner of crimes that never would have been committed if not for Biden’s insane decision to disband the suite of border protection policies President Trump had successfully implemented in his first term.
Just in the last month, Larisha Thompson, a 40-year-old mother of two,
The decision, Barrack said, is part of a shift in the United States’ policies on Syria “because none of them worked” over the past 100 years.
Barrack spoke on Monday with the Turkish news channel NTN on several topics such as the Ukraine-Russia war, the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and Turkey-U.S. relations. Asked what kind of policy the United States seeks to implement on Syria, Barrack assured the interviewer, “Our current Syria policy will not be close to our Syria policy of the last 100 years, because none of them worked.”
The envoy announced the reduction of U.S. military bases in the Middle Eastern country.
President Donald Trump, speaking from the Oval Office Wednesday night, announced sweeping new travel restrictions in the wake of the recent terror attack in Boulder. Calling the attack a grim reminder of the dangers of unchecked immigration and lax visa policies, Trump outlined an executive order that reinstates and expands his signature travel ban from his first term. “The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted,” Trump said. “As well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas. We don’t want them.”
Comedian Dave Chappelle offered an inside look at the Saturday Night Live (SNL) writers' room after it was revealed that Donald Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
A funeral would have been more lively.
Chappelle, speaking with fellow comic Mo Amer on Variety magazine's "Actors on Actors" series, recalled hosting the show on the first Saturday after that historic election. However, he also drew on the reactions of the writers and cast as they prepared during the week.
"Man, when they called Donald Trump the winner - that s*** shut the writers' room down," he said, promoting hearty laughter from Amer.
"You should have seen them in there -
The Book Grift Loophole
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We saw it after Watergate. The parties involved with almost every aspect of the cover-up cut some sort of book deal. Woodward and Bernstein wrote All the President’s Men which amplified their involvement as members of the media. G. Gordon Liddy wrote Will where he accepted responsibility for his actions. John Dean penned Blind Ambition to paint himself in a favorable light. Most got hefty advances from publishers for their tomes, and a few got movie deals. After Watergate there were cries to prevent this kind of profiteering, but nothing was done.
Now, with Biden’s mental collapse, we see the grifters emerge once more.
If they weren’t so evil and dangerous, the Democrats would be a nonstop laugh riot. The ongoing clown show of Minnesota governor and failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walz trying to act as if he is a regular guy and appeal to the regular guys that the Dems have worked so assiduously to drive away could be a hit sitcom: In this episode, the soft all-over, painfully out-of-touch far-left politician tries to load a hunting rifle and pretend he has done it hundreds of times before! And in the latest episode, he tries yet again to come off as a real man by telling
Mohamed Sabry Soliman is the Egyptian illegal who attacked Jews in Boulder, Colorado with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails. He has a wife and five children, all of whom evidently are also illegal immigrants. Happily, the authorities are throwing the book at Mohamed, and the Trump administration announced its intention to uphold the rule of law by deporting the rest of the family.
Not so fast! A Joe Biden-appointed federal judge, Gordon Gallagher, swung into action, issuing a temporary restraining order barring the deportations, without waiting to hear from the government.
Silence Please
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Over the weekend our friend Bill Shipley wrote about the “trans woman” pitcher who is powering the Champlin Park high school girls’ softball team to the state championship game tomorrow — Bloomington Jefferson versus Champlin Park. Marissa Rothenberger is the pitcher’s legal name. Bill anticipated Rothenberger’s impact on the tournament in the essay “How One Young Man Altered The Landscape of Girls’ High School Softball In Minnesota.”
As I observed here earlier this week in connection with the USA Powerlifting lawsuit that is pending in the Minnesota Supreme Court, reality has its claims. What is to be done? As Rothenberger powers Champlin Park through the tournament to the championship game, silence
Putin in the Spider's Web
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The BBC reports that Vladimir Putin has told U.S. President Donald Trump that he will have to respond to Ukraine's major drone attack, codenamed Spider’s Web, on Russian airbases.
Speaking after a phone call with the Russian president, Trump said: "President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields."
Russian officials declined to confirm this on Wednesday night, but Moscow had earlier said that military options were "on the table" for its response.
Trump warned in a social media post that the phone call, which lasted more than an hour, would not "lead to immediate peace" between Russia and Ukraine.
The problem with the courts is the same as the problem with many of our other institutions. Called the Skinsuit Phenomenon, after the great @Iowahawk’s famous tweet that perfectly sums up the leftist approach to marching through our society: “1. Identify a respected institution. 2. Kill it. 3. Gut it. 4. Wear its carcass as a skinsuit, while demanding respect. #lefties.” The courts are supposed to have respect because they’re supposed to do their job, but, as is so common these days, they’re not doing the job, yet they still expect the respect. That’s just not in the cards.
Did you know that Trump is serving in his second term?
You wouldn't, if you watch the way the news reports his poll numbers and how they compare them to the numbers for Bush, Obama, and Biden at "this point in their terms." It is true that Donald Trump is not serving two consecutive terms, but it is also true that Trump's second term is not at all comparable to a president still well into their honeymoon in their first term. Newly elected presidents get a lot of leeway that presidents serving their second term do not.