Posts on Thursday, July 24, 2025

Six months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the political tea leaves are muddled. Voters disapprove of the job he is doing, dislike his new budget law, and doubt his dealings with Iran are making the U.S. safer. At the same time, ratings of the economy show signs of improvement, feelings on the direction of the country are inching upward, and the president’s job approval ratings are holding steady, according to a new Fox News national survey. Thirty-two percent of voters rate economic conditions positively. That’s the highest number, by one percentage point, in about a year. On a personal level, 44% rate their financial situation positively, up from

 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents—with promises of much more to follow. The new material describes the role of the Obama administration’s intelligence and investigatory directors—purportedly along with President Obama himself—in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In addition, their efforts extended to sabotaging the 2016-2017 presidential transition and, by extension, the first three years of the Trump presidency. The released documents add some new details to what over the last decade has become accepted knowledge.

SURIN, Thailand — Thai and Cambodian soldiers clashed along the border between their countries on Thursday in a major escalation that left at least 14 people dead, mostly civilians. The two sides fired small arms, artillery and rockets, and Thailand also launched airstrikes. Fighting took place in at least six areas, Thai Defense Ministry spokesperson Surasant Kongsiri said, a day after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers and led Bangkok to withdraw its ambassador from Cambodia and expel Cambodia’s envoy to Thailand. It was a rare instance of military conflict

Turns out, this is an actual country, not the name of a Cub Scout troop. And it’s not den-mark. It’s Denmark. And they don’t call themselves “Denmarkians. They call themselves “Danes.” Anyway, the Danes are mad as hell. Or at least heck. You see, back when the Spanish were looting the locals in South and Central America, and the Portuguese were lucratively, if inhumanely, trading slaves in what’s now Brazil, and the English were accidentally planting the seeds of a great republic in North America, the Danes were . . . [drum roll] . . . . . . stealing ice from the Eskimos. Here’s the story.

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple news outlets out of his native Rochester, NY. The city’s WROC-TV reported that the Bartolomeo & Perreto Funeral Home said the musician died in his sleep at home on Tuesday. The flugelhorn and trumpet player won two Grammys, out of 14 nominations, in a career that spanned 30 albums. Beyond his musical success, the musician was also familiar to millions for his recurring role playing himself on the animated series “King of the Hill.”

Those who've been watching the legal battles unfold regarding President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship have been awaiting the next move from the lower courts, following the Supreme Court ruling on the matter at the end of June. We've since had several rulings, including a classwide certification as to individual (infant) plaintiffs, and now, a ruling on Wednesday from the 9th Circuit holding the executive order "likely" unconstitutional. How did we get here, and what comes next?  On Day One of the second Trump administration, one of several executive orders signed by President Trump addressed the issue of birthright citizenship.

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on states and cities to end “endemic vagrancy” — and rehouse homeless people including drug addicts and those suffering from mental problems in “treatment centers.” The order redirects federal funding to prioritize “shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment.” On average, more than 274,000 people were sleeping on the streets each night last year under then-President Joe Biden, the order says.

Terry Bollea, aka “Hulk Hogan, died this morning of an apparent heart attack. He was 71. (snip) Hogan also delivered a memorable speech in 2024 during the Republican National Convention where he supported President Trump and JD Vance.President Trump delivered remarks via Truth Social: “We lost a great friend today, the “Hulkster.” Hulk Hogan was MAGA all the way — Strong, tough, smart, but with the biggest heart. He gave an absolutely electric speech at the Republican National Convention, that was one of the highlights of the entire week. He entertained fans from all over the World, and the cultural impact he had was massive. To his wife, Sky, and family,

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) is rallying behind America First businessman Nate Morris in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race, signaling growing momentum for Morris’s outsider campaign to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) with a Trump-aligned conservative. Calling Morris the “America First fighter [we need] in the Senate” and warning there’s “no time for squishy Republicans,” Banks on Thursday championed Morris as his choice in the state’s high-stakes election. “I’m proud to endorse Nate Morris for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Our families come from the same place and share the same working-class roots. Nate understands, just like I do, that America is the greatest country in the world and always worth fighting for,”

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and a host of bipartisan senators introduced legislation to deter foreign governments, including Mexico, from seizing American-owned assets. Hagerty, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led his colleagues in introducing the Defending American Property Abroad Act, a bill that would impose retaliatory prohibitions to deter and subsequently punish any nation in the Western Hemisphere that unlawfully seizes American assets. Hagerty and lawmakers introduced the legislation in response to the Mexican government attempting to seize a deep-water port owned by the American-based Vulcan Materials Company in violation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that governs trade between America and its neighbor to the south.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used so-called “prosecutorial discretion” to protect an illegal alien from deportation who is now accused of kidnapping a woman who says she was sex trafficked and held against her will. (snip) 22-year-old illegal alien Jose Armando Carcamo-Perdomo of Honduras was arrested on July 14 in Harris County, Texas, after a home security camera caught him dragging a woman back to his trailer as she tried to flee. (snip) a Chinese national who traveled from New York to Texas to take a masseuse job. (snip), the woman stated that her passport had been taken from her and she was brought to Carcamo-Perdomo’s trailer,

At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tried—and failed—to push a tired narrative about Trump and Russia. This time, she set her sights on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, insinuating that Gabbard only declassified damning evidence about the Russia collusion hoax to get back in President Trump’s good graces. Bad move. Collins opened by pointing to the 2017 Senate Intelligence Committee report, claiming it proved Russian meddling and insisting Gabbard’s new disclosures were somehow politically motivated and meant to curry favor with President Trump.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that California’s law requiring background checks for people purchasing ammunition is unconstitutional, upholding a San Diego federal judge’s previous ruling that struck the law down. The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought in San Diego by a coalition of gun owners and gun-rights groups that alleged the law infringed on the Second Amendment rights of California residents. The California Attorney General’s Office argued the law was a safety measure that prevented people who shouldn’t have firearms and ammunition from obtaining them. The law was struck down twice by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez,

Dealing with the Russia hoaxers is not just a matter of trying to bring Obama, Hillary Clinton, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey to justice. That will be hard enough in itself, given the certainty that the media will turn the facts around and insist that it is Trump and Tulsi Gabbard who are threatening “our democracy” by trying to show that truly no one is above the law, (Snip) April Falcon Doss, who is currently the general counsel for Trump’s National Security Agency, “previously worked for Senate Democrats on their discredited probe attempting to tie Trump to Russia and has a history of partisan anti-Trump activism.”

Former President Joe Biden has reportedly sold his presidential memoirs. According to the Wall Street Journal, Biden sold the book to Hachette Book Group, with Little, Brown and Company set to publish it. Biden is reportedly getting $10 million for the book. While a $10 million advance might sound impressive at first glance, it’s actually a paltry payday compared to what other presidents have commanded for their memoirs. In 2017, Penguin Random House shelled out a jaw-dropping $60 million for the combined book rights of Barack and Michelle Obama. Bill Clinton landed $15 million for his 2004 memoir “My Life,”

The Obama intelligence community’s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks to try and help Donald Trump win the 2016 election was based on "one scant, unclear and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports," according to a just-declassified report that had been locked away in a CIA vault. Nevertheless, former CIA Director John Brennan ordered agency analysts to use the claim in the Intelligence Community Assessment issued during the Obama administration’s final days – even though the ICA itself noted that how the information on Putin's plans was obtained was “not explicitly clear.”

President Donald Trump has confirmed that he is considering abolishing the capital gains tax on houses. “We’re thinking about that,” Trump said on July 22 when asked if the administration is considering removing the tax to improve the U.S. housing market. (snip)The U.S. government imposes a capital gains tax on the sale of homes. Tax rates for long-term capital gains—residential properties held for more than a year—depend on income and range from zero percent to 20 percent. Capital gains on homes owned for less than a year are taxed at the same rate as your ordinary income.

PARAMOUNT, Calif. - A Compton man who allegedly threw concrete blocks at federal officers in Paramount in June was taken into custody Wednesday morning at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. What we know: Elpidio Reyna, 39, of Compton, was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry by FBI agents, with assistance from U.S. Customs & Border Protection. Reyna was wanted in connection with an alleged assault on a federal officer in Paramount on June 7. On that day, Border Patrol had set up a staging area when they were confronted by protesters. Agitators then started throwing what was later determined by the FBI to be

With an Aug. 1 deadline approaching, the United States has reached a trade agreement with Japan, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media on July 22. “I just signed ... maybe the largest deal in history,” Trump said at the White House. “We worked on it long and hard, and it’s a great deal for everybody. A lot different from the deals in the past, I can tell you that,” Trump said.(snip)Japan will invest $550 billion in the United States, which will receive 90 percent of the profits from those investments, according to Trump. “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs—There has never been anything like it,” he wrote.

Hulk Hogan, the blond and boisterous body-slammer who brought pro wrestling into the mainstream in the 1980s while becoming one of the most recognizable celebrities of his generation, died Thursday. He was 71. Hogan’s death was confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by promoter Eric Bischoff, his partner in the recently launched Real America Freestyle amateur wrestling league. TMZ reported that medical personnel were sent to his home in Clearwater, Florida, with operators stating it regarded a “cardiac arrest.” “The Hulkster” headlined WrestleMania eight times, with perhaps his most memorable bout in the WWE‘s signature event coming in 1987 against the 520-pound Andre the Giant — his mentor

Wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan has died, his manager confirmed. He was 71. Manager Chris Volo told NBC Los Angeles that Hogan died at his home in Clearwater, Florida, surrounded by family. Clearwater Fire and Rescue responded to his home at 9:51 a.m. Thursday for a reported cardiac arrest, according to a media release from the city. Hogan was pronounced dead at the scene, the statement said. Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, attained pro wrestling stardom in the 1980s and 1990s and was perhaps the biggest star in WWE’s five-decade history. He was the main draw for the first-ever WrestleMania in 1985 and was a fixture for years in its signature event,

Founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab reportedly exhibited a pattern of misconduct during his tenure as the multinational organisation's most senior executive, according to preliminary findings of an internal investigation.  The probe was launched by the WEF board in April in response to whistleblower complaints over alleged unauthorised spending, bullying and inappropriate treatment of female staffers by 87-year-old Schwab. It came just two days after the German economist - who denies the claims - stepped down from his role as the Forum's top executive with immediate effect after 55 years over Easter weekend.  Preliminary findings from the probe are said to have found evidence 

Ghislaine Maxwell is assembling “new evidence” to present to the feds when she meets with them this week, her brother told The Post. Jeffrey Epstein’s madame never gave her version of events to federal prosecutors before her 2021 trial, which resulted in a 20-year sentence for recruiting women and underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. She also never testified in her own defense. “She will be putting before that court material new evidence that was not available to the defense at her 2021 trial, which would have had a significant impact on its outcome,” Ian Maxwell told The Post in an email Wednesday.

America deserves better than the degenerate propaganda machine that passes for “elite” journalism. We deserve better than the evil “cracked out clown show” the Democratic Party has become. The New York Times and The Washington Post all but ignored DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell press conference Wednesday, at which she announced that she had sent criminal referrals to the DOJ and FBI implicating former President Barack Obama and his national security team in the “seditious conspiracy” of the Russia collusion hoax.

CIA officers warned Brennan about the shoddy nature of the sentence fragment, and initially omitted the fragment in the report. But Brennan personally demanded the fragment be included. The Russia hoax was built on a six-word sentence fragment that entirely lacked context or credibility, according to a report declassified by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard. The report makes clear that former President Barack Obama and his jackboots henchmen — former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper —

What tens of millions have suspected, and for good reason, is that Barack Obama was deeply involved in the Russia collusion hoax that was intended to derail Donald Trump’s first presidency, a plot that Trump bluntly called “treason.” Obama of course refuted the claim through a flack. OK, then, let’s have him voice his denial under oath. If he did nothing wrong, he should be eager set the record straight. We’re advocating neither a fishing expedition nor a witch hunt because we find Obama to be an odious fellow.

A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to unseal transcripts from Florida grand jury proceedings related to a 20-year-old criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, saying her “hands are tied.” U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida Robin Rosenberg wrote in her denial that an unrelated 2020 ruling by the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “does not permit” her to unseal grand jury records in instances not covered by the criminal procedure rule, CNBC reported. “Eleventh Circuit law does not permit this Court to grant the Government’s request; the Court’s hands are tied — a point the Government concedes,” Rosenberg wrote.

Monday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) weighed in on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to send a criminal referral to the Department of Justice regarding the Obama administration’s alleged role in instigating the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. Jordan told host Sean Hannity the circumstances were “worse than we thought.” “[I]t all started back in 2016, and it wasn’t just to keep him from winning the election in 2016, it was to undermine his presidency after he had already won,” Jordan explained. “I want you to think of three dates in the interim between election day and inauguration day. Back in 2016, 2017. December 9,

Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Darlyewyndel was quite open about her suspicions regarding Errol Flynn, Molly Ringwald, and Oreo flavor deviations. Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Darlyewyndel was quite open about her suspicions regarding Errol Flynn, Molly Ringwald, and Oreo flavor deviations. These are rather testy times we live in, aren't they? We're having a lot of fun over on this side right now, while the lefties are running around insisting that they're living in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. It's a good thing we're right on this one. Examples of completely different takes on the same issue abound,

Stephen Colbert built a brand on letting his Trump Derangement Syndrome drive his comedy. It finally caught up with him, and CBS is cancelling his show. Of course, leftists blame everything they don’t like on Donald Trump. When the president celebrated CBS’s decision, Colbert took to the airwaves on Monday to get ugly. “Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism: ‘Go f*** yourself,’” Colbert said with particular nastiness. I would argue that profanity doesn’t take talent. If Colbert had the level of talent and sophistication that he claims he possesses, he would’ve been able to come up with something witty.

Every neighborhood has one: the unpredictable one who calls the cops if you park too close to their mailbox, yells at the garbage man for looking at her too long, and glares at the local Girl Scouts as if they're conducting a home invasion instead of selling cookies. You don’t make eye contact. You certainly don’t walk your dog past her house. And when she starts screaming into the sky at 3 a.m. about how she knows what really happened to JFK Jr., everyone rolls over in bed, sighs, and says, “Well, that’s just her being her.”

For two decades, Barack Obama has demonstrated, through words and deeds, that his deference is toward no one other than himself. This is a man who behaves as if he were ordained to deliver America from the faults of the forty-two presidents that preceded him and to straighten out any president who succeeds him. That’s why it took the former Commander-in-Chief a whole seven days of being subjected to prison memes and accusations of “treason” to manifest public indignation over being perceived as anything less than Messianic. Barack Obama pretends that he would never levy a war against the U.S. or take up arms against the American people.

LONDON -- Britain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the convictions of two financial market traders accused of manipulating benchmark interest rates in one of the biggest scandals to come out of the global financial crisis in 2008. The charges against Tom Hayes, a former Citigroup and UBS trader, and Carlo Palombo, who worked for Barclays, centered around alleged efforts to influence the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or Libor, and its euro currency equivalent Euribor, which were used to set the interest rates on trillions of dollars of loans and other financial products around the world. The court ruled that the convictions of Hayes and Palombo were unfair because the judges