Posts on Sunday, October 12, 2025

Some American truckers say they are getting paid more per mile as President Donald Trump’s enforcement policies are pushing many of President Joe Biden’s illegal migrants from the highways. “[I] Normally do Chicago to Fargo for $1200,” a trucker declared via X. “Had a [delivery] broker call and offer me $1800. Needless to say, I took him up on the offer. Lord do I hope this hangs around a little bit.” The post-election gain for American truckers comes amid a cargo slump that is threatening the economic stability of many trucking firms and brokerage companies. The slump is especially damaging to the companies that exploited the huge population of

The Washington Post editorial board ripped Democratic socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for his pie-in-the-sky proposal to eliminate bus fares, warning the only beneficiaries would be the city’s homeless and drug users. “Vagrants and drug addicts would camp out all day on New York’s buses, especially in the winter,” the scathing op-ed published Sunday read. "Parents would grow afraid to let their children ride alone,” the board predicted. The outlet also mocked Mamdani for brushing off the nearly $800 million his plan would cost the city each year, which he compared to “$50 million less than what New York spent on the new Buffalo Bills stadium.” “Oh, is that

Washington, D.C.'s longtime congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is facing an uphill challenge to reelection with less than $7000 in cash on hand. Norton, an 88-year-old Democrat who has held office as the district's non-voting member in Congress since 1991, only raised $3,227.30 between July 1 and Sept. 30, according to a quarterly disclosure her campaign filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, NOTUS reported. As a House delegate, Holmes Norton can vote on bills when they are in committee but cannot cast final floor votes. As of Sept. 30, Norton's campaign had just $6,477.50 in cash on hand and is $90,000 in debt to Norton, who personally loaned her reelection committee money

The state declared a state of emergency and some East Coast airports have experienced delays and cancellations. Along with major coastal flooding in the region, forecasters are warning residents of the potential for wind gusts of up to 60 mph. The state’s Jersey Shore area is a particular concern and could experience major flooding, forecasters say. The storm system’s damaging winds will strengthen as it approaches New York, and a “High Wind Warning” has been issued for eastern Long Island and the Jersey Shore from today into Monday. In New Jersey, forecasters say rising water could bring heavy flooding in areas along the Delaware River waterfront, Camden and Gloucester County lowlands,

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani fled from an appearance in Manhattan on Friday as an angry protester tailed the Democrat nominee — accusing him of antisemitism and demanding he disavow Hezbollah and Sharia law. As someone in the background pounded out a drum beat in Foley Square, Mamdani and his aides hightailed it to a waiting black SUV as the protestor in a backward baseball cap shouted, “Denounce Hezbollah!” and “Denounce Sharia Law” and “Denounce it. You can’t denounce it.

President Donald Trump pulled off a monumental accomplishment with the peace deal in Gaza. He will be going to Israel to speak there on Monday. The hostages are expected to be released on Monday. Twenty of the remaining 48 are reportedly believed to be alive. Negotiators instrumental in the deal, Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, were in Israel ahead of Trump on Saturday. They were in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square along with Ivanka Trump and a crowd of tens of thousands of people waving Israeli and American flags, cheering what the Trump team has achieved.

In the escalating drama of the 2025 government shutdown, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: President Trump is refusing to allow Democrats to wedge the country into humiliation, inaction, or moral collapse. Recent events make clear that Democrats didn’t merely stumble into this shutdown — they *planned* it. As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer recently admitted, “we prepared for this,” using health care subsidies and ideological bargaining chips as a cudgel. Meanwhile, Trump has struck back, refusing to let his political opponents have the sole power to define the stakes.

As this Friday is World Day Against the Death Penalty, I have been thinking a lot lately about an audio recording I made with my father when I was only six years old. In it, he said to me: “Your heart is your country and currently your country is one big prison. But there will come a day when you will see paradise, and that is when Iran will be free.” The recording is precious to me because those were among the last words my father uttered in my presence. Only months later,

ABC's This Week host, aging Clintonite muppet George Stephanopoulos, found himself playing the role of a rotisserie chicken as he attempted to talk about anything but the Schumer Shutdown with Vice President JD Vance. You'd think the government shutdown would be a major item for Stephanopoulos, but as the administration is refusing to break ranks and seems to be turning the crisis of no appropriations into an opportunity to slash the government workforce. Stephanopoulos led off with a nonsense assertion that U.S. troops would be peacekeepers in Gaza. From there, he went to National Guard deployment and the flaccid resistance of a federal judge and Illinois's morbidly obese governor, J.B. Pritzker.

They can't ignore her. And she won't stop praising President Trump. Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado has got the press over a barrel with her continuous praise of President Trump, going on every mainstream media outlet to say just that. Just look at the tight, pained, face of CBS's Lilia Luciano when Machado explains why Trump is so good for world peace and peace in Venezuela -- she pours it on: CBS had to run with it, there was no editing allowed now, not after the flak they took, the big payouts they paid, for all their selective editing in the past. It probably helps

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir delivered a victory address Sunday, after his troops pulled back to ceasefire lines within Gaza and prepared to escort the released hostages back to Israel. His remarks are as follows (translated from Hebrew by the IDF): Bereaved families, IDF personnel harmed physically or emotionally, IDF soldiers and commanders, in mandatory, carrer, and reserve service and their families, Citizens of Israel, The IDF is now launching Operation “Returning Home” to return our hostages from Hamas captivity. In a few hours we will all be reunited – one people, embraced and united.

Even Barack Obama’s former Homeland Security secretary is blaming Democrats for the government shutdown—a stunning admission that underscores just how disastrous the party’s obstruction has become. Jeh Johnson, who led the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration, appeared on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins and openly broke with his party, warning that Democrats are making a “mistake” by filibustering the CR and shutting down the government. Collin began by playing a clip of a past exchange between her and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who placed the blame squarely at the feet of Democrats for the Reductions in Force

President Donald Trump pulled off a monumental accomplishment with the peace deal in Gaza. He will be going to Israel to speak there on Monday. The hostages are expected to be released on Monday. Twenty of the remaining 48 are reportedly believed to be alive. Negotiators instrumental in the deal, Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, were in Israel ahead of Trump on Saturday. They were in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square along with Ivanka Trump and a crowd of tens of thousands of people waving Israeli and American flags, cheering what the Trump team has achieved.

Israel published documents Sunday that it says were orders from deceased Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other Hamas operatives detailing their plans to commit — and broadcast — mass murder on October 7, 2023. The documents included a six-page memo that Israel says was written by Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli troops a year ago. It also includes other written orders and communications intercepts by Israeli intelligence. The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center published a more extensive version of the documents on Sunday:

A cartel-connected bank, once defended by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, lost its license to operate in Mexico and is in the process of selling off its assets. The move comes just months after the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned the bank and two other financial institutions for having laundered money for drug cartels and for helping move money to China to pay for fentanyl precursors. This week, Mexico’s Bank Savings Protection Institution (IPAB) announced that CI Banco was in the process of liquidating its assets following the revocation of its license by Mexico’s National Banking Commission (CNBV).

Hamas has confirmed that it has 20 living hostages and is ready to release them as early as Sunday, a day earlier than expected, according to insiders. The terror group told Israel that it has the hostages ready to exchange ahead of President Trump — the architect of the peace deal — arriving in the region, sources familiar with the deal told the Wall Street Journal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jewish state is ready for whenever the release happens, even if before the expected time early Monday. “Israel is prepared and ready to immediately receive all of our hostages.”

As the owner of the largest police news outlet in the world - The 1776 Project, which owns Law Enforcement Today, Blue Lives Matter and other platforms... I've seen some royally stupid moves in the last decade. But this one takes the cake. Imagine passing your group off as a police organization... only to sell your soul, p**s off your supporters and endorse the very person who hates cops. It's like the people running things woke up with a bad cheap wine hangover and mixed up a cocktail of TDS and liberal tears to try and get through their day. But on behalf of our

Bill and Hillary Clinton have found a new candidate for office to support—Virginia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger. Spanberger, a former three-term member of Congress, is set to attend a fundraiser on Monday afternoon in McLean, Virginia. The event will be hosted by former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his wife, Dorothy, along with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons slammed New York officials for issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, including an Indian national caught with an ID that didn’t identify him. Lyons was left outraged after the now-detained truck driver Anmol Anmol was driving across the US with a license that read “No Name Given” before being arrested in Oklahoma last month. “It’s really scary,” Lyons told Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show” Saturday. “To see that on a driver’s license issued by the state, ‘No Name Given.” And the worst part, there’s a REAL ID star right up there in the corner.

At least four people were killed and 20 injured, four of them critically, after a mass shooting at a bar early Sunday morning, authorities in South Carolina have said. All four victims were found dead at the scene after at least one shooter opened fire on the crowd of hundreds during the shocking attack at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island just before 1 a.m., the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said. “Upon arriving at the scene deputies made contact with a large crowd of people, several of which were suffering from gunshot wounds,” the statement read. “It was learned that hundreds of people were at the location when the shooting occurred.

Democrats spent years insisting that providing free healthcare to illegal immigrants was a moral imperative. They haven’t exactly kept that a secret. During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, every single candidate promised their healthcare plans would cover healthcare for illegals. Now, though, they've shut down the federal government to protect funding streams for these programs—but are pretending that’s not what they are after. Nevertheless, we know what their objectives are. But their crusade to give free healthcare to illegals has hit a bit of a snag. Faced with exploding costs and healthcare systems on the brink of collapse, blue state governors are quietly pulling the plug on their own sacred cow.

An important sea change has taken place in the United States' $136 trillion real estate market. It stands to impact nearly everyone buying or selling a home. And it’s due to a game-changing lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors. Consumers face new rules designed for their benefit. But the overhauled system and the fallout are still being figured out. Jared Breit helped spark the real estate revolution. He joined a class action lawsuit challenging the longstanding fee structure of the entire U.S. real estate system. “When I sold my home in St. Louis, which was a huge part of this case,

The transgender issues that helped propel Donald Trump to his 2024 election victory continue to trap and flummox Democrats. The latest Democrat caught by the transgender tar baby is Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the Virginia Democrat running for governor. Spanberger was debating her Republican opponent, Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, earlier this week when the subject of men in girls' locker rooms came up. "We know that girls want to have privacy," Earle-Sears said. "[Spanberger] voted for men nude in girls locker rooms, in bathrooms, and in girls' sports." Earle-Sears was referring to Spanberger's vote for the Equality Act, which allows transgender people to use the bathroom and locker room

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has submitted an immigration detainer request in Virginia for 35-year-old El Salvadoran Illegal Alien Ricardo Leonel Mejia after he was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for three counts of rape on an 11-year-old girl. Mejia was sentenced earlier this week after pleading guilty on June 17, 2025, after he admitted to raping the young girl on three separate occasions in 2024. “The first time occurred a few days prior in the bathroom of the home when the victim’s parents were not home, and the second and third times occurred at night when he entered her bedroom,”

Yesterday, we came across a Wall Street Journal article titled: “Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1 Trillion. And DOGE Didn’t Do Much.” The Journal based its report on a Congressional Budget Office report released earlier in the week. But I&I readers knew all this months ago. Because while Democrats and the mainstream press were freaking out about how the Department of Government Efficiency was slashing government, we were reporting the facts. Back in February, we debunked the claim that Elon Musk was taking a chainsaw to the federal government

This was an incredible week for news, and I am going to discuss just three of what I consider the most important events: The ongoing investigations and criminal indictments; the shutdown of the government, and the ceasefire and return of the hostages in Gaza. The Ongoing Criminal Investigations Letitia James, the New York attorney general who confected a criminal case for financial fraud against President Trump has herself been charged with criminal mortgage frauds. Former head of the FBI James Comey has been indicted by a Virginia grand jury for making a false statement to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation. Reasoned speculation is that former national security adviser John Bolton

Democrats shut down the government partly to force Republicans to extend COVID-era boosts in Obamacare subsidies that Dems once called “temporary” but now say are needed to keep the program viable. This reveals what a true disaster Obamacare has been, as its critics warned even as Dems were ramming it into law with not a single Republican vote in 2010. Blindly tossing fresh trillions down that hole is nuts: Time to fix it — or scrap it altogether. The 10-year cost of Dems’ current demand totals almost a half-trillion dollars, to benefit primarily insurers and wealthier Americans. Under the expiration that Democrats wrote into law, 1.6 million Americans (just 0.5% of the population)

In hindsight, it was clear all along that President Trump didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet in being snubbed, he nonetheless proved something extremely important. His rejection reveals that the official claim of the award is false when it says the prize goes to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” That standard describes exactly the peace Trump has achieved this year by settling conflicts around the world, most recently and dramatically in Gaza.

A trio of Trump diplomats celebrated the historic Gaza peace deal alongside a massive crowd in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square on Saturday night — while nervously anticipating the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. US envoy Middle East Steve Witkoff, first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner — who recently emerged as a key player in the long-shot peace negotiations — addressed a gathering of tens of thousands, who waved American and Israeli flags and held placards with images of Hamas-held hostages. “God-willing we’ve accomplished the first phase. It’s been rocky. One day we’ll tell you the story, it’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you cry.

I wish this were satire, but it’s not. We’re in the middle of a government shutdown battle, and The Washington Post decided to blast this email, apparently, to every member of Congress. You’d think it would be about the shutdown, right? Something about the issue of health care subsidies expiring, or health care for illegal aliens—but, alas, no. It was about which member of Congress was vaccinated against COVID. I’m not kidding: [Tweet] Seriously, is this really what’s at the top of the story well over there? COVID is over.