Posts on Saturday, December 6, 2025

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that nearly all illegal immigrants detained will be charged a $5,000 "apprehension fee." In a post on X on Thursday, Banks said illegal immigrants ages 14 and older who entered the country without inspection will face a fee, a provision included in the "big, beautiful bill," which President Donald Trump signed into law in July. "This message applies to all illegal aliens — regardless of where they entered, how long they’ve been in the U.S., their current location, or any ongoing immigration proceedings," Banks wrote.

In a video that began gaining wide circulation on Thursday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) issued a call to action to her unhinged leftist following, and every patriot should be aware of what she said: “As much as Trump and his cronies want to act like we have no power to respond, the truth is we are more powerful than we think we are.” And clearly, she wants her leftist minions to use that power. Betraying her imperfect command of the English language, Omar continued: “And I want to underscore the importance of using every single leverage that we have at our — at, at our arsenal,

Back in 1999, William F. Buckley Jr. interviewed the economist John Kenneth Galbraith on Firing Line. The gents’ topic was historic figures. Around twenty-four minutes in, Buckley got to President Franklin Roosevelt. Galbraith, then ninety, turned nostalgic. “Of my generation, there was no figure like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And I still wake up in the morning and say, ‘Well, Galbraith, you’re still a New Dealer.’ ” Certainly. But do the rest of us have to be?

January 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole is not a Trump supporter like the legacy media has claimed. Fox News, CNBC, and MS NOW are reporting that J6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole “expressed doubts about the 2020 election outcome.” MS NOW reported that Brian Cole is a Trump supporter. Cole’s family said he is an “autistic recluse” and “computer nerd” who lived in the basement of his parents’ Woodbridge, Virginia, home. Brian Cole’s grandmother told The Daily Mail that her grandson has no party affiliation and that he is not a Trump supporter. The Daily Mail reported: The 30-year-old Virginia man accused of planting pipe bombs near Capitol Hill on the eve of the

Getting recruited: This is Part 3 of a series that looks behind the curtain of college recruiting. USA TODAY Sports was granted behind-the-scenes access by the football staff at the University of Pennsylvania, a Division I program that offers a high academic profile but no Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) money or scholarships. We also conducted a phone interview with Jerheme Urban, a former NFL wide receiver who is now the head football coach at Trinity University, a high athletic and academic Division III liberal arts school in San Antonio

When reliable transportation became unaffordable for average families under Biden, it trapped millions in a cycle of debt, limited job opportunities and eroded independence, turning what used to be a basic middle-class necessity into a luxury that many could no longer attain. On Wednesday President Trump announced a comprehensive reset of Federal fuel economy standards . . . One vehicle in particular will benefit from such regulation reduction: the Asian sensation Kei truck . . .

The confessed Jan. 6 bomber flummoxed former President Joe Biden's FBI before he was arrested and charged this week with planting the explosives outside the headquarters of both major political parties' buildings in Washington, D.C.. President Trump's FBI, led by Director Kash Patel, and prosecutors have released few details about the accused 30-year old's motivations, but investigative leads that law enforcement officials and congressional committees disclosed in the years preceding the bomber's arrest point to how agents found it so difficult to apprehend him.

The welfare fraud scam engulfing Minnesota’s Somali community is “the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for policy Stephen Miller declared. Miller, who also serves as a homeland security advisor to President Trump, said the fraud operation apparently carried out by numerous Somali migrants in the state will “rock the core of Minnesota politics and American politics.” “We believe that we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes,” he said in an appearance with Sean Hannity on Fox. Prosecutors have already charged dozens of state residents

A good part of a person’s success in the game of life is a product of nature and nurture – his genes and the parenting he received. People who were unlucky enough to receive bad genes, or bad parenting, or both, tend to be unsuccessful. Tragically for America, these people who are unsuccessful at life are the very people who are disproportionately successful at having babies. Those babies tend to inherit their parents’ bad genes and learn their bad parenting. When those babies grow up (or, often, just partially grow up) they, like their parents, are unsuccessful at life but disproportionately successful at having babies.

With Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, several high-profile contenders are vying for her seat. Georgia’s 14th District in the state’s northwest has drawn a crowded Republican field, with multiple candidates already filing or signaling interest in the special-election. Two notable challengers had already filed with the Federal Election Commission before Greene announced her January 2026 departure: Star Black, a business owner and retired FEMA official, and Jeff Criswell, a businessman who owns a sports memorabilia store in metro Atlanta. Black, who entered the race in June, has lived in the Kennesaw portion of the district for nearly two decades, according to Atlanta First News. Criswell was the Republican nominee

A suspect was taken into custody after police say they stole a license plate reader camera. What we know: One person stole a Flock license plate reader from a Mount Dora intersection, police said. The license plate reader is part of a $13,000 public safety system. [snip] Flock License Plate Readers not only capture a vehicle's license plate number, but also capture a vehicle's "fingerprint," including: the make, body type, color, plate state, resident or non-resident vehicle, type of plate, missing plate or other identifiers such as having a roof rack, window stickers or more.

Republicans will confirm a bloc of eight dozen Trump nominees as soon as next week following an attempted blockade by Senate Democrats. Republican leadership planned Thursday to kick-off the procedural process to confirm 88 of President Donald Trump's nominees in a bloc vote, but were initially thwarted by Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who challenged the package for violating Senate rules. When Republicans refiled the package later on Thursday, the conference included an additional nine nominees, bringing the total to nearly 100.

FBI Director Kash Patel says there is an ongoing investigation into federal personnel involved in the controversial Biden-era "Arctic Frost" probe that targeted scores of President Donald Trumps allies and gathered the phone records of many members of Congress. "I'm not going to let people get off the hook or get a hall pass," Patel told Just the News. . . . Patel said another key culture change was providing Congress with evidence it wanted about FBI misconduct after years of stonewalling. "We've issued 40,000 pages to Congress this year alone. Comey did 3,000 in three years. Wray did 17,000 in seven years."

Two dozen Republican lawmakers say members of Congress and their staff have access to taxpayer-funded healthcare plans that include coverage for elective abortions, in violation of federal law. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) led a bicameral letter on Friday to U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor demanding the agency stop “administering government contributions for Members of Congress and Congressional staff in connection with health insurance plans that cover elective abortion, in violation of the longstanding Smith (NJ) Amendment.” The letter explains that, since 1984, federal laws have prohibited the use of appropriated funds “to

In a bombshell revelation, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon announced that over 260,000 dead people and thousands of noncitizens are confirmed to be registered to vote in the U.S. after a review of thirty states that have worked voluntarily with the DOJ to clean their voter rolls. In a video posted on Social Media, Dhillon provided the receipts and a warning to states like California, who refuse to turn over their voter rolls to DOJ. At the time of Dhillon's announcement, the DOJ has reviewed 47.5 million voter records.

One of my favorite Western reruns is "The Rifleman," starring the steely-jawed Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain. In one episode, John Hamilton, president of North Fork's first bank, tried to talk a buzz of skeptical townsfolk into putting their lifesavings into the "absolute safety" of his bank. The crowd didn't budge until Hamilton introduced his new security guard, former gunslinger Floyd Doniger, who awed the crowd by shooting plates in mid-air as fast as Hamilton's men tossed them up. It worked. The townsfolk streamed into the bank with their lifesavings. Doniger, now perched on a loft with a ready rifle, scanned the bank like a human security camera. After securing the people's trust

Pope Leo just wrapped his tour of oppressed Christian communities in Islamist dominated nations like Turkey and Lebanon. Rather than directly address the persecution of Christians, he praised the local regimes, met with Muslim leaders, took off his shoes at a mosque and took refuge in vague generalities. In Lebanon, Pope Leo offered no direct criticism of Hezbollah or Islam. He visited and prayed at the Port of Beirut, where a Hezbollah weapons explosion killed over 200 people, many of them Christians, and the blast damaged churches and devastated families. Pope Leo avoided placing blame, claiming instead that it’s natural to be “paralyzed by powerlessness in the face of evil”, but urged

I used to believe that Democrats had limits. Recent events have forced me to accept a different reality. Democrats really have no limits. They happily accepted USAID money laundered through foreign agents. They yelled, but weren’t all that unhappy when USAID was eliminated. It was just one pathway to taxpayer money. They had Somali agents in Minnesota diverting billions (with a B) to terrorist organizations, most likely with a bit of backsheesh diverted to support local Democrat operations. It was so obvious and outrageous that even the New York Times has reported on it. And now several outlets are reporting that current Minnesota governor and

The European Union is reportedly preparing to sit down with Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program -- again. On the surface, this international charm offensive may appear to be a constructive effort toward dialogue, but a dryer analysis suggests that such negotiations risk handing a monumental victory to a vicious regime that is vulnerable and weak -- and rabidly opportunistic. By offering Iran another platform for legitimacy, the EU and the UN are shoring up a monumentally brutal regime at a time when, for the West's own good, it should be applying pressure, not extending a hand.

The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist. The Democrats chose their latest cause: standing up for Venezuela’s narco-terrorist regime. They advanced a novel “legal” theory, that it is perfectly OK to kill drug dealers in the Caribbean by blowing up their boat, but only if you do it in a single explosion. Makes perfect sense, just like how we fought World War II. But the biggest story of the week was corruption in Minnesota–billions stolen from taxpayers, mostly by Somalis, under the somnolent eye of Governor Tim Walz.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has repeatedly insisted that she will not allow the U.S. military to fight drug cartels inside her nation’s borders. “It’s not going to happen,” Sheinbaum said last month after President Trump yet again threatened such an operation. “We don’t want intervention by any foreign government.” But while Sheinbaum passionately defends her nation’s sovereignty, recent polls and interviews from across Mexico show that a significant number of people here in fact welcome having U.S. boots on the ground. Slightly more than half of Mexicans surveyed by polling firm Mitofsky said they believe “U.S. authorities should enter Mexican territory to fight organized crime and arrest its leaders.”