Posts on Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Rand Paul Worries Trump Is Pursuing a
‘Regime Change War’: I Hope His Past
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‘Regime Change War’: I Hope His Past
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Fox News anchor John Roberts spoke to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday about President Donald Trump’s threat that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s days in power “are numbered.” Roberts began the interview after playing the clip of Trump’s apparent threat, saying, “Kentucky Senator Rand Paul sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and he joins me now. I know, Senator, that you have concerns about President Trump going to war in Venezuela or, at the very least, mounting some sort of an invasion. Do you think that that is in the cards?”
Democrats can now add a major city in Donald Trump’s home state — and one set to host his future presidential library — to its list of off-cycle election wins. In a Tuesday runoff, Miamians elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, the first woman in the city’s history to hold the job and the first Democrat in 28 years. Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, an ex-city manager who had the endorsement of Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis. Though the race and the job of mayor are nominally nonpartisan, the election generated sizable interest from national Democrats and Republicans. Higgins’ win adds to the slew of victories
A Grammy-nominated musician was struck and killed by a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police said.
Roderick Macleod, 70, was a member of the band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received a Grammy nomination for his work with them. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2014, according to local media reports.
Macleod was walking his dogs when he was hit by a car on Saturday, the Hopkinton Police Department said in a news release. The alleged driver was identified by police as as Shannon Godbout. She is 41, CBS Boston reported,
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrest of two New Jersey men Tuesday who allegedly threatened to torture and murder assistant secretary of Homeland Security for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin.
Authorities charged Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores over posts on social media that declared their intentions to shoot United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on sight and to hang McLaughlin, according to a Tuesday release by DHS. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons vowed that threats against officials would not be tolerated.
“Let this be a warning to anyone who dares threaten or attack our brave law enforcement officers,”
There Isn't a single reason to continue giving Democrats the benefit of the doubt on their destructive, anti-American policies, least of all on immigration, yet the New York Times is here this week to do just that. In an unnecessarily long article our Sunday, Times reporter Christopher Flavelle sought to recast the Joe Biden era's catastrophic mess at the Southern border as a matter of misjudgment and political failure rather than what it really was -- deliberate harm inflicted on the nation.
A North Carolina high school student said she was accused of vandalism by her school and told she was being investigated by law enforcement after she painted her school's "spirit rock" with a religious and patriotic tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
According to a new complaint filed Monday and shared first with Fox News Digital, Gabby Stout, a junior at Ardrey Kell High School, called her school's front office on September 12 to ask if she could paint the school spirit rock with a patriotic message honoring Kirk, who was killed two days prior. Stout was told she could do so
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court should consider a basic constitutional reality: county officials from Boulder, Colorado, cannot force their preferred climate policies on the rest of the nation. Obvious as it seems, that is what’s at stake in Suncor Energy Inc. v. Boulder County, a climate change case the court will weigh for review on Dec. 12.[snip] If Boulder gets its way, the casualties won’t be confined to the energy companies it endeavors to bankrupt; American consumers and the U.S. economy writ large will be caught in the crossfire.
The new Washington Post editorial board continues to be a surprise. I suspect they have posted more right-leaning material in the past 3 months than was published in the paper during Biden's entire term in office.
In any case, today the Post makes the case that Obamacare subsidies, the coming expiration of which was the stated reason Democrats shut down the government, should not be extended. Why? Because there is lots of evidence suggesting the program is rife with fraud.
On party-line votes in 2021 and 2022, Democrats invoked the pandemic emergency to temporarily expand eligibility for Obamacare insurance subsidies. Preserving these credits, which are due to expire
The New Yorker at 100, a new documentary airing on Netflix, has a lot going for it. The impressive history of the legendary magazine, going back to the 1920s, is recounted, and great contemporary writers, like music critic Kelefa Sanneh, are interviewed. Where it falls down is in avoiding the New Yorker’s worst mistakes, namely falling for Russiagate and perpetuating the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco.
It’s a shame, because The New Yorker at 100 does cop to serious mistakes - most obviously, the fact, revealed years later, that parts of Truman Capote’s 1965 crime story In Cold Blood were made up.
What? Not Republicans pounce™? No seizing? No mention of dastardly GOP tricks?
I hear you gasp in disbelief, and I share your pain amusement. But in this case, the Washington Post focuses mainly on the real problem, which is a state party that seems to believe it's in California rather than Texas. Here's the headline, in case an editor figures out a way to blame the GOP later today: They're not wrong, except in scope, which we'll look at in a moment. The WaPo assessment correctly focuses on the political ouroboros currently taking place as House Democrats play musical chairs with fewer seats:
Democrats saw a potential opportunity in flipping Texas
Civil war and famine spurred many Somalians to immigrate to the United States in 1991 and settle in Minnesota. That was 34 years ago. Somalians could have assimilated into U.S. culture by now, but American taxpayers have been roped into funding programs that coddle Somalians’ Third-World culture and disincentivize their assimilation.
The Somali population explosion has rendered parts of Minneapolis unrecognizable as they impose a decidedly non-American culture on every aspect of the city. Somalis are members of the police force, city council, state legislature, and even Congress, still speaking their own language in those positions and, at times, cutting English speakers out of the loop.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A cadre of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers now stand watch over Texas’s most visited historic site. The Alamo Trust, a non-profit organization responsible for the daily operations of the historic site, transferred security responsibility to the troopers who have been in place since September.
The move was mandated by Texas Senate Bill 3059, signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on June 20, 2025. Among other provisions related to the preservation and management of the Mission San Antonio de Valero, commonly referred to as the Alamo, the bill established the Alamo Commission, comprising state elected officials, including the governor, to oversee the historic site.
DOJ Sues Loudoun County over Religious
Discrimination in ‘Gender-Inclusive’
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Discrimination in ‘Gender-Inclusive’
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Loudoun County was hit with a Department of Justice lawsuit on Tuesday over its transgender policies, after the district suspended two Christian high school boys who expressed discomfort with the presence of a girl in their locker room.
In March, a female student at Stone Bridge High School recorded a group of boys in the men’s locker room asking why a girl was allowed to use the boys’ locker room. Although recording in locker rooms is against district policy, the district opened a Title IX investigation into the boys, two Christian and one Muslim, and accused the two Christian boys of sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination.
National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, shot at close range by an Afghan alien in D.C. just before Thanksgiving, is now able to do some physical therapy as he recovers. Wolfe’s mother, Melody, described him as being in “stable but critical condition,” able to respond to commands and move different parts of his body. He also voluntarily reached out to comfort his mother as she sat by his bedside. Hopefully, he will be alert and out of critical condition by Christmas, but doctors appear to be cautious in their positive statements about the likely progress of his recovery. Melody Wolfe herself shared an update that
The Supreme Court on Dec. 8 vacated a ruling upholding New York’s ban on religious exemptions to its school vaccine mandate and ordered a lower court to review its stance on the ban. The case is known as Miller v. McDonald.
Justices vacated the March decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which had found the legislation banning religious exemptions to vaccination requirements was “neutral on its face” and did not “target or affirmatively prohibit religious practices.”
lorida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that his state has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, following a similar move by Texas.
Texas became the first state to label the groups as foreign terrorist organizations last month, which forbids both organizations and their affiliates from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas and allows increased enforcement against the groups.
DeSantis said the new designation is in effect "immediately."
Highlighting exactly why Barack Obama, Joe Biden and James Clyburn needed to deploy a 2021 Machiavellian strategy to get her moved onto the Supreme Court, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) argues for the supreme power of the DC bureaucracy that must not be challenged by the President of the United States (Executive Branch).
In the case of Trump v Slaughter, the removal of the FTC Chair, Justice KBJ argues that presidential authority must be kept in check by the unelected “professionals and experts” who make up the bureaucracy underneath him. The “No Kings” argument is entirely ridiculous given the plenary power of the executive and the constitutional authority of the
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) leads among young Democratic voters in a hypothetical 2028 presidential primary, according to a new survey.The Yale Youth Poll, released on Monday, shows Ocasio-Cortez with a double-digit lead over former Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other potential contenders when Democrats under 35 are asked which hypothetical candidate they would support if the 2028 primary were held today. Among registered Democrats ages 18-22, 30 percent would back Ocasio-Cortez, 20 percent would support Harris and 12 percent would vote for Newsom. Among Democrats ages 23-29
I will say one thing: the Democrats’ participation in the linguistic gymnastics remains undefeated. It provides a window into the mental illness that is American liberalism, and you learn fascinating new ways to destroy the meaning of words. It’s entertainment, since only those hitting the crack pipe would believe the talking points and other trash jargon coming from this party.
Operation Southern Spear is taking out narco-terrorists in the Caribbean. Democrats have a problem with this, though not any of the terrorists Barack Obama wiped out through drone strikes—500 total during his presidency, and yes, civilians were killed. Americans were on these kill lists. Yet, Democrats
Man Behind App That Helps Illegals Evade
ICE Now Suing Bondi, Noem, Homan After
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ICE Now Suing Bondi, Noem, Homan After
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The man behind a viral app that tracks deportation officers is accusing the Trump administration of violating his free speech rights after Apple removed the app from its store.
Joshua Aaron, the liberal activist who launched ICEBlock earlier this year, filed a lawsuit against several top administration officials in federal court on Monday, according to court documents.
Aaron, who has publicly praised Antifa in the past and likened Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Nazis, is claiming the White House unconstitutionally suppressed his free speech rights when it successfully provoked Apple into removing ICEBlock from its App Store in October.
Mace slams House GOP leaders in op-ed,
claiming Pelosi was 'more effective' speaker
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claiming Pelosi was 'more effective' speaker
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South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace slammed her party's House leadership Monday in an opinion piece for the New York Times, where she claimed that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a "more effective" leader than Republicans.
Mace is the latest female Republican lawmaker to blast House leadership and the Trump administration, after Georgia firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene broke from her party to criticize its leadership in recent months.
"I came to Congress five years ago believing I could make a difference for my constituents, for South Carolina and for a country I love deeply," Mace wrote in her piece. "But I’ve learned that the system in the House
A veteran producer at CNN now serves as a registered foreign agent for the Qatar Foundation working to "elevate and promote" the regime-led nonprofit "within U.S. media," federal disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Monika Plocienniczak joined CNN as an associate producer in 2010, shortly after she graduated with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She left the network five years later to work in the public relations industry, eventually joining the New York-based firm RF Binder as a managing director in December 2023. It was then that Plocienniczak registered as a foreign agent representing the Qatar Foundation. In her federal disclosure, which is active through
Remember when Governor Gavin Newsom, who has presided over the exponential growth of hundreds of thousands of homeless drug addicts living on California streets, magically cleaned up San Francisco ahead of the arrival of Xi Jinping and the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit . . .? The streets were suddenly shiny clean, devoid of the usual tents and encampments, piles of trash and filth, human excrement, and drug-addled zombies. The sidewalks and many businesses . . . received a world class cleaning. And then once the APEC Summit was over, the homeless drug addicts and their tent camps moved back in.
NDAA Requires Trump Spy Agencies To Declassify
Intel On Covid-19 Origins And Chinese Obstruction replies
Intel On Covid-19 Origins And Chinese Obstruction replies
The National Defense Authorization Act calls for "declassification" and "transparency" related to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, requiring the Trump Administration's spy agencies to release its intelligence related to the Wuhan lab that the coronavirus is suspected of being released from in 2019. . . . It includes a section calling upon the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to work with the heads of all 18 U.S. spy elements to "perform a declassification review of intelligence" related to "the origins of Coronavirus Disease in 2019, and related to "efforts by . . . the People's Republic of China" to cover up the origins of the pandemic.
A group of MAGA influencers recently took a luxury trip to Qatar, sparking criticism from prominent allies of President Donald Trump, who alleged the visit smacked of a foreign influence campaign, according to a new report.
In late November, right-wing internet personalities Emily Wilson, Caitlin Sinclair and Rob Smith flew to the Gulf state and documented their visits to a nightclub, upscale restaurants and a Formula 1 race.
A student at a Christian university in California said her Turning Point USA chapter was barred from being recognized as an official chapter, which the school explained is its official policy for "political advocacy initiatives." Sadie Burnett is in her third year at Vanguard University, a small private school in Costa Mesa, California. She is the president of the school's Turning Point USA chapter, which is presently unrecognized by the school.
There is an intriguing question Virginia’s Attorney General-Elect (AG) Jay Jones should be asked, though it is doubtful he would choose to answer it.
Jones is the Democrat who won election as the commonwealth state’s new AG in November, despite some very disturbing news about him that came out in the weeks prior. Unbelievably, he won the top law enforcement office, despite having fantasized in a series of 2022 texts to a state legislator, Delegate Carrie Coyner, about killing not only a Republican legislator but the murder of the man’s family as well.
The Republican opponent about whom he fantasized killing was then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert. Not only were
Stop Recycling Plastic
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Microplastic accumulation in the human body could be a serious health hazard, according to some researchers, and might be linked to cancer, heart attacks and other threatening medical conditions. We’ll never eliminate all microplastic from the environment, but we could significantly reduce the volume if we’d just shut down plastic recycling.
A Stanford Medicine article says scientists estimate that “adults ingest the equivalent of one credit card per week in microplastics,” which sounds frightening, even though only a “few studies have directly examined the impact of microplastics on human health, leaving us in the dark about how dangerous they
NYC mayor-elect tells residents how to
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resist ICE agents knocking at their door
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New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Sunday released a video outlining New Yorkers’ rights during encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an attempted raid in Manhattan, pledging that his administration will safeguard immigrant communities while protecting the city’s constitutional right to protest.
The video comes as immigration enforcement in New York faces renewed scrutiny, underscoring how Mamdani plans to confront federal actions he says threaten immigrant communities and demand that New Yorkers be prepared, informed and confident in asserting their legal rights. In the video, Mamdani opens by recalling an ICE raid last weekend in Manhattan that sought to detain immigrants.
I’ve seen the enemy up close … coffee-breath close, not sanitized through a remote monitor screen in some cushy Pentagon operations center. I saw him in the Hindu Kush, wearing the uniform I helped put on his back, carrying the rifle I taught him to shoot, eating the chow I shared with him – only to have him slip out at night to plant IEDs (improvised explosive device) for his Taliban brothers using the very gear for which Uncle Sam paid.
Amid an orgy of executions and the accelerating collapse of its economy, the mullahs' regime has driven the Iranian people to unprecedented levels of hardship. The latest plunge of the national currency to a historic low is not an accident of market forces, nor the consequence of global instability. It is the inevitable result of decades of plunder, corruption, and ideological fanaticism by a ruling clerical mafia whose survival depends on bleeding the nation dry. In recent days, the U.S. dollar smashed through the 1,250,000-rial threshold for the first time, shattering all previous records.
The Meaning of Hate
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In November, the Daily Sceptic reported that a policeman had told a Christian preacher that some words painted on his van “could be seen as hate speech in the wrong context”. The words were a Biblical verse: Chapter 3, verse 16 of the Gospel according to John, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”
Of course, the Free Speech Union observed that for such words to be prohibited or penalised would violate free speech, and that if a police officer is even suggesting they might be,
Here we go again: the sun rises, another federal judge kneecaps the Trump agenda. In this latest ruling, issued Monday, a Bill Clinton-appointed jurist decided that Trump hasn’t explained himself enough and “failed to justify” his decision to put a halt to the wind project madness that has swept the country. Sometimes I wish the president would just say, “I got 77 million votes, you didn’t — that’s my justification. Buzz off.” Of course, he can’t do that: On Trump’s first day in office (January 20), he issued an executive order titled “Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing -
Last week, I told you how about how Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal Barrios, an ex-military intelligence officer for the Venezuelan regime, who was a powerful official within Nicolás Maduro's Cartel de los Soles, wrote Donald Trump a letter. As of Monday evening, another former Maduro insider has come forward with a similar letter, which was also provided to the Dallas Express.
Former Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones was a high-ranking commander in Venezuela’s armed forces who served under Hugo Chávez, and at one point in time he was more powerful than even Maduro within the Chávez government.
The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting — covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.
At the tail end of 2025, the Times has broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence.
Who knew?
The nearly 4,000-word story by Christopher Flavelle, with 14 colleagues contributing additional reporting and research, is certainly well-sourced, but none of its facts have just come to light.
It dissects Biden’s immigration misdeeds and missteps over each of his four years in office.
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery, announced Monday, places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo.
There was some relief at CNN with last Friday’s announcement that Netflix was buying Warner’s studio and streaming businesses, since the cable network would not be a part of that deal. Paramount’s bid, if successful, opens the possibility of a combined CNN and CBS News. The management uncertainty adds to what is already a challenging time at CNN, where there was no doubt who was in charge before swashbuckling founder Ted Turner sold his company in 1996.