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Conservative Article Reference List

Below are links with summaries of primarily Conservative, Libertarian-leaning articles and/or blog posts that I have found enlightening with all that is happening in America and worldwide.

Scan the list and read what catches your eye; for some, just reading the headlines and summaries should provide enough insight into the article’s content.

(Some articles may appear outlandish but are also believable, so I leave it to readers to decide for themselves, and many things we considered to be conspiracy theories in the past are now turning out to be true.)

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Breitbart: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is issuing an order to all State Department personnel that ends COVID-era work-from-home guidelines, ordering them all back to work in person at the State Department. – The OMB reported in August that 10% of the 2.28 million federal workers were fully remote with no expectation to go into the office regularly.

Daily Wire: President Trump said on Tuesday that he is considering imposing a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports in response to China’s failure to curb fentanyl trafficking into the United States. – Trump also signaled that he may impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1 over their failures to address illegal immigration and the fentanyl flow into the United States…

Daily Wire: President Trump Has Initiated A Review Of All FAA Workers In ‘Critical Safety Positions’ – The Biden administration sought to recruit and hire individuals with serious infirmities specifically – Trump’s memo also reiterated previous executive orders stipulating that the federal government would no longer look at “equity” when hiring but practice merit-based hiring focused on skills, experience, and patriotism.

Daily Wire: Fetterman Voted With Republicans to Advance Hegseth Nomination and Says He Won’t Switch to the GOP – Fetterman’s vote was not required to advance the nomination because Republicans hold 53 seats in the 100-member chamber. – The final vote on Hegseth is expected in the coming days.

Washington Examiner: President Trump has rescinded Biden’s executive order that set aside federal funding to register Democrats to vote in elections. – Republican lawmakers and conservative think tanks are still demanding internal documents that, as part of their investigations into the order over alleged illegality, they believe will pull back the curtain on outside influence and government overreach.

American Thinker: Biden’s Pardons Prove His Corruption – Nothing magnifies the reasons why Trump won, why the Kamala/Biden regime lost, and proves Biden’s corruption more than the pre-emptive pardons given by Joe in the final days of his failed presidency. – Historically, people were given pardons after being found guilty of a crime. – Is a preemptive pardon for crimes not yet discovered even legal? – We’ll soon find out if they’re legal, but, at a minimum, they’re very unethical…

Geller Report: Hamas Hostages Were Held in UNRWA Compounds – Hostages were held in UNRWA compounds. Three Israeli women held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for 471 days reported they were held captive for part of the time in UN shelters. – How do we know it was UNRWA? – Because UNRWA told us and boasted about it: “UNRWA runs all of the UN shelters.”

The Daily Fetched: The WHO responded to President Donald Trump‘s decision to withdraw the US from the UN WHO by urging him to reverse his executive order. – Trump criticized the agency for its COVID-19 pandemic orders and noted that China pays only a small fraction, $39 million, compared to the $500 million that the U.S. spends.

American Thinker: The CO2 Climate Change Canard Is Coming Apart At The Seams—Over the last decade, several pedigreed scientists have performed qualitative analyses and experiments that disprove the assumption that “increases in atmospheric CO2 will cause a linear and dangerous increase in global temperatures.” – Recent studies show no linear relationship between rising CO2 levels and rising temperatures.

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January 21, 2025

Center Square: President Trump formally declared an invasion at the U.S. southern border and issued directives to suspend all physical entry to repel the invasion. – Trump is the first president in modern history to declare an invasion at a U.S. border.

Daily Mail: The Trump family watches in disbelief as a woke bishop scorns him by delivering a stunningly negative sermon calling for Donald Trump to show ‘mercy’ to illegal immigrants and transgender children during the Inauguration Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral. – Despite the stone-faced looks on the Trump family and the awkward silence in the cathedral, Bishop Budde continued her stunning pro-migrant scolding of the president.

Wall Street Journal: Trump Pushes For An Early Renegotiation of The U.S. Trade Deals With Mexico And Canada – Trump is particularly focused on using the threat of tariffs to change automotive rules under the continental trade pact, forcing car plants to move from Canada and Mexico back to the U.S. – The (USMCA) trade agreement, crafted during Trump’s first term, was a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Just The News: An FBI-approved book manuscript supports Kash Patel’s Benghazi narrative challenged by the New York Times – The former lead agent in the case confirms there was frustration among investigators and politics kept the Justice Department from approving operations to capture several conspirators.

American Spectator: What Exactly Did Biden Pardon Anthony Fauci For? – In 2021, Senator Rand Paul, a medical doctor, charged that Fauci had lied to Congress about funding GOF research in Wuhan. – However, Biden’s DOJ rejected two criminal referrals. Never held accountable, the NIAID boss announced his retirement in late 2022, but he continued to receive government-funded security and transportation details.

Trending Politics: Far-left Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is exploring ways he can bring state charges against Pennsylvania residents who President Trump pardoned for attending the January 6 Capitol protests. – The Soros-backed DA’s plans would likely face significant legal hurdles, such as double jeopardy. – He says,” You can have a state prosecution for conduct not fully encompassed in the federal prosecution.”

Western Journal: Trump Just Gave the Fire Victims in LA a Long Overdue Present That Will Change Everything. — On Monday, President Donald Trump issued one of his first executive orders directing the implementation of a plan to deliver more water from northern California to the central and southern parts of the state.  – He argued that the lack of water caused the California wildfires to do such damage.

Daily Signal: Trump’s Executive Orders Target Unleashing the US Economy—Trump ended federal government cooperation with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development global tax deal, which attempted to lock American companies into paying a minimum effective tax rate of 15% on their profits.

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Western Journal: Trump’s Tie Sent a Subtle Message Only People Paying Attention Would Have Noticed, Saying The Entire Dem-Media Complex Had Lied – At first glance, photos of Trump during the swearing-in ceremony appeared to show him sporting a purple tie, but the tie featured interwoven red and blue colors, suggesting national unity is a major priority…

John Daniel Davidson: Trump’s Executive Orders On Immigration Prove Biden Could Have Secured The Border At Any Time – Chaos on the border and mass illegal immigration were policy outcomes the Biden administration chose on purpose. – First, Trump declared an emergency at the border and ordered the U.S. military to resume constructing the border wall immediately. – Trump also ordered U.S. troops to be deployed to the U.S./Mexico border under NORTHCOM, followed by…

Daily Wire: India Tells Trump It Will Take Back 18,000 Illegal Immigrants To Avoid A Trade War – The number of Indian illegal immigrants in the U.S. could be far higher. – India hopes that by cooperating with the Trump administration on illegal immigration, the U.S. will protect the process for Indian citizens to legally immigrate to the U.S. through student visas and the H-1 B program for skilled workers.

Slay News: Trump To Reinstate All Service Members ‘Unjustly Expelled’ for Refusing To Take The COVID ‘Vaccines,’ ‘With Full Back Pay.’ – Trump, “I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty.” – “It’s going to end immediately.” – “Our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission of defeating America’s enemies.”

Washington Examiner: Trump’s strong hint of coming CIA covert action against Mexican drug cartels – In his inaugural address, Trump pledged he would be “designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.” – This is a strong indication that Trump is preparing to issue a highly classified covert action finding that would authorize the CIA to engage in violent action against the cartels. – It is clear that Trump is set to enjoin a very different U.S./Mexico relationship…

Epoch Times: President Trump Pardoned 1,500 January 6 Defendants And Commuted 14 Sentences. – He followed through on campaign pledges to take a case-by-case look at January 6 protesters, who had gathered in Washington to protest the 2020 election certification.

Washington Examiner: Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan has been relieved of duty due to her ‘leadership deficiencies’ and excessive focus on DEI. Admiral Kevin Lunday, the vice commandant, is slated to fill the vacancy in an acting capacity until the Senate can confirm a replacement.

Western Journal:  The Full List of Trump’s 40 Presidential Actions Trump Signed on Day One – Trump wasted no time on his first day back in office, signing a series of executive actions to restore national sovereignty, economic prosperity, and public safety. – Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization – Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021 – Hiring Freeze…

New York Post: President Donald Trump started purging over 1,000 Joe Biden appointees, starting with retired General Mark Milley. – A portrait of Milley was removed from the Pentagon on Monday after Trump’s inauguration. – Separately, Trump also ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants on Monday, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.

New York Post: The First two Jan. 6 prisoners released after Trump’s Day 1 pardon – Andrew and Matthew Valentin, from Stroudsburg, Pa., were released from the Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC, just before midnight – Trump issued “approximately 1,500 pardons” at the White House in between inaugural festivities on Monday.

Western Trump’s Immediately Changes To The Oval Office – Military flags for each branch of the service, removed by Biden, have been returned. – A portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt and a bust of labor leader Cesar Chavez were removed. – A bust of Winston Churchill that Biden removed was returned. – Trump, who had a portrait of Andrew Jackson on the wall in his first term, has a new Jackson portrait and images of the Trump family.

Breitbart: Trump Signed Several Pro-Israel Executive Orders on Day One – He revoked Biden’s sanctions related to the International Criminal Court prosecution of Netanyahu and Gallant – He blocked visas to individuals who support foreign terror organizations – He is pausing and reviewing foreign aid to ensure that funding does not go to groups that oppose U.S. interests, such as the terror-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA…

American Thinker: Trump II, My Initial Observations Of A New Reality — Trump is capable of successfully navigating multiple staircases without stumbling, hesitating, or using handrails. – He gave an impromptu speech, longer than his inaugural speech, with complete lucidity and without notes or a teleprompter. – The TSA Administrator responsible for politically putting Tulsi Gabbard on a no-fly list was fired at high noon…

Epoch Times: Trump’s Day 1 Executive Orders – Trump began signing a stack of executive orders following his Capitol One Arena speech, then issued more after reaching the Oval Office. – Major categories included Immigration and The Border – Federal Workers – Gender and DEI – Energy and the Environment – Military and National Security – Taxes and Tariffs – Federal Government Changes – And Other Executive Actions…

Newsmax: A coalition of 18 Democratic-led states, along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco, filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship is a flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution. –
That lawsuit followed a pair of similar cases filed by the American Civil Liberties Union hours after Trump signed the executive order…

Newsmax: Trump to Make a ‘Massive’ Infrastructure Announcement – OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle are working on plans for a $100 billion data center project that would include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called “Stargate” that is set to launch in 2028.

Gateway Pundit: In A Final Act, Judge Cannon Blocks The DOJ From Sharing Jack Smith’s Classified Documents Report with Congress. – Cannon repeatedly asked DOJ lawyers why they needed to show the report to lawmakers and whether the final report was safeguarded from being leaked to the public.

Breitbart: The regime media wasted no time launching its Hoax Machine. – Within hours of Donald Trump being sworn in, these disgraced and increasingly irrelevant serial liars tried to fool America into believing Elon Musk threw out a couple of Nazi salutes. – What Musk did was not at all confusing to decent people. Speaking to a crowd of Trump supporters, he said, “I just want to thank you for making it happen. Thank you.” – Then he touched his heart and gestured, throwing his heart out to the crowd…

Epoch Times: The Smoke Clears to Reveal LA’s DEI Follies – LA mayor Karen Bass wasn’t about to address the scandalous scene of more than 100 emergency vehicles and a crippling number of fire trucks lying idle in a massive parking lot in Los Angeles. – Voices wanting integrity issued warnings years in advance via a 14-page complaint that served as the basis for exposing the cesspool of misconduct in the LAFD…

American Thinker: The dark side of Europe’s energy devolution – The mistakes of the U.K. and Germany this winter are a wake-up call for policymakers worldwide considering their energy policies. – The UK and Germany have positioned themselves as global leaders in adopting “renewable” energy. – Still, their dangerous gamble of prioritizing wind and solar power over reliable energy sources leaves millions vulnerable in the dead of winter…

January 20, 2025

CNBC: Joe Biden Pardoned His Family During Final Minutes In Office – Biden pardoned his brother, James Biden; James’ wife, Sara Jones Biden; his younger sister, Valerie Biden Owens; Owens’ husband, John Owens; and his other brother, Francis Biden. – He issued the preemptive pardons, citing supposed concerns they would be targeted by “baseless and politically motivated investigations.”

Breitbart: Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the US to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement again. – Trump’s action, hours after he was sworn into a second term, echoed his directive in 2017 when he announced that the U.S. would abandon the global Paris Accord.

Breitbart: Trump Rescinded 78 of Biden’s Executive Actions with the Stroke of a Pen – Trump reversed Biden’s executive orders that reinstated catch-and-release, halted criminal illegal alien deportations, and granted government-funded benefits for illegal aliens. Trump also targeted Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, phasing out gas-powered automobiles and crushing emissions standards to end gas-powered vehicles by 2030…

American Thinker: A Wife’s Smile Illuminated the Inauguration – As I watched JD Vance take the oath of office, behind him stood his wife, Usha, her smile, genuine, warm, full of thanks and grace, not the rictus tooth flashing so often seen in DC. – Contrast that simple, radiant smile with the frown, the barely restrained disgust and hatred emanating from Kamala Harris as Trump delivered his inaugural address…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Absurd Outrage Directed at Trump After His Inaugural — I scanned the mainstream media, network news, and some cable outlets, and there was a sense of outrage—outrage at the ambition of the Trump revolution and at the direct criticism of people in the audience who had engineered or were part of the Biden tenure…

Daily Signal: 8 Takeaways From Trump’s Second Inaugural Address – 1. ‘Stars and Stripes on the Planet Mars’ – 2. ‘He Was Saved From Assassination For a Reason’ – 3. ‘The Justice System Weaponization … Will End’ – 4. ‘This Is Liberation Day’ and Honoring MLK – 5. ‘There Are Only Two Genders’ – 6. ‘External Revenue Service To Handle Foreign Countries’ – 7. ‘The National Emergency at Our Southern Border’ – 8. ‘The National Energy Emergency’

NBC 5 Chicago: An Extensive List Of Executive Orders Trump Signed On Inauguration Day – Withdraw the US from the World Health Organization – Keep TikTok online for now – A sweeping pardon of 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants – Declared a “national emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border – Directive ordering the restoration of freedom of speech and preventing government censorship of speech…

Epoch Times: Trump Ends the CBP One App Used by Migrants to Easily Secure US Entry Appointments—The app was deactivated on President Donald Trump’s first day in office.

American Spectator: The Frightful Legacy Of The Republican Anti-Trumpers – These anti-Trump Republicans and conservatives have only themselves to blame for the disastrous Biden legacy. – They helped produce four years of perhaps the worst presidency in American history, supposedly led by a man in obvious cognitive decline. – The Biden presidency is the political legacy of the Republican anti-Trumpers…

Epoch Times: The Senate Unanimously Confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State in a 99-0 vote. – Rubio has said that the CCP is his top focus, which he defined as ’the most potent and dangerous, near-peer adversary this nation has ever confronted.’

Just The News: Trump reversed Biden’s decision and reinstated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism – Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed in his confirmation hearing that restrictions would be imposed on Cuba. – The Trump White House also put out a list of “restricted entities,” many of which are Cuban entities.

Daily Caller: The Senate Passed The Laken Riley Act In A 64-35 Vote Shortly After Trump’s Inauguration With Twelve Democrats Voting Yes – The bill requires federal immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants who commit theft-related crimes in the U.S. The legislation would also allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their residents because of illegal immigration.

Western Journal: Vivek Ramaswamy Is Out of the Trump Administration After Claiming American Workers Have a ‘Culture’ Problem—This development occurs as Ramaswamy considers running for office and after his comments about American culture raised eyebrows among much of the Trump base.

FAR: Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech – Full Text – Donald Trump spoke to the world shortly after being sworn in as the 47th President Of The United States…

Epoch Times: Trump Is Inaugurated as The 47th President And Called For A ‘Revolution of Common Sense’ – Former presidents, foreign dignitaries, and former tech entrepreneur foes attended this historic event in the Capitol Rotunda. – He declared that all the bad things from the last eight years are about to change. – “From this moment on, America’s decline is over.”

Gateway Pundit: Trump Senior Advisor Jason Miller Says Trump Will Sign Many Executive Orders “Within a Matter of Minutes and Hours” – He states, “President Trump is poised to sign over 200 Executive Orders after he is sworn in today.” – Additionally, the administration intends to pardon individuals prosecuted in connection with the January 6 Capitol events, promoting national healing and unity.

Populist Times: Trump will Suspend the Security Clearances of 51 Intelligence Officials Who “Lied” that the Hunter Biden Laptop was Russian Disinformation. – The letter they signed was critical in downplaying Hunter’s crimes and shielding his father from scrutiny during the hotly contested 2020 presidential election, which he contentiously won. – Many Americans were convinced that the Hunter laptop story was Republican propaganda aimed at discrediting the then-former vice president, Joe Biden.

Fox News: Biden Issues Last Minute Pardons For Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, And J6 Committee Members – In addition to the named individuals, the pardon applies to “Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee, and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.”…

American Thinker: The Great Man Returns—President Trump Is Not Like His Predecessors—In an essay years ago, I asked a simple question: “What do Democrats fear in Donald Trump?” – Then I offered a straightforward answer: they fear his potential for greatness. – One look at the necrotic assembly present for Carter’s funeral provides visual proof of my earlier, then asked-and-answered query.

Zero Hedge: These Are The Foreign Leaders And Politicians Attending Trump’s Inauguration – No foreign head of state had attended the U.S. presidential inauguration since at least 1874 when the State Department began recording such things. – Javier Milei, President of Argentina – Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy – Han Zheng, Vice President of the People’s Republic of China – Takeshi Iwaya, Foreign Minister of Japan – Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India…

American Thinker: The Lousiest President of All Time – Anybody who wants to explain how bad the Biden administration has to start with COVID. – The average age of death from the virus was in the 80s. – It had almost zero effect on the young and children. – Most who died had three or more co-morbidities. – It was in the same class of virus as the common cold. – And yet, America was hit with shutdowns and strictly enforced mRNA vaccine mandates…

Breitbart: Trump Taps Space Force Veteran Matthew Lohmeier, Fired Under Biden as Air Force Undersecretary, in a Parting Gift as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Departs. Although the timing may have been a coincidence, the move highlights the massive change about to be ushered in at the Pentagon under the incoming Trump administration.

Washington Free Beacon: In one of its final actions under President Joe Biden, the Department of Energy earmarked billions of dollars in green energy loans to utility companies based in Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s home state of Michigan. – This was done in defiance of the agency’s inspector general, who called on the Biden administration to suspend the loan program amid conflict-of-interest concerns.

American Conservative: Biden’s Bureaucrats are Working to Obstruct Trump’s Next Term – Embedded activists are “burrowing in” to career roles ahead of the inauguration. – The number of bureaucrats greatly outweighs the number of political appointees Trump will get to set in place. – There were about 4,700 posts requiring presidential appointment in March 2024. – 2.3 million non-defense, non-postal workers dwarf this were reported for the same month.

American Thinker: Today, Truth Will Rapidly Begin To Replace Lawfare’s Lies. – Democrats have long used lawfare to sideline conservatives, but the incoming Trump administration, with the help of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley, will end this abuse. Under likely incoming FBI Director Patel, an extensive and essential glasnost (openness) episode will precede wholesale perestroika (reform).

The Federalist: How Trump’s Return To The White House Will Impact These Five Major Court Cases – The Classified Documents Case – Supreme Court to Decide if Schools Can Propagandize Kids on LGBTQ Ideology – Biden Administration DACA Regulations Stricken in Texas v. United States – The States Challenging the Counting of Illegal Aliens in The Census – Biden Administration Consent Decree Demanding Discrimination

Resist The Mainstream: Politico Unveils The Democrats’ Plan To”Inject Fresh Energy Into the LGBTQ+ Movement” – On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration for a second term, the National Federation of Stonewall Democrats has been reestablished, uniting 21 state-level advocacy groups under one umbrella to relaunch comes at a pivotal moment for the LGBTQ+ movement...

January 19, 2025

Daily Signal: Trump’s Big Agenda for First 100 Days – The major focus will be securing the border and combating illegal immigration while restoring the economy and curbing crime, which is also high on his agenda. – Trump will sign 200 executive actions on day one to end ‘Catch and Release;’ pause all offshore wind leases, terminate the electric vehicle mandate, abolish the Green New Deal, withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, and take several major steps to assert presidential control over the federal bureaucracy.”

The Free Press: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’ – The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns and also ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons, self-ID on passports, and more. – President Trump addressed everything in an expansive executive order he will sign tomorrow afternoon called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

One America News: Donald Trump, joined by JD Vance, attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery as the first stop of their Sunday inaugural events. – Following the ceremony, Trump and Vance departed for the Make America Great Again Rally at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., featuring speakers including Elon Musk, UFC CEO Dana White, and Vance.

One America News: Donald Trump spoke of a new age of American “prosperity, dignity, and pride” during his Sunday speech at the victory rally in Washington, D.C. – “Once and for all, we’re going to end the reign of a failed and corrupt political establishment in Washington. – We’re going to stop the invasion of our borders, we’re going to reclaim our wealth, and we’re going to unlock the liquid gold that’s right under our feet.”…

One America News: Musk Joined Trump On Stage At The Pre-Inauguration Rally – Trump has pledged to unseal domestic energy resources to combat inflation while delivering the lowest energy and electricity costs globally. – Musk stated they’re “looking forward to making a lot of changes” in Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). – “We’re going to do great things here.”…

Geller Report: Donald Trump held a rally on Sunday, January 19, at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his election victory. – The crowd was filled with a festival-like atmosphere as they danced, cheered, and rocked out to on-stage performers, including Kid Rock, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Greenwood, and The Village People.

One America News: The First 3 Hostages Returned To Israel As Ceasefire Deal With Hamas Begins. – On Sunday, 28-year-old British national Emily Darami, 24-year-old Romi Gonen, and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher were released to the International Committee for the Red Cross. The ceasefire deal was triggered just days after President-elect Donald Trump sent his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to pressure both sides into agreeing to an agreement before Inauguration Day.

American Thinker: Is it time to rethink the Senate confirmation process? – As expected, we witnessed grandstanding, virtue signaling, amateur theatrics, unintentional hilarity, partisan hackery, pettiness, and insanity. – Trump’s nominees were beset by a gaggle of jackasses in the Senate, but none of whom could hold a candle to them because Trump’s nominees seemed thoroughly prepared. – Here’s a look at some of the most cringe-inducing moments, in no partial order of worthlessness…

Center Square: TikTok restored service to American users Sunday after temporarily shutting down in response to a congressionally passed law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding its Chinese ownership. The company said it restored service after President-elect Donald Trump pledged to sign an executive order giving TikTok more time to resolve its ownership concerns.

Epoch Times: House Speaker Johnson Says He Plans to Uphold Ban on TikTok Over Threat It Poses – The Chinese Communist Party via TikTok has promoted ’terrible‘ messages to American children and is a ’very dangerous thing.’ – Responding to a question about the message Trump would send if he pauses the ban. – “And when President Trump issued the Truth post and said save TikTok, the way we read it is that he’s going to try to force along a true divestiture, changing of hands, the ownership.”

FAR: Donald Trump’s 2024 Inauguration Events – The 2025 Presidential Inauguration events will occur from January 18 to January 21, 2025. – Here’s an item-by-item list of the scheduled events… 

Townhall: The Trump Family Officially Arrives In Washington DC – With the nation’s eyes once again on the nation’s capital, the Trump family—including Melania, Ivanka, and Barron—were spotted boarding an official Air Force plane to make their way to their future home.

Geller Report: A Big Beautiful Bronze Trump Statue Unveiled Ahead of Inauguration—An Ohio artist has forged this larger-than-life 15-foot-tall, $1 million bronze statue of President Trump, which will tour the country before eventually ending up at the future Trump presidential library. – Sculptor Alan Cottrill’s “Don Colossus” immortalizes the iconic moment Trump defiantly pumped his fist into the air after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, PA, on July 13th, 2024.

Breitbart: PHOTOS Of The Conglomeration of Anti-Trump Leftists Marching on The Washington Mall Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration – What began in January 2017 as the “Women’s March” morphed into a smorgasbord of liberal, progressive, and socialist groups rebranded as the “People’s March” ahead of President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration…

Brownstone Institute: Biden’s Legacy Includes Covid Persecution, Censorship, and Across-the-Board Oppression – Biden perpetually trampled his January 20, 2021, oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” – Perhaps Biden’s biggest innovation was his doctrine that preserving democracy requires destroying freedom of speech. – The absurdity of the Biden reign was epitomized in July when he was browbeaten into ending his reelection campaign.

Breitbart: After The Delay, Hamas Has Provided Names of First Hostages to Be Freed – Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher are the names of the first three hostages to be freed on Sunday by Hamas – The three female hostages are the first of 33 set to be freed over the next six weeks as part of a 42-day agreement under which Israel will release over 1,900 terrorist prisoners, including several who have murdered Israeli civilians…

American Thinker: Trump Should End Government Unions. – If Trump has the will to do this, it will be the most important blow he can strike against the inefficient, partisan Democrat bureaucracy. – President Kennedy’s unionization of the government workforce led to inefficiencies, divided loyalties, and complicated management processes. – Federal employees made approximately 84% of their donations to Democrat party candidates in the 2024 election cycle.

American Thinker: For Secretary Of Defense Lloyd Austin, A Former General, Rank Has Its Privileges – Now we learn Austin wasn’t AWOL just once, but no fewer than three times. – He violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act in December 2023, January 2024, and June 2024. – Thirteen senators have demanded accountability…

Breitbart: California Senator Adam Schiff has re-hired Maher Bitar, a former White House staffer who spent his student years as a pro-Palestinian radical in Students for Justice in Palestine and played a major role in the Biden administration. – Schiff is considered a pro-Israel Senator by the standards of the Democratic Party. – Still, his reliance on Bitar for advice on national security policy signals a possible shift mirroring the anti-Israel drift of much of the rest of his party.

Daily Fetched: The Red Pill Moment That Made Former Democrat Tech Billionaire Mark Pincus A Trump Supporter – “In May 2024, I read an article that talked about Trump’s speech in Charlottesville, where he said there are good people on both sides and the article said it was completely propaganda.” – “So then I went and watched that full video, and that was my red pill moment.”

Breitbart: TikTok Went Dark for Americans Hours Before The Ban Takes Place — American TikTok users were notified that the app was unavailable hours before the Sunday ban was set to take effect. – Later in the message, President-elect Donald Trump was praised for ” indicating that he will work” with TikTok to find “a solution to reinstate TikTok.”

Epoch Times: Trump Asks Tech Companies to Keep TikTok Online And Will Sign Executive Order Pausing US Ban – ‘The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order,’ Trump said. – Trump indicated that he would like the United States to have ownership via a joint venture with the social media company.

January 18, 2025

Gateway Pundit: President Trump and Melania Enjoy the Inaugural Fireworks – A fireworks show was held Saturday night at President Trump’s golf course in Sterling, Virginia, located about twenty-five miles from D.C., to celebrate Trump’s second inaugural. – President Trump, First Lady Melania, and their son Barron arrived at Dulles Airport Saturday evening on Special Air Mission 47 aboard an Air Force C-32 from Palm Beach.

New York Post: Donald Trump informed his advisers that he wants to visit China after he is sworn in as Commander-in-Chief to bolster his strained relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump and Xi, through their representatives, have discussed meeting in person, with one option being for the president-elect to invite the Chinese leader to the US.

Newsmax: An Ipsos Poll Finds Broad Support for Trump Administration Plans – 55% of Americans either strongly or somewhat support “mass deportations” of people living in the US without authorization. – The poll suggests Americans are open to Mr. Trump’s promise of a large-scale deportation operation, to a point. – About 46% favor imposing tariffs on nations such as China and Mexico, and 71% said no one under 18 should be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs or hormones.

Daily Wire: NYT Polling Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Support GOP Positions On Numerous Trans Issues – Nearly 80% of Americans, regardless of party, think males do not belong in female sports. – 77% of respondents agreed that society had gone too far or has gone far enough to accommodate trans people, with 71% against the use of puberty-blocking transgender drugs…

Just The News: Congress introduced a bill to reinstate 8,400 troops forced out over COVID-19 vaccine mandates. – Republicans, led by Donald Trump, continually said throughout the election campaign the action was coming. – Representative Pat Harrigan. “Thousands of patriots were cast aside…not because they failed to serve honorably, but because of political overreach.”

Trending Politics: A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against a controversial Obama-era immigration policy that provides amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children. – A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled unanimously that the latest version of the policy, issued by President Biden in 2022, is illegal and unconstitutional.

Center Square: The federal government reported net costs of $7.4 trillion in the fiscal year 2024 but couldn’t fully account for its spending. – U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro said many challenges result from financial management problems within the U.S. Department of Defense. – The Pentagon previously said it would be able to account for its spending accurately by 2027.

Epoch Times: The U.S. Federal Reserve is exiting a global climate change coalition days before the new Trump administration is set to take power on Jan. 20. – The Federal Reserve had joined the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) in December 2020.

Zero Hedge: EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit that Dr. Anthony Fauci used to offshore risky gain-of-function research, has finally been cut off by the US Government, along with its former president, Peter Daszak, for five years following scrutiny over its work in Wuhan, China ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic. – This action resulted from findings by the House Oversight Committee, which announced on Friday that EcoHealth and Daszak had been disbarred.

Hot Air: Here’s When Speaker Johnson Knew Biden Was Not In Charge – Almost exactly a year ago, in January 2024, Johnson met with Biden for an Oval Office meeting on national security, but Johnson wanted to discuss a recent EO that cut off liquified natural gas to Europe. – But Biden had no idea what he was talking about…

The Daily Fetched: Glenn Beck, “I Believe Trump’s Inauguration Was Moved Indoors Due to ‘Sinister Forces at Play.” – Beck noted that the part left of Trump’s announcement of a venue change was the possibility of another attack. – “I think these guys are under such threat because this is Jason Bourne stuff. Look, they’re changing the power structure in everything.”…

Geller Report: Terror supporters have announced that on Inauguration Day, they will riot in 70+ cities around the country. – Terrorist-linked groups supporting this insurrection include The People’s Forum – Palestinian Youth Movement – – US Palestinian Community Network – Party for Socialism & Liberation – Democratic Socialists of America – United Educators of San Francisco – Bangladeshi Americans for Political Progress – and CODEPINK…

New York Sun: Trump’s 100 Executive Orders, Get Ready for ‘Shock and Awe’ on Day One – Here’s what we know about Day One action on these subjects: Border Security and Immigration – The Economy – Energy and Fracking – International Trade – Foreign Policy – The Environment – Cultural Issues – The January 6 Defendants – The Federal Workforce…

American Thinker: America’s Many Years of Accommodating China – So-called mutually beneficial bilateral agreements have all enabled the rise of China. – In addition to actions from earlier administrations, Biden enabled breaches of military bases, the fentanyl crisis, the appropriation of U.S. farmland, and the presence of sleeper cells, all in light of Biden’s dealings with Chinese officials…

Gatestone Institute: Iran’s Mullahs, Will the EU Ever Wake Up? – The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was responsible for at least 11 attempted attacks in Europe between June 2018 and June 2024. – It’s clear Tehran sees Europe as one of the battlefields in its conflict with Israel and the West, going so far as to partner with organized crime to achieve its ends.”

American Thinker: Joe Biden’s Last-Minute Sabotage Fails – One more bit of unconstitutional lunacy averted, but we have about two days left. – Biden said he believed that 38 states had ratified the ERA, which would be enough to make it the 28th Amendment. – Had Donald Trump not been reelected, would the National Archives and the DOJ have changed their tune?…

Washington Examiner: Congressional Republicans are eyeing dozens of Biden administration regulations to roll back once President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term on Monday. – Needing only a simple majority in both chambers, Republicans are ready to revoke finalized Biden rules under the Congressional Review Act, particularly on energy, environmental, and economic policies…

The Federalist: 12 Disgraceful Acts Biden Has Committed (So Far) On His Way Out The White House Door – Releasing Gitmo Prisoners – Pardoning Hunter – Energy Restrictions – Whitewashing Foreign Policy Failures – Student Loan Bailout – Ukraine Funding – Lawfare Antics – Extending Temporary Protections for Foreign Nationals in America…

Slay News: The FBI Shut Down the ‘Office of Diversity and Inclusion’ Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration—Incoming president Trump demanded the FBI preserve its records ahead of his inauguration. – He has hinted that this undermined the FBI’s core mission.

Reason: The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn’t Need — Keeping track of inventory is hard for any large organization because workers misplace items, administrators fill out the wrong paperwork, and things go missing. – However, the U.S. military is good at losing stuff. – This time around, it amounted to $85 million.

American Thinker: Migrant Family Separation, Cutting Through the Anti-Trump Political Propaganda – #1, The overwhelming majority of migrant family separation decisions are not made at the U.S. border by DHS, but by parents or others, including cartel criminals in home countries…#10, Finally, another family separation enabler is the lack of DNA testing.

American Thinker: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen throws another can of garbage into the Biden dumpster fire economy – After four years of allowing Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats to spend up a storm and calling inflation “transitory,” Yellen is suddenly concerned about the debt ceiling. – Biden has been paying off student loans illegally, and Yellen said nothing about it. – Then, there were no complaints as Biden sent unlimited funds to Ukraine, among other things…

New York Post: Trump tapped members of the LGBT community for top administration positions despite the Democrats’ hysteria: Scott Bessent, treasury secretary; Ric Grenell, the presidential envoy for special missions; Tammy Bruce, the new State Department spokesperson; Jacob Helberg, 35, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment; and Bill White, ambassador to Belgium.

California Globe: Gavinomics Has Led To California’s High Cost of Living, And It Is Exploding. – Utility bills, healthcare premiums, food costs, gas prices, insurance, and taxes have never been higher. – Much of this increase is due to California’s stupidity in moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, which are intermittent, unreliable, and expensive.

Zero Hedge: Why Europe Fears Free Speech – Europe’s ultimate aim isn’t to save public discourse; it is to suffocate far-Right parties by depriving them of the oxygen of information. – They have erected political firewalls against the far-right. And they are doubling down with the same old policies.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures – Two Days to Go! – Then we can put Joe Biden’s rear end in our rearview mirror. – Nature is healing already (except in California).

January 17, 2025

The Federalist: CEO Sean Davis Drops Stunning Details About The Butler Trump Assassination Attempt During His Tucker Carlson Interview – ‘I refuse to believe this was just a series of unfortunate accidents and incompetence,’ Davis said. ‘It’s just not.’ – The conversation explored how, six months after the shooting, despite a congressional investigation, little is known — or has been released — about the shooter, and the incident quickly fell out of the news cycle.

Daily Wire: The Israeli Government Approved The Hostage And Ceasefire Deal After Seven Hours Of Negotiations – Twenty-four ministers voted in favor of the deal, and eight voted against it. – The deal comes after over a year of negotiations that failed to take hold until President-elect Donald Trump included his envoys in the talks…

Zero Hedge: Something unprecedented is happening in southern Syrian areas being occupied by Israel’s military. – In the wake of Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow, Israel is stealing or, in its words, “confiscating” former Syrian Army weaponry and heavy equipment, even tanks.

Trending Politics: President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Sean Curran, credited with saving his life, to lead the U.S. Secret Service. Curran has pushed for additional resources for Trump since leaving the White House, but Acting Director Robert Rowe has rebuffed some requests.

Wall Street Journal: The Trump Administration Will Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday – Chicago will be an early target, with as many as 200 officers being sent to carry out the operation, say people familiar with the planning. – The Trump team intends to target immigrants in the country illegally with criminal backgrounds. – If anyone else in the country is present illegally during an arrest, they will be taken, too.

Trending Politics: Scores Of Illegal Aliens ‘Self-Deporting’ As Trump Crackdown Looms – Although it remains unclear what number of migrants may be leaving on their own accord, a “trend” is developing across the U.S. that correspondent Jorge Ventura said has Mexico “bracing” to receive a crush of new arrivals once Trump is inaugurated on January 20th.

Washington Free Beacon: Biden’s Lame-Duck Loan Czar Finalizes $1.6 Billion Award to The Green Power Company He Invested In – The Department of Energy’s loan to Plug Power, a hydrogen fuel developer, comes months after Republican lawmakers raised concerns about the company’s past business relationship with DOE Loan Programs Office director Jigar Shah.

American Spectator: Jill Biden Is The Worst First Lady Ever – She Put Her Lifestyle Ahead of the Country – She seems to be a woman who, motivated by her power, orchestrated her husband’s treacherous attempt to be reelected president. (Treacherous because Joe’s cognitive dysfunction made him unfit for office.)

City Journal: Will Left Radicals Disrupt the Inauguration? – A network of progressive groups and militants is preparing for battle. – As Inauguration Day approaches, Communist militants and members of Antifa-aligned hubs have suggested storming the Capitol, bringing “direct action” to the streets, and obstructing law enforcement. – The network spans college professors, nonprofit leaders, and masked and often troubled militants willing to engage in violence...

Epoch Times: US Defense Contractor Anduril Industries to a Build ‘Hyperscale’ Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio—Anduril said the development would create more than 4,000 direct jobs in the state. – It is investing nearly $1 billion in the development, which will span more than 5 million square feet at full scale and be located next to Rickenbacker Airport.

Trending Politics: A Top Trump Ally Has Been Tapped To Co-Lead The RNC – After paying her dues, K.C. Crosbie, Kentucky’s leading Republican woman, has been thrust atop the party’s hierarchy alongside Chairman Michael Whatley. – Together, Whatley and Lara Trump were credited with delivering a long-awaited red wave last year…

Epoch Times: Netanyahu Confirmed A Gaza Hostage Deal Has Been Reached – His office said he instructed his security cabinet to meet later Friday. – According to the statement, Netanyahu has directed a special task force to coordinate preparations for receiving the hostages upon their return to Israel…

Vigilant News: Authorities Are Prepping for “Worst Case Scenarios”—Officials are mapping a “blueprint” of normal radiation readings over DC to detect anything unusual, such as dirty bombs. – Security measures include 25,000 law enforcement officers, military personnel, and National Guard soldiers. Thirty miles of “anti-scale” fencing will provide a “ring of steel” to protect the event and its 250,000 attendees.

Epoch Times: Trump’s Inauguration Is Being Moved Indoors Due to Freezing Conditions—Donald Trump and JD Vance will be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda. –  The parade, traditionally down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, will be at Capitol One Arena instead. – The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which organizes the Inauguration and its events, said it moved the swearing-in according to Trump’s wishes.

WCVB News Center 5: These are the coldest US presidential Inauguration Days on record – This is only the third time in presidential history that an inauguration has been forced inside. – Donald Trump’s 2025 Inauguration Day is set to be the coldest since 1985, when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated indoors, and the parade was canceled. – See the table…

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court Upholds The Law Banning TikTok If Its Chinese Parent Company Does Not Divest—Supporters of the law in Congress say the Chinese regime has too much sway over TikTok. – The law expresses concerns that Chinese officials may access and abuse the personal data of American TikTok users. – The White House says it will be up to the Trump administration to implement the law requiring the app to be sold or banned.

Newsmax: – Senator Tom Cotton Says China’s Refusal to Sell TikTok Proves It’s a Spy App – “ByteDance and its Chinese Communist masters had nine months to sell TikTok before the Sunday deadline,” the Arkansas Republican said.

Breitbart: Donald Trump confirmed that he held a phone call with genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Friday regarding TikTok and Fentanyl, which he described as a “very good one” that will help Washington and Beijing “solve many problems.” – China’s state Xinhua News Agency confirmed the Friday phone call but offered no information outside of the existence of the phone call.

Newsmax: Ohio Gov. DeWine Taps His Lt. Governor, Jon Husted, to Fill JD Vance’s Former Senate Seat – Husted, who became lieutenant governor in 2019, will serve at least through a 2026 special election to fill the remaining two years of Vance’s term.

Vigilant News: Is This One Of Biden’s Final Failures or Trump’s First Test? – In a stunning escalation of cyber warfare, Chinese hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department in late 2024, targeting high-level officials, including Secretary Janet Yellen. – The breach isn’t just a cybersecurity crisis; it reflects current vulnerabilities in America’s critical infrastructure during the political transition.

FAR: Another Example Of Biden Destroying The Country On His Way Out – Here is another example of how low Biden and his handlers will go to thwart Donald Trump’s economic efforts. – They will trash Trump’s initial GDP  numbers by doing what is described below.

The Federalist: Biden Attempts To Change The Constitution Via A Press Release On His Way Out—The “Equal Rights Amendment,” which would prohibit the government from recognizing differences between women and men, died 43 years ago when it failed to obtain ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures. – Thus, it was dead in the water. – For Biden to declare it the “law of the land” by fiat is legally pointless.

Epoch Times: Biden Commutes Sentences for Nearly 2,500 Americans Convicted of Drug Offenses. – This is the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. – The commutes are being granted to people who were convicted of non-violent drug offenses and are serving “disproportionately long” sentences compared to those they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.

Western Journal: A Pool Photographer Caught An Embarrassing Detail During Biden’s Last Presidential Address – Can You Spot It? – A behind-the-scenes photo of Joe Biden’s Farewell Address shows him needing to sit on a pillow inside the Oval Office with an emergency box of Kleenex hidden under his desk.

American Greatness: How President Trump Can Make American Intelligence Great Again – 1. Return U.S. intelligence agencies to their original purpose: providing the best possible intelligence support to the president to help him make national security policy decisions to keep our nation safe. – 2. Dramatically Cut Back the Intelligence Bureaucracy. – 3. End DEI and Restore Personnel Policies to Hire and Promote Based on Merit and Achievement…

American Thinker: Will Trump Take Revenge? – The Democrats’ ace in the hand is weaponized government agencies, and that is all coming to an end. – The facts are clear: the Left is still targeting Donald Trump, accusing him of threatening revenge against them. – They assume his venting about events is the same as guaranteed threats, which could work against them when the public realizes their accusations are hyperbolic lies.

Breitbart: President Biden’s recent warning about the dangers of a “tech oligarchy” starkly contrasts his administration’s unprecedented access granted to Microsoft, whose executives made more than 200 White House visits during his term. – The extensive access raises questions about the administration’s relationship with big tech amid several cybersecurity crises and controversial deals.

American Thinker: Nobody Empowered Oligarchs Like Biden Did – Joe Biden’s gaslighting farewell speech said otherwise. – During Biden’s four years in office, he made Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other big companies much more powerful. – He didn’t say a word when Meta founder Mark Zuckerburg spent $400 million to defeat Trump. – Biden and his administration set out to destroy oil, coal, and natural gas companies based on computer models and predictions, not scientific data…

Townhall: The Laken Riley Act Clears Another Hurdle. – The chamber voted to end the debate on the bill by a vote of 61-35, with 60 votes needed. – All 51 Republicans voted to advance the bill, with 10 Democrats joining. – Senator John Fetterman did not vote, although he is a cosponsor of the bill and strongly supports it.

American Thinker: Where will California’s Democrats go? – With incompetence engulfing Los Angeles, will its supporters stay put, or will they take refuge in other states? – Supposedly, the California Democrats in authority don’t know how the LA wildfires began or if they could have been prevented. Nevertheless, the personal devastation of these wildfires should be a wake-up call, but of course, they will blame everything on climate change…

American Thinker: ‘Quo Vadis, Democrats?’ – How did far-left Democrat policies get so radicalized and out of touch with the realities of terrestrial existence, and will they change course? – The left committed itself to anti-establishment rhetoric on issues involving race, gender, and class. – With the supply of palpable injustices on the wane, the New Left bourgeois has had to adapt its MO to an evolving social landscape…

Geller Report: The Left is now more unpopular worldwide going back to the Cold War – The Left suffered a record-low average of just 45% of votes in dozens of ballots held globally last year, according to the analysis of 73 democratic elections. The study found that The Right won 57% of the average votes — representing the widest gap since 1990.

Resist The Mainstream: The MAGA Team Enjoys ‘a Good Laugh’ after Michelle Obama Reveals the Real Reason She’s Skipping Trump’s Inauguration – In a revealing report, sources close to the former first lady disclosed that her absence stems from her unwillingness to “fake a smile” for someone she views as “a threat to American democracy.”

Resist The Mainstream: Melania Trump Unleashes Brutal Bombshell About the Obamas – Melania said the first time she moved into the White House, the Obamas withheld needed information to make the process more difficult. – It’s the petty behavior you expect from a childish woman like Michelle. – Thankfully, Michelle won’t be attending the inauguration. – She skipped over the question when asked if the Bidens had been accommodating.

Gateway Pundit: A Jury Has Found CNN “Committed Defamation Against Navy Veteran Zachary Young” and Owes him $5 Million in Emotional and Financial Damages. – Navy Veteran Zachary Young sued CNN for defamation over their 2021 report indicating he ran a black market that helped Afghans during Biden’s botched withdrawal.

The Daily Fetched: Twice failed Democrat candidate for governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams, has been hit with a massive fine over election law violations from a nonprofit she founded before running for office. – According to ethics watchdogs, the fine is the largest in state history. – The fine amounts to $300,000, which is levied against Abrams and the leaders of the New Georgia Project.

January 16, 2025

Trending Politics: Pete Hegseth Got A Major Confirmation Update, ‘Has The Votes’ – Potential holdout Senator John Curtis (R-UT) will support Hegseth’s nomination. – Pete Hegseth was widely seen as the top target of Democrat attacks among all remaining Trump nominees. – While the remaining nominees are expected to be confirmed, Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, could face the most significant pushback…

City Journal: Gavin Newsom Should Resign, But You Know He Won’t – California’s progressive governance contributed to the significant damage the L.A. wildfires have caused. – There is much blame; the buck must stop somewhere. In Newsom’s case, however, any suggestion of fault is dismissed as “misinformation.” Instead, the governor has spun the fires as an “opportunity” to rebuild an “LA 2.0.”…

Epoch Times: ICE Arrested 9 Illegal Immigrants from Ecuador, Columbia, Guatemala, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic for Crimes Including Rape, Homicide, Sexual Assault – The arrests and some removals come days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Daily Wire: Trump Appoints A-List Stars Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone As Ambassadors To Hollywood – Trump, “They will serve as Special Envoys to bring Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK–BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

Washington Examiner: Biden ends his term with the most expensive average gas prices in America’s history – High gas prices started to plague the country less than six months after Biden was sworn in and were a staple of his presidency. – Given that the last two Democrat presidents have the record for the two most expensive gas prices during a presidential term, one could safely assume that people are about to get some much-needed relief at the pumps after Trump takes office.

Daily Signal: How a Woke Newsom Appointee Dismantled California’s Elite Volunteer Firefighting Force – Shortly after his appointment, Mathew Beevers decommissioned the Emergency Response Command, a highly trained joint command consisting of two volunteer units. – Team Blaze and Team Shield were a military reserve force that supported the California National Guard, consisting of police officers, retired police chiefs, retired firefighters, and California highway patrol officers.

American Spectator: As California Burns, Is It Also Awakening To Its Disastrous Democrat Policies? – It is neither vindictiveness nor political opportunism to say that there should be an accounting for California’s wildfires’ aftermath. – The tragedy unfolding in California should have a national impact on the environmental policies that have helped produce it. – It could also have political repercussions that reverberate well beyond the state.

Center Square: The California Coastal Commission blocked an LADWP Fire-Hardening Project To Protect A Now-Burned Plant. – Congressman Kevin Kiley has introduced a bill to Congress that would strip the commission of much of its powers. – The bill cites the commission’s recent blocking of an LADWP request to upgrade wooden power poles to protect a now-burned plant.

Daily Mail: Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth makes a stunning claim about the impact locking goods up has had on the industry. – Not only has the practice not curbed theft, but it has also dramatically impacted bottom-line sales due to customer frustration. For now, Walgreens appears to be addressing the issue by closing stores in areas most affected by theft.

New York Post: NOT SO FAST – Netanyahu says a ‘last minute crisis’ with Hamas is holding up approval of the Gaza truce, hostage deal after a terror group posts a shocking video of Hamas boasting of its “pride” at the Oct. 7 terror attack and threats of ongoing violence. – Netanyahu delayed his Cabinet voting Thursday on approving the historic deal, accusing Hamas of deserting parts of it while trying to “extort last-minute concessions.”

Western Journal: Netanyahu Humiliated Biden Hours Before His POTUS Farewell Address By Telling The Unvarnished Truth About Who Got Hostage Deal Done Via This Statement. – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…thanked Trump for his assistance in advancing the release of the hostages and for helping Israel bring an end to the suffering of dozens of hostages and their families. – Also, The role of Trump’s team in the deal was noted by State Department representative Matthew Miller…

Gateway Pundit: The Official Inaugural Portrait of the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, Has Been Released – Captured by chief photographer Daniel Torok, Trump’s official portrait radiates confidence and readiness, showcasing him in a dignified and commanding pose. – Torok, “When the color version drops, it’s gonna [fire]!!!”

Red State: Donald Trump revealed a list of TDS individuals and their cohorts that are not welcome in his new administration, pet names excluded. – Charles Koch, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome!…

Epoch Times: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Has Chosen Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to Replace Rubio in Senate – Rubio is expected to resign from his seat upon receiving Senate approval to become the next U.S. Secretary of State, and DeSantis said Moody would quickly fill the vacant seat.

Western Journal: There Is Not Enough Space to Accommodate All of Trump’s $1 Million Inauguration Donors – Trump’s inaugural committee has stopped selling tickets to million-dollar donors for next Monday’s inauguration. High demand has resulted in waitlists even for the deep-pocketed for “inaugural events.” – The committee’s current fundraising achievements are on pace to approach $200 million. – Biden’s 2020 committee raised a paltry $62 million.

The Federalist: Republicans Need A Forceful Answer To Democrats’ Deceptive Questions On The 2020 Election – Democrats continue to play games with the Senate confirmation hearings. – And while the Trump nominees remain unscathed by the “gotcha” questioning, someone needs to forcefully, substantially, and in a sound bite, answer their query about whether Donald Trump “lost” the 2020 election.

The Blaze: The House passed the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act on Thursday despite a majority of Democrats voting to block the bill. – The key immigration law would require that illegal aliens convicted of sex offenses or domestic violence are “inadmissible and deportable.” – The bill was passed by 213 Republicans and 61 Democrats despite 145 Democrats voting against the legislation.

Breitbart: Biden Warns Dark Money Is Dangerous In His Farewell Speech, Ignoring He Awarded Dark Money Kingpin George Soros the Medal of Freedom – “George Soros is an investor, philanthropist, and founder of the Open Society Foundations,” Biden’s White House wrote of Soros for the award ceremony.

Daily Fetched: Joe Biden Is Suddenly Concerned About The ‘Dangers of Big Tech’ After Zuckerberg Changes Course On Censorship – According to Biden, the “tech-industrial complex” and the formation of an “oligarchy” in the United States is now a major threat. -“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America, of extreme wealth, power, and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”

Washington Examiner: Republicans in both the House and Senate will introduce legislation Thursday that would reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, otherwise known as the Remain in Mexico program implemented in 2017 under then-President Donald Trump. – The program was later dismantled by the Biden administration shortly after President Joe Biden took office in 2021.

Epoch Times Survey: The Top Priorities for Trump’s Presidency – More than 26,000 Epoch Times readers outlined the key policy areas they think the incoming administration should focus on. – Topping the list are Border Security, Election Integrity and Voting Laws, Government Spending and Debt Reduction, Military Strength, and National Security. – Dead Last, Climate Change and Renewable Energy Investment…

Washington Examiner: A New Supreme Court Case Offers Trump A Path To Dismantle Obamacare Mandates – SCOTUS agreed to take up a Biden administration petition to overturn a lower court ruling that declared the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s role in setting Affordable Care Act insurance coverage rules unconstitutional. – If justices uphold the lower court ruling, it could limit access copay-free access to services like cancer screenings, contraceptives, heart disease medications, and HIV drugs…

National Pulse: California Wildfires Remain Under 50% containment, with intense winds expected to subside. – The fires have claimed at least 25 lives and destroyed 12,000 structures. – The Palisades Fire has scorched 23,700 acres and is 21% contained. – In comparison, the Eaton Fire has burned 14,100 acres and is 45% contained.

American Thinker: Environmental Marxism – It is not a coincidence that the current “green” movement is the driving philosophical force animating the Democrat Party – Professor John Bellamy Foster, “Marx’s analysis of the crisis of the earth in the mid-nineteenth century led him to a concept of sustainability that was central to his vision of a communist society…

Daily Fetched: Rumors Swirl as Michelle Obama Vanishes from Public View Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration – While Obama continued supporting Biden on the campaign trail, Michelle was absent and didn’t even post on social media supporting the Democrat incumbent’s campaign. – Barack and Michelle Obama spark speculation they are ‘heading for divorce’ amid notable public absences. – Last year, Michelle Obama said she could not stand being married to Barack Obama…

Daily Wire: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed through a spokesman that she would not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. – Pelosi attended Trump’s inauguration in 2017 but did not give a reason for skipping out on his current swearing-in ceremony.

January 15, 2025

Gateway Pundit: Victor Davis Hanson Couldn’t Stop Laughing While Talking About Joe Biden’s Farewell Address – During an appearance on FOX News with Jesse Watters, Hanson pointed out the many falsehoods and projections voiced by Biden during his talk and repeatedly broke into laughter as he did so. – Watters remarked that he had never seen Hanson so giddy about such a topic…

Breitbart: Speaker Mike Johnson has removed Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) from the chairmanship of the House’s intelligence committee, reportedly due to concerns President-elect Donald Trump had about Turner’s close deep-state ties. – Privacy advocates on both sides of the aisle have frequently criticized Turner for doing the intelligence community’s bidding by fervently preserving Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Daily Signal: Trump Can Use the Congressional Review Act to Nullify Biden’s Rules—The Trump administration needs to submit to Congress Biden-era guidance that it fully intends to rescind to give Congress a chance to essentially guarantee that the guidance will not return in the future administration. The Congressional Review Act empowers Congress to erase federal regulations and guidance submitted by federal agencies within a specific time window.

Washington Free Beacon: Marco Rubio Breezed Through His Confirmation Hearing, Pledging To Confront Iran’s Nuclear Program and Combat the CCP – Rubio, ‘There are opportunities available in the Middle East that did not exist 90 days ago.’- When Democratic critics confronted Rubio, the questions largely centered on Trump, rather than any deficit with the former Florida senator’s qualifications…

NPR: Here’s Everyone Performing At Trump’s Inauguration — Here is a list of the artists scheduled to perform throughout the inaugural events, not including any surprise musical guest set to appear at the Liberty Ball: Carrie Underwood, Christopher Macchio, Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, The Village People, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Liberty University’s Praise Choir, Jason Aldean, Rascal Flatts, Parker McCollum, and Gavin DeGraw.

Breitbart: Peter Schweizer On Why Beijing Wants Americans to Keep Using TikTok – The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views TikTok as a “modern-day Trojan Horse” and classified its powerful algorithm as a top-secret “national security asset.” – TikTok’s constant stream of short and over-stimulating videos makes for a powerfully addictive source of propaganda...

New York Post: LAFD fire bosses sent just five of the 40 available fire engines and held back 1,000 firefighters until it was already out of control, according to a damning new report. – The critical missteps were made even as extreme warnings arrived about life-threatening winds that turned the blaze into the most destructive in Los Angeles history.

Epoch Times: All California Insurance Policyholders Could Have to Anti-Up for Excessive LA Fire Losses. – Californians could receive insurance bills to cover the difference if the state-mandated FAIR plan can’t cover all claims. – Former California Department of Insurance commissioner, “The FAIR plan will have enough money to pay claims, but it will make sure it has enough money by assessing all California policyholders, eventually.”

American Spectator: California Incinerated Its Insurance Market—During that time, Newsom: A) promised to boost forest-thinning efforts but only oversaw the clearing of a small portion of the promised amount; B) talked about the need for more water supplies, but his Coastal Commission appointees rejected an Orange County desalination plant; C) did little to tackle the transmission-line issue; and D) did little to incentivize insurers to step up their policy writing…

Powerline: Americans Don’t Blame Wildfires On Climate Change – Google searches for “wildfires” are up 2,400%, while searches for “climate change” are down 9%. – Furthermore, when you look at weather catastrophe losses as a percent of GDP, they have been steadily falling for decades, as shown in this chart…

Daily Signal: AG Nominee Bondi Clashed With Democratic Senators in a Confirmation Hearing. – While Republicans on the panel discussed the weaponization of the Justice Department in recent years, Democrats warned that Trump might seek to prosecute opponents. – Bondi vowed that if confirmed, her focus would be restoring integrity to a politicized Justice Department.

American Spectator: Woke Has Gone Broke at the Confirmation Hearings – Everything changed on Nov. 5. – So it’s the Same Old Game, but it doesn’t fool anybody. – Americans are through with woke pieties. – So after Senator Hirono offers up her stupid questions for Hegseth, which he effortlessly bats away, she’s brutally and accurately satirized on the internet…

American Thinker: Surprise, Surprise, Inflation Is Not Getting Better – But the Fed Promised Us! – The Fed is not addressing inflation; the Fed caused it. – To reduce inflation, we need the following in this order: (1) Stop federal spending, then reduce it substantially. – (2) Stop printing currency (U.S. dollars) and start taking excess money supply out of the economy. – (3) Stop incurring debt (stop issuing Treasuries), and start paying down the massive debt burden…

Daily Wire: A Hostage And Ceasefire Deal Has Been Reached Between Hamas And Israel – The first phase will include the release of 33 hostages, some of whom may be dead. – Israeli Defense Forces will withdraw to an undefined security perimeter, and Israel will reportedly release “many hundreds” of Palestinian prisoners, including terrorists who have killed Israelis.

Breitbart: Biden Says Goodbye with Boasting Letter of Self-Praise, Celebration, and Applause—Biden was careful to avoid any claim of a resounding victory in Afghanistan, given the world’s watching as its horrors unfolded then and in the years since. He also disregarded inflation, soaring crime, spiking cost of living, and an invasion on the southern border, all significant parts of his watch.

Daily Mail: Joe Biden enacted a series of roadblocks to slow down Donald Trump’s agenda during his first days in office. – The moves include changing the order of succession in federal agencies so pro-Biden staffers will be in charge before Trump’s nominees can be confirmed and enacting federal rules that will take the new administration months to overturn. – The Biden administration claims it’s just securing the president’s legacy.

Zero Hedge: Consumer Prices Soared Over 21% During The Biden Administration, While Real Wages Fell – After rising for five straight months, analysts expected headline consumer prices to continue accelerating in December (+0.4% MoM exp), and it did exactly that, the highest MoM print since March, leading the YoY CPI to rise 2.9% (the highest since July)…

Slay News: The Latest Data Shows Arctic Ice Is 26% Larger Than 2012 – This is further evidence debunking the “global warming” narrative pushed by green agenda advocates and the corporate media. – In 2007, “BBCNews said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.”

Slay News: Homelessness in America Soars to Record High After Four Years of ‘Bidenomics’ – HUD reported that the number of homeless surged to 653,000 under President Joe Biden’s administration, highlighting the plight many Americans faced under so-called “Bidenomics,” a 12% rise compared to last year, tying it to skyrocketing rent costs as prices for many everyday necessities surged.

Powerline: Hegseth, Lights High, And Low – Chuck Schumer privately urged Democrat Senators to use the confirmation hearings to hold Donald Trump’s nominees’ “feet to the fire,” translation, “Turn them into a circus.” – Reviewing clips of the Hegseth confirmation hearing, I assess that the Schumer strategy backfired in the case of Pete Hegseth…

Newsweek: Joni Ernst Finally Threw Her Support Behind Pete Hegseth – She previously said she was not ready to vote for Hegseth but is now backing him after his appearance at the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. – Hegseth requires a majority in the Senate to be approved as defense secretary. – With Ernst’s backing, he will likely succeed, as no other Republican senators have opposed his appointment.

National Pulse: Trump’s Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright To Reveal A Bold Energy Dominance Strategy At His Confirmation Hearing. – Once confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Wright will face a tall task in undoing several crippling Biden government energy policies. In the closing days of his presidency, Joe Biden issued a drilling ban over large swaths of America’s offshore territory.

Washington Examiner: It could take weeks, and sometimes months, to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees as the Republican-led Senate prepares for his return to the White House. – It took two months to confirm the 15 department heads who made up President Joe Biden’s Cabinet. – In 2017, Trump did not have his Cabinet in place until April 27, or three months after his inauguration.

Geller Report: UNCOVER VIDEO Shows The Pentagon Is Secretly Working to Sabotage President Donald Trump – A top Pentagon Advisor Reveals On Hidden Camera A Conversation with a couple of Retired Generals to explore “What We Can Do to Protect People from Trump.” – Jamie Mannina acknowledged collaborating with retired military leaders, including generals and admirals, to devise methods to counteract Trump’s administration…

Zero Hedge: A top advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon has been fired after an undercover investigation caught him on camera admitting he’s working with generals on a ‘stop-Trump’ effort. – Former FBI Special Agent Jamie Mannina – an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, was confirmed as having been let go following an undercover exposé by James O’Keefe’s OMG Media.

Breitbart: Exiting Border Chief Mayorkas’ December Parole Inflow to Hit ~1.5 Million Migrants – Overall, the Cuban-born Mayorkas has pulled in more than 8 million legalized, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants during his tenure, regardless of the immense harm to Americans. – Mayorkas’ unpopular policies were protected by a clique of top officials in the White House and Chuck Schumer’s control of the Senate gavel…

American Thinker: Epic Failures of Incompetent Leaders—The leadership crisis unfolding in California is not an anomaly. It is part of the American cultural shift that prioritizes “safe spaces” and feelings over reality and functionality. – During a crisis, incompetent leaders are often exposed. The slow slide into incompetence that has cost American lives and livelihoods has been growing for many years.

Resist The Mainstream: During an explosive segment on Carlson’s talk show, Shellenberger, whom the host lauded as “may be the best reporter in America,” proposed a chilling explanation for the wave of destruction – Methamphetamine users within the city’s burgeoning homeless population could be responsible for igniting numerous fires across the metropolitan area.

Daily Wire: 21 Pro-Life Defendants Targeted by The Biden DOJ Ask Trump To Pardon Them – Trump has criticized the Biden Justice Department for targeting pro-lifers on ‘outrageous charges.’ – As an example, In May 2024, Lauren Handy was given 57 months in prison for her participation after she helped stage a sit-in at the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility.

American Thinker: Is January 20th Our New Independence Day? – In the last twenty years, tyranny has intensified as America underwent a “fundamental change,” as promised by former President Obama. – America’s government and administrative state are now all-consuming. Could January 20th, less than a week away, become a much-needed Independence Day for Americans who strive for freedom against a tyrannical federal government?

New York Sun: Will Trump Expel Legacy Press From White House Briefing Room? – Traditionally, the major TV news outlets and the Associated Press have front-row seats, and outlets like CBS News Radio, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg have seats in the second row. – Those reporters could be pushed back to make room for organizations seen as less biased.

Washington Examiner: Seven House Democrats are joining Ocasio-Cortez in skipping the inauguration, with reasons varying from conflicts due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day to an outright dislike of the incoming president. – Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) – Rep. Delia Ramirez’s (D-IL) – Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) – Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) – Ritchie Torres (D-NY) – Sylvester Turner (D-TX). – Of the 35 who responded, 26 House Democrats said they plan on attending the inauguration.

Just the News: The House Oversight and Accountability Committee disclosed Wednesday that the numerous federal employees who telework from home are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on office space. – To make matters worse, the Biden administration has enabled such accommodations to continue during President-elect Donald Trump’s next administration.

Zero Hedge: Biden’s SEC Sues Musk Over His Twitter Purchase In An 11th-Hour “Sham” – The agency claims that by delaying the filing of a beneficial ownership report by 11 days, Musk saved $150 million, or 0.34% on several subsequent tranches of stock he bought before filing the disclosure on April 4, 2022. – The agency wants Musk to disgorge any profits he incurred due to the late filing and pay a civil fine.

American Thinker: A Case For Edward Snowden – What Snowden revealed was part of a large, systemic erosion of liberty. – Under President Obama, the PATRIOT Act’s broad powers were expanded through the PRISM program, a secret NSA initiative that enabled mass surveillance of American citizens and our foreign allies. – Snowden and later Julian Assange sacrificed their freedom, safety, and reputations to shine a light on abuses of power that most of us were too naïve or uninformed to recognize…

Cal Matters: California has decided to abandon its groundbreaking regulations phasing out diesel trucks and requiring cleaner locomotives because the incoming Trump administration is unlikely to allow the state to implement them. – The withdrawal comes after the Biden administration recently approved the California Air Resources Board’s mandate phasing out new gas-powered cars by 2035 but had not yet approved other waivers for four diesel vehicle standards that the state has adopted.

Townhall: Meet the Palisades Looting Suspects—To date, the Santa Monica Police Department has arrested more than 40 thugs attempting to exploit the crisis, including ten for burglary. – The SMPD highlighted a handful of incidents involving some of these apprehensions…

Townhall: We Know Where Karen Bass Was When the LA County Fires Broke Out, And The Story Just Got Worse. – As the Pacific Palisades fire exploded, Mayor Karen Bass was posing for photos at an embassy cocktail party in Ghana, pictures posted on social media show, while as part of a Biden administration delegation at Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama’s inauguration.

Brownstone Institute: The Cure for Vaccine Skepticism—The only way to restore public trust in vaccination, which has taken a big hit since the lies surrounding the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, is to put a well-known vaccine skeptic in charge of the vaccine research agenda. – The ideal person for this is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has been nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

January 14, 2025

Center Square: The FBI And DHS Warn Of Likely Terrorist Attacks Similar To The Recent New Orleans Attack – The PSA urges members of the public to “remain vigilant” about terrorist attacks, report suspicious activity to local FBI field offices, and call 911 to report emergencies. – U.S. citizens living overseas are encouraged to report “missing persons or individuals taken as hostages” by calling the Department of State’s Overseas Citizens Services toll-free hotline at (888) 407-4747…

Daily Signal: Pete Hegseth Survives Contentious Hearing in Key Senate Confirmation Battle – Some senators tested the nominee’s mettle on defense issues, while others—primarily Democrats on the panel—honed in on allegations, most of them made anonymously of improper personal behavior in Hegseth’s past. – One of Senator Banks’ major takeaways from the tense hearing was Hegseth’s resilience…

One American News: Biden Administration Lifts Cuba Terrorism Designation Before Trump Steps In – Cuba received the designation in January 2021, just before Trump left office. – At the time, the U.S. Embassy in Cuba alleged that the country had “repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism by offering a haven to terrorists.”

Townhall: President of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles County (UFLAC) Freddie Escobar said Monday that L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley made an “operating funds decision” not to pre-deploy firefighters to avoid paying overtime.

Zero Hedge: Hamas Has Accepted the US-Mediated Ceasefire, And Netanyahu Has Convened An Urgent Security Cabinet Meeting—Netanyahu’s office has not confirmed the acceptance. – Still, a final decision is said to be just hours away. – A deal could be proclaimed as early as Wednesday morning.

Epoch Times: Trump Has Unveiled A New IRS-style ‘External Revenue Service’ to Collect Tariffs and duties from foreign countries. – The purpose is to support shifting tax burdens from Americans to foreign trade partners through tariffs and duties. – Trump has consistently criticized what he sees as unfair trade agreements crafted by past leaders, arguing that these deals disproportionately benefit foreign partners while disadvantaging the United States…

Real Clear Politics: Live Coverage Of Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing. – Highlights and clips are provided as the hearing continues.

Daily Wire: Senator Mullin Blows Up The Hegseth Committee Hearing, Telling Senators They’re Not Qualified To Judge. – His remarks are too good to paraphrase, so read or listen to them to appreciate what he said.

Washington Examiner: Hegseth fought back against the ‘smear campaign’ as Democrats charged he is unqualified to lead the Pentagon. – For more than four hours, Democrats grilled Hegseth on the Senate Armed Services Committee. –  Republicans came to his defense and praised his “warrior mentality” as they looked to shepherd him over the finish line as Trump’s secretary of defense.

Newsmax: House Speaker Johnson Ordered Capitol Flags Raised for Trump Inauguration – Johnson’s order will temporarily suspend President Joe Biden’s proclamation that flags across the U.S. fly at half-staff until late January to honor former President Jimmy Carter.

New York Post: Former first lady Michelle Obama is set to skip Donald Trump’s inauguration next Monday, where she would have sat next to the president and future commander-in-chief. – The former first lady’s team did not provide a reason for skipping the inauguration, but Michelle Obama has been an impassioned critic of Trump over the past eight years.

Red State: Bitter Kamala Harris Won’t Enable JD and Usha Vance to Child-Proof the VP Residence Ahead of the Inauguration—Usha Vance requested information on the house back in November so she could ensure that it is child-proofed for their three children, all of whom are under the age of eight. – A CBS News story said Kamala doesn’t have the time because she is so focused on the California wildfires.

Daily Caller: Canada’s ambassador to the US, Kirsten Hillman, said Monday that the country is prepared to purchase more U.S. goods following President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats. – Trump has repeatedly lamented the trade deficit between the U.S. and Canada. – His remarks appear to have already impacted trade relations…

Sharyl Attkisson: A recent Gallup poll Found That Some Professions Are At An All-Time Low. – Nurses remain the most trusted profession, with 75% of Americans rating their honesty and ethics as high or very high. – TV reporters, members of Congress, and lobbyists fared the worst, ending up at the bottom of the list when considering honesty and ethics.

Epoch Times: The DOJ Released Jack Smith’s Report on Trump – In the report, Smith, who recently resigned, said that he believes the evidence against Trump was strong enough to yield a conviction for engaging in a criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election to retain power,” even though the DOJ dropped its prosecutions of Trump.

New York Post: Trump went scorched earth on special counsel Jack Smith for claiming he would have been convicted of election interference had he not won in 2024 – “Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his ‘boss,’ Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another ‘Report’ based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED…

Daily Fetched: Former NBC Anchor Billy Busch Exposes The Network’s 2016 ‘Anti-Trump 70-Person Investigative Unit – “I know the guy who was head of it, dedicated to anything negative on Trump, find stuff on him and get him out. – This is not journalism, this is not news, it is activism.” – “All the major networks shared that mission.” – “Get him at all costs; get him out of this presidential race at all costs.”

Breitbart: Pete Hegseth’s Only Special Interest Is the Warfighter – He believes it’s time to give someone with dust on his boots at the helm. – A change agent. – Someone with no vested interest in favorite companies, specific programs, or approved narratives. – Deterring wars and, if called upon, winning wars by ensuring our warriors never enter a fair fight. – Let them win and then bring them home.

Washington Examiner: The producer price index’s inflation rose to 3.3% in December, threatening the future outlook. – The price increases were less than investors expected but still large enough to signal a lingering inflationary problem that should worry the incoming Trump administration and the Federal Reserve.

Washington Examiner: Virginia Foxx was tapped as the powerful House Rules Committee chairwoman. – The committee comprises nine Republicans and four Democrats, giving the majority party an outsized influence over bills brought to the House floor. – Foxx will likely bring more discipline to the committee, as she has established herself as a no-nonsense member of the GOP conference.

Washington Examiner: Newsom and Bass recall efforts gain momentum resulting from the wildfires fallout – Randy Economy, who is leading the movement to recall Newsom, said he expects to file papers in the next two weeks to start the recall process. Recall supporters must gather roughly 1.3 million signatures within the next five months. – While ousting Newsom is the primary focus, he is also eyeing plans to remove Bass from office…

Breitbart: The Firefighters’ Union President Freddie Escobar Says L.A. Has Been Neglected by Its Leaders – Firefighters were not “pre-deployed” to handle the Palisades Fire before last Tuesday’s extreme winds due to a lack of personnel resources. – Escobar agreed, saying that L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley had made an “operating funds decision” not to pre-deploy…

New York Post: California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades fire safety project to save an endangered shrub – In 2019, the LA Department of Water and Power began replacing nearly 100-year-old power line poles cutting through Topanga State Park when the project was halted within days by conservationists outraged that federally endangered Braunton’s milkvetch plants had been trampled during the process…

James O’Keefe: NEW LEAKED ZUCKERBERG AUDI TAPES of Rockefeller Foundation Staff Reveal a $500K Ad Credit Scheme to Boost Biden-Aligned COVID Health Narratives—These credits were used to amplify public health initiatives and narratives aligned with the Biden administration, the CDC, and the World Health Organization.

Powerline: Biden Congratulates Himself – Biden was introduced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who elicited the lie that the New York Post’s coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 was Russia collusion, then turned it over to Politico to publicize it. — Biden slurred and shouted during the farewell assessment of his foreign policy achievements yesterday afternoon.

American Thinker: The Manufactured Outrage Over Pete Hegseth’s Nomination for Secretary of Defense – This isn’t just him; it is a test of whether America still values civilian oversight of the military and respects religious freedom. – Allegations from a disgruntled former employee and manufactured controversies include Hegseth’s Christian tattoo, which has been assailed as extremist. – But these efforts to discredit Hegseth obscure the larger issue: his qualifications and commitment to reform…

American Thinker: The Climate Hoax—The real question is, do you believe your own eyes or the report of a government-funded academic whose salary depends on providing evidence of warming? – Biden’s first act as president was to shut down the Keystone pipeline. Still, his administration restricted all oil and gas development and transmission, setting the country back by years.

Zero Hedge: “The Scariest Thing That’s Ever Happened” – Will The “Twitter Files” For The U.S. Government Expose Bio Labs In Ukraine? – Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson released a wide-ranging interview Monday with investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger in which the pair discussed the possibility of a “Twitter Files” style exposé that could shine a light on the concerning possibility of American biological labs in war-torn Ukraine.

Zero Hedge: American Airlines Mismanaged Employees’ Retirement Funds By Investing In ESG A Court Rules. – The defendants allegedly mismanaged their employees’ retirement assets/401k plans when they hired investment managers pursuing ESG policies to handle the funds, especially BlackRock.

Zero Hedge: Visualizing America’s $1.7 Trillion Insurance Industry—This graphic, created by Visual Capitalist Marcus Lu, breaks down the total market capitalization of America’s insurance industry. UnitedHealth Group is the country’s most valuable insurance company, with a market cap of $473 billion.

January 13, 2025

Epoch Times: Trump’s Inauguration Schedule Has Been Released – Trump’s inauguration weekend begins on January 18th, kicking off with a fireworks display near his northern Virginia golf club, will include three inaugural balls, and will conclude on the 21st with attendance at the National Prayer Service.

Epoch Times: Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray Issued A Final Warning on China’s Threat to The US – Wray, “Well, the greatest long-term threat facing our country, in my view, is represented by the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese government, which I consider to be the defining threat of our generation”…

Bloomberg Opinion: Trump’s ‘Americas First’ Plan Isn’t All Bad — It’s a mistake to dismiss this as Trumpian bluster or diplomatic trolling. – His taunts preview the new continentalism likely to color his foreign policy. – Each idea has its own logic. – Drugs and migration are immediate, tangible threats to US security and sovereignty. – Next is the growing Chinese influence around the militarily and economically vital Panama Canal. Then there is Greenland…

Washington Free Beacon: The Special Counsel Slams Biden’s Attacks on ‘Integrity of Justice System’ in The Hunter Biden Case – Biden maligned DOJ prosecutors ‘based solely on false accusations,’ the special counsel report says

Slay News: Trump: ‘We Have to Defeat the Climate Hoaxers Once and for All’ – “One of the most urgent tasks is to defeat the climate hysteria hoax decisively. – “The radical Left’s fearmongering about climate and our future is destroying America’s economy, weakening our society, and eviscerating our middle class.

Vigilant News: Scott Jennings Exposed The Ones Fueling Division Over The LA Wildfires – “Do you think it was uniting or dividing, while amid these fires, for the Democrats to go to Sacramento and, in an emergency session, vote to appropriate $50 million to ‘Trump-proof’ California, to sue the Trump administration, which hasn’t even taken office yet? – Was that dividing, was that divisive, or was that uniting?”

American Spectator: Blame Newsom, Not Climate Change, for The Los Angeles Wildfires – On January 8, 2019, Newsom’s first full day in office as governor of California, he held a press conference declaring war on the state’s wildfires and said the state’s approach to combatting them “fundamentally has to change.” – Taking priority, environmental protections proved to be a blockade to wildfire prevention…

Trending Politics: Newsom Faces Backlash After Using The Wildfires To Drive Donations To A Democratic Fundraising Site—The website purportedly provides resources and information about the Southern California wildfires, but critics claim it’s nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to fundraise on a platform for Democratic causes.

City Journal: California’s Policies Laid the Groundwork for Wildfire Danger – The risks continued to grow, but state leaders focused on climate change instead of protecting citizens. – Many observers compared the crisis to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. – Like that calamity, the L.A. fires are bound to capture national attention for months, and remediation efforts will likely soak up massive federal resources…

Gateway Pundit: California Governor Gavin Newsom Announces a “Marshall Plan” to Rebuild a New Los Angeles—In the wake of the devastating wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles County, Governor Gavin Newsom has unveiled an ambitious initiative dubbed “Reimagining LA 2.0” to reconstruct the city. – The plan aims to rebuild the city by focusing on modernization and resilience, particularly in anticipation of the 2028 Olympics and the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

New York Sun: Gaza Hostage Negotiators, Scrambling To Avoid The ‘Hell’ Trump Threatened, Are Reportedly Near Deal for Israeli, Yank Hostages – Thirty-three of the 98 hostages would be released in the first of three stages to the deal. – If all goes according to that plan, the release of hostages, including American citizens, would coincide with the start of Trump’s presidency.

Daily Wire: Vice President-elect JD Vance on Sunday warned that the incoming Trump administration would enable Israel to “knock out” Hamas unless a deal is reached to free dozens of hostages. – Vance made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.

Fox News: In her Monday ruling, Judge Aileen Cannon approved the release of the first of two volumes of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Trump investigation. – On Friday, Cannon will consider releasing the second volume, which concerns Trump’s handling of classified documents.

Daily Wire: A House Republican has unveiled a bill allowing President-elect Donald Trump to make a deal to acquire Greenland for the United States. Representative Andy Ogles’s legislation comes after Trump revived talk about how the U.S. should take control of Greenland, a territory controlled by Denmark, for “the purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the world.”

Zero Hedge: Russia’s Shadow Shipping Fleet, How It Works And Why It Is Hard To Tackle – “There’s the Western-administered A1 fleet with all the right insurance and controls. – Then, there’s a parallel fleet, run by China, India, and the Asian countries, which is well-maintained but ignores sanctions.” – “Then, there’s the ‘gray fleet,’ which consists of ships used for smuggling drugs and arms, which is completely illegal.

Zero Hedge: Russia and Iran Will Sign A ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ Treaty This Week. – The treaty was previewed as heavily focused on defense and security cooperation. – Besides signing the agreement, Putin and Pezeshkian are expected to discuss “prospects for the further expansion of bilateral cooperation, including in trade and investment, transport and logistics…”

American Thinker: Illegal Immigration Is Killing Small Towns – The Biden-Mayorkas human trafficking operation must come to an end immediately – The deadly repercussions of the Biden-Mayorkas open borders madness will haunt us for decades, but the countless heartbreaking stories will remain unreported due to the moral limitations of our cowering, censorship-prone, and incurious press.

Western Journal: Border Czar Homan Is Rolling Out Way for Individual Americans to Help Deport Illegals Personally – Homan said Trump’s transition team has been considering the creation of a hotline for Americans to report criminal behavior by illegal immigrants – We need to make sure they have an outlet to help report child traffickers, forced labor traffickers…

Slay News: Trump Vows to End The ‘Transgender Lunacy’ on Day One – Trump affirmed the pledge during a speech at Turning Point USA’s America Fest conference last month. – “With a stroke of my pen on Day One, we are going to stop the transgender lunacy,” Trump said. – “And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools.”

Western Journal: ‘Democrat’ Hopes and Dreams Were Crushed with One Word’ as Pete Hegseth’s FBI Background Check Was Submitted To The Senate – Pete Hegseth’s FBI yawn-inducing background check is “unremarkable.” All of the Democrats’ hopes and dreams were crushed with a single word.

Breitbart: 500 Navy SEALs, veterans, and other supporters are planning to march to support Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth as he appears before senators for his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. – His supporters will meet at the Vietnam Memorial Wall at 9 a.m. EST and march to different war memorials, including the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the D.C. War Memorial, and the World War II Memorial, then conclude near Capitol Hill with remarks from military leaders and prominent supporters.

The Federalist: Garland Seeks To Trample Americans’ Due Process Rights To Get Trump – It would be outrageous for AG Garland to continue to push for the release of the special counsel’s report. – All eyes now rest on Judge Aileen Cannon’s docket to see how she responds to this weekend’s bombshell filing.

City Journal: Cabinet of The Canceled – Trump’s cabinet picks sometimes seem to embody Government by Middle Finger. – They represent Government by the Canceled: an assemblage that doesn’t need to be reminded of the administrative state’s ability to coerce by calling in favors from Big Tech or pulling the levers of regulation, audit, or investigation. – Many have experienced such treatment firsthand.

Gateway Pundit: Leftists Are Furious as Governor Greg Abbott Orders Flags Raised to Full Staff in Texas for Trump’s Inauguration, Defying Joe Biden’s Order to Fly Flags Half-Mast – Every single state should follow in Abbott’s footsteps before Inauguration Day to show President Trump deserved love and show the left they’re no longer putting up with their garbage. – Hopefully, at least the red states will…

Washington Examiner: Incoming First Lady Melania Trump revealed that her “priority” over the next four years would be to “serve the country,” adding that she intends to spend most of her time in the White House. – Previous reports claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s wife would not live in the White House full-time during her husband’s second presidency and instead split her time between New York City and Palm Beach, Florida.

Gateway Pundit: A NEW VIDEO Shows January 6 Trump Supporter Rosanne Boyland Shot In The Face By A Police Projectile. – Then She Was Pushed Down And Smothered Before a Metro Police Officer Beat Her with a Stick as She Died on The Capitol Steps – The Capitol Police also attempted to kill Derrick Vargo when they pushed him off a three-story ledge. He survived with serious injuries…

Washington Examiner: Biden’s student loan relief tops $183 billion after this latest round of forgiveness – Biden announced Monday morning that the newest round of forgiveness would affect 150,000 borrowers, including 85,000 who “attended schools that cheated or defrauded their students,” 61,000 borrowers with permanent disabilities, and 6,100 public servants.

Newsmax: The DNC Hires A Team To Combat Supposed Misinformation From Trump’s White House – The team consists of former staffers behind the @KamalaHQ account during Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign to combat supposed disinformation from the Trump administration in real-time.

American Spectator: A Tale of Two Democrat Cities — Los Angeles and New York City are the two largest cities in the US. – Last week, both provided excellent case studies on negligence and corruption. In the City of Angels, municipal officials’ dereliction of duty has caused 40,000 acres of residential and commercial property to go up in flames. – In the Big Apple, a corrupt district attorney and a politically compromised judge set fire to the credibility of a once-respected legal system.

Washington Examiner: In a special session last week ordered by Governor Newson, Democrats approve $50 million to resist Trump while wildfires continue to rage. – The state legislature session aimed at combatting the incoming Trump administration’s proposed policies regarding illegal immigration, among other issues.

Trending Politics: Gavin Newsom Is Embroiled In A Scandal For His Stunning Move Before Tragic Wildfires—A recently surfaced report exposed a controversial budget decision by the governor’s office. The decision slashed over $100 million from wildfire prevention programs, including a $5 million reduction to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s vegetation management initiatives.

This map, published by LA County Recovers, reveals some homes that miraculously escaped ruin in the blaze. – According to the latest update from Cal Fire, the blaze remained only 13% contained as of Monday morning.

Western Journal: Karen Bass’ Team Discovered Damning Insider Fire Documents Online, And Immediately Deleted The Proof – The November 18th memo was written to the fire commissioners, a five-person board appointed by Bass. – She explained their dire readiness situation in Fire Chief Crowley’s memo. – “In many ways, the current staffing, deployment model, and size of the LAFD have not changed since the 1960s,” Crowley wrote…

Victor Davis Hanson: – Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California – California’s DEI “humanism” and Green New Deal environmentalism ensured the cruelest imaginable treatment of thousands of people and unrivaled destruction of the natural ecosystem. – No one has taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe are blame-gaming each other to determine who was the more incompetent, which in this case translates to the most woke…

Wall Street Journal: Their Wealth Is in Their Homes, But Their Homes Are Now Ash. – Many of L.A.’s middle-class homeowners bought properties years ago before prices exploded. – Now, they are figuring out what to do next as the fires accelerate the city’s onerous housing crunch. – “It was our retirement investment. – It was our equity. – It was everything,” said John Kastanas, a 63-year-old who works in an administrative role at the California Institute of Technology…

American Thinker: California Takes on the Insurance Industry – Consumer advocates have redoubled their attacks on supposedly “greedy” insurance companies with the California fires. – But in reality, when people buy an insurance policy, they buy into a risk pool (an insurance policy is not a savings account) where everyone shares the risk assumed by that pool. – It’s the shared risk concept that makes insurance work…

American Spectator: The X (Twitter) Factor That Saved America – Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter three years ago saved our free speech rights, which paved the way for a Trump victory – Government swamp creatures didn’t just condone the censorship; they pushed for it.

Breitbart: Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Fortnite developer Epic Games and a frequent critic of Apple and Google, has accused the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe of cozying up to Donald Trump to influence the administration’s antitrust policies. – Sweeney, “After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration.”

FAR: The Greatest Inauguration of My Lifetime—Next Monday, January 20, 2025, at noon Eastern time, I will watch the most significant and historic presidential inauguration in my 80+ years. – Trump’s team released this short video that captures its historical significance.

Washington Free Beacon: – The Biden-Harris administration quietly pushed out $1 million in taxpayer funding late last year for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs abroad, marking a last-ditch effort to cement its left-wing agenda before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. – The money will go to ‘marginalized’ and ‘underrepresented groups’ in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya.

Red State: The Washington Post Has Officially Lost 90% of Its Online Readership Since 2021. – The paper is reportedly now trying to move toward the center and away from its hard leftism. – Even if the paper does manage to pull itself out of its leftist grave, winning America back over is going to be difficult.

January 12, 2025

Epoch Times: 24 people are dead, sixteen are missing, and 12,000 structures have burned as fire crews try to corral Los Angeles blazes before winds return this week. – The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for severe fire conditions through Wednesday, with sustained winds of 50 mph and gusts in the mountains reaching 70 mph.

American Thinker: California, water, water everywhere, and not a drop to pump. – Californian firefighters found empty hydrants all too often had none, so they were reduced to watching homes burn to the ground. – But wait, wasn’t California supposed to have done something about water many years ago? – Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and various other politicians are finger-pointing and trying desperately to avoid questions while seeking someone else to blame. – Desalinization works for Israel…

Epoch Times: California Governor Gavin Newsom Signed an Executive Order to Clear the Path for Rebuilding After the Los Angeles Fires. – The governor said the executive order would target price gouging and halt some environmental regulations to speed up rebuilding.

Breitbart: DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas Is Trying To To Get The Laken Riley Act Killed – The bill requires the DHS to take illegal aliens who have been charged, arrested, or convicted for crimes such as theft, larceny, burglary, or shoplifting into custody. – Breitbart News’s Bradley Jaye previously reported that 33 Senate Democrats had voted with Republicans to “clear a key procedural hurdle on the Laken Riley Act.”

Slay News: The Bank of England is preparing to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC). – The major central bank’s introduction of the digital pound will pave the way for unprecedented levels of financial surveillance in the UK and beyond. – The CBDC will be launched alongside the government’s recent National Payments Vision.

American Thinker: When Russia Invaded Ukraine, The Inside Story—An Obama “Ukraine expert” tells his side of what led to the Ukraine war. – It all started when Obama outsourced Western policy regarding Ukraine to Germany and France. – Ultimately, the Russian invasion was caused by a failure of deterrence in Europe, Ukraine, and the United States.

Zero Hedge: The Walls Close In On Zelensky – In a meeting with allies in Germany this week, the embattled leader requested NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine. – Nothing about his proposal is “practical.” – Even if Zelensky is speaking about peacekeeping troops as part of a settlement, which isn’t clear, it’s still a fundamentally crazy idea. – Simply put, it would bring us to the brink of nuclear war.

Geller Report: There Were 18,000 Terrorist Attacks in Israel in 2024 – Imagine if the U.S. was attacked 18,000 times by terrorist armies. – What would we do? – Any rational American would expect us to take them out. – But the Biden Administration, the UN, the EU, the Left, et al. demand that Israel agrees to a one-sided ceasefire that would enable Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to fight yet again another day.

Epoch Times: 13 Trump Appointees Face Confirmation Hearings Next Week – The back-to-back hearings will likely prove the first major test of Trump’s second term in office as Republicans grapple with a slim majority in the Senate. – Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense. – Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior – Doug Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs – Marco Rubio, Secretary of State – Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security…

American Thinker: There’s no such thing as a Snail Darter, and there never was! – California has long been infamous for choosing the preservation of the “Delta Smelt, a bait fish, over water preservation and farmers’ need for water. – Technically, it is just another member of the eastern population of Percina urania, or stargazing darters, which is not considered endangered but was used by environmentalists to justify their actions…

American Thinker: LA’s DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Fire Bomb – That’s how Victor David Hanson describes this week’s catastrophic wildfires in Southern California. – Here are some of the most glaring examples of the misgovernance of California that contributed to the catastrophe, in case your regular news source brushes past them with feature stories pushing their nonsense about climate change.

American Thinker: The Negligent Homicide Of Newsom and Bass – How can California’s voters continue to vote for the likes of these people? – Much of the taxpayer money supposedly allocated for firefighting infrastructure instead goes to social engineering/DIE boondoggles or disappears as an untraceable graft into the bank accounts of California’s well-connected, super-rich progressive elite (both in and out of government).

January 11, 2025

Powerline: In a rare Q and A session with reporters, Joe Biden was asked his opinion of Meta’s abandonment of third-party “fact checkers.” – Biden slammed Meta on Friday for ending its third-party fact-checking program, arguing that the change goes against American values and is “shameful.”…

The Epoch Times: The DOJ Confirms That Special Counsel Jack Smith Has Resigned. – Federal law requires special counsels to prepare a final report outlining their prosecution decisions and submit it to the attorney general. – After Trump’s election win in November, Smith dropped the charges against Trump in both cases.

American Thinker: Gavin Newsom begged Trump to come to California, failing to mention Kamala, who has a house in the path of the inferno – Newsom is RIPPED Trump for not going to California and seeing the fires. – Did he forget that he’s not the President yet?? – Then he went on a series of left-wing podcasts, lamenting Trump’s supposed politicization of the issue as if he wasn’t politicizing the matter himself…

Breitbart: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power CEO Janisse Quiñones knew that the Santa Ynez Reservoir was offline and fire hydrants were not working. – Insiders with the LAFP reportedly blame Quiñones, hired in May on a $750,000 salary, for leaving the Santa Ynez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades disconnected as wildfires began in the Los Angeles area and for leaving fire hydrants broken for several months…

Slay News: An Italian Study Found That ‘Not a Single Natural Disaster’ Can Be Blamed on ‘Climate Change.’ – The study found that “climate events” are not increasing but are being reported more frequently by the globalist corporate media. – As natural disaster reporting has increased, so have the narratives that deceitfully link them to “climate change.” – This applies to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Zero Hedge: Small-Town America “Fights Back” In Court Against Globalists Who Flooded Their Town With Haitians—A resident of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, is locked in a legal battle with a local food packaging plant that primarily employs migrants from the Third World. Eyes on Charleroi first appeared when Donald Trump highlighted the town’s staggering 2,000% surge in its migrant population while on the campaign trail.

American Thinker: Trump Lawfare Is Far From Over—What remains is to discover just how corrupt the New York justice system is. It is fascinating that they could convict Trump on 34 felony counts created out of thin air. – Law Professor Jonathan Turley, no Trump fan but an honest legal scholar, was not impressed with Merchan or the New York legal system.

American Thinker: The Fed Goes ‘Proactively Hostile’ Against Trump—Don’t forget that the Federal Reserve is part of the deep state. – The Federal Open Market Committee’s Minutes Show that ‘Almost All’ Fed Members See Higher Inflation Risks, Citing Expected Trump Policies.

Just The News: Trump started governing early from his Palm Beach shadow White House, creating a significant impact – Foreign dignitaries, domestic politicians, and billionaire investors alike have flocked to the Palm Beach resort to meet with the incoming president, some of whom have brought with them economic and/or ideological offerings.

Breitbart: Jeff Bezos’s Amazon is the latest mega-company to claim it is scaling back some of its DEI initiatives after they began garnering backlash for being ineffective and “woke.” – Amazon also recently “scrubbed” webpages titled “Equity for Black people” and “LGBTQ+ rights” from its “Our Positions” section on its website, the outlet reported.

America First Report: The United States Is Crippling Itself With Climate Change Regulations, But China Is Not – A strong economy requires reasonable regulations that make sense economically and scientifically. – Unfortunately, many policymakers have bought into an extreme regulatory agenda driven by an ideology that does not make sense scientifically or economically and that is harming both our economy and our military.

American Thinker: Los Angeles Burns, and Lex Luthor Was Right—The fires in California are not just some unavoidable act of God. – People at the highest levels are responsible and need to pay. – As shadow and flame engulf the city, the political system’s corruption comes to light in many ways.

American Greatness: California, Wildfires, and the Foundational Myths of the Left—California’s wildfires exposed the dangers of policies rooted in utopian myths, where environmental ideology trumps practical forest and water management.

Washington Free Beacon: Bureaucracy, Red Tape, and a Failed Gavin Newsom Project, Or Why California Moved Slowly in Wildfire Prevention – Permitting delays on projects thinning out dense clusters of trees and prescribed burns to remove the conditions necessary for fires to spread rapidly were stifled by climate groups that regularly challenge them in court…

Western Journal: The LAFD chief says she was going to be fired by the mayor in the middle of the catastrophic blazes that have killed at least 11 and burned thousands of buildings to the ground. – The reason is that she told the truth about what Democrat Mayor Karen Bass had done to the fire department. – It is unclear whether this will happen after things cool down…

New York Sun: California Faces a Staggering $20 Billion Wildfire Insurance Crisis, With ‘Sad Surprises’ On The Horizon for Homeowners—State Farm, the state’s largest home insurance provider, announced in March of last year that it was discontinuing coverage of 72,000 home and apartment policies across the state.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Gulf of America Edition! Trump isn’t satisfied with making America great again; he wants to make the entire Western Hemisphere great again!

January 10, 2025

Zero Hedge: The Real Cost Of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship Actions—The systematic dismantling of fundamental rights resulted from the quiet cooperation of tech platforms, media gatekeepers, and government agencies, all claiming to protect us from “misinformation.” The many court cases cost millions, involving vast FOIA requests, depositions, and discoveries. – The truth has been documented in 100,000 pages of evidence.

The Federalist: While California Burns, Gavin Newsom Begs Biden To Silence ‘Disinformation’ – “It breaks my heart as people are suffering and struggling that we’re up against those hurricane force forces as well,” Newsom said on Friday in a video call with Biden. “I ask you; we’ve got to deal with this misinformation.”

Newsmax: Newsom Invited Trump to California to Survey Fire Damage – On Wednesday, Trump blasted Newsom on his Truth Social platform, writing, “One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning to the ground. It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. – This is all his fault!!!”

Zero Hedge: Cypherpunk’s Guide To Uncensored, Anonymous AI In 2025 – A peer-reviewed study of 24 top large language models published in PLOS One in July 2024 found almost all of them are biased toward the left on most political orientation tests. – Interestingly, the base models were supposedly politically neutral, and the bias only became apparent after the models had been through supervised fine-tuning…

Zero Hedge: This Visual Capitalist chart, created by  Pallavi Rao, shows the average U.S. household budget by tracking all income, including expenditures, savings, and taxes. – Taken together, housing (25%), taxes (14%), and savings (10%) account for nearly half of the average American household’s monthly budget.

Zero Hedge: Macy’s and Kohl’s Announced the Closure of 93 Stores In Total. – This follows several quarters of negative year-over-year revenue growth. – Due to tough business conditions, several companies have recently slashed store counts, shuttered divisions, or filed for bankruptcy, citing profitability and cost challenges.

American Thinker: North Korea is China’s Proxy – North Korea is to China as Hamas, and the rest of the Islamist proxies are to Iran. – North Korea stands as a wild card and is as close to a Stalinist dictatorship as there ever was, perhaps more so. – It is highly dependent on its status as a vassal nation of China, which isolates itself from the world and technically is still at war with South Korea.

Fox News: Trump is setting up a meeting with Putin and is in communication with Xi – A Kremlin spokesman confirms Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet the incoming president ‘to resolve problems through dialogue’ – Trump, “I’d rather wait until after the 20th,” he added, referencing his inauguration later this month.

One America News: Trump, This Unconditional Discharge Proves ‘THERE IS NO CASE’ – Trump’s unconditional discharge means that the President-elect will not face imprisonment, be fined, or require probation supervision. – His conviction, however, will remain on his permanent record.

Newsmax: Biden Extended Protected Status for El Salvadorans Through September 2026 – Under TPS, nationals of designated countries are allowed to live and work in the United States – This move could complicate the incoming Trump administration’s plans to scrap long-term immigrant protections…

Newsmax: Trump And House Freedom Caucus Members Will Meet at Mar-a-Lago – The meeting comes as Republicans are working on legislation for Trump’s agenda on tax cuts, the border, energy, and other issues, which they are aiming to push through with the reconciliation process that would bypass the need for support from Democrats.

Red State: Donald Trump’s Viral Moment At Carter’s Funeral – Trump, “I didn’t realize how friendly it looked.” – “I said, ‘Boy, they look like two people who like each other,’ and we probably do.” The New York Post was so enamored with the “bromance” moment that they hired a professional lip reader to try and interpret the conversation. – Their guy concluded that Trump told Obama the two need “to find a quiet place sometime” to discuss a “matter of importance.

Cal Fire 3D Incident Map For The Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hurst Fire, Lidia Fire, And Sunset Fire…

New York Post: LA Fires Live Update – The Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst fires are still out of control since they began ripping across the county. At least 10 people have died, and 200,000 displaced, with the destruction of as many as 10,000 structures, including whole residential neighborhoods. – At least 35,000 acres of land have burned down, an area about two-and-a-half times the size of Manhattan.

Trending Politics: The LAPD Arrests Arson Suspect Linked To Devastating Wildfires – Police believe the homeless man in his 30s armed himself with a blowtorch and began lighting up a fire that started in the Woodland Hills section of the city just north of Palisades. – The arrest blunts allegations by mainstream media outlets that environmental changes are to blame for the historic wildfire tearing through America’s second-largest city.

Wall Street Journal: California’s Wildfire Insurance Catastrophe—The state refused to let insurers properly price risk, so they fled the state. – Insurers are paying out $1.09 in expenses and claims for every $1 they collect in premiums, which is financially unsustainable. – Now, homeowners and taxpayers will pay for the mistake.

Zero Hedge: Insurance companies are bracing for the worst-case scenario. – Analysts at JP Morgan said Thursday that insured losses could top $20 billion. Losses will likely be “confined mostly” to homeowners insurers like Allstate, Travelers, and Chubb, but commercial property insurers like American International Group and Kinsale Capital Group could also be exposed.

Geller Report: Victor Davis Hanson on California Wildfires – “A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb, The Alarming Symptoms of a Society Gone Mad.” – The people who run it feel that it should return to a 19th-century pastoral condition. – They are de-civilizing the state, de-industrializing the state, and de-farming the state…

Breitbart: The L.A. Wildfires Could Cost Up to $150 Billion – AccuWeather increased its preliminary estimate of damage and economic loss to between $135 billion and $150 billion. – The fires, driven by hurricane-force winds, destroyed homes, disrupted businesses, and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.

Townhall: There’s No Way An LAFD Assistant Chief Would Say This, But This Woke Hire Did – LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson: “Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? – He got himself in the wrong place.” – The Los Angeles Fire Department recently created a DEI Bureau, which she leads. – $399k salary.

Geller Report: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Tells Media Point-Blank Newsom Would’ve Been ‘Nailed To The Wall’ Over Wildfires If He Was Republican. – “When we had the Surfside tower collapse, I had people from the Washington Post trying to blame me for it.” – “Mayor of L.A., you know the fires are at high risk, and you are trying to go to Africa?”…

American Thinker: Americans, Be Careful Who You Vote For Because Your Lives Could Depend On It, BIG TIME – ‘DEI’ is ‘DIE’ as presented from the scorched rubble of California’s fire zone – Everyone knows now Gavin Newsom is a psycho narcissist who wants to be president. – Then there is Castro fan Mayor Karen Bass, who has seen to it that the entire cast of the Los Angeles government is woke – pro-LGBTQ, diverse, as in prominent minority, gay, and, above all, multi-cultural in the extreme…

Washington Examiner: California Democrats held a special session to ‘Trump-proof’ the state as the fires continue to rage – At the direction of Governor Gavin Newsom, the state legislature convened on Thursday to move forward with plans to provide $25 million to the California Department of Justice in preparation for lawsuits against the incoming Trump administration.

Breitbart: 70+ Fact-Checking Organizations Are Furious at Mark Zuckerberg. – The “fact-checking” organizations penned an open letter to Zuckerberg expressing their outrage over Meta’s decision to move away from biased left-wing “fact-check” organizations and toward crowdsourced moderation on its platforms in the United States. –

Gateway Pundit: Mark Zuckerberg is Scrapping All of Meta’s DEI Programs And Returning To Meritocratic Hiring Practices. – Among the proposed changes are cutting the company’s entire DEI team, ending all equity and inclusion programs, and no longer requiring suppliers to meet diversity quotas and targets.

American Greatness: Education Officials Promote Gender Ideology, a Destructive Pathology That Targets Kids – Conservatives must amplify their opposition to gender ideology as it infiltrates public institutions while ensuring the growing evidence of its harms is neither ignored nor silenced.

January 9, 2025

Townhall: A Port Strike Averted, And Who the Union Credits Is a Massive Embarrassment For Biden – Harold Daggett, head of the ILA, gave “full credit” to Trump for the deal, telling the incoming president he has “proven to be one of the best friends of working men and women in the United States.”

New York Post: The Senate advanced the Laken Riley Act, which lets states sue DHS for illegal immigration effects. The act also compels border enforcement officials to take custody of illegal immigrants who commit theft and related crimes. The final passage of the measure could take place as soon as Friday.

Daily Signal: SCOTUS Allows Trump’s Sentencing to Proceed — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson determined that sentencing would not be an undue burden since it would then proceed through the normal appeals process.

Western Journal: Biden Is Slammed for Concluding The LA Fire Briefing with ‘Good News’ About His Family – “The good news is, I’m a great-grandfather as of today,” Biden said to tepid “woos” from the reporters present. – Journalist Matthew Keys shared the relevant clip of Biden’s “good news,” and the comments under the post were telling.

American Thinker: Can California’s Fires Change Woke to MAGA? – There’s a venerable aphorism: “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.” – Now we may find out if grotesque governmental incompetence and malice are enough to mug Californians toward sanity. – Homeless encampments. – Refusal to build and fill reservoirs, causing fire hydrants to run dry. – Gross mismanagement of forests and refusing to do controlled burns. – Severe budget cuts to fire departments…

The Center Square: Biden promises federal aid as wildfires continue to blaze across Los Angeles. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, as of Thursday afternoon, more than 1,000 structures had been destroyed, and at least five people had died. The department has had nearly 13,926 emergency responses, 92 wildfires, and 29,053 acres burned.

One America News: Elon Is Providing Free Starlink Cell Service To L.A. Residents Affected By The Fires – Musk’s Starlink system is also able to provide internet service, despite the lack of cell towers, by utilizing a “constellation” of thousands of satellites in Low-Earth Orbit.

Breitbart: Michelle Obama Skipped Jimmy Carter’s Funeral To Vacation In Hawaii – All living First Ladies attended Jimmy Carter’s Thursday funeral except Michelle Obama. – Michelle Obama did not attend because she reportedly had “scheduling conflicts.”

The Gatestone Institute: The Media And International Community Ignore Palestinian Crimes Against Palestinians – By ignoring violations committed by Palestinians against their people, the international community, which appears to be solely obsessed with Israel, is displaying its hypocrisy, double standards, and bigotry, which is doing them a great disservice…

American Thinker: Trump’s Incredibly High Stakes—Trump doesn’t want to make America great again in just 48 months. His goal is to put America back on the correct course. Trump and his team understand the urgency. He’s meeting with Republican senators and bringing key House Republicans to his Florida estate for Come to Trump meetings. Keeping Republicans unified and moving forward is a heavy lift.

Breitbart: Trump’s Inaugural Committee Has Raised $170M, Shattering Records – Companies and top executives appear eager to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump as he readies to take office later this month.

Daily Wire: ‘A Colossal Win For Women And Girls’ – Twenty-six states sued to stop the regulations from going into effect, and the Supreme Court in August provided a temporary stay of the rules. – But now a federal court has blocked the regulations from going into effect for all states, even those that didn’t sue…

Tablet Magazine: The Deep State Strikes Back! – A front-runner for the top White House intelligence job may be planning to run cover for the IC – On Sunday, Joshua Steinman, an NSC official from Trump’s first administration, reported that the current NSC is being staffed with holdovers from the Joe Biden administration and others unlikely to serve Trump’s agenda.

Victor Davis Hanson: America and Europe Can Hang Together, Or Hang Separately – Europe may soon quietly rejoice that Biden is gone, Trump is back, and they have a strong, loyal, and rowdy friend rather than a simpering enabler. – The people of both nations want smaller governments, more freedom of expression, less wokeness, secure borders, cheaper energy, and fewer regulations.

Red State: Does Nancy Pelosi Have The Golden Touch? – Pelosi’s Stock Portfolio Exploded 71% in 2024, Beating The Stock Index by 200 Percent – Pelosi’s 2024 results exceeded their impressive 2023 performance of 65.5%, which outperformed that year’s S&P 500 return of 24.8% by roughly 164 percent…

Just Facts Daily: Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would ” get rid of fact-checkers” because they have “been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created.” – Here are 21 glaring examples that Facebook-approved fact-checkers and PolitiFact have incessantly spread and the facts that refute them: 1) The COVID-19 death rate – 2) Market value of Mar-a-Lago…

Tech Crunch: Google searches for deleting Facebook And Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking – [Leftist] experts see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation.

Breitbart: LIVE UPDATES—Day Three Of The Catastrophic Los Angeles Wildfires—The raging wildfires that broke out in various Los Angeles, CA regions on Tuesday and Wednesday are spreading due to extreme winds. They are destroying homes and displacing tens of thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands in Los Angeles are estimated to be without power as of the early morning hours of Thursday as the historic fires continue to devastate the city.

New York Sun: The National Guard Has Been Called In As The Devastating Wildfires Spread into the Hollywood Hills. – Five People Have Been Found Dead So Far, and 2,000 Homes have been Reduced to Dust. – The Palisades Fire is already the most destructive in Los Angeles history, with at least 1,000 structures burned.

Western Journal: LA Mayor Karen Bass’s Stone-Faced Response When Asked to Apologize To Residents For The Lack Of Preparation that Enabled The LA Fires Triggers Outrage. – She ignored the Sky News reporter’s questions, acting like he wasn’t even there.

Breitbart: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Last Month Bragged About Building a ‘Greener LA’ – “We’re building a greener L.A.,” she posted on Facebook, along with a post on X that said: The goal was more than 100,000 green jobs in L.A. by the end of 2025. – We will hit the goal by the end of 2024. – We’re building a greener L.A.

Conservative Brief: A Resurfaced Video Of Trump Addressing California Fire Policies Vindicates Him. – The clip, from a three-month-old appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, features Trump’s sharp criticism of California’s environmental policies and inadequate forest maintenance.

January 8, 2025

Epoch Times: Biden Confirms He’s Considering Preemptive Pardons for People Who Have Not Yet Been Charged With A Crime—Preemptive pardons would differ from those that Biden has already issued and those issued by other presidents in their final days in office. 

Geller Report: Biden Announces Another $500 Million in Military Aid to Ukraine As California Burns – The total budget authority under these bills, the “headline” figure often cited by news media, is $175 billion.

Western Journal: Los Angeles residents in the exclusive Pacific Palisades neighborhood are paying a heavy price for poor leadership and environmentalism run amok. – “About 1,000 structures, including many homes, have been destroyed in the fire. – Fire hydrants ran empty as firefighters sought to combat the blaze.

American Thinker: Greasy Gavin shows up for his fire pictures but fails to mention why there’s no water to fight the fires. – Newsom wants to look like he’s ‘doing something.’ But his actions prove he did everything imaginable to enable these monster fires. – He posted this yesterday as the fire engulfed the first city, so you know…

Western Journal: An illegal immigrant was arrested on Sunday after allegedly murdering an ex-girlfriend following his return to the US a mere one week after deportation. – Nestor Rocha-Aguayo allegedly murdered Talia Benward, 31, with whom he had a previous relationship where he faced domestic violence charges…

Breitbart: 6 Despicable Facebook Censorship Acts Under Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership – Hiding the Story on Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell – Creating the Leftist “Fact Checker” Industry – Dropping Donald Trump’s Engagement by 45% in 2018 – Banning President Donald Trump – Banning Anyone They Deemed Spreading Content They Deemed “Misinformation” – Killing the Reach of Political Content...

Epoch Times: Trump Asks Supreme Court to Halt Sentencing In The New York Case – Trump’s legal team filed an emergency request with SCOTUS on Wednesday, arguing that proceeding with the sentencing could cause “grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.” – The Supreme Court has requested a response from New York prosecutors by Thursday.

Epoch Times: The Biden DOJ Says It Will Release Jack Smith’s Report on Donald Trump — AG Merrick Garland intends to release part one of the report, which Smith has already transmitted to Garland. – On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the department not to release the report until the 11th Circuit reviewed a motion by Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, Trump’s co-defendants in a federal case.

The Daily Fetched: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 committee and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis conspired together to target President Donald Trump and his allies. – The revelations came to light following a legal battle in which Judicial Watch forced the disclosure of previously withheld records.

Zero Hedge: As Donald Trump re-enters the White House on a pledge to end national security state overreach, the FBI is still hiding critical details on the fake Russia conspiracy investigation that engulfed his first term. – Even so, details about the FBI’s motivation can be gleaned from these other public disclosures…

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Plan To “Un-Ban” The Biden Drilling Order Could Prove Difficult – There are grounds to assert his authority of reversal, but it will take years in court. – The alternative and preferred route would be via Congress.

Resist the Mainstream: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Plans A Trump-Inspired Bill Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’—It Has Reportedly Garnered ‘Tons of Interest’ from GOP Colleagues. – The legislation’s implementation mechanism remains unclear, though Greene has suggested it would mandate federal agencies, including the U.S. military, to officially adopt “Gulf of America” in all federal communications and documentation.

The Daily Fetched: The International Fact-Checking Network has convened an emergency meeting following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s announcement that Facebook and Instagram will eliminate fact-checkers and uphold free speech. – Zuckerberg said he would “restore free expression” on its platforms by implementing an X-style’ Community notes’ system instead of using fact-checkers…

Slay News: The UK Government Advances The UN’s Crackdown on Citizen Climate Dissent. – The campaign is designed to suppress the general public’s online skepticism regarding “global warming” narratives. The UN hopes to crack down on opposing thoughts ahead of November’s “make-or-break” COP30 climate change summit in Brazil.

Gateway Pundit: Jordan Peterson Drops A Shock Statistic During A Piers Morgan Interview – One in Seven Pakistani Muslims in Certain UK Communities Participated in Grooming and Gang Rapes of Underage White Girls. – Thousands of Girls Were Brutally Assaulted and Raped. – For over a decade, the UK media and political elites have targeted and attacked Tommy Robinson rather than address the issue due to fears that it could spark islamophobia.

Washington Free Beacon: A disgruntled former employee is a source behind negative Hegseth Claims. – Kat Dugan, formerly Kathleen Volandt, received a poor performance review in 2014 as CVA’s North Carolina state director. – Shortly thereafter, she filed for short-term disability and then long-term disability and ultimately tendered her resignation in December 2014.

Breitbart: Brexit leader Nigel Farage has confirmed that he will attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump this month and will seek to mend ties with fellow Trump ally Elon Musk. – “I’ve been a friend of Donald Trump’s for a decade. I’ve been very supportive of him; he’s been very supportive of me,” Farage said. “I can’t see that changing for a moment.”

American Thinker: The Demise of the Mainstream Media—Polling reveals Americans have become progressively suspicious of the mainstream media. Beginning in the 1950s, many television reporters and anchors assumed celebrity status, and as such, their credibility was rarely, if ever, questioned. While some tried to be impartial, the majority were not. Beginning in 2008, they abandoned any pretext of objectivity by obsequiously fawning over Barack Obama.

American Thinker: DEI is on the way out, so what should we replace it with? – How about hiring and promotion based solely on Merit, Competence, and Fairness? – Successful companies and organizations, clubs, businesses, medicine, and every other money-making endeavor in the country were once built by hiring the people with the best grades in university, the highest ratings in their trade schools, and the most competent, most intelligent people…

Breitbart: France’s top diplomat fired a warning shot across the bows of Donald Trump, warning Europe considers Greenland part of its “sovereign borders” and should be left alone. – Greenland’s relationship with the European Union is relatively complex. – It joined the European Community in the 1970s alongside Denmark before it gained partial independence, known as home rule…

American Thinker: Lessons From Germany’s Economic Contraction – Germany’s once-envied efficient economy is in freefall, and the climate change cult and European Green Deal are directly to blame. – As natural gases skyrocket during a European cold snap and Russian gas pipelines through Ukraine are shut down for the first time since 1991, Germany has transitioned from Europe’s economic darling to its leading economic anchor…

Townhall: Mat Gaetz Reveals What He’s Considering in 2026 – Former Representative Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress but may not be done with politics yet. – He told the Tampa Bay Times he’s “starting to think about running for governor” in 2026. – Chief among Gaetz’s stated policy concerns is the insurance crisis…

California Globe: California’s Perfect Storm – Historical Devastating Fires and the State’s Insurance Crisis – Governor Newsom misled the public in 2021 about his wildfire prevention efforts by 690% – Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.” – Data show Cal Fire treated 64,000 acres in 2019, but only 32,000 acres in 2020 and 24,000 acres through Memorial Day of this year,” CapRadio and NPR reported.

Zero Hedge: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass In Africa As Firefighters Discover Empty Hydrants Amid The Southern California Inferno – L.A. fire hydrants are OUT OF WATER because the county REFUSED to refill reservoirs. – “You can’t fight a fire without water!” – The Mayor did ZERO prep despite the warning of coming winds and fire risk. – This is EXACTLY what happened on Maui.

Breitbart: This Interactive 3D Map Provides A Real-Time View of the Palisades Wildfire and Evacuation Zones. – Users can remove layers like evacuation zones if they only wish to see the fire’s area. – Due to high winds, the Palisades Fire erupted on Tuesday afternoon and rapidly expanded, scorching over 2,900 acres by 6:30 p.m.

Breitbart: Live Updates – A raging wildfire in the mountains above the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday is spreading across the region due to extreme winds, causing historical destruction of homes and displacing thousands of people. – Live coverage of this breaking news story is provided here. – All times Eastern…

Breitbart: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass cut nearly $20 million from the city’s budget for fire services for the current fiscal year and proposed even higher cuts. – The final budget the Los Angeles City Council approved included $17.5 million in cuts to the fire department. – $13 million of that came from cuts to operating supplies, while there were also large cuts to salaries.

Resist The Mainstream: ‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin’s Surgeon Husband Accused of Participating in Elaborate Insurance Fraud Scheme – The prominent orthopedic surgeon is accused of an elaborate insurance fraud scheme targeting taxi and rideshare companies. – The federal lawsuit was filed on Dec. 17.

January 7, 2025

Western Journal: The Biden Admin Nearly Halved The Guantanamo Bay Population With An Overnight ‘Secret Mission’ – The Defense Department stated that 11 Yemeni nationals had been shipped from the American military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Sultanate of Oman. – All of the men are former members of the terrorist group al-Qaida who were captured in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Breitbart: Border Patrol agents arrested a group of Special Interest Aliens after two Iranian nationals and two Egyptian migrants crossed the border from Mexico into Texas last week. – The four Special Interest Aliens are migrants who come to the US from countries with known ties to terrorism.

Issues & Insights: Biden’s Terrible Legacy, A Tsunami Of Growth-Killing Regulations – On Joe Biden’s first day in office, he signed a raft of executive orders, but one that was “almost entirely overlooked could easily end up having the biggest impact.” – Executive order, “Modernizing Regulatory Review, unleashed the regulatory state with a ferocity never before seen in this country by giving regulators carte blanche to impose massive new rules on businesses and households…”

Trending Politics: Donald Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited Greenland on Tuesday alongside a delegation of Trump allies and former government officials. – The visit comes as President-elect Donald Trump has doubled down on his desire to purchase the resource-rich territory from Denmark after announcing the plan during his first term in office.

James O’Keefe: LEAKED, A Veterans Affairs Insider Revealed An HHS Memo Detailing An Unprecedented “Presidential Inauguration [Medical Personnel] Support Deployment Request” – When asked if it was typical to administer this kind of memorandum for previous inaugurations, Derrick Jaastad, the Executive Director for the VHA Office of Emergency Management, said, “I was not with the organization, so I can’t speak to that…

Epoch Times: The New York Appeals Court Denied Trump’s Request to Halt His Business Records Case Before Sentencing – New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s bid to delay sentencing. – Trump’s emergency filing was lodged less than two weeks before his inauguration on Jan. 20 and follows the dismissal of two federal cases against him.

Breitbart: The Trump Effect, Job Openings Climb to Six-Month High – U.S. employers posted 8.1 million job openings in November, the highest level in six months. – The sharp increase, which exceeded even the most optimistic expectations of economists surveyed by Econoday, points to a labor market that appears to be gathering strength as businesses respond to the more pro-growth economic policies expected under the incoming Trump administration.

Geller Report: “Buy Us, Buy Greenland” – “We don’t want to be colonized by the Danish government anymore,” one Greenlander explained. – “We get ripped [off] every year [with] our minerals from Greenland. – We are the richest nation in the world. And we don’t get to use it. Denmark’s using us too much.” – Trump has considered purchasing Greenland for several years. – In 2019, he floated the idea of buying Greenland, calling it “a large real estate deal.”

Washington Free Beacon: Ford’s Partner in a Billion-Dollar Michigan EV Factory Is a Chinese Military Company. – Michigan Democrats gave nearly $2 billion in direct subsidies and tax breaks to Ford’s project with CATL. – CATL’s inclusion on the list is another black eye for Ford’s struggling EV business and Democrats’ climate ambitions.

American Spectator: Justin Trudeau Announces His Resignation, What Americans Need to Know. – His resignation came after mounting pressure from within and without his party pushed him to the point of no return. – Appointing a successor is much more complicated than the American method. – The prime minister of Canada is elected to Parliament as an MP and assumes a prime minister’s office because he is the MP elected by his party internally as the party’s leader…

Center For Immigration Studies: A Post-Mortem On the Biden-Harris Immigration Policies – YouGov has released the results of their latest post-election poll. – Dig deep, and you will find lingering concerns about the continuing costs of the largest illegal migrant surge in U.S. history.

Revolver: The data is in, and it is no surprise that Stockton, California’s Universal Basic Income experiment, was an epic failure. – After being given ~$500 per month in free money, Stockton participants only smoked more cigarettes. – The full results are eye-opening…

Daily Wire: A Hamas Member Admits That Terrorists And Lethal Weapons Are Placed In Hospitals So Israel Won’t Attack – Al-Sharif, “Because there are civilians and patients there, they think the military cannot bomb it, such as with a missile from an F-16 or by demolishing the building.” – “Inside the hospital, they distribute the grenades and mortar equipment for attacking tanks, for ambush positions, and tunnels…”

Slay News: Joe Biden’s administration admits that nine telecommunications companies were targeted in a major Chinese intelligence operation. – The cyberattack exposed data from more than a million Americans. – The breach enabled Communist China to access phone audio from top U.S. officials and politicians, including President Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign members.

Gateway Pundit: Journalist Steve Baker Has Evidence Proving General Mark Milley Approved The Use Of Heat and Sound Directed Energy Weapons During The 2020 Riots — 114 police officers were assaulted at the Capitol Hill protests. – 180 police officers were assaulted and injured during the BLM riots in Washington, DC.

Zero Hedge: In yet another move to tarnish his presidential legacy while channeling his former boss, Barack Obama, Joe Biden authorized the transfer of 11 Gitmo terrorists to Oman. – The Middle Eastern nation has agreed to assist with their resettlement and oversee security monitoring.

Breitbart: Members of the splintered Democrat party have begun to distance themselves from repeated claims Joe Biden was fit to serve as commander-in-chief. – Now, two weeks before Biden leaves office, a handful of Democrats are starting to trash Biden and warn of accountability.

Breitbart: The House Passes The ‘Laken Riley Act’ – The Laken Riley Act would require DHS to take into custody illegal aliens arrested, charged, or convicted for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. – While 48 House Democrats joined Republicans in supporting it, 159 Democrats voted against the legislation.

Resist the Mainstream: Almost Half of the Murders in the US Happen in Districts With a Soros-Funded Prosecutor—Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund figures show that 40% of all murders in the nation occur in districts overseen by prosecutors backed by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. – The study identified 75 Soros-funded district attorneys serving 72 million Americans, including residents of half of the country’s 50 most populous cities and counties.

American Conservative: Can Trump Stop The Birthright Citizenship ‘Baby Factories’? – Such a child need only prove it was born in the U.S.  – Then, at 21 years of age, the child can begin filing green card paperwork for his extended family – Changing the enforcement and jurisprudence around the 14th Amendment has been a high priority for Trump.

American Thinker: Trump’s Arctic Greenland Policy Is No FollyJanet Levy. – It’s all about gaining greater American control over the Arctic, where Russia and China have built a strong, unified presence. – And fears that such cooperation will extend to include North Korea and Iran are not unfounded.

American Thinker: What Americans Don’t Know (But Need To Know) About China – The reality is that China is plagued by problems that America can exploit rather than having China exploit America’s problems. – China’s one-child policy (1979-2015) will likely be remembered as the greatest strategic blunder by a single country ever. – Near-term aggressiveness by China today may reflect the understanding that China is at its peak on multiple levels…

Zero Hedge: New UK government figures reveal that foreign nationals are twice as likely to be arrested for crimes compared to British citizens and 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for sexual offenses. – The statistics were compiled by the Centre for Migration Control using data from police forces, the Home Office, and the Office for National Statistics.

Washington Free Beacon: Senate Majority Leader John Thune privately informed Donald Trump that he believes Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, has the votes for confirmation. – Hegseth possesses impressive academic credentials and significant real-world experience, including a distinguished service record in the Army, where he completed tours in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq and earned two Bronze Stars.

American Thinker: Who is Matthew Graves? – He’s the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, until January 16 anyway, when his resignation is effective – Graves was much too busy upholding the January 6th insurrection narrative to worry about real violent criminals. – Graves’ claim to fame: he gloated about jailing grandmothers invited into the Capitol building by Capitol Police, peacefully took in the sights, and then left…

John Daniel Davidson: The Legacy Of January 6th Should Be Massive FBI And DOJ Reform – The tragedy wasn’t what happened then, but what happened afterward, when the DOJ and the FBI were weaponized to prosecute more than 1,500 people, the vast majority of whom did nothing wrong, and it continues to this day. – After throwing the book at 1,583 American citizens, including a whopping 600 felony charges, the feds want to charge hundreds more…

Red State: Is Jack Smith Breaking the Rules? – Trump’s Co-Defendants Filed a Motion to Block the Special Counsel Report. – The motion also emphasizes that the report would unfairly influence public opinion and taint any potential jury pool while legal appeals are still pending. – Defense attorneys describe it as a “one-sided narrative” that improperly uses grand jury materials and privileged information.

Epoch Times: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon Temporarily Blocked Release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Classified Documents Report Pending An Appeals Court Decision. – The order bars special counsel Jack Smith and the DOJ from releasing the report until the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reviews a motion submitted by Trump’s co-defendants.

American Thinker: Take the DEI out of the FBI – The FBI, like most federal agencies, has dramatically lowered its hiring standards in favor of race, gender, and other woke quotas. – The recent “Report On FBI Special Agent Recruitment and Selection” cites some agents are so fat and unfit that they can’t even pass the new relaxed fitness standards. – Some are illiterate, so they need remedial English lessons. – They don’t want to work weekends or after hours, have serious disabilities or mental health issues, and tend to “create drama.”

Zero Hedge: Zuckerberg Says ‘Fact-Checkers Are Too Politically-Biased’ And Abandons Facebook Censorship For X-Like Community Notes – Just over a month after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort – and a day after Trump’s longtime friend, UFC CEO Dana White, joined Facebook’s board – Zuckerberg announced a sweeping overhaul of the social media platform’s moderation policies…

Daily Wire: Britain’s Keir Starmer, “Those Who Want Probes Into Rape Gangs Are Far Right” – Starmer has been under fire for over a week because of this scandal. – Starmer’s remarks come after Elon Musk has repeatedly hammered the British government for days over the scandal, exposing the violence that young girls have been subjected to along with the British government’s efforts to keep the scandal quiet so that riots would not break out.

FAR: Girling the Boy Scouts – Men and boys who aspire to become men are in a sorry state. – If only there were an organization to encourage boys to strive for goodness, self-mastery, and excellence. – Oh, wait, such an institution already existed or did until it was essentially dismantled…

Zero Hedge: McDonald’s Bails On DEI—Due to court rulings, consumer backlash, and rational attention to self-interest, US institutions are abandoning the DEI cult. In an open letter to its owners/operators, employees, and suppliers, McDonald’s announced it had curtailed many diversity initiatives.

Brownstone Institute: The Trump Administration Must Bring Moderna to Heel – Last week, independent journalist Alex Berenson reported that a preschool-aged child died of “cardio-respiratory arrest” after receiving a dose of Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine during its clinical trials. – Despite federal requirements to disclose all trial information, the company withheld the truth for years while raking in $billions from COVID-19 shots…

Tipp Insights: Trudeau’s Spectacular Fall From Grace—Pandemic Overreach, Economic Missteps, and Diplomatic Blunders Define Trudeau’s Downfall. – He first came to international attention for his overly aggressive pandemic management. – With the Emergencies Act, law enforcement agencies assumed extraordinary powers, including the authority to freeze the bank accounts of COVID protesters involved in the blockades and order tow trucks to remove vehicles from the protest sites…

Daily Fetched: Joe Biden Fell Asleep During The Prayer Service For Victims of The New Orleans Terror Attack – The president also checked his watch, saying he wanted to “get this damn thing done” while holding a press conference on the attack, saying, “The Sugar Bowl is back on…”

January 6, 2025

Gateway Pundit: The Only January 6 Video That Shows Who The Truly Violent Ones Were On That Day – The three fomenting violence that day: 1.) Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser blocked the National Guard from protecting the US Capitol. – The Capitol Police were ready and eager to fire munitions on innocent Americans peacefully protesting. – 3.) Undercover government operatives and cutouts with the FBI, DOJ, DHS, BATFE, Capitol Police, etc., such as Ray Epps, were operating inside the crowd.

Epoch Times: Incoming White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Outlines Her Blueprint for Trump’s 2nd Term – Wiles promises a smooth-running White House, emphasizing discipline, loyalty, and teamwork for Trump’s second term. – Wiles, who co-managed Trump’s presidential campaign, says that the success of the incoming administration hinges on collaboration and shared goals, with drama-seeking solo players not welcome…

Slay News: Multiple FBI Agents Trash The FBI’s Handling of The New Orleans Terrorist Attack – Some agents said they couldn’t wait for the Senate to confirm Trump’s incoming FBI director, Kash Patel, to avoid the ongoing humiliation. – The agents, who chose to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, said the agency had several failures regarding the investigation of the New Orleans attack.

American Thinker: Merrick Garland’s big January 6th lie about a Capitol policeman’s death – Not one Capitol Police officer died as a direct result of events on January 6. – Let’s review some important facts: Nancy Pelosi refused extra security at the Capitol. – Capitol police opened the doors, which were magnetically sealed from the inside so they could not be opened. – Once the doors were opened, the police welcomed people in…

Woke Spy: One Of The Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Winners Was Photographed With A Would-Be Trump Assassin Months Before His Arrest – José Andrés was among 19 people awarded the medal, was photographed with Ryan Wesley Routh, the man arrested on suspicion of attempting to assassinate Trump At Mar-A-Lago’s golf course in September 2024.

Populist Times: Today was a historic day. – VP Kamala Harris became the first woman to certify their loss in a presidential election in U.S. history. – In an extremely satisfying moment, House Republicans drowned her out with applause as she announced Trump as the victor and ended up slamming down the gavel to name herself the loser.

Slay News: Authorities have discovered a “narco tunnel” near Yuma, Arizona, which runs from Mexico underneath the U.S. Southern Border. – Donald Trump has warned for years that the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough to control the crisis of illegal crossings at the US/Mexico border. – Amid the Biden administration’s open-border chaos, cartels, and smugglers became more brazen and sophisticated.

Daily Signal: Trump Unveils How He Plans To Pass Huge Parts of His Agenda – Over the weekend, Trump announced his support for passing large swaths of his agenda in a single budget reconciliation bill. Trump’s support for a single bill is set to energize his backers with his ambitious proposed measures to shut down the now-open southern border, lower energy prices, and tackle the downtrodden economy.

Western Journal: Trump Declares He Will Reverse Biden’s ‘Ridiculous’ New Drilling Ban ‘Immediately’—In a Monday interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, Trump said the move to ban drilling in 625 million acres of coastal waters is “ridiculous.”

Daily Wire: Tom Homan, “Trump Will Deport Venezuelans Regardless Of Whether Or Not Venezuela Takes Them Back” – Homan highlighted examples of when Trump put pressure on other countries to take their illegal aliens back. – Homan also noted that Biden was so weak that countries refused to take their criminal illegal aliens back, and the administration never “forced these countries to take them back.”

Sharyl Attkisson: Thousands of US children with gender dysphoria mental illness have received controversial drug treatments – Providers of the treatments, however, seek to portray the numbers as “low.” – A JAMA Pediatrics research letter is being used to wage a political battle against opponents of controversial hormones and puberty blockers for gender dysphoria. – European Union doctors found “there is no robust empirical evidence” that puberty blockers help more than they hurt…

California Globe: ExxonMobil Sues California, AG Rob Bonta, And Environmental Groups Over Defamation – The oil giant sues following several years of targeted environmental lawsuits. – “You can tell that Attorney General Bonta had been caught off guard by this,” explained environmental lawyer Leonard Grissom to the Globe on Monday. “Usually, with a defamation suit like this, they are quick to respond, but not this time…

American Spectator: What Migration Patterns Within America Tell Us About Policy – Red state policies win over blue state policies, according to the U-Haul data. – In ascending order, Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and South Carolina experienced the most one-way U-Haul rentals in 2024. – In descending order, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California witnessed the largest net emigration.

One America News: Per the 12th Amendment, a joint session of Congress met to count the Electoral College votes tallied during the 2024 presidential election. – At the end of the count, Congress formally announced Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.

Epoch Times: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will resign as prime minister and Liberal leader after a replacement is chosen. – He also asked the Governor General to prorogue Parliament until March 24 to allow for the election of a new Liberal Party leader, a request Mary Simon granted.

Daily Wire: Joe Biden announced Monday that he would ban offshore drilling for more than 625 million acres of U.S. waters before Donald Trump is inaugurated. – Biden’s prohibition on new oil and natural gas leases will cover the entire East Coast and West Coast of the continental U.S., the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and parts of the Alaska coastline, declaring the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gave Biden the authority to make such a sweeping ban…

Issues & Insight: Will We Make It Until Jan. 20? – Joe Biden’s first 46 months in the White House were an exercise in political vandalism, the effects the world will be dealing with for years. – But it wasn’t enough for him as he accelerated his offensive on his way out. – Inauguration Day can’t arrive soon enough. – Here is a brief glimpse of Biden’s efforts to handicap the next president and add needless hassles and costs to the lives of everyday Americans…

Daily Wire: The Biden Administration Is Still Aggressively Prosecuting January 6 Defendants, Even As Expected Trump Pardons Loom. – The pursuit of Trump supporters, many on trespassing charges, has vacuumed up federal law enforcement resources for years. – Americans’ sense that crime is rising, and prosecutors looked the other way, which helped pave the way for Trump’s victory last November…

Daily Wire: Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel sued the Biden administration on Monday for blocking a proposed acquisition, accusing the federal government of denying the companies due process. – The filings say Biden decided against the companies in favor of union interests without full consideration of national security, according to a statement by the companies.

Zero Hedge: Angry Biden Rages And Curses Out Reporters – Joe Biden viciously snapped at reporters Sunday as they asked him if he still believes President Trump is a threat to Democracy.

Townhall: The Media Will Try to Derail Trump’s Deportation Operation, But Homan Has the Plan to Combat Their Efforts – He called for a weekly press briefing to show the nation who they arrested, why they arrested them, and where they arrested them. – “People always ask me why I take this so seriously. – “Why do I care? – I’ve talked to little girls as young as 9 years old who were raped multiple times…

Victor Davis Hanson: Are These Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine? – A decade of unprecedented fury at Trump saw his opponents undermine civil liberties, weaponize institutions, and set precedents that risk eroding our American republic. – 1. “Russian collusion.” – 2. Several efforts to sabotage his presidency via impeachment, the 25th amendment, or a military coup. – 3. Two assassination attempts…

The Federalist: The Top 10 Lies From Liz Cheney And The January 6th Committee Explained – 1. January 6th Was An ‘Insurrection’ – 2. Democracy Almost Died – 3. Trump Incited The Supposed ‘Insurrection’ – 4. Trump Was Enthusiastic About The Violence – 5. Trump Tried To Hijack Limousine To Riot At The Capitol Himself – 6. Trump Dismissed The Need For The National Guard – 10. The Jan. 6 Committee Was Legitimate…

The Federalist: Efforts To Sentence Trump In The Sham NY Criminal Case Confirm The Democrats’ Crazy Lawfare – The very lawfare the Democrats unleashed against Trump means nothing now because Judge Merchan needs a way forward. – While New York liberals may be cheering on Judge Merchan after Trump’s crushing defeat of Harris, there are likely many Democrats hoping the appellate court puts an end to the farce, as their lawfare has only helped Trump politically…

Townhall: Kamala Harris Will Share a Video Message Ahead of Certifying Her Election Loss—The video emphasizes the importance of a peaceful transfer of power as she prepares to preside over a joint session of Congress to certify the results of the 2024 election.

American Thinker: In the UK And The US, Racial Subgroups Refuse To Address The Criminals Among Them – Their silence about grooming and rape gangs with victims as young as 11, 13, and one as young as 5 years old would seem to give both communities a pass, but eventually, they’ll discover that providing cover for rapists and killers backfires on them. – Here are just a few of the anger-inducing stories that have gone on over the last few years…

Zero Hedge: Countdown To The European Collapse – Energy cooperation between Russia and Europe is (almost) completely over. – With the ban on the flow of Russian gas to Europe through Ukrainian territory, little remains before the European continent’s absolute economic and social collapse…

American Thinker: When Did Changing Weather Become Climate Change? – Weather has endlessly changed over time, yet the insistence that humans are responsible is a recent and dangerous phenomenon. – Is today’s climate “unprecedented”? – Do they want to know the temperatures hundreds of thousands of years ago? – They should, as this data is readily available in the prestigious journal “Science,” which shows “the Earth’s temperature has varied more dynamically than previously thought.”

Zero Hedge: The Real Definition Of EV Range Anxiety – In 2023, the median driving range of an EV (battery electric vehicle) was 270 miles. – I believe the true definition of EV range anxiety has less to do with how far one can drive between charges and more with where the next charging station might be.

American Thinker: Inventing the ‘West Bank’ – The West Bank is a meaningless geographic phrase, the very existence of which proves that the “Palestinian” people have no connection to the land. – Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill to replace all federal documents with “Judea, noting “The US should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel.”

January 5, 2025

Daily Wire: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, “Republican Leaders Expect To Deliver Trump’s Agenda To America.” – “Republicans were set to pass a historic investment in border security and immigration enforcement.” – Thune made the remarks during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’s “Face The Nation” with Margaret Brennan.

PJ Media: Yes, Democrats Will Stall Trump’s Nominees At Each And Every Turn – On Sunday, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) stated on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there is no need to rush the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director. – No one suggests that the hearings be skipped, but the fact is that Democrats have fast-tracked their own party’s nominees, even those who were grossly unqualified, into important positions.

American Conservative: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his resignation as party leader and Prime Minister before their national caucus on Wednesday, perhaps as early as Monday.  – The announcement comes as Trudeau’s Liberal Party appears set to lose Canada’s next election in a landslide to the Conservative Party of Pierre Poilievre. 

American Spectator: Our Woke FBI Is A Mess – Their response to the terrorist attack in New Orleans is just their latest blunder. – Early conflicting statements show sloppy work by both local police and the FBI. – Prying reporters revealed more than they should have before a thorough investigation occurred. – Woke law enforcement, hid Jabbar’s ISIS flag from view, and initially denied that his attack was probably terrorism.

American Thinker: California is not only gaining illegal aliens; it’s still losing native Californians – Plainly, its leftist experiment is a disaster for the former Golden State, and Americans increasingly want nothing to do with it. – California’s growing population “stems largely from international migration and natural population increases, not domestic migration,” with U-Haul confirming that legal Americans aren’t moving to California…

American Thinker: Islamic Terror Is Alive and Well in the USA – The recent terrorist attack in New Orleans is just one of countless historical and ongoing examples of a glaring problem. – From 2013 to April 2024, there were 56,413 attacks and 204,937 deaths worldwide. – Is there any question that Islamic terrorism is a threat and increasing the number of Islamic immigrants increases the threat of murder and mayhem in our society?

Zero Hedge: New Orleans Bourbon Street terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar killed 14 people and hurt 35 more also positioned bombs that used an extraordinarily rare explosive compound. – The two devices didn’t detonate, but authorities are scrambling to learn how he was able to incorporate a type of explosive that has never before been used in a terror attack in America or Europe.

Geller Report: Anthony Blinken Admits The Biden Administration’s Pro-Hamas Policies Have Kept the Hostages in Gaza and Hamas in Power – The hostages have been held in Gaza for 457 days. – And the question of why they are still there, why Israel has been unable to bring them home, gets asked with increased frustration and alarm every day from all quarters.

Front Page: The Biden Administration Knew Last Year That China Could Shut Down US Infrastructure And Has Done Nothing—Jake Sullivan told telecommunications and technology executives at a secret meeting at the White House in the fall of 2023 that Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of U.S. ports, power grids, and other infrastructure targets at will.

Zero Hedge: Forty-Four 2024 Stat Almost Too Crazy To Believe – Before the election, a survey found that 79% of Americans believed the nation was on the wrong track. – The U.S. government is currently $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt. – The U.S. Census Bureau says 37% of Americans have trouble paying their basic bills. – Almost a third of all households “spend more than 95% of their disposable income on necessities such as housing costs, groceries, and utility bills.”…

American Thinker: How To Invalidate The Presidential Medal of Freedom In One Fell Swoop – Present the medals to the undeserving. – Everything Biden and company have done over the past four years, especially since Trump’s victory, has been destructive and done on purpose. – The final indignity the Biden regime has inflicted on the American people is to present Hillary Clinton and George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

American Spectator: A Presidential Medal of Freedom For George Soros? – Bestowing the nation’s highest civilian award on George Soros, especially after the election, is an act of moral cowardice. According to the White House, the recipients are “great leaders who have made America a better place and made extraordinary contributions to their country and the world.” – Giving him this award is laughable…

American Thinker: When Is a Peaceful Transition of Power No Longer Peaceful? –  Since Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, the Biden administration has made many moves to hamper Trump’s agenda. – These include executive orders and administrative actions banning (perhaps permanently) new offshore oil and gas development and bills limiting the incoming president’s traditional power of executive action on immigration policy…

Resist The Mainstream: Donald Trump Hosted Giorgia Meloni at Mar-a-Lago, signaling a strong future alliance between the U.S. and Italy.  Saturday night’s dinner with Trump reaffirmed the belief that Meloni and the incoming 47th president would have a strong alliance.

Geller Report: The List of 158 Democrats Who Voted To Keep Convicted Sex Offender Illegals In America – The Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act passed the House of Representatives along bipartisan lines on Wednesday. – All present Republicans voted for the bill, as did 51 Democrat lawmakers. – The measure passed 266 to 158.

New York Post: Biden’s new water heater ban will increase energy prices for poor seniors. – The move in the administration’s final days will ban non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters by 2029. – New tankless gas water heaters will use about 13% less energy than today’s least efficient tankless models, forcing people to buy more expensive models or cheaper non-instantaneous storage tank water heaters.

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s outgoing administration has granted California special EPA waivers enabling higher emissions standards for lawnmowers, leaf blowers, refrigerated trucks, and off-road vehicles. – Biden is attempting to safeguard California’s progressive climate policies from Trump, a little over two weeks before he takes office, who promised to dismantle the state’s regulations.

California Globe: Who and What is Behind Wrecking Our Food Supply? – Cows are under attack, meat packing and food processing plants have burned to the ground across the country, avian flu was unleashed, and millions of chickens have been culled. – California growers and ranchers are being starved of water and forced to idle millions of acres of once-abundant agriculture.

Breitbart: for the 5th straight year, California ranked last in U-Haul move-in statistics for 2024, as people continue to leave the high-tax, high-cost-of-living Golden State. – Conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson wrote of California last July: “Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly.”

January 4, 2025

Real Clear Politics: Biden’s Last-Minute Succession Orders Meant To Roadblock Trump’s Team—If they are kept in place, they will determine who takes over the roughly 1,000 Senate-approved employees the very instant President Trump puts his hand on the Bible until his appointees are sworn in. This order of succession is the Biden regime’s declaration that they are permanent government employees, not political appointees.

Geller Report: The IDF Reveals Their Daring UNDERGROUND Raid On An Iranian Missile Factory – 120 Israeli Commandos Were Deep Inside Syria. – This facility was financed by Iran and used to manufacture precision missiles for Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Assad regime in Syria. – Elite Israeli commandos executed a covert operation in Syria, targeting an underground Iranian-built missile factory. – The facility was dubbed “Deep Layer.”…

Newsmax: House Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Saturday that Donald Trump wants a single reconciliation bill to address his priorities upon being sworn into office. – The reconciliation bill would include border security, energy measures, and an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax law…

Just The News: Speaker Johnson informed House GOP members that Trump wants to pass only one reconciliation package. Freedom Caucus members endorsed a two-bill plan. However, Jason Smith of Ways and Means has been adamant that it should be one bill only, citing the slim margin held by the GOP in the House.

Real Clear Politics: Tucker Carlson, The Deep State, And The Left Tried To Stop Kash Patel, Now He’s Ready To Lead – The untold story of how the Deep State systematically targeted and destroyed the lives of those who stood by Donald Trump in an attempt to remove the democratically elected president from office.

Sharyl Attkisson: A recent Rasmussen Reports survey shows that concerns about government spying on American citizens remain high. – 71% of likely U.S. voters say they are concerned about domestic surveillance, including 40% who say they are very concerned. – Only 25% say they are not concerned. – These findings have only slightly changed from January 2021…

Breitbart: The True Coronavirus Timeline ‘Giant Scandal Show It Was Used To Subvert’ Trump – Dr. Andrew Huff, “When you boil this down, most of the biotechnology, or the advanced technology that was used to engineer SARS-CoV-2, was developed in the US, primarily at the University of North Carolina with Dr. Ralph Baric, then illegally exported to the Chinese.” – Huff further explained that a preemptive pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci would essentially implicate everyone…

Zero Hedge: A Former German Finance Minister Admits Corruption In Ukraine Is “Rampant,” And A Large Majority Of Ukrainians Agree—According to Magyar Nemzet, Reports of corruption are common in Ukraine, especially in the military. Former minister Oskar Lafontaine emphasized that independent parties and mass media are banned in Ukraine and that establishing democracy and independence would take a long time.

America Thinker: New Orleans and government patterns – The Biden/Harris Administration and their FBI cannot be trusted. – Even though the terrorist had an Islamic name and an ISIS flag on the rented truck he used along with other overwhelming evidence, the local field office Special Agent in Charge immediately proclaimed the attack was not terror-related, a claim the FBI had to revise an hour later when the facts were too overwhelming to be covered up.

America Thinker: Is The Writing On The Wall? — A terror attack here, a terror attack there. – Criminals coddled. – Parents and patriots targeted. – A culture war rages for the country’s soul to determine who we really are and what we’ll soon become. – A war to determine if our government of, by, and for the people will perish from the Earth. – Unfortunately, no matter where you are on the political spectrum, that is not hyperbole…

America Thinker: Megalomania Without End – Biden Is Mulling A Permanent Ban On Offshore Drilling On His Way Out – Voters rejected him, his designated successor, and his radical left-wing agenda. – So now Joe Biden is trying to extend his rule by other means, by blowing the place up on his way out. – Two years ago, he told the American public he wouldn’t dream of shutting down American oil production and was all in for energy self-sufficiency…

America Thinker: Upstream – Thanks to Trump, his team, and a once-in-a-lifetime realignment, we are on the positive side of the political equation, but we must not squander it. – The destruction of the power of the mainstream, or legacy media, highlights this shift. – Simply put, they have lost credibility with most Americans. – But the most important accomplishment lies with all of us because America cannot be great without its citizens aspiring to greatness.

America Thinker: J.D. Vance vs. A Bucket Of Warm Spit – Obama, and certainly Biden, chose their VPs for reasons other than their stunning intellects and political abilities. – Donald Trump, on the other hand, chose J.D. Vance, a self-made man, a former Marine born to a dysfunctional family, who lived in poverty, who wrote his biography, became a lawyer and venture capitalist, and was elected to the Senate. – Yet, the mainstream media and pundits painted him as a lightweight, unlikeable, inarticulate MAGA lunatic…

Washington Free Beacon: It Was a Very Good Year, At Least for Trump and Bibi – Winners and losers of 2024 – Winners: Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Javier Milei – Losers: Iran, Barack Obama, and Japan…

America Thinker: The Immigration Battle Begins—Immigration is at the intersection of domestic and foreign policy. – Political battle lines are forming along this intersection, and skirmishes are underway. – Illegal immigration also places a huge financial burden on taxpayers. – The estimated 21,000,000 illegal aliens in the U.S. cost Americans more than $250 billion annually.

America Thinker: Jimmy Carter And Craft Beer – Jimmy Carter was an awful president. He wasn’t a crook like Joe Biden, but maybe the worst based on his presidential acts. – He did things like give away the Panama Canal without retaining control or minimal security rights. – Wanting to recognize Red China was bad enough, but there was no reason to drop formal relations with Taiwan. – His economy was a disaster due to his energy controls, which worsened the oil crisis…

Powerline: Citizen Trump—Donald Trump testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on July 21, 2005. The subject of the hearing was the United Nations’ capital master plan to renovate the UN headquarters in New York. Trump challenged the estimated cost of $1.5 billion, stating he could build it for $300 million.

Daily Wire: California Wants To View Air Quality Through A ‘Racial Equity Lens’ – The state posted a job opening to help build “a future where all Californians equitably breathe healthy and clean air.” – The job posting says the agency “is developing a racial equity impact analysis tool to advance the agency’s vision for racial equity where Californians can equitably breathe healthy and clean air, benefit from actions to address climate change, with race is no longer a predictor of life outcomes.”

Zero Hedge: Only in Canada, Eh? – In case you missed it, Ottowa, Canada, now has new idling times for vehicles on public and private property to supposedly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality. – Ottawa, where average temperatures range from 15F in December to 6F in January and February and 19F in March. – The new time limits on pre-heating cars allow one minute of idle time per hour for unoccupied vehicles.

San Antonio Express-News: FBI agents are investigating bomb threats against Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starbase launch facility near Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, Texas. – The bureau’s San Antonio field office confirmed to the local media outlet that an investigation is ongoing into “possible bomb threats in South Texas in recent weeks.”

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, The Longest 17 Days – Only seventeen more days to go, but even a senile president can inflict extensive damage in those 17 days when he is a malevolent narcissist.

January 3, 2025

Euro News: In a New Year speech, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede called for the North Atlantic island to pursue independence from its former colonial ruler, Denmark. – The world’s biggest island, home to about 57,000 people, was a Danish colony until it became a self-governing territory of Denmark in 1979. Since 2009, Greenland has had the right to declare independence through a referendum.

Daily Signal: After The Speaker Election, Johnson’s Right Flank Demanded Action on The Trump Agenda – “We did this despite our sincere reservations regarding the speaker’s track record over the past 15 months,” read the letter signed by the congressmen. – Among them were Representatives Chip Roy and Ralph Norman, undecided on whether to vote for Johnson.

Daily Signal: The House Passes New Rules Making It More Difficult To Oust The Speaker. – Along party lines in a 215-209 vote, it will now require nine majority party members to co-sponsor a motion to vacate the speaker from their position. – Previously, only one lawmaker who desired to oust a speaker was required to trigger a motion to vacate the speaker.

Newsmax: New Senate Majority Leader John Thune said it isn’t “clear ” yet whether all of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees will have the full support of Republican senators. – Thune predicted that “a lot of them will get through, and we’ll see about all of them.”

Real Clear Politics: Trump’s Secret Weapon for Mass Deportations, E-Verify – Ignored by the Biden administration, E-Verify is a federal service created 28 years ago that employers can use to confirm employees’ eligibility to work in the United States through the Department of Homeland Security – Some 75% of the illegal migrant population in the U.S. is in the labor force. – Without jobs, most of them will leave…

America Thinker: Anchor Babies In America – A recent analysis found that roughly 400,000 anchor babies were born in the U.S. in 2024 alone. – 400,000 anchor babies per year means around 1,100 anchor babies per day, which means more than 11% of births taking place on U.S. soil are individuals who are not legitimate citizens and have no right to be here. – Their illegal alien mothers are now fast-tracked toward their citizenship and most likely anchor an illegal alien father as well…

Washington Examiner: Biden is Giving The Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and 17 others. – The White House said the recipients have made “exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the US, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”

Powerline: Democrat Judge Juan Merchan Schedules Trump Sentencing – Of all the bogus criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits that the Democrats have brought against Donald Trump, perhaps the most ridiculous is this New York “hush money” case. – Corrupt prosecutors and a corrupt judge colluded, using an unprecedented and incoherent legal theory, to transform Trump’s perfectly legal payment to Stormy Daniels into a felony under New York Law…

City Journal: Broken Windows Policing Is Still the Best Way to Fight Crime — Although critics have recently criticized this law enforcement approach, facts, and history show it is effective.

The Daily Signal: Mike Johnson Won The House Speakership After Representatives Ralph Norman And Keith Self Switched Their Votes – After what looked to be a loss, Mike Johnson emerged the winner, successfully being reelected House speaker in a 218-215 vote. – In his victory speech, Johnson praised American strength. “Today, my friends, our nation is the world’s envy.” He went on to note American exceptionalism. “We don’t try to be like other nations. And we recognize a strong America is good for the entire world.”

Epoch Times: New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss the business records case and has set sentencing for January 10th. – Merchan said in his order that he wasn’t inclined to impose a prison term on the president-elect. Citing concerns about presidential immunity, he also said that “a sentence of unconditional discharge appears to be the most viable solution.

American Greatness: Trump is Right, The New Orleans Massacre Shows Why We Must Quickly Repair America’s Eroded Homeland Security Defenses – The ISIS-linked attack in New Orleans exposed security lapses, including unprotected barriers, border failures, and claims of politicized national defense priorities. – Several government failures allowed the New Orleans terrorist attack to occur…

Townhall: New Orleans Had Effective Portable 700-Pound Steel Anti-Vehicle Barriers And The Reason They Weren’t Used Is Shocking. – New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick admitted to reporters that the city had them all along; she didn’t know about them. – New Orleans bought the Archer barriers in 2017 from Meridian Rapid Defense Group, which manufactures them.

Daily Wire: The Owner Of Tesla Cybertruck Used In The Vegas Bombing Recalls An Hour Spent With Suspect – Matthew Livelsberger ‘seemed pretty calm and chill,’ but asked strange questions that make sense in light of the attack. – The Cybertruck owner said that Livelsberger went directly to a sporting goods store in the Denver area, probably to buy items that could be used as explosives. – After that, he entered the Las Vegas Trump Hotel into the Tesla’s navigation system…

American Thinker: The FBI’s Oblivious Terror Agenda – The FBI has been so busy the past four years rounding up the nearly 1,600 supposed “terrorists” who “stormed” the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that they didn’t have time to track guys like New Orleans lifetaker Shamsud-Din Jabbar. – Make no mistake: From their perspective, the J6ers were terrorists. Reading the charging documents of those arrested shows just how much high-level time was frivolously spent identifying these American citizens…

American Thinker: According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, there were at least recorded Iran executions in 2024, including 34 women and seven minors. – This figure has been unprecedented in the past 30 years. – However, due to secret executions, the actual number is likely much higher. – The NCRI statement indicates that the rise in executions is directly linked to the regime’s crises and failures.

The Guardian: Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s bid to purchase US Steel – Biden said the $14.9B deal could hurt national security – The move, long expected, cuts off a critical lifeline of capital for the beleaguered American icon, which has said it would have to idle key mills without the nearly $3B in promised investment from the Japanese firm…

Breitbart: Biden Moves to Foil Trump by Permanently Banning Offshore Drilling in Certain U.S. Waters – Biden intends to invoke an obscure provision of a 1953 law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, giving him wide latitude to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing. – The move comes after word of Trump’s transition team is drafting a wide-ranging energy package that would approve export permits for new LNG projects and increase oil drilling off the U.S. coast and on federal lands.

Breitbart: Incoming Senate Minority Leader Senate Chuck Schumer has named newly-installed Senator Adam Schiff to the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, which reviews judicial appointments, including the Supreme Court. – Schiff’s past interest in judicial affairs also includes his role in leading the first impeachment of President Donald Trump in 2019-20 — a period in which he irritated Republican Senators by implying that they would be judged harshly by history for voting to acquit…

Daily Wire: On Thursday, current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer endorsed the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, who supports the hard-left anti-Semites of his party and is a devotee of DEI policies, to head the Democratic National Committee. – Schumer’s disingenuous behavior vis-à-vis Israel has been on display for years…

Daily Wire: Mike Johnson Reveals Three Commitments Ahead Of The Speaker Vote—Create a working group of independent experts, uncorrupted by lobbyists and special interests, to work with DOGE. A task that works with reviewing existing audits of federal agencies and entities and issuing a report for public release. Request House committees undertake aggressive authorizations and appropriations reviews.

Washington Examiner: GOP first-year students are rallying around Mike Johnson ahead of today’s critical House Speaker vote – Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie has already said he would vote against Johnson, giving the speaker virtually no room for error and putting the GOP conference at risk of beginning the new Congress on a somewhat chaotic note…

The Federalist: Liz Cheney Should Be Criminally Investigated For Her Corruption, Not Rewarded—The House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight has recommended that she be criminally investigated for ‘witness tampering,’ not to mention destroying subcommittee files.

American Spectator: DEI and Marxism Destroy Merit and Excellence. Mao allocated resources based on class. Now, DEI administrators hire based on race and gender. Neither prioritizes competence. A couple of years ago, while serving on a faculty search committee, Professor Link objected to prioritizing a candidate’s race over academic qualifications. UCR leadership accused him of discrimination, and punishments included salary reductions and potential termination.

American Thinker: We Must Destroy the Scourge of DEI – The Diversity Hoax was exposed as far back as 1999, but it’s a monster that has grown exponentially in America’s institutions. – Diversity in academia is so overwhelming that the conservatives have developed a scorecard to assist “students, taxpayers, and legislators in determining how embedded diversity, equity, and inclusion principles and practices are at a given institution.”…

American Thinker: So-Called Transgenderism Is A Leftist Malady – Increasing evidence shows that it is either a mental disorder or, sadly worse, left-wing parents virtue-signaling through their children. – Every participant in every study in any peer-reviewed medical or psychiatric journal is a walking anecdote. – The LGBTQ community is loaded with mental illnesses such as personality disorders such as narcissistic, sociopathic, Machiavellian, and dissociative, as well as many other disorders, including depression and anxiety…

January 2, 2025

Axios: White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan presented President Biden with options for a potential U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities if the Iranians move towards a nuclear weapon before Jan. 20th. – This occurred in a meeting several weeks ago that remained secret until now, according to three sources with knowledge of the issue.

Yahoo News: Russia seized 1,600 square miles of Ukraine’s territory in 2024 but lost 427,000 troops – A US think tank estimates Russia lost about 40 soldiers per square mile seized in Ukraine in 2024. – Russia’s losses in its invasion of Ukraine are thought to have soared toward the end of the year.

American Thinker: Israel has been delivering aid all along, and the U.N. hasn’t distributed it – For weeks, we’ve been hearing news reports and public statements about starving babies in Gaza. – This photo shows all the aid Israel has let into Gaza, STILL waiting for UN action. – It’s 800 trucks’ worth, and the unloading site is bursting. – The only limit on the amount of aid entering Gaza is the logistical capacity of UN agencies to distribute it…

Townhall: The One Reason Why the Las Vegas Explosion Outside Trump Hotel Didn’t Become a Mass Casualty Event – Elon Musk, “The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack.” – “The Cybertruck contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards. – “Not even the lobby’s glass doors were broken,” he added.

Vigilant News: Tom Homan, “We’re Not Out of the Woods, This Country Is In Grave Danger.” – “Over 2 million people enter this country. – We don’t know who they are, where they came from, or why they came here. – They weren’t vetted, they weren’t screened, and they weren’t fingerprinted. – CBP arrested well over 300 people on the terrorist watch list. – How many of those 2.2 million who escaped apprehension, vetting, and fingerprinting came from countries sponsoring terror?”

Geller Report: The FBI Suddenly Releases 4-Year-Old Videos Of The Still Unidentified J6 Pipe Bomber – We are supposed to believe that after accumulating 105 million data points, receiving 500 tips, interviewing 1,000 individuals, viewing 40,000 video files, tasking at least 50 agents/investigators, using extensive investigative resources, and even tracking down purchases related to what the suspect wore and used in the explosives, the FBI STILL CAN’T FIND THE J6 PIPE BOMBER?

Western Journal: Another Win for Trump As Jack Smith Has Withdrawn From The Mar-a-Lago Documents Case – Special counsel Jack Smith’s team withdrew Monday from the Justice Department’s appeal of the classified documents case brought against President-elect Donald Trump’s co-defendants.

American Thinker: Our Progressive Holiday Calendar – American holiday observance has become increasingly progressive over the last half-century.- Local governments have paired or replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day, portraying Columbus as initiating colonization of the New World and brutally treating the Indigenous population he encountered rather than honoring him as an intrepid explorer. – The most recent calendar change is the addition of Juneteenth…

American Thinker: Memo to terrorists, Elon’s got you zeroed in – Yesterday’s car-bomb explosion in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas seems to be a dual hit against both Trump and Elon Musk, as the perpetrator used a Tesla Cybertruck – Tesla CEO Elon Musk helped the investigation by having the truck unlocked after it auto-locked in the blast and by giving investigators video of the suspect at charging stations along its route from Colorado to Las Vegas…

The Federalist: Biden’s FBI Called White Supremacy the ‘Most Persistent, Lethal Threat’ Before Islamist Terrorism Attack – In an outrageous act of political malpractice, Biden decided to hunt down perceived political threats that questioned his administration. – Jabbar was not the threat on Biden’s radar because he did not fit the profile of the terrorists Biden, his crooked DOJ, and feckless DHS have been searching for…

New York Post: The Driver of Tesla Cybertruck killed in an explosion outside Trump Las Vegas hotel is ID’d as Army vet Matthew Livelsberger – Livelsberger has several addresses in Colorado Springs, at least one of which was swarmed by the feds late Wednesday. – The FBI is investigating the dramatic explosion outside the Vegas Trump Hotel as a possible act of terror.

Red State: Vegas Explosion Suspect ID’d, Active-Duty Soldier Once Served at Same Base As New Orleans Attacker. Both incidents share haunting parallels, from the perpetrators’ military backgrounds to their use of rented vehicles in acts of calculated destruction. At the center of this investigation is their shared history at Fort Bragg, a central U.S. Army installation in North Carolina.

Gateway Pundit: The New Orleans Terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar Recently Traveled to Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters In Cairo, Egypt – The AP reported that Jabbar, just hours before he carried out the terrorist attack, posted five videos to Facebook claiming he joined ISIS last summer. – In a Facebook post, Masjid Bilal ISGH’s leadership instructed its members to avoid speaking to the media and, if approached by the FBI, to refer inquiries to CAIR or ISGH…

Center Square: The FBI now says the New Orleans attacker likely acted alone – In one video, Jabbar stated that he had initially planned to harm family and friends but ultimately decided against it, citing his desire to highlight the “war between the believers and the disbelievers.” – Jabbar also left a will.

The Federalist: Here’s Who Biden’s FBI Decided To Persecute Rather Than Hunt Down Real Terrorists – Imagine how much worse Wednesday’s deadly event would have been had the FBI not taken dangerous Trump supporters, unhappy parents at school board meetings, and Catholics off the street?

Gateway Pundit: From a hangar at Camp David on Wednesday, Biden condemned the New Orleans attack, in which 15 lives were lost when a rented truck plowed into a Bourbon Street crowd. – But rather than uniting the country, the brief speech, riddled with slurred words and bizarre facial injuries, has only fueled speculation about Biden’s health and ability to lead.

Babylon Bee: The FBI Confirms It Was A Terrorist Attack By Stating ‘This Is Not A Terrorist Attack’ – The Bureau further stated that the perpetrator had no ties to Islam, letting the nation know that he was an Islamic terrorist. – Based on the FBI’s expected initial announcement, this satire piece is more than appropriate.

Newsmax: Biden Awards Second Highest Civilian Honor to January 6 Panel Leaders Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson – Trump said, “Cheney did something inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” claiming without evidence they “deleted and destroyed” testimony they collected. – “Honestly, they should go to jail,” he said.

Washington Free Beacon: How the Biden Administration Allowed Iran to Rake In $ Billions In Illicit Oil Cash Amid Tehran’s Terror Spree—US officials were briefed on Iran’s oil smuggling scheme but mostly ignored the intelligence reports. Their lax approach has allowed the Islamic regime to rake in around $200 billion in illicit funds after Trump-era sanctions nearly bankrupted Tehran.

Breitbart: 2024 Should Have Been the Year the West Woke Up to Infrastructure Sabotage – 2024 has seen discrete but essential systems, which many of us take for granted, damaged, taken out of service, or even sabotaged. – Redundancy should exist, but the drive for efficiency and tight margins strips away fallbacks, and cascade failures can be unforeseen. – Particularly worrisome are self-radicalized haters of Western civilization, consumerism, or urbanism, as there isn’t a great deal of signal traffic for intelligence agencies to intercept…

American Spectator: The New Syria Doubles Down on Jihad. After the recent appointment of multiple jihadis to leadership positions within the new Syrian government, it appears Syria will follow in the footsteps of Afghanistan. First, Syria’s new defense ministry made at least six out of fifty recent appointments to foreign jihadists: three brigadier generals and three colonels, at least three of whom worked for al-Qaeda.

Breitbart: President-elect Donald Trump will host a mass rally the day before he is inaugurated for a second term. – The “Make America Great Again Victory Rally” will be held at Capital One Arena on January 19th and begin at 3 p.m. ET.

American Thinker: Why Joe Biden will issue mass pardons to the January 6 inmates – It steals Donald Trump’s thunder doing it immediately after the inauguration – Many J6 inmates are getting out anyway in a few weeks – The J6 insurrection narrative is going to collapse as the evidence is exposed – Too many Americans know the J6 sentences were way too extreme – It is an indirect knock on the DoJ for going after Hunter, and several more…

FAR: Tucker Carlson’s Interview With Tom Homan – His Detailed Plan to Fix the Border – How to End the Cartel Drug Empire – Thought on Biden Auctioning Off the Border Wall – The Corruption of Alejandro Mayorkas – The Prioritization of Illegal Immigrants Over Americans – What Happened to Mayor Eric Adams?…

American Thinker: The Ugly Residue of the Biden Presidency – Be patient with President Trump; bringing us back from the brink will take time. – So, just how bad is the damage Biden’s done? – Internationally, we have disappointed several allies, and Biden showed signs of aligning with autocratic governments that don’t practice democracy. – Our Army and Navy are shrinking, so you can be sure that our enemies are watching…

American Thinker: The Southern Poverty Law Center Is A Leftist Wolf In Civil Rights Clothing – Few American institutions have fallen from grace as dramatically as the SPLC. Hence, it’s time for something to be done about it. – The SPLC’s “hate map” is perhaps its most notorious tool, ostensibly designed to spotlight bigotry which has devolved into a political hit list, where conservative Christian organizations sit uncomfortably alongside neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan…

Zero Hedge: The NYC Mayor Still Says “Crime Is Down” After A Man Was Pushed Into Speeding Subway Train – Democrat-run cities have been spreading a fallacy. – They claim crime rates have decreased and their policies have been effective. – FBI crime rate data support this fallacy, but what Democrats don’t say is that their data has been incomplete since 2020.

Real Clear Defense: Trump Versus DEI in the Military—Reports say Trump instructed his staff to prepare an Executive Order banning DEI from the military for him to sign on the first day of his new administration. Pete Hegseth has made similar statements. Some in Congress have also intended to introduce legislation banning DEI from the entire government. How will those in senior military positions all in for DEI react?

American Thinker: ‘Green’ energy execs race to D.C. to shore up support with a new PR pitch before Trump’s inauguration – A change in strategy to keep the gravy train rolling shows they know it’s not “clean and affordable” like they’ve been telling us. – The irony, though, is that the new pitch is just as fraudulent as the old one, as “renewables” categorically cannot replace the demands met by coal, gas, and oil, or they would have already done it…

Slay News: Canada Advances Bill Gates’ Plan To Destroy Earth’s Atmosphere – Deep Sky seeks to remove carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere and bury it underground. – However, the project’s plans are based on the widely debunked claims that CO2 harms the planet or causes “global warming.”

Newsmax: A U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission has no legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules. –  These rules require internet service providers to treat internet data and users equally rather than restricting access, slowing speeds, or blocking content for specific users. The rules also forbid special arrangements in which ISPs give improved network speeds or access to favored users.

Breitbart: The Ford Motor Company recalls 20,484 hybrid crossover SUVs over battery concerns that could lead to a fire. – The recall covers 16,480 Escape and 4004 Lincoln Corsair plug-in-hybrid SUVs from 2020 to 2024. – A manufacturing problem resulting in “micro defects and local stresses” could cause the high-voltage battery cell’s separator layer to become damaged, leading to a short circuit and, potentially, a fire.

January 1, 2025

Zero Hedge: “What Is The Biggest Risk For 2025” And 13 Other Highlights From Deutsche Bank’s 2025 Market Survey – 1. Only 2% believe US growth will be below 1% in 2025, whereas that’s the average expected for Europe. – 2. A global trade war is considered the riskiest for 2025, followed by a tech stock plunge and concerns over inflation and bond yields. – 3. Investors think Trump means business on tariffs, but an average score of 5 means that they don’t think he’ll be as aggressive as the campaign pledges…

New York Post: 10 Dead and 30 Injured After A Truck Was Driven Into Bourbon Street Revelers – Witnesses reported the truck was driven into the crowd at high speed, and then the driver got out and started firing a weapon, with police returning fire. – Anne Kirkpatrick, superintendent of police, said the driver attempted to kill as many people as possible. – The driver’s identity or possible motive(s) has not been made public by local police.

Breitbart: Hamas Has Decided to Bet That Trump Is Bluffing and Has Abandoned Hostage Negotiations—Arab mediators say cease-fire talks between Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Israeli government have hit an impasse in recent days, making any deal unlikely before the end of the Biden administration. They expect both sides to return to the negotiating table after the new administration takes over in Washington.

American Conservative: A Military Court Has Upheld The Plea Deal For 9/11 Plotters – The plea deals were announced in July, enabling Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi to provide guilty pleas in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. – In August, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attempted to withdraw them, but the court ruled he lacked the authority to withdraw the deals and did so too late after the deals had already been approved.

Just The News: On Wednesday, Ukraine stopped transporting Russian gas supplies to Europe shortly after a pre-war transit deal expired. Ukraine’s Energy Minister, German Galushchenko, said stopping the gas flow was in the best interest of the country’s national security. 

American Thinker: The Stakes in the F Train Tragedy – These incidents aren’t just depravity but glaring symptoms of the more extensive rot afflicting New York and, indeed, the nation. – This rot is fostered by the reckless policies of leaders like Governor Kathy Hochul and the Biden administration – New York has proudly proclaimed itself a “sanctuary” for illegal aliens, shielding them from federal immigration enforcement and lavishing resources on them…

Slay News: Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, has confirmed that the U.S. military will assist with removing millions of illegal aliens living in the country. Homan said the Trump administration would use the military as a “force multiplier” to aid with the massive undertaking. He added that the details depend on what resources Congress provides.

Populist Times: Liberals Exaggerated Cost of Deporting Illegal Immigrants Sevenfold and Massively Underestimated Cost of Their Crimes – Former Crime Prevention Research Center president John R. Lott, Jr., estimated the cost of removing undocumented individuals from the country had been exaggerated up to sevenfold. – Illegal immigration costs OVER $150B PER YR. and will increase to $1T IN UNDER A DECADE…

Zero Hedge: Trump Says Mike Johnson Will Secure Enough Votes To Remain Speaker – “He’s The One That Can Win Right Now” – “Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. – Johnson thanked Trump on X, saying that he was “honored and humbled” by the support.

Washington Examiner: Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune vows to shake things up in the Senate. From longer workweeks to a more inclusive process for rank-and-file members, Thune has vowed several modifications at the behest of the conference’s more hard-line conservatives, like Senators Mike Lee and Rick Scott, that will curtail leadership power and give individual senators more influence.

The Federalist: The People Carving Up Healthy ‘Trans’ Kids Have ‘Blood On Their Hands’ – Amid an epidemic of a mutilated and distraught youth who should have received real mental help, it’s obvious whose hands are dirty. – They claim children deprived of their proposed “medical care” are more likely to kill themselves. – The fallaciousness of such declarations, however, is becoming more evident in light of acknowledgments from some unlikely sources in the media and medical establishment.

American Greatness: Populism Is Needed To Protect American Workers – It is time to prioritize the citizens and taxpayers of our homeland. – When considering immigration policy, we must first affirm that America is a country, not merely an economy. – Elon Musk suggests “raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining their H1B status, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas rather than domestically.”

Breitbart: The Minimum Wage Rises in 21 States and 48 Counties on New Year’s Day – A Wall Street Journal editorial is skeptical of the changes, warning that a movement in Congress to hike the federal minimum wage (now $7.25 per hour) to $17 would fail to take local differences into account, which are better dealt with at the state level. – Washington State will have the highest minimum wage, at $16.66/hour, followed by California and parts of New York with minimum wages of $16.50/hour.

Breitbart: Abortion was the leading cause of death globally in 2024, with a record 45 million unborn babies killed in the womb. – Abortions accounted for just over 42% of all human deaths worldwide in 2024 caused by cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents combined, according to Worldometer statistics.

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