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By Tyler Durden Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times  (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump is withdrawing an executive order targeting New York-based law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (Paul Weiss)  after it agreed to review its hiring practices and provide tens of millions of dollars in free legal services to support some of his administration’s initiatives. The March. 14 order suspended security clearances for Paul Weiss lawyers and restricted their access  to government buildings and officials, citing the firm’s diversity policies. It also directed federal agencies to take steps to cancel U.S. government contracts “for which Paul Weiss has been hired to perform any service.” Trump confirmed the withdrawal of the order in a March 20  statement  on the social media platform Truth Social. The decision followed Trump’s meeting with the law firm’s chairman, Brad Karp, “during which  Mr. Karp acknowledged the wrongdoing o...

By Bob Hoge There’s been plenty of back and forth between Donald Trump and the state of Maine over the divisive men in women’s sports issue, with tensions boiling over at a February dinner for governors where Democrat Gov. Janet Mills and Donald Trump had a  harsh exchange . As RedState’s Sister Toldjah reported, the president said, “Is Maine here? The governor of Maine?" Trump said before locating Mills seated nearby at a table in the White House State Dining Room. "Are you not going to comply with it [his women in sports executive order]?" Mills replied, "I'm going to comply with state and federal law." It went downhill from there, with Mills threatening, “We'll see you in court.” Soon after, the Department of Agriculture pulled tens of millions of dollars from the University of Maine for refusing to obey his EO to ensure that no biological men suit up against women in sports. The university system soon caved, and the administration r...

By Matt Margolis Liberals are in full-blown panic mode over President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Democrats in Congress are hysterically crying “constitutional crisis,” while unhinged activists are lashing out at Tesla vehicles and showrooms—all because Elon Musk dares to support cutting government waste. Conservatives have long suspected there’s a deeper reason why the left goes berserk over efforts to rein in reckless spending. Now, the New York Times has accidentally said the quiet part out loud—the left’s political machine is fueled by your tax dollars. NYT just casually confirming that much of the left’s apparatus was funded with your tax dollars. https://t.co/m1HUec1mLz — Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 21, 2025 In a stunning admission, the Times  wrote : Executive actions intended to cripple top Democratic law firms. Investigations of Democratic fund-raising and organizing platforms. Ominous suggestions that nonprofits aligned with Democrats...

By Ward Clark The deep-red state of Florida has been, for some time, trying to return almost a billion dollars in federal funding to the federal government. Too many ideological strings attached, you see. According to Governor Ron DeSantis, the Biden administration (as should come as a surprise to no one who hasn't been living in a cave for the last four years) wasn't able to figure out how to accept the money back. A quick conversation between Governor DeSantis, Elon Musk, and the DOGE team  fixed all that . For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration—but they couldn't even figure out how to accept it. Today, I met with @elonmusk and the DOGE team, and we got this done in the… pic.twitter.com/uWyloPAhBU — Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) March 21, 2025 The X post reads in full: For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the fed...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalenskyy, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office Feb. 28 By Steve Cortes Politics is a fickle business, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lost the favor of sensible Americans, who demand that our focus and resources be devoted to the US homeland, not far away, intractable wars. This Zelensky fall from grace stands in stark contrast to the constant adoration he enjoys from the legacy media platforms of Washington and New York. After all, even before the war in Ukraine, he was fawned over by the US corporate media for his indirect role in spurring the first sham impeachment of President Trump. Since the Russian invasion, he graduated to the circles of a true global celebrity, feted by Hollywood elites as he scampered from Davos to Washington, demanding an endless flow of arms and money into his stalemate war. Hat in hand, Zelensky has never made a compelling case why this ancient, regional rivalry in the Black Se...

China is now the world’s premier shipbuilder — and it’s not even close. By Rich Lowry Alfred Thayer Mahan would be appalled. The great 19th-century strategist and navalist surely would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are most likely to fight a devastating war — and a traditional land power, no less — to dominate global shipbuilding. Starting from a minor position two decades ago, China is now the world’s premier shipbuilder — and it’s not even close. The output is led by the world’s biggest shipbuilding group, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. According to a recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Chinese behemoth built more commercial vessels by tonnage last year than the U.S. industry has … since the end of World War II. If the Ming Dynasty’s turn away from the sea — banning oceanic voyages — was a harbinger of its decline, contemporary China’s dominance in shipbuilding is a sign of its determination t...

By Victor Davis Hanson For years, the left has advanced utter untruths for cheap partisan purposes that it knew at the time were all false. And now when caught, they just shrug and say they were lying all along. Once it was known that the first COVID-19 case originated in or near a Chinese communist virology lab engineering gain-in-function deadly viruses -- with help from Western agencies -- the left went into full persecution mode. They damned as incompetent, racist, and conspiratorial any who dared follow logic and evidence to point out that the Chinese government and its military were both culpable for the virus and lying. A million Americans died of COVID. Millions more suffered long-term injuries. Still, the left-wing media and Biden administration demonized any who dared speak about a lab origin of the deadly virus. The lies were designed to protect the guilty who had helped fund the virus's origins, such as Doctors Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins. The Biden government...

By Becca Lower In a much-welcome surprise on a Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the termination of the Biden immigration policy known as CHNV parole, which flew in hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela for years, despite the potential risk to national security and dangers to the American people.  Fox News' Bill Melugin shared the news on Friday evening via his X account: BREAKING: The Trump admin is revoking the legal status & work permits for the more than half a million migrants who flew into the U.S. via President Biden’s controversial CHNV migrant flights mass parole program. In a notice posted online, DHS says migrants who came in via these… — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 21, 2025 He wrote: BREAKING: The Trump admin is revoking the legal status & work permits for the more than half a million migrants who flew into the U.S. via President Biden’s controversial CHNV migrant...

By Bonchie Jamaal Bowman is back, and he really shouldn't be. The former congressman appeared on CNN on Thursday and launched into a deranged tirade against Elon Musk, calling the businessman and DOGE head a "thief" and a "nazi." Bowman lost his seat in the House of Representatives after being primared by now-Rep. George Latimer (D-NY). That was the culmination of a series of scandals compounded by the fact that Bowman is also an insane person.  Jamaal Bowman calls Elon Musk "incompetent,” a "thief,” a "Nazi,” and says “people don’t trust him.” ….coming from the guy who pulled a fire alarm in Congress because he was mad about a bill. pic.twitter.com/z72eIEC0p4 — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 21, 2025 BOWMAN: That's not true, and this shows again, the American people do not trust Elon Musk, and Elon Musk is incompetent in his position. And how do we know? Because they fired tens of thousands of people, it was challenged in court, the...

CBS "Face the Nation" anchor Margaret Brennan By Scott McKay This column has done the not-so-important work of chronicling the ignominious performance of CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan, at least since she made herself noticeable by marching into the rhetorical jackpot that is JD Vance by attempting to shill for Afghan terrorists residing within our borders. That earned her notoriety as the butt of the now world-famous “I Don’t Really Care, Margaret” meme. It hasn’t gotten any better since then. In fact, when Brennan had Secretary of State Marco Rubio taking her to preschool to explain that no, too much free speech didn’t cause the Holocaust, it looked an awful lot like that would be her last hurrah. But it wasn’t. Actually, the Brennanisms are beginning to get worse and multiply. And over the weekend she managed to get owned not once but twice on her “Face The Nation” program. The first was disastrous enough, especially since it came courtesy of a rematch. W...

By Paul Serran After President Donald J. Trump severely curtailed US aid for the Ukrainian war effort, European Globalists jumped up ready to take matters in their hands. But this stance was not an organic one, but rather a result of the ambition of highly unpopular heads of government like UK’s Keir Starmer and France’s Emmanuel Macron, as well as Euro bureaucrats like Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen and new top diplomat Kaja Kallas. The result is that you now have several competing and contrasting initiatives – and not one of them is evolving particularly well. Kaja Kallas, for one, once held high hopes of raising as much as $43 billion in military aid for the Kiev regime. But, as the EU leaders’ summit ended, Kallas’ plan has been repeatedly diminished, and is all but dead. Politico reported: “The problems started, several EU diplomats said, from the plan’s inception when the former Estonian prime minister failed to win prior buy-in from crucial stakeholders....