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By Robert Spencer During recent travels in a blue state, I noticed that a high percentage of counter clerks and other “customer service” personnel were slow-moving and found it difficult to comprehend even the simplest and most direct requests. Then I noticed that practically every other retail store was selling cannabis, and suddenly it all made sense. Everyone has decided nowadays that cannabis is perfectly harmless and even good for you, so why not partake freely even during work hours? Yet some people still use getting stoned out of one’s gourd as an excuse for all manner of antisocial behavior. Even Islamic jihad. The strange story of the stoned Salafi unfolded when a certain Aymen B. (it’s the policy of the European media to conceal the surnames of accused criminals), a 43-year-old Muslim from Tunisia, entered a church on Holy Saturday, April 4, the day before Easter. According to the French-language publication Valeurs Actuelles,  Aymen  was “taken into custody afte...

SEE-THROUGH BUILDINGS: One third of the office space in Downtown Denver, seen here in June 2025, remains empty six years after the Covid pandemic. (Getty) By Shaun Boyd Colorado is losing businesses and jobs at an alarming rate. Now, the ones who've stuck around are calling on state leaders to make changes before things get even worse. The Colorado Chamber of Commerce has been sounding an alarm for years about excessive regulation and, last year, more people moved out of Colorado than into the state. The chamber says companies are also relocating out-of-state. It released data showing, since 2019, 98 companies have either left the state, expanded elsewhere, or scrapped plans to move here. Since 2022, Colorado has also had a net loss of 34 public company headquarters. Some of the states seeing gains from Colorado's losses included Texas, California and North Carolina. More than 200 business and civic leaders signed a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, Sen. John Hickenlooper,...

By Tyler Durden Footage posted on X appears to show a deranged man hammering away on top of a U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules parked at Shannon Airport on Ireland's west coast on Friday. "A man breached security at Shannon Airport in Ireland, climbed onto a parked C-130 Hercules, and damaged it with a tool," the Clash Report wrote on X. WATCH: A man breached security at Shannon Airport in Ireland, climbed onto a parked C-130 Hercules, and damaged it with a tool. He was arrested.  pic.twitter.com/uls2tfgGND — Clash Report (@clashreport)  April 11, 2026 Local media outlet  Clare FM  described the incident as a "security breach," with airport operations briefly suspended while police arrested "the person, understood to be a male," who was "seen in the vicinity of a United States Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft that had been parked on a remote taxiway at the airport." US Air Force C-130H Hercules 91-1653 landed at Shannon yesterday...

By Adam Turner Unfortunately, we live in very stupid times. With Trump Derangement Syndrome running amok — on both sides of the political aisle — I am constantly amazed by the amount of just sheer stupidity expressed by some Trump critics in their deranged attacks on the Trump administration. And the conflict with the Islamist Iranian regime is really bringing out the morons, let me tell ya.  A while back, a few Trump critics decided that TACO was a funny thing they would criticize President Donald Trump for. TACO stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” So, when the president recently chose to accept a ceasefire with Iran, those geniuses began to crow that this was just another example of Trump always chickening out. The problem with that argument is, of course, the word “always.” Now, if you understand English, you would be aware that “always”  means  “at all times: invariably.” In other words, it  must  happen all the time. Here, however, Donald Trump has...

By Becca Lower Earlier on Friday, we wrote about the former staffer of California Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-14) who has accused him of twice sexually assaulting her while she was inebriated. And as my colleague Jennifer Van Laar reported in recent days, the congressman has denied all allegations, waving rumors away as fantasy concocted by "MAGA conspiracy theorists." Warning: contains sexual content. "Five years later, the woman said, she attended an April 2024 charity gala where Swalwell was honored. The woman, who no longer worked for Swalwell, said they met for drinks afterward, during which she became so inebriated that she only remembers snippets of the night, including… pic.twitter.com/A8LQWG80Gr — Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) April 10, 2026 Now, at least three more women  have come forward  with allegations that Swalwell assaulted them or made unwanted sexual advances, CNN exclusively reports: Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of...

WELCOME to The Corral! This is an open chat forum like REVEILLE, but for Sat and Sun.  Have a wonderful weekend, and please be civil! TEX

This feed will provide continuous coverage of Artemis II mission activities with live commentary, beginning with tanking of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and concluding with the recovery of the Orion Integrity spacecraft after splashdown. Live coverage of Artemis II's launch and lunar flyby, as well as daily mission briefings, will also stream on this feed. These events will additionally be carried as standalone streams on NASA's YouTube channel and elsewhere. Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew: - NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander - NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot - NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist - Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist After launching into space atop SLS, the crew will journey around the Moon and back in their Orion spacecraft on an approx...

By Susie Moore The Trump administration scored a significant appellate win on Friday with a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling regarding DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) access to Social Security Administration (SSA) records.  The appellate court, sitting en banc, vacated the preliminary injunction issued by Maryland District Court Judge Ellen Hollander in April of 2025 — a decision that blocked DOGE personnel from accessing sensitive SSA data. The Trump administration appealed that (district court) decision, even filing an application for stay with the Supreme Court when the 4th Circuit denied its motion for a stay pending appeal. That application was granted by the Supreme Court in June, and the 4th Circuit heard oral argument on the matter in September.  In its Friday  decision , the 4th Circuit laid out some background regarding the claims at issue: Three organizations representing a combined seven million Americans sued to prevent DOGE from accessing t...

By RC Maxwell Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show that Cassandra Driscoll, wife of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll,  donated the maximum allowable $6,600 to Democrat Rep. Maggie Goodlander  (NH-02) during the 2024 campaign cycle. Goodlander is a member of the so-called Seditious Six, a group of Democratic lawmakers who released a video in November 2025 publicly urging U.S. military personnel to refuse what they described as unlawful or unconstitutional orders from the Trump administration. Goodlander is also the wife of Jake Sullivan, a top Biden national security operative and former National Security Advisor who has been critical of the Department of War and the Trump administration.  The emergence of this prior political contribution from Driscoll’s wife to a Democrat member of Congress known for her criticism of President Trump comes at a time of tension inside the Pentagon. Just last week, Hegseth fired Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, who had served...

By Teri Christoph Vice President JD Vance now finds himself the main man in the Trump administration’s efforts to determine this weekend whether or not Iran is serious about de-escalation ... or just buying time. Vance departed Friday for high-stakes talks with senior Iranian officials – whoever they may be at this point – in Islamabad, Pakistan, where a U.S. delegation including Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner will test whether the regime actually intends to honor the fragile ceasefire reached earlier this week. Before boarding Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews, the vice president spoke with the press and made it clear he’s taking his role seriously. "As the president ‌of ⁠the United States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we're ⁠certainly willing to extend the open hand," Vance said. "If they're going ⁠to try to play us, then they're going to ⁠find the negotiating team is not th...

By Ward Clark The United States is one step closer to being rid of "pro-Palestinian" activist and agitator Mahmoud Khalil. On Thursday, the Board of Immigration Appeals denied Khalil's appeal to drop his deportation case. A final order of removal has been issued. That, as the saying goes,  would seem to be that . An immigration appeals board  has denied Mahmoud Khalil’s  latest bid to dismiss his deportation case, a largely expected ruling that brings the former Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist one step closer to re-arrest and possible expulsion. The Board of Immigration Appeals issued the  final order of removal  on Thursday, according to Khalil’s lawyers. The board’s rulings are not public, and an inquiry to the US Department of Justice was not immediately returned. Khalil said he was not surprised by the ruling, which he called “biased and politically motivated.” Well, the ruling may be biased in favor of enforcing o...

By Nick Arama We're in the middle of a fragile ceasefire that's supposed to last two weeks. to allow for negotiations with the Iranian regime.  But the regime is not an honest actor, and there were reports that they were still causing trouble in the Strait of Hormuz, and even that they were trying to charge people for transit. There had been reports that they were trying to do that prior to the ceasefire as well.  Oman skewered one fake news report that said they had agreed with Iran to charge tolls for two weeks. Oman is the country on the southern side of the Strait. Oman denied that, saying that they couldn't do that because:  Oman cannot enforce tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, citing its obligations as a signatory to international maritime agreements, per the Transport Minister. The AP, citing a regional official who had been directly involved in negotiations, reports the ceasefire plan includes allowing both Iran and Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through...