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By Sister Toldjah The Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) affliction among Democrats has been well-documented at this site and others going way back to his first term in office. Indeed, not a day goes by that we don't see it on display in some form or another, whether it's in the form of a speech on the House floor, a media interview, or a post on social media. Some of the more notable instances that come to mind are Democrat Rep. Al Green's (TX-09) unhinged  outbursts  during Trump's addresses to Congress, two of which have gotten him  escorted  off the floor, after which Green proceeded to portray himself as the victim. Another recent instance involves New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), whose TDS actually put lives in the Empire State at risk when she refused the offer of help from then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem amid forecasts of a brutal winter storm for much of the country in late January, as RedState reported. "Secretary Noem offered assistance to New York ahead...

By Tim O'Brien As Pope Leo XIV continues to single out President Donald Trump, and apparently only Trump, as the cause of so much war and strife in the world, one of his own archbishops is pleading with Trump to provide Nigerian Christians with intelligence and weapons to help ensure their very survival. According to the Catholic news organization  EWTN , Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama has openly asked the United States for its help in countering Islamic terrorism in Nigeria.   The archbishop “has requested intelligence assets and weaponry from U.S. President Donald Trump to combat violence in the country,” the news site reported. It added that Kaigama delivered his remarks on March 20 at a press briefing in Madrid, “where the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) presented the campaign ‘May Persecution Not Have the Last Word: Heal Nigeria.’”  The purpose of the campaign is to “strengthen faith, heal the trauma caused by violence, and protect the per...

By Bonchie The divide between the United States and the other major NATO members continues to widen. Despite not being asked to directly participate in the conflict against Iran, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Spain, among others, have put up roadblocks, repeatedly shifting on something as simple as base usage, and even denying the use of airspace for cargo transit.  As I said in my previous write-up on the matter, there is no point in being in such a one-sided, self-serving alliance. France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have been asked to do very little in support of this mission. For the most part, the request has simply been for them not to get in the way. This constitutes getting in the way, and it's a betrayal that should not go unchecked.  Keep in mind, it was the French who gave the Islamist extremists refuge during Iran's 1979 revolution. They then  flew  the Ayatollah into the country to take power. Aside from the regime itself, no one else ...

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple on April 1, 1976, in Jobs' parents' Cupertino, Calif., home. By Marcus Williams Two and a half billion people own at least one Apple product right now. That single number, larger than China's entire population, is the full measure of a company that started with two strangers talking on a sidewalk near Cupertino, California, in 1971, and a device its own inventor described as little more than a circuit board. A Sidewalk Meeting and a Circuit Board Steve Wozniak was an engineering prodigy. Steve Jobs was, by most accounts, a charismatic, rebellious high-schooler. Their 1971 meeting near Cupertino set in motion one of the most consequential partnerships in the history of technology. Four years later, in 1975, when virtually no one had ever seen a personal computer, Wozniak built one. It was, by his own account, little more than a circuit board. Jobs saw something else: a product someone might actually pay for. "And who...

On Wednesday, if the Florida weather cooperates, four astronauts will lift off on a journey considered the next step toward our return to the moon after more than 50 years.     By Michael Swartz You may recall that in 2022, Artemis I was an unmanned mission to the moon, a shakedown cruise of sorts for a NASA program that was finally putting into motion an announcement President George W. Bush had made in 2004. Our space program would shift its focus from the space shuttle program to completing the International Space Station and eventually returning to the moon as a step toward Mars, with Artemis II as a key milestone by returning humans to a lunar orbit around its far side. Artemis II should launch tomorrow. It’s not exactly “ Project Hail Mary ,” but it’s exciting, nonetheless. “It’s really the same program, with a little tweaking along the way, that we are trying to execute 22 years later,”  said  John Logsdon, a space policy historian and professor emeritus at Ge...

By Sarah Anderson The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights  came out with a statement  on Tuesday, slamming El Salvador for some recent changes it made to its laws. Here's what it had to say:   We urge the authorities of El Salvador to promptly review the worrying constitutional and legal changes adopted last week, which provide for life imprisonment for children as young as 12, in contradiction with international human rights standards. Under these provisions, cases of children sentenced to life imprisonment will generally be reviewed only after they have served 25 years of their sentence. This approach contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which requires that children in conflict with the law be treated in a manner that prioritizes their rehabilitation and reintegration, and that deprivation of liberty be used only as a last resort and for the shortest possible period. Prolonged detention is deeply harmful to children, violates sev...

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By Ward Clark With another Schumer Shutdown causing headaches across the fruited plain, a midterm election fast approaching, and hyper-partisan Democrats seemingly determined to block any Republican effort at any cost, the Republican members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are now planning " One Big Beautiful Bill 2 - This Time, it's Personal. "  In a hyper-partisan Congress that’s facing midterm elections, Republicans in both chambers have united on a plan to pass a second budget reconciliation bill before the balance of power potentially changes. Their previous reconciliation bill, the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” focused primarily on President Donald Trump’s tax policies, including permanently extending the increased standard deductions from 2017. It also restrained the growth of Medicaid spending over the next ten years and tightened work requirements for both Medicaid and SNAP. Now, after two Democrat-instigated government shutdowns –  the second of w...

By Sarah Anderson President Donald Trump has been having a great time building the new White House Ballroom in recent months, but anytime the president is having a good time doing something, a judge comes in and stops him. Apparently, that expands to this $400 million, 90,000 square-foot construction project that is said to be fully funded by private donors. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon determined on Tuesday that no statute comes close to allowing Trump to carry out this project of his own accord, and that construction must be halted until Congress approves the completion. So, I guess we're just stuck with a half-finished project? 🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that work on President Trump’s White House Ballroom “has to stop” [ @CNN ] pic.twitter.com/Z5pIFnU0wD — Politics US (@PolitlcsUS) March 31, 2026 Trump began the project in October after demolishing the East Wing of the White House, something the left in this country seemed to find incredibly offensive for s...