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By Nick Arama You have to hand it to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.  Despite what appears to be concerted actions from the left against him, he's still not hesitant to make moves that will likely infuriate Democrats.  One of the big questions raised recently on a show with Tucker Carlson was why people like Susan Rice were still on the Defense Policy Board for the Department of Defense. That board is supposed to be providing advice to Hegseth. Why would he want any advice from Rice?  Former adviser to Hegseth, Dan Caldwell, pointed out the issue on Carlson's show earlier this week. 🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Dan Caldwell claims Susan Rice is still on the Defense Policy Board. A senior Pentagon official tells me, “We are reevaluating all DoD advisory boards and their membership to ensure we have the right people in the right positions to deliver on President Trump’s… pic.twitter.com/AR27dYPGMK — Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) April 22, 2025 The Intercept had an  inter...

By OLIVIA RONDEAU Former New York Rep. George Santos has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to felony fraud charges in August 2024 and getting expelled from Congress in December 2023. The disgraced former congressman was handed the 87-month sentence on Friday in a New York court by U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert, who also ordered him to serve two years of supervised release and pay more than $373,000 in restitution, the  New York Times ‘ Michael Gold reported: George Santos sentenced to 87 months, with 2 years supervised release — Michael Gold (@migold) April 25, 2025 Santos reportedly “covered his face and was sobbing as the sentence was read, and will have to report to federal prison on July 25, three months from his sentencing date: Santos sentenced to 63 months on wire fraud charge, plus 24 months on aggravated identity theft. He covered his face and was sobbing as the sentence was read. Judge Seybert said she did n...

By Becky Noble When you get right down to it, Democrats are really just your garden variety bullies. They think they will somehow get their way if they jump up and down, yell and scream like toddlers, or threaten to cancel you. And often, it works. But since Donald Trump became president, their bullying tactics have worked on fewer and fewer people.  Now, in their latest crusade to get Democrat poster-boy and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia sent back to the U.S, they think they just might have a way to bully El Salvador, a foreign country that doesn't have to give a rip what they think or want. By hurting the people. BREAKING: El Salvador has been upgraded to level 1 travel advisory, listing it as one of the safest tourism destinations on earth. In the summer 2020, El Salvador was listed as a level 4 “do not travel.” President Bukele has changed his country for the better. pic.twitter.com/hhHlrjT7up — Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) April 9, 2025 On Wednesday,  during S...

Apple Park, the 360-acre headquarters of Apple Inc., in Cupertino, Calif. Citing trade and political tensions, the tech giant will produce 80 million phones a year in India by the end of next year. By Sankalp Phartiyal, Alisha Sachdev and Jane Lanhee Lee Apple Inc. is seeking to import most of the iPhones it sells in the US from India by the end of next year, accelerating a shift beyond China to mitigate risks related to tariffs and geopolitical tensions. The goal means Apple would roughly double its annual iPhone output in India to more than 80 million units, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified discussing internal plans. Apple assembled just over 40 million iPhones in India in the fiscal year through March 2025. It sells more than 60 million iPhones a year in the US. The plans are the latest sign of Apple and its suppliers accelerating a pivot away from China, a process that began when harsh Covid lockdowns hurt production at its largest plant...

By Brooke Mallory According to court documents filed on April 1 st , a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman, who is currently incarcerated in Indiana following a conviction for the reckless homicide of an infant, is now suing President Donald Trump. The lawsuit alleges that the GOP president’s “transphobic” and “extremist rhetoric” incited acts of sexual assault and other attacks against him. Trump’s “extremist rhetoric and transphobic hate speech,” according to Jonathan C. Richardson, who goes by the feminine name “Autumn Cordellioné,” has “emboldened the Defendants and the assailants that brutally assaulted and raped plaintiff, not once, but multiple times, to act on their hate and prejudices, constituting the cause in action and his liability in this case. Therefore, President Trump was negligent due to his alleged knowledge that others may act on his words,” according to the handwritten complaint. After being moved from New Castle Correctional Facility ...

By John Petrolino The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives announced in late April 2025 that they’ve released their “ Fact Sheet - Facts and Figures for Fiscal Year 2024. ” The report offers an interesting glimpse into what the agency was doing last year. Some of the data that’s within the report includes: Personnel numbers and agency budget. Case and defendant data in the various phases of the judicial process. Number of federal firearms licensees and licenses issued. Number of firearm compliance inspections and most frequently cited violations. Number of federal explosives licenses and permits issued. Number of explosives application inspections and most frequently cited violations. Number of firearm tracing requests processed.  Ballistic imaging data that links violent crimes involving firearms and subsequently identifies firearm users. ATF laboratory accomplishments. The report states that as of last year, there were 128,690 federal firearms licensees. Of tho...

By Bonchie Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by federal marshals on Friday morning after she allegedly harbored an illegal alien in a courthouse.  At the center of this is an illegal alien who was appearing before Dugan's court. ICE agents had set up shop outside, having provided notice that they were there to take the person into custody. That's when Dugan allegedly  thwarted  immigration officers by hiding the illegal alien. A probe was immediately opened by the FBI. A Milwaukee County judge is under investigation over claims she shielded a defendant from immigration agents last week. Judge Hannah Dugan has been on the Milwaukee County bench for nine years but is now herself under scrutiny after an incident involving a man wanted by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside her courtroom Friday. According to a law enforcement source, ICE agents were waiting outside Dugan's courtroom for a man making a court appearance. But Dug...

The left ignores its own hypocrisies and ironies.   By Victor Davis Hanson Since 2021, the left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways. One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court. In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protestors assembled at the very doors of the court chambers. He threatened two of the justices, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, by name. Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices’ views would make them “reap the whirlwind,” and the two would not know what “hit” them. In the ensuing months, protestors mobbed some of the conservative justices’ homes — likely committing felonies. The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law, and so did nothing — although eventually a would-be assassin turned up. Former President Joe Biden himself bragged that he would try to ignore the Supreme Court ruling banning his arbit...

By Nick Arama Democrats have not been making smart moves since they lost the election.  Their recent embrace of an illegal alien alleged MS-13 gang member has really sent them over the edge with the American people. How did they think that such a thing would help them?  Enter Florida Democrat Rep. Frederica Wilson, best known for her wild hats.  Wilson  visited  the ICE Krome Detention Center in Miami on Thursday. Then she held a bizarre press conference on the side of a road amidst bushes as cars rushed by. It was perhaps apropos that she was in the weeds.  But what she said was even wilder than the setting. First, she ranted about immigration detention policies, and she said they just needed "five Democrats" to take back power in the House. "And we'll use every power available...If we got five, we can control all of this." Then it really went off the rails with what she said next. I think the Bulls stomped her a few too many times...😂🤣 pic.twitter.c...

By Dan Zoernig O'Keefe Media Group is reporting on Thursday that another Deep State insubordinate is doing what insubordinates do. They Insubordinate, and then they talk about themselves Insubordinating to the rest of the world. They are an insubordinate and narcissistic bunch. Yes, they certainly are. Nicolas Turza , a DOD branch chief, was played for a fool by an undercover journalist and revealed that he is going to resist any directives from the president in any way he can. And oh, yeah. Pete Hegseth is totally unqualified as Director of DOD  (says the guy who's obviously unqualified in the discretionary aspects of his own job.) By the time this notice gets published, I expect Mr. Turza will be sitting on a curb with a cardboard box of personal effects in his lap as he is waiting for his Lyft ride home, but for some reason these people ( the admirals, the commanders, etc. ) who keep getting fired for insubordination just haven't gotten the message that insubordinati...