After nearly six years in retirement and a partial knee replacement, Lindsey Vonn opens her season in St. Moritz this weekendPublishedDecember 11, 2025 1:55 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 2:03 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkWith more muscle and a brand-new bionic knee, 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn says she’s ready to chase another Winter Olympics.Vonn returned to skiing last season after nearly six years of retirement, and even after a partial replacement left her with two pieces of titanium in her knee, she feels stronger than ever.”Physically, I’m in possibly the best shape I’ve ever been in,” Vonn said this week in St. Moritz. “And…
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By Wayne Allyn Root Think of all the dangerous criminals in America… America is overrun by murderers, rapists, kidnappers, drug traffickers, MS-13 gangbangers, carjackers, home invaders, armed robbers, perverts and pedophiles. Many of these criminals are illegal aliens. Democrats welcomed tens of millions of them in through the open border. And they couldn’t care less about the murders and violent crimes they commit, as long as their votes help Democrats steal elections. Many of these vicious criminals walking our streets are American born. Democrats fight just as hard for them too. George Soros-funded DAs and liberal judges let them out…
The Department of Education in Washington. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe Department of Education said it has prevented more than $1 billion in federal student aid-related fraud so far this year, including schemes in which scammers posed as students to steal money from the taxpayer-funded program.The department said on Dec. 11 that this was achieved by strengthening oversight of how colleges and universities verify identities and distribute student aid dollars. These measures include mandatory identity verification for certain first-time student applicants enrolling in the summer term, as well as a permanent screening process for all applicants beginning this fall.We had a…
Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin spent four minutes during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday hounding a Department of Defense (DOD) official about so-called illegal orders. Slotkin, who told military members in a video to defy President Donald Trump’s so-called illegal orders, on whether Trump is deploying the National Guard lawfully by going against the wishes of a sitting governor. While she asked DOD Principal Deputy General Counsel Charles Young about a hypothetical of Trump ordering the National Guard to be present at polling places, Young stated that there are federal laws against such actions and that it…
The Indiana Senate is expected to take a final vote on the state’s redistricting plan on Dec. 11 at 2:30 p.m. …
Notice that Hill also prefaced her comments by calling Sherrone Moore a “cornball.”PublishedDecember 11, 2025 1:35 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 1:35 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkMinutes after Michigan announced the firing of head football coach Sherrone Moore for cause stemming from an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, Jason Whitlock asked his X followers who would be the first to play the race card.His list of candidates included Stephen A. Smith (my pick), Jemele Hill, Ryan Clark, and Shannon Sharpe. Though Clark garnered an impressive 46.9% of the vote, Hill won the race.While on a break from Bluesky, Hill posted on Threads, warning…
Kristi Noem mobbed by leftists after House Homeland Security Committee Hearing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was mobbed and surrounded by a crowd of unhinged leftists after exiting a House Homeland Security Committee Hearing, where she testified on threats to the homeland and illegal immigration. Noem testified alongside National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent and FBI National Security Branch Operations Director Michael Glasheen on Thursday. She departed the hearing early to co-chair a hearing where she will receive a report from the FEMA Review Council on suggested changes to the program. Immediately when she exited the room, leftists could be heard…
A former Planned Parenthood director who spent 17 years working at abortion clinics has come forward with harrowing accounts of women delivering fully formed babies after taking abortion pills. She says they are told to flush the remains down the toilet, confirming the abortion procedure’s deadly toll on unborn children and its devastating physical and emotional harm to mothers. Mayra Rodriguez, who directed Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas and New Mexico, shared her experiences in a video testimony released Thursday by the group Stop Coerced Abortion. Rodriguez, now a witness in a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood and Minnesota Gov. Tim…
Death row inmates may have a final defense against execution: Stupidity. That depends on the decision of the Supreme Court, which heard oral argument in the case of Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday. The case concerns how states should evaluate the mental capacity of inmates sentenced to capital punishment. U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument: Hamm v. Smith, a case about a defendant’s attempt to overturn his death sentence on the grounds that he is intellectually disabled, especially in light of multiple IQ tests with varying results – LIVE online here: https://t.co/7EaNAhTQBZ — CSPAN (@cspan) November 4, 2025 Joseph Clifton Smith…
A state representative in Kentucky said during a Tuesday hearing that white people should feel guilty about their skin tone while debating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Republican state Sen. Lindsey Tichenor of Smithfield, Kentucky, introduced legislation to ban DEI from public schools in the state Tuesday, the Paducah Sun reported. Democratic state Rep. Sarah Stalker of Louisville, Kentucky, objected to the bill, saying DEI allowed students to “reflect” on the “historical privilege” white people had during the hearing. (RELATED: ‘Your Culture Sucks’: Left-Wing Writer Attacks White Americans, Brags ‘Brown People’ Are Breeding In Bizarre Rant)“I’m going to be honest, I…
Senate Democrats and Republicans each shot down the other’s healthcare proposal on Thursday, underscoring how divided the parties remain as the boosted Obamacare subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year. The Senate voted on a Democrat plan to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies for three years, as well as a Republican alternative centered on expanded Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Both measures failed after party leaders declared the opposing proposals “dead on arrival,” leaving little room for a healthcare deal to materialize before the year’s end.The Democratic proposal was part of the agreement that…
“The Glory of Commerce” sculpture on the exterior of Grand Central Terminal in New York City on May 10, 2023. Jenny Zeng/The Epoch TimesNew York City Comptroller Brad Lander has launched a congressional campaign, challenging Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary. The candidate currently holds the position of New York City’s chief fiscal officer, and has received endorsements from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
This would save a ton of confusionPublishedDecember 11, 2025 1:16 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 1:16 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThe NHL is reportedly considering making the history of the Winnipeg Jets way less confusing by consolidating the histories of the two separate franchises into one.This way, the current Jets can add OG Winnipeg legends like Dale Hawerchuk and Teemu Selanne to their record books.And, better yet, it would put to bed one of the weirder, more confusing bits of hockey history.The current Jets are the zombified remains of the old Atlanta Thrashers, and set up shop in Manitoba in 2011. Of course,…
The Senate failed to advance a Republican healthcare plan in a 51-48 vote on Thursday. GOP Senator Rand Paul voted with the Democrats. Senators Bill Cassidy (LA) and Mike Crapo (ID) introduced the bill that would allow Obamacare tax subsidies to expire and expand health savings accounts. The legislation needed 60 votes to advance. A separate, Schumer-backed healthcare bill also failed to pass the Senate on Thursday. Obamacare’s enhanced premium tax credit will expire at the end of 2025. The Hill reported: A Republican-drafted proposal to set up health savings accounts for people who buy their health insurance on the…
The Frederick County school board voted Wednesday to continue allowing students in the district to use whichever bathroom or locker room they choose, and to compete on boys or girls sports teams regardless of their biological sex. However, in that 4-2 vote, the board also removed the requirement that students and staff use someone’s “preferred pronouns,” and now encourages the involvement of parents in discussing a child’s gender identity, according to The Frederick News-Post.“I think it strikes the best balance that we can achieve right now in light of the current law,” school board member Rae Gallagher said, according to…
On Friday, the United States seized a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil to Cuba, and MS NOW’s host of The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle, freaked out, claiming it “sounds like pirates.” However, Ruhle and former Sen. Claire McCaskill ignored several facts that would disprove such crazy proclamations. Ruhle wondered, “But when he [Trump] says, ‘maybe we’ll just keep the oil,’ I’m a mere mortal. This sounds like pirates. Are we allowed to do this?” McCaskill responded by declaring, “Well, he will have to do something he’s not been willing to do around Venezuela, and that’s go to court. It is possible…
Wikipedia is “Wokepedia,” complains Elon Musk. That’s because it’s become so left-wing. “It’s designed to push an ideological agenda that you can’t see,” says journalist Ashley Rindsberg in my new video. He runs “Neutral Point of View,” a Substack publication that exposes Wikipedia bias. “So what if it’s biased?” I ask. “It’s just one website.” “Wikipedia’s information spreads into everything online,” he replies, “ChatGPT, … Siri, Alexa. Ask a question, it is all Wikipedia.” As a result, “a few thousand powerful editors determine what gets counted as information.” Those editors sure hate President Donald Trump. When he put undocumented immigrants…
Following months of rumors, CBS News’s parent company Paramount Skydance announced Wednesday that CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil will become the new anchor of the CBS Evening News on January 5, signifying editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s biggest gamble yet, the network’s most serious attempt to break out of a lifetime in third place, and the most concrete effort to nudge a legacy newscast back to the center since the days of Jeff Glor from December 2017 to May 2019. Dokoupil will take the top job from longtime CBS News journalist John Dickerson and former CBS New York anchor Maurice DuBois, who lasted…
For elite journalists, being compared to Walter Cronkite is considered a great honor, so when the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism announced their 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for excellence in political journalism on Wednesday, it gave insight into who the industry views as the best of the best. For everybody else, the 2025 winners were a reminder that for those journalists, fighting President Trump is the best way to get street cred. The first winner was NBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander for “holding the powerful accountable.” According to the judges, “Alexander’s live…
“We hope the headlines and social media likes are worth it,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday, warning Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker that he violated the U.S. Constitution Tuesday by signing a bill designed to thwart the federal department’s efforts to U.S. immigration law. “(President) Donald Trump, (DHS Secretary) Kristi Noem, and (Border Chief) Gregory Bovino have tried to appeal to our lesser instincts. But the best of us are standing up to the worst of them,” Gov. Pritzker said at the bill’s signing ceremony. In addition to giving illegal aliens new rights to sue the…
Recently, in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation’s capital for America’s left, explained “Why Democrats Won the Shutdown.” The most accurate declaration in the article is “fights tell the country a lot about what — and who — the fighters care about.” And, indeed, there should be no question what the Democratic Party is about. That is — to miss no opportunity to accumulate political power by fostering, as widely and as deeply as possible, a culture of government dependence in America. And to pay the bill…
PBS News Hour guest and anti-Trump activist Miles Taylor of “Anonymous” media fame whined about President Trump’s top adviser calling the Democratic Party a domestic extremist organization in an August 27, 2025 segment: “That’s really, really scary language.” So it’s fascinating how often PBS itself uses similar “really scary” hostile labeling habits against conservatives but almost never against liberals, as a new Media Research Center study reveals. MRC analysts counted up the “left-wing” and “right-wing” style ideological labels used by anchors, reporters, and contributors on the PBS News Hour regarding American politics from December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2025. PBS News Weekend programs…
Former The Late Show host David Letterman joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday to praise him as “the leader of the resistance” and also tell Kimmel that he and his contemporaries are helping to save democracy every night with their shows. Letterman kicked off his ode to his successors by asking, “People are aware of the fact that you are the leader of the resistance?” while Kimmel tried to downplay the idea, “Yes, I mean, I am the totally ineffective leader of the resistance, yes.” Alluding to Kimmel’s suspension, Letterman continued, “By the way, will this be televised tonight? I…
The Washington Post would like you to pretend along with them that they’re the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don’t play favorites. Then you notice that their Sunday Arts & Style section carried a sprawling four-page spread with ten color photographs on the glorious Rosie O’Donnell and her passionate loathing of Donald Trump. The Post summarized the puff piece on X: “Donald Trump’s first administration took an emotional toll on Rosie O’Donnell. She didn’t think she could endure a second term. This time, O’Donnell had a plan: she moved to Ireland.” So let’s give Rosie credit for carrying out…
CBS’s drama Fire Country, now in its fourth season, is set in the fictional town of Edgewater, California. So, it was only a matter of time before we got hit with the, “it’s climate change, not liberal bureaucracy,” excuse for the state’s ongoing, real-life problem of severe wildfires. Episode 7, “Best Mom in the World,” featured a meeting between fire chief Manny (Kevin Alejandro) and his crew where Manny imparted lessons he learned at a fire training session in Sacramento. The team had recently battled a massive fire that was difficult to control and claimed many lives and homes. Manny…
The Thunder aren’t good, they’re historic.PublishedDecember 11, 2025 12:40 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 12:50 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThe following statement is not hyperbole by any stretch of the imagination: this season’s Oklahoma City Thunder team may be the best squad ever assembled in the NBA. What’s scary is that the franchise should only improve in the immediate future.As the kids would say, the NBA is absolutely cooked.Last year’s Thunder team posted a regular-season record of 68-14 before taking down the Indiana Pacers in seven games to win the NBA title. That Thunder team outscored its opponents by an average of 12.9…
Michigan’s latest scandal — culminating in Sherrone Moore’s firing and being detained by police — exposes years of dysfunction and fuels calls for a complete overhaul of the Wolverines athletic department.PublishedDecember 11, 2025 12:19 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 11, 2025 12:19 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThis all feels like a Taylor Swift song now. How else should we describe the Wolverines athletic department, which finds itself once again dealing with a stain on that massive M that represents the ‘Michigan Man’? First it was Jim Harbaugh and all the nonsense surrounding NCAA violations that dated back to the COVID era. Then came the infamous sign-stealing saga that…
Arby’s is eating In-N-Out’s lunch.PublishedDecember 10, 2025 8:00 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 10, 2025 9:05 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkArby’s doesn’t have an appetite for CENSORSHIP. The chain, famous for bringing the beef, is flexing its freedom of speech, after calling out SoCal-based In-N-Out for ’86-ing’ a number trending with the youths.The ‘6-7’ trend has plagued number-counters across America … and as a result, In-N-Out is no longer announcing No. 67 as an order number, thereby preventing hysterical teens from jumping and jiving over hearing ‘6-7.’For context, the origins of the trend don’t really matter.(Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)After news of…
A viral Waffle House clip shows employees uniting fast when a customer’s hashbrown dispute turns violent.PublishedDecember 10, 2025 7:40 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 10, 2025 6:07 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkIt’s been a few months since we stepped foot in a Waffle House. I’m happy to report, thanks to a video that has gone viral from inside one of the establishment’s prestigious locations, that the culture of chaos is alive and well.If there’s an unruly customer who needs to be dealt with, employees are ready and willing to trade punches with that person. This particular incident is a masterclass in teamwork.A customer upset about…
A 10-foot Florida gator tried to swing by a Sarasota 7-Eleven on Tuesday, only to get dragged off by deputies.PublishedDecember 10, 2025 7:20 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 10, 2025 5:50 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkWhat’s a gator to do when he can’t even buy himself a Slurpee without getting hassled by law enforcement?A massive, 10-foot alligator had to be removed from a 7-Eleven convenience store in Sarasota County, Fla., on Tuesday. And he was NOT happy about it.A wild video posted to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page shows the gator thrashing around, flipping and doing everything he can to thwart the men…
Shipping containers line the Port of Long Beach, Calif.,on March 28, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesPresident Donald Trump’s tariffs helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit to its lowest monthly level in more than five years, according to new data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Dec. 11.The U.S. goods and services trade deficit narrowed 10.9 percent in September to $52.8 billion—the lowest monthly deficit since June 2020—down from $59.3 billion registered in August.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
The sun sets over a heavily damaged area of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 7, 2025. Omar Al-Quattaa/AFP via Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump said on Dec. 10 that he expects to name the world leaders who will serve on the Gaza Board of Peace early in the new year.He made the comments during an economic event at the White House in response to questions from reporters.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Nov. 10, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana courts must reconsider the case of a man who was denied access to a physical therapy clinic’s pool because he has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).The Supreme Court issued a brief, unsigned opinion in Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy LLC on Dec. 8 without conducting an oral argument in the case. No justices dissented.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
A drone view of a California High-Speed Rail Bridge where it crosses over Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., on June 8, 2025. Fred Greaves/ReutersA federal judge in California on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the rescission of more than $4 billion in federal funding for the state’s high-speed rail initiative linking Los Angeles and San Francisco.U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd in Sacramento turned down the Justice Department’s claim that the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s July lawsuit was filed in an improper venue and should have instead been filed in the U.S. Court of Federal…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with top business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, on Dec.10, 2025. Alex Wong/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—President Donald Trump hosted business leaders for a roundtable discussion at the White House on Dec. 10 about facilitating technology innovation.“Our administration is committed to total dominance in technology,” Trump said.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off for its 10th test flight from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on Aug. 26, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty ImagesElon Musk on Wednesday lent credibility to rumors about a SpaceX initial public offering via a social media interaction with Ars Technica space reporter Eric Berger.“As usual, Eric is accurate,” Musk said, responding to Berger’s post titled, “Here’s why I think SpaceX is going public soon,” with a link to his Ars Technica piece on the company’s apparent public listing intentions. Musk has said in the past that the company would not go…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.).WASHINGTON—The Senate on Dec. 11 rejected a GOP health care plan proposed as an alternative to extending expiring subsidies for Obamacare.In a 51-48 vote, the bill failed to reach the 60-vote threshold to advance in the chamber. The Senate will next vote on a Democratic plan to extend the expiring subsidies for three years, which is also expected to fail.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates at the final meeting of the year, and the third straight rate reduction will impact your money.Central bankers voted 9-3 on Dec. 10 to lower the benchmark federal funds rate—a key policy rate that influences business, household, and government borrowing costs—by a quarter point.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has been frustrated by a Senate tradition that has negatively affected his appointments for U.S. attorney positions.The “blue slip” is a tradition in the upper chamber where home state senators of U.S. attorney and district court nominees either approve or disapprove of that person. Both state senators must return their blue slip for the nomination to be considered.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
Climate activists hold signs during a press conference with members of the House of Reps. Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether it will take up a pivotal climate lawsuit case that could have an enormous impact on energy companies—and energy costs—for all Americans.The Court has scheduled a conference on Dec. 12 to decide if it will grant review in the case of Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, one of more than 30 climate lawsuits now proliferating around the United States…
A newly revealed memo from August 2020 shows that some of Joe Biden’s own policy advisers warned his campaign that his proposed immigration policies could lead to “chaos” and a humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border. During the 2020 election, Biden staked out welcoming policies toward illegal immigration to differentiate himself from President Trump’s more hardline approach. The memo, written by Democrat policy advisers to Biden and his inner circle, was obtained by The New York Times. It stated that a potential surge in border crossings could overwhelm processing capacities and jeopardize the new administration’s agenda. “A potential surge could…
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) had harsh words for the European Union (EU) and its recent unsuccessful attempt to force free speech limits on the X social media platform in the name of “European Democracy.” Monday morning, in a post on X, Lee described the EU’s version of democracy as “an arrogant bureaucratic regime” which he says is enabling “an illegal immigration invasion against the will of Europeans while limiting their freedom of speech.” The world has seen that “European democracy,” as the EU practices it, is an arrogant bureaucratic regime enabling an illegal immigration invasion against the will of Europeans…
Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 2:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Roundtable News roundup: Netanyahu reiterates opposition to Palestinian state More frigid weather is on the way Scoop: Israel and Qatar hold secret meeting in New York to rebuild ties Judge: DOJ likely broke Constitution in using Comey lawyer’s seized emails 2026 World Cup schedule drops: Where to see Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappé We’re Not Backing Down’: Owner of Pro-ICE Idaho Saloon Undeterred by Violent Threats Omar: Stephen Miller’s Rhetoric Reminds Me of ‘Nazis’ At Least 18 migrants Die as Boat Sinks Off Greek…
President Donald Trump has already begun making moves with his ongoing program to remove violent illegal immigrants from the United States. And his latest one brings him to Minneapolis, where he has recently sent more than 100 ICE agents into the city to arrest a large number of illegal Somalis. Trump felt motivated to move into the city following reports that a Somali terror group known as al-Shabab was “taking a cut” of millions in stolen taxpayer money in the state of Minnesota as part of a grander welfare fraud scheme. From this example, Trump has made it clear that…
It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated. Worse, the message went out that there would be few, if any, deportations and no real ICE kinetic activity beyond the border. The world’s poor, sick, both law-abiding and criminal, young and old, understood that anyone could now enter the U.S. at will. Deterrence and legality were lost. In its place, the message went out that if it was…
The quietude of looking out the kitchen window on a December morning at a meadow dusted in snow is magical. A deer pauses at the edge of the wood, breath steaming in the cold air, grazing on whatever bits of green poke through the snow. It is a scene replicated on greeting cards and stamped on cookie tins. Part of the magic behind that tableau—from the roast in the oven to the cranberries on a plate, from the pine and hardwoods standing tall outside to the browsing fauna—is a phenomenon the establishment media ignore: CO₂-driven, NASA-acknowledged greening of Earth. Satellite data from…
Once again, the United States is using lethal force off its shores. In recent weeks, American drones and warships have sunk or disabled a string of speedboats in international waters off Venezuela. Washington says the vessels belonged to narcoterrorist networks tied to the Maduro regime and Tren de Aragua and that they were carrying cocaine and fentanyl precursors bound for the United States. At least 83 alleged traffickers and others are dead. Caracas calls this extrajudicial murder. Human-rights groups call it assassination. Cable-news panels and UN press releases are already rehearsing the same ritual question: Is this legal under international…
The pampered class is whining hysterically about Trump calling Ilhan Omar and her 80,000 Somalis in Minnesota “garbage.” Remember when Joe Biden called Trump and his supporters “garbage?” Well, that was different, of course, because … reasons. Hitler. Fascist. Russia collusion. January 6. Argh! Given the extraordinary accomplishments of Trump in the first 10 months of his second term, I find it remarkable that the anti-Trump hysteria has not ended. If anything, the volume has been notched up to 11. But here’s a prediction for the time capsule. In the fullness of time, which I reckon will be sometime in…
Social media has a sickly smell about it, like that of rotten peaches. Maybe that smell was the last sensation several people had in a jewelry plant in 1988, when someone used the wrong chemical to clean a tank of zinc cyanide, and the fumes killed four people almost instantly, choking off their ability to process oxygen. At least it was quick. Imagine instead a cyanide-like fume, sickly, mingling the sweet and sour, that does not kill you but gnaws at your insides over months and years so that your bones turn to chalk, your lungs wheeze like a busted…
One of the more bizarre artifacts of the Israel-Hamas War—which Hamas started just over two years ago, when it attacked, murdered, and kidnapped more than 1,000 Israeli civilians—is the exposure of the rabid and rampant antisemitism among the Irish, especially Irish Catholics. One might expect that Catholics—whose popes have denounced antisemitism off and on since the sixth century and have clearly and repeatedly condemned it since the 1930s—would be understanding of the Jewish people’s plight and willing to listen to Pope Pius XI’s admonition that “Antisemitism is inadmissible. Spiritually, we are all Semites.” In the case of many Irish Catholics,…