It's difficult to understate how badly the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearings went for the Democrats. Appalling? Cataclysmic? Inauspicious? Which synonym of "disastrous" do you want to go with when it came to the grilling of President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon? The Democrats promised us from the beginning...

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Another day, another Democratic embarrassment during confirmation hearings. This time, it was the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nominee was attorney general hopeful Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida. Among those who went viral for poorly considered lines of questioning was Sen. Alex Padilla of California, who wanted to...

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President Joe Biden called on Wednesday evening for an amendment to the Constitution that would end presidential immunity for acts while in office. The comments, which came during his farewell address, come after President-elect Donald Trump faced several lawsuits in recent years and accusations from Democrats of crimes committed during...

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As his frosty relationship with President Joe Biden comes to a close, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday had warm words for President-elect Donald Trump for Trump’s participation in a deal that is expected to free hostages held by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke...

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President Joe Biden was not pleased when a journalist asked him whether he or President-elect Donald Trump deserves credit for the hostage deal Israel and Hamas reached in recent days. Biden, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, hosted a news conference on Wednesday...

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The long national nightmare of President Joe Biden's tyrannical administration will end in only four days. Fortunately, most Americans will greet it as a merciful end. Nonetheless, never forget that at least one in every three people you meet qualifies as oblivious, brainwashed, or worse. According to a new CNN...

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"When they go low, we go high," former first lady Michelle Obama once (in)famously said. It turns out that the "high" road is completely and totally optional for Obama and her fellow Democrats, especially if it interferes with your ability to "be real." People magazine put out a report on...

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As wildfires raged across the greater Los Angeles area and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate over the past week, many residents of California discovered issues with their electric cars, leading some to vow to sell them. More than a week after the fires began, the Palisades and Eaton fires...

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Things are not going well at CNN. And this latest billion dollar nightmare actually has to do with CNN's usual nemesis: the ratings. But the issue at hand isn't about CNN's lagging ratings themselves -- it's about what CNN talking head Jake Tapper actually thinks of those ratings. First, some...

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One day after one of Florida's most famous attorney generals was in the headlines for her performance on Capitol Hill, another Florida attorney general is making waves of her own. Less than 24 hours after former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi stood her ground against furious Democrats, Florida Gov. Ron...

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Thanks in part to the dishonest and thus loathsome establishment media, President-elect Donald Trump has achieved near-mythical status. Incredibly, in the wake of every report favorable to Trump, those shrieking fools and practitioners of what passes for mainstream journalism, who have elevated lack of self-awareness to an art form, continue...

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The Justice Department granted a plea deal to a gang leader in MS-13, allowing him to avoid both the death penalty and a life sentence despite his admission to committing seven heinous murders. Jairo Saenz, 28, known by the nickname “Funny,” will face “up to 60 years in prison, and...

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Two political advocacy groups founded by Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams were fined by a Georgia ethics panel for failing to disclose millions in contributions and spending during Abrams’ failed 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia. "Today the State Ethics Commission entered into a consent agreement with the New Georgia Project...

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One of the big promises that helped propel President-elect Donald Trump to his dominant Nov. 5 general election victory was that he would overturn many of the policies of outgoing President Joe Biden. That promise might have to wait a bit -- and, surprisingly, it's not the Democrats trying to...

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CNN pundit Scott Jennings continues to be the only redeemable presence at the beleaguered network. On Wednesday, Jennings gave his fellow panelists the hard truth about President Joe Biden's legacy just moments after the president gave his farewell address to the nation. In a clip Jennings posted to his X...

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The Los Angeles area fires have charred the popularity of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass while showing a deep division in who respondents blame for the fires. "Both of them are stone-cold incompetent," President-elect Donald Trump has said, according to Reuters. Bass, in particular, came...

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Sometimes, the jokes write themselves. On Thursday, Politico congressional reporter Nicholas Wu posted a letter to social media platform X dated to the same day from the Congressional Progressive Staff Association -- which is 1,500 members strong. In it, the association asks both House and Senate leaders to implement a...

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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has established herself as a flawed-yet-principled advocate for women. Meanwhile, former Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland, who served as Social Security Commissioner for less than a year under President Joe Biden and whom extreme political junkies might remember as an obscure Democratic...

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Some supporters of President-elect Donald Trump on the social media platform X have a preferred mantra. "Nothing can stop what is coming," they often write. Leave it to the president-elect himself to distill that mantra into yet another iconic image. On Wednesday, Trump's official inaugural portrait began circulating on X,...

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Freshman Sen. Adam Schiff of California was apparently so exhausted from his heated exchange with Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi that he was later caught napping during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Schiff used his time questioning Bondi, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, to raise the specter that...

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A Democratic member of Congress has offered a new conspiracy theory concerning the wildfires around Los Angeles. During a Tuesday interview, Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California suggested race might have been a factor, according to Fox News. "We need to find out the facts -- a full-scale investigation on...

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