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Here's today's roundup. | The Nobel Peace Prize Goes to… María Corina Machado? |
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday. It is not Donald Trump.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the award for her commitment to keep “the flame of democracy glowing amid a growing darkness” in her country and being “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.” She has spent the past 14 months in hiding after Nicolás Maduro declared victory in Venezuela’s last election. Much of America and Europe believes his triumph was fraudulent.
Many Americans expected Donald Trump’s brokering of the Israel-Hamas peace deal to earn him the prize, and considering Barack Obama won the 2009 award because of the idea that he could create peace, the president’s snub feels entirely political. If Obama, Joe Biden, or any other Democrat did the exact same thing as Trump, it would be hard to imagine them not winning the prize. Read more.
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State Department Diplomat Fired for Dating Chinese Woman |
Imagine you’re a State Department diplomat living in Beijing, lonely and seeking romance. One night, you catch a local’s eye while you’re out on the town. A conversation begins. It gets flirty. One thing leads to another, and you wind up at her apartment.
Unfortunately, there’s a problem. You didn’t meet your mysterious lover by chance; it was a planned soirée. She works for the Chinese Communist Party, which now has everything it needs to blackmail you into submission. You’ve been compromised.
This is the exact scenario the Trump administration hopes to avoid. That’s why U.S. government personnel in China and their family members are banned from having romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens.
One employee still couldn’t control himself. He entered a relationship with a Chinese national “with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party” this year, admitting on camera that he “defied [his] government for love.” The State Department fired him this week. Read more.
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American Troops Are Heading to Israel |
Since when was this a part of the deal?
The United States is sending around 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza, American officials disclosed on Thursday. U.S. Central Command will establish a “civil-military coordination center” to help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid and provide logistical and security assistance into the ever-chaotic territory.
Members of the armed forces of Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates are expected to be embedded with the American team, and the government plans to send no U.S. troops into Gaza.
We don’t know what level of danger these servicemembers will face in the Middle East. Even one being wounded or losing their life would completely change the American perspective on this peace deal. No matter what Washington says, the Israel-Hamas dispute is not an American issue. We hope it doesn’t become one at the expense of these troops. Read more.
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Israel-Hamas Peace Deal Isn’t Good Enough, GOP Congressman Says
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Most people we’ve talked to were happy that Donald Trump brokered an Israel-Hamas peace deal. The conflict has gone on for long enough, too much blood has been spilled, and America shouldn’t have to fund it any longer. Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden disagrees.
The Wisconsin representative trashed the agreement as the result of “negotiating with terrorists” on Thursday, saying he’s “not a fan” of the deal to finally stop the killing.
If negotiating with enemy powers is forbidden, how else was the White House supposed to get to peace? By continuing to pump U.S. tax dollars into the “war” until… when? Forever? The conflict’s death toll is approaching 70,000. At what point would the number he high enough for Van Orden to support a deal? 700,000? 7,000,000? Read more.
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RFK Called Antisemitic for Saying Circumcision “Highly Likely” Causes Autism |
Robert Kennedy Jr. turned heads at Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting on Thursday, saying there may be a link between circumcision and autism due to infants taking Tylenol after the procedure.
“There’s two studies which show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, it’s highly likely, because they were given Tylenol,” Kennedy reported to the president. A 2015 Denmark study appears to support his claim.
There are plenty of normal ways to react to the HHS Secretary’s statement. Maybe you think it’s funny. Maybe you think it’s stupid. There’s nothing radical about either view. The same can’t be said about Congressman Jerry Nadler’s take. According to him, RFK’s claim is… wait for it… antisemitic.
“This is an antisemitic remark,” he tweeted in response to Kennedy. “I call on all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to clearly denounce it.”
Are you kidding? What else is antisemitic? Saying you prefer cheeseburgers to just meat and a bun? Not liking long beards? Breathing the wrong way? We’ve reached 2020 BLM-level insanity. Read more.
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Secret Roman Colosseum Passage to Open to the Public |
The Commodus Passage is a once-secret corridor in Rome’s world-renowned Colosseum. It allowed Roman emperors to reach the ancient amphitheater unseen, leading them directly to their reserved honor box to watch the venue’s events. It will open to the public for the first time in nearly 2,000 years later this month.
The passage, discovered in the 1810s, is named after Emperor Commodus, who ruled alone between 180 A.D. and 192 A.D. He once survived an assassination attempt while passing through the tunnel.
“Visitors can now have a taste of what it was like to be an emperor entering the arena,” the architect who oversaw the corridor’s restoration said. “With a little effort of imagination and the help of a virtual reconstruction, they can appreciate the decorations, stuccoes, frescoes and marbles that covered the walls.” Read more.
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COMING IN HOT: Mom Gives Birth to Record-Sized Baby |
The average newborn weighs in at roughly seven pounds, according to Stanford Children’s Health. That’s a number new mom Shelby Martin and her Herculean son, Cassian, could scoff at.
Cassian recently became the largest baby to be born at Nashville’s TriStar Centennial Women’s Hospital in more than three years, weighing in at a whopping 12 pounds at 14 ounces. Photos show the hefty infant looking ready for a trip to the weight room immediately after entering the world. A fruitful career as an All-Pro defensive tackle could await him.
Cassian isn’t the only Hulkish baby to burst onto the scene this year. A Florida mom nearly suffered a heart attack – and a hernia – when delivering her nearly 14-pound son last month, and an Alabama woman birthed a 13-pounder back in March. Unbelievable athletes, each of those women. Read more. |
He’s Sticking to His Guns |
If an illegal immigrant bashed your wife’s head into a sidewalk, knocked her unconscious, and raped her, would you want ICE to deport him?
It’s not a hard question. We’re highly confident your answer is yes. But not everyone agrees. Enter Brandon Johnson.
The Chicago mayor refused to say that such a criminal should obviously get booted from the United States this week, instead sighing like a professor tolerating an unruly student when a reporter presented him with the hypothetical. You can watch the exchange here. It is something else.
Anyone with a shred of common sense could write an article deriding the mayor’s jaw-dropping position, and we’re sure Mrs. Johnson was less than thrilled by her husband’s performance. He couldn’t even say he’d oppose a deportation out of preference for such a criminal to live out his days in an American prison. Even that would have been too much for him to stomach. So much for supporting your wife.
Rather than taking the layup and dunking on the honorable mayor, we’d actually like to give him some credit. Considering his other ludicrous immigration stances, like creating “ICE Free Zones” and supporting giving non-citizens seats on school boards, he almost has to go all the way and extend his love to the baddest hombres the “international community” dumps into the United States. If your entire brand is that you’re pro-illegal immigrant, it would be disingenuous to limit your ideology to the pleasant ones. You’d have to fully commit, wrapping your arms around rapists, murderers, drug dealers, and whoever the hell else comes flooding across the Southern border. “In this house, no human is illegal” would really have to mean no human. For Johnson, apparently it does. Although insane, it’s an impressive commitment to his cause.
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October 10, 1767: The creation of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Penn and Calvert families hired Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to settle their dispute over the boundary between their two proprietary colonies, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The British surveyors spent years completing their task, using astronomy to chart the border and marking the line with stones featuring Pennsylvania’s crest on one side and Maryland’s on the other. Americans grew to recognize the line as the symbolic border between the free and slave states and the physical divide between the country’s Northern and Southern cultures. |
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