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U.S. Ambassador Hosted Convicted Traitor at Embassy
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Imagine you’re an American ambassador, representing the United States in a foreign nation on taxpayers’ dime. You probably wouldn’t host someone who betrayed our country at your embassy, right?
Not if you’re Mike Huckabee. News broke on Thursday that the Trump administration’s Israel ambassador welcomed convicted traitor Jonathan Pollard for a friendly meeting at the Jerusalem embassy in July. The pair chummed it up despite Pollard selling classified U.S. secrets to the Israeli government during his time as an American intelligence analyst.
Pollard, born in Texas but a self-described Israel Firster, served nearly 30 years in prison before getting out in 2015. Five years later, he did what everyone who cares more about a foreign country than the United States should do: moved there.
What if this story involved a different “ally”? Say, if America’s Vietnam ambassador rolled out the red carpet for a CIA officer convicted of spying for the Vietnamese. That would be weird, right? It would certainly warrant their removal from office. But because it’s Israel, no one cares. Why? How come they always get special privileges? Read more.
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Coast Guard Reverses Policy Calling Swastikas “Potentially Divisive Symbols” |
The U.S. Coast Guard changed its plan to classify the swastika as a “potentially divisive symbol” on Thursday, releasing a memorandum describing the Nazi-era insignia as a “divisive or hate symbol” rather than “potentially divisive.”
The update comes after a Washington Post report on the military branch’s harassing behavior prevention, response, and accountability guidelines, which were supposed to take effect on December 15th. The document lists nooses, swastikas, and any “flags co-opted or adopted by hate-based groups as representations of supremacy, racial or religious intolerance, or other bias” as “potentially divisive.”
What did that mean on a tangible level? According to the guidelines, the reporting of a “potentially divisive” symbol should have prompted a supervisor inquiry and may have permitted an order of its removal. Service members would have had 45 days to report such imagery, whereas the old policy did not list a deadline.
Previous rules allowed Coast Guard commanders to mandate the removal of nooses, swastikas, or other symbols even if their display did not classify as a “hate incident.” Read more. |
State Department to Include “Hate Speech” Laws in Human Rights Reports
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The State Department releases reports on foreign countries’ human rights practices each year. 2024’s China findings, for example, labeled its communist regime guilty of starvation, torture, forced abortions, rape, murder, and genocide.
The Trump administration reportedly plans to add updates on nations’ “hate speech” laws, correctly painting the draconian regulations as infringements on freedom of speech. Officials will also keep tabs on foreign governments’ facilitation of mass or illegal immigration, subsidization of abortions, and attempts to coerce people into euthanasia.
Anyone who cares about civil liberties should strongly oppose “hate speech” laws. The phrase “hate speech” has no inherent definition, meaning it really just means speech that the people in charge hate. Authoritarian liberals often say, “There’s free speech, then there’s hate speech.” They are incorrect. “Hate speech” is free speech, and any government that fails to protect it is an agent of tyranny.
This doesn’t mean we’re pro-hate. We’re not. But just because something is wrong doesn’t mean it should be illegal. Nasty language is the perfect example. Read more. |
REPORT: Trump’s Ukraine Plan Includes NATO-Style Security Guarantee |
New details of the Trump administration’s 28-point plan to end the Ukraine War emerged on Thursday, showing that the president aims to secure concessions from both sides to ensure a long-term peace.
The plan, which Kyiv and Moscow have not publicly accepted, reportedly includes the U.S. recognizing the entire Donbas region as Russian, Ukraine holding an election within 100 days, Russia returning to the G7, the creation of a Trump-chaired “Peace Council,” and a NATO-style security guarantee for Ukraine.
The deal’s details will face scrutiny from all sides in the weeks to come. Is committing American troops to die in the name of Ukrainian territorial integrity an America First policy? Not exactly. Is it good to demand that Ukraine practice democracy by letting its people choose their leader? Of course. But those conversations will take place another day.
For now, Trump deserves praise for doing what Joe Biden never would: earnestly trying to stop the bloodshed. This White House having the moral clarity to understand that pushing forever wars is bad for everyone makes our country and the world a better place. Read more. |
Transportation Department Unveils First-Ever Female Crash Dummy
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We live in a far more equal world than we did at this time yesterday. Female crash test dummies are officially here.
The Transportation Department rolled out the design for a “first-of-its-kind” advanced female crash test dummy on Thursday, intended to more accurately reflect the biological differences between men and women with new arm, abdominal, and pelvis sensors, as well as a more accurate capacity to simulate crash impacts on the face, neck, and spine.
“The Left doesn’t want to hear it, but the science is clear: there are only two sexes – male and female,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “That biological fact isn’t just a talking point – it’s an important safety consideration when designing cars,” he added.
Safety experts have been pushing for the use of female crash dummies for years, and regulators have talked about developing a female THOR model since at least the 1980s. Research shows that women are 73% more likely to suffer car-crash injuries than men. Read more.
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Rapper Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison over Illegal Obama Donations |
A Washington, DC, court sentenced Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel Michel to 14 years in prison on Thursday, punishing him for illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.
Michel obtained over $120 million from China-based Malaysian billionaire Jho Low as the former president ran for reelection, and steered some of the money to his campaign through straw donors. Prosecutors say he also tried to end a Justice Department investigation of Low, tampered with two witnesses, and perjured himself at trial.
Michel’s defense attorney recommended a three-year sentence. The DOJ sought a life term. Michel's charges include conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. His trial featured testimony from Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Sessions. Read more.
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Eric Swalwell Seeking California Governor’s Mansion |
It’s a great day for the Chinese.
Congressman Eric Swalwell announced his candidacy for California governor on Thursday, declaring his bid to succeed Gavin Newsom during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
As a prominent member of the party with no substantive platform other than not being Donald Trump, the Democrat lawmaker naturally promised that “[keeping] Trump out of our homes, streets and lives," would be his number-one priority. More important than lowering prices, stopping crime, improving the state’s wildfire readiness, and eliminating homelessness. Orange Man Bad above all.
Swalwell famously had a relationship with a suspected Chinese spy named Fang Fang between 2011 and 2015. It is unclear whether Ms. Fang will have a role in his campaign. Read more. |
Company Yanks Talking Teddy Bear for Giving Sex Advice |
An AI-powered talking teddy bear might sound nice, but in reality, they can get freaky. And fast.
Singapore-based company FoloToy has removed its talking teddies from sale after a group of researchers found them bizarrely willing to discuss sexually explicit material. Examples include spanking, roleplay, bondage, physical pain and humiliation, and other erotic practices. The $99 bear also offered worrisome advice, like where to find sharp knives in a house.
The researchers expressed shock over the product’s eagerness to “take a single sexual topic… and run with it, simultaneously escalating in graphic detail while introducing new sexual concepts of its own.” It allegedly jumped at the chance to explain different sex positions and offer step-by-step instructions.
FoloToy is conducting an internal safety audit in response. Read more. |
I Didn’t Kill My Wife, I Just Hid Her Body, Businessman Claims |
Massachusetts man Brian Walshe knows he’s done wrong. But murder? He won’t go that far.
The former consulting executive pleaded guilty to hiding his wife’s dismembered body and misleading police on Tuesday, but he insists he had nothing to do with her killing itself. Prosecutors say Walshe hid his spouse’s body parts, which were later incinerated, in bins before discarding them. No one has ever found her remains.
Investigators say surveillance video shows a man resembling Walshe throwing heavy bin bags into a dumpster shortly after his wife’s disappearance. He also allegedly made searches on his son’s iPad for “dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body,” “how long before a body starts to smell”, and “hacksaw best tool to dismember,” and took out a life insurance policy in Mrs. Walshe’s name.
But he had nothing to do with her death. For sure. Read more. |
Black Lives Matter Would Be Proud
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The American people were shocked.
2020’s Black Lives Matter riots rattled the cores of millions of good-faith citizens who didn’t want their cities burned to a crisp. Images of riots, looting, explosions, and shootings gripped the nation, prompting thousands to speak out against the anarchy. You know what happened next.
Racist!
That’s how the BLM Left described anyone opposed to the madness they unleashed throughout the country. As destructive as their “mostly peaceful protests” were, their smear campaigns proved equally vicious.
You don’t think it’s okay for masked thugs to light Minneapolis convenience stores on fire, Mr. and Mrs. America? Racist! Oppose smashing the windows of family-owned businesses? Bigot! White supremacist! Reject the idea that causing over $1 billion of property damage isn’t the best way to advance social justice? Okay. We get it. You hate black people. Pack your bags, take a trip to re-education camp, and read every Ta-Nehisi Coates book Amazon has to offer. Then maybe decent society will accept you back. Maybe.
None of this made sense to any clear-minded person. How was preferring your country not resemble 1945 Manila an attack on blacks?
The answer is clear. It wasn’t. The anarchists simply portrayed their detractors as racists to make them shut up. They knew they couldn’t defend their behavior on merit, so they sought to control the narrative through intimidation, cancellation, and ruthless ad hominem attacks.
Doesn’t that sound familiar?
Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, and their band of Israel First shills are doing the exact same thing today.
We proudly oppose America’s “special alliance” with Israel, the IDF’s slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people, Benjamin Netanyahu trying to drag the U.S. into a war with Iran, and Israeli leaders’ venomous belief that people deserve judgment for their genetics. Each of those is either anti-Christian, anti-America, or both, and we’re happy to explain why at any time. We have on many occasions.
Ghouls like Levin and Randy Fine, however, have no interest in hearing our views. Instead, they channel their inner BLM and attack us as Nazis and Hitler followers for daring to oppose their sickening agenda. Just like the forces behind the 2020 riots, these Israel Firsters know they can’t defend the indefensible. So they hiss at their opponents out of pathetic desperation. It’s sad to watch.
Our friend Megyn Kelly, who is literally a self-described Zionist, made this point on her show this week, correctly diagnosing that the Right’s pro-Israel faction is turning into BLM.
How did they respond? You guessed it. They called her an antisemite.
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November 21, 1976: “Rocky” premieres. The Philadelphia-based boxing thriller debuted in New York City and instantly became a box-office hit, receiving 10 Academy Award nominations and winning three Oscars. Produced on a shoestring budget, the movie tells the story of Rocky Balboa, a small-time fighter who receives an opportunity to compete for the world heavyweight championship. The lead actor, Sylvester Stallone, was similarly down on his luck before the film’s success, going so far as to sell his dog for $40 because he couldn’t afford to feed him. Rocky catapulted him from a complete unknown to one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. He repurchased the dog after selling the film’s script. |
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