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Judge Allows Cameras at Tyler Robinson Hearing
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Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin made his first in-person court appearance on Thursday, smirking as the procedure began. He wore street clothes, not an orange jumpsuit.
Judge Tony Graf closed a portion of the hearing to the public but denied the defense’s request to ban camera recordings, rejecting the broad claim that the courtroom’s visuals could threaten Robinson’s right to a fair trial. Instead, he ordered the media to move its cameras to the prosecution’s side and threatened to remove them altogether if they captured images of the alleged shooter’s shackles.
Erika Kirk made a smart point about the trial’s documentation during a recent interview.
"There were cameras all over my husband when he was murdered,” she said. “There have been cameras all over my friends and family mourning. "There have been cameras all over me analyzing my every move.”
So why not have cameras at the trial? Sounds reasonable to us. Read more.
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New Midterm Poll Gives Republicans Reason for Hope |
Democrats performed unexpectedly well in the 2022 midterms. A poll released Thursday suggests the GOP may do the same in 2026.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey found that 46% of Americans ages 50 and older — who tend to participate more in non-presidential elections than younger voters — plan to cast their ballots for their Republican Congressional candidates next November. Only 38% said they’ll vote blue.
How does this compare to the past two cycles? In 2021, the same poll found that older voters only favored Republicans by one percentage point, and in 2018, Democrats held a 40%-38% advantage.
Does this guarantee the GOP will maintain its House and Senate majorities? Of course not. But the party is in a much better position than in years past. Older Americans want to support conservatives. If the president and Congress adequately address affordability and put America first, young voters will follow suit. Read more. |
NATO Chief Tells the West: Prepare for War with Russia |
The head of NATO warned the West of a war with Russia on Thursday, describing the potential conflict as an ordeal the world has not seen since the days of “our grandparents and great-grandparents.”
“Conflict is at our door. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured,” Mark Rutte said in Berlin. “We need to be crystal clear about the threat. We are Russia’s next target, and we are already in harm’s way.”
When Rutte says “we,” he means Europe, not the United States. No matter how much Washington hates Vladimir Putin, he is not a military threat to America. But thanks to NATO, we may wind up at war with him anyway.
How does this alliance help our country? Isn’t it all risk, no reward? Asking those questions does not make you a Moscow stooge. They are reasonable inquisitions. We’d love to hear good answers. Read more. |
Zelensky Backtracks, Says Elections Only Possible After Ceasefire
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Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday expressed his readiness to hold an election, bowing to Donald Trump’s pressure to finally give his people the right to vote. But it looks like there was a catch.
The Ukrainian president sneakily amended his position on Thursday, saying elections can only take place after a ceasefire takes effect. So the longer Eastern Europe’s war continues, the longer Zelensky remains in power.
Ukrainian law forbids wartime elections, proving that Ukraine is not the “democracy” permanent Washington insists. If Kyiv really cared about its people’s right to vote, the country’s citizens would never forfeit the ability to choose their leaders. That’s the whole point of representative government.
The United States held elections during the Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War. It’s hard to think of a good reason why Ukraine can’t do the same. Read more. |
MIKE HUCKABEE: Israel Bombing Qatar Was Not an Attack
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Israel’s September attack on Qatar was one of this century’s craziest geopolitical developments. They sent missiles to the country’s capital city as its leaders tried to facilitate a peace deal in Gaza. No one seeking to end the region’s bloodshed would act that way.
Mike Huckabee has a different view. According to him, the attack wasn’t an attack at all. It was merely a missile that just so happened to kill people.
“There’s been some talk that Israel attacked the country of Qatar,” Huckabee said on Thursday. “It did not. It did, in fact, send a missile to attack a terrorist… Unfortunately, there were some people who were near that missile strike, that were injured or killed.”
Click the image below to watch Huckabee’s comments for yourself. They are beyond parody.
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The Israel First Right routinely claims that Israel is held to a different standard than the rest of the world. Such obscene projection. If Iran launched a missile into Manhattan, even if it was only “aimed at one person,” would Huckabee and his friends brush it aside as not an attack on America? Of course not. |
Hyperemotional Dan Crenshaw Threatens to Sue Navy SEAL Podcaster |
Our friend Shawn Ryan revealed on Thursday that neocon Congressman Dan Crenshaw is threatening to sue him, accusing the podcaster of “defamation” and demanding a “public apology.”
So what did Ryan say to make Crenshaw so upset? Not a whole lot. All he did was question how the congressman, who obviously earns a Congressional salary, could afford to throw himself a lavish 40th birthday party featuring one of America’s most high-profile DJs. We’re not sure what was so offensive about Ryan’s question. The DJ reportedly charges a minimum of $150,000 for private events.
Doesn’t this strike you as the kind of thing that would make a self-conscious middle school girl upset, not a supposedly serious lawmaker? We won’t try to guess why Crenshaw got so triggered, but this isn’t the first time he’s proven himself unhinged and emotionally unstable. We hope he gets the help he needs. Read more. |
U.S. Admitted 18,000 Known and Suspected Afghan Terrorists in 2021, Counterterrorism Official Says
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Even Democrats admit that Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster. 13 servicemembers lost their lives, all thanks to America’s weak former president.
That needless carnage should have been the end of the story. But it wasn’t.
Joe Kent, the Trump administration’s National Counterterrorism Center director, testified to Congress on Thursday that the Biden government allowed 18,000 known and suspected Afghan terrorists to enter the U.S. in the withdrawal’s aftermath. He described the herd as “the top terrorist threat that we face right now.”
Even though the way in which Biden removed American troops from Afghanistan was catastrophic, the initial decision to make the move was correct. We had to leave. But importing tens of thousands of the country’s people into the U.S. without legitimate vetting? The strategy was always a recipe for disaster. Just ask Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe. Read more. |
College Pushes Creepy Sex Ceremony on Students
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Imagine you’ve saved for your whole life to pay for your daughter’s college. You made funding her education one of your most important goals, sacrificing your financial freedom to help her secure a degree. Then she chooses Amherst College.
At first, you’re excited. Considered a “Little Ivy,” the school will surely prove worth your money. Or will it?
Amherst students are blowing the whistle on the liberal arts institution’s administratively sanctioned sex performances and "sexual skills" programs, describing the graphic and trans-focused events as “deeply uncomfortable.” Each year, the school instructs its freshmen to attend its "Voices of the Class" event, which features students performing mock sex acts like oral sex, masturbation, and group sex. It takes place in the campus chapel. Girls get bent over.
With annual tuition and fees exceeding $93,000, Amherst is America’s sixth most expensive college.
Read more and see videos here, if you dare. |
Fugitive Ghanaian Migrant Found Hiding in Nativity Scene, Posing as Shepherd
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If you were on the run from the police, where would you hide? In the middle of a nativity scene, perhaps?
That’s the path a 38-year-old Ghanaian migrant went down on Thursday, attempting to blend in by posing as a shepherd while out on the lam. As you can see below, he’s barely noticeable. |
Italian law enforcement was searching for the unidentified fugitive, who recently received a nine-month prison sentence after his assault conviction. As fate would have it, the mayor of the town of Galatone was the one who spotted him.
“While I was walking past the nativity scene, which was set up by our tourism office, I noticed a figure which I initially thought was part of the scene,” she recalled. “But then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the figure moving.”
The man is now in custody. Read more. |
Tragedies tend to turn political. It’s sad, but it’s true.
Whether it’s 9/11, school shootings, or Charlie Kirk’s murder, partisans and special interests thrive off exploiting America’s darkest hours to advance their agendas. We saw quite an example on Thursday.
An “unfortunate accident.”
That’s how Democrat lawmaker Bennie Thompson described last month’s National Guard shooting during Kristi Noem’s Congressional hearing, making it seem like Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe just so happened to fall under siege during their deployment in the nation’s capital. Noem reacted as anyone with an ounce of common sense would.
“You think that was an unfortunate accident?” she justifiably snapped. “It was a terrorist attack. He shot our National Guardsman in the head.”
In case there was any confusion, the crime was demonstrably not an “accident.” The shooter approached his victims unprompted and screamed “Allahu Akbar” as he bombarded them with bullets. That doesn’t happen by chance.
So why would Thompson claim otherwise?
The congressman pivoted to his real objective moments after his initial quip, using the crime as an excuse to attack Donald Trump. He centered his comments around how the administration granted the alleged killer asylum in April.
Pause for a moment. Is Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s asylum application a significant part of this story? Of course. There’s no way around it. But is it the most important angle? Is it the one thing a congressman should bring up to the Secretary of Homeland Security? Not even close.
Lakanwal would never have entered the United States in the first place without Joe Biden’s bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, nor without his administration’s subsequent “Operation Allies Welcome.” Those are this tragedy’s original sins. But Thompson has no interest in addressing either.
We’re not saying the current president is immune from criticism. Looking back, his people clearly should not have approved Lakanwal’s application. But it’s impossible to honestly make that point without acknowledging that Biden is considerably more in the wrong. He made this mess in the first place, leaving Trump scrambling to clean it up. As the whole world knows, fixing a Biden blunder is no small task.
We’re also not saying it’s inherently wrong to make political points in the aftermath of bloodshed. Politicians’ decisions can lead to events like the National Guard shooting. It’s fair to analyze what went wrong, but only if it’s done fairly. Instead of that, Thompson embraced political hackery to cherry-pick which parts of the story he wanted to emphasize, exposing that he didn’t actually care about getting to the bottom of the matter. His only point was to smear the Bad Orange Man. What a tired act.
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December 12, 1913: The recovery of the Mona Lisa. Two years after it vanished from the Louvre Museum in Paris, art enthusiasts Alfredo Geri and Giovanni Poggi found the famed painting in thief Vincenzo Peruggia’s Italian hotel room. Peruggia, a former Louvre employee, stole the piece by entering the building during regular hours, hiding in a broom closet, and walking out with the painting hidden under his coat once the museum closed. Peruggia grew impatient after keeping the Mona Lisa for two years and tried to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, of which Poggi was director. The pair alerted police upon discovering the painting, and Peruggia served over six months in jail. |
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