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Judge Allows Cameras at Tyler Robinson Hearing



Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin made his first in-person court appearance on
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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
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"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.”

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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
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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
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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
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Zelensky Backtracks, Says Elections Only Possible After Ceasefire



Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday expressed his readiness
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to hold an election, bowing toDonald Trump’s pressure
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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 Kyivreally 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.
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MIKE HUCKABEE: Israel Bombing Qatar Was Not an Attack



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 thatjust 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 asnot an attack on America? Of course
not.

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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, butthis isn’t the first time he’s proven
himself unhinged and emotionally unstable
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U.S. Admitted 18,000 Known and Suspected Afghan Terrorists in 2021,
Counterterrorism Official Says



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
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College Pushes Creepy Sex Ceremony on Students



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.




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Fugitive Ghanaian Migrant Found Hiding in Nativity Scene, Posing as Shepherd



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’sbarely noticeable.

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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
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Commentary


An Unfortunate Accident?


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 Wolfejust 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 theone 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 theBad Orange Man. What a tired act.



 

Videos of the Day

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“Send them home”: Man Interrupts Trump to demand Somali deportations.
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Charlie Kirk’s accused killer appears in court.
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This Day in History


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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