Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was on offense Wednesday, sparring with Democrats on Capitol Hill on a variety of topics, the most laughable of which was President Donald Trump's mental fitness.
Billionaire heiress and Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs of California challenged Hegseth about Trump's abilities to fulfill his role as commander in chief, asking if the secretary believes the president is "stable" enough for the job.
'I won't even engage with the level of disparagement.'
Without missing a beat, Hegseth quickly called out the hypocrisy of Democratic lawmakers like Jacobs who willingly turned a blind eye to the mental acuity of Trump's predecessor.
"Did you ask the same question of Joe Biden for four years?" Hegseth asked. "You did not."
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Jacobs tried to deflect Hegseth's reply, arguing that Biden is no longer the president and implying that the question is no longer worth asking, but Hegseth wasn't buying it.
"I won't even engage with the level of disparagement that you're putting on the commander in chief, who ... is the sharpest and most insightful commander in chief we've had in generations," Hegseth said. "You want to ask that question after you and your fellow Democrats defended Joe Biden, who could barely speak and didn't know what day of the week it was?"
"He governed through an autopen," Hegseth added. "We had a secretary of defense who went AWOL for a week. I can't be gone for 10 minutes."
Biden's secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, was actually hospitalized for two weeks.
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Acting AG Todd Blanche presided over the signing of a “landmark rulemaking package” that rolls back numerous gun regulations enacted under Biden.
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A report from Axios on Sunday claimed Israel deployed its famed Iron Dome defense system to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) early in Operation Epic Fury, and the system was able to intercept many of the missiles and drones Iran launched at its neighbor.
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The White House revealed a plan to include a new image on an updated passport design meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding, and many on the left are outraged.
The limited edition passport now bearing the image of President Donald Trump will not be issued for all renewals, but only for people who seek the special issue at the Washington Passport Agency, according to the State Department.
'No one can step up to stop this crazy s**t?'
"These passports will feature customized artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the U.S. passport the most secure documents in the world," said Tommy Pigott, a spokesperson for the State Department.
The Trump passports will be available shortly before the Fourth of July, and between 25,000 and 30,000 will be published.
Critics lodged their outrage on social media, with many falsely assuming that they would be forced to use the new passport design.
"It's going to take the government so long to get his f**king face off of everything," Democratic activist Adam Parkhomenko responded.
"You have got to be kidding me," attorney Mike Levin said.
"No sitting president has ever done this. Coins, park passes, battleships, and now your passport. The man cannot find a surface he will not slap his name or face on. This is not patriotism. It is vanity," Levin added.
"Do we all have to look like Trump or will these passport include our photos, too?!?" former Obama adviser David Axelrod joked.
"I've never been so relieved to have already renewed my passport," said Mary Trump, the president's niece.
"Why are the checks and balances in the US government not working? No one can step up to stop this crazy s**t?" another detractor said.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office mocked the announcement with a fake image of California licenses including the governor's face.
Others however, loved the idea.
"I am not due for a passport, but I am getting one of these beauties. It's a piece of history," one X user said.
"I love this!" Laura Loomer said.
A Polymarket trading exchange put the chances of Trump's image being published on a passport at 73% after the announcement.
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Just last year this very committee found Iran to be in violation of the committee’s policies.
Neighborhood watch programs have long encouraged citizens to take pride in the welfare of their communities and to adopt a proactive approach to crime prevention. While maximizing citizen vigilance and cooperation with lawful authorities has been associated with reductions in crime, some liberals figure such efforts and the corresponding signage to be unnecessarily exclusionary.
After revolting last year against the decades-old program of communal self-defense and surveillance, woke city councilors in Ann Arbor, Michigan, have since blown taxpayer dollars on the removal of all remaining evidence of the city's Neighborhood Crime Watch program.
'Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion.'
According to the resolution passed by the city council on Dec. 15 directing the removal of over 600 Neighborhood Crime Watch signs in Ann Arbor, "Neighborhood Watch programs emerged in the 1970s during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change" and were "often rooted in assumptions about who did and did not 'belong' in a neighborhood, reinforcing race-based hyper-vigilance and suspicion particularly toward black, brown, and other marginalized residents and visitors."
The resolution claimed that this dynamic in Ann Arbor, a city whose population today is 66.5% non-Hispanic white, "encouraged informal surveillance practices that disproportionately targeted people of color and contributed to patterns of exclusion under the guise of public safety."
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The signs that were posted throughout the city not only denoted a supposedly defunct program but anti-crime messages that "do not reflect Ann Arbor's current public safety values or its commitment to nondiscriminatory enforcement, community trust, and safe spaces for all residents and visitors."
Councilwoman Cynthia Harrison said when the resolution passed, "Signs don’t just sit there, they speak. For many people, especially black and brown residents and visitors, those signs have never felt neutral. They signal that unfamiliarity itself is suspicious, that their presence must be justified, that belonging is conditional," reported the Michigan Daily.
Harrison joined Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor (D) and Councilwoman Jen Eyer on April 21 for the ceremonial tear-down of the final Neighborhood Crime Watch sign.
As their virtue-signaling campaign — which cost the city at least $18,000 from its general fund balance — came to a close, the leftist trio recycled the revisionist gobbledygook from their resolution.
"Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion," said Taylor, reported MLive.com
Eyer stated, "It really hearkens back to a time when public safety was more about surveillance and exclusion of people from communities and trying to look out for anyone who looked different."
After reiterating that the crime-prevention signs do "not align with our values," Harrison stressed that "this is a great day."
The Michigan Daily reported in March 1981 that "rather than quivering behind bolted doors, some Ann Arbor residents favoring stepped-up police protection are taking matters into their own hands."
The Neighborhood Watch program, formally adopted the previous year in the wake of 30-year-old Rebecca Huff's savage murder, "banded together neighbors in one-block sections of the city who look and listen for signs of criminal activity."
"It's more or less socializing and really getting to know your neighbors," an Ann Arbor police detective said at the time. "People watch each other's property, apartment-sit, and know each other's cars. If a strange car is seen in the area, the residents can obtain the license plate number and call us on a special communication hookup."
While Neighborhood Watch is officially no more in Ann Arbor, vigilant residents don't need signs or permission to look after their communities and can always share insights and tips with one another on apps like Citizen and Nextdoor.
According to Neighborhood Scout, the likelihood of becoming a victim of a property crime and a violent crime in the Democrat-run city is 1 in 47 and 1 in 296, respectively.
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Over 300 people marched against mass migration and undocumented immigrants in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday.
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Islam is exempt from separation of church and state, they consider Islamic law to supercede man-made law so they are exempt form everything. What is so galling is how the left has jumped on this train and and worked furiously to impose the supremacism of Islam.
Jimmy Kimmel’s “widow” joke about first lady Melania Trump has sparked sharp criticism from the Trump administration — with President Donald Trump and Melania Trump going so far as to call for ABC to fire the comedian.
“Our first lady, Melania, is here. ... So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said in his monologue.
Not only did the president and the first lady not find the joke funny, but the timing made its reception even worse.
“As the first lady of the United States pointed out this morning, just two days prior to the shooting, ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called first lady Melania Trump an ‘expectant widow,’” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said after the most recent attempt on President Trump’s life.
“Who in their right mind says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband?” Leavitt continued.
“And having experienced what I did with the first lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that. This kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady, and his supporters is completely deranged,” she added.
While members of the Trump administration have made it clear they’re not happy with Kimmel, BlazeTV host and comedian Dave Landau has a controversial take.
“I’m going to go ahead and say that’s a funny joke,” he tells co-host Stu Burguiere.
“You like the joke,” Stu comments, surprised.
“It’s fine. You keep trying to kill him, so they’re saying you have a good look for an expectant widow. I understand that people don’t like the guy who’s saying it, but there’s logic and reason to the joke, and it’s a still a joke,” Landau says.
“You don’t have to like it, but I will never be on the side of throw somebody off of TV or cancel them based on something that was a joke,” he continues.
“We agree on that,” Burguiere says, adding, “I’m totally with you.”
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Voters in New York City just got a reality check after the fountain of socialist campaign promises from Mayor Zohran Mamdani has apparently run dry in just a few months.
Standing with New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Mayor Mamdani was forced to announce some unexpected hang-ups that will likely interfere with delivering on many of his campaign promises of free stuff.
'Everyone saw this coming ... every single person.'
"New York City faces a budget crisis of a historic magnitude," Mamdani said in his speech. "We inherited a deficit larger than any since the great recession. Years of mismanagement and chronic underbudgeting, alongside a structural imbalance between what New York City sends to the state and what we receive in return, have taken a toll."
Mamdani admitted that savings alone cannot fix this crisis, saying that "we need new revenue" and a "structural reset in our relationship with the state" to close the gap.
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"Together, we are extending the executive budget deadline from this coming Friday until May 12 because a crisis of this scale cannot be solved without state action. ... Speaker Menin and I have already identified meaningful savings, and we will continue that work carefully, deliberately, and without cutting the services that New Yorkers rely on," Mamdani continued. "But we cannot do it alone. That is why we are standing together this morning: to underscore what is at stake and to call on Albany to deliver additional revenue."
Matt Van Swol said what everyone was thinking when they heard the news: "Everyone saw this coming ... every single person. Money has to come from somewhere and businesses and the wealthy will always go to where taxation is lower and incentives are higher."
"If you want more income, make your state more friendly to those groups, don't demonize them," he added.
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