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France's Macron Calls for 'Urgent' U.N. Security Council Meeting over Iran, Socialist Spanish PM 'Rejects' U.S. Strikes
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for an "urgent meeting" of the United Nations Security Council, while Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchéz said that Madrid "rejects" strikes from the United States and Israel against the Islamist regime in Iran on Saturday.
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CNN Insiders Despondent over Paramount-Warner Deal: 'People Think It Could Be the End'
Insiders at CNN are worried that "it could be the end" if Paramount Skydance completes the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Saudi Arabia Condemns Iranian Attacks on Gulf Nations
Saudi Arabia on Saturday morning strongly condemned Iranian missile attacks against U.S. bases hosted by their Gulf allies, and threatened to take actions if Iran continues violating their sovereignty.
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Former UK prime minister declares 'biggest problem is Islamism,' says other issues are reversible
The truth behind Democrats’ Virginia gerrymander
Once you burn your credibility, it’s hard to get back.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) deceived voters and concealed her true leftist agenda to win the governor’s mansion last year. Now she and her fellow Democrats are lying to Virginians about a new gerrymandered congressional district map they placed on the April 21 ballot as a constitutional amendment.
The new map ensures that most rural voters will be represented by people who live in Fairfax and were elected by voters in the DC suburbs.
It’s a naked attempt to make it impossible for Republicans to win election to Congress in most places in Virginia, and it’s why she was rewarded with the plum assignment of responding to President Trump’s State of the Union address this week.
The Virginia Supreme Court has already had one chance to stop the gerrymandering by upholding a judge’s ruling that Democrats cut legal corners to get the measure on the ballot. The justices, however, inexplicably chose to wait until the vote takes place.
I filed another lawsuit to bring new challenges, along with my Republican House colleague Morgan Griffith (Va.-9), the Republican National Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. We won in circuit court, blocking the referendum again, so our Supreme Court will have another chance to do the right thing.
As we wait for a ruling, it’s important that people have the facts.
Spanberger masqueraded as a moderate in her campaign and won ceaseless praise from the media for her focus on “affordability.” But she dropped that as soon as she was sworn in and went right back to what she truly believes.
She returned Virginia to the multistate, radical environmental scheme that artificially raises electricity rates by $500 million every year. She’s currently considering a variety of tax increases proposed by Democrats in the Virginia legislature, including bumps in the sales and income tax, as well as taxes on everyday services like dog-walking and gym memberships. She has yet to rule out raising taxes on anything.
All of this is the opposite of what she ran on.
Now Spanberger and her Democrats have turned to stealing congressional seats. Naturally, they’re lying about that as well.
It’s nothing complicated. They’re taking Virginia’s current congressional district map, which produced six Democrats and five Republican members, and redrawing the lines to twist it into a 10-to-1 map in favor of Democrats.
Kamala Harris won here in the 2024 presidential race with less than 52% of the vote, but this map would award her party 91% of our congressional seats.
They’re assigning new federal representation to Virginians who didn’t ask for it, and there’s every likelihood that some of the lines were drawn to benefit specific Democrat politicians. One thing that’s certain is that no one was thinking of the well-being of voters when they hatched this plot.
As an example, take Fairfax County, vote-rich and dominated by Democrats in Northern Virginia outside Washington, D.C.
The new map carves Fairfax into five pieces and attaches them to districts that reach deep into Virginia’s rural regions. Picture the county as an octopus that has tentacles running throughout the state, and you’ll have an idea.
The configuration ensures that most rural voters will be represented by people who live in Fairfax and were elected by voters in the D.C. suburbs. It’s difficult to imagine what these groups might have in common geographically, culturally, or economically.
To top it off, just a few days ago, Democrats in the General Assembly decided they hadn’t cheated enough and twisted the screws even more to guarantee total victory in 10 of the 11 districts.
States usually redistrict following a census, but Democrats claim they must act now to balance Republican activities in other states. This excuse falls apart because most observers agree that Virginia’s new map is a particularly egregious example of partisan gerrymandering.
And Democrats lie when they talk about it.
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The party that told us that Joe Biden was mentally sharp now wants us to think a 10-1 congressional map promotes “fair elections,” as the advertising claims.
Democrats were even dishonest in the ballot question they wrote, which says it will temporarily “restore fairness” — without explanation or context — to elections in Virginia until the regular redistricting occurs in 2030.
We shouldn’t let politicians select their own voters, and Virginians were wise enough to see this coming.
Just six years ago, a whopping 66% of voters approved a constitutional amendment creating an independent redistricting commission. Unable to resist the lure of unchecked power, Virginia Democrats are trying to trick voters into undoing that so they can burgle those congressional seats.
National Democrats are paying attention.
House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has already sent $5 million to the campaign to support the new map and pledged to spend “whatever it takes” on top of that.
Democrats hilariously claim to be restoring fairness.
But a party powerful enough to ram this down everyone’s throat isn’t the victim of unfairness. It’s the cause of it.
Editor's note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
U.S. DOJ Charges Sinaloa Cartel Lieutenants with Terrorism -- $10 Million Total Reward
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) formally charged two top lieutenants of the Sinaloa Cartel with terrorism and is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to their capture.
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OpenAI Secures Pentagon Deal for Classified AI Deployment After Trump Dumps 'Woke' Anthropic
Sam Altman's OpenAI reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy its AI models on classified networks, just hours after the Trump administration ordered the federal government to "immediately cease" using Anthropic AI following a battle for control of the artificial intelligence model.
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Israel targets Iran’s supreme leader in sweeping strikes as US joins ‘Operation Epic Fury’
‘End Of MAGA’: MTG, Massie & Others Rage Against Trump After US-Israel Joint Strikes on Iran
Robert Carradine's cause of death revealed
Trump SHUTS DOWN Democrats at SOTU, Hillary Clinton Epstein Testimony, Fani Willis–Biden Collusion
Report: Terrorist Leader El Mencho Detailed Records Show Bribes Paid to Mexican Authorities
The terrorist cartel leader known as El Mencho kept a series of detailed records that show that in the area where he was hiding out, he had several local police forces in his payroll, as well as state and federal investigators also working for him. The records provide additional evidence that further support numerous prior reports from Breitbart Texas about how El Mencho and his terrorist group Cartel Jalisco New Generation had been able to buy influence at all levels of Mexico’s government.
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Oregon House Advances Bill That More Than Doubles Gun Permit Fees
The Oregon House passed a bill this week focused on the implementation of permit-t0-purhcase for firearms and more than doubling the cost of the permits before they are even implemented.
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