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Former The View co-host, actor, and the celebrity face of self-deportation Rosie O’Donnell told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer the election of Donald Trump forced her and her “non-winery child to leave” America for Ireland.
“I have no regrets, not a day has gone by that I thought it was the wrong decision. I was welcomed with open arms. I knew after reading Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my non-binary child to leave the country,” the A League of Their Own star said Tuesday.
“It’s been heartbreaking, I have to tell you,” O’Donnell continued before launching into a diatribe.
The Marxist leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Colombia all offered statements honoring the legacy of the late Pope Francis on Monday, embracing him as a friend to their cause.
The most vocal praise came from Cuba, where dictator Raúl Castro – who once joked he would return to the Catholic Church if Pope Francis “kept it up” – called him a “dear friend” and credited him with making the Church more palatable to the Communist Party leadership. Figurehead President Miguel Díaz-Canel similarly lauded Pope Francis as “unforgettable” and credited him with making Cuba a priority in his service as head of the church.
Megyn Kelly criticized Pope Francis over his stance on immigration just hours after the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death on Monday.
Kelly, the former Fox News host and a practicing Catholic, unleashed a sharp critique of the pope’s leadership and political stance, particularly on immigration.
Francis, 88, died early Monday from a cerebral stroke and heart failure.
By the afternoon, Kelly had released a new episode of her SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show” where she accused the pope of moving the Catholic Church “in a leftward direction.”
Kelly criticized the church’s efforts to assist undocumented immigrants, suggesting those efforts left American citizens to “deal” with the consequences.
“The church has been participating in
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to investigate Trump administration officials’ use of Signal and other third-party messaging applications.
Schiff, a frequent critic of President Trump, urged NARA to make sure the messages sent over the encrypted messaging app by Trump officials are preserved and warned that, apart from national security concerns, utilizing Signal “creates profound risk of non-compliance with document preservation.”
“I write to request that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) take immediate action to preserve records and pursue remedial measures in connection with the use of Signal and other commercial messaging applications and email by Trump Administration Officials,”
American troops now have the authority to detain and search immigrants lacking certain documentation in New Mexico, a role service members have not held before at the southern border, U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) said Monday.
Northcom said troops “have been delegated the authority” to conduct security support operations in the New Mexico National Defense Area, a zone that runs along the U.S.-Mexico border now considered part of the Army’s Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
The authorization means service members can now temporarily detain and search trespassers, provide medical assistance and implement crowd control on the military-controlled land until appropriate law enforcement can take custody of an individual,
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has debunked a recent New York Times hit piece, accusing the liberal outlet of sensationalizing a recent sparring match he undertook with fellow agents.
Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, strongly rebuked the Times for including in its story a retelling of a face-off on the wrestling mat with another agent.
“Adam Goldman of the NY Times is getting ready to run another one of their ‘journalism’ exposé pieces about me spending time in our FBI training facility ground fighting with our dedicated and skilled defensive tactics instructors,” Bongino wrote online Sunday.
“Their big news ‘hook’ is that after a solid
The State Department has pulled the plug on its domestic censorship machine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week handed pink slips to the 50 full-time staff who were part of a shady subagency known as the Global Engagement Center. It’s a welcome move.
“Over the last decade, Americans have been slandered, fired, charged, and even jailed for simply voicing their opinions. That ends today,” Mr. Rubio announced last week.
Like every other government program, the center started with a reasonable mission: combating the messaging of radical Islamic terrorists overseas to prevent them from radicalizing youths. After a few years, the center’s capabilities were hijacked by activists who turned the focus inward
FBI Director Kash Patel replaced as temp
ATF director weeks earlier than previously disclosed replies
ATF director weeks earlier than previously disclosed replies
FBI Director Kash Patel was quietly replaced as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives more than a month earlier than was made publicly known, according to internal Trump administration discussions.
It was announced by the ATF on April 9, according to Reuters and other outlets, that Patel had been replaced as acting ATF director by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, and that Patel would remain FBI chief, while Driscoll would continue leading the Army on a full-time basis and would start leading the ATF on a temporary basis.
Likely Dem gubernatorial candidate in
key swing state praises DEI at Sharpton
event: 'Stay woke' replies
key swing state praises DEI at Sharpton
event: 'Stay woke' replies
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat running for governor in the key swing state, recently attended the National Action Network’s convention and urged the audience to "stay woke" while defending businesses who push DEI.
Ford, who stood up and cheered when New York’s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James walked into the room at Al Sharpton’s event before embracing her, touted the "affirmative action scholarship" that he received to attend Texas A&M University while speaking at the convention earlier this month.
"When they talk about the opposite of equity, its inequity, you know what that means. You work hard, but you don’t get the same thing
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its plan to rework the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, an online database used by law enforcement to identify the noncitizen status of individuals in the U.S.
DHS shared exclusive details with Fox News Digital Tuesday, which include eliminating fees for database searches, streamlining mass immigration status checks, integrating criminal records, and creating a "user-friendly interface" to "prevent non-citizens from exploiting taxpayer benefits of voting illegally."
The SAVE program, established in 1987, allows local law enforcement officials and various government agencies to input biographic info as well as noncitizen documentation such as I-94 number, SEVIS ID, or Alien number, to pull up immigration
Weirdo Lib Wearing What Appears to Be
a Luigi Mangione T-Shirt Attacks Trump
Supporter in Restaurant replies
a Luigi Mangione T-Shirt Attacks Trump
Supporter in Restaurant replies
Do we really need context here? I don’t know where this establishment is located, but it’s not necessary: What happens in this clip can happen to any person donning a Make America Great Again hat. How this anti-Trump clown reacted to said hat is universal among the Left. Imagine sitting with your wife or significant other and some foaming idiot comes over and says you should be ashamed, and then attacks your significant other for not seeing the evil behind the MAGA hat or something. It’s unspooled.
Pope Francis, the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to come from Latin America, and the first to come from the Western Hemisphere, has died.
Pope Francis I—born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and formerly the cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina—died on April 21 at 7:35 a.m. after suffering a stroke, falling into a coma, and suffering irreversible heart failure. He was 88 years old.
Hours before he died, the pope emerged on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) announced her campaign in the Michigan Senate race in the 2026 midterm elections.
Stevens joins an already crowded Democratic field with state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed also launching bids to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters.
In her announcement video, Stevens highlighted the state’s auto industry while focusing on President Donald Trump. She promoted her time working in former President Barack Obama’s administration to bail out the auto industry, showing a clip of Obama portraying her as a “critical part of my team that helped the American auto industry come roaring back.”
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is pressing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘s staff for documents after she has spent months stonewalling a congressional investigation into the “politically motivated” prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
In a series of letters sent last week, the panel reportedly asked several of the Democratic district attorney’s senior staffers to provide testimony and hand over records related to her office’s alleged coordination with the since-defunct House select Jan. 6 committee.
The allegations revolve around a memo Willis wrote to the Jan. 6 committee’s then-chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), in which she requested access to transcripts, emails, and travel records. Members of her administration
On May 17, one of the coolest events in my area will take place. The Gaithersburg Book Festival is just a couple of miles from where I live in Maryland. The festival features some of the most interesting authors representing all different genres.
There are also no conservatives.
Actually, it may be a stretch to say there are zero conservatives at the Gaithersburg Book Festival. Yet most of the titles seem to lean left. Take this description of one of the featured authors: “Jubi Arriola-Headley (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian and the author of two collections of poems:
A CNN segment this week might have just pulled the rug out from under CNN's own Kaitlan Collins as the network finally gets around to reporting the truth about Joe Biden. A new report on the latest Biden tell-all book is simply devastating when seen alongside a resurfaced clip of Collins last June, lying to her audience about Biden's condition. "President Biden has spent days locked in intense preparation, surrounded by his closest advisors at Camp David," Collins said at the time. "And our sources are telling us tonight that full mock debates are underway
“Transgender” influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney recently revealed that he plans on leaving the United States for good.
In a video posted on TikTok, Mulvaney revealed that he’s trying to move to the United Kingdom. “I’m trying to move here permanent [sic],” the 28-year-old told Pink News, which is a British LGBTQ+ news website. Currently, Mulvaney is starring in a production that will be presented in London called "We Aren't Kids Anymore."
“There’s something about being here that makes me feel like, um, people have been so kind, and um, I just, the theater culture’s amazing,
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Monday the city faces an $800 million deficit, plans plans to lay off 1,647 staff, is seeking a state bailout and has “identified new revenue.”
Bass blamed the Trump administration and the economy for falling revenue.
“Cities like ours are going through challenging economic times across the nation,” said Bass. “Turmoil and uncertainty from Washington and a slowing economy are causing lower revenue projections.”
With 61,455 employees, 1,647 layoffs equate to a workforce reduction of 2.7%. With just over $8.3 billion paid out in payroll last year, the city pays its employees an average of $135,355 per year, or more than
NPR Keeps Going Over Cliff on Hegseth
Story As Other Media Pours Even More Cold
Water Over It replies
Story As Other Media Pours Even More Cold
Water Over It replies
I reported yesterday on the NPR story claiming the White House had begun the process of looking for a new Secretary of Defense. The story appeared to be based on one source, whom they described as a "U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly." However, both White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and President Donald Trump himself shot it down. Even the Rapid Response X account shot it down.
I wrote about Trump's remarks at the Easter Egg Roll, where he ripped it to shreds, saying Hegseth was doing a great job and even bringing recruitment up.
In an attempt to get a lower mortgage rate on a vacation home in Long Boat Key, Florida, one controversial elected prosecutor in a major U.S. city drafted a letter to United Wholesale Mortgage. At closing, the prosecutor signed the application for the $428,400 mortgage and attested to the accuracy of her answers in the application.
The problem?
She had not lived in Florida as she had claimed. She failed to disclose all her liabilities. She failed to disclose that she was delinquent in paying her federal taxes and that the IRS had a $45,022 tax lien against her. And the gift letter she provided to the
President Donald Trump has extended his endorsement to U.S. Representative Andy Biggs in the upcoming Arizona gubernatorial race.
This endorsement comes just months after Trump initially backed Karrin Taylor Robson.
It can be recalled that President Trump raised eyebrows during his Turning Point AmFest speech in Phoenix, Arizona last December, when he pledged to support RINO Karrin Taylor Robson for Arizona Governor in 2026.
Robson formerly ran in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial primary, endorsed by turncoat RINO Mike Pence and
The Danger of Nothing
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I am chagrinned that it has taken me this long to understand the emptiness of Democrat dogma. I started realizing this some years ago when I began building a curriculum for the college logic class I was going to teach; I was searching for debates that were won by left-leaning apologists, thinking I should present examples from both sides of the social/economic/religious worldviews. But I began to suspect that such examples weren’t to be found. I found people -- mostly men -- who could slide around from one logical fallacy to another with slippery skill, but none did any convincing.
Then came the Biden administration, when we watched the Democrat hollowness
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa sent a letter Monday highlighting more cases of bureaucrats at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) abusing a program that allows them to do work for unions on the taxpayer’s dime.
Ernst detailed how bureaucrats claimed they were carrying out union activities while taking vacations or serving time in jail, while also revealing new details on one case involving a bureaucrat who used so-called “taxpayer-funded union time” (TFUT) to launch a small business in Florida while purportedly working in the Washington, D.C., area, in a letter to HUD Secretary Scott Turner.
At 94 years old, leftist billionaire George Soros has established the blueprint for how his enormous Open Society Foundations, fueled with $32 billion of his fortune, will continue fulfilling his dark vision throughout the world under the leadership of his more extreme son Alex. Part of that vision involves using the ever-evolving specter of climate change as a springboard to impel the world towards a New World Order. The utopia that the elder Soros envisions is one that has banned fossil fuels, with everyday human existence regulated into oblivion. The COVID pandemic in 2020 provided