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The government of Slovenia began fuel rationing measures this week amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, supply chain issues, and fuel tourism from neighbouring countries in Europe.
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Iowa Democrat House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott expressed discomfort in 2023 over public displays of Christianity and politics together, while also claiming so-called “Christian nationalism” began with the late Rev. Billy Graham.  
The post Iowa Democrat Candidate Linked Christianity to ‘Political Violence’ in 2023 Speech at Methodist Church appeared first on Breitbart.

Noelia Castillo Ramos’s fate is analogous to that of the country in which she was unlucky enough to be born.

Mark P. Mills, City Journal The conflict could spell the doom of “quit oil” policies once and for all.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D., Fla.) committed 25 violations of House ethics rules for her role in an alleged scheme to use millions of stolen taxpayer dollars to win her 2021 political campaign, a bipartisan House Ethics panel ruled in a vote that could lead to the Democrat’s expulsion from Congress.
An adjudicatory subcommittee comprised of four Republicans and four Democrats issued the ruling early Friday morning after a lengthy hearing on Thursday that Cherfilus-McCormick’s attorney, William Barzee, sought to delay until the conclusion of the Florida Democrat’s criminal trial on the same allegations, which is currently scheduled to take place April 20 but is likely to be delayed until the summer or fall. Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison for her role in the scheme, which centered on her family-owned health care company’s receipt of $5 million from a FEMA-funded COVID-19 contract in 2021 for work it had not performed. Instead of returning the funds, Cherfilus-McCormick and members of her family allegedly laundered the funds into her ostensibly self-funded political campaign for an election she won by just five votes, with leftover funds used for purchases, including the three-carat yellow diamond ring Cherfilus-McCormick once featured in her congressional portrait.
Barzee, who boasts on his website of having represented clients accused of defrauding the United States of millions of dollars and others that stood accused of importing “tens of thousands of kilos of cocaine” into the country, took over as Cherfilus-McCormick’s attorney less than three weeks ago. Her prior lawyer withdrew from the case in early March. Barzee urged the committee to delay for at least a few more weeks to give him more time to get up to speed on the case. But the committee denied his request, noting that Cherfilus-McCormick had consistently stonewalled investigators throughout their two-year investigation and that they would no longer entertain any more requests to delay the inevitable.
The ethics committee will hold a full hearing to recommend how to sanction Cherfilus-McCormick for her 25 ethics violations. Expulsion from Congress is likely on the table for the Florida Democrat. Following that hearing, the matter will be brought before the House. Should Cherfilus-McCormick be expelled, it would give a much-needed edge to House Republicans, who have governed with a razor-thin majority this Congress.
A vote to expel Cherfilus-McCormick could put House Democrats in a tough position after the caucus moved aggressively in 2023 to remove former Rep. George Santos (R., N.Y.) before the ethics process was completed in his case. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) said in February he was a “hard no” on voting to expel Cherfilus-McCormick, but several rank-and-file members have suggested they’d vote to remove their colleague in order to avoid charges of hypocrisy.
“You can’t crime your way into legitimate power,” said Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D., Wa.) after the committee issued its ruling Friday. “Since she was found guilty, she should resign or be removed.”
But losing her job may be the least of her worries. Cherfilus-McCormick was indicted in November and faces up to 53 years in prison for her role in the same scheme. Immediately following her indictment, Cherfilus-McCormick professed her innocence, slammed the charges as “unjust” and “baseless,” insinuating that the timing of their filing was “curious and clearly meant to distract from far more pressing national issues.”
But her actions behind the scenes suggest Cherfilus-McCormick feels the walls are closing in on her, with the Florida Democrat reportedly seeking a presidential pardon during the White House Christmas party last year, according to the Hill.
The ethics hearing Thursday was the committee’s first open hearing since 2010, when it found the late Rep. Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) guilty on 11 of 13 charges of having violated ethics rules amid a probe into his personal finances. The House later voted to censure Rangel, allowing him to continue to serve in Congress until he retired in 2017.
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In a major victory for fairness in women’s athletics, the International Olympic Committee announced a new policy on Thursday: eligibility for female Olympic events will now be limited to biological females, verified through mandatory gene screening. The era of men competing in women’s sports appears to be ending.

On Friday’s edition of Vince, podcast host Vince Coglianese highlighted the absurdity of the mainstream media’s coverage. The Associated Press ran a headline that read: “Trans women athletes are banned from the Olympics by a new IOC policy on female eligibility.” As Coglianese pointed out, a casual reader could easily misinterpret that to mean actual women athletes were being barred from competing against women.

David Bozell, President of the Media Research Center (MRC), called out the deliberate deception. “The deceit is part of the scam,” he said. “They’re trying to convince you to reject reality.” 

Biological males can still compete — they simply must do so in the category matching their birth sex. Most outlets ran with the loaded word “banned,” while ESPN opted for the softer “excluded.”

Bozell praised President Trump for leading the charge against men in women’s sports, noting, “All kudos and credit to the President on this one. No one carried this message further and wider than the President of the United States, and he deserves public credit for that.” Bozell also credited the conservative base and movement for amplifying the issue effectively, reaching millions in record time.

.@DavidBozell and @VinceCoglianese celebrate the Olympics banning men from cheating in women’s sports and applaud President Trump’s work in fighting for women’s rights pic.twitter.com/pqVoKlIQyn
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 27, 2026

Coglianese reminded listeners how media manipulation can sway elections. He referenced MRC’s past research on the Hunter Biden laptop story, which found that if more voters had known the truth in 2020, the election outcome could have shifted dramatically in Trump’s favor.

.@DavidBozell and @VinceCoglianese discuss the MRC poll that proved how the media’s lack of coverage on Biden’s scandals impacted the 2020 election results pic.twitter.com/W07FiIkeRY
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 27, 2026

The IOC’s decision marks a long-overdue return to common sense and basic biology. Yet the media’s continued linguistic games show they’re still fighting to obscure reality rather than report it.

 

On Thursday, law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida announced charges against a brother and sister in the placement of a bomb at MacDill Air Force base, a key U.S. base amid the war in Iran as it’s home to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Special Operations Command. This national security bombshell was of no interest to NBC (and barely at all to ABC) on their flagship newscasts Thursday night and Friday morning.

While 27-year-old Ann Mary Zheng was arrested, her brother Alen Zheng remains at large and fled to….China (which opens up a dangerous set of possibilities vis-à-vis the Chinese regime). At a Thursday press conference, the U.S. Attorney said they were not yet sure whether the two Americans have dual citizenship in China.

Thursday’s CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil provided a welcome contrast with a full story on this and aired prior to the ongoing lead story of the last few weeks in the (Democrat-created) Homeland Security shutdown that has caused mass chaos at American airports with TSA workers remaining unpaid.

“Also developing tonight, the FBI says it knows who placed a bomb outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa this month. The base key to U.S. operations in Iran and the indictments coming down late today. Two siblings charged, the sister arrested, her brother still on the run,” Dokoupil declared in an opening tease.

Dokoupil later began the segment by calling the development “major news” in the “potentially deadly explosive device found outside MacDill Air Force Base,” which “[t]he FBI says it was placed there by a 20-year-old man who has since fled to China.”

This segment on Thursday’s @CBSEveningNews with @TonyDokoupil was the only full report on a broadcast network morning or evening newscast about the indictment of two Chinese-Americans in the placement of a bomb at MacDill Air Force base, the home of CENTCOM pic.twitter.com/sOt1AwtOsa
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 27, 2026
Correspondent Cristian Benavides delivered even more stunning findings about the bomb and when it was found:

BENAVIDES: Tony, what is so frightening here is that officials say it took six days for this explosive device to be discovered. They say that it was real. It could have killed a lot of people, but for some reason it did not detonate. According to federal authorities, Alen Zheng planted an explosive device on March 10th near MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Minutes later, a 911 call reported a bomb had been placed on the base.

U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA GREGORY KEHOE: The MacDill personnel searched the base and I’m the entire base and did not find the device at that time.

BENAVIDES: It was eventually discovered on March 16. By then, prosecutors say Zheng and his sister, Ann Mary Zheng had sold the black Mercedes used to transport the bomb to the base and fled to China.

Benavides explained Ann Mary Zheng had, for some reason, returned to the U.S. and, with authorities already onto her, she was arrested upon her return and “charged with being an accessory after the fact and tampering with evidence.”

In a second soundbite from U.S. Attorney Kehoe, he said an FBI search of their home “found” additional “IED components.”

After reiterating to viewers that the Tampa-area base “houses Central Command, in charge of military operations in the Middle East, including the war with Iran,” Benavides said officials had not yet revealed a motive.

“China does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S. although it does negotiate in some cases, prosecutors say they don’t have any evidence that Zheng was working with the Chinese government,” the CBS reporter concluded.

Unfortunately, it likely wouldn’t come as a shock if, given the information already shared, some connection to Chinese intelligence or the CCP is discovered.

In the case of the aforementioned ABC, all they could muster was a 23-second news brief on Friday’s Good Morning America from news reader Will Reeve:

Friday’s ‘Good Morning America’ on ABC could only pull down 23 seconds on the MacDill bomb, speedily moving by the bombshell that the brother is still in China pic.twitter.com/9kEeDk4SVs
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 27, 2026

We begin [New at 7:30] with a brother and a sister indicted for allegedly planting an explosive device at McDill Air Force base in Florida. The device was found on March 16 outside the base’s visitor’s center. It did not go off. The siblings escaped to China but the sister came back. She is under arrest. The brother is still in China and the motive behind the plot is unclear.

Thursday’s NBC Nightly News focused heavily on the Savannah Guthrie interview, but they still found time for other stories, including a disturbed man driving onto a Daytona Beach tarmac and trying to forcibly board an airplane. To be fair, CBS’s Dokoupil also covered it, but he still found time for MacDill.

In the case of both NBC’s Today and CBS Mornings on Friday, they remained hot on the trial of a Hawaii doctor who allegedly tried (and failed) to murder his wife while hiking. But like with the Daytona drunk, ABC’s Good Morning America found time to cover the Lifetime movie in-waiting and a bomb that could have wreaked havoc at one of the country’s most important military installations.

To see the relevant CBS transcript from March 26, click here.

With what will the Taiwanese hold themselves together to defend their island home?

We need many more such programs, but the problem is the scarcity of good scholars to run them.