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How Vance’s ‘Do You Hear Yourself?’ Moment Helped Me See The Propaganda Press For What It Is
J.D. Vance asking Martha Raddatz, ‘Do you hear yourself?’ was the political reality check I desperately needed.
Democrat Lawmakers in Crisis Over MAGA’s Rise
The mental health of lawmakers from the Democratic Party in the United States is under
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Yes, We’re In A Constitutional Crisis — And It’s Democrats’ Fault
The American people need more than just the elected executive to be engaged in this fight. We need Congress to wake up.
How American Universities Used Biden To Hide Donations From China. Plus, Israel Fires Warning Shot at Hamas.
Federal law requires American universities to disclose their foreign donors to the Department of Education. Under Donald Trump’s first administration, that meant disclosing donors’ names. But the Biden administration broke that precedent, releasing just the names of the countries where each donation originated.
The change is significant because, as our Alana Goodman reports, there’s often a difference between the donor’s country of origin and the place from which the money flows. Take the University of Pennsylvania as a proof point.
In 2022 and 2023, the Ivy League institution reported to the federal government millions of dollars in contributions from donors in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands. Penn’s federal disclosures provide no further detail. The state of Pennsylvania, however, requires schools to report the names of foreign donors—and Penn’s state-level disclosures show that the contributions in question came not from the Caribbean but from Chinese companies with ties to the CCP.
Penn and other universities reported receiving “over $600 million from donors in Bermuda, $280 million from Guernsey, $25 million from the British Virgin Islands, $25 million from the Bahamas, $17.5 million from Cayman Islands, and $11 million from the island of Jersey” during the Biden administration, reports Goodman. The true source of those funds is largely unknown, as other states do not share Pennsylvania’s foreign donor disclosure requirements. Still, if Penn is any indication, a lot of the money likely traces back to China.
“The news comes as the Trump administration prepares to crack down on foreign influence on college campuses, following years of Biden administration policies that have shielded the names of foreign university donors from the public,” writes Goodman. “Tax haven countries represented some of the largest sources of funding during that time, raising questions about transparency and where the actual money is coming from.”
12 p.m. Saturday. That’s the deadline, first floated by Trump and later confirmed by Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu, for Hamas to release nine Israeli hostages or face “hell.”
Bibi followed in Trump’s footsteps and issued an ultimatum on Tuesday, hours after Hamas shuttered the next round of hostage releases. Trump responded to that development by reiterating that “all hell is going to break out” if Hamas does not reverse course. Bibi promised “intense combat until Hamas is decisively defeated” should the terror group fail to “return our hostages by Saturday noon.”
“In light of Hamas’ announcement of its decision to violate the agreement and not release our hostages, last night I ordered the IDF to gather forces inside and around the Gaza Strip,” he said. “This operation is being carried out at this time. It will be completed in the very near future.”
“The ongoing developments highlight the ceasefire’s fragility and reflect mounting frustration in Israel over Hamas’s treatment of the captives, including those who have already been released,” the Free Beacon‘s Adam Kredo reports.
“Seventeen Israeli hostages are still scheduled to be freed during the first phase of a three-tiered agreement, though the prospects of this occurring are dim. Israel said it will not move forward with negotiations over the deal’s second phase until all of its hostages come home.”
Democrats like Chris Murphy are upset with party leaders over their weak #Resistance to Trump 2.0. Some House members took matters into their own hands on Tuesday, holding a Capitol Hill rally to “Save the Civil Service.” It didn’t go well.
The Democrats, our Meghan Blonder writes, produced a series of cringeworthy moments. One freshman lawmaker, Oregon’s Maxine Dexter, appeared to make a sexual advance toward the Don, saying, “We have to fuck Trump.” Before delivering the line, she said, “I don’t swear in public very well.” You don’t say.
Another House Dem, Illinois’s Jan Schakowsky, said she was “going to say ‘fuck'” before clarifying, “I’m not going to say that.” Instead, she said, “We are going to beat and we’re going to pull [Trump] down.” At other points, union leaders led the crowd in a series of a cappella songs that attacked Elon Musk. One song, carried to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, included the lyrics, “We’ll fight against DOGE. We’ll fight against Elon Musk.”
“Last week, a CNN panel held back laughter after watching a montage of Democrats protesting against Trump and Musk,” Blonder writes. “One clip showed Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) holding hands and chanting, ‘We will win! We won’t rest!’ during a Feb. 5 rally in front of the Department of the Treasury building.”
“Liberal host Jimmy Kimmel also played the clip and said, ‘Oh, we are so f—ed.'” Indeed.
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Away from the Beacon:
- Deb Haaland, the former interior secretary best known for blocking oil and gas leases under the guise of the pseudoscience that is “indigenous knowledge,” is running for governor of New Mexico.
- Goldman Sachs is abandoning its 2020 policy that forbid it from working on IPOs with companies that had “all white, all male boards,” citing “legal developments related to board diversity requirements.” Thanks, Ed Blum!
- DNC vice chair David Hogg, who got into Harvard with an SAT score that was 190 points lower than the scores of the bottom 25 percent of students admitted, is questioning whether the DOGE aide known as “Big Balls” “got there purely on merit.” Pot, meet kettle.
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Column: It’s Only a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ When Republicans Try to Restrain Government
The entire media-Democrat complex spent years building panic over President Trump being a dire threat to democracy, only to be embarrassed by the electorate who decisively chose the Terrible Threat over Kamala Harris.
Now President Trump is displaying the highest approval ratings of his political career, and voters are satisfied he’s acting on his campaign promises. Pretty much all his Cabinet picks are getting confirmed. So what can this Panic Patrol do now? Just as judges and prosecutors were arrayed to stop Trump before he was elected again, a passel of mostly Democrat-appointed judges are getting in the way of his early executive actions designed to restrain government.
The new media buzzwords are “constitutional crisis.” In his “Reliable Sources” newsletter, Brian Stelter was making a crazy quilt of quotes from all of the anti-Trump forces.
“Constitutional crisis looms as Trump overhauls government” was the lead story on CNN’s homepage. CNN’s Joan Biskupic warned “some of Donald Trump’s top advisers have cast doubt on whether rulings on those lawsuits would even constrain the president.”
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told Anderson Cooper, “If you listen to what the president and vice president are saying, it certainly suggests that it’s a real possibility that they’ll simply ignore what a court says.”
Then Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNN host Kaitlan Collins “this isn’t hyperbole to say that we are staring the death of democracy in the eyes, right now.” Crying wolf never goes out of style on their side.
Stelter did not account for the conservative rebuttal on this, starting with President Biden’s shameless avoidance of any judicial or congressional power in single-handedly forgiving federal student loans. Biden boasted: “The Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt. But they didn’t stop me.”
Try to find anyone on the left who uttered the term “constitutional crisis.”
Instead, it was hailed as “historic.” On October 17, 2024, CNN.com posted this press release: “Biden has approved $175 billion in student loan forgiveness for nearly 5 million people.” Reporter Katie Lobosco proclaimed “the Biden-Harris administration is reminding voters how it has delivered a historic amount of student debt relief even as Republicans have challenged several of its efforts in court and balked at the costs.”
It’s a press release because there isn’t a Biden-Harris critic quoted anywhere in the 764-word article. Only the Biden folks are quoted.
CNN and Stelter should account for Anderson Cooper’s show on April 7, 2023, as they discussed judges ruling on the availability of abortion-inducing drugs. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the anti-judicial rebel: “I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling.” The judiciary was engaged, she claimed, in “an unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts” by ruling against the abortion pushers. No one cried “constitutional crisis.”
As usual, the liberals use situational ethics depending on who is in power and what is at stake. Right now, liberals don’t have the power in the White House or in Congress, and it’s clear they are feeling angry and powerless.
It’s very early in Trump’s second term, and we don’t know how all of these early battles will play out. But we certainly know that the “independent” media cannot be trusted to define “democracy” or “constitutional crisis.” To them, these are just malleable words in party-line press releases.
Texan Allegedly Bullied By School Over His Skin Color, Trump Support Asks Supreme Court To Take His Case
In the spirit of San Jacinto, Warden’s case represents a key battle over a new frontier: racism against white people.
Dems: It’s Only A ‘Constitutional Crisis’ When Trump Does It
While Democrats used Congress’s vague laws to expand the federal government’s role under the executive branch, Musk is merely using them to shrink the agencies as a presidential designee.
Watch Elizabeth Warren Contradict Elizabeth Warren About the Importance of Court Rulings (D)epending on What’s at Stake (VIDEO)
There is an old saying that if it weren’t for double standards, liberals wouldn’t have any standards at all. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is the living embodiment of that statement.
In recent years, Warren and many other Democrats have waged an almost daily war on the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court. Now that they want to stop everything that Trump is trying to do, they are relying on courts to do it and saying that anyone who would undermine the legitimacy of those courts is a threat to democracy.
Watch the side-by-side video of Elizabeth Warren below. The first half is from last year, the second half is from this month.
The courts are either undermining or saving democracy, it all depends if Elizabeth Warren agrees with their rulings.
Strangely, Warren isn’t currently calling for the creation of a code of ethics to remove judges like she was last year. pic.twitter.com/KHE4lK7Z3c
— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 11, 2025
That second half is from an appearance Warren made on the Rachel Maddow show this week.
The Hill reported:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said the Trump administration is putting the nation “on the edge of a constitutional crisis” following a series of sweeping executive orders and funding freezes targeting federal agencies.
“We’ve got our toes right on the edge of a constitutional crisis here. But here’s the thing: It may be the case that Donald Trump is so full of confidence that he thinks he can wave his wand, and whatever he wants to happen will happen,” Warren said during a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.”…
“My view right now is the courts are where we are hanging on to our constitutional structure,” Warren told Maddow. “They still have the power to hold everybody else in this country in contempt if they do not follow lawfully issued court orders.”
Here’s another example of this liberal logic. It’s AOC in 2023, telling CNN that the Biden administration should ignore a SCOTUS ruling, simply because the Democrats didn’t like it.
“The Biden Administration should ignore the court” – AOC, 2023 pic.twitter.com/fHF4PAykQT
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 11, 2025
The Democrats are like two year-olds throwing a tantrum in the cereal aisle of the grocery store when they don’t get what they want. All they care about is power and control.
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Red-state Republicans say ‘can’t’ but mean ‘won’t’ on immigration reform
Republicans must decide whether they truly want to end illegal immigration or not. Now is the time to eliminate every incentive that allows illegal immigrants to remain undetected in our communities. If Republicans believe that approach is too harsh, they should have the courage to say so. Instead, across the country, they are gutting enforcement bills that would effectively stop illegal immigration and deter migrants from entering red states under Democratic administrations.
While offering convoluted arguments against commonsense measures, they refuse to admit the obvious: They want illegal immigrants who aren’t in jail to remain here as a source of cheap labor for their donors.
For many, the pledge to end illegal immigration was nothing more than a campaign slogan. Now, they dismiss enforcement measures as ‘unrealistic’ or too ‘disruptive.’
Ending illegal immigration does not require complex logistics. If you fail to pay a speeding ticket, the state will catch up with you. Now, imagine your very presence in the country is illegal. With proper enforcement, no one could interact with law enforcement, government agencies, or civil society without being discovered and turned over to ICE.
The problem isn’t a lack of resources — it’s a lack of will. If red states fully enforced immigration laws, they could permanently end illegal immigration within their borders.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced several bills aimed at, in his words, “ending illegal immigration as we know it.” One proposal sought to criminalize illegal entry into the state, authorize judges to offer jail time as an incentive for self-repatriation, and require all state and local law enforcement agencies to participate in the 287(g) program. That program would allow officers to work directly with ICE, not only to remove criminal aliens in jail but to act as ICE deputies and deport all illegal immigrants they encounter.
Had this proposal passed, it would have made it nearly impossible for most illegal immigrants to live functional lives in Florida. That is precisely why the state’s Republican establishment opposed it.
The special session DeSantis called was filled with political maneuvering, largely aimed at weakening his influence. However, the real motive became clear when state Sen. Joe Gruters, the author of a competing Republican-backed bill, complained in an email to a constituent about DeSantis’ push for “street-level enforcement.” That was exactly DeSantis’ goal and exactly why the establishment opposed it.
Many Republicans are quietly working to limit immigration enforcement — without admitting it — by restricting efforts to only criminal aliens. They want the rest to remain as a cheap labor force for their donors. The counterproposal from legislative leaders not only gutted DeSantis’ street-level enforcement provision but also stripped his existing authority to work with ICE, handing that power to the agriculture commissioner, who had previously opposed E-Verify and supported benefits for illegal immigrants.
Despite their public rhetoric, many Republicans have not abandoned their insatiable appetite for cheap labor. Florida’s political dynamic is unique in that establishment Republicans were also frustrated with DeSantis for defeating the marijuana industry’s ballot initiative. However, this resistance to full-scale state immigration enforcement is appearing across the country. Even in deep-red states, strong enforcement bills are being gutted in committee or never making it to the floor.
Last week, establishment Republicans in Montana and Wyoming weakened key enforcement bills that would have implemented street-level immigration enforcement.
Montana’s HB 278 initially required all law enforcement officers to make a reasonable attempt — when practicable — to determine the immigration status of anyone lawfully stopped or detained, such as for a traffic violation. If lawmakers were serious about deterring illegal immigration and making it impossible for undocumented individuals to remain in the country, verifying immigration status during encounters with state officials would be a logical step.
The bill even included an exception allowing officers to forgo the status check if it would interfere with an ongoing investigation. Despite this, the House Judiciary Committee weakened the bill by changing “shall” to “may,” effectively making the provision optional and stripping it of its enforcement power.
Similarly, Wyoming state Sen. Cheri Steinmetz introduced a comprehensive immigration enforcement bill, SF 124. The proposal required local law enforcement officers to check immigration status during street-level policing. It also mandated that all state agencies verify legal status before granting any state benefits, prohibited individuals from transporting, harboring, or shielding illegal immigrants from law enforcement, and required employers to report illegal workers.
However, a Republican-controlled committee completely gutted the bill, removing its key enforcement mechanisms.
If lawmakers truly want to end illegal immigration and push undocumented individuals to leave the country, they must pass strong enforcement bills at the state level.
Trump has already voiced frustration over the slow pace of removals, which is why states need policies that make it impossible for illegal immigrants to remain and function in the United States. Either Republicans want to solve the problem, or they don’t.
For many, the pledge to end illegal immigration was nothing more than a campaign slogan. Now, they dismiss enforcement measures as “impractical,” “unrealistic,” or too “disruptive.”
In life, there are always “can’ts” and “won’ts.” When it comes to ending illegal immigration, watch for Republicans to claim they can’t enforce strict policies — when in reality, they simply won’t.