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Actor Danny McBride is exposing the real reason he opted to ditch Los Angeles.On a new episode of Rich Roll’s podcast, Roll asked him about his decision to move his family out of the “bubble” of L.A. to Charleston, South Carolina, in 2017.McBride, who’s created and starred in shows like “Eastbound & Down” and “The Righteous Gemstones,” explained that part of the reason he likes living where he does now is that it offers him more creative freedom.”When we were shooting ‘Eastbound,’ we were shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the idea that there was not a direct flight, at that time, from L.A. to North Carolina, we noticed that the executives never came to set,” McBride said. “We’re like, ‘Oh, we just gotta choose cities that it’s not easy to get to from L.A., and then we’ll have more freedom.'”‘THE THORN BIRDS’ STAR RACHEL WARD TRADED ‘EMPTY’ HOLLYWOOD FOR FARM LIFE IN AUSTRALIAMcBride also said that another plus to living in Charleston is that his children – he and his wife, Gia Ruiz, share son Declan, 14, and daughter Ava, 10 – aren’t as involved with social media as they may have been living in Los Angeles.”In my house, I try to limit my kids having access to all this stuff,” he said. “I just try to be present in their lives. So, if they’re listening to anybody’s take on the world, hopefully it’s mine and my wife’s, and not a stranger online.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS”I think maybe that’s part of the benefit of being in Charleston is like, we live on a creek and the kids in our neighborhood are into fishing, and they’re into, you know, getting out in the water,” he shared. “And I don’t know … it’s not as pervasive there, I guess.”McBride told Roll, who is an author, athlete and a plant-based nutritionalist, that his life changed when he had his kids.”It was really easy to do this job when I didn’t have kids,” he admitted, explaining that he used to “give all my time to the job.””And then once kids came around, it started to be like, ‘I don’t want to give that much time to this. I want to get the result, but I have other jobs now too. I want to be there for these kids. I want to be a good partner for my wife. I don’t want to push all these things off just because I’m making a TV show.'”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER”I have to find the balance of it,” McBride said.What works for McBride is starting his day way before his kids wake up. “And then by the time the kids go awake, I already have started something that’s got my mind working, that has me excited. I can sit down and be present for those guys and get them to school, and I drop ‘em off, then I come back home and I jam more,” McBride said. “I just try to find the time that works that doesn’t make me sequestered off while the rest of life is happening and I’m hammering away nonsense and d— jokes.”

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President Trump told reporters on Wednesday, while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, that the US is going to strike Iran again tonight after a wave of strikes on Tuesday. 
“We’re going to hit them hard tonight,” Trump said, later adding, “They deserve it.”
This comes after the US launched attacks in Iran in response to Iran targeting several ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
Earlier, while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump called off the ceasefire and memorandum of understanding. “To me, I think it’s over,” Trump said. “I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum,” he added, describing Iranian leaders as “sick people” and “vicious, violent people.” He added, “As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them. They’re liars.”
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When asked whether he expects to resume full-scale hostilities, the President told reporters, “They are behaving very badly, as they have for 47 years, and we hit them hard last night.”
“They launched a couple of drones and one rocket, one missile, at ships because they were in the Strait, which they have every right to be, and so we hit them very hard last night, very, very hard,” Trump said. “I’ll probably hit them hard again tonight. I’ll give them a little warning: We’re going to hit them hard tonight.”
He further slammed the Iranian regime for lying about talks with the US, noting that in private negotiations, “they’ll agree on everything,” but publicly, “they’ll go have a news conference and say we never even talked about it.”
“They’re cuckoo, there’s something wrong with these people,” he said.
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Later in the press conference, Trump doubled down, telling reporters, “Normally I wouldn’t tell you,” but “there’s not a thing they can do about it, so the answer is probably.”
“They deserve it,” he said.
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As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Iran launched strikes on Wednesday in Bahrain and Kuwait in response to large-scale US military strikes last night as the ceasefire collapsed.
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Rush Limbaugh in 2018
Last week the US Supreme Court ruled that birthright citizenship is completely acceptable in the United States. The court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order in a 5-4 decision. This ruling was a shock to those Americans who value civilization and the future of our country. Swing justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the three radical leftists on the court in the majority decision. It was a dark day for America.
Legendary radio host Rush Limbaugh discussed the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship back on his October 30, 2018 radio show.
It’s too bad Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts were not listeners. They would have learned something.
Rush Limbaugh: Let me read to you the 14th Amendment, how it begins.
“All persons—” now the 14th Amendment goes back to 1866, I think it was ratified by Congress in 1866. No, it was passed by Congress, ratified by the states 2 years later. So 1866, it was passed by Congress and ratified by the states in 1868, and its original intent was to grant citizenship to slaves and their descendants. And it was part and parcel of post-Civil War era of America fixing itself. It was a good thing. Uh, our Constitution was written so that mistakes at the founding could be corrected.
The vast majority of people knew slavery at the founding was, was untenable, but they needed the Union in order to fight the Revolutionary War. They needed the Southern states. They needed unity to do that, so they had to accept slavery, but they built in safeguards to wipe it out, and it happened in 1868. The 14th Amendment, it begins this way: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the US and of the state wherein they reside.” It was clearly intended to be referring to slaves and their descendants.
The parts that birthright citizenship freaks have to delete are naturalized and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
You are not naturalized and you are not subject to the US jurisdiction if you’re here illegally.
You cannot be. You’re under some other country’s jurisdiction. If you’re here illegally, you cannot possibly be naturalized.
Well, the birthright citizenship crowd, which wants to water down American culture and destroy Western civilization, conveniently leaves out naturalized and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. So your born-here child absolutely is not a citizen. This is what Trump is saying. Trump is finally pushing back against an assumption that has been made because it was the least path of resistance, if you will. But now it’s make-or-break time. As my friend McCarthy says, you need somebody to break the furniture sometimes. You’re gonna remodel a house.
Okay, a little bit more background on the 14th Amendment here, ’cause it’s gonna be relevant as the issue goes forward. Again, it was added after the Civil War. Its purpose was to overrule the Dred Scott decision.
Which was a horrible— Dred Scott sanctioned slavery.
Roger Taney was the Chief Justice. Forever immortalized in infamy, it held that Black slaves were not citizens.
So Congress got into gear and passed the 14th Amendment. It guaranteed that freed slaves would have all the privileges of citizenship by providing, quote, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside,” which means the drafters of the 14th Amendment had no intention of conferring citizenship on the children of aliens who happen to be born here.
In fact, the very author of the citizenship clause, Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan, expressly said— this is why the original intent of founding documents is so important. Quote: “This,” meaning the 14th Amendment, “this will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, who are aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.”
It was expressly intended to confer citizenship to slaves and their descendants. There was an 1884 case, Elk v. Wilkins. Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment did not even confer citizenship on Native Americans because they were subject to tribal jurisdiction, not U.S. jurisdiction.
In the decision last week Coney Barrett, John Roberts, and the radical leftists used the 14th Amendment to give citizenship to illegal alien babies and Chinese birthing tourists.

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The ruling was complete garbage – They don’t care.
As you may know, Rush later passed away in February 2021 after the stolen election of 2020. He is dearly missed.
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Your Delusion Doesn’t Make Me A “Doomer”

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance

“There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.”

– James Randi

One thing I’ve noticed over the last several weeks is that the more I stick to basic questions, basic economics, and basic skepticism, the more people accuse me of being a “doomer”.

That tells me far more about the environment we’re in than it does about myself. The foundation to my economic views hasn’t changed all that much over the years. What’s changed is the backdrop against which those views are being expressed. When you’re living through one of the most euphoric investing environments in modern history, ordinary skepticism suddenly reads like blistering, outright nihilism.

Apparently it’s now considered bearish extremism to point out that a company says one thing and then does another. It’s “FUD” to ask whether a proposed $2 trillion IPO valuation for a company trading roughly 100x sales while remaining unprofitable makes any sense. It’s negativity to observe that the Federal Reserve appears trapped between an inflationary rock and a deflationary hard place, where fighting one problem inevitably worsens the other. I’ve even written about companies that appear to have been caught engaging in outright misleading accounting practices that deserve far more scrutiny than they’re getting, only to watch investors shrug and buy more shares anyway.

None of the above observations strike me as outrageous. They’re the kinds of questions investors used to ask before narratives became more important than numbers. The fact that simply asking those questions now provokes outrage tells me something has changed.

Yesterday I nearly lost a dear longtime friend who I respect immensely because he was upset that I criticized Strategy CEO Phong Le on Twitter. The worst part is this is a friend who I agree with on literally almost everything relating to markets and monetary policy…just not on cheerleading for bitcoin as enthusiastically.

I can’t take Strategy or its CEO seriously after the company repeatedly emphasized BTC Yield as one of the defining metrics of the business. It was presented as evidence of execution, discipline, and shareholder value creation. Phong Le talked about it constantly. It became one of the pillars supporting the entire investment story for Strategy. Then, as the number began moving in the wrong direction, the company quietly stopped highlighting it. It disappeared from Michael Saylor’s tweets talking about how much bitcoin the company bought last month. And somehow I’m the unreasonable one for noticing this and calling it out as moving the goalposts (more importantly, I called my friend and we hashed it out and are fine).

Over the last several weeks I’ve also lost multiple paid subscribers to my blog. Some comments have become more cagey. Private messages have become more emotional. Discussions that used to revolve around facts increasingly revolve around motives. Apparently asking for consistency and follow through from public company CEOs now qualifies as “hate.” Ironically, I appreciate every bit of it because I don’t want an echo chamber. Echo chambers make people intellectually lazy. If everyone agreed with everything I wrote, I’d probably stop challenging my own assumptions. I like hearing opposing viewpoints. I’ve changed my mind plenty of times over twenty five years in markets. What I’m trying to arrive at isn’t confirmation. It’s truth. That distinction matters.

Part of the reason I view markets differently is because my framework has always been grounded in Austrian economics. Whether you agree with the Austrian School or not, one thing it relentlessly emphasizes is that incentives matter, prices matter, capital allocation matters, and economic reality eventually matters. Artificially suppressing interest rates has consequences. Printing money isn’t free. Debt doesn’t magically disappear because politicians or central bankers wish it away. Malinvestment accumulates. Capital gets allocated to projects that never would have survived under honest market conditions. Booms fueled by cheap money eventually collide with reality. Those aren’t particularly radical ideas. In fact, for most of economic history they would have been considered fairly obvious observations.

The Austrian framework forces you to ask uncomfortable questions all the time. Is this asset actually worth what people are paying for it, or has liquidity overwhelmed price discovery? Is this company creating durable cash flows, or simply issuing securities into an insatiable market? Are executives maximizing shareholder value, or exploiting shareholder enthusiasm? Are prices reflecting genuine economic value, or simply reflecting trillions of dollars in monetary distortion? Those questions naturally make you skeptical, not because you’re pessimistic, but because skepticism is the rational response whenever incentives become distorted.

That puts me in a very different place than many investors today, and I don’t say that to sound superior. I’ve simply been around long enough to remember markets before zero interest rates became totally normal, before quantitative easing became permanent policy and before passive indexing vacuumed up trillions of dollars regardless of valuation. Before gamma squeezes, meme stocks, perpetual options speculation, and social media turned investing into something that often resembles a casino more than capital allocation. Many people investing today have literally never experienced a market operating without extraordinary monetary accommodation.

If you’ve only invested during an era where every crisis is met with another liquidity program, another balance sheet expansion, another alphabet soup lending facility, and another trillion dollars created electronically, your expectations become calibrated around that environment. Eventually you stop recognizing the distortion because the distortion becomes normal. When markets become uncalibrated, investors become uncalibrated too. When asset prices become detached from economic reality for long enough, people begin confusing price appreciation with proof of correctness. We used to have to come up with gold to put more money in circulation. Then, after that, we used to have to at least print actual dollars. Now, we increase the money supply by literally just moving f*cking commas on an Excel spreadsheet somewhere at the New York Fed office. It’s as easy as how I’m typing these words right now: Boom. Another trillion.

People start believing valuation no longer matters because it hasn’t mattered recently. They assume management credibility is irrelevant because stocks keep going up anyway. They conclude accounting quality doesn’t matter because nobody gets punished. They believe debt doesn’t matter because refinancing has always been available. They mistake liquidity for genius. They mistake speculation for investing. They mistake momentum for truth. None of this is really an indictment of individual investors. It’s what decades of monetary distortion do to human psychology.

No one gives a f*ck about pointing out over and over things like commercial real estate imploding…until we get a headline like this and a $400 million fund’s capital is completely gone. No capital returned. Total catastrophic loss. And the dickhead running the fund is asking for another $100 million. Go figure.

So how should I expect people whose entire investing life has existed inside this environment to react when I argue that executives should actually be held accountable for their words? Exactly the way many of them are reacting now. Fear. FUD. “Hater.” “Doomer.” Meanwhile I’m watching people whose intellect I genuinely respect bend themselves into pretzels defending executives worth hundreds of millions of dollars because questioning management has somehow become taboo.

Think about how bizarre that really is. Public companies are not monarchies. CEOs are not kings. Being publicly traded is a privilege. Having access to essentially unlimited public capital through equity markets is an extraordinary privilege. Being included in major indexes that generate automatic buying regardless of valuation is an extraordinary privilege. Executives don’t own that privilege. Shareholders do. CEOs work for shareholders, not the other way around. They owe shareholders honesty. They owe shareholders consistency. They owe shareholders credibility. They owe shareholders decisions made in the owners’ best interests, not whatever best protects management’s compensation, reputation, or personal wealth.

If an executive repeatedly tells investors one metric defines success and then quietly stops talking about it once the trend reverses, investors should ask why. If an executive changes the story after raising billions based on the previous story, investors should ask why. If accounting appears aggressive, investors should ask why. If incentives appear misaligned, investors should ask why. None of that is negativity. That’s literally what investing is supposed to look like. Somewhere along the way we’ve convinced ourselves that accountability is bearish. It isn’t. It’s adulthood. Grow the f*ck up.

The uncomfortable reality is that more than twenty years of extraordinary monetary policy have conditioned markets to reward almost everything: unprofitable companies, financial engineering, sky high multiples, questionable capital allocation, narrative over cash flow, momentum over fundamentals. The passive bid buys regardless. Options dealers hedge regardless. Liquidity flows regardless. Every time prices wobble, investors instinctively expect another rescue. That environment doesn’t simply distort asset prices. It distorts judgment itself.

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People lose the ability to distinguish between genuine business quality and abundant liquidity because abundant liquidity has made almost everything look like genius. When every tide lifts every boat, everyone suddenly thinks they’re an exceptional sailor. Eventually skepticism itself begins looking irrational because the market has become completely uncalibrated from reality. If prices no longer reflect economic fundamentals, then the people participating in those markets slowly lose their own calibration as well. Their judgment becomes distorted because the measuring stick itself has become distorted. When the market stops rewarding discipline and starts rewarding whatever can attract liquidity, eventually investors stop recognizing the difference.

Which brings me back to why people call me a doomer. I’m not. I’m a skeptic. It only looks like doom because the reference point has become so detached from economic reality that merely insisting on truth sounds pessimistic. If you’ve been force fed unlimited liquidity, meme speculation, gamma squeezes, passive inflows, monetary expansion, and asset inflation for most of your investing life, someone saying, “Hold on. Does offering a 12% dividend when junk bonds trade at 6% and your company has no cash flow actually make some kind of sense?” sounds like they’re predicting the apocalypse. They’re not. They’re simply asking whether reality still exists.

I don’t blame anyone for pushing back. In fact, I’m glad. If my criticism makes people uncomfortable, good. Discomfort usually means we’ve found an assumption that hasn’t been examined closely enough. Rather than assuming I’m motivated by fear or negativity, I would encourage people to examine their own investment thesis instead.

Ask yourself why basic skepticism feels so threatening. Ask yourself why demanding honesty from executives feels controversial. Ask yourself why questioning valuation feels offensive. Ask yourself why accountability sounds like pessimism.

Those are much more interesting questions than whether I’m a doomer because I don’t think I am. I think I’m standing in roughly the same place I’ve always stood. The difference is that today’s market has drifted so far into euphoria that ordinary skepticism now looks like radical pessimism. I’m not living in a darker reality than everyone else. I’m simply refusing to wear the rose colored glasses that so many investors have slowly mistaken for reality the last 2 decades — and even that assumption I’ve tried to challenge honestly.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going outside to touch grass…

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A group of radical left-wing groups in California are pushing for schools to add Black vernacular into a Golden State program that pushes multilingualism for kids.Black Californians United for Early Care and Education (BlackECE) is a “collaborative partnership of organizations committed to advancing language justice for Black children in early childhood education.” Those groups include Californians Together, Catalyst California and Early Edge.A co-founder of the umbrella group said she was teased a kid for “talking white” and doesn’t want Black children, like her son, to feel “shame” for the way they speak.CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL BATTLES NEWSOM’S STATE LAW ORDERING IT TO CHANGE ‘INDIANS’ MASCOT”The workgroup brings together BlackECE, Californians Together, Catalyst California, and Early Edge to challenge harmful language hierarchies and affirm Black English as a legitimate, rule-governed language rooted in Black history, culture, and community,” according to the coalition’s website.BlackECE’s 10-point policy framework also includes reparations.Ashley Williams, a co-founder of the BlackECE, spoke with PBS about the importance of the group’s work.”I don’t want my son to walk into any room and feel like his voice is not valued or his perspective can’t be heard because he’s not saying it in one way or the other,” she told the outlet. “But with that comes a lot of shame and embarrassment because you’re being constantly corrected when you’re still in a moment when you’re just learning language.””Black English” is a broad term used to describe the way African Americans speak, according to ScienceDirect.The most common defined form of “Black English” is African American Vernacular English [AAVE], characterized as a “systematic dialect spoken by many African Americans, characterized by specific phonological, syntactical, and lexical features, including word-final consonant cluster simplification, invariant ‘be’ for habitual meaning, and multiple negation.”BlackECE insists that the dialect is not slang or broken English, and provides some real life examples of AAVE.”She be working,” is one example listed on the website.”They happy” and “bes’ friend” are among others.”We talk about multilinguals, but we don’t include Black children who may be African-American English speakers,” Xigrid Soto-Boykin, an early childhood language expert at Arizona State University, told PBS. “We completely miss this subgroup of children that could also benefit from their language backgrounds to be sustained, but also to be leveraged for their own learning.”NEW YORK TIMES CALLS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA’S ‘TEST-BLIND’ ADMISSIONS POLICY A ‘TERRIBLE’ MISTAKECalifornia — a state where more than half of children under the age of five live in homes where another language besides English is spoken — implemented a program called “Promoting Equitable Early Learning and Care For Dual Language Learners” in 2020.The program “declares biliteracy as a state goal and strongly promotes multilingual proficiency for all children, beginning in early childhood.” It focuses on policies that “reflect a dramatic shift in public sentiment away from a focus on English only and to a focus that values bilingualism as an asset and a strength.”BlackECE says “Black English” should be added to that California program.Williams recalled being teased for “talking white” by family members, and complained that her teachers were “adamant about proper English,” which she said made her feel insecure.”Really at the heart of this, it’s about affirming our identity and our culture and our humanity and not having to perform as something you’re not just to be accepted in a room,” she reportedly said.”We know that with being deemed multilingual learners, there’s resources, there’s supports, there’s teacher training. And we’re saying, ‘Yes, and we belong in that conversation too.’

We escaped with a win yesterday as the Miami Marlins pulled off the victory in extra innings. It was a bit of a frustrating one because the Marlins were winning 4-2 after five innings, and then the bullpen allowed three earned runs in the top of the eighth. The Marlins came right back and tied it up before winning in 10 innings.It would’ve been nice to not have to sweat, but I won’t complain about a win. We are flying across the country to take on a different series.The Toronto Blue Jays are a team that I’ve discussed quite a bit this year. Before the season began, my biggest question was how they would respond to the adversity of losing a heartbreaking World Series. It is hard enough to just get to the playoffs, and now they are fighting to get back there.Last year they were one of the best teams in baseball, and, at least on paper, they should’ve been better. At 43-49, there is a lot of work to be done for Toronto this season. Sometimes it seems like the issue is their pitching staff, but their team is 12th in the Majors in ERA. Their batting average is 17th, but they are 27th in runs scored, so my guess is they are getting opportunities, but not cashing in.It can be hard to pitch with limited run support. However, one of their offseason additions who have made an impact this year has done a good job of it. Today, Dylan Cease takes the mound, and he brings a 5-4 record, 2.79 ERA, and a 1.18 WHIP. He turned in one of his best performances of the season in his last outing. He went seven strong innings, allowing just three hits, while striking out nine. We’ve known it for a long time — when Cease is on, he is elite. But there are times when he can’t find the zone and falls apart. He has faced the Giants a bunch of times during his time with San Francisco. They are 21-for-82 against him, but no one with more than 10 at-bats is batting over .300.The San Francisco Giants are a team that is one to watch around the trade deadline. I really like their lineup, but for whatever reason, it just hasn’t clicked for them. They are only slightly ahead of the Blue Jays in terms of runs scored this year. Their pitching staff, however, has been only 22nd in the league. I’m sure there are a ton of teams out there looking to add pitching to their roster, but there are a few arms on the Giants that you’d really aggressively pursue. The bats might be on the move, but that’s only if the Giants decide it is time to try a rebuild of sorts.SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST SPORTS NEWSThe one person who would bring the biggest return, should he be listed as an option, is today’s starter, Logan Webb. I haven’t even heard rumors that they are considering it, but he might be the most coveted starter outside Tarik Skubal if available. Webb has been solid once again this season, going 5-6 for the year, with a 3.66 ERA and a 1.17 WHIP. Webb has been slightly better at home with a 3.33 ERA and has been fantastic during the day with a 1.70 ERA. He was absolutely rocked in his last outing, but it was in Coors Field, so it is a bit difficult to know how much of that was poor mechanics versus the environment. Blue Jays hitters have done well against Webb with a .333 batting average over 51 at-bats.This should be one of the best pitching matchups on the slate for today. That usually means low scoring is in store. These two starters are both capable of throwing complete-game shutouts or going at least seven innings with few runs allowed. The listed total also indicates the books feel that way as well. Couple that with the two teams not scoring a ton of runs. The under makes a lot of sense, but there is little room for error.Instead, I think the Blue Jays are the play today. Cease has been very strong lately, and I think that his success against the Giants in the past should help. Webb has been solid against the Blue Jays, but they’ve been a bit more consistent against him, and in a tight game like this, I will back the Blue Jays to get the win.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMFor more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024

The crash that killed a Pennsylvania state trooper, allegedly caused by an illegal immigrant truck driver, exposed failures at the intersection of highway safety and immigration enforcement, the architect of Pennsylvania’s move-over law said.Michael Bon, a 33-year-old Haitian national who entered the U.S. under former President Joe Biden’s mass parole program, according to the Department of Homeland Security, was arrested after his big rig plowed into Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr. on Interstate 81.State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Gettysburg, whose district encompasses a large swath of Interstate 81’s heavily truck-trafficked corridor, said his law was meant to prevent tragedies like this, many of which have happened in or near his district.Mastriano said Bon’s immigration status made the tragedy doubly preventable.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCK DRIVER CHARGED IN DEATH OF TROOPER WHO MOVED HOME TO CARE FOR MOM WITH CANCERMastriano said his move-over law came about in 2019 as one of his first efforts after being elected to the legislature.”I heard from Tom Bricker, a tow truck operator at Abe’s Towing out of Chambersburg,” he said. “He told me all the close calls he’s had, all the friends of his that have been killed or injured by people crashing into the tow trucks … especially on 81, since that goes through our area.”VIRGINIA BUS CRASH THAT KILLED FIVE INVOLVED DRIVER WHO DOESN’T SPEAK ENGLISH, SEAN DUFFY SAYSAfter Bricker visited Mastriano, tow trucker Tyler Laudenslager was struck and killed on Interstate 81 west of Lebanon, prompting his move-over legislation, which Democratic then-Gov. Tom Wolf signed.Since then, Pennsylvania motorists have been required to move over for tow trucks and other emergency vehicles or slow to a safe speed, something Bon allegedly did not do when he struck Pahira’s cruiser.”Trooper Michael should be alive today, had the federal government enforce their own laws protecting the border, making sure only people coming in legally can be on the roads,” he said, noting the nexus of his law and immigration enforcement policies.‘GHOSTS’ ON FLORIDA HIGHWAYS: ROADSIDE STINGS SNARE 249 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OFFICERS WARN MANY MORE HIDINGAnother Mastriano bill passed in 2022 allows tow trucks to use police-issued blue lights while stopped to get motorists to pay attention. The senator said it came about after meeting with Bricker and other tow truck drivers and learned of a pilot program of the sort in the Midwest.Mastriano said Bon, who had been living in Brockton, Massachusetts, and was issued a CDL by the Bay State’s Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV), drifted out of his lane when he struck Pahira, as the trooper was conducting an unrelated commercial-vehicle inspection south of Frackville.With Massachusetts and Pennsylvania among the states that have faced cases involving CDLs issued to immigrants in the country illegally, Mastriano said states have authority to address motor vehicle policy.Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration previously faulted DHS, whose agency maintains the SAVE registry that identifies a noncitizen’s immigration status, which PennDOT uses to determine licensure eligibility.When asked about states like Pennsylvania faulting the federal government in part for the problem, Mastriano said the “finger-pointing” must stop.”Josh Shapiro, please fix this, you have a lot of power here in Pennsylvania and you’re the governor and so exercise that power ask your secretary of transportation to update records to make sure anyone receiving CDL licenses is somebody who’s here legally and understands the language and can control a vehicle,” he said.”A lot of mistakes were done and people need to be held responsible and to just shift the blame now to the federal government for a state government problem is just wrong,” he said.Massachusetts and Pennsylvania both defended their licensing systems, telling Fox News Digital they relied on the federal SAVE database to verify Bon’s eligibility.”This defendant should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” a Healey administration RMV spokesperson said, echoing the Shapiro administration’s defense of the federal SAVE database and noting it is federally operated.”Every non-U.S. citizen who applies for a commercial learner’s permit or driver’s license in Pennsylvania must provide proof of identity and … lawful presence in the United States, which is verified with the federal SAVE database, administered by [USCIS],” Shapiro spokeswoman Rosie Lapowsky said.Under Massachusetts’ procedure, Bon would have been rejected upon any attempted renewal for 2027, a source familiar with Beacon Hill’s policies said.When asked, as a state lawmaker, what the federal government can do about states where these cases have become common, Mastriano said respecting federalism, the idea that states have semi-autonomy, is important but can make it “tough” to manage.Mastriano pointed to the federal government’s use of highway funding to encourage state compliance with the 55-mph speed limit during the 1970s gasoline crisis.The same strategy could be used today, he suggested.Referring to the Eisenhower Interstate and Defense Highways Act’s inclusion of “defense” concerns, Mastriano said resources could also be allocated by Washington to improve highways based on their linkage between military outposts.In the case of Interstate 81, where Pahira and many others have been killed, he noted that Letterkenny Army Depot in his district, the U.S. Army War College and Tobyhanna Army Depot are located along it, which he said could spur funding for more lanes and better conditions.SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTERLapowsky noted PennDOT has paused all issuances of such licenses following a Sept. 29, 2025 federal order.Since Bon’s crash, another illegal immigrant has been arrested after authorities said he struck and killed a motorist changing a flat tire on Interstate 80 in Illinois.

FIRST ON FOX: A top Senate Republican accused both The New York Times and high-level Senate Democrats of working together to delay publishing allegations against Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner until they could do maximum damage.Stories and allegations against Platner have been piling up for nearly a year, inflicting incremental damage to his candidacy with each report published.It started with the unearthed footage of him dancing intoxicated, sporting a tattoo of Nazi iconography on his chest last Fall, and culminated this week in a bombshell report that Platner allegedly raped his ex-girlfriend, Jenny Racicot. But it was a story from The New York Times in June that sowed deep doubts among Democrats in Washington, D.C., about his candidacy.NEW YORK TIMES UNDER SCRUTINY OVER GRAHAM PLATNER COVERAGE AS ACCUSERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST PAPERSen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who chairs Senate the Republicans’ campaign apparatus, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the media outlet of working together to sit on that bombshell story against Platner to buy time to replace him.”We should have seen this information long ago,” Scott said. “But what they’ve done is they’ve made a decision to keep him in the race as long as possible so that they had more time to make the necessary change to try to hold onto that power and, frankly, gain power in Maine.””Whether or not Chuck Schumer wanted this candidate or not, the fact of the matter is the Democratic Party decided that this was the hill they were all willing to die on,” he continued.KINGMAKER MAMDANI CALLS ON PLATNER TO ‘DROP OUT OF THE RACE’ AFTER RAPE ALLEGATIONScott was referring to The Times report in which multiple women that Platner had relationships with, including Racicot, alleged that he knew about his Nazi tattoo well before reports surfaced that he denied, that he displayed “unsettling behavior” with women and was an intimidating presence with flashes of violence.The Times denied Scott’s claims.”The Senator’s speculation is flatly untrue,” Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander told Fox News Digital.That same story sparks an emergency meeting with Democratic high command, Platner’s top supporters in the Senate and the Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to determine if more damning information was set to come out.SANDERS BREAKS SILENCE ON PLATNER, CALLS ON SCANDAL-PLAGUED PROGRESSIVE TO ‘STEP ASIDE’A source familiar told Fox News Digital that the DSCC “had no involvement” in the story. Schumer did not respond to a request for comment.Still, Scott contended that the story and alleged collusion were “critical pieces of the puzzle,” particularly in the aftermath of Platner’s latest scandal that has seen his entire base of support among Democratic lawmakers and organizations virtually melt away overnight.And, he charged that their sudden dismissal of Platner was indicative of their desire to beat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, to regain power in the upper chamber after months of accepting allegation after allegation.”Those allegations and realities have been real and true the entire time that Democrats knew it,” Scott said. “And what makes it worse is that you say they’re all lining up to get away from him now, but they all lined up to support him earlier.””And what that tells me is that their primary objective is power over principle, and politics over policy,” he continued. “They are more interested in stealing the power so they can control the public.”

President Trump will hold a press conference from the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, this afternoon as the US-Iran ceasefire and memorandum of understanding come to an end. 
The US launched attacks against Iran in response to Iran targeting several ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran is “over,” after Iran struck US military strikes in Kuwait and Bahrain earlier Wednesday.
JUST IN: Iran Strikes US Military Sites in Bahrain and Kuwait as Trump Declares Ceasefire “Over”

Trump called off the ceasefire and memorandum of understanding on Wednesday during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. “To me, I think it’s over,” Trump said. “I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum.”
He added, “They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people, and they’re vicious, violent people… As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them. They’re liars.”
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Trump went on to tell reporters that he plans to hit Iran again tonight. “I’ll probably hit them hard again tonight. I’ll give them a little warning: We’re going to hit them hard tonight,” Trump said during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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The press conference was initially scheduled for 9:15 am ET, but has been delayed.
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The International Monetary Fund projected Wednesday that the global economy will experience a sharp slowdown from the impact of the Iran war.