Author: James Caldwell
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Nearly All Major News Outlets Refuse Pentagon’s New Press Rules, Face Eviction Wednesday
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave reporters until 5 p.m. Tuesday to sign a new policy agreement or lose Pentagon access permanently. Nearly every major news organization refused. Starting Wednesday, for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, no major U.S. television network or publication will have a permanent presence in the Pentagon. The policy requires…
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“Everyday Americans Cannot Lie to Banks” – Letitia James’s 2024 Post About Trump Now Applies to Her Own Federal Indictment
Letitia James wrote in February 2024 that “everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them. There simply cannot be different rules for different people.” She was attacking President Trump on social media while celebrating her civil fraud victory against his…
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ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Driving 18-Wheeler With New York License Listing His Name as “NO NAME GIVEN”
An illegal immigrant from India was driving a commercial truck on Interstate 40 in Oklahoma carrying a New York state CDL with “NO NAME GIVEN” listed as his first name. ICE arrested Anmol Anmol during a routine truck scale inspection on September 23, discovering he entered the country illegally in 2023 after being released by…
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Democrats Suddenly Embrace “States’ Rights” to Fight Trump’s Plan for a Federal Takeover of Chicago
Listen closely to the sounds of our modern political debate, and you will hear something strange and disorienting. Democrats are passionately defending “states’ rights” and the sanctity of local control. Republicans, meanwhile, are championing a massive and unilateral assertion of federal power. This “great flip” has led to charges of hypocrisy from all sides. But…
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Shutdown Stalemate Deepens as Critical Republican Coalition Vote Wavers
Senator Angus King voted with Republicans five times to reopen the government despite caucusing with Democrats. The Maine independent joined Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto in crossing party lines to support GOP funding bills that Democratic leadership has blocked. Now King says he’s considering flipping his vote back unless Republicans provide “more…
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Federal Judge Accuses Trump Administration of Playing “Whack-A-Mole” to Circumvent Court Orders on Troop Deployments
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order Sunday night blocking President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland. Then the Trump administration tried deploying California Guard members instead. So Immergut expanded her order to block troops from any state or Washington D.C., and accused Justice Department attorneys of circumventing her ruling.…
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FBI’s “Arctic Frost” Spy Operation: How Jack Smith Secretly Tracked Nine GOP Lawmakers Without a Warrant
FBI Director Kash Patel just opened a file the Bureau didn’t want anyone to see. Inside: proof that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team tracked the private phone records of eight Republican senators and one House member – without those lawmakers ever knowing they were targets. The operation had a name. “Arctic Frost.” What Makes This…
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Supreme Court Slams Door on Maxwell’s Last Appeal – But Her Lawyer Says “This Fight Isn’t Over”
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her sex trafficking conviction, ending her primary legal avenue for overturning the 20-year sentence she’s serving for recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. The Court’s order list revealed it would not take up her case this term, leaving in place the…
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Supreme Court Hands Trump 21 Wins on Emergency Docket – But None of Them Are Final Decisions
President Trump has won roughly 21 emergency rulings from the Supreme Court since taking office in January, allowing his administration to implement controversial policies while legal challenges work through the courts. The White House is celebrating an almost flawless record on what’s known as the shadow docket – the Supreme Court’s expedited process for temporarily…
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Portland Police Sergeant’s Email Criticizes Counter-Protesters Who Were Assaulted at ICE Facility
A Portland police sergeant wrote an email describing three people who were assaulted outside an ICE facility as a “chronic source of police calls” who “constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed.” The victims included a conservative journalist covering the protests for the Post Millennial. Sgt. Andrew Braun’s email…