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CNN Stuns Audience by Exposing Talarico, Panel Gets Heated Over Capitalism and White Supremacy [WATCH]
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CNN Stuns Audience by Exposing Talarico, Panel Gets Heated Over Capitalism and White Supremacy [WATCH]

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Texas Democrat James Talarico is trying to sell voters a polished moderate image in his campaign for the United States Senate.

Unfortunately for Talarico, his own record keeps crashing through the carefully constructed campaign scenery.

Talarico has spent years making extreme comments about capitalism, climate activism, and the oil and gas industry that powers Texas.

Those statements are difficult to reconcile with the friendlier political vocabulary he is using now that statewide voters are watching.

CNN host Erin Burnett and reporter Andrew Kaczynski laid out that contradiction with surprising clarity.

Burnett described it as a “very different political vocabulary from the one he’s using in his campaign today,” then noted that Talarico “said Texas’ oil industry wouldn’t last,” and “linked climate change with white supremacy and capitalism.”

That is not some minor disagreement over tax rates or environmental permitting.

It is the language of a progressive activist who once appeared eager to dismantle the economic foundations that have helped Texas prosper.

Kaczynski explained that Talarico had explicitly thanked activists for connecting capitalism, white supremacy, and climate change.

According to the report, Talarico believed making that connection would help with the process of “dismantling them.”

In other words, the candidate now presenting himself as an acceptable Texas moderate previously discussed dismantling capitalism.

Campaign consultants can change the packaging, but they cannot erase the receipt.

Talarico also compared oil and gas to “cassette tapes,” suggesting the industry was destined to fade into irrelevance.

That prediction looks especially foolish in Texas, where energy remains central to employment, economic growth, state revenue, and American national security.

Kaczynski pointed out that oil and gas production has increased since Talarico made those remarks.

The industry did not vanish, but the credibility of Talarico’s forecast certainly took a beating.

Burnett summarized the political problem plainly, saying, “This is obviously a number of progressive positions and comments that Talarico has taken. He sounds a lot different on the campaign trail.”

That is a remarkably polite description of a candidate attempting a full ideological costume change.

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The CNN conversation became even more compelling when a panel discussion turned to capitalism itself.

The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill argued that capitalism is oppressive and connected to white supremacy, a familiar progressive claim that often survives only when nobody demands evidence.

Entrepreneur and political commentator Kmele Foster did demand evidence.

He distinguished reasonable criticism of an imperfect economic system from the sweeping and historically flimsy claim that capitalism is fundamentally rooted in racial oppression.

Foster explained, “I’ve always preferred Adam Smith’s description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is! That is not white supremacy.”

Hill protested that capitalism has not always operated according to those ideals.

Foster responded by exposing the historical weakness at the center of her argument.

“Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”

Foster then placed the burden exactly where it belonged, on the person making the accusation.

“You actually have to articulate what the connection is. How are these two things the same? I’m talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy? … What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?“

That was the question Hill needed to answer, not evade.

Simply repeating fashionable academic language does not establish that voluntary exchange, property ownership, and mutually beneficial trade are forms of racial domination.

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Capitalism is not perfect because human beings are not perfect, but its record towers over the socialist and Communist alternatives.

It has generated unprecedented wealth, expanded opportunity, rewarded innovation, and allowed millions of ordinary people to improve their circumstances without waiting for permission from political elites.

The panel itself offered an amusing example, since capitalism appears to have treated its highly visible participants rather well.

Talarico and his progressive allies can complain about the system, but Texas voters should notice who keeps enjoying its benefits while campaigning against its foundations.

Globalist Panic: Trump’s Team Targets London’s Offshore Empire, Not Just Iran’s Terror Cash [WATCH]
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Globalist Panic: Trump’s Team Targets London’s Offshore Empire, Not Just Iran’s Terror Cash [WATCH]

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Susan Kokinda said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s campaign against financial networks connected to Iran is exposing a broader offshore system while the Trump administration pursues changes in energy, Middle East policy and relations with Russia and China.

“When Larry Kudlow called Scott Bessent the best wartime Treasury secretary, I don’t think he expected Bessent to target the war where he did,” Kokinda said.

Bessent publicly warned that Treasury is tracking assets connected to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, specifically identifying accounts in the British Virgin Islands.

“We are tracking down the IRGC’s assets, and I will say it on worldwide TV, just so you know, we know that, where in the British Virgin Islands, your accounts are at these trust companies,” Bessent said.

Kokinda focused on the British Virgin Islands’ status as a British Overseas Territory and its role in offshore finance. She argued that Bessent’s comments represented a warning not only to Iran but also to financial institutions handling the money.

“Do a quick political geography check: Who runs the BVI, and who runs these trust companies?” Kokinda said.

Bessent used an analogy from his childhood in South Carolina to describe the administration’s approach.

“We’d end up with a lot of poison snakes in our yard, and you would take either a rake or a machete or a paddle from a boat, and you cut the head off,” Bessent said.

“But the snake, the tail kept wiggling, and you had to bury the head of the snake.”

Kokinda said Treasury’s campaign has placed 60 entities on notice, with Hong Kong containing the largest number of targets.

She characterized Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands as parts of an offshore financial structure with historical ties to Britain.

Bessent said the administration intends to close the targeted financial channels.

“We are going to, our partners, we are going to close all of that down. So, after 47 years, it is over, and we are telling people, either you are with us or against us,” Bessent said.

Kokinda connected that financial campaign to the administration’s energy strategy.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum described an effort to reduce reliance on Middle Eastern energy chokepoints.

“And so it’s it’s really nothing short of actually shifting the geopolitical center of of the of the global energy markets away from these choke points like in the Middle East and moving it back to the Western Hemisphere,” Burgum said.

“Shifting the geopolitical center away from choke points,” Kokinda said.

“This is the entire imperial model: the offshore money machine, the energy choke points, the wars that continually feed both of them, that is the system that is being targeted.”

Kokinda also pointed to changes underway across the Middle East.

She cited the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria and the formation of the Mecca Joint Defense Alliance involving Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan.

She also discussed President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace framework for Gaza and argued that financial pressure against the IRGC has affected Hamas.

Kokinda then played remarks from Israeli politician and journalist Ksenia Svetlova at London’s Chatham House concerning Trump’s role in Middle East decision-making.

“Israel lost the ability to initiate anything in this regard. This is the most important thing, something that Israel did enjoy before this war, and now it seems that the decision-making is solely in the hands of Donald Trump, the president of the United States, not Israel,” Svetlova said.

“That is a really important point,” Kokinda said.

“From a Chatham House podium, the admission that one of the empire’s proxies is no longer calling the shots, honestly if it ever was, but that Donald Trump is.”

Kokinda said the same strategic shift could be seen at the G20 summit in Asheville, North Carolina.

Russia’s finance minister, Anton Siluanov, attended after being invited by the United States, marking his first in-person appearance at such a summit since Russia invaded Ukraine four years earlier, according to Kokinda.

German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil objected to Siluanov’s participation and declined to join a photograph with him.

Bessent, however, held a one-on-one meeting with Siluanov during the summit.

Trump was asked why Russia had been invited.

“What was the thinking behind inviting the Russians to the G20 meeting in Asheville? Well, we’re going to see what happens, but we like getting along with everybody. One of the reasons that I’m so successful: I get along with everybody,” Trump said.

Kokinda described Trump’s response as a rejection of the geopolitical approach she believes has dominated international relations.

“That’s the opposite of geopolitics,” Kokinda said.

She also highlighted Bessent’s disclosure that the administration has held private discussions with China about Iran despite broader disagreements between Washington and Beijing.

“And everyone says to me, Well, what about China? I said, We have more in common with the Chinese on Iran than we disagree with on,” Bessent said.

“The Chinese agree Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The Chinese agree that there should be free, the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. So we have had private discussions with them in terms of achieving those goals.”

Kokinda said those developments, targeting offshore financial networks, reducing dependence on energy chokepoints, engaging Russia and finding areas of cooperation with China, are components of a larger change in U.S. strategy.

“Since the end of World War II, the central principle of British geopolitics has been keep everyone fighting everyone else, especially the superpowers, while we run the world economy through chokepoints, financial flows, dirty financial flows or otherwise, and proxies,” Kokinda said.

“And at one summit in Asheville, hosted by the United States, that playbook was shredded.”

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Massive Medicaid Red Flags Erupt After Therapist Bills California $40 Million and Splurges [WATCH]
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Massive Medicaid Red Flags Erupt After Therapist Bills California $40 Million and Splurges [WATCH]

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Alarm bells are blaring in California after a man described as a “respiratory therapist” reportedly collected more than $40 million in Medicaid payments through his medical supply company.

The enormous taxpayer funded haul allegedly financed a lifestyle packed with mansions, exotic cars, private flights, and lavish vacations.

City Journal reporter Chris Rufo revealed that Curtis Kurkova operates HeroCare, a company that received at least $40.5 million from California Medicaid beginning in 2020.

About $34.4 million reportedly poured into the business during 2023 and 2024 alone.

According to Rufo, most of HeroCare’s Medicaid revenue from 2020 through 2024 came from a small collection of basic plastic products.

That would be quite a remarkable business model, especially for an operation whose visible public presence appears remarkably thin.

Kurkova and his husband allegedly turned their sudden wealth into a spectacular spending spree.

Their biggest reported purchase was a $28 million mansion in Hidden Hills, the wealthy enclave near celebrities including the Kardashians.

The couple also reportedly spent millions on sports cars, private jets, luxury resorts, and three other homes.

They traveled and partied in some of the world’s most exclusive destinations while California taxpayers were left covering HeroCare’s staggering Medicaid reimbursements.

Rufo’s investigation found several warning signs surrounding the company and its operations.

HeroCare’s website reportedly contains no information about Kurkova, while its “Shop” page is empty despite the company receiving tens of millions of dollars.

The company’s Facebook page had fewer than 30 followers, another curious detail for a business generating such extraordinary government backed revenue.

A quiet social media account is not evidence of wrongdoing, but paired with the other findings, it hardly inspires confidence.

Investigators first visited the Chino medical plaza address HeroCare listed on its most recently available Statement of Interest form.

At Unit 109, a woman answered the door and said, “Hero Health Care? I’m not sure,” before adding, “This is Pristine Home Health.”

The team then traveled to Van Nuys, where HeroCare claimed to maintain a mailing address.

There, reporters found a small paper “HeroCare” sign taped to a window, a locked door, and two brochures wedged into the doorframe.

When investigators returned weeks later, the sign had disappeared.

For a company swimming in Medicaid cash, HeroCare’s apparent footprint looked less like a thriving medical supplier and more like a paper trail with a doorbell.

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City Journal reporters also visited Kurkova’s Hidden Hills mansion and rang the doorbell.

They heard a dog barking inside, but nobody answered, leaving basic questions about the business and its billing practices hanging in the California air.

The documentary trail raised still more questions about Kurkova’s identity and business entities.

A deed involving the couple’s Big Bear City home showed that Kurkova previously used the name Curtis Ray Hotchkiss Jr. and legally sought a name change in 2023.

Between July 2024 and June 2025, Kurkova reportedly created another entity and moved through several company names, including HeroCare East LLC, Hero Healthcare Group, and HeroCare 2 LLC.

A cancellation certificate later stated that HeroCare 2 “has not conducted any business.”

A person identified as apparently being Kurkova’s brother, Michael Amar, formed a separate company called Hero Healthcare Group in 2025.

Amar, a licensed respiratory practitioner formerly known as Michael Hotchkiss, reportedly listed the same telephone number that HeroCare used in a 2023 Facebook post.

Rufo’s team attempted to contact Curtis Kurkova, Christian Kurkova, and Michael Amar, but none responded to the questions.

Instead, an attorney identified only as “Mike” answered and accused the investigators of “homophobia.”

That accusation did nothing to explain the Medicaid payments, empty storefront appearances, shifting corporate names, or mansion sized spending.

The left may treat identity politics as a magical shield, but taxpayers still deserve direct answers when more than $40 million in public money is involved.

When City Journal returned to the Hidden Hills estate, the gates were closed.

A Ferrari and Genesis sat in the driveway, while a Tesla eventually departed without Curtis Kurkova inside.

Kurkova and HeroCare appeared to have vanished from public view just as scrutiny intensified.

No criminal charge was reported in the source material, but the unanswered questions surrounding the company, its Medicaid billing, and the couple’s fortune are now impossible for California officials to ignore.

Holocaust Survivor’s Granddaughter Rips Zohran Mamdani to His Face During Brooklyn Shop Visit [WATCH]
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Holocaust Survivor’s Granddaughter Rips Zohran Mamdani to His Face During Brooklyn Shop Visit [WATCH]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced a furious confrontation Wednesday when an American Israeli activist accused him of ignoring surging antisemitism during his visit to a Jewish store in Brooklyn.

The heated exchange unfolded inside Eichler’s, a Judaica shop in Borough Park.

Stephanie Benshimol, founder of United Zionists, confronted Mamdani as he visited the store ahead of Rosh Hashanah next week.

She describes herself as a “Boss Momma American Israeli Zionist” and recorded the encounter while sharply challenging the mayor.

“Hey, it’s me, Stefanie Benshimol. You remember me? Remember last year when Trump freed the hostages?” she yelled as Mamdani moved through the shop.

She then declared, “It’s all because of you we have so much antisemitism.”

Benshimol, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, blasted Mamdani for entering the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood while anti Jewish hate crimes are climbing across New York City.

Her message was anything but subtle.

“Shame on you for coming to Borough Park where my Bubbie came after the Holocaust!” she shouted.

The rebuke connected the neighborhood’s history as a refuge for Jewish families with the fear many residents now feel over escalating antisemitic attacks.

“My Bubbie and Zaidy came to Borough Park! You have such chutzpah coming here! Shame on you!” Benshimol yelled.

Bubbie and Zaidy are Yiddish terms for grandmother and grandfather.

The activist’s anger intensified as store employees attempted to usher her outside’

Rather than backing down, she turned her attention toward one worker and accused the employee of enabling Mamdani.

“Are you a kapo? Are you supporting him? Do you support Israel? Do you support Israel? Do you?” she demanded.

The word “kapo” refers to a concentration camp prisoner forced by the Nazis to supervise other captives.

That accusation drew on one of the darkest chapters in Jewish history and showed the depth of Benshimol’s outrage.

Her fury quickly expanded from Mamdani to Eichler’s and its owners for welcoming the mayor into their business.

“Shame on you Eichler’s, shame on you for allowing Zohran Mamdani to come to the heart of the Jewish neighborhood in Borough Park,” Benshimol said.

She accused the owners of wanting to “kiss ass to the hater of all Jewish people!”

“They want to kiss ass to the hater of all Jewish people!” she continued.

For Benshimol, the mayor’s appearance was not a routine holiday stop, but a galling display of political theater amid a worsening public safety crisis.

Mamdani did not respond to Benshimol’s taunts during the confrontation.

His silence left the activist’s charges hanging in the store as employees worked to remove her from the premises.

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The confrontation comes as city crime figures paint a deeply troubling picture for Jewish New Yorkers.

Hate crimes across the Big Apple have risen 9.4% this year, according to New York Police Department data released last month.

Even more alarming, 56.9% of reported hate crime incidents were antisemitic, meaning Jewish residents were targeted in more than half of those cases.

Jewish people make up only about 10% of New York City’s population.

That glaring disparity is difficult for City Hall to explain away with the usual polished statements and carefully staged neighborhood appearances.

For residents watching antisemitism spread, photo opportunities at Jewish businesses are unlikely to substitute for firm leadership and measurable results.

Mamdani’s trip to Eichler’s was presumably intended to show outreach before one of the most important holidays on the Jewish calendar.

Instead, Benshimol ensured that the mayor heard directly from a Jewish New Yorker who believes his record deserves condemnation rather than applause.

The scene also highlighted the political risk of visiting communities that feel abandoned while crime statistics move in the wrong direction.

Mamdani may have refused to engage, but the numbers cited by police make it much harder for his administration to ignore the anger.

Dems Melt Down After Being Forced to Put Court-Packing Agenda in Writing [WATCH]
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Dems Melt Down After Being Forced to Put Court-Packing Agenda in Writing [WATCH]

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House Democrats overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would have permanently fixed the United States Supreme Court at nine justices.

The vote preserved the left’s option of adding seats whenever the Court delivers rulings Democratic leaders dislike.

The measure failed by a vote of 212 to 206, nowhere near the two thirds majority required for a constitutional amendment to clear the House.

Nearly every Democrat stood together against permanently protecting the Court’s current size.

Only Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina broke ranks and joined Republicans in supporting the proposal.

His vote left him as the lone House Democrat willing to close the door on future court expansion.

The proposed amendment, H.J. Res. 28, was direct and remarkably brief. Its operative language contained one sentence: “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices.”

If ratified, the amendment would prevent a future president and congressional majority from manufacturing additional Supreme Court seats.

That practice, commonly called court packing, would allow politicians to reshape the judiciary whenever its decisions become politically inconvenient.

House Speaker Mike Johnson made clear before the vote that Republicans wanted Democrats on the record.

Johnson told reporters Tuesday that the proposal would force Democrats to “put their money where their mouth is” concerning the Court’s independence.

The answer from all but one House Democrat was a resounding no.

When offered a clear opportunity to eliminate court packing as a future political weapon, Democrats protected the weapon instead.

That refusal matters because leading Democrats have openly discussed sweeping changes to the Supreme Court if their party regains control of Congress.

Their complaints have intensified as the current Court has rejected several priorities embraced by the progressive movement.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in August that “dramatic” Supreme Court reform is “necessary.”

He also indicated that Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland would lead that campaign as House Judiciary Committee chairman if Democrats retake the chamber.

Jeffries notably refused to remove any proposal from consideration.

“There’s a variety of different options that are on the table,” Jeffries said.

“And I think that we can’t foreclose any single one of them.”

Wednesday’s vote offered Democrats the chance to foreclose one particularly dangerous option, adding seats to secure a preferred ideological majority.

Instead, they overwhelmingly chose to keep that option available for the next Democratic power grab.

Republicans argued during debate that expanding the Court would destroy public confidence in judicial independence.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio described court expansion as an attack on the Court’s “independence.”

The basic concern is not complicated.

If every party responds to an unfavorable ruling by creating more seats, the Supreme Court becomes another political committee whose membership changes according to election results and partisan frustration.

Democrats countered that permanently setting the Court at nine seats would interfere with Congress’ constitutional authority.

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They also complained that the amendment would preserve the current six to three conservative majority, revealing exactly why the possibility of expansion remains attractive to them.

Raskin accused Republicans of engaging in “court packing on steroids,” citing the Senate’s refusal to hold a confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland in 2016.

He also pointed to the later confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania offered a similar argument against the amendment.

“This proposed constitutional amendment would undermine our system of checks and balances,” Scanlon said, calling it a “grave mistake” to approve a measure that would “permanently tie Congress’ hands.”

The Republican proposal did not protect any particular ideological majority or party.

It simply established nine as the permanent number of justices, regardless of who occupies the White House or controls Congress.

Democrats nevertheless voted almost unanimously to preserve a path toward expansion.

For a party that constantly lectures Americans about norms and institutional integrity, refusing to safeguard the Court from naked partisan manipulation is quite the performance.

The vote should command attention well beyond Capitol Hill because it reveals how Democratic leaders view government power.

Institutions are apparently sacred only while they produce outcomes the left considers acceptable.

The coming congressional elections will determine far more than attitudes toward Donald Trump.

Voters will decide whether Washington should protect stable constitutional institutions or allow frustrated politicians to rewrite the rules whenever power slips from their grasp.

Midterm Anxiety for Republicans? Only If You Forget How Much the World Changed in the Past 5 Years [WATCH]
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Midterm Anxiety for Republicans? Only If You Forget How Much the World Changed in the Past 5 Years [WATCH]

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Victor Davis Hanson argued that Republican anxiety over the approaching midterm elections is obscuring what he sees as a dramatic improvement in America’s global position compared with five years ago.

“We’re nine weeks from the midterm and we’re starting to see a lot of anxiety, frustration on the part of the Republicans,” Hanson said.

“They fear the historical precedent will be the same in November that the in party loses seats in the House and Senate and maybe both of them. And the left is very triumphant. And we’re getting a picture that I think is inaccurate.”

Hanson said Americans should compare current conditions with those at the beginning of former President Joe Biden’s administration, starting with the country’s neighbors.

“Our relationship with Canada is changing for the better for us. It’s changing better for Mexico,” Hanson said.

“Do they like it? No. Why don’t they like it? Because they had a pretty good deal at our expense.”

Hanson pointed to border security as another major change.

“Is the border closed? Yes. Is illegal immigration plaguing us at 10,000 to a day? No,” Hanson said.

He also highlighted developments in Venezuela, including a 100-year arrangement that he said would give the United States access to 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil.

Hanson noted that extracting Venezuela’s heavy crude remains expensive and difficult, but argued the agreement benefits both countries.

“All of South America and all of the Caribbean and all of Central America is unrecognizable from 5 years ago when Joe Biden entered office,” Hanson said.

Hanson then turned to the Middle East, focusing on Iran and its regional proxies, including the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah.

He credited Israel with weakening Hezbollah and argued that American economic pressure has deprived Iran and its allies of financial resources.

“We have the strictest sanctions, embargoes, that we’ve ever seen on Iran,” Hanson said.

“And as Iran as we hear is winning the war, they’re just about kaput. They’re strangled.”

Hanson said Iran’s military has been heavily degraded while its currency and energy sector face intense pressure.

He argued that time favors the United States because Iran cannot indefinitely withstand the economic restrictions.

“Maybe it’s going to be 6 weeks, maybe it’s going to be 6 months, but it cannot survive the economic sanctions that are now in place,” Hanson said.

According to Hanson, weakening Iran could also change the broader Middle East by reducing the influence of the government in Tehran and its proxies.

“The entire Middle East is starting to wake up and see that there’s a really good chance to see to go to a normal regional atmosphere without that pernicious, toxic government,” Hanson said.

Energy is another component of Hanson’s assessment.

He predicted that pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz would reduce the strategic importance of the waterway and argued that America’s energy production, combined with the Venezuela agreement, could strengthen its position in global energy markets.

“And who’s going to control most of the oil in the world? The United States, because it’s got this good deal with Venezuela, and it’s already the largest producer of natural gas,” Hanson said.

Hanson also pointed to Russia and NATO. He described Russia as significantly weakened while saying NATO members are rearming at levels previously considered unlikely.

Europe’s political and economic direction, Hanson argued, is also changing.

He criticized the European Union model of open borders, low fertility, green energy policies and disarmament, predicting that political changes will spread beyond Italy and Eastern Europe.

“In other words, the socialist model has failed all over the world, and it’s starting to implode,” Hanson said.

“And it’s not gaining ground in the United States.”

Hanson said the cumulative changes leave America stronger relative to China, Russia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

“Add it all up, and the United States is in a preeminent position,” Hanson said.

“And the world today has nothing in common with the world just five years ago.”

He argued that other nations are moving closer to the United States because of American economic, military and technological strength rather than necessarily because of favorable attitudes toward Washington.

“The United States is much stronger, in a much better position than those countries and regions I just mentioned,” Hanson said.

Hanson also cited America’s position in artificial intelligence, software, space exploration, satellites and bioengineering as advantages that could determine future economic and strategic power.

“Our system is producing spectacular growth economically, militarily, socially, culturally, and more importantly, in the technologies to come in the future: AI, software, space exploration, satellites, bioengineering, we’re preeminent,” Hanson said.

With the midterms approaching, Hanson rejected the idea that the United States should view its current position primarily through the lens of crisis or decline.

“So do not listen, before these midterms, that we’re in crisis, the loss of war,” Hanson said.

“We’re in the eye of the hurricane, but the storm is passing, and it’s going to be very advantageous for the United States in the next decade.”

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Feds Turned Whistleblowers Into ‘Russian Agents’ to Save Joe and Hunter Biden: Jim Jordan [WATCH]
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding that the FBI surrender every record connected to “Round River,” a counterintelligence operation that labeled Trump administration officials, Republican lawmakers, and political allies as “conduits” of Russian disinformation.

Jordan sent a letter Wednesday to FBI Director Kash Patel seeking evidence about the operation.

He argues that the bureau obstructed legitimate congressional oversight while working to protect Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election.

Round River reportedly treated members of Congress as channels for foreign propaganda because they investigated corruption allegations involving Biden and his son Hunter Biden in Ukraine.

The FBI also provided defensive briefings claiming those lawmakers were spreading Russian disinformation.

“So almost half the confidential human sources say that was a concern, and yet they said, ‘No, no, no, no, we’re going to push that to the side,’ and the Justice Department said we’re going to go instead say this is a Russian information operation, and they’re using members of Congress as conduits to convey that Russian misinformation that they’re trying to get out. That is ridiculous,” Jordan told the Just the News, No Noise TV show.

Jordan said the episode demonstrated how far federal officials were willing to go to shield Biden and politically damage President Donald Trump.

Instead of pursuing serious allegations, the bureau apparently placed suspicion on the lawmakers asking inconvenient questions.

“So that is how ridiculous this whole thing became, and I think it really underscores when you talk about the weaponization of government and what they were up to in trying to protect Biden and harm President Trump. They were willing to go to that length, to that extreme, saying Republican members of Congress were conduits of Russian information misinformation,” he also said.

Jordan believes the pattern began during the 2016 election, when the FBI relied on the discredited Steele Dossier to investigate Trump and his presidential campaign.

He says it continued through Special Counsel Jack Smith and his aggressive pursuit of Trump before the 2024 election.

“It’s always been an effort by the government to help the Democrat candidate and harm the Republican candidate,” the Ohio Republican lawmaker said.

“In this case, each of the three times it was President Trump. That is not how our system is supposed to work. Not how our government’s supposed to work. It started with the Clinton campaign telling a lie, and they built off of that, and then it was all the other stuff culminating in Jack Smith doing this to a separate and equal branch of government. That’s how serious it is. So this has got to end. This is America, the greatest country ever. We don’t operate this way, but unfortunately, it happened over the last decade.”

Documents declassified last month show that the FBI and American intelligence agencies received derogatory information about the Biden family from informants.

A group of FBI analysts nevertheless launched Round River and designated prominent officials, lawmakers, and journalists as suspicious conduits.

The operation included work from the FBI field office in Pittsburgh and initially focused on Rudy Giuliani.

The former New York City mayor and Trump lawyer had been investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine when the bureau turned its attention toward him.

The inquiry then widened to include other public figures who raised concerns about Biden family corruption.

That group reportedly included Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Jordan, and several Republican members of Congress.

A spreadsheet recovered from intelligence files identified more than six dozen Americans, foreigners, and organizations connected to the Biden Ukraine scandal and Trump’s first impeachment.

The classifications broke along remarkably convenient political lines.

Democrats including Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and liberal donor George Soros were portrayed as victimized “targets” of Russian disinformation.

Conservatives including Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo, and Giuliani were classified as a “conduit.”

The FBI also applied that label to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson, and Lindsey Graham, along with former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

Jordan received the same treatment while examining whether the Biden allegations had merit.

“I always say it started in ‘16 with [ Peter] Strzok and [Lisa] Page, and you know what they did, the Clinton campaign, the whole thing we talked about. That’s where it started, and … it culminated with Jack Smith,” Jordan said.

“Jack Smith, his job was to … indict President Trump, go to trial and keep him from being president,” Jordan said.

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Congress later found that Smith obtained private communications involving more than 40 lawmakers and may have misled lawmakers about that surveillance.

Those actions raised serious concerns involving the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, which protects lawmakers from executive branch scrutiny over legislative activity.

Records released by Grassley also showed that Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation issued nearly 200 subpoenas and sought information involving more than 400 Republican figures and organizations.

Smith also prosecuted Trump over classified documents and his challenge to the 2020 election.

Both cases disappeared after Trump won the 2024 election and Smith resigned, but Congress is still digging into how federal power was used against Trump, his allies, and elected lawmakers.

Mystery Beast Terrorizes New Hampshire Neighborhood After Three Attacks in Two Days [WATCH]
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A mysterious wild animal has rattled a New Hampshire neighborhood after attacking at least three people in less than two days.

Authorities have described the creature as “unusually aggressive” as the search for the unidentified animal continues.

The attacks have been reported around the Centerra Park area of Lebanon since Sunday, according to the Lebanon Police Department. Residents, workers, and visitors have been warned to “remain aware of their surroundings.”

Witnesses have offered conflicting descriptions of the animal, calling it either a “gray fox or a fisher.”

Police believe the same small, gray creature was responsible for all three frightening encounters, although officers have not confirmed exactly what species it is.

Surveillance footage captured one encounter in a parking lot near a rental truck.

The video reportedly shows the animal charging toward two people with the sort of reckless aggression that makes a routine walk through a parking lot suddenly feel like a wildlife documentary gone wrong.

The animal grabbed one man’s bag before lunging toward his feet and legs.

The man fought back by kicking at the creature, which eventually retreated beneath the nearby truck.

Police received the first attack report Sunday near Centerra Parkway.

Two additional incidents followed, with the latest attack occurring Monday evening, suggesting the animal was continuing to roam through the same general area.

Investigators initially suspected a fisher was responsible for the first encounter.

However, officers have been unable to locate the animal, leaving authorities without a firm identification or a way to test whether it is carrying disease.

“It’s concerning because of the animal attacking people. That’s usually indicative of something being wrong with the animal, most likely rabies,” Lebanon Police Chief Phillip Roberts said, according to WMUR.

“And then, you know, the fact that it’s coming out and scratching and biting at people. That’s obviously a concern to us,” Roberts added.

Wild animals generally try to avoid people, particularly in busy commercial areas.

An animal repeatedly approaching, chasing, scratching, or biting people is a major warning sign that illness, injury, or some other dangerous condition may be driving its behavior.

Residents are understandably unsettled by the idea that an aggressive animal could be hiding near buildings and parked vehicles.

“Oh my goodness, that’s the scariest thing,” one local told the outlet.

The resident captured the mood of a public already accustomed to watching for danger in ordinary places.

“Like there’s not enough to look out for these days, now you gotta look out for fisher cats in the parking lot.”

Lebanon police are working with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department to locate the animal and determine whether it is sick.

Until it is found, officials are urging everyone in the area to keep their distance from wildlife that displays aggressive or otherwise abnormal behavior.

“Do not approach, attempt to capture, feed, or otherwise interact with the animal,” police said.

Anyone who sees the creature should immediately move to a secure location and contact Lebanon police or the Fish and Game Department.

Officials also warned that bites and scratches from wild animals can create possible exposure to rabies.

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Anyone attacked should thoroughly wash the affected area with soap and water, then seek immediate medical attention rather than gambling with a potentially deadly infection.

Rabies is particularly dangerous because symptoms may not appear immediately, but the disease can become fatal once those symptoms begin.

Prompt treatment after a suspected exposure remains essential, making every bite or scratch from this roaming animal a serious medical concern.

The Lebanon scare is not the only recent warning involving a potentially rabid animal.

The Mount Loretto Unique Area, a 241 acre nature preserve on the south shore of Staten Island, also issued a public safety advisory after a fox reportedly bit a visitor.

New York environmental officials said that fox may have been infected with rabies.

That separate incident offers another blunt reminder that wildlife encounters should not be treated casually when an animal abandons its natural fear of people.

For now, the New Hampshire creature remains unidentified and at large.

Police are asking the public to stay alert, avoid playing amateur animal control, and report sightings before another unsuspecting person becomes attack number four.

Biden Appointed Judge Slams Brakes on Trump Crackdown Against Birth Tourism [WATCH]
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Biden Appointed Judge Slams Brakes on Trump Crackdown Against Birth Tourism [WATCH]

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A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s latest executive order targeting birth tourism, handing immigration activists another courtroom victory over the administration’s efforts to tighten entry rules.

The preliminary injunction prevents federal officials from enforcing the order while the legal challenge proceeds.

The executive order focuses on foreign nationals who enter the United States using temporary visas with the purpose of giving birth on American soil.

Trump argues that organized birth tourism operations exploit visa categories and transform temporary visits into lasting immigration benefits.

Trump signed the birth tourism order earlier this month alongside another directive addressing birthright citizenship.

The new actions followed a Supreme Court ruling that rejected the administration’s previous attempt to restrict automatic citizenship for certain children born in the United States.

During the Oval Office signing, Trump criticized the Supreme Court outcome as “very, very unfortunate” and said his administration was revising its approach.

“So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair.”

Trump also tied the original understanding of birthright citizenship to the aftermath of slavery, arguing that the policy has since been twisted into a profitable immigration industry.

He said wealthy foreign nationals and commercial operators are exploiting a constitutional guarantee that was never intended to function as an international citizenship purchase program.

“This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves, and what’s happening now, people are building businesses around it,” Trump said.

“Wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship. That’s not the way it was supposed to work. It’s a disgrace. They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let it happen.”

United States District Judge Deborah Boardman, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued the preliminary injunction in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Her ruling blocks the administration from immediately carrying out restrictions contained in Trump’s revised order while the court considers the broader constitutional and statutory arguments.

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Immigrant rights advocates requested the injunction after previously obtaining a ruling from Boardman against Trump’s initial 2025 executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

The same courthouse is now serving as another obstacle to an administration trying to enforce immigration law rather than treating every visa category as an open invitation.

The revised order draws a distinction between lawful temporary travel and entering the country specifically to secure citizenship for a child.

It defines birth tourism as entry through a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth in the United States, including efforts by others to arrange or facilitate that entry.

Trump’s order declares that American citizenship is a profound national inheritance rather than a benefit available through calculated use of temporary immigration rules.

“Citizenship is not a commodity to be acquired through calculated exploitation and evasion of the immigration laws, such as by entering the United States on a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth within the Nation’s borders.”

The order argues that birth tourism operators misuse visas intended for study, cultural exchange, temporary employment, tourism, and other short term activities.

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According to the administration, those schemes drain consular and enforcement resources, weaken confidence in immigration law, and interfere with the federal government’s ability to protect national security.

Trump delegated implementation authority to the secretary of state and the secretary of homeland security under federal immigration law.

Those officials would be permitted to develop rules, policies, and operational guidance aimed at ensuring that temporary visa classifications are used for their lawful purposes.

Possible enforcement measures include denying visas or travel authorization to people suspected of planning birth tourism, revoking existing permission, barring future entry, or removing foreign nationals involved in such schemes.

The order also allows action against organizations, businesses, and individuals that facilitate birth tourism inside or outside the United States.

The directive contains exemptions allowing the secretary of state or homeland security secretary to make exceptions for humanitarian reasons or when entry serves the national interest.

It also states that implementation must remain consistent with applicable law and available congressional funding.

The order includes a severability provision intended to preserve the remaining sections if one part is declared invalid.

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For now, however, Boardman’s injunction has frozen Trump’s newest attempt to shut down an industry built around temporary entry, strategic childbirth, and the expectation that American taxpayers and institutions will simply accept the arrangement.

Hakeem Jeffries Melts Down After Two Democrats Help Anti-Socialism Resolution Pass [WATCH]
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Hakeem Jeffries Melts Down After Two Democrats Help Anti-Socialism Resolution Pass [WATCH]

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The House passed a resolution condemning socialism Tuesday evening, forcing lawmakers to declare where they stand on an ideology with a long record of misery.

The measure cleared the chamber 220 to 192, with every opposing vote coming from Democrats.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar in voting no.

Their opposition placed the highest levels of House Democratic leadership squarely against the condemnation.

The vote nearly never happened because five conservative Republicans opposed the procedural rule needed to begin debate.

Their protest left Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican leaders facing another embarrassing floor defeat until two Democrats unexpectedly crossed the aisle.

Representatives Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington supplied the decisive votes.

Their support carried the rule by a razor thin count of 209 to 208, rescuing the Republican agenda while stunning their own leadership.

The move was especially unusual because minority party lawmakers almost never help the majority advance a rule.

Jeffries told reporters that neither Golden nor Gluesenkamp Perez warned him before breaking ranks, apparently leaving the Democratic leader to discover the rebellion in real time.

Jeffries and other senior Democrats quickly threatened consequences, describing the decision as a serious violation of caucus trust.

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The episode showed that Democrats may celebrate dissent everywhere except inside their own conference.

“It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order,” the Democratic leaders said.

That language suggested Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez could face internal punishment for allowing an uncomfortable vote to proceed.

Every House Republican later supported the resolution condemning socialism and affirming election integrity.

Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez also backed the final measure alongside Democratic Representatives Don Davis, Vicente Gonzalez, Henry Cuellar, Kathy Castor, Gabe Vasquez, and Darren Soto.

Democratic Representatives Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan voted present rather than taking a firm position.

For voters seeking clarity, that maneuver offered the familiar Washington version of hiding behind the curtains while pretending to participate.

The resolution also affirmed support for election integrity and urged Congress to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act.

Nearly all Democrats oppose that legislation, which is intended to ensure that only American citizens participate in federal elections.

Socialism has become a potent issue heading toward the 2026 midterm elections.

Democrats are wrestling with a growing far left insurgency as candidates connected to the Democratic Socialists of America defeat incumbents and establishment favorites in races around the country.

Republicans see the trend as a warning for voters who might otherwise dismiss socialism as empty campus rhetoric.

If Democrats regain congressional power, the party activists pushing nationalization, massive spending, and weaker election safeguards will expect their reward.

Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger told Fox News Digital, “Socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried without exception. It’s a dangerous ideology that creates misery for the very people it claims to help,” offering a blunt summary of the Republican case.

Representative Jeff Crank of Colorado, who led the resolution, said the vote gave Americans a clear look at where lawmakers stand.

“They can certainly be critical, but it’s just a quick choice for the American people to see where people stand on this stuff,” Crank said.

Democrats dismissed the resolution as symbolic theater and argued that Republicans should focus on grocery and gasoline prices.

That complaint dodged the obvious point, since socialist policies built around government control and runaway spending directly affect household costs.

The five Republicans who opposed the procedural rule were Pete Sessions, Chip Roy, Ralph Norman, Clay Higgins, and Andy Harris.

Their dispute concerned leadership’s handling of a short term government funding plan, not the resolution condemning socialism or the other measures scheduled for debate.

Those conservatives objected after the Senate changed the original House funding bill, adding provisions involving hemp products and federal grants.

Golden also had a practical interest because failure of the rule would have stalled his legislation protecting portions of the American lobster and crab fishing industries.

Golden is not seeking reelection, while Gluesenkamp Perez remains one of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress.

Their procedural revolt exposed both the fragility of House control and the Democratic leadership’s fury when members refuse to protect the party from revealing votes.


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