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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote. Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Lawmakers Cashed $20K Each During Record Shutdown  Members of Congress collected more than $20,000 apiece during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, even as millions of Americans went without pay and essential services. President Donald Trump ended the U.S. record-long, 43-day standoff Wednesday night after a small group of moderate Democrats broke ranks to join Republicans in passing a short-term funding measure. The White House estimates the shutdown inflicted roughly $15 billion in weekly economic damage, with 60,000 private-sector jobs lost. US, SKorea Agree on Trade, Security Deal, Nuclear Subs  South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Friday that South Korea and the United States had completed a joint fact sheet outlining new agreements on trade, defense, and technology following his summit with President Donald Trump last month. Lee, speaking during a televised briefing, said South Korea will begin building nuclear-powered submarines and launch a new partnership with the U.S. covering shipbuilding, artificial intelligence, and the nuclear industry. He also emphasized that the nations had completed "broad and historic" commitments that strengthen their economic and security cooperation. Lee met Trump in Gyeongju last month and agreed to a trade deal that will cut U.S. import duties on South Korean products to 15%, down from the previous rate of 25% in several key industrial sectors. According to a joint fact sheet released by the White House, the agreement represents a sweeping upgrade of the U.S.-South Korea alliance. The document called the updated partnership "a new chapter" for the nations, covering tariff adjustments, expanded defense arrangements, and hundreds of billions of dollars in new industrial investment.
Fmr Air Traffic Controller: Obama Admin Chose Color Over Competency  As flight delays ease nationwide after days of disruption, a former air traffic controller is placing blame for the FAA's long-running staffing shortages on hiring policies implemented under the Obama administration. Former air traffic controller Michael Pearson told Newsmax on Thursday the FAA's workforce crisis traces back to 2011, when he asserted the administration "chose color over competency" by discarding a pool of roughly 3,000 qualified applicants and introducing a controversial biographical assessment. According to Pearson, those applicants had already passed aptitude tests, held relevant college degrees, and completed controller training programs at no taxpayer cost. Portland’s socialist disaster should be a wake-up call for Zohran Mamdani, NYC voters  If the travails of a certain Left Coast city are any guide, Zohran Mamdani’s plan to paint New York red is not only bound to fail but also to alienate voters once they get a real taste of his socialist “utopia.” The mayor-elect wants to hand out everything from frozen rents and free buses to subsidized trans surgeries even for kids. He wants the so-called 1% of wealthy New Yorkers who already pay for most of the freebies to pay even more to foot the bill. That message won him the mayoralty, but what he left out of his pitch is what happens next. Just how much do people really like progressive government, and what happens to local economies and standards of living when lefty pols go there? Russian military spy ship spotted just miles off US coast  A Russian military spy ship has been detected just miles off the coast of Hawaii, according to the US Coast Guard, which said it is actively monitoring it. The Russian vessel, Kareliya, was spotted roughly 15 nautical miles south of Oahu — near US territorial waters — on Oct. 29, the Coast Guard said Thursday. A Coast Guard helicopter and ship immediately responded and have been monitoring Russia’s Vishnya-class intelligence ship ever since. Under international law, foreign military vessels are permitted to operate outside another country’s territorial seas as long as they’re 12 nautical miles out, according to the Coast Guard. Court reveals Bryan Kohberger’s jail windfall — and orders him to pay victims' parents Kohberger may still profit from future media deals, judge finds  An Idaho court revealed convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger received tens of thousands of dollars in donations while his case dragged on Thursday, three years to the day after the former criminology Ph.D. student killed four undergrads in a 4 a.m. home invasion stabbing spree. "State's Exhibit 3, filed with its reply brief, demonstrates that Defendant received several hundred donations totaling $28,360.96 while incarcerated at the Latah County and Ada County jails," Judge Steven Hippler wrote. "According to defense counsel, many of these donations came from Defendant's family members." A specific breakdown showing the source of the funding was not released by the court. Kohberger's parents declared bankruptcy twice previously, in the mid-1990s and again in 2010, court records show. GOP unity shattered by controversial measure in government shutdown bill 'The lords don’t like to be told by mere commoners what to do,' Rep Chip Roy tells Fox News Digital  GOP Rep. John Rose of Tennessee discussed his concerns with a measure in the bill to end the government shutdown that allows senators whose phone records have been tapped to sue the federal government. The House is expected to vote next week on repealing a controversial measure in the bill that ended the government shutdown. It caused heartburn for House Republicans in the final days of the shutdown and provided fresh ammo for Democrats hoping to delay their federal funding legislation in its final hours. The provision, tucked into the Legislative Branch appropriations bill and dubbed "Requiring Senate Notification for Senate Data," would allow senators directly targeted in former special counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation to sue the U.S. government for up to $500,000. Congressman says he was 'blown off' by Wisconsin college accused of blocking new TPUSA chapter Beloit College is accused of blocking a new TPUSA chapter and neglecting threats to conservative students  Jocelyn Jordan, a student at Beloit College in Wisconsin, says faculty have prevented her and her classmates from establishing a new Turning Point USA chapter on campus, while also ignoring harassment and threats they have faced. A Republican member of Congress seeking to support one of his constituents who accused her college of blocking attempts to start a new Turning Point USA chapter on campus was reportedly "blown off" by college administrators after he attempted to have a conversation with the school to better understand what was going on. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., sought to collect the facts regarding allegations from a Beloit College student that her college was preventing her from establishing a new Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter on campus. TPUSA was the conservative campus activism nonprofit founded by assassinated activist Charlie Kirk. Party Rift Widens Over Mayor-Elect Mamdani  The Queens County Democratic Committee withheld its endorsement from New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani following his victory on November 5, where he defeated independent Andrew Cuomo. While Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Bronx committees have rallied behind Mamdani, Staten Island’s leadership rescinded its initial support, leaving the borough without an official position. Chairman Hiram Monserrate cited widespread rank-and-file resistance to Mamdani’s agenda. Monserrate stated, “We have a lot of Democrats in Queens who do not support Mamdani.” Monserrate added, “There is a reckoning occurring in the Democratic Party. There is a growing concern that socialism is hijacking the Democratic Party.” but will he use them? BBC Doctored Second Trump Speech  The British Broadcasting Corporation is facing a fresh allegation that it spliced together President Donald Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, speech to make it appear he issued a more explicit call for violence ahead of the unrest at the Capitol that day. The state-owned broadcaster already is reeling from the resignations of its director-general, Tim Davie, and BBC News chief Deborah Turness, after the same speech was spliced in a "Panorama" episode that aired last year. Footage edited for an episode of "Newsnight" in 2022 made it appear Trump was encouraging his supporters to riot at the Capitol, The Telegraph reported Thursday. The edit was similar to a version aired on "Panorama." The latest revelation surfaced after Trump's legal team reportedly sent a letter to the BBC giving it until Friday to retract the "Panorama" episode in which the excerpts appeared or face a lawsuit seeking at least $1 billion. Trump asks DOJ to probe Jeffrey Epstein ties to Bill Clinton, other Dems, big banks: ‘Stay tuned!’  President Trump said on his Truth Social platform Friday that he is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s links to prominent Democratic officials and banks like JP Morgan. “Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, [former US Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers, [venture capitalist] Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” Trump announced on Truth Social. “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island.’ Stay tuned!!!” How the GOP can push true health care ‘affordability’ — and win The debate over affordability is now truly and fully joined. Ahead of next year’s midterms, Democrats are coalescing around a cost-of living message that makes more sense than their anti-Trump obsessions (not that we aren’t going to hear a lot about those). For its part, the White House has concluded that the affordability issue is a vulnerability, and President Trump has thrown out a raft of proposals to address it — from $2,000 tariff rebates to 50-year mortgages. Health care will be a major front in this fight, a traditional Democratic policy strength that the party emphasized during the just-concluded government shutdown. Five ridiculous moments to remember MSNBC as it transitions to MS NOW Then and now We hold eulogies when someone important passes. But MSNBC is dying, and that calls for a different kind of tribute. MSNBC is going through what marketers call a rebranding process as the outlet changes a couple initials and becomes MS NOW Nov. 15. It’s like a gender transition, and it is costing them $20 million, according to The New York Times, but their brand of leftist lunacy isn’t going away. Anchor Rachel Maddow told the audience, "We are not going anywhere, and we are not changing anything other than our name." That’s the claim, though they try to shroud themselves in patriotism in their first rebranding commercial, the very one Maddow introduced. It features her reading the Preamble to the Constitution like she was doing a propaganda version of "Schoolhouse Rock." As Maddow read each word, images flashed by, many of them protesters, some of them masked and all interspersed with snippets of the MS NOW team. |
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