“The Russian has no regard for human life and they are all out sons-of-bitches, barbarians, and chronic drunks.“
– General George Patton
“I’m 100 times worse than my dad.”
– Alex Soros
“I don’t know what make-believe world some of these judges are living in. The Constitution doesn’t allow for them to cosplay as President of the United States.”
– U.S. Senator Mike Lee
Happy Mother’s Day: “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while but their hearts forever.” -Unknown
Pope Leo XIV: Robert Prevost became the first American to lead the Catholic Church.
Let us pray for him. We hope he can help lead the world to be a better place for all. His election to the papacy is historic and a moment for hope as Catholics around the world wish him success.
As the successor to Peter, his challenges are many… we pray for wisdom and divine guidance.
Putin’s Game: NATO has NEVER threatened to invade Russia. Putin’s hysteria with NATO is purely based on the fact that NATO stands in the way of Russia invading others.
Putin dreams of rebuilding a Soviet-style dictatorial empire. He has demonstrated his disregard for human life, civilian and/or military. Putin’s Russia has kidnapped thousands of children and has scattered them throughout Russia in an unbelievably savage outlook towards families.
Putin has shown his colors. Putin is a war criminal.
Breathtaking Irony: The Letitia James fraud case is full of irony and poetic justice, or karma coming her way.
When you listen to her and her supporters’ complaints about politicizing the legal process after campaigning on the issue of going after President Trump… her words and accusations are breathtaking.
She spent 5 years looking for a crime to convict President Trump. Any minor accounting error was good enough for her. And now…her words, the precedent she established, and her actions will undoubtedly come back to haunt her as she attempts to defend herself from what looks like a clear-cut case of mortgage fraud.
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Trump’s 10 Pieces of Advice for Alabama Graduates
President Donald Trump has 10 pieces of advice for 2025 college graduates, who he said “have a chance to be the greatest generation in the history of our country.”
Trump’s speech at the University of Alabama was his first graduation address of his second term.
He addressed a stadium of about 100,000 people. Many donned “MAGA hats” and cheered uproariously throughout the speech, at one point chanting “USA.”
1. You’re Not Too Young to Succeed…
Trump has slowed national debt growth by 92%
For all the negative headlines hating on President Donald Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency, daily data from the Treasury Department have vindicated the president’s crusade against our obese federal budget. Even without the trillions of dollars expected to come with Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” the White House has slowed the growth of federal debt held by the public so dramatically that the total national debt has actually shrunk since Inauguration Day.
Admittedly, the $5.5 billion decline in a $26.2 trillion national debt is a drop in the bucket, but focusing specifically on the trajectory of the debt held by the public — that is, the majority of the national debt that is financed through the likes of Treasurys, rather than intragovernmental holdings, which is merely money one agency may owe another — we can see that the second Trump administration has indeed taken a machete to federal spending.
From Inauguration Day to May 5, debt held by the public rose by $37,238,323,646.66. Because this accounts for an influx of revenue around April Tax Day, the comparable window to compare Trump’s performance to that of his predecessor is not Trump’s first 104 days with the last 104 days of Joe Biden (when debt held by the public rose by $521,984,501,224.88), but to the same window in 2024.
From Jan. 22, 2024, to May 6, 2024, debt held by the public rose by $478,402,286,425.95.
Still, that means that the growth in our outstanding national debt fell by an astounding 92%.
Ex-CIA official says U.S. arms policy doomed Ukraine to stalemate
The Biden administration gave Ukraine just enough weapons to bleed, but not enough to win, out of fear of a nuclear war, former CIA operations chief for Europe and Eurasia Ralph Goff said in an interview with The Times.
After Russia seized Crimea in winter 2014, Goff said he tried to warn his superiors about what was coming next.
“I was trying to sound the alarm that the seeds of World War III were being planted in the Donbas, and we needed to do something about it. But there were other priorities,” he told the outlet.
Goff also revealed that he was slated to become head of covert CIA operations, but former President Donald Trump’s administration blocked the appointment — a move he suspects was linked to his stance on Ukraine. Goff has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine and, since retiring in October 2023, has made several visits there, The Times noted.
Goff believes the full-scale war that began in February 2022 could have been stopped early if the United States and its allies had provided Ukraine with the necessary weapons from the start.
Instead, he said, Washington chose a different strategy — supplying Ukraine with enough arms to keep fighting but not enough to defeat Putin’s military, fearing the Russian dictator would resort to nuclear weapons if pushed to the brink.
100 Days Of Putting Warfighters First
When I met with Pete Hegseth in early December ahead of his confirmation to be our Secretary of Defense, I asked him one simple question: Are you going to have the backs of our warfighters? His answer was an unequivocal yes.
The Biden Administration left our armed forces in a state of disrepair. From the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 American servicemembers dead, to refusing to take a stand against terror groups who hate us, to using the military as a tool for social engineering instead of projecting American strength, Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin’s leadership decimated morale, recruitment, and readiness within the ranks of our warfighters.
One hundred days in, President Trump and Pete Hegseth have thankfully reversed that decline.
Since the American people made their choice to send President Trump back to the White House on November 5, our military has seen its highest recruiting in 30 years. There is no doubt that is thanks to the leadership of the president and Secretary Hegseth.
Filing: Smartmatic Hid Meeting With Dem Megadonor Who Financed Its Suit Against 2020 Election Reporting
Smartmatic, the electronic tabulator company suing Fox News for alleged defamation following the 2020 election, failed in a February court hearing to disclose a meeting with Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman, newly unsealed court documents allege.
Following the 2020 election, both Fox News and Newsmax “hosted commentators who aired concerns that tabulators were not secure, were vulnerable to voter fraud, and had possibly changed Trump votes to Biden votes,” as described in these pages by Logan Washburn. Smartmatic sued, arguing the comments amounted to defamation. Fox previously settled a suit with Dominion Voting over similar allegations while Newsmax recently settled with Smartmatic for $40 million, according to NBC.
As Washburn reported, Fox had previously expressed concerns about a “deep-pocketed ‘third party’ behind the suit” — allegations that Smartmatic denied in 2023, according to Reuters. But reporting from The Washington Post revealed Hoffman invested millions in Smartmatic, as the company sued news outlets for their reporting about the 2020 election. In July 2024, the Post reported that Hoffman had “connected with Smartmatic chief executive Antonio Mugica through friends of friends” and was “boosting” its lawsuit against Fox.
According to a newly unsealed filing, Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica met with “politically-motivated investors … to discuss the company’s financials and investment prospects.” That’s “a fact that Smartmatic withheld from this Court on February 5, 2025,” says the document, which was initially filed under seal with the New York State Supreme Court in April before being unsealed this week.
China’s Cyber Economic Warfare
Imagine what would happen if the lights suddenly went out in Taiwan. Its economy would grind to a halt. Food supplies would rot without refrigeration. Infrastructure systems wouldn’t function. Hospital patients would perish as vital machines shutdown.
The island nation would essentially be decimated – not from bombs or missiles, but from of cyberattacks and supply disruptions. That’s the scenario Admiral Mark Montgomery laid out for me in a recent episode of my podcast Newt’s World.
Admiral Montgomery is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He’s a seasoned national security expert with extensive experience in cybersecurity and defense policy. His insights on China’s growing cyber capabilities are both timely and important. We had a remarkable conversation.
As Admiral Montgomery said on the podcast, China may never need to invade Taiwan militarily. Instead, he explained, “they could use cyberattacks, economic pressure, and information warfare to bring Taiwan under control without ever firing a shot.”
He described just how vulnerable Taiwan really is. About half of its electricity comes from liquefied natural gas – and the island has only a few days’ worth of reserves. If China declared a missile closure zone near Taiwan’s main LNG port or used diplomatic pressure to halt shipments, the country could lose power in less than a week. Layer in cyberattacks on banks, energy systems, and communications networks, and it would become a full-scale campaign.
After Germany’s Elections, the AfD Could Still Have the Last Laugh
A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too?
Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet.
The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), lost the first vote for the Bundestag’s next chancellorship. Never before in German history had a presumptive chancellor been rejected in an initial ballot. But 18 members of Merz’s 328-member governing coalition had bolted and cast their secret votes against him. That betrayal left Merz six votes shy of the bare majority of Bundestag seats (316 out of 630) needed to assume the chancellorship. After a hastily convened second round, Merz pushed his total up to a sufficient 325 votes (with three holdouts, still anonymous), but the damage had been done.
As Weidel wrote on X, the first ballot revealed the “weak foundation” of Merz’s coalition between his moderate Christian Democratic Union and the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD). That coalition had been cobbled together for one purpose only: to ensure that the AfD, a strong second-place finisher in the February parliamentary elections, was kept out of government. Since those elections, the AfD’s approval ratings have only risen, and now, at 26 percent, they exceed the CDU’s 24 percent. Were new elections to be called today, as Weidel demanded after Merz’s first round loss, AfD could well end up with the most seats in parliament. And the new government’s ideological fissures, put on stark display during the chancellor voting, all but guarantee that Merz will not be able to accomplish the reforms necessary to pull Germany out of its two-year recession.
Why AARP Supports Insurers Over Seniors
The year 2024 exposed the lie behind the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act.” Last summer, the Biden Administration announced a “premium stabilization demonstration”—a bailout of questionable legality—because otherwise seniors’ premiums for Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage would go through the roof. Instead of admitting the flaws of the law Democrats rammed through in 2022, the Biden Administration decided to use additional taxpayer funds to pay insurers an average of $100 million each, undermining Medicare’s financial stability.
Why would AARP, which claims to advocate on behalf of seniors, continue to support a law whose costs to the Medicare program are set to exceed original estimates by $10 billion-$20 billion this year alone? The organization has nearly ten billion—that’s billion with a “B”—reasons to do so.
As I outline in a new report for American Commitment, AARP has become financially beholden to UnitedHealth Group. Since 2007, the organization has received nearly $10 billion in tax-free revenue from that company. What’s more, AARP’s estimated revenues from UnitedHealth have grown every single year over that period, making the organization more and more dependent upon the nation’s largest health insurer as time goes by.
That dependence helps to explain why AARP has endorsed policies that hurt seniors. It supports the IRA’s price controls, which will cut off access to innovative cures and treatments, but just so happen to give UnitedHealth greater control over its drug costs. It supports the law’s raid on Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars, which just so happened to finance enhanced Obamacare subsidies benefiting UnitedHealth. Likewise, it continues to support the IRA notwithstanding the law’s recent bailouts and cost overruns, which will just so happen to go to the bottom line of insurers like UnitedHealth.
Final Thoughts
