Sunday, November 02, 2025
Fascinating!-----The Amazing Story of the Russian Defector Who Changed his Mind - Washingtonian
A saga from the last time Moscow's spies menaced Washington—and the lessons we forgot. - Jason Fagone | Published on February 18, 2018
- The home phone of FBI special agent Michael Rochford rang in the middle of the night on August 2, 1985.
He grabbed it and heard the voice of his FBI supervisor.
- “There’s a plane coming in, a high-level defector.”
- The day before, a Soviet man had walked into the US consulate in Rome.
- He had told American officials he was a colonel in the KGB and wanted to defect to the United States. The man promised to reveal Soviet secrets in exchange for a new life in the West...
Just in: Biden FBI Set up Anti-Trump October Surprise Virtually No One Knew About Until Now - Revolved Around Casino Gambling Plot
Just in: Biden FBI Set up Anti-Trump October Surprise Virtually No One Knew About Until Now - Revolved Around Casino Gambling Plot:
The FBI had a potential “October Surprise” involving alleged casino gambling through payments made from Trump campaign funds in 2020, based on “Arctic Frost” documents released by FBI Director Kash Patel to Congress.
“A memo buried in the middle of the 235-page evidence production that Patel sent the House Judiciary Committee this week chronicles how the FBI’s Washington Field Office rifled through financial records and campaign expenditure reports producing a ‘tactical intelligence report,'” Just the News reported.
Trump's First Nine Months Compared to Biden's Four Years | RealClearPolitics
What matters is the data and facts of Trump's first nine months since January 20, 2025, in comparison to either former President Joe Biden's prior year or the averages of his four years in office. - Victor Davis Hanson
- Take the border...U.S. during Biden's four years of open borders..is clear is that he set a presidential record of well over seven million illegal entrants. The border under Trump is now tightly closed...
- How about energy? For Trump's first nine months, gas prices have averaged $3.19 versus Biden's 2024 average of $3.30 a gallon. Over Biden's four years, gas averaged $3.46 a gallon.
- During the Biden years, oil production averaged 12.3 million barrels per day, compared to 13.5 million barrels during Trump's first nine months.
- Biden removed 200 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, leaving office with only 394 million barrels in the SPR. The reserve has already inched upward under Trump's initial months to 406 million barrels...
- Regarding the economy, Biden's four years averaged 2.9 percent GDP growth per annum. Trump's GDP rose 3.8% in the second quarter, with final estimates for 2025 ranging around 3%.
- Inflation under Trump so far averages about 3%. Under Biden's tenure, inflation increased by 21.4% over four years, or on average about 5.3% a year.
- How about U.S. deterrence and defense?...
Border Patrol commander vows to show Obama judge videos of 'extreme violence' against ICE * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation
Border Patrol commander vows to show Obama judge videos of 'extreme violence' against ICE * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation:
Chief Border Patrol Agent Greg Bovino told Fox News host Harris Faulkner Wednesday that he would be showing a federal judge videos of assaults suffered by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the Chicago area.
United States District Judge Sarah Ellis of the Northern District of Illinois, an Obama appointee, ordered Bovino to meet with her daily after attorneys for anti-ICE rioters claimed ICE violated her order barring the use of riot control tactics except in the case of a threat to agents. Bovino told Faulkner that he welcomed the chance to give Ellis "a very good first-hand look" at what ICE agents faced during their operations in Chicago.
Reagan–Thatcher, Trump–Takaichi, and Cold War II
In Japan, she is known as the “iron lady,” a not-so-subtle comparison to Britain’s Margaret Thatcher - Francis P. Sempa
- Like Thatcher, she is a conservative known for supporting a “hawkish” foreign policy and a stronger military.
- There are indications that Takaichi may partner with Donald Trump, in the aftermath of the disastrous, Carter-like Biden presidency, to face down the growing geopolitical challenge of China in Cold War II... (RELATED: Japan Set to Elect Female Nationalist, Pro-Taiwan, Anti-China Hawk as Next PM
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