Sunday, February 23, 2025
History for February 23
History for February 23 - On-This-Day.com 
Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1734
- 1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
- 1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary.
- 1861 - U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take his office after an assassination attempt in Baltimore.
- 1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
- 1919 - The Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.
- 1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken.
- 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA.
- 1997 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Trump targets taxpayers' money used to 'incentivize or support' illegals * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Trump targets taxpayers' money used to 'incentivize or support' illegals * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
The idea is to make certain "taxpayer resources are used to protect the interests of American citizens, not illegal aliens," said the order, which also cited statistics from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
That group said American taxpayers are being forced to pay at least $182 billion a year to cover the expenses of 20 million illegal aliens and their children, including more than $66 billion in federal expenses and $115 billion paid by states and local governments.
Funny Money - by James Howard Kunstler - Clusterfuck Nation
Funny Money - by James Howard Kunstler - Clusterfuck Nation - James Howard KunstlerStacey Abrams popped up again this week in what looks like a textbook case of political scamming, uncovered by The DOGE team of forensic financial investigators.
As “Joe Biden” racked up Democratic presidential primary wins in 2024, the shadowy claque behind him allocated $27-billion to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from the huge Inflation Reduction Act, ostensibly for “climate change action.”
The money was stashed at Citibank, where it became a hidden slush-fund to keep payoffs flowing to party favorites no matter who won the 2024 election...
- The key to understanding how the Democratic Party works is how it uses federal grants to redistribute taxpayer money into jobs programs for its rank-and-file.
As seen in the recent USAID scandal, the action revolves around the creation of countless NGOs (non-governmental orgs).
They are easily created, poorly supervised, and assembled into large networks of self-serving, inter-dependent organisms whose main mission is paying staffers — and secondarily pretending to do good works, as suggested by a given group’s name is.
These staffers make up the matrix of Democratic Party activists, well-paid foot-soldiers in do-nothing jobs who can be called upon
- to cheer-lead for the party,
- organize street protests and,
- most critically, harvest ballots when the time comes...
WATCH: Sen. Kennedy's Bottom-Line Take on Public Broadcasting Is LOL Hilarious and Spot-On
Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy's ability to turn a phrase in hilarious fashion has become legendary. The witty senator didn't disappoint on Thursday as he ripped into the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and called on Congress to stop funding all public broadcasting - Mike Miller
President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking for fat to trim. As far as I’m concerned, this gravy train – this gravy train with biscuit wheels called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – is the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund.
After providing examples of blatantly biased headlines and slanted content published by National Public Radio (NPR), Kennedy said he wasn’t trying to censor the news outlets, but that it's “immoral” to force taxpayers to fund them.
I’m all for this, if that’s what these outlets want to do. But, I’m not for taking $500 million every single year and giving it to these stations (CPB) to the exclusion of everybody else. That’s immoral...
We are running $36 trillion in debt. This is disgraceful in 2025. It is disgraceful whether it is left-of-center opinion journalism or right-of-center opinion journalism. It is disgraceful to the American people to have to fund this rot. It doesn’t mean the rot doesn’t have a right to exist, but they don’t have a right to taxpayer money.
White House highlights border wall progress as Trump shuts down benefits for illegal aliens | Blaze Media
White House highlights border wall progress as Trump shuts down benefits for illegal aliens | Blaze Media:
"My administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans," the order read.
Trump accused "numerous administrations" of undermining the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which bans illegal aliens from receiving benefits.
Trump was wrong about Zelenskyy starting the war with Russia because the real culprit is much closer to home.
Zelenskyy and the morons in the EU were just pawns in a fear-driven game of "Get Russia", led by American Democrats and establishment neocons. - Michael Smith 
If you want to know who really is behind the war in Ukraine, google the name Victoria Nuland.
Victoria Nuland, a U.S. diplomat and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2013–2017), played a significant role in Ukraine’s 2014 Euromaidan uprising.
This movement, which led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, was widely seen as a struggle between pro-European and pro-Russian influences, with the U.S. actively supporting the opposition.
Nuland was a vocal advocate for Ukraine’s pro-Western shift, visiting Kyiv during the protests and even distributing food to demonstrators.
Following Yanukovych’s ouster, Ukraine signed an EU Association Agreement, prompting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine...
cato.org - The U.S. and NATO Helped Trigger the Ukraine War. It's Not 'Siding With Putin' to Admit It
But Moscow’s cruel overreaction deserves emphatic condemnation.
Victoria Nuland, a U.S. diplomat and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2013–2017), played a significant role in Ukraine’s 2014 Euromaidan uprising.
This movement, which led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, was widely seen as a struggle between pro-European and pro-Russian influences, with the U.S. actively supporting the opposition.
Nuland was a vocal advocate for Ukraine’s pro-Western shift, visiting Kyiv during the protests and even distributing food to demonstrators.
- Her involvement became controversial after a leaked phone call between her and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt revealed discussions on Ukraine’s post-Yanukovych government.
- In the call, she expressed preference for Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister and dismissed EU caution, famously stating, “F** the EU.”*...
Following Yanukovych’s ouster, Ukraine signed an EU Association Agreement, prompting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine...
cato.org - The U.S. and NATO Helped Trigger the Ukraine War. It's Not 'Siding With Putin' to Admit It
But Moscow’s cruel overreaction deserves emphatic condemnation.
Trump is right to turn the screws on Canada | Blaze Media
Trump is right to turn the screws on Canada | Blaze Media:
Canada has long pushed to dominate US energy markets, using sanctions and trade deals to secure its position. But Trump’s 'America First' policies threaten its strategy.
Chrystia Freeland, a potential Canadian prime minister, called President Trump’s 25% tariff on Canadian aluminum “an act of economic self-mutilation by the United States.” She delivered her anti-American rant in the New York Times.
Freeland relied on Ottawa’s oldest tactic — convincing Americans that their economic well-being depends on Canada’s. In reality, Canada’s diplomats have long undermined U.S. economic interests.
The USAID Nightmare Continues
Democrat mega-donor George Soros, the lead financer of the institutional left in America, used U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) disbursements to fund color revolutions in the Balkans, according to U.S. spending hawks. - Mia Cathell 
USAID gave several Soros groups millions of American tax dollars that allegedly went toward stoking social unrest in the Balkan Peninsula, including collaborative efforts to destabilize Macedonia's democratically elected center-right government and ultimately overthrow it...
Has Climate Science Drifted into Pseudoscience?
Stamp Collecting or Science? The Perils of Unquestionable Truth - Dr. Matthew WielickiThe scientific method is the cornerstone of discovery and advancement in every branch of science...
Is climate science still science?
- But what if a branch of inquiry strays from these standards, becoming more dogmatic than inquisitive? What if, rather than hypotheses being tested, they become axioms that cannot be challenged?
- In such cases, science risks devolving into something else… a pseudo-scientific enterprise propped up by consensus of ideology rather than robust empirical evidence.
Nowhere is this shift more apparent than in climate science.
- We are constantly told that the science is settled.
- That there is no debate.
- That anyone who dares to challenge the dominant narrative, no matter how qualified, no matter how data-driven, is dismissed as a "denier," lumped in with conspiracy theorists and flat-earthers.
I’ve watched this transformation unfold in real time.
Over the years, funding institutions, professional societies, and journals have moved away from fostering inquiry and toward enforcing ideological boundaries.
- If you’ve ever wondered why dissenting voices in climate science seem to have disappeared, it’s not because they’ve been proven wrong.
- It’s because they’ve been systematically excluded.
Is climate science still science?
Or has it become something else entirely?...
A couple days ago Trump claimed that Zelensky is widely unpopular in Ukraine and that his approval rating is 4%.
The very next day the MSM collectively called Trump a liar and they all parroted the same number, Zelensky has a 57% approval rating. - Colleen Miller took out the trash with this. - Patricia
- CNN brought out their little fact checker...57%. ABC, CBS...57%.
- So I look up where this number came from.
It came from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
Guess when they released their poll results.
The day after Trump made his claim. 
...
...I also checked out another polling company that does work in Ukraine called SOCIS.
- They've done most of the exit polling on all the major elections in recent years in Ukraine and they have Zelensky at 16%, claiming that he would not win an election if there was one...
- But nobody has a clue what's really going on there and yet a few hours after Trump says something the entire MSM ecosystem states as a fact what Zelensky's approval rating is 57%.
Our media can't even agree on what Trump's approval rating is.
VIDEO: Stephen Miller torches media with 'civics lesson' at White House press conference | Blaze Media
VIDEO: Stephen Miller torches media with 'civics lesson' at White House press conference | Blaze Media:
"It is true that many people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that [former President] Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country. It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point, that Elon is not elected, fail to understand how government works," said Miller.
"So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson. A president is elected by the whole American people. He is the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right?" he added.
WATCH: Marco Rubio Reveals Why the Trump Administration Is So Ticked at Zelensky.
Instapundit - Maybe the best messenger in the Cabinet. Nails it every time.
WATCH: Marco Rubio Reveals Why the Trump Administration Is So Ticked at Zelensky.
Unfortunately, it seems like Zelensky got very used to being able to play the press during the Biden years, to essentially receive blank checks with no real mechanism to ensure Americans are paid back. Believing he could carry over that strategy to the Trump administration was a huge mistake.
Donald Trump does not care about pressure from the mainstream media or Europe...
Fleet Street has been running headlines this week such as “Starmer says Zelensky is no dictator after calling Ukrainian leader in Trump rebuke,” which seems odd, since after Zelensky cancelled elections in 2023, Newsweek reported, “Ukraine Sure Doesn’t Look Like a Democracy Anymore.”...
History for February 22
History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com 
George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States.
- 1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
- 1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
- 1860 - Organized baseball’s first game was played in San Francisco, CA.
- 1973 - The U.S. and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.
- 1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.
Friday, February 21, 2025
Trump's FBI Nominee Clears Huge Hurdle, Secures Major GOP Endorsement
Trump's FBI Nominee Clears Huge Hurdle, Secures Major GOP Endorsement:
On Tuesday evening, the Senate voted along party lines to advance the nomination of Kash Patel, the man that Trump wants to head the FBI, replacing Christopher Wray.
The 48-45 party line vote came after one of the lawmakers on the fence — Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy — confirmed that he would be advancing the nomination, according to The Hill.
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