Did You See Everyone Pile on CNN in the Oval Office Today?

This exchange is why we elected Donald Trump. - Matt Vespa 

• Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, visited the White House, where the media opted to go with the Abrego Garcia story. 
• This illegal alien was deported to El Salvador, his home country. 

The media and the Democrats want him back—he’s not coming back. 

President Bukele shot down that notion, mocking the question, calling it “preposterous.”
“The question is preposterous," he said. "How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don't have the power to return him to the United States."

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History for April 15

History for April 15 - On-This-Day.com 

Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier

• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1912 - The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived.
• 1923 - Insulin became generally available for people suffering with diabetes.
• 1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
• 1952 - The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air.
• 1953 - Charlie Chaplin surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit rather than face proceedings by the U.S. Justice Department. Chaplin was accused of sympathizing with Communist groups.
• 1989 - Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tienanmen Square massacre.
• 1994 - The World Trade Organization was established.

DOGE: 3 Democrat States Had Most of $382M in Unemployment Fraud

DOGE: 3 Democrat States Had Most of $382M in Unemployment Fraud: 

The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is pointing the finger at three Democrat-controlled states for the bulk of fraudulent unemployment payments. The agency recently uncovered $382 million in such payments since 2020 and named California, New York, and Massachusetts as the top states to blame for the problem, Fox News reported on Friday.

The way we were-----Left Behind at Dunkirk

How Rent Control Hurts Renters

Instapundit - WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS THE ECONOMIST

The Economist Declares Europe the New ‘Land of the Free,’ and Holy Cow, the Replies. - Ed Driscoll

Our “closest ally” arrested a 64-year-old woman for silently praying outside an abortion clinic.

A 64-year-old woman was convicted Friday of standing near an abortion clinic in southern England and holding a sign saying “Here to talk, if you want.”...

...how about the case where two men were arrested for posting negative views about immigration, accused of stirring up “racial-hatred?” Both received over a year in prison...

Europe has become obsessed with combatting what they call “Islamophobia” while Islamist migrants create no-go zones and commit heinous crimes...

And then there’s Europe’s free and fair “elections:” The EU’s Stranglehold on Democracy.

UPDATE: This Is Britain: Mother Jailed For 2 Years Because of a Tweet She Deleted After 4 Hours.

MORE:

Someone call DOGE!-----UW-Madison bars reporters from ‘fat liberation’ event - Rebecca Draeger

“We reject the idea that a body type can be a disease,” she said. “It’s possible to be fat and healthy, fat and unhealthy, thin and healthy, thin and unhealthy.

MADISON, Wis. – “Health is not just about health,” Kelsey Foster, a university librarian, said at the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium conference on April 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Recording is prohibited throughout the entire three-day panel held at the publicly-funded university. 

The conference is titled “Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action.”...
This conference has been hosted annually for 49 years. 

This year, it includes speeches and breakout sessions on a range of feminist topics, including one on “Anti-oppressive pedagogical practice”, a keynote on “Criminalizing the Crisis: Bodies ‘Out of Place’ and Neoliberal (Dis)Order”, and a speech titled “Capitalism, Caste, and Creativity: Pushing Back on Spaces and Systems of Oppression.”

• Fourteen co-sponsors of the event are listed on the conference website, including the UW-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center and the UW-Madison department of gender and women’s studies.
• The website also states that the event is being held “under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace as part of a global United Nations Platform on education, science, and culture.”

Watch: 3 Cop Cars Summoned, Student Suspended After Asking Admin Why American Flag Isn't in Classrooms - Report

Watch: 3 Cop Cars Summoned, Student Suspended After Asking Admin Why American Flag Isn't in Classrooms - Report: 

When Jensen went to the Board of Education to ask about the lack of flags at school, he did not get answers. Instead, school district officials called the police -- and three police cars responded. School Safety Emergency Manager Richard Muth told Jensen he had been suspended for seven days, effective immediately, the news outlet reported. Now, Jensen is suing, arguing his constitutional rights were violated.

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: St. Paul Rent, Arizona Alt Fuel...

Victor Davis Hanson: If One Wanted to Destroy the U.S. the Last Four Years Matched the Blueprint Warren Squire Warren Squire

If one wanted to destroy the United States of America how would one go about it?
Political commentator Victor Davis Hanson says he knows because we just lived through four years of the plan under President Joe Biden.
He explains it all here. (WATCH)

Lunch video-----"We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before | Victor Davis Hanson"

Noon-toon

 

Smoke-free surge stalled by feds clinging to old habits | Blaze Media

Smoke-free surge stalled by feds clinging to old habits | Blaze Media: 

The U.S. nicotine market is undergoing a historic shift — one that should be celebrated as a major public health breakthrough. A new Goldman Sachs report forecasts that smoke-free nicotine products will surpass cigarettes in consumption by 2025 and come close to matching them in revenue and profit by 2035.

This shift isn’t the result of government policy. It’s happening because consumers are making better choices. Yet federal regulators appear determined to stand in the way.

The difference!

Here’s Why Some Unvaxxed Military Aren’t Taking Deal to Return Catherine Salgado

You probably can’t guess the reason why a number of former military forced out over the Biden administration‘s vaccine mandate have not taken the Trump administration deal to return.

Well over 8,000 patriotic troops were forced out of the military over the Biden administration’s harmful and unjust Covid-19 vaccine mandates. 

Whether the troops chose to leave because of the mandates or were forcibly discharged, coercion was applied. 

Unfortunately, that’s a reality someone in the Defense Department doesn’t or won’t understand, and a condition made for some separated troops is preventing them from eagerly accepting the new Trump administration deal.

Western Journal explained the dilemma:

Service members separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine can now re-enlist, but the Department of Defense requires some to do the impossible first... Those who were involuntarily separated would receive back pay, while those who “voluntarily” separated would not, [undersecretary Tim] Dill said. Both, however, would be reinstated with the same rank and pay as when they left….

Former members of the Air National Guard, Air Force, and Space Force must first sign a form acknowledging that they “voluntarily separated” or allowed their service to lapse, and that their “decision to separate was made freely and without coercion.”

That is simply untrue, and R. Davis Younts, a lawyer representing some vets who had to leave the military over the mandates, explained, “I talked to several clients who were forced out,” who “have no interest in signing the document,” but otherwise would “gladly come back in. They don’t care much about back pay, but they are not going to sign a false statement just to come back in.”...

#1 movie this week 1992-----Official Trailer: Basic Instinct (1992)

Perhaps if we pay more taxes we can control the earth's orbit...maybe.

Ice ages aren't just ancient history — they're part of a natural cosmic rhythm. - Alan Turner 

New research has cracked the code on how Earth's orbit and axial tilt set off ice ages, revealing that our planet's tilt (obliquity) is the key player in starting these deep freezes.
Here’s how it works:
• When Earth’s tilt decreases, sunlight hits higher latitudes less intensely — perfect conditions for ice sheets to grow.
• The combo of precession (Earth’s wobble) and tilt also controls the shifts between icy periods and warmer interglacial times.
The wild part? 

Based on this cycle, the next ice age could start in about 11,000 years. ...

#1 This day 1968-----BOBBY GOLDSBORO - HONEY

Bringing Immigration Policy into Focus - American Thinker

Wretchardthecat has given us a sage analysis of the MAGA agenda: - Clarice Feldman

The reason the MAGA initiatives looked so disjointed to the media is they were component parts of a vast alternative worldview now coming into sight. Like the five blind men and the elephant the progressives are only now realizing the aspects of a single larger foe.

Immigration control is a key feature of the MAGA initiatives: 

• closing the border, 
• removing illegal immigrants, 
• keeping non-citizens from voting, and 
• stopping federal funds from going to so-called non-government organizations that were bringing in millions of immigrants who overwhelmed housing, welfare, and educational budgets, committed crimes, and threatened national security.

This week, the Administration obtained some substantial victories on this score.
The Catholic Church, which was a huge recipient of federal funds fueling the immigrant express, has finally shut down refugee and migrant aid operations. 

Shutting off this spigot was key to the Administration’s immigration policy...

Sending a message to murderous loons??!!

 

Judge allows Trump's DHS to proceed with another tool to keep track of illegal immigrants | Blaze Media

Judge allows Trump's DHS to proceed with another tool to keep track of illegal immigrants | Blaze Media: 

Trump admin says it is simply enforcing existing law. Afederal judge is allowing the Trump administration to proceed with its plans to require illegal immigrants to register with the government or face consequences following a lawsuit from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. The new federal program stems from an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office, which orders the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that aliens comply with section 262 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1302). Failure to comply with the registration requirement will be treated as a civil and criminal enforcement priority.

Feds' $4.6B furniture splurge is one more outrageous abuse of taxpayer funds

Feds' $4.6B furniture splurge is one more outrageous abuse of taxpayer funds - Post Editorial Board

One thing Americans can be sure of: 

• At any given time, somewhere out there, a government decision-maker is finding new and inventive ways of flushing your hard-earned cash.

The latest: Government watchdog OpenTheBooks found that the feds spent an eye-popping $4.6 billion on new furniture and decorations for government buildings since October 2020, even though only half the federal workforce was consistently showing up for work in person as of last year.
In 2023, the Government Accountability Office found that 17 of 24 federal agencies used 25% or less of their headquarters’ buildings.
So the feds blew billions in taxpayer cash on art that almost no one will look at and furniture that almost no one will use.
It’s always easy to spend other people’s money.
Some of the worst splurges:

• $250,000 worth of Herman Miller chairs for the US Agency for International Development offices in Mozambique.$237,960 for 30 solar-powered picnic tables for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• $1.4 million on art and drawings for embassies.
• $39,000 for new conference tables for The Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco.
• $117,250 on 40 Ethan Allen recliners for the US embassy in Pakistan — or about $2,931 each. (And we doubt they got a volume discount.)...

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