IDF Takes Out Hamas Eastern Rafah Battalion Commander, Dozens More in Tunnel Ops

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to methodically dismantle what's left of Hamas' military structure in southern Gaza, and the latest updates from Rafah show just how effective that pressure has become.

On Thursday, the IDF announced that an airstrike this past Sunday eliminated Muhammad Jawad Muhammad al-Bawab, the commander of Hamas's Eastern Rafah Battalion, along with his deputy and key members of his inner circle.

Here's the IDF's statement on al-Bawab’s record:

"Muhammad Jawad Muhammad al-Bawab, commander of Hamas' Eastern Rafah Battalion, who helped execute the October 7 Massacre and attacked IDF troops in Gaza through the course of the Israel-Hamas War."

Three additional terrorists, including al-Bawab's deputy, were killed in the same strike. After the Nahal Brigade followed up with a building search in eastern Rafah, troops confirmed one terrorist already dead from the airstrike and took out three more armed fighters on the spot.

Separately, the IDF reports that its forces have now killed over 40 Hamas terrorists who emerged from the sprawling tunnel network beneath Rafah, an area that has been under full Israeli control for months.

Israeli and U.S. officials have said that roughly 200 Hamas fighters had been bottled up in those tunnels for an extended period. Some have come up fighting and been eliminated; others, according to Israeli media reports, have surrendered.

Another day, another senior Hamas commander and dozens of his men removed from the battlefield. The tunnel-rat phase of this war drags on, but the attrition is clearly running in one direction.

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BOOM: Pipe Bomber Bagged After Nearly Five Years – And It Wasn’t Some Magical New Tip, It Was Pure Cop Grit Under the New Crew

Folks, grab your Pez dispenser, pop a Pez, because we finally have a name and a set of cuffs on the creep who planted viable pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before January 6, 2021.

Thirty-year-old Brian Cole Jr. from Woodbridge, Virginia is now in custody, and the Trump-era Justice Department just held a presser that basically read like a love letter to old-school police work.

Attorney General Pam Bondi kicked things off and didn't mince words: the arrest came "not the result of a new tip or a new witness, but rather, the result of good, diligent police and prosecutorial work."

FBI Director Kash Patel piled on, saying the breakthrough happened "when you let good cops be cops." He gave a big shout-out to Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who apparently ran the show on this one.

Bongino himself stepped up and dropped this absolute gem: "This is what it's like when you work for a president who tells you to go get the bad guys."

You getting chills yet, because I am.

Assistant Director Darren Cox of the Washington Field Office laid out just how brutal the haystack was: they chewed through "massive amounts of data, more than three million lines of it" to zero in on Cole. He reminded everyone these weren't fake props, these were live bombs that, by the grace of God, never went off.

Then former judge and current U.S. Attorney Jeannine Pirro brought the fire, ticking off the calendar: "Four years, 10 months, and 28 days ago, an individual placed a bomb in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC." She talked about chasing down every single one of the 233,000+ black end caps that match the ones used on the bombs, cross-referencing pipe, wire, steel, the whole nine yards. And she made it crystal clear this administration told the investigators, "Go get it done."

Pirro closed with a line that should be stitched on a pillow: "Today begins the formal process of accountability… We will take this case across the finish line."

Even MPD Chief Pamela Smith got in on it, saying after almost five years of grinding through thousands of hours of video and countless leads, "Washingtonians can rest easier today knowing that the suspect responsible for this act is in custody."

The Q&A was short. They are not tipping their hand on evidence or motive yet, but Bongino did recount the moment they knew they had their guy: Cox called him and said, "You sitting down? …I think we got him."

And in the cherry-on-top moment, AG Bondi wrapped the whole thing by announcing this was the best 51st birthday present they could give Dan Bongino, whose birthday is, you guessed it, today.

So yes, no anonymous texting hero, no last-minute whistleblower, no Hollywood confession. Just a bunch of fed-up cops and prosecutors who were finally allowed to do their damn jobs.Welcome to the new normal, bad guys. Clock’s ticking.

The affidavit supporting the complaint filed against Cole may be viewed in full here.

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Gaza famine? I think not, but the media never reported it

One might have thought that in an age of instant communication and supposed journalistic rigour, the truth would have a fighting chance. One would, it turns out, have been wrong.

For months the Western press treated us to one of the most lurid accusations levelled against Israel in the course of its war with Hamas: that the Jewish state was deliberately starving the population of Gaza into submission. The charge was not merely serious; it was apocalyptic. "Mass starvation" was imminent, we were told. Emaciated children stared out from front pages. Israel, the headlines implied, and sometimes stated, was engineering a famine.

Hamas commandeering the aid provided by Israel

The principal exhibit in this campaign was a report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-backed body whose methodology has long been criticized by serious analysts. In August 2025 the IPC announced that more than half a million people in Gaza were already experiencing "famine." The figure was repeated with the solemnity normally reserved for papal encyclicals. Almost nobody in the major media paused to ask whether the underlying data were sound.

Then, as quietly as a scandal is buried, the whole edifice collapsed.

In July and August 2025 the Global Nutrition Cluster—a consortium that actually includes UN agencies and other aid organizations, released data showing malnutrition rates in Gaza some 23 per cent lower than the IPC had claimed. The highest measured rate was 11.9 per cent, comfortably below the 15 per cent threshold that defines famine. In other words, the most incendiary humanitarian claim of the entire war had been built on sand.

And what did our fearless fourth estate do with this revelation? Precisely nothing.Not a single major Western outlet saw fit to run a headline admitting that the famine scare had rested on faulty data. The story did not merely fade; it was disappeared. No retraction, no correction, no embarrassed follow-up. The same papers and broadcasters that had treated the IPC report as Holy Writ simply averted their gaze and moved on.

This is not mere journalistic sloppiness. It is something closer to complicity.

The original IPC figures did not linger in academic journals. They were weaponized. They fed UN resolutions, inflamed campuses, provided the soundtrack for riots in Western cities, and placed Jewish communities around the world in heightened danger. Once the slogan "Israel is starving Gaza" had gone viral, inconvenient facts became wholly irrelevant. Israeli officials could protest, independent experts could point out missing data and dodgy methodology, but it was all in vain. The narrative had been set.

We now know a little more about those methodological dodges. The IPC relied on partial datasets, clinic-based screenings unrepresentative of the wider population, and a switch to mid-upper-arm-circumference (MUAC) measurements known to inflate malnutrition figures. Serious flaws, one might think, flaws grave enough to bring down the whole "famine" edifice. Yet the media that had amplified the alarm with such gusto discovered, when the correction arrived, that they had suddenly lost interest in Gaza's nutritional statistics.

The panic was news; the refutation was not.

This ought to disturb anyone who still believes journalism has a duty to truth rather than to ideology. When an accusation of this magnitude is lobbed into the public square it does not simply evaporate when disproven. It lives on in the slogans daubed on university walls, in the threats issued against synagogues, in the simmering resentment that turns neighbors against neighbors. The outrage gets the megaphone; the correction is whispered, if it is uttered at all.In conflict zones, words are munitions. "Famine," "genocide," "starvation" these are not neutral descriptors; they are political ordnance. When journalists treat them as gospel one week and ignore their demolition the next, they are not merely failing in their craft. They are participating in the very distortions they affect to deplore.

So let the reader draw the necessary conclusion. If the people whose profession is skepticism refuse to practice it, then the skepticism must be supplied by the rest of us. Every lurid humanitarian claim now requires the question that the press no longer asks: who benefits from this story, and what happens if it turns out to be untrue?

In the case of the Gaza famine scare, we know the answer. A nation's reputation was savaged, public discourse was poisoned, and Jewish communities paid a price in fear and loathing, all on the strength of numbers that did not survive a single subsequent inquiry.

And the watchdogs of the press simply looked the other way.

Next time a headline screams catastrophe, remember what happened this time. Treat it with the robust suspicion that the journalists themselves so conspicuously failed to display. Because if they will not do their job, somebody must do it.

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Sean Duffy purges 3,000 trucker license training providers after illegal immigrant driver crashes

The adults are finally back in charge at the Department of Transportation.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just dropped the hammer so hard on the "illegal trucking chain" that the Biden-era grifters are probably still hearing the echo.

In one glorious sweep, Duffy's team just booted nearly 3,000 sketchy CDL training providers off the federal registry because, low and behold, they were faking records, bribing examiners, and basically running a clown car college for people who have no business piloting an 80,000-pound death missile down the interstate.

Another 4,500 got the "you’re next" letter while the feds comb through the remaining 16,000 like it's an IRS audit on steroids.

And the best part is how FMCSA Administrator Derek D. Barrs responded saying that providers unwilling to follow the rules "have no place training America's commercial drivers." 

Secretary Duffy, never one to let a good house-cleaning go uncelebrated, lit up the previous administration like a Christmas tree on fire: "This administration is cracking down on every link in the illegal trucking chain. Under Joe Robinette Biden and Pete "What, Me Worry?" Buttigieg, bad actors were able to game the system and let unqualified drivers flood our roadways. Their negligence endangered every family on America's roadways, and it ends today. Under President Trump, we are reigning in illegal and reckless practices that let poorly trained drivers get behind the wheel of semi-trucks and school buses."

Meanwhile, Minnesota just got put on the 30-day clock to revoke a mountain of illegally issued commercial licenses or kiss $30 million in highway cash goodbye. That’s right, Gov. "Tampon Tim" Walz's utopia apparently handed out CDLs like participation trophies to non-domiciled drivers (read: a third of them were bogus). Tick-tock, boys and girls.

All of this comes after a parade of horrific crashes involving illegal immigrant truckers with shiny new licenses they never should've gotten: Harjinder Singh, Partap Singh, Jashanpreet Singh, Rajinder Kumar… the Singh-sational tour of interstate carnage that the open border wokesters pretended wasn't happening.

Remember when the media swore these were just isolated incidents and anyone who noticed a pattern was a big meanie? Yeah, about that.

Sean Duffy and the Trump administration just said, "Hold my coffee," and started ripping out the entire rotten infrastructure that put these disasters on wheels.

Finally, someone in Washington is treating 18-wheelers like the potential weapons of mass destruction they are instead of a jobs program for people who can't pass the test without a bribe.Welcome back, common sense, we missed you.

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Outrage: Over 300 Rabbis and Jewish Leaders Demand UN Fires Official Who Denied Hamas’ Oct. 7 Rapes

In a blistering open letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, more than 300 prominent rabbis, scholars, and Jewish leaders, including former U.S. antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt, are calling for the immediate removal of Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

Their reason for the move is because Alsalem publicly denied that Hamas terrorists committed rape and gang rape during the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, despite two separate UN reports finding "reasonable grounds" to believe sexual violence occurred in multiple locations.

Just two weeks ago, anti-Semite Alsalem posted on X: "No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October."

That claim didn't just spark outrage, it ignited a full-throated rebuke from Jewish leaders who say the Jordanian-born rapporteur is actively aiding Hamas' war crimes by whitewashing them. "The targeted sexual abuse of Israelis by Hamas and its supporters is one weapon in the arsenal of those seeking Israel's obliteration," said Amy Elman, a Kalamazoo College professor who organized the letter. "It's outrageous that deniers such as Reem Alsalem are aiding and abetting the sexual violence by claiming it never happened. These apologists should be ashamed of themselves."

Elman, who has written extensively on anti-Semitism and state responses to sexual violence, co-organized the petition with Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

Among the heavy-hitting signatories: Lipstadt, Jewish Women’s Archive CEO Judith Rosenbaum, pioneering Orthodox theologian Rabbi Irving Greenberg (former chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum), Reconstructing Judaism president Rabbi Deborah Waxman, and Hebrew College president Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld.

Medoff pulled no punches on the double standard at the United Nations.

"If a UN official made such a remark concerning rape victims from any other ethnic or religious group, there would be an international uproar," Medoff said. "The same standard should apply to Israeli Jewish women who were sexually assaulted by Hamas terrorists."

The controversy exploded after Alsalem appeared on a Substack podcast claiming the world had fallen into an Israeli "trap" by believing reports of "barbaric sexual violence" committed by "barbarian Palestinian men." This was in spite of the fact that several jihadi attackers actually bragged about the sexual assaults along with other atrocities they perpetrated.

Alsalem used the platform to question the credibility of the UN's own March 2024 report and claimed Israel was using the rape allegations "in order to then justify the genocide."

Yes, the UN's own expert on violence against women accused Israel of weaponizing rape claims to justify… defending itself against the terrorists who actually committed the rapes. This isn't the first time the UN has faced accusations of turning a blind eye to Hamas' atrocities. But having the official responsible for protecting women worldwide openly deny those atrocities is a middle finger to women and is a new low, even for an organization with a long history of Israel-bashing.

The Jewish leaders' message to Guterres is clear: Reem Alsalem has to go--immediately.

Because when the United Nations employs someone who denies the rape of Jewish women by Hamas terrorists, it's not just a betrayal of Israeli victims — it’s a betrayal of every woman, everywhere.

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Another Biden Border Catastrophe: Afghan “Ally” Shoots National Guard Troops in D.C., Yelling “Allahu Akbar” – And He Was Vetted!

Folks, here we go again. Just when you thought the Biden-Harris open-borders disaster couldn’t get any more deadly, an Afghan migrant who was fast-tracked into America under their chaotic 2021 evacuation shoots two young National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. One is dead. The other is fighting for his life. And the suspect? He screamed “Allahu akbar!” while doing it.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, pleaded not guilty Tuesday – from his hospital bed, no less, where he’s recovering from wounds after police stopped his rampage just as he tried to reload.

He’s charged with assault with intent to kill while armed, possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and murder. Bond denied – thank God for small miracles.The victims? Twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, who tragically died the next day, and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, who remains in serious condition.

These kids had literally been sworn in less than 24 hours earlier. As U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said:

“Both Beckstrom and Wolfe ‘were sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot on the street in Washington.’”

Beckstrom even volunteered to work over Thanksgiving so her fellow soldiers could be with their families. Heartbreaking.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said Wolfe “remains in serious condition,” but is showing signs of movement and awareness.

President Trump, during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, revealed he’d spoken directly with Wolfe’s parents:

“They said he didn’t have a chance,” Trump recalled. “I will tell you, the one who said he is going to live is his mother … ‘Sir, he is going to live.’ I spoke to her very soon after this horrible event took place with this scum that is able to come into our country.”

“I spoke to his mother, ‘Sir, he’s going to be okay. I’m telling you.’ No doctor thought that. Nobody thought that. He was hit bad places. She was so positive, it was incredible. And possibly right. … That would be amazing. If he lives, it would be amazing, a miracle, actually.”

Pray for that young man. Pray for both families.

Now here’s the part that should infuriate every American: Lakanwal was brought here in 2021 under Biden’s infamous “Operation Allies Welcome” – the same frantic airlift that dumped roughly 77,000 Afghans into the country with what even DHS now admits was laughably inadequate vetting.

He got asylum in April. Why? Because, we’re told, he supposedly worked with U.S. entities in Afghanistan – including, according to former CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the agency itself.So the same administration that left billions in equipment and Americans behind in Kabul turned around and flew in tens of thousands of people – and at least one of them just murdered an American soldier on our own soil while shouting the jihadist war cry.

The Trump administration has already responded by halting asylum decisions and stopping new Afghan visas. About time someone slammed the door shut.

This is what happens when you treat national security like a giant welcome wagon. Sarah Beckstrom is never coming home. Andrew Wolfe is clinging to life. And the people who created this preventable nightmare still won’t admit they were wrong.Never forget: they called it “Operation Allies Welcome.”

One of those “allies” just declared war on America – again.

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Founder of Swiss Assisted-Suicide Outfit Dignitas Takes His Own Way Out—at 92

Well, this one practically writes itself.

Ludwig Minelli, the guy who spent decades insisting that "self-determination" means helping strangers kill themselves in a rented apartment outside Zurich, has now chosen the very service he built. Dignitas announced Monday that its 92-year-old founder died on November 29 by what it delicately calls "voluntary assisted dying," [aka: suicide] just six days shy of his 93rd birthday.

In its statement, the organization praised Minelli as a "pioneer and warrior" who "stood unwaveringly for his convictions when it came to the protection of fundamental rights and the freedom of citizens." Except that warriors don't kill themselves when they have the fight in front of them.

Dignitas promises to keep the lights on and the lethal barbiturates flowing: "The Dignitas team will continue to manage and develop the association in the spirit of its founder as a professional and combative international organization for self-determination and freedom of choice in life and at the end of life." [But especially when you decide it's the end of your life.]

Color me stunned that the guy who turned suicide into a Swiss cottage industry eventually decided to become his own best one-time customer.

Minelli founded Dignitas in 1998, and the group claims to have facilitated roughly 4,000 deaths since then. Meanwhile, assisted suicide numbers in Switzerland itself have exploded--an 824.6% increase among residents from 2003 (187 cases) to 2023 (1,729 cases), according to official data. That's not a trend; that's a rocket ride to the great beyond.

And who's riding it hardest are women and the very old. 

Women made up 59.92% of last year’s assisted suicides (1,036 out of 1,729), preserving a steady 3-to-2 edge over men for two decades. Among those 95 and older, 94.29% of all suicides from 2019–2023 were assisted. For the 85–94 crowd, the figure is 87.71%. When nine out of ten "suicides" in a demographic require an organization to hand you the cup, something has gone seriously wrong with how a society treats its elderly.

Pro-life observers aren’t mincing words. One typical reaction: "The apparently ever-increasing numbers of elderly people ending their lives through assisted suicide in Switzerland ought also to be deeply alarming for advocates and opponents of assisted suicide… It speaks to a profound cultural malaise that any culture would actively facilitate, and, to that extent, encourage its elderly population to end their lives by suicide."

Another called it straight: these are "deaths of despair" and "a form of abandonment of the elderly."

So the man who spent his life arguing that suicide is the ultimate expression of autonomy has now provided the ultimate object lesson. When even the high priest of the death clinic decides it's time to check out rather than endure another year of life, maybe, just maybe, that tells us something about the product he was selling.

File under: Be careful what you normalize. You might end up living, or not living, long enough to prove your critics right.

What a way to go.

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Is Tim Walz toast?

Oh, sweet merciful crap, Tim Walz might finally be cooked, and not just from all that hotdish he pretends to love.

Remember when Tampon Tim was out there doing his aw-shucks Midwestern dad routine, floating a 2028 presidential run like he's the second coming of Hubert Humphrey? Yeah, about that. The new betting line in Minnesota isn’t "Will Walz run for president?" It’s "Will Walz finish his term without wearing an orange jumpsuit that clashes with his Carhartt cosplay?"

Because now over 400 employees from his own Department of Human Services have gone full Roman tribunal on his sorry butt, declaring in no uncertain terms that "Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota."

You read that right. Not "kinda-sorta," not "shared responsibility," not "oopsie-daisy, the dog ate the oversight." One hundred percent responsible. 

We're talking about a Medicaid fraud scandal so gargantuan it makes Feeding Our Future look like some kid stealing lunch money. Somali "clinics" in the Twin Cities allegedly siphoned hundreds of millions, possibly billions, from autism programs, kicked back cash to parents to keep quiet, and (plot twist!) funneled taxpayer dollars straight to Al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda affiliate that likes turning shopping malls into slaughterhouses. One 29-year-old genius alone is accused of pocketing $14 million for fake autism treatments. That's not fraud, that's a Somali terrorist GoFundMe with extra steps.

And here’s the kicker: whistleblowers say they ran straight to Walz early on, begging him to do something. His response? According to the employees, they "got the opposite response." Instead of help, Walz "systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression," while his DFL cronies and the obedient Star Tribune lapdogs circled the wagons.

These poor souls say Walz deliberately neutered the Legislative Auditor, installed loyal hacks who "willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet," and built a culture where anyone who squealed got reassigned, threatened, or silenced. Their money quote on the governor: "Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity." That isn't a resignation letter, that’s a political obituary.

Even the Minnesota GOP congressional delegation, led by Tom Emmer, is demanding federal investigators crawl so far up Walz's khakis they can read the tag.

When four hundred of your own people are willing to torch their careers to scream from the rooftops that you're a corrupt, retaliatory liar who looked the other way while taxpayer money funded terrorists… you’re clearly not eyeing the White House anymore. You're just hoping the feds let you keep the lake cabin.

Tim Walz always bragged about "One Minnesota." Turns out that one Minnesota includes a governor who's allegedly 100% cool with fraud, terrorism financing, and crushing anyone brave enough to rat him out.

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Democrat Delegate Who Took Marching Orders From Jeffrey Epstein Plays the Ultimate Victim Card: ‘I Was Basically Raped’ By My Own Staffers

Folks, you can’t make this garbage up. The same Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), the non-voting delegate from the Virgin Islands who was caught texting with the late, not so great pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the middle of a 2019 congressional hearing, once stood before a federal judge and declared that her disgruntled ex-staffers "basically raped" her family by leaking stolen nude photos during her re-election campaign.

Yes, really.

Plaskett, a sitting member of the ultra-secretive House Intelligence Committee, insisted she was only chatting with Epstein because the convicted sex trafficker "had information, and I was going to get information to get at the truth" about Michael Cohen. 

Sure, Stacey. Nothing says "getting to the truth" like taking real-time tips from a guy who trafficked underage girls to his private island in your congressional district.

This same congresswoman who narrowly beat a censure vote 209-214 after her Epstein texts went public once tearfully told a court that her privacy had been "pillaged" and that she and her family were "basically raped by Juan McCullum and Dorene Browne-Louis… Why, because I was mean? I demanded a lot, I demand most of myself."

She then went full race card mode: "The women who saw it for what it was. Bringing a black woman down. McCullum you're like some creep who rips a woman’s clothes off in public, like the slave seller ripping a black woman's clothes off."

And yes, it got darker: "Then you went further. They tried to first emasculate my husband. Say he was not a man, because there was a picture of him with makeup. Makeup it was obvious he was not happy to be wearing. That he lost in a bet. The worst was that they tried to put in the public that my husband and I allowed our daughter who was around 4-5 at the time of the picture in some perverted unnatural situation. For that reason, I want to physically destroy the two of them."

Her husband, Jonathan Buckney-Small, wasn't exactly turning the other cheek either. He told the court that when he ran into McCullum after the leak: "NEVER had I felt the pulse the beat the flow my blood asking me to take matters in my own hands that night when you couldn't look me in the eye."

McCullum, who had moved on to work for Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), and Browne-Louis, who landed a cushy DHS gig, eventually pleaded guilty to distributing the revenge porn they dug up after Plaskett asked McCullum to fix her iPhone. They sent the photos to media, politicians, and even handed one to a reporter via Plaskett’s primary opponent.

McCullum got a whopping one year and one day in prison (early release, naturally). Browne-Louis walked with probation after her husband was mysteriously shot dead outside his firehouse job a month after the photos dropped.

But sure, Democrats, tell me again how Stacey Plaskett is the real victim here, the poor, besieged black woman brought low by racist staffers and a cruel world, while she's over there texting one of the most notorious child sex predators in modern history for "information."

The party of "believe all women" apparently has a very selective memory when the woman in question is taking tips from Epstein and screaming about wanting to "physically destroy" people in open court.

Unbelievable.

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Biden's autopen went nuclear while the media pretends otherwise

The Biden autopen scandal just went nuclear, and the media is pretending it's no big deal because Orange Man Bad did something about it. But let's be real here.

Donald Trump just dropped the hammer on Friday: every single document Joe Biden allegedly "signed" with that little robot pen in his final days has been terminated. And suddenly that Axios report from September that everybody memory-holed is back from the dead, because now there are actual consequences.

Kayleigh McEnany absolutely torched it on Saturday, pointing out the obvious: yeah, every president uses an autopen sometimes. That's not the issue. The issue is when your own staff secretary is basically screaming into the void, "Wait, did the vegetable in the Oval Office actually approve this or are we just making it up now?"

Marc Thiessen, who actually having worked in a real White House under George W. Bush, laid it out perfectly: "Bush didn't want to have any doubts about things. So I remember once there was a continuing resolution to keep the government open, and he was at the APEC summit out in Asia, and they actually took an aide and flew the bill out to Asia so that he could physically sign the bill. So, you know, that's how seriously [Bush] took this."

Compare that to Biden World, where the staff secretary, Stef Feldman, is frantically emailing: "When did we get [Biden's] approval of this?"

And then two weeks later: "I'm going to need email from... original chain confirming [Biden] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready."

Translation: Nobody knew if Joe even understood what planet he was on, much less what he was "signing."

Thiessen didn’t hold back: "The staff secretary clearly had concerns about this and was aware of it and wasn't sure that Biden was actually issuing these orders… And so, you know, the pardon is a power of the president himself. And to have pardons signed by autopen when the people running the autopen weren't even sure the president had agreed to pardon somebody, that's pretty bad stuff."

"Pretty bad stuff" is putting it mildly. We're talking about a guy who was clearly non compos mentis (Thiessen's exact Latin, because even he couldn’t find an English phrase gentle enough) having his name stamped on record-setting numbers of pardons and commutations while his handlers ran around in a post-Hunter-pardon "mad dash" to find random people to let off the hook without even looping in DOJ.

And now Trump says none of those autopen "signatures" count anymore.The same people who spent four years telling us January 6th invalidated the entire 2016 election are about to discover the sacred sanctity of the autopen. 

I can't wait for the meltdown.

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The Mask Slips: Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Regime and the Return of Syrian Duplicity

One need hardly be surprised. The same Syrian president who, only weeks ago, was being feted in certain Western quarters as a moderate, tolerant reformer (Ahmed al-Sharaa, once known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) has now been credibly linked to direct attacks on Israeli soldiers and, even more grimly, to the organized persecution of Syria's ancient Druze minority.

According to a report by Israel’s public broadcaster KAN, citing informed sources, it was none other than "Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's general intelligence" that orchestrated Thursday night's ambush of an IDF arrest raid in southern Syria, as well as earlier assaults on Druze communities in the country's east. The very same regime operatives who opened fire on Israeli reservists as they withdrew from Beit Jinn, wounding six, are said to be the identical group that has been terrorizing the Druze in Khader.

Let us be clear about what happened. In the early hours of Friday, soldiers of the IDF's 55th Reserve Paratroop Brigade entered the Syrian town of Beit Jinn to detain two brothers affiliated with the terrorist organization Al-Jama'a al-Islamiya. These men had planted roadside bombs and had participated in launching a high-altitude missile toward Israel. The arrests themselves were textbook: the brothers were taken quietly from their beds. It was only as the Israelis withdrew that regime-linked gunmen opened fire, triggering a fierce exchange in which several terrorists were killed and six Israeli reservists wounded (one of them the brigade commander who had raced forward to extract his trapped men). Syrian media, with their customary regard for truth, promptly claimed thirteen "civilians" had been slaughtered.

All of this, we are now told, was directed by the intelligence apparatus of the man who assured the world he had broken with jihadism.

One struggles to recall a more rapid unmasking. Barely had the champagne corks stopped popping in Washington and certain European salons (where al-Sharaa was hailed as the acceptable face of the Syrian opposition) than his regime began doing precisely what the Assad apparatus did for decades: using proxy militias to bleed Israel while simultaneously waging low-intensity genocide against religious minorities inconveniently parked along the new ruler's path to absolute power.

The Druze of southern Syria, who have already endured years of siege and starvation at the hands of Islamist factions, now find themselves targeted by the very government in Damascus itself. Syrian Druze who have spoken to The Jerusalem Post have been unequivocal: Israel's buffer zone, so noisily condemned by Damascus as a "violation of Syrian sovereignty," is the only thing that currently allows humanitarian aid to reach their villages and prevents their complete annihilation.

Yet the al-Sharaa government continues to denounce the zone, even as his own militias fire on the soldiers who keep it functioning. The cynicism is breathtaking.

Meanwhile, reports multiply that Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are quietly rebuilding their infrastructure inside Syria with the new regime's tacit blessing. The old Iranian playbook (use Syrian territory as a forward base against Israel) has evidently been dusted off and handed to the new management.

Western governments that rushed to embrace al-Sharaa as a bulwark against ISIS and a potential partner for peace would do well to study the photographs emerging from Damascus: crowds waving portraits of a man whose intelligence service now shoots Israeli soldiers in the back and drives the Druze toward extinction. Those images tell a simpler and truer story than any number of carefully stage-managed interviews.

The lesson, as ever, is that jihadist movements do not moderate; they merely learn to smile for the cameras while reloading. Israel, having learned that lesson the hard way across decades of betrayal, will continue to do what it must: arrest terrorists in their beds, return fire when ambushed, and maintain the thin buffer that stands between Syria’s minorities and the abyss.The rest of the world is free to keep pretending that the new boss in Damascus is fundamentally different from the old boss he replaced. The Druze, and the wounded paratroopers of the 55th Brigade, know better.

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Family Gives Update on 24-Year-Old National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe After Shooting Near White House

(Photo left: Andrew Wolfe’s family / Photo right: 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe sources: Facebook & FBI)

The 24-year-old Air National Guardsman from West Virginia, Andrew Wolfe, is still in critical condition in the hospital after being shot Wednesday in an ambush-style, jihad-inspired attack near the White House. His family has been sharing updates on social media about how he is doing after surgery.

On Thursday, President Trump spoke with the military and sadly announced that the second Guardsman who was standing next to Wolfe, U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, had died in the hospital with her parents by her side.

On Friday, Wolfe's mom said her son had been out of surgery for a few hours. Doctors are letting his brain swell a little on purpose right now, and the next 24 to 48 hours are the most important. The prior day, NBC News reached out to the family. At first, Andrew's dad, Jason, didn't want to talk. Then he said, "Just pray for my son."

Here's what Andrew's mother, Melody Wolfe, posted on Facebook:

"Hey there, Andy’s been out of surgery for a few hours. His brain is being allowed space to swell and this first 24 to 48 hours is the biggest thing right now. They have no clue about any lasting effects right now because we’re in this very first stage. The first two weeks will be a waiting game. Right now he's surviving and alive. We got to see him in ICU and he's sedated. It feels like a nightmare and this doesn’t feel real."

Later that day, she shared a more hopeful update:

"I want to give everyone an update on our boy. We talked with the neurologist this morning and he said Andy is doing better than they imagined. He's reacting to stimuli and is opening eyes and trying to move around. They are making sure he is sedated to allow the brain to heal so he is not feeling any pain. With this being said though, we know that with a brain swell, it'll get worse before it gets better. But the neurosurgeon is hopeful that things are moving in the right direction. Andy has a very long road ahead and right now we are going hour by hour but miracles are already occurring just with his progress he’s making so far. Your prayers and love mean so much to us and we need you guys to continue lifting Andy's name up. He will be a walking testimony through this. Our God is good and miracles are happening as we speak.

I do want to make sure everyone knows we ARE NOT starting any Go Fund Me’s. I believe there’s one out there but we are wanting for nothing. We want prayers, your love, and your support. That’s the most important thing right now. So please, if you see a Go Fund Me, screenshot it and send it to me so we can make sure no one gives to these. We love you all and again, we cannot thank you enough for everything our community, state, and nation are doing to show support."

Andrew joined the West Virginia Air National Guard on February 5, 2019. He works with the 167th Airlift Wing and was helping with a new program in Washington, D.C. called the "D.C. Safe and Beautiful Mission" that started in August. The program brings together different government groups to keep the nation’s capital safe, clean, and welcoming.

A friend named Brooke Davison, who met Andrew through a local cornhole league, told former newspaper The New York Times that he never worried about his safety while working in D.C.

"Andy is easily one of the strongest, determined and God-fearing men I know," Davison said. "I have no doubt he has the willpower in him to come out on top of this."

Berkeley County Schools in West Virginia sent an email saying Andrew graduated from Musselman High School in 2019. The school is very proud of him and is supporting his family. "During his time at Musselman High, he was an active, engaged, and high-achieving student who embodied the Applemen spirit, contributing positively to our school community both academically and athletically,” said Musselman High School principal Alicia Riggleman.

Let's do what Andrew's father, Jason, asked for--let's pray for his recovery.

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National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died and still the Left uses her death politically

West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died from being shot near the White House by an unvetted Afghan national. She was only 20-years-old and had her whole life ahead of her.

One is almost lost for words when contemplating the sheer grimness of this story, yet it is precisely the sort of story that reveals the fatal conjunction of sentimentality and incompetence that has come to define the Western elite in our time, particularly with the Biden administration.

On Thanksgiving Day itself, as millions of Americans sat down to give thanks for the blessings of family and freedom, President Trump was obliged to announce the death of  Sarah Beckstrom, who had been shot the previous day while on duty near the White House.

"I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the Guardsmen that we’re talking about — highly respected, young, magnificent person — started service in 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away," President Trump said, his voice heavy with the knowledge that a young life had been snuffed out for the apparent sake of jihad, as it was reported that the shooter yelled "Allahu akbar," or 'Allah is greater.'

"She's no longer with us, she's looking down on us right now,” Trump continued. "Her parents are with her. This just happened. She was savagely attacked, she's dead, not with us. Incredible person. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. Just horrible."

When President Trump gets this hyperbolic, you can imagine he is truly feeling the loss of this young woman.

Only hours earlier her father, Gary Beckstrom, had spoken the words no parent should ever have to utter: "I’m holding her hand right now," he said. "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery."

Sarah had, of course, volunteered to stand duty over the Thanksgiving holiday precisely so that her comrades might spend the day with their own families. A small act of selflessness, one might have thought, in a country that still pretends to honor such things.

And what do we find at the end of this chain of events? The alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is a 29-year-old Afghan national, who arrived in the United States in 2021 under the auspices of Joe Biden's much-vaunted "Operation Allies Welcome," a program that, in its boundless generosity, managed to import some 77,000 Afghans into America with what can only be described as minimal scrutiny.

The consequences of such reckless virtue-signalling are no longer theoretical. They have names. They have grieving parents. They have a 20-year-old girl who will never again sit at a Thanksgiving table.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi observed: "She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives."

And Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for D.C., added with understandable bitterness: "They answered the call, they took the charge, they volunteered, they put their lives on the line for people they don’t even know, and that unfortunately is becoming a reality more and more for the members of law enforcement."

One hardly needs to spell out the lesson here, though it is a lesson that certain quarters remain determined never to learn. When a society decides that the most important thing is to appear compassionate, when it confuses open borders with moral superiority, and vetting with xenophobia, then sooner or later it will pay the price in the most excruciating currency of all: the blood of its own daughters.

Sarah Beckstrom gave her life so that others might enjoy a holiday. The very least her country can do now is to ask, without apology and without euphemism, how it came to be that the man accused of taking it was ever allowed on American soil in the first place.

And finally, how can people on the Left, simply due to their hatred of Trump and half of America, use this horrific act of what appears to be Islamic jihad, to attack conservatives.

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Ex-FBI agent reveals Afghan vetting screwups: "Ticking time bomb"

 Rahmanullah Lakanwal,

Listen, folks, if you ever needed a neon-lit, flaming-red billboard screaming "Biden’s Afghanistan bug-out was an unmitigated disaster," here it is, gift-wrapped with a bow made of National Guard blood.

Two West Virginia Guard members are fighting for their lives after getting ambushed just blocks from the White House by some guy named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who somehow waltzed into America courtesy of Joe Biden’s "Operation Allies Welcome." You remember that one, the humanitarian clusterfrack where we airlifted tens of thousands of Afghans out of Kabul, slapped a participation trophies on them, and called it "vetting."

Former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker, who actually worked the mess on the ground, just dropped the mic on Fox News Digital:

'They said it is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode because we've just allowed all of these people into our country… Initially, it was a free-for-all and no one was being vetted… Many times it felt like anyone was allowed to come into the United States from Afghanistan, regardless of who they were… What happened to our National Guard service members is a direct result of their lack of vetting… America is full of people we do not know. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what sleeper cells are here."

Free-for-all. Ticking time bomb. Sleeper cells. Merry freakin’ Christmas, America.

Parker says FBI agents and DoD contractors flagged people who absolutely should not have come here, only to watch the Biden State Department override them like it was a game of diplomatic Red Rover. "There were individuals that were not being recommended to come to the United States, yet they were being overridden by the Biden State Department," she said.

The DHS Inspector General basically wrote a 50-page "We told you so," documenting rushed "lily pad" staging bases, missing records, and vetting so sloppy it makes TSA look like the Mossad. A separate Pentagon IG report found at least 50 evacuees with "potentially serious security concerns" got waved through anyway, and officials lost track of dozens more who pinged the terror watchlist bingo card.

Even U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro (yes, that Jeanine Pirro) unloaded: "This is what happens in this country when people who are not properly vetted are let in."

And newly minted FBI Director Kash Patel said: "This individual is in this country for one reason and one reason alone, because of the disastrous withdrawal from the Biden administration and the failure to vet in any way, shape or form this individual and countless others."

Remember when Alejandro Mayorkas, with a straight face, swore up and down that "well over 99 percent" of evacuees were properly screened? Yeah, about that, when Lindsey Graham reminded him he was under oath and asked if he could guarantee no terrorists slipped through, Mayorkas mumbled, "No. No, I can’t speak to that."

Of course he can't. Because the directive straight from the top was "fill the planes, ask questions never." Senator Josh Hawley uncovered an August 2021 email literally telling officials to "err on the side of excess" and let people board even if their paperwork was, shall we say, creatively incomplete.

So here we are: two American heroes in critical condition, a suspected Afghan shooter who drove cross-country with his wife and five kids to allegedly play jihad near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and a vetting process that was apparently run by the same people who designed Healthcare.gov.

Thank goodness there's a new sheriff in town.

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Another Day, Another "Misunderstander" of the Religion of Peace

Folks, here we go again.

Two West Virginia National Guard troops—deployed to the nation’s capital to help keep order—are now fighting for their lives after a targeted ambush just blocks from the White House. The alleged shooter: Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who arrived in the United States in September 2021 during the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Kabul.

And yes, witnesses say he was screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR!” as he opened fire.

Here’s the chilling play-by-play, per law-enforcement sources cited by the New York Post:

“According to sources, Lakanwal waited for the Guardsmen to turn a corner, opened fire, shot a female Guardsman in the chest, then allegedly took her firearm and shot her point-blank in the head before firing at others. Another Guardsman was hit in the neck before a third managed to take him down.”

The FBI and D.C. police are investigating this as a “possible act of terrorism.” Metropolitan Police executive assistant chief Jeffrey Carroll described it bluntly: “It appears to be a lone gunman that raised a firearm and ambushed these members of the National Guard.”

For months, progressive politicians and activists have been screeching that sending the National Guard into Democrat-run cities constitutes “authoritarianism” and an “invasion” of the streets. Funny how that rhetoric sounds a little different when the troops themselves become the targets.

And then there’s the inevitable question that the legacy media will do everything in their power to memory-hole: How is it that so many “misunderstanders” of Islam keep misunderstanding it in exactly the same murderous way?

We’re told—endlessly—that Islam is a “religion of peace,” yet a shocking percentage of global terror attacks continue to be carried out by individuals shouting the same Arabic phrase before they start shooting, stabbing, or blowing themselves up. At what point does the “tiny minority of extremists” excuse collapse under its own weight?

President Trump, not mincing words, immediately called for a full reinvestigation of every Afghan refugee admitted under the Biden-Harris evacuation:

“WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has called for a reinvestigation of all Afghan refugees admitted under the Biden administration following a Wednesday shooting near the White House that critically injured two West Virginia National Guard members in what D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser described as a targeted attack.”

Good. Start vetting. Actually vetting this time.

Early reports from West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey briefly—and terrifyingly—suggested both troops had died, but he later clarified:

“We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information. Our prayers are with these brave service members, their families, and the entire Guard community.”

Prayers indeed. These men and women put on the uniform to protect us. The very least we can do is demand honest answers about who we’re letting in—and why the same deadly pattern keeps repeating itself while politicians and the press pretend it’s just one giant coincidence.Enough with the platitudes. This isn’t “senseless violence.” When the perpetrator screams “Allahu Akbar” before executing a cold-blooded ambush on American soil, the sense is tragically, infuriatingly clear.

Time to face reality instead of reciting the same tired “religion of peace” talking points while our troops bleed two blocks from the White House.

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