ICE Drops ‘Uncontrolled’ Fraud Bombshell Involving Thousands of Foreign Students, ‘Phantom Employees’

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons just dropped a massive reality check on yet another immigration program that's been running wild. Homeland Security Investigations officers have uncovered potentially thousands of fraudulent foreign workers [aka illegal aliens]. Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons announced that federal investigators have uncovered more than 10,000 foreign students connected to "suspect employers" as part of another potentially massive fraud scheme, this time involving the federal STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension program.  

At a news conference Tuesday, Lyons said the cases uncovered thus far are "just the tip of the iceberg."

OPT is a U.S. immigration program that lets international students on F-1 visas work temporarily in the country in jobs related to their field of study. Lyons said that when the program was first created under the Bush administration and expanded under the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security expected "only a few thousand foreign students would receive training approval before returning home."

"Instead," Lyons said, that OPT "ballooned into an uncontrolled guest worker pipeline with hundreds of thousands of foreign students working in the United States." He added that "as the program size exploded, so has the fraud."

"Today, we are announcing we have identified over 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working for highly suspect employers, and that’s just among the top 25 OPT employers. This is only the tip of the iceberg," Lyons said. "We’ve dramatically expanded our oversight of OPT and can report that we found fraud nationwide."

According to Lyons, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers have visited "problematic OPT worksite employers" in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Florida. He said that many of the suspicious employers include nongovernmental organizations [NGOs].

According to Lyons, investigators have "discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed." Investigators have also found hundreds of foreign students listed as working out of residential addresses. But no Learing Centers were discovered in the operation.

"In many places," he continued, "multiple OPT employers claim to operate from the same address, but none actually lease the facility."

"When someone does open the door, their statements are inconsistent, or they claim no knowledge of the business," said Lyons. It's akin to the guy stopped by cops who, when searched say, "These are not my pants."

The ICE director also said investigators uncovered what he referred to as "phantom employees," who he said are foreign students who obtained work authorization through OPT but never actually showed up for work at the sites they claimed to work out of.

"This is not accidental," Lyons concluded. "This is deliberate, coordinated and criminal."

He added that "this fraud is not victimless," calling it a "blatant attack on the goodwill of the American people."

Vice President JD Vance, who President Donald Trump appointed "fraud czar," celebrated the discovery in an X post as "another great win for our fraud task force."

Vance wrote that the administration "will not tolerate foreign nationals abusing our visa system at the expense of the American people."

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Americans Continue Voting With Their Feet, Apparently Preferring Not To Be Taxed Into Oblivion

New Census data reveals a massive migration shift as high-tax states lose residents to the booming Southeast and Sun Belt. Experts are baffled why anyone would leave paradise for lower taxes and functioning streets. Hmmm?

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-host Charlie Hurt discuss an exodus of residents from Democrat-led states due to taxes.

Americans appear to be voting with their feet as the country’s most iconic cities continue to see declining populations or struggle to regain their pre-pandemic footing, shocking no one with two brain cells to rub together.

On the East Coast, New York City is facing a renewed exodus. 

According to a Citizens Budget Commission study released earlier this month, the Big Apple lost more residents than it gained last year. The report found that New York City lost approximately 114,000 more domestic residents to other U.S. cities than it gained in 2025, reversing two years of marginal growth.

The decline has become so pronounced that even New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has sounded the alarm. Pleading in March for "high net worth" individuals to return, Hochul noted the erosion of the Empire State’s tax base is threatening "the generous social programs that we want to have in our state."

A nervous Hochul admitted that New York is "in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden," specifically citing "Wall Street businesses looking at Texas" as a primary concern.Further north, Boston is struggling to retain its next generation of workers. 

In Massachusetts, a 2026 Young Residents Survey from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Foundation, released in April, revealed that 26 percent of residents aged 20 to 30 plan to leave the area within the next five years.

Of those planning to move, nearly half are looking to exit the state entirely, with a majority eyeing the Southeast and Southwest. High housing costs remain the primary driver for those planning to leave, followed closely by the irresistible urge not to fund endless progressive experiments.

The trend is part of a larger drain on the Commonwealth. 

An analysis by the Pioneer Institute shows Massachusetts has suffered a net loss of approximately 182,000 residents due to domestic out-migration over the last five years. At this rate the state bird will soon be the U-Haul.The West Coast is seeing similar patterns, particularly in Los Angeles County. The latest U.S. Census data released in March 2026 shows that between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, 53,421 residents left the county. The largest numeric decline of any county in the nation. Since 2020, Los Angeles County’s population has shrunk from roughly 10 million to 9.7 million, proving once again that even the weather cannot overcome terrible governance.

In San Francisco, the population has failed to recover from its pandemic-era low. Despite a localized boom in the artificial intelligence sector, newly released Census estimates show the city’s total population remains well below 2020 levels. AI may be the future, but apparently it still cannot convince people to live around  the homeless and human feces, drugs and violence.

While the coastlines struggle, the Southeast is booming like it just discovered low taxes and personal responsibility. The Census Bureau reported in March that many of the fastest-growing counties in the country are now concentrated in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

South Carolina has officially claimed the title of the fastest-growing state in the nation. Between July 2024 and July 2025, the Palmetto State’s population surged by 1.5 percent, fueled by a net influx of 66,622 domestic migrants who probably just wanted grocery stores without bulletproof glass.

In terms of "income migration," Florida remains the undisputed king. The Florida Chamber of Commerce reports that the Sunshine State leads the nation with a net income migration of nearly 36.1 billion dollars annually. Turns out people enjoy keeping more of their own money rather than giving it to, say, Somalia businesses.

A new study by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation released on April 7, 2026, confirmed that taxpayers are fleeing high-tax environments for more fiscally friendly states. While Texas and Florida remain the top targets, states like North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee are also seeing record gains. Notably, the NTUF "Migration in Minutes" metric found that Texas surpassed Florida in 2022 as the state gaining a new taxpayer most frequently. One every 4 minutes and 40 seconds. That is not a migration, it's more like a stampede of J.B. Pritzker look-alike contestants at a free pizza grand opening.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s March report highlighted that the nation’s most populous counties. Including Los Angeles, Cook County (Chicago), Harris County (Houston), and the five boroughs of New York City. Are feeling the sting of lower Net International Migration.

Historically, these hubs relied on international arrivals to offset domestic losses. However, the CBC reported a 70 percent drop in international migration to New York City in 2025 compared to the previous year.

"The nation’s largest counties . . .  are often international migration hubs," said Census Bureau demographer George M. Hayward. "With fewer gains from international migration, these types of counties saw their population growth diminish or even turn into loss."Translation: Even the replacement population is starting to notice the vibe is off.

Communism much?

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Another ISIS-Inspired Terror Plot Thwarted in North Carolina—And It's a Close Call

Federal authorities announced Friday that they've stopped a chilling ISIS-inspired terrorist attack planned for a grocery store and fast food restaurant in Mint Hill, North Carolina—a quiet Charlotte suburb that could have turned into a bloodbath.

The suspect? 18-year-old U.S. citizen Christian Sturdivant, who allegedly plotted to slaughter innocent Americans with "knives and hammers" after getting radicalized online. He even dreamed of becoming a "martyr" in the process. "He was preparing for Jihad."

“He was preparing for Jihad and innocent people were going to die,” U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson for the Western District of North Carolina bluntly stated at Friday's press conference.“He was targeting Jews, Christians and LGBTQ individuals,” Ferguson added.

Sturdivant, who slung burgers at a local Burger King, first popped up on law enforcement's radar back in January 2022, when he was just 14 years old. He was chatting on social media with an overseas ISIS operative who told him to dress in black, knock on doors, and hammer people to death. His family intervened and stopped him then, per FBI Special Agent in Charge James Barnacle. 

The kid got psychological help, which it didn't, and no charges were filed. 

The FBI was assured Sturdivant "no longer had access to social media." Turns out, that was a lie, they discovered the truth on December 18.

Fast forward: Sturdivant dives into ISIS websites, posts TikToks, pledges allegiance to the terror group to what he thought was an ISIS member (actually an NYPD undercover), and tells them he plans to "do jihad soon."

He then chats with an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS operative, spilling detailed plans for the attacks and even begging for guns.

Agents raid his home, find hammers and knives stashed under his bed, despite his family hiding them earlier, plus notes outlining the carnage.

Arrested on New Year's Eve as he's released from a medical facility, Sturdivant faces charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

"Without the swift action of the FBI, joint terrorism task force, New York City police department, the Mint Hill Police Department and our partners at the United States attorney’s office for the western district North Carolina, we could be announcing national tragedy. Instead, a terrorist attack was thwarted," Barnacle said.

This foiled plot hits just one year after Shamsud-Din Jabbar mowed down New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, flying an ISIS flag, killing 14 and wounding dozens more—before placing dud bombs and getting taken out by police.

Another reminder that the ISIS threat isn't going anywhere, even as these radicals try to strike on our soil. Good on law enforcement for shutting this one down before the body count started.

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200 Marines deploy to support ICE in Florida

Two hundred Marines from North Carolina’s Marine Support Squadron 272 are headed to Florida to back ICE, U.S. Northern Command says. They’re part of 700 troops, active duty, Guard, Reserves, tapped by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after DHS begged for help May 9.

Florida’s first up, with Texas and Louisiana next. The Marines will handle “critical administrative and logistical capabilities at locations as directed by ICE,” per Thursday’s release. Think paperwork and transport, not handcuffs. 

“Their roles will focus on administrative and logistical tasks, and they are specifically prohibited from direct contact with individuals in ICE custody or involvement in any aspect of the custody chain,” the news release hammers home.

This isn’t new. The military’s been law enforcement’s wingman for ages. The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin in ’91 said it best: “Contrary to what many police officers believe, the Posse Comitatus Act permits civilian law enforcement agencies to seek military assistance under some specific circumstances.” 

Guard units, for example, regularly sling “training, technical support, services, intelligence analysis, surveillance, communications towers, vehicle barriers, and pedestrian fences,” per a 2010 report.

The Pentagon’s doubling down on border security, with four new military zones in Texas and Arizona to curb illegal migration and drugs. Pentagon flack Sean Parnell says 8,500 Joint Task Force Southern Border troops have run 3,500 patrols, some with Mexican forces, and Marines have backed 170+ missions across 130 spots for nine agencies, including DHS and DEA.

Where in Florida? NORTHCOM’s lips are sealed. Rumors point to Alligator Alcatraz, ICE’s new Everglades lockup, but they ain’t confirming. Details? Forget it—NORTHCOM’s clamming up. Marines are coming to stack boxes, not to kick butt and take names.

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NC Democrat leader arrested for allegedly stealing Trump campaign signs: resigns

It's ironic how the Party that claims to care about free speech, law and order, and democracy, wants to control free speech with "misinformation" departments, allows illegal aliens into the country and only selectively prosecutes crimes, and is seeking to establish a one-Party government in the process.

A local Democratic Party chair in North Carolina resigned in disgrace this week after getting arrested for allegedly ripping out and stealing roadside Trump campaign signs, disregarding the law, a two-Party system, and free speech. 

This miscreant, Lowell Simon, 68, the now former chair of the Moore County Democratic Party who had been running for the North Carolina House this November, has been charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny of political signs.

[H/T Fox News Digital.]

The Moore County Democratic Party announced on Facebook Monday that Simon simply resigned as chair "following recent allegations and arrest related to the theft of political signs."

The Moore County Sheriff's Office reported that one of their deputies saw Simon simply removing campaign signs along Seven Lakes Drive at around 5:25 p.m. Thursday.

"The deputy, who was responding to an unrelated call at the time, later followed up at Simon’s residence, where the signs were found in his vehicle," according to the office. "Simon admitted to removing the signs, which were then recovered and returned to their original owner."

He was arrested on Saturday and released "under a written promise to appear in court," according to the sheriff's office, and his first court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 30.

"While we appreciate the hard work and dedication he has shown to the Democratic Party and the community, the Moore County Democratic Party cannot and will not condone the tampering of political signs or any other illegal activity," the local party wrote on Facebook. "Mr. Simon has offered an apology for his actions, as well as his resignation, both of which have been accepted by the MCDP."

But he really wasn't sorry he did it--he was sorry he got caught.

"My worse angels got the better of me and I removed the signs," Simon said. "I shouldn't have done that. I didn't do it in the stealth of night or anything. I did it when it was five o'clock in the afternoon."

Simon simply has no good, bad or worse angels--he was still making it sound as if what he did wasn't so bad because he didn't do it in 'the stealth of night.' He did it and by doing so Simon simply denied those who placed the signs at the various locations their constitutional right to campaign for their preferred candidate.

"We believe in the importance of freedom of expression and speech, and hope that local law enforcement will continue to enforce such laws that protect those freedoms fairly and without bias across party lines," the local party added. "As we move forward, our focus will remain on electing Democrats up and down the ballot in this critical election. Together, we are committed to promoting the values of justice, fairness, and freedom that our Party holds dear, and we look forward to building a better future for all in Moore County."

Last week, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields, a Republican, also issued a reminder to the public after Simon's arrest "that the removal or theft of campaign signs is a violation of North Carolina General Statute § 136-32(e), which protects the lawful placement of these signs during election periods."

Of course, it isn't only Democrats who commit such atrocious acts, but they seem to do so at a higher rate while preaching the opposite of what their actions show.

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Biden lands in Charlotte and wonders "Where am I?"

"Slidin' Biden"

President Biden did the right thing and flew to Charlotte, NC on Thursday to meet with the police officers who were killed in the recent shootout. His handlers finally got something right, except for the optics, which they didn't anticipate. 

Biden descends the short stairs after arriving in North Carolina — as a Secret Service agent quickly follows behind to make sure he doesn't trip.

He takes zero questions. pic.twitter.com/cMT9bRg7yf— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024

Biden was able to negotiate the short stairs without tumbling down and breaking a hip or worse. The Secret Service followed behind him, fingers crossed.

The Mayor of Charlotte was there to meet him when this happened:

Biden looks lost and confused after touching down in Charlotte — holding onto the mayor's hand for dear life pic.twitter.com/0ZQBleyoJp— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024

Biden looked like a deer in the headlights, lost and confused, unable to let go of Mayor Vi Lyles' hand. We cannot read his mind from the video, but he obviously looks confused, almost as if he isn't the President of the United States and has access to the nuclear code. If you ask me, that code should be "Don't" because he at least has that memorized.

Biden really looks frighteningly frail and it's clear that his physical and mental deterioration is a given fact that cannot be hidden. His presidency is looking more like "Weekend at Bernie's" than that of the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.

It would be surprising if he makes it to the election, which may explain his polls circling the bowl. 

Doctor Jill Biden should be indicted for elder abuse.

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BREAKING: Ronna McDaniel stepping down at RNC--we may know her replacement

It's likely due to pressure put on her by former President Donald Trump and the fact that he is the presumptive GOP candidate in this coming presidential election, that Ronna McDaniel will be reportedly stepped down as RNC Chairwoman. This is to come after the South Carolina primary later this month.

According to the former newspaper known as the New York Times, Trump will "likely" promote North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley to be McDaniel's replacement. 

The New York Times reported that Trump is “likely” to promote North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley to be her replacement.

Michael Whatley

McDaniel is the daughter of George S. Romney, who is the brother of RINO Mitt Romney, aka Mittens. It's unknown as to whether her relationship with a top former Republican had anything to do with her position with the RNC, but I would bet that it did. Having influential people seems to work out well for people related to them who haven't earned their position.

Anyway, the news comes after Trump met with her on Monday at Mar-a-Lago and posted after their meeting: “Ronna is now Head of the RNC, and I’ll be making a decision the day after the South Carolina Primary as to my recommendations for RNC Growth.”

Always a teaser with Trump.

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Professor who was "tempted to shoot up Israeli music festival" resigns

Laura Mullen: hatred wrapped in pink

Anyone who defends Hamas is a Hamasshole who has so much hatred in their heart that they must be exposed for their anti-Semitism and blatant hatred. One such person is a Wake Forest University professor, Laura Mullen.

Just days after the Nova Music Festival slaughter of Israelis and defending Hamas, this disgusting person said that she would have been "tempted" to kill festival goers too.

"So it’s kind of a Duh, but if you turn me out of my house, plow my olive groves under, and confine what’s left of my family to the small impoverished state you run as an open-air prison, I could be tempted to shoot up your dance party, yeah, even knowing you will scorch the Earth," she wrote in a now-deleted post that was seen by the Winston-Salem Journal.

It's as if this person who teaches creative writing has created a false narrative about Israel and the Gazans. It's as if she doesn't really know the true history of the Jews and Judea, or anything about the ancient Hebrew artifacts that are constantly being uncovered that existed even before Islam was a thing.

Parents and students were rightfully disgusted with the inhumane Mullen, who also was the Kenan chair of the humanities in the English and creative writing department. They wanted her fired.

The Jew-hater eventually resigned for "personal reasons." But refusing to admit the truth, she claimed the college "threw her to the wolves."

She defended the post claiming it was supposed to be "raw, direct, poetic," when in fact it was hateful, barbaric, and as poetic as so called 'art' that uses human body fluids. 

"I care deeply about what happens to innocent people everywhere. My tweet reflected my understanding of history and the results of oppression." 

If she doesn't understand that sadistically beheading babies or putting them in ovens to kill them is wrong, anything she says about the massacre is bullcrap.

She claimed that she received no personal backlash from students.

"I don’t have any students coming to me and saying, ‘Hey, you increased my fear and anxiety." Maybe they were too afraid to say anything to a person who supports what Hamas did to Israelis on October 7.

Wake Forest University officials said the post ‘caused significant anxiety and fear for members of our community." 

North Carolina University’s Chabad chapter, a Jewish group, said: "Students and parents alike have expressed concern for their safety in reaction to her hateful words.

"As Jewish students, we are alarmed and appalled that she is willing to make a joke of the massacre at the Supernova Music Festival that killed over 250 Israeli civilians.

"Her threatening language plays into anti-Semitic sentiment, a problem that poses a threat to Wake Forest students and that has no place at our school."

Laura Mullen, whatever she professes to know, doesn't know jack about Israel, but she is a professor of hatred.

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Obama appointed judge blows the left's collective mind

A North Carolina federal judge ruled on Friday that most of the state's 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect. She only blocked one rule that doctors of death worried could expose them to criminal penalties.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles sets aside that rule but allowed 6 law’s remaining provisions that began on Saturday while litigation continues in an attempt to murder more babies.

Last week, facilities that make their fortunes by dismembering unwanted babies in the womb requested a blanket order halting all of the July 1 restrictions pending the court challenge. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic [aka Unwanted Baby Elimination, South Atlanta] and a so called physician said parts of the revised law were vague and apparently contradictory that doctors could unintentionally break the law, leaving them unable to care for mothers looking to legally kill their unborn baby.

Fortunately, the General Assembly is controlled by the GOP and passed legislation last week revising or repealing almost all the challenged provisions. For one, the lawmakers clarified that medication murders will still be legal in most cases through 12 weeks, and that a lawful murder of the unborn child remains an exception to North Carolina's fetal homicide statute.

Judge Eagles, an Obama appointee, said that it would be too broad to block enforcement of the entire law and thus directed that for a minimum of the following two weeks, North Carolina cannot enforce a rule saying doctors must document the existence of a pregnancy within the uterus prior to conducting a medication procedure that kills the baby within the womb.

The lawyers for the baby killing providers argued that the language raised questions about whether the poison pills can be dispensed when it’s too early in a pregnancy to locate an embryo using an ultrasound — subjecting a provider to potentially violating the law.

“If the pregnancy is in early stages and the physician cannot document the existence of an intrauterine pregnancy, then the physician cannot comply with this requirement,” Eagles wrote. She said she’ll revisit the rule as well as other challenges in upcoming hearings.

Peter Im, a Planned Parenthood attorney with a very short name, said the plaintiffs had already received much of what they had sought in the lawsuit through the legislature’s revisions. And now with Eagles’ order, “it is clear that we can provide care to patients at the very earliest stages of pregnancy,” Im said.

Before Saturday, North Carolina has had a ban on most murders of unborn babies after 20 weeks. The new rules, developed after the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 struck down Roe v. Wade, reduce it to 12 weeks, but add new exceptions through 20 weeks for cases of rape and incest and through 24 weeks for “life-limiting” fetal anomalies. A medical emergency exception also remains in place.

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Biden in NC is as confused as a dyslexic spider weaving a web

You know what should scare us? When the President thinks the greatest existential threat to the world is global warming, and when it's obvious that even you and I could do a better job than he would do, if he was actually doing the job as President without some entity controlling his strings. Seriously, I have personally seen more cognitively astute patients in nursing homes than Joe Biden. No joke.

His confusion was blatantly obvious on Thursday when he met publicly with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The President mush-mouthed incoherently at different points and even forgot Winston Churchill's name [hint: it's Winston Churchill]. Biden even called PM Sunak "Mr. President."

Following the "Trump must've put the sandbag there" fall at an Air Force commencement ceremony, our alleged POTUS had to be pointed in the right direction everywhere he was supposed to go during a Washington, D.C. Marine Barracks parade. He moved cautiously with practically no coordinated arm swing, one of the signs of dementia.

Then on Monday, the air ghost visited him again and he went to shake hands with it during the Kansas City Chiefs' White House visit.

However, the real zinger was when the world's most eminent doctor and President-handler, Doctor Jill Biden, was supposed to introduce her husband and leader of the free world, but he was MIA. Joe was nowhere to be found and Doctor Biden looked as if she was going to have a cow while jokingly said to someone that "we forgot those two." In spite of her laughing nervously, she was as tense as a first time tightrope walker as she made her way up to the podium.

Where was Joe? Was he with some young girl and her hair? Where is he?

Check the video shown in the tweet by the RNC below.

Jill Biden, Ed.D., takes the stage in North Carolina before realizing she left Joe behind: "We forgot those two" pic.twitter.com/xUnL2gBo2a

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 9, 2023

In another clip when the speech was over, Joe tried to crack a joke and began carefully walking over to the people behind him and mumbled something to them while Doctor Biden watched him like a momma hen and seems to gesture for someone to come over and help him.

BIDEN: "They're looking like, 'What's he gonna do next?'" pic.twitter.com/EhONYzxD0S

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 9, 2023

Worse, however, was how Biden looked after posing for photos on stage with a group of people. At one point, he did a fake lunge at someone, possibly a young girl with nice smelling hair. Then you can see him move his head back and forth looking confused like people were speaking Mandarin or Greek until someone comes over and whispers in his ear, most probably to tell him which way to go as he then walks gingerly to a ramp.

Biden is VERY confused after ending his speech pic.twitter.com/Paqp3dkWu7

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 9, 2023

Actual Doctor Ronny Jackson said a while ago that Biden is showing clear signs of cognitive decline [aka dementia] but Democrats don't care as long as their party remains in power, regardless of the outcomes facing the country.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind, and probably yours, that the person who is really running the country is not Biden and has not been elected by the people. That should concern every American, but the Democrats rationalize this situation saying, "At least he isn't Trump."

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NC Gov. goes against parents over school choice for their children

"You will obey"

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper [pronouns she, it] declared a parent's right of school choice for their children a "state of emergency" Monday, in a dictatorial attempt to stop a school choice bill from passing the state legislature. 

Since the state legislature is elected by the people of North Carolina, the move by Cooper goes directly against their wishes, meaning that the only state of emergency is having a governor who uses his power to circumvent them. But then again, they also voted for Cooper and are getting what they asked for, good and hard.

Cooper released a video announcement where he declared a state of emergency, arguing that the state of public education is "no less important" than other emergencies, which is total bull crap judging by the way they handled the pandemic.

"It’s time to declare a State of Emergency for public education in North Carolina. There’s no Executive Order like with a hurricane or the pandemic, but it’s no less important," Cooper stated, as if the people's elected representatives were going against their wishes to have some control over their children's education.

He continued to bloviate: "It’s clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education. I’m declaring this state of emergency because you need to know what’s happening. If you care about public schools in North Carolina, it’s time to take immediate action and tell them to stop the damage that will set back our schools for a generation."

There's a reason their legislature is Republican, but he thinks he supersedes them.

Cooper's tyrannical announcement drew intense blowback on Twitter by those who refuse to march in lockstep with the woke agenda that is using an overreach of government power. And in this case, it's more than ironic that Cooper's own daughter attends a private school.

The governor has been criticized for opposing private school vouchers while sending his daughter to a private school in Raleigh. He has also attempted to end the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program which provides vouchers to lower and middle-income students because it's no skin off his butt.

Independent Women’s Forum senior policy analyst Kelsey Bolar tweeted:

"What a hypocrite. Public schools aren't good enough for his kids, but they are for yours." 

Purple Strategies partner Rory Cooper posted: 

"If I *were* the Governor of NC, I would've been declaring a state of emergency when the state was in the bottom third of states reopening schools and depriving children of the education they needed. Not once parents got involved and demanded something better for their kids."

But of course, no state of emergency was declared about that.

The Blaze columnist Auron MacIntyre wrote: 

"Executive governing in the permanent state of exception to save democracy."

School choice advocate Corey DeAngelis posted:

"they're losing control over the minds of other people's children. good. cry harder, @RoyCooperNC."

The statement that comports to what I've been saying here is by Americans for Prosperity vice president Casey Mattox:

"A ‘state of emergency’ over a bill passed by the legislature. Very serious."

Last month, GOP lawmakers in North Carolina began to move forward with education reform bills that promote school choice, a move that would level the playing field for minorities in the state. One measure they proposed would provide equal funding to charter school students in line with that of public school students. Cooper, and other critics claimed the bill would serve only to cut funding for public schools.

The measures by NC Republicans followed the announcement by State Rep. Tricia Cotham that she would be leaving the Democratic Party to join the GOP. Her decision, she stated at the time, came from her support for school choice.

"On issues like school choice, like charters, we have to evolve," Cotham said. "One-size-fits-all in education is wrong for children … [Democrats] didn't really want to talk about children. They had talking points from adults and adult organizations."

It appears as if some of the woke have awakened.

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NC bill favors tougher sentencing for rioters

North Carolina lawmakers have approved significantly stiffer punishments for rioters. This is the second such bill in three years, which first was drafted in response to the 2020 destructive riots following the death of George Floyd, a thug-turned martyr for the left.

House Bill 40 now needs Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, to sign it, but the leftist had vetoed a similar bill which was approved by the Republican-controlled General Assembly in 2021. However, the GOP gained enough seats to override Cooper's veto if only one House Democrat votes for the bill and the Republicans stand united.

[H/T Fox News]

The bill does not interfere with peaceful protests, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, but will drop the hammer down on rioters who damage property and perpetrate violence.

House Speaker Tim Moore voted for the bill both times it had been proposed and pointed out that North Carolina's current laws were useless in preventing rioting and looting in downtown Raleigh in June 2020. Last Thursday Moore urged the governor to sign the "commonsense bill into law without delay." But the chances of most Democrats having common sense is on par with winning the lottery without having purchased a ticket.

However, six House Democrats, including a chief sponsor of the bill, voted in support of the measure last month. In the Senate, lawmakers passed the bill with a 27-16 vote – first-term Sen. Mary Wills Bode, the only Democrat with balls, was the only Democrat to vote in favor.

The Associated Press reported that social justice and civil rights advocates have consistently pushed back on the measures, probably because it stops Black Lives Matter rioters and other rioting leftists, from destroying what they have the right to destroy due to centuries of repression and stuff like that.

CNN: "Mostly peaceful protests"

Sen. Danny Britt (R) of Robeson County, said on the Senate floor  that the bill only targets "violent actors" causing mayhem, and not those peacefully demonstrating. But Democrats know that it will result in targeting most of the "demonstrators" if they're members of BLM or Antifa, because they come with weapons and they come to destroy. 

Other opponents say the language is too broad and laws addressing rioting are already in place, but those laws proved to be as useless as Pete Buttigieg at a train derailment.  

Sen. Natalie Murdock, a Durham County Democrat, said the bill "doubles down on the punitive system that created the scars of mass incarceration that we’re still dealing with today," and blah, blah, blah.

Putting criminals in jail has decreased the number of crimes where that is happening, for some reason. 

Murdock also said it will only "stifle free speech, criminalize protest and erode our First Amendment freedoms," in spite of the fact that it will actually enhance free speech of counter-protesters, which she never considered.

   
Jordan Monaghan, a spokesperson for the governor, said Cooper "has worked to increase public safety and protect constitutional rights, and he will review this legislation." When he vetoed the bill in 2021, he deemed it "unnecessary" and said it is "intended to intimidate and deter people from exercising their constitutional rights to peacefully protest."

The AP said the new bill would increase punishments already in place [that are rarely upheld when the Democrats are in power]  for the crimes of those willfully participating in a riot or inciting one to cover more severe circumstances like brandishing a weapon or causing serious bodily injury. Rioters who cause a death or rioters who incite rioting that contributes to a death would face harsher punishment and assaults on emergency personnel would also result in higher felony sentencing.

The bill would also force rioters who destroy property during protests to have consequences to their behavior, like big boys and girls, and pay for any damages they created. This would obviously help business and property owners to recoup their losses and perhaps make the rioters who seek to destroy, think twice. It might even help lower insurance premiums.

Finally, those accused of rioting would have a 24-hour 'time out' before their bond and pretrial release rules are set. This would allow them time to think about what they had done, the impact their behavior had on others, and a lesson on how to act like a grownup. 

North Carolina would be the tenth state to pass similar laws since the 2020 riots, if the bill is signed into law, according to the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law.

The question is, what are the Democrats so afraid of by passing a law that doesn't violate the rights of anyone involved in a riot, but punishes those who violate the rights of others? Those characters must be their voting base.

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House GOP considering expunging Trump's impeachment from the record

A day didn't go by after Trump took his oath of office that the Democrats did not had the main goal of impeaching him. Never mind that the reasons turned out to be lies but the legacy media supported the lies and the Department of Justice and the FBI went after him.

But all hope for the Left came crashing down after the Robert Mueller 22-month investigation ended in 2019 with the failure to find something to impeach him with.

Plan B came to pass when the Left tried to imply that a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was about Trump asking him to investigate the Biden family business dealings with Ukraine. So there was a sham inquiry and Trump was impeached by the House.

Plan C came one week after the January 6, 2021 Capitol incursion, the House voted to impeach Trump a second time over his alleged role in what Democrats insist to this day was an “insurrection.”

Sadly for the Jackass party, this impeachment trial ended the same way as Trump was acquitted by the Senate.

However, The Washington Times reports that the House Republicans are considering expunging Trump’s impeachments from the record. Heads on the Left will explode. Adam Schiff will schiff a brick.

When asked if he'd be willing to bring such legislation to the floor, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, “We’d look at it. … When you find that the final information of the Russia document is all a lie, and we watch what he went through, I would understand why members would want to bring that forward.”

According to The Times, 42 Republicans are on board with the idea, including House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (NY). She got behind the resolution to exonerate Trump, but the Democrats, of course, refused to vote on it when the Democrats had full control of Congress. So even if Trump was exonerated due to the fact that these allegations were all lies, the Left hates him enough to allow the record to stand.

But now that Republicans control the House, it’s a real possibility.

Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia called both impeachments “inappropriate” and said he would “certainly be interested” in wiping them off the books. Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas told the Times he was “definitely interested.”

The lead sponsor of the resolution was then-Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, who won his Senate race in November. Mullin had previously spearheaded a resolution to expunge the first impeachment as well.

However, some Republicans are weasels and are less ready to support expunging the record. Rep. Dan Bishop (NC) said,  “I tend to think we’ve got plenty to focus on looking through the front windshield, rather than the back.”

Of course, if it was Bishop in the rearview mirror with impeachment on his resume, he would be singing a different tune.

While the expungement of Trump’s impeachments would be huuugely demoralizing for the Democrats, with only 20 percent of the Republican conference supporting the resolution, it isn't going to be enough to get it to fly. In order to clear the record, an almost unanimous backing by the GOP House would be needed but too many of them are RINOs. 

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BREAKING: Off-duty cop among dead in "active shooting" in Raleigh, NC

Multiple people were killed, including an off-duty police officer an an "active shooting" incident in Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday.

The shoot took place in the area of the Neuse River Greenway near Bay Harbor Drive and Osprey Cove Drive, creating chaos and confusion.

An off-duty cop was killed in the melee and multiple others also killed a high-ranking city leader told local outlet WRAL News.

At this time, no other information has been disclosed by police but a local hospital told CNN they have three victims in the hospital being treated at a trauma center for gunshot wounds.

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Residents in the area were advised to remain indoors and drivers were told to seek alternate routes as multiple law enforcement agencies investigate the situation, police said.

This is an unfolding story and more information is anticipated.

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A fifth Black male implicated in possible hate crime in one week

Yet another arrest in a hate crime that occurred five months ago against a Washington state Asian couple is the fifth this week in which a Black male has been implicated in possible hate crimes that have yet to be decided.

According to police, a 15-year-old male is charged with second-degree assault on an Asian couple in Tacoma, which was apparently unprovoked. They haven't released his name due to his age.

Another African-American man, Rashee Woody-Silas, in Charlotte, North Carolina is charged for allegedly violently trashing a convenience store accompanied by a fellow thug, yelling racial slurs at the Asian-American owners.

The attack was captured captured on surveillance video. A store owner described the attack in which "he [the attacker] just walks in the store with a metal pole. No one sees it at first until he starts hitting things with it. …His friend came towards the end, stuck his head through the door and said ‘That’s what you get. That’s what you get you Chinese motherf*****r.’”

In the Big [Rotting] Apple, the NYPD released a photo of another Black man who allegedly committed a crime against an Asian woman and her children on the subway. He spit on the family and shouted anti-Asian slurs, then "knocked the victim's cellular phone out of her hand and proceeded to kick it out of the back door of the subway car, onto the tracks as the train was still moving." He wasn't a nice guy, allegedly.

The same week again in New York, Brandon Elliot, a 38-year-old maniac who had previously stabbed his own mother to death when he was 19, was again arrested in a hate crime in a brutal attack against an Asian woman. 

And on Friday, an African-American man, Noah Green, a follower of the Nation of Islam, allegedly ran over two police officers at the U.S. Capitol, killing one of them, who was white. Okay, it wasn't allegedly--he left his vehicle carrying a knife to attack other officers and was shot and later died. 

It's unknown if the attack targeted cops because of their race or because they were cops.

In the Tacoma arrest of the unidentified teen, videos apparently recorded by at least two attackers shows one of them lunging at and punching the couple while the woman screamed out. In another clip, the person recording the video is bravely cussing and lunging at the Asian man, and using racial slurs.

The Asian man, 56, suffered a broken rib. He had filed a complaint on November 19th, the same day of the attack, but has not received any response from the police, more than four months later. And there is no word as to whether police are still looking for the second scumwafer.

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Oops! Illegal alien in prison for murder released on 'clerical error'

Mecklenburg County, NC -- A 17-year-old illegal alien who was behind bars on a murder charge was sent on his merry way from a local North Carolina jail that had very recently pulled out of an immigration screening program with Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE).

Sergio Coello-Perez, a Mexican national, was released from the Mecklenburg County Jail Thursday after being in custody seven months. He signed a written promise to appear in court and to wear a 24-hour electronic monitoring bracelet, WBTV reported Friday.

Brilliant!

On Friday, the alleged murderer was booked into the jail again after prosecutors obtained a court order for his arrest “to correct a clerical error” dealing with his bond status, according to the station.

Perhaps he was too stupid to know how to remove his electronic monitoring bracelet.

Coello-Perez was sprung for 31 hours, the station reported during which time he fortunately killed no one nor stole anyone's vehicle.

He was a lad of 16 this past May when prosecutors said he and a buddy tried to steal a car in Charlotte. They shot and killed the owner, Nicholas Boger, who tried to stop them. 

A judge jailed Coello-Perez without bail after his arrest.

WBTV reported that ICE had a hold on Coello-Perez at the jail.

The station quoted a spokesperson for the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office as saying that the “ICE hold was lifted” but that was not why Coello-Perez was released.

Three weeks ago Garry McFadden was sworn in as Mecklenburg County sheriff and announced that he was ending the screening program that allowed deputies to perform immigration enforcement duties inside the jail with supervision from ICE. McFadden, it turns out, is not against illegal aliens who commit crimes from being allowed their privacy.

McFadden said ICE officials would need court-issued warrants or detainers to access the jail while he is sheriff adding that if he had a Mexican national son, "he would look like Serge."

The program had sent thousands of people into deportation proceedings since 2006. Ending it was a major part of McFadden's leftist election campaign. 

However, a recent report by wsoctv.com dated Nov. 2, 2018, states that McFadden "retires from CMPD amid concerns about previous homicide cases," indicating some questionable behavior on his part as a homicide detective that may effect the outcome of a previous murder case with which he was involved.

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Marine gets the boot from USMC for alt-right violence

Scum Crumpets in action

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Vasillios Pistolis has been given the boot from the Corps 11 months after he allegedly demonstrated alongside scummy white supremacists at last summer's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Pistolis, obviously not as sharp as a bowling ball, allegedly bragged online about assaulting counter-protesters. He described a flag soaked in blood, noting that hit was not his own. On Aug. 12, 2017, he allegedly wrote: "Today cracked 3 skulls open with virtually no damage to myself."

At the same rally, a car driven by another alleged alt-right supporter rammed into a crowd of anti-racist counter-protesters. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed, allegedly by James Alex Fields Jr.

Major Brian Block wrote in a statement to The Daily News, a North Carolina newpaper: "The Marine Corps' stance on membership in extremist or hate groups remains the same: there is no place for racial hatred or extremism in the Marine Corps."

The Marine Corps did not immediately respond to the HuffPost's request for comment because they may be thinking the far left organization would somehow make it sound as if the Corps breeds human excrement like Pistolis.

Pistolis was assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics group at Camp Lejeune, NC. He was kicked out of the service on July 11th after serving 28 days in prison and his pay was also docked.

The conviction from the lower court was for disobeying orders and making false statements.

He was jointly identified by ProPublica and PBS' "Frontline" in early May as one of several members of neo-Nazi organizations who also serve in the military and the Marine Corps then opened the investigation on him.

Pistolis is allegedly a member of the Traditionalist Worker Party and the Atomwaffen Division, both militant alt-right groups whose members are white supremacist pond scum and do not reflect in any way the values of the U.S. military or old, white men.

Atomwaffen members have been charged with five murders and a bomb plot in the past 18 months.

All branches of the U.S. military prohibit membership in extremist groups.

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More arrests made in gutsy statue mugging

Two additional socialists were arrested Wednesday for destroying a century-old statue of a Confederate soldier in Durham, North Carolina. 

Dante Strobino and Ngoc Loan Tran were arrested as they stupidly attended a court hearing for another socialist-anarchist woman who was charged Tuesday for climbing a ladder and attaching a rope to the bronze statue, in a move reminiscent of ISIS destroying Christian statues.

The Durham County Sheriff's office said the two were charged with two felonies related to inciting and participating in a riot that damaged property.

The ladder-climbing woman, Takiyah Thompson, was charged with the same counts the previous day. 

Fun Fact: Takiyah, usually spelled 'Taqiyya' means to lie in the service of Islam.

Thompson is a student at North Carolina Central University, allegedly majoring in lesbian dance theory.

All three anarchists belong to the Workers World Party, a communist party in the United States founded in 1959 and led by Sam Marcy of the Socialist Workers Party. The group helped organize the Durham protest in response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend.

Thompson allegedly climbed up and attached a rope to the statue and her colleague commies pulled it down.

After the statue fell, protesters thought it safe to kick the Confederate soldier while he was down. Some spit at it, others flipped him "the bird."

"I'm tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me," Thompson said at a news conference. "That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go."

Yes, the anarchists are tired of waiting for lawful change--blame it on faster internet and leftist attention deficit disorder.

Insofar as white supremacists putting their feet on the necks of people like Thompson, there has never been a time in the United States, with more opportunities in education and employment than now. 

The number of neo-nazis and white supremacists in the U.S. is relatively quite low, however, it seems that the number is on the rise. On the other side we have the alt left, Antifa and other forms of mental illness.

The Durham anarchy event was in response to a white supremacist rally held in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend, which led to three deaths. While Charlottesville sparked new debate by government officials over removing symbols of the Confederacy and slavery around the South, the state of North Carolina has a 2015 law protecting their monuments--not that it made any difference to the actual law enforcement officials who sat on their hands while the statue of a Confederate soldier was being pulled down. The law prevents removing such monuments on public property without permission from state officials.


Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said Tuesday that his deputies got off their butts and are now working on finding out who was involved in the incident that they could have prevented by upholding the 2015 law. The department plans to pursue felony charges against those perpetrators.

Late Tuesday, NC Gov. Roy Cooper suddenly realized after all his years on the planet, that the remaining Confederate monuments on state property ought to be removed and directed officials to study the cost and logistics of moving them to historical sites or museums. He also tallied up the likely number of votes, both plus and minus, such a move would render him come next election.

"We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America in the defense of slavery," Cooper said in a statement. "These monuments should come down."

So where this epiphany come from, Gov?

It's all politics. Everything has become politics. Everything has become us against them.

Sad!


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Criminal charges against inanimate object attackers

Photo: AP

Law enforcement did everything in its power to avoid enforcing the law as angry protesters, inspired by the Charlottesville riots, toppled a Confederate statue in North Carolina on Monday. In fact, law enforcement stood by and watched the statue topple down.

Not once did the brave officers of the Durham Police Department or deputies with the Durham County Sheriff's Office step in as leftist activists brought a ladder up to the statue and used a rope to bravely pull it down. 

While not one militant was arrested Monday, on Tuesday, when the proverbial coast was clear, Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews told the media that investigators were working to identify the protesters and planned to bring criminal charges against them.

While they're at it, they ought to identify law enforcement personnel who refused to uphold the law and do something about them.

Photo: AP

"We decided that restraint and public safety would be our priority," Andrews posted on the agency's website known as 'We serve to not get involved.'

"As Sheriff, I am not blind to the offensive conduct of some demonstrators nor will I ignore their criminal conduct."

But he ignored their criminal conduct while they were actually committing the crime.

"My deputies showed great restraint and respect for the constitutional rights of the group expressing their anger and disgust for recent events in our country. Racism and incivility have no place in our country or Durham," Andrews said unconvincingly.

Calls for additional comments weren't immediately provided to the press.

Look, I understand where the protesters are coming from and I agree that slavery is disgusting. Insofar as the neo-nazi scum are concerned, I believe Trump was foolish not to have immediately called it out. It isn't like he's shy about calling out radical Islamic terrorism, fake news, lyin' Ted, Crooked Hillary, or anything else that pierces his thin skin.

I also know that these same protesters are planing a march against Islamic slavery, female genital mutilation, and anti-Semitism, some time in the future.

Or maybe not.

The problem is, anger does not trump the rule of law. And anger should not eradicate historical fact, like the Russians did when Communism was all the rage. If a town or state votes to take down an historical statue, then let them. But it isn't okay for a bunch of anarchists to go about destroying property that isn't theirs. 

Photo: AP

The Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham was dedicated in 1924 and shows a soldier holding a rifle. When it toppled down the crowd cheered and some brave boys and girls even began kicking it to symbolize what they would do if they outnumbered a real Confederate soldier.

Some of the boys and girls had selfies done standing or sitting on the toppled statue. It was a fun day for all the angry young munchkins.

It was obvious that somehow Donald Trump was going to get blamed for all of this. Identity politics is the only way the left knows how to operate and they're very good at it.

Photo: AP

But a young lady and two state troopers were killed in Charlottesville and that isn't about identity politics and shouldn't be used as a vehicle to launch one's opinion for either side.

It doesn't take a genius or a group of GOP pollsters to know that Trump should have immediately condemned the white supremacists, neo-nazis and KKK when the rally first began. It also should have immediately caused a reaction with the Charlottesville Police Department when both sides of the rally were showing up with weapons, shields and some had their faces covered.

The Charlottesville and Durham police departments failed to do their jobs when the danger was present and, in the latter case, when the law was being broken.

It's like the LifeLock commercial with the bank security monitor. He isn't there to stop the bank from being robbed--he's only there to monitor the situation.


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