[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President-elect Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... 's border czar Tom Homan has revealed his plans for more than 1,400 acres of Texas land the Lonestar State gifted the federal government last month.
Speaking to Dr. Phil, the talk show host turned closed border advocate, Homan said he has been devising plans to use the 1,402-acre ranch in Starr County that Texas officials acquired in October to facilitate the construction of a border wall.
'I'm writing the plan as we speak. I was working on it last night as a matter of fact,' Homan, 63, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, told Dr. Phil on Merit TV.
He went on to praise Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... 's administration for its efforts to secure the southern border with Mexico - and said he would use the land as a holding area for migrants colonists before they could be put on deportation flights.
'The 1,400 acres of land, that saves us from acquiring the land,' Homan said.
'The government never buys things fast and when we do, we overpay for it, so having this from the state of Texas is great.'
The state's Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham had suggested last month that the former ranch could be used for such deportation efforts as she announced that the state was giving the federal government ownership of the property.
'I was brainstorming with my team, and we figured, the Trump Administration probably needs some deportation facilities because we've got a lot of these violent mostly peaceful criminals that we need to round up and get the heck out of our country,' she explained to Fox News.
'We're happy to make this offer and hope they take us up on it,' she said of the land she said had been overrun with drug smuggling and human trafficking.
[Breitbart] Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boasted to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the strength of U.S.-trained forces in Afghanistan and their ability to resist the Taliban, Netanyahu testified in court on Tuesday.
Netanyahu was taking the stand in his own defense in a criminal trial that critics have called politically motivated.
He defended his actions in seeking to diversify the Israeli media — and entertained the court with political anecdotes.
Among them, he said, was the story of Kerry’s invitation to visit Afghanistan to see how well the U.S. was training its Afghan allies. Kerry’s purpose was to persuade Netanyahu to allow the U.S. to train and arm Palestinian police forces, as the Obama administration pressured Israel to leave Judea and Samaria (otherwise known as the West Bank).
Netanyahu was skeptical, he said. The Times of Israel reported on his testimony:
“John Kerry also offered that I go on a secret visit to Afghanistan to see how the Americans are doing the same thing for local Afghan forces,” the prime minister continued.
But Netanyahu said he told Kerry that the whole scheme was a bad idea.
“I said, John, I want to tell you something — the moment you leave Afghanistan, the forces you are training will collapse under the [pressure] of the Islamists,” Netanyahu told the court.
Netanyahu noted that he had received negative coverage in the Israeli media for refusing to agree to Kerry’s plans or to President Barack Obama’s “appeasement.”
[FoxNews] President Biden has commuted jail sentences for nearly 1,500 people and granted 39 pardons, marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history, the White House announced Thursday morning.
Sentences were commuted for inmates placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who "have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities," according to the announcement. The 39 individuals pardoned were convicted of non-violent crimes, the White House said.
"The President has issued more sentence commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms," White House officials said in a statement.
Biden hinted that he plans to make more pardons and clemencies before he leaves office.
Biden vowed multiple times across several months that he would not intervene on his son's behalf, only to go back on his word on Dec. 1. While public figures have criticized the move, it was also widely unpopular with the American people. A Wednesday poll from The Associated Press found just 2 in 10 Americans approved of the pardon.
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The Powers of public office have been a Biden family economic engine for over 40 years. Now, with the aid of the Kalorama Central Committee the bidding looks to take on a truly industrial scale. Buried in the dust-storm towards the end will be the family and those who know too much to be left to the tender mercies of Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.
[NYPOST] '''You must be wary of those seeking to use their influence and their expertise to wrongful ends.''
Those words were spoken at the George Washington Law School commencement ceremony two years ago by the recently defeated Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.).
This week, the words took on a new meaning after Wild was accused of leaking information from the House Ethics Committee ...think of a nudibranch pretending to be a vertebrate... Wild embodies a party that is in an ethical and political free fall.
Wild was fighting to release the report of the investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). When Gaetz decided to withdraw from Congress, the report was not released.
That is when details from the committee were leaked to the media, and the press reported that ''two sources said Wild ultimately acknowledged to the panel that she had leaked information.''
Keep in mind that this is the House Ethics Committee, and she is a member.
She is also a member of Congress who took an oath as part of the panel's rules that ''I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose, to any person or entity outside the Committee on Ethics, any information received in the course of my service with the Committee, except as authorized by the Committee or in accordance with its rules.''
If the reports are true, Wild knowingly violated an oath that she took not to release information from the Ethics Committee because she was unhappy with losing votes on the release of information.
Wild herself has not publicly confirmed or denied the alleged leaking of the information.
[NYPOST] Alvin Bragg ...Soros-owned and operated Manhattan DA. Putting vicious and blood-thirsty criminals in jail only makes them unhappy, and they've led such hard lives after all... refuses to end his insane crusade against Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... , even if it means creating yet more ''law'' to keep the cause alive.
In a Tuesday filing, he asks Judge Juan Merchan (another rabid partisan) to keep Trump's guilty verdict intact while simply never sentencing him — and so robbing the defendant of any chance to appeal.
That is, the DA who goes all out to protect violent mostly peaceful street thugs is happy to eviscerate the rights of his chosen targets, including the president-elect.
[RT] US President-elect Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... has mocked his predecessor's economic agenda, using a meme involving funding for Ukraine and the recently pardoned Hunter Biden.
Earlier this month, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... gave his son Hunter, a convicted felon who lied about his addiction to crack cocaine while applying for a gun license, a blanket pardon for anything he may have done between January 2014 and December 2024. Before pulling out of the US presidential race, Biden had insisted on multiple occasions that he would not pardon his son.
Trump's campaign slammed the decision as an example of how the current government has weaponized the justice system.
On Tuesday evening, Trump shared a meme on his Truth Social platform, describing how 'Bidenomics' works in practice. It showed Biden standing beside a whiteboard with a list of items.
''You pay taxes,'' the list begins. ''I send it to Ukraine. They send it back to Hunter. Hunter gives it to me. Pardon Hunter.''
Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company while his father was vice president of the US and lead on Washington's relations with Kiev. According to the contents of a laptop the younger Biden forgot at a Delaware repair shop, 10% of all international contracts went to ''the Big Guy,'' widely assumed to be a reference to his father.
READ MORE: US pays $20 billion into Ukraine loan fund
Biden officially defeated Trump in 2020 and embarked on an ambitious plan to reinvent the US economy after the Covid-19 pandemic that his advisers dubbed 'Bidenomics'. Vice President Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day , whom the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... put forth as their candidate this year, spent the campaign insisting that the economy was in great shape and that 'Bidenomics' was working.
American voters apparently disagreed, handing Trump victories in the electoral college, popular vote, and all seven swing states.
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🚨BREAKING: ‘ The Person of the Year’ President Trump has told Lockheed CEO Jim Taiclet he plans to cancel the $1 trillion F-35 contract because China is winning the fighter race while Lockheed sends executives to DEI camps. - NY Post pic.twitter.com/sSnTzZ3C7S
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This needs about 4 tons of salt. There are almost a thousand more F-35s ordered and China is NOT winning as their jets are about as stealthy as my fucking Honda. The F-35 has dominated war games and Israel has proven it is a game changer in air campaigns.
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If the issue is DEI, then Lockheed can start by shutting that program down. Once corporate culture is reset, discussions around the thing itself can begin.
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As a kid, I thought hockey camp sucked. DEI camp would suck the suck out of sucking.
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The USA has already accepted delivery of over 1000 of these. The current plan is, I think, to acquire about another 2000.
The F-35 comes in different models. Current price is about $80 to 120M per depending on the model and the additional modifications. The cost will likely increase as even more modifications, including better and heavier weapons, are entrained into the F-35.
The total number needed depends a lot on how many are to go to NATO allies and how many we will sell to other countries.
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The maintenance required to keep these birds operational sets fresh limits. How many of the 1,000 delivered are good to go on any particular morning? My best guess would be 350 with another 350 sporting multiple DMIs and the last 300 needing serious TLC
There was a GAO report on this a few months ago. At the time, about 50% of the F-35 fleet was fully operational. It was taking about $6M/year in maintenance per plane to get it at that level. There was an estimate that about $8M/yr could get it to 65% but, here is the extra depressing part, it was doubtful that enough qualified personnel could be found to do that much maintenance given all the other aircraft that need maintenance.
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On of the reasons for the low readiness early in deployment was a lack of facilities to do maintenance in and people weren't trained yet. Now they have mostly fixed that and the F-35 actually has a better readiness level than the F-15.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
...Soros-owned and operated Manhattan DA. Putting vicious and blood-thirsty criminals in jail only makes them unhappy, and they've led such hard lives after all...
...every time you hear the phrase 
