President Trump and Chairman Xi Jinping will be delivering remarks this evening during the official state dinner.  Livestream Links Below: . .   Posted in Uncategorized

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House on Thursday in a pomp-filled ceremony, followed by an extended meeting between the presidents away from reporters.

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After writing the lengthy outline about the problem faced by Joseph diGenova, a Reagan-era former U.S. attorney and longtime Trump ally who served as counselor to Attorney General Todd Blanche who exiting over strategic differences {GO DEEP}, several people provided feedback, generally expressing understanding and agreement. A few asked for suggestions. Having looked at the […]

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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet promised that his country will “never be a safe haven for online scams” at a global conference on cyber-fraud in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.

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A Democrat House candidate running for the Georgia General Assembly voted in both Nevada and Georgia primaries this year, casting two different votes in two different elections, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

According to records the AJC obtained through a public records request, David Dillie, the Democrat candidate for District 161, voted by absentee ballot in Nevada’s Republican primary election on June 9, roughly 2 1/2 years after he had moved back to Georgia.

District 161 includes a stretch of Savannah’s suburbs. According to AJC, Dillie is an aircraft mechanic at Gulfstream, a jet manufacturer based in Savannah.

Dillie is running against Republican Georgia state Rep. Bill Hitchens in the upcoming midterm election.

In an email to the Daily Signal, Dillie said he “officially left Nevada in 2024.”

“The last time I knowingly voted there was in the February 6, 2024, presidential primary,” he said.

According to Dillie, after he voted in that year’s presidential primary in Nevada, he returned to the Peach State.

“I moved back home to Georgia, where I was born, registered to vote, and have voted since. I believed my Nevada registration had been canceled when I moved and registered in Georgia,” he told the Daily Signal.

The Democrat said Nevada’s law allows for “active registered voters [to be] automatically mailed a ballot” to their “Nevada address for each election, unless they opt out.”

Election Integrity Concerns

Despite Dillie’s explanation denying wrongdoing, the report by the AJC raises questions about election integrity.

Mark Davis, president of Data Productions Inc., commented on the issue of double voting, telling the Daily Signal, “Double voting is a felony under Georgia law, Nevada law, and federal law, so these allegations have to be taken seriously.”

Hitchens, commenting on the news about Dillie specifically, said, “He should be embarrassed to be registered and voting in multiple states. That’s voter fraud and criminal behavior.”

Salleigh Grubbs, a member of Georgia’s State Election Board, also weighed in on the controversy.

“It distresses me that anyone, be it a candidate, an official office holder, or any citizen, would vote multiple times, be it inter- or intra-state. It should be one legal citizen, one legal vote, period.”

Further Investigation Is Necessary

Election integrity is an issue addressed primarily by state government, as overseen by the secretary of state’s office. Georgia’s secretary of state is Brad Raffensperger.

Ultimately, as Hitchens told the Daily Signal, “Elected officials should be absolutely held to the highest standard. … This is about breaking the laws. If he broke the law, there should be consequences.”

According to Davis, what needs to happen next is that both Georgia and Nevada should investigate.

“What needs to happen next is a thorough investigation in both states. If a case has not already been opened with the Georgia and Nevada secretaries of state, that should happen immediately,” Davis said.

Jacquelyn Harn, communications director at Greater Georgia, told the Daily Signal, “Dillie remaining on the ballot would be an insult to election integrity in Georgia.”

Dillie told the Daily Signal that he’s working with the proper election officials to address the situation.

“My Nevada registration has now been properly canceled, and we are working with the appropriate election officials to ensure the records are accurate and the matter is properly resolved,” he said.

A resurfaced video shows Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed linking Oklahoma's effort to ban Sharia law to the forced removal of Native Americans, the destruction of Black Wall Street, and the Oklahoma City bombing during a 2022 speech at a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) event.

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President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcome His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of The People’s Republic of China, and Madame Peng Liyuan for a State Dinner in the East Room of the White House this evening. The First Lady led the preparations for the dinner, which will be attended by the official […]

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Fulton Sheen’s beatification today marks the last step before his official canonization as a Catholic saint. When that day comes, he should be designated the patron saint of anti-communism.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted the fall of Iran’s “evil regime” in a fiery address to the United Nations on Thursday, declaring that the Iranian people will ultimately rise against their rulers as he vowed Israel will continue to prevail against enemies seeking its destruction.

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President Donald Trump's deputies have denied more than 440,000 asylum claims, according to data from the Washington Post.

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New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has carefully plucked away another small but significant element of public order.

According to the New York Post, the mayor’s office issued a directive that the New York Police Department would no longer be responding to calls relating to homeless encampments. Instead, officers will now have to first dispatch social services to deal with such matters before they are allowed to act.

The move is just the latest by the Mamdani administration to peel away public order in the Big Apple in the name of social justice.

The administration had already put up roadblocks to prevent the NYPD from removing homeless encampments, but now it will be further handcuffed.

The New York Post noted that this move represents a radical change and will likely mean that problems at homeless encampments may never be addressed at all.

“This year, the NYPD responded to more than 26,000 of the 36,000 complaints to 311 about encampments,” the Post reported. “Now, [the Department of Homeless Services] will handle triple the calls they previously responded to, with fewer than 2,000 staffers across the entire agency.”

While Mamdani has been careful not to work too directly against the NYPD since he was elected, this is just further demonstration that he’s determined to, over time, entirely undo the kind of policing that made New York dramatically safer under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. That crime-fighting revolution paid dramatic dividends for decades.

Even though many crimes have dropped to rates below their post-George Floyd riots peak, urban chaos remains a problem and in some cases is getting worse.

Subway and transit violence shot up dramatically after Mamdani was sworn into office. Many of those incidents were committed by unstable and mentally ill repeat offenders who had been living on the street.

And unsanitary homeless encampments filled with drug addicts and people with mental illnesses who belong in an institution are sprouting up all over town.

In fact, according to a report from the mayor’s office, the number of homeless people in the city has reached a five-year high.

And the growing numbers of homeless people are clustering in encampments that are transforming parts of the city, particularly the ones by the Intrepid Museum, Citi Field—where the New York Mets play, and under FDR Drive.

“Local residents and workers are decrying a homeless takeover under the FDR Drive, where mountains of trash, foul smells, and fights are regular occurrences,” amNewYork reported. “According to locals, the parking area under the highway from 17th Street to 23rd Street has become a massive homeless shelter.”

Mamdani did do something about one shantytown. The city swept away an encampment on Wednesday that had built up near the NYU dorms. Oh, it’s in an area likely filled with a high concentration of Mamdani superfans. A coincidence, I’m sure.

Apparently, the former denizens just moved a few blocks away and set up camp again. And why not? Mamdani has made it clear that he intends to let these kinds of encampments fester and is effectively neutering public complaints about them.

Don’t you worry about that filthy, mushrooming fentanyl den on your block, a social worker is on the case.

As a New York Post editorial explained, deploying overstretched social workers to alleviate the problem isn’t going to fix it.

“The vagrants who erect and inhabit these camps are hard-core homeless who’ve already rejected the option of living in a shelter,” the Post editorial noted. “ … Compassionate encouragement won’t dislodge people sleeping on cardboard sidewalk pallets. That’s why the city has always tasked police with handling encampments.”

Unfortunately, these sorts of anti-policing tactics by the Mamdani administration may “work” in a certain sense. The encampment problem will surely grow. But as the situation slowly gets out of hand the administration can better defuse the blame without immediately infuriating the public.

They’ll say that the problem is “affordability,” that the budget is too small, and that systemic racism is causing an epidemic of homelessness.

All of that being nonsense, but by the time the issue is out of control the public may be more accustomed to thinking it’s endemic rather than a consequence of bad policy decisions.

Slow-growing encampments don’t drive headlines the way dramatic increases in murder rates do. Mamdani probably knows that. He may have even learned that lesson following the disaster of the “defund the police” years.

When leftist social goals were rapidly unlocked, the immediate consequences ignited an immediate backlash. He’s clearly trying to avoid that.

Methodically stripping away the enforcement of public order, eroding trust in the police, and making authorities unresponsive to those who want the situation fixed is a cynical but effective way to hide a malignant social revolution.

In that sense, Mamdani is succeeding where other leftist regimes failed, even if the eventual result will be the same miserable failure.