Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will pay $330,000 for improperly using taxpayer dollars to fund his security detail during his failed presidential bid. De Blasio settled with the Conflict of Interest Board (COIB) on Wednesday where he agreed to pay back the city for his New York City Police Department security detail and pay a $10,000 fine. The repayment […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Chinese weapons gain credibility after Pakistan-India conflict. The recent combat is prompting a reassessment of Chinese weapons, challenging long-held perceptions of their inferiority to Western arms. Cambodia’s armed forces launched their latest — and largest — Golden Dragon joint military exercise with China, with land, sea and air operations planned […]
In a troubling new development, U.S. engineers have discovered undocumented communication devices embedded in some Chinese-made solar power inverters and batteries, raising alarms over potential security risks to critical infrastructure. According to sources reported by Reuters, these devices provide hidden communication channels that could potentially allow remote access to American power grids, bypassing firewalls meant […]
Democrat John Ewing defeated incumbent Republican Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert in a victory that the Democrat Party is describing as an indictment against the Trump administration and the GOP. Ewing, who is currently the treasurer of Douglas County, will make history by becoming the first Black mayor of Nebraska’s largest city, while Stothert was unseated after a third term. […]
Nearly two dozen detainees linked to Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang staged a dramatic uprising inside a Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility last month, barricading themselves inside their unit and threatening to take hostages in a desperate standoff with federal authorities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that on April 26, […]
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again is a political neutron bomb, quietly primed to obliterate the remaining illusions sustaining the Democratic Party’s fragile post-2024 narrative. Set for release on May 20, 2025, the book is already provoking tremors throughout Washington, with CNN’s […]
A new federal lawsuit may reveal widespread and unconstitutional spying on supporters of then-former-President Donald Trump and critics of then-President Joe Biden. The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch reports it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to obtain “records related to possible improper targeting of […]
The critics said he was a showman. They dismissed the stagecraft, the slogans, the self-assurance. They said real diplomacy could not be done with bravado and a businessman’s gut instinct. But this morning in Doha, under a canopy of economic ambition and national renewal, President Donald J. Trump proved them wrong again. Flanked by Qatari […]
Via Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Sleepy Joe Biden was wheeled out for a first interview since being ejected from the White House and claimed that dropping out of the 2024 race was such a “difficult” decision because the four years he was in office were “so successful.” Exactly […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Trump’s trip this week to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, includes an agenda for Air Force One replacements, crypto deals, and the Gulf states’ desires for U.S. concessions on nuclear and microchip security restrictions. Yet lying in the background is a new reality: the Persian Gulf is quickly turning […]
Law enforcement, state leaders coordinate contingency plans as speculation grows… State and local officials in Minnesota are quietly preparing for potential civil unrest amid growing speculation that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could receive a federal pardon. Governor Tim Walz, along with the Minnesota National Guard, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Hennepin County Sheriff […]
The Art Of The Gulf: Trump’s Tactical Feint In Middle East Diplomacy
President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy instinct has long been derided by Beltway mandarins as unserious or improvisational. Yet time and again, he has demonstrated a knack for intuitive statecraft that outpaces their sterile diplomacy. His recent flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf the “Arabian Gulf” was no gaffe. It was, rather, a calculated diplomatic […]