A US Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.
"All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times." the sentinel called out, stopping his patrol to face the group as they departed.
I spent years on a Virginia school board, and I've experienced firsthand the teachers' union's far-left ideology. This week, the group declared its beliefs out loud. The Virginia Education Association (VEA) issued a press release on November 4, 2026, celebrating voters' "approval of constitutional amendments protecting reproductive freedom, securing marriage equality, and automatically restoring voting rights" to felons. It even admitted to supporting the legislation that put the amendments on the ballot. What do those Democrat-led amendments have to do with public education? The VEA's answer is that these issues "matter to our members and school communities."
The nation's 250th birthday is an invitation to consider what made the American experiment unique in the first place. At a time when Americans increasingly disagree about our nation's history, identity, and founding principles, that question lies at the heart of today's debate over American exceptionalism. Too often, the conversation begins with a misunderstanding of the meaning of "exceptional." Many believe it implies that America is inherently superior. Others reject the idea of exceptionalism altogether, arguing that the United States is simply another nation. According to the American Enterprise Institute's America at 250 survey, 32% of Americans believe the United States is "just another country whose political system is not better or worse than other countries." Yet America is exceptional in the literal sense of the word.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Alexander Darchiev, Russia's ambassador to the US, abruptly up and died Wednesday at the age of 66. The diplomat had headed the Russian Embassy in Washington DC -- a front for Kremlin espionage -- since March 2025. No cause of death was immediately announced; the ministry only wrote that Darchiev "passed away suddenly." In March 2025, ICC-indicted war criminal Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Darchiev as ambassador -- a man known for his public denunciations of the West -- following Dummkopf Trumpf seizing power on 20 Jan 2025. Darchiev also once served as Russia's ambassador to Canada where the RCMP certainly kept a wary eye on him in Ottawa.
"Happens all the time.""FUNNY"
With data centers cropping up around the United States, the cost of the energy infrastructure on which they rely, and who pays for it, are among the country's most debated economic and political questions. A new study finds that in 2025, the rising energy costs associated with AI data centers landed hardest on lower-income, rural households, which bore disproportionate shares of the financial burdens compared with the data centers themselves.
"We love our veterans," Trump said during an Oval Office photo op shortly after his inauguration. "We are going to take good care of them." Days after that pronouncement, a memo leaked showing the administration was considering sweeping job cuts at the agency. "Things need to change," warned Doug Collins, Trump's new VA secretary, in a video message to staff. Six months after Trump entered the White House, the VA had 3,800 fewer doctors, nurses and other "mission critical" staff than it did at the start of his term, according to the department's own data. While the losses made up a small percentage of overall employees, the drop compounded longstanding shortages " and contrasted sharply with a hiring spree under President Joe Biden that had begun to address them. Many of the front-line workers who quit in Trump's early days have never been replaced. Instead, the VA has eliminated thousands of open positions, including doctors, nurses and other providers.
Anti-Israel demonstrators surrounded Joe Biden's entourage as the family left the university, shouting "Genocide Joe," "Blood on your hands," and "Shame on you."
Stacy Keach had range. He played outlaw Frank James in the Western The Long Riders, the bumbling Sgt. Stedenko in the Cheech and Chong stoner comedy Up in Smoke, and Hamlet on stage multiple times. He narrated numerous documentaries for National Geographic and PBS. Keach died on Tuesday at his family's home in Poland "after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure," his wife Malgosia Keach shared in a statement through a representative. He was 85.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) signed a landmark bill banning predatory investors from buying distressed NYC residential buildings. The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is intended to keep housing out of the hands of predatory investors. Nonprofit owners are more likely to keep housing affordable and take care of tenants. The bill is part of a nationwide response to high housing costs, with cities and states trying to assert more control over corporate landlords and the housing market. Last year, good-for-nothing NYC Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a version of it. In Nov 2021, NYS Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani went on a hunger strike in solidarity with taxi drivers while NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) was stuffing his face with calzones and fending off charges of sexual harassment and lying about COVID deaths in NYS. This past April, His Honor declined a personal meeting with King Charles III, but happily rode the subway with the Irish PM during UNGA.
For Veteran's Day, hatemonger Bill Donohue vomited this vile screed: "It is not exactly breaking news to say that left-wing activists, pundits and intellectuals hate veterans. But it is something else again to read how radical elected officials and organizations react to Veterans Day. I asked the imbeciles on my staff to put together a summary of some of the more prominent haters." This white supremacist Catholic, who probably calls Jews "the Christ killers" behind their backs, slimed the "usual suspects," as well as new ones, particularly the DSA.
Donald Trump Jr. claimed comedian Russell Brand was convicted of rape and sentenced to more than a decade in prison because of his religious conversion and embrace of conservative political views, according to a video posted to Rumble on Tuesday. Speaking after Brand's sentencing at Southwark Crown Court for rape and sexual assault, the 48-year-old son of President Donald Trump argued that the prosecution was politically motivated. "He finds God, I guess, changes his ways, sees some aspects of conservative life, and talks about them, and now he's going to spend 10 and a half years in prison for rape when no one had a problem with it in the prior 27 years," Trump Jr. said.
President Donald Trump's war victory claims drew jeers after one of his top officials quietly went into hiding. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has left his Washington-area home for a military base after Iran threatened his life, The New York Times reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. Bessent has spearheaded the administration's effort to strangle Tehran's finances since August, a role the Times' sources said put him high on Iran's target list. He's the latest in a string of senior Trump officials, including White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, to trade a private home for a military base or other guarded housing.
The American taxpayer-funded Israeli Death Forces (IDF) liquidated seven more Palestinians in Gaza, including Fadi Rajab and his son Abubakr (13) in an airstrike against a defenseless displacement shelter. The IDF then murdered four more Palestinians, bringing Tuesday's subtotal to seven. Since 7 Oct 2023, the heartless IDF have now exterminated a minimum 74,645 human beings in Gaza; 21,976 children; 12,500 women. This is Day 1,131 of the Nakba, so the IDF murdered a daily average 66 Palestinians. The diabolical IDF has butchered more Muslims in Gaza between 7 Oct 2023 and 10 Nov 2026 than Bosnian Serb paramilitary thugs from 1992-1995: ~33,000 Bosniaks. But while Bosnian Serb war criminals were convicted and incarcerated at the Hague for their war crimes, no Israeli has yet been prosecuted for their inhumanity. The ICC indicted fugitives Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant and their arrest warrants remain active. "FUNNY"
At the end of 2025, President Trump told everyone how cute Kei cars in Japan are and how his administration was clearing the way for them to come here. In what might be a surprising plot twist, a Kei truck is about to come to the United States as Toyota resurrects a brand. But as with anything, the details matter, and enthusiasts need to temper their excitement for now. On Tuesday, Toyota announced Scion is back, and with it will come a U.S.-built Kei truck. However, it will only be sold to fleets in limited volumes for an undisclosed price when it arrives in the second half of 2027, and it will be limited to 25 mph. Read more
A soldier in the US Army has been arrested on suspicion of offences under the National Security Act which relate to Russia, British counter-terror police have said.
Many defectors see daughter of North Korea's Kim as heir apparent
SEOUL, South Korea " Until she fled North Korea three years ago, Kim Yumi felt deeply frustrated whenever state TV showed leader Kim Jong Un with his young daughter.
The message, she felt, was clear and worrying: North Korea was laying the groundwork for an eventual hereditary transfer of power, this time to Kim's daughter.
