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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee formally subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify before lawmakers over her department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., issued the subpoena after five Republicans on the Oversight Committee and all Democrats voted in favor of a motion to call Bondi to testify about the release of troves of documents related to years of investigations into the late sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The motion was brought by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., earlier this month.


These two cretins got their just reward. Read more


Through lectures, scoldings and outright threats, President Donald Trump and his aides are ratcheting up the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants.


AP: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration wants to stop representing Eric Adams in a lawsuit that alleges the former mayor sexually assaulted a woman more than three decades ago, according to a court filing Tuesday. The move comes just a few months after Mamdani took office, following a bitter campaign season last year that had the two Democrats taking turns bashing each other in often caustic and personal terms. Read more


5 Hidden Body Signs That Predict Longevity


"Joshua Haymes and Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's Christian pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against US Senate candidate young James Talarico (D-TX): "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

Two Monsters


Al Jazeera op-ed praises US-Israel operation against Iran, says Dems, media critics are wrong. Read more


In March 2024, US Army MG Antonio Aguto (Ret.), who oversaw the US command that coordinated, trained, and equipped Ukraine's military, left a tube of classified maps on a train to Poland for more than 24 hours and was later concussed from falling after "overindulgence" in alcohol during a dinner in Ukraine.

Official US Army Portrait as Three-Star Lieutenant-General


On March 7, Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High School, was arrested for allegedly fondling the genitals of multiple female students in the hallways during school hours More than two weeks after the students reported the incidents to school officials"and only after his arrest"Fairfax High School Principal Georgina Aye sent an email notifying parents of the incident. [snip] The email notably did not disclose that the alleged perpetrator was an adult who illegally entered the country in 2024, nor that the alleged "touching" extended beyond the victims' "buttocks." One mother of an alleged victim described the delayed email as a "completely sanitized letter" that minimized the harm done.


Afroman put home footage of a police raid in music videos. Now the cops are suing him. Read more


Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett is proposing that Congress eliminate the capital gains tax on home sales, arguing the money the IRS takes from sellers is "redundant" and that allowing them to keep and reinvest it would help stimulate the U.S. economy. "I'm going to prepare some legislation to take away the capital gains tax on a piece of property, and you know, it's just redundant," he said on a recent John Solomon Reports podcast. "When you tax people less, they don't stick it in a doggone pillow case under their bed. They reinvest it. They put it in a bank, and that bank loans it out to other people, or they buy something, buy an automobile, and under Trump's plan, American automobiles, the reduction is there."


President Trump's director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his immediate resignation Tuesday, citing the decision to begin a war against Iran when "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."

Kent, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate last year, posted his resignation letter on X Tuesday morning, saying he "cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives."


President Donald Trump spent his first year back in power disparaging US allies. Now he wants them to help America in the Iran war - and they are none too enthusiastic.


In the NYC luxury real estate market, defined as homes asking at least $4 million, contracts rose over 24% in the 60 days after Zohran Mamdani's November 2025 election compared to the 60 days before. This indicates confidence in the NYC luxury real estate market and not an exodus of the wealthy from NYC as hatemongers tried to spread during the campaign if Zohran Mamdani (D) was elected NYC mayor.

Another Reason New Yorkers Voted for Zohran Mamdani


Infighting has erupted amongst conservatives online after a major voice in the MAGA media sphere expressed belief in the conspiracy theory claiming that President Donald Trump staged his 2024 assassination attempt. This theory about the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on the presidential campaign trail is not new, but has to date largely circulated among fringe left-wing sources. The accusation hinges on several aspects of the incident, including the lack of scar left on Trump's ear, the situational wherewithal needed to defiantly raise his fist afterward, and the fact that the alleged gunman had supported him in the past, leading some to suspect that it was staged for political gain in an election that had existential stakes for Trump. Read more


Monday, March 16, 2026

America is going through something similar to 9/11 and will be far more influential. The damage to our national security, our economy, our relationship to the rest of the world cannot be understated. This is truly the death of the American empire. We are showing ourselves to be a paper tiger. We have denigrated our allies for the past 14 months and now they are saying F U. We are destroying the economies of ME countries who were desperately trying to move from a post-colonial world to economies based on something other than natural resource exploitation. Read more


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