Tuesday, July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025

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Hunter Biden Suggests Dad Was On Ambien During Trump Debate . . . Hunter Biden suggested that his father, former President Joe Biden, had taken Ambien to help him sleep before his disastrous debate performance that led to him dropping out of the presidential race last summer. The scandal-ridden younger Biden made the revelation during a three-hour interview with Andrew Callaghan's "Channel 5" YouTube show. "He's 81 years old. He's tired as s***. They gave him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights," Hunter said. Daily Wire

Strange they'd need to give him Ambien since he slept through his presidency.

Hunter Biden 'Defends' Illegals With Slew Of F-Bombs . . . Former President Joe Biden's embattled son Hunter Biden scolded Republicans during a recent interview, dropping a series of f-bombs in an apparent attempt to convince the audience that everyone should agree with his position on illegal immigration. The younger Biden took his expletive-laced rant in the usual direction, leaning on the elitist arguments that illegal immigration was necessary because it helped to ensure less desirable jobs — jobs that legal American citizens might not want to do — were filled. Daily Wire

'F*ck Him': Hunter Biden Goes Off on Democrats Who Criticized Joe Biden's Mental Decline . . . The former first son, who has not given a sit-down media interview in years, told popular "Channel 5" video journalist Andrew Callaghan that the book revealing the White House's cover-up of his father's cognitive issues was "a money grab," and attacked George Clooney, James Carville, David Plouffe, and others. It was June 2024 when the elder Biden "hobbled" out at a Hollywood fundraiser co-hosted by Clooney, a longtime acquaintance, but the then-president did not recognize him, the book reported. Breitbart

Politics

Special Counsel David Weiss got little help from Biden DOJ to prosecute president's son Hunter . . . Former special counsel David Weiss got little support from the Department of Justice when he sought lawyers to help prosecute President Joe Biden's son Hunter, Weiss told Congress during a recent closed-door interview. Amid delicate plea deal negotiations between Hunter Biden and Weiss in 2023, Weiss said he asked the DOJ deputy attorney general's office for a team of trial lawyers and received a single resume, according to a transcript of the interview. Fox News

Comey's FBI didn't probe Clinton's mishandling of classified information: Justice Department IG . . . Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley released documents Monday concluding that the FBI under Director James B. Comey failed to investigate fully Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and mishandling of highly classified information. The newly declassified "Clinton annex" is an appendix to the inspector general's June 2018 report reviewing the DOJ and FBI's handling of the Clinton email investigation. Washington Times

Of course they didn't. Hillary might have gone to jail.

Mike Johnson: Congress Might Subpoena Obama over Russia Conspiracy . . . House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Congress may subpoena former President Barack Obama for allegedly colluding with America's intelligence agencies to tie President Donald Trump to Russia during the 2016 election. Johnson revealed to reporter David Brody that he has been considering a subpoena of former President Barack Obama. "I think we have a responsibility to follow the truth, where it leads," said Johnson. Breitbart

They're not going to do that. But they should.

Rahm Emanuel Breaks with Dems: Men Cannot Become Women . . . During an interview on Megyn Kelly's podcast, the Megyn Kelly Show, Emanuel, who served as the United States ambassador to Japan under former President Joe Biden, admitted that boys and girls are "fundamentally, physically different." During the interview, Kelly asked Emanuel if he believed boys should be allowed to compete in girls' sports, if he thought minors "should be able to be put on puberty blockers" and cross-sex hormones, and if men were able to "become" women. "Can a man become a woman?" Kelly asked. "Can a man become a woman?" Emanuel repeated. "Uh, not … no." Breitbart

"Not . . . no" is right! He'll be in even more trouble with Democrats this time than when he used to term "retarded."

Big Labor Move Threatens Election Integrity . . . How can American voters trust the integrity of the system if the election workers who manage it join a hyper-partisan union that endorses, bankrolls, and helps elect Democrats? Yet that is exactly what election workers in Chicago are attempting to do. Employees at the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners sought to unionize and join the Service Employees International Union Local 73 in July 2024. The SEIU local said the union would include between 80 and 90 election workers, including clerks, polling place investigators, equipment specialists, and others. Daily Signal

Fateh Frenzy: Mandated Muslim Prayer Breaks, BLM Riot Support, 'Progressive' Not Radical Enough . . . Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh, a self-declared democratic socialist now running for mayor of Minneapolis, opened his campaign office to support George Floyd rioters and called for banning tear gas and rubber bullets, returned thousands in campaign cash tied to one of the nation's largest fraud schemes, and has pushed to compel Amazon to implement mandatory prayer breaks for Muslim workers. In a previous role as a Minneapolis community specialist, Fateh cited involvement in efforts to pressure Amazon to allow East African Muslim employees time off during the workday for prayer. Breitbart

Even as Trump leads the reversal of leftist cultural orthodoxy, conservatives will always have to be fighting rearguard actions against stuff like this.

Culture

States Returning to Traditional School Discipline Policies, Abandoning Restorative Justice . . . School discipline based on traditional notions of justice and common sense is increasingly returning to classrooms thanks to the Trump administration. In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, "Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies." he order's purpose was to ensure that the "Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children's safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful 'equity' ideology." Daily Signal

Parents fight secret gender transitions of their children from mid-Atlantic to Supreme Court . . . A New Jersey widower who cannot afford private school is fighting to stop his public school district from treating his gender-confused daughter as a boy. Parental rights groups, a prominent transgender child psychologist, a mother whose gender-confused daughter killed herself and more than 20 state attorneys general are among more than a dozen friend-of-the-court briefs supporting widower Christin Heaps against the Delaware Valley Regional High School Board of Education. Just the News

National Security

Border Czar Homan Pledges to 'Flood the Zone' of Sanctuary Cities . . . New York City is going to get more of what its left-wing politicians do not want, border czar Tom Homan says. Homan is pledging to send more federal immigration officers to "sanctuary cities," he explained, because arresting an illegal alien already in custody is much safer for law enforcement, the community, and the illegal immigrants themselves.

"Sanctuary cities get exactly what they don't want—more agents in the community, more agents in the worksites," he said. Daily Signal

Trump Forces Employers To Stop Turning Blind Eye To Illegal Workers . . . The Trump administration's expanded immigration enforcement is forcing U.S. employers to stop turning a blind eye to the employment of illegal immigrants. Since 1986, federal law has required businesses to verify the identity and work authorization of individuals they hire using Form I-9. After years of lax oversight, the federal government under President Donald Trump has started ramping up audits of businesses' employment records, causing many companies to scramble to comply with immigration rules. Daily Caller

Donald Trump's 'CBP Home App' Gets Tens of Thousands of Illegals to Self-Deport . . . Self-deportations of illegal aliens have ramped up significantly since President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security began prioritizing a cost-effective departure program, new agency data reveal. In March, the Trump administration relaunched a Customs and Border Protection mobile app to be used by illegal aliens looking to self-deport from the United States rather than wait for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to detain them. Breitbart

International

Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt . . . President Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, citing its anti-America and anti-Israel leanings as well as its woke agenda, The Post has learned. Trump ordered a 90-day review of America's presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing any "anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment within the organization." New York Post

UNESCO has long been a hotbed of anti-Western, and particularly anti-Israeli, activity. Nice to finally say goodbye.

Money

SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground . . . A $500 billion effort unveiled at the White House to supercharge the U.S.'s artificial-intelligence ambitions has struggled to get off the ground and has sharply scaled back its near-term plans. Six months after Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son stood shoulder to shoulder with Sam Altman and President Trump to announce the Stargate project, the newly formed company charged with making it happen has yet to complete a single deal for a data center. Wall Street Journal

You should also know

'Ed Feulner Was a Giant': Political Leaders Praise Heritage Founder . . . Leaders across the country and world honored conservative icon Ed Feulner, who died Friday at age 83. Feulner was The Heritage Foundation's founder and longest-serving president. Political figures praised Feulner's decades-long influence on the conservative movement. Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker who often collaborated with Feulner, hailed his transformational leadership of Heritage and the contributions he made to the conservative movement. Daily Signal

Trump admin drops thousands of FBI documents on MLK Jr. assassination . . . The Trump administration on Monday released over 230,000 pages of previously classified documents regarding the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced the release coordinated by the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, and the National Archives and Records Administration. Washington Examiner

Guilty Pleasures

Reported person stuck in California canal turns out to be blow-up doll . . . A 911 call about a person trapped in the rushing water of a canal led emergency responders in California to the discovery of a discarded blow-up doll. Fresno police and firefighters were summoned to the canal near McKinley and Peach Avenues on a report of a person, possibly deceased, trapped against a grate by the rushing water. UPI

The doll was reportedly in stable condition, having lost only a little air, and was ready to go back pretending to be the second passenger in HOV lanes and whatever else blow up dolls do . . .

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