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 Newsmax: Billionaire Elon Musk, head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, called Social Security the "biggest Ponzi scheme" in history during an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan last week. Musk's comments came during a 3-hour plus interview on the "Joe Rogan Experience" on Friday. He was discussing solvency of the entitlement program, saying that the combination of falling birthrates and the increasing life expectancy is putting stress on the system. "Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time," Musk told Rogan. "There are fewer babies being born," Musk said, adding, "and you have more people who are retired that live for a long time and get payments." "We better fix what we've got right now, because if it's bad now, it's going to be much worse in the future," Musk continued. President Donald Trump has vowed not to touch Social Security or Medicaid, asserting ...

 Blaze: It’s no coincidence that every time Donald Trump taps another person for his administration, a list of allegations against that person soon follows. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s DOD nominee, is currently battling a storm of smears ranging from old sexual assault allegations that were deemed false to an alleged drinking problem corroborated by 10 anonymous witnesses. Conservative talk show host Megyn Kelly recently sat down with Hegseth to discuss the smears brought against him since his nomination. ... “Do you think you’re being Kavanaughed right now?” Kelly asked. “I had a member not 45 minutes ago look me in the eye in private, just he and I, and say, ‘That's what they're trying to do to you. ... That's their playbook. Get ready for more, and they're going to make it up, just like they have so far — all anonymous, all innuendo, all rumor, nothing sourced, no verification, and they're just going to keep doing it because you're a threat to them,”’ Hegseth recou...

 American Action News: Special counsel Jack Smith may not be in the clear, even after dropping all charges against President-elect Donald Trump. Smith’s decision to dismiss his cases against Trump on Monday reignited calls for an investigation into his efforts. While it’s unclear if probing Smith is high enough on Trump’s priority list to translate talk into action, some aren’t ready to simply brush Smith’s months-long pursuit aside now that the threat is gone. Investigating the federal prosecutions against Trump is important “because of the huge cost and ultimate failure,” former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Whether that yields findings of criminality is unlikely. However, I think it will find that Smith’s novel legal approach was fraught with issues that should have led a reasonable prosecutor to decline prosecution,” Cherkasky told the DCNF. “Smith is already leaving his special counsel post, but I anticipate some of the lawyers wo...

 I&I: Readers of I&I know all about how the Biden-Harris regime has been fudging jobs numbers to make monthly gains look bigger than they really are. Turns out, it’s been doing the same with crime statistics … this time to make it look like violent crime is on the way down. RealClearInvestigations dug into the FBI’s data and found that the law enforcement agency had been criminally misreporting crime statistics in a way that just happened to help Biden-Harris look like it’s been tough on crime. Last fall, for example, the FBI reported that violent crime had dropped by 2.1% in 2022. That number was celebrated by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the press, which said it was proof that Donald Trump was lying about a crime wave. RealClearInvestigations discovered that the FBI had secretly updated its crime statistics, and instead of showing a 2.1% drop in violent crime, there was a 4.5% increase in 2022. These weren’t minor revisions in the crime numbers. Where the FBI originall...

 The Federalist: Adam Schiff Demands Crackdown On Election ‘Misinformation’ After He Spent Years Spreading Russia Collusion Hoax I do not think Schiff has much credibility at this point when it comes to issues of "misinformation."  The Russian collusion hoax was one of the worst political frauds of all time.  It was a total fraud used to attack Trump and his supporters.

 Miranda Devine: In the ever-evolving cover-up of the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop, it was instructive to hear a recent interchange between Rep. Dan Goldman, the odious New York Democrat, and Texas Republican Rep. August Pfluger, a decorated former fighter pilot, in the House Homeland Security Committee last week. Pfluger had introduced legislation to block funding for any bogus “intelligence experts” group that border-wrecker Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security will use to censor Americans and interfere with our elections under the guise of protecting us from “disinformation.” Judging from past outrages, such as the “Dirty 51” letter from the 51 “spies who lied” about Hunter’s laptop, Pfluger’s bill is well overdue. But Goldman, a bumbling former prosecutor who has been attempting to run interference in the House whenever whistleblowers or witnesses come forward with damning information about Biden family corruption, had other ideas. He leaped to the defens...

 Stephen Moore: ... We're finding more and more evidence that the statistics the government is releasing to the public are increasingly suspect and unreliable. It seems like the errors are not random but perhaps manipulated for political advantage. Judge for yourself. Let's start with crime statistics. Former President Donald Trump said in the debate that crime is out of control, and Vice President Kamala Harris countered by citing government statistics from the FBI indicating that crime rates are falling. But Jeffrey Anderson, former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, finds a surge in urban violent crime since 2019. He writes in the Wall Street Journal that "the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019." The urban violent crime rate was up 40%, and urban property crime rate rose 26%. How can the Left keep saying crime is down? A big reason is the FBI figures are only measuring "crimes reported to the police."...

 David Kahn: Lying has always been part of politics. Politicians lie about what they supported in years past or what they would do if elected. But because of the magnitude of the frauds promoted by Democrats in recent years and because they are assisted by the MSM and our intelligence services, the Democrats have taken lying to a new level. Elections are democracy’s lifeblood. Lying to voters threatens the very underpinnings of our democracy. A review of lies the Democrats and their allies have foisted on voters in recent presidential elections demonstrates that something must be done. In 2016, the Democrats fabricated the Trump-Russian collusion hoax. That’s far more serious than lying about how a politician voted years ago. The CIA furthered this lie by enlisting foreign security agencies to generate contacts between Russians and peripheral Trump campaign members to create suspicion against Trump. After the election, the Democrats used the same fabrication to hamstring Trump’s a...

 PJ Media: ... The first post mentioned in the article falsely implied that Trump was confused about where he was during a rally in Pennsylvania by showing him mention North Carolina. In reality, he was acknowledging North Carolina supporters in the crowd. Another post falsely implied Trump was confused about his location again during an Arizona speech, but omitted the context that he was discussing Pennsylvania’s immigration issues. It should come as no surprise that another lie referenced by Dale was Trump’s 2017 Charlottesville comments, which Kamala lied about during the debate last week, yet wasn't fact-checked over. Kamala's campaign also lied about Sen. JD Vance. The campaign posted a clip suggesting he supported privatizing veterans' healthcare, but the full quote showed he advocated for more flexibility while maintaining federal care. Another post falsely tied Trump’s monument-damage penalties to Project 2025, "But the full video of the rally shows Trump was n...

 American Action News: Fox Business host Charles Payne said Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris was “deflecting” voters’ attention away from the failure of the Biden administration’s application of “modern monetary theory” by calling for price controls. Harris called for a federal ban on “price-gouging” by grocery stores to address high prices during a Friday speech on economic policy in North Carolina. Payne accused Harris and President Joe Biden of causing inflation by infusing “money that was not earned” into the economy. “The Biden-Harris modern monetary theory, you know, the $1.9 trillion the economy didn’t need, another trillion dollars for the Inflation Reduction Act, and more money here and more money there, don’t pay this, don’t pay that,” Payne told Fox News host Sandra Smith. “They created a groundswell of inflation that, to be quite frank, I don’t think anyone thought could ever come back, 42-year high inflation, and by the way we’ve only compounded it. The CPI n...

  Victor Davis Hanson: Since 2016, there has been a clear pattern to left-wing conspiracies—beyond the obvious fact that they traffic in lies, stereotypes, and paranoia to serve precise political agendas. We now know that the conspiracy to cook up the Russian-collusion hoax—Donald Trump allegedly conniving with Vladimir Putin to rig the 2016 vote—was perpetrated by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Its funding was hidden by the Democratic National Committee, the law firm Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS. The Russian “disinformation” laptop hoax—the notion that the same Russians four years later created a fake Hunter Biden laptop to smear the Biden family on the eve of the first 2020 debate—was jumpstarted by the Biden campaign’s then-chief foreign policy advisor, current Secretary of State Antony Blinken. There was never much evidence that a wayward bat or pangolin in a meat market birthed the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the efforts of China, Western and international health officials, and ...

  Federalist Wire: ... President Joe Biden’s much-touted pre-election border “shutdown” policy preserves multiple loopholes, effectively allowing for unlimited economic migration into American workplaces and housing. This policy has drawn sharp criticism from many Americans who point out that it does little to curb the actual inflow of illegal immigrants. Under Biden’s policy, curbs are only considered when more than 2,500 migrants cross the open border daily for a week. This threshold translates to an acceptance of 75,000 illegal migrants per month or approximately 900,000 per year. This figure is in addition to the legal immigrants and temporary workers already permitted by Congress’s 1990 law, which allows for around one million legal immigrants and 750,000 temporary workers annually. However, the Biden plan also exempts a substantial number of extra migrants who exploit border loopholes. These exemptions already account for at least 85,000 migrants crossing the border each mont...

 Victor Davis Hanson: None of the five civil and criminal cases currently lodged against former President Donald Trump have ever had merit. They were all predicated on using the law to injure his re-election candidacy—given a widespread derangement syndrome among the left and a fear they cannot entrust a Trump/Biden election to the people. These criminal and civil trials are merely the continuation of extra-legal efforts of the last eight years to destroy a presidential candidate in lieu of opposing him in transparent elections. As such, the current lawfare joins the Mueller investigation of the Russian-collusion hoax. It is a continuation of the laptop disinformation caper and the “51 intelligence authorities” who lied about its Russian origins. It logically follows from the two impeachments, the Senate trial of Trump as a private citizen, and states’ efforts to remove him from their ballots. The E. Jean Carroll case, the Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis local and state...

 Federalist Wire: ... The race for the White House is heating up, but one unknown is who Donald Trump will choose to tag along for the ride. Many names have been thrown out, but one man is trying to thrust himself into the spotlight with his recent comments regarding Trump. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum acknowledged that former President Donald Trump compared President Biden’s administration to the Nazi Gestapo during a fundraiser retreat Saturday, but downplayed the relevance. “This was a short comment deep into the thing that wasn’t really central to what he was talking about,” Burgum, 67, told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I think … a majority of Americans feel like the trial that he’s in right now is politically motivated.” The Gestapo was a notoriously harsh secret police service in Nazi Germany that relentlessly targeted Jewish people. “These people are running a Gestapo administration,” Trump said during the closed-door retreat, NBC News reported. “And it’s the only thing the...

 American Action News: Conservatives are already pushing back against an as-yet unannounced plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and its border enforcement efforts, at current levels with a continuing resolution through the end of fiscal year 2024. Republican leadership is considering putting forth a continuing resolution (CR) for the agency that wouldn’t include spending cuts or new policy proposals, several sources familiar told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday. Such a plan has already come under fire by conservatives in both chambers, including Republican Reps. Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Chip Roy of Texas, as well as GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. “Any spending measure that continues funding DHS without significant policy riders to secure the border and protect the American people is a complete failure,” Clyde told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “Congress must use the power of the purse to stop President Biden’s intentional illegal inv...

 Douglas Shoen: The decision this week by the Colorado Supreme Court (by a 4-3 vote) to remove Donald Trump from the state’s ballot is a decided loss for democracy, arguably a worse loss for Democrats, and ultimately a win for Donald Trump — for several reasons. First and foremost, and most obviously, in the Republican primary, Trump’s argument has been that democracy has been undermined by the various investigations that he has faced and is currently facing. Now, before any of the major Trump cases — including the one related to his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, which was the reason Colorado ruled he was ineligible for the ballot — have concluded, he has been preemptively removed from one state’s ballot. This is unprecedented in American political life, and the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision was made even more egregious on Friday, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to sidestep political questions related to Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 — which Colorado should have done. But more imp...

 Frank Miele: Have you heard about Joe Biden’s historic presidency? Or about the historic accomplishments of Joe Biden’s first term? I have. Repeatedly. Of course, I force myself to watch “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Jake Tapper on CNN, and Jonathan Karl on ABC, so I’m well-informed about the thinking of left-wing elites and their game plan for keeping Donald Trump out of office. Apparently, part of the plan is to convince the American public that Joe Biden has been a great president, mostly when you weren’t looking. In a sense, this is the political equivalent of the recent cleanup of San Francisco by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to make the dangerous and dirty city look better for the arrival of the Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping. I’m not sure who Newsom thought he was fooling. The residents surely know that the city is an open sewer, and a two-week makeover wasn’t going to change that. Xi Jinping himself was also not fooled. He probably reads the papers or has someone else read ...

Rolling Stone: Donald Trump is a long, long way from winning the GOP primary, let alone retaking the White House. But he always has revenge on his mind, and his allies are preparing to use a future administration to not only undo all of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work — but to take vengeance on Smith, and on virtually everyone else, who dared investigate Trump during his time out of power. Rosters full of MAGAfied lawyers are being assembled. Plans are being laid for an entire new office of the Justice Department dedicated to “election integrity.” An assembly line is being prepared of revenge-focused “special counsels” and “special prosecutors.” Gameplans for making Smith’s life hell, starting in Jan. 2025, have already been discussed with Trump himself. And a fresh wave of pardons is under consideration for Trump associates, election deniers, and — the former president boasts — for Jan. 6 rioters. The preparations have been underway since at least last year, with Trump being brie...

 PJ Media: According to heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency obtained by The Daily Signal, there was a coordinated effort by the outgoing Obama administration to “torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump.” Through a Freedom of Information Act request, The Daily Signal  acquired  217 pages of documents. “The documents reveal that Obama administration officials, from Vice President Joe Biden down to several ambassadors and many officials in the Treasury and Energy departments, gained access to secret information about Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Trump’s choice for national security adviser,” the report says. “The documents obtained by The Daily Signal include raw information of requests and other messages from these officials to the National Security Agency in late November 2016 through early January 2017, as well as emails among NSA officials explaining why the information was shared.” In May 2020, Trump’s acting Director of Natio...

 Breitbart: President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is rerouting illegal immigration through Ports of Entry at the United States-Mexico border to give the appearance that the inflow has dropped under his watch, House Republicans say. Following Biden’s  rescinding  the public health authority known as Title 42 that helped return millions of illegal aliens to Mexico since 2020, the  establishment media  and the  White House  touted a supposed drop in apprehensions along the border. Under a series of Catch and Release-style programs, though, DHS has funneled tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens through Ports of Entry, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee detailed in a  report  issued this month: While the Biden administration is celebrating a reported 25 percent decrease in encounters between Ports of Entry,  35,317 aliens were encountered at Ports of Entry — 17% of the total encounters...