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It is Democrats in Congress who told the U.S. military to disobey President Donald Trump and not comply with "illegal" orders who are subverting the Constitution, a legal expert has revealed.
It is Charles "Cully" Stimson, the deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the manager of the National Security Law Program, and a senior adviser at the Heritage Foundation, who wrote at Daily Signal that, "Six Democrat congressmen recently released a video directed at members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities imploring them to 'refuse illegal orders' from President Donald Trump. As former members of the military and intelligence community, they should be ashamed of themselves and retract their insubordinate, ignorant, and politically motivated diatribe."
He cited the video featuring Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.; Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., and Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo.
"One might expect that their military experience would make them more cautious, not less, about encouraging service members to reflexively doubt the legality of orders from America's commander in chief. But that's exactly what they did," he said.
Their rant:
Stimson cited the Democrats' claim that Trump's administration is "pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens."
"Really? How?" Stimson wrote. "These claims are simply false, no matter how fearful the tone. Military recruiting and morale are at historic highs. If service members are truly under 'enormous stress,' why are retention and recruitment numbers soaring?"
Further, the Democrats claimed the threats to the Constitution are coming "from right here at home."
"How exactly? They don't say," Stimson wrote.
He said military members already know they must not follow illegal orders but "what does that have to do with anything?"
The Democrats "never mention a single Trump administration order—or even a policy area—which they believe violates the Constitution. This vagueness reveals the real purpose of the video—political theater and yet another example of Trump Derangement Syndrome," he wrote.
He pointed out Crow, during an interview, was unable to name even one order from Trump that is illegal.
If members of the military doubt an order's legality, they "can—and do—consult with a uniformed lawyer, called a judge advocate general officer. I know, because I served as a Navy JAG for 30 years and retired as a two-time commanding officer with rank of captain," Stimson noted.
"The president doesn't pick up the phone and call a service member and order him to carry out a mission. Military orders flow through multiple levels—from the president to the secretary of defense, through the joint chiefs, to combatant commanders, to senior officers and eventually to units and individual service members. At each level, uniformed lawyers review orders and establish standing rules of engagement and specific rules of engagement for a particular mission," Stimson explained. "These congressmen know this, but that apparently didn't matter to them."
"These lawmakers' actions and words undermine good order and discipline in the armed forces by encouraging U.S. military personnel to question the orders of the commander in chief of the armed forces for no good reason, based on nothing more than mere political disagreement," he said.
"The Democrat congressmen should withdraw the video and apologize. They are undermining the authority of the commander in chief of the armed forces—an authority constitutionally vested in the president. If anyone is violating their oath to 'support and defend the Constitution,' it is them. Encouraging military personnel to disregard legitimate presidential authority based on unspecified, partisan grievances doesn't protect the Constitution—it subverts it."
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Amid the ongoing wars over the failing Obamacare – the stratospheric costs, the huge co-pays, the high deductibles, the general lack of market competition and the huge and invasive government spying on procedures and patients, one state is working on something unique.
BearCare.
At least that's what officials in Wyoming are calling their plan to provide catastrophic coverage for events like an attack from a bear.
It is the Cowboy State Daily that explained the odds of getting attacked by an angry grizzly, or hit by a bus or some other rare event are low.
But they do happen.
The report cited the problems for Shayne Patrick Burke, 35, who was attacked by an angry momma grizzle in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. On social media he said it was the most violent experience of his life.
The new "BearCare" now is part of a series of proposals from the state department of health turned over to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The idea comes from people who need the coverage.
"More than 1,300 Wyoming residents responded to an online survey addressing the health care priorities of rural communities," Cowboy State reported.
And Miranda Hinkle, of the state department, said there were concerns over accessibility, costs and such.
Also, about "BearCare," which isn't a replacement for routine health insurance but would kick in for catastrophes, like the one experienced by Burke, or the one for Celia Easton.
She was in elk hunting country when, because of a wet morning, pulled on her "muck" boots.
She saw a mama grizzly charging about three seconds before impact, the report said.
But when the bear chomped on her foot, the boot came off and the bear scampered.
The state plan covers things besides bears, such as "necessary medical services in an episode of care beginning with an emergency anchor event."
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PALM BEACH, Florida – After initially calling people urging the release of files on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein "stupid" and "foolish," President Donald Trump has pulled a 180 and is now making a fresh call to make all the files public.
In a lengthy Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump said: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat 'Shutdown.'
"The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on 'Epstein,' are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON'T CARE!
"All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, 'Affordability' (where we are winning BIG!), our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People, delivering Historic Tax Cuts, gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment into America (A RECORD!), the rebuilding of our Military, securing our Border, deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens, ending Men in Women's Sports, stopping Transgender for Everyone, and so much more! Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory.
"Some 'members' of the Republican Party are being 'used,' and we can't let that happen. Let's start talking about the Republican Party's Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein 'TRAP,' which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Trump's new position on the files is the exact opposite of his stance in July, when he unleashed a furious tirade against his own supporters who sought the files, saying he no longer wants their support.
"I don't want their support anymore!" Trump exclaimed on Truth Social.
"My PAST supporters have bought into this 'bullsh**,' hook, line, and sinker."
His full statement reads:
"The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 "Intelligence" Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden's bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton's big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It's all they have – They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates.
Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this "bullsh**," hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.
I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country's history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Trump also told reporters: "I don't understand it, why they'd be so interested. He's dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life, I don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is."
"It's pretty boring stuff. It's sordid, but it's boring. And I don't understand why it keeps going. I think really only pretty bad people including fake news want to keep something like that going. But credible information, let 'em give it. Anything that's credible, I would say let them have it."
The U.S. House Of Representatives is scheduled to vote on releasing all the Epstein files this week.
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Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who agreed with Democrat demands to discuss extending heightened Obamacare subsidies in order to end the record-setting Schumer Shutdown of the federal government, have delivered more bad news to the minority party.
They are linking the Democrats' demands that emergency additional subsidies be continued to a new effort to enforce already existing federal abortion limits.
The shutdown triggered, and maintained, by many votes by Senate Democrats against opening the government, was partly over heightened subsidies for Americans getting health insurance through the hugely troubled Obamacare system.
The Democrats, then in the majority, had approved "emergency" additional subsidies a few years back. Then they continued those additional subsidies several times. But they scheduled them to end at the conclusion of 2025, and they are not in the majority now to push them into another extension.
The problem is that the failings within the Obamacare system are expected to trigger huge increase in premiums for Americans getting those policies starting January 1.
The shutdown is concluding now, with legislation being approved in the Senate, and House, to reopen government operations.
The GOP promise was that those Obamacare extensions would be discussed.
And discussed they will be, along with those abortion funding limits.
A report at Breitbart explains Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said, "A one-year extension along the lines of what [Democrats] are suggesting, and without Hyde protections — doesn't even get close."
Republicans simply want to block states from allowing people to access abortions through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces using state or other funding, the report said.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., has indicated he's open to extending the subsidies, but said Republicans won't support it without the abortion restrictions, the report said.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and a radical abortion advocate, claimed the GOP now wants a "backdoor national abortion ban."
He called for Democrats to "dismiss" the plan that would enforce existing abortion limits, and extend Obamacare subsidies.
The enhanced Obamacare subsidies first were begun during the COVID pandemic created by the China virus.
The report said without an extension of the subsidies, "individuals who purchase health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces will see steep premium rises — some by thousands of dollars a month — beginning next year."
Thune said the GOP requests aren't complicated, a "more stringent enforcement of longstanding restrictions on federal funding being used for abortion, known as the Hyde Amendment."
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States run presidential elections but federal law sets the standards that must be met, and that specifies that election day in America is "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November" of even-numbered years.
So can states arbitrarily say they're going to have an election week, accepting ballots that arrive after the election day deadline?
That's now pending before the Supreme Court.
It used to be that voters lined up at polling stations and waited their turn to cast a ballot on election day. Now, in the days of more easily manipulated mail-in ballots, that's not the case in many states.
But a report in the Washington Examiner explains there soon may be very specific guidance on those issues, as the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the legality of counting mail-in ballots that are late.
The decision, one way or another, probably will affect laws in a dozen states or more.
It is Watson v. Republican National Committee out of Mississippi that the court is reviewing.
That law allows state officials to count ballots when they are mailed, and received, up to five days late.
The RNC sued the state, charging that Mississippi is in violation of the federal statute that designates Election Day as the single day on which elections are held.
The RNC contends that means ballot collection is done, that day.
A federal appeals court agreed, but Louisiana appealed, sending the case to the Supreme Court.
The court will review whether federal requirements for election day preempt state laws allowing for those ballots that are postmarked on time, but arrive days late, to be counted.
Louisiana pointed out that holding an "election day" would require changes to state processes in dozens of states.
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First he went after bias at Twitter, by purchasing the company, and now Elon Musk is taking on the online behemoth Wikipedia, long known as a leftist yet influential source of information online.
Musk recently announced he has birthed Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia that won't be influenced or burdened by human gatekeepers like those of the 24-year-old Wikipedia.
Writing on X, Musk, who has criticized Wikipedia as "propaganda," said that Grokipedia.com's goal is to present the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI launched Grokipedia Oct. 27.
For years, conservatives have written about the negative light with which Wikipedia portrays the movement's leaders, organization and websites. Though volunteer "editors" are to have the ability to correct bogus information, there are countless stories about corrections meant to counter left-wing bias on Wikipedia immediately being deleted or deemphasized.
WND and Washington Times columnist Robert Knight recently wrote about his experience with Wikipedia.
Woke editors routinely mischaracterize conservatives and conservative viewpoints, highlight fake science that advances climate extremism and sexual anarchy, and they even block other editors from cleaning up errors.
I know, because I registered as a Wikipedia editor years ago and tried to correct some glaring factual mistakes for a conservative think tank. …
Heavy handed editors kept overriding my corrections, saying I needed to jump through a series of hoops, including appeals to some committee. It got so tedious I gave up. Which is what they undoubtedly wanted.
While Grokipedia currently has about 900,000 articles, compared to Wikipedia's 8 million, according to Ara, the site's avatar, Grokipedia hopes to reach that many in the next "two or three years, tops."
WorldNetDaily has endured a biased and factually inaccurate listing at Wikipedia for decades now. The site's entry states:
"WND (formerly WorldNetDaily) is an American far-right news and opinion website. It is known for promoting fake news and conspiracy theories, including the false claim that former President Barack Obama was born outside the United States. … WND's political lean has been described as alt-right and far-right. WND is known for promoting fake news and conspiracy theories, including the white genocide conspiracy theory. … The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) labels WND an anti-government extremist group."
In contrast, Grokipedia has this to say about the news site:
"WorldNetDaily (WND) is an independent American online news and opinion website founded in May 1997 by Joseph Farah and Elizabeth Farah. Positioning itself as the oldest continuously operating independent Christian digital journalism organization, WND operates under the motto 'A Free Press for a Free People,' emphasizing its role as a watchdog exposing corruption in government and other power structures while advocating for virtue rooted in Judeo-Christian principles, limited government, and free-market capitalism."
Last year, WND Vice President David Kupelian contrasted the Wikipedia entry for this news site with that of the Satanic Temple:
In stark contrast to the supposed evils and failings of WorldNetDaily, The Satanic Temple is all sweetness and light, according to Wikipedia. Here's how that article starts:
"The Satanic Temple (TST) is a non-theistic organization and new religious movement, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. … The group views Satan neither as a supernatural being, nor a symbol of evil, but instead relies on the literary Satan as a symbol representing 'the eternal rebel' against arbitrary authority and social norms, or as a metaphor to promote pragmatic skepticism, rational reciprocity, personal autonomy, and curiosity. … The organization's mission encourages 'benevolence and empathy' among all people, using Satanic imagery to promote civil rights, egalitarianism, religious skepticism, social justice, bodily integrity, secularism, and the separation of church and state."
Wow. Who could be against "benevolence," "empathy" and "personal autonomy"? Sign me up!
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said during a commentary on Musk's new site: "Grokipedia will do to Wikipedia what X did to Twitter," a reference to Musk's purchase and overhaul of the social media site – "expunge the bias and the lies."
Left-wing media were quick to denounce Grokipedia, with claims the site pushes "far right talking points" in line with Musk's ideology. There also are claims that Grokipedia has swiped thousands of Wikipedia entries for its own.
The Daily Dot reports some suggest that Grokipedia only features "biased, right-wing content." A user points to Grokipedia's page on ICE, which praises the federal agency's removal of illegal immigrants and cites right-leaning sources.
Many Musk detractors have looked up certain subjects and sounded an alarm about those entries' alleged "bias."
A writer in Chron asserts, "Grokipedia begins to look like a fun-house mirror version of Wikipedia.
"Pages on vaccines and climate change have been modified to include anti-vaccine and pro-fossil fuel arguments and sources. 'Transgender' repeatedly refers to transgender women as men, uses the phrase "transgenderism" (a phrase Wikipedia notes is considered derogatory), and claims that a 'social contagion' is causing people to become trans."
One X user, however, pointed out how much more nuanced the Grokipedia entry on George Floyd is:
Knight points out: "Larry Sanger, who with Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 and left a year later, has been outspoken about the search engine's unfairness, saying 'It's hopelessly biased.'
"In his 'Nine Theses' online manifesto about Wikipedia, he writes, 'Progressive activists and editors within the Democratic-Left form a de facto army that controls Wikipedia, systematically deleting criticism and reasonable, sourced edits.' …"
Knight believes the advent of Grokipedia "couldn't have come a moment too soon."
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President Donald Trump is warning that Democrats will "take down the country" in their opposition to his Make America Great Again agenda, which includes renewing its economy, protecting its borders and eliminating corruption.
Because they're "kamikazes."
He said, "I think they're kamikaze pilots. I just got back from Japan, I talked about the kamikaze pilots. I think these guys are kamikaze. They'll take down the country if they have to."
There was social media support, with a commenter posting, "He's right. Democrats continue to try to destroy America. It's sad."
But from leftists came a torrent of venom, accusing him of "projecting."
One was, "Maybe Pikachu next week" and another, "Every accusation is an admission." Dozens of epithets followed, along with praise for current Democrat party leaders. One intoned, fantastically, "As I listened to Gavin Newsom speech last night the man speak (sic) with such grandeur and his enunciation was just meticulous. Even an unborn baby would salivate over his words."
It turned worse, with name-calling and gratuitous insults, following years of leftists and media voices calling him "Hitler" and his supporters "Nazis."
Such rage rhetoric actually has reached the point where a Montana city council called to threaten a sitting member of Congress and a Democrat attorney general candidate Virginia openly speculated about murdering Republicans and their children, and voters chose him anyway.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was the second-in-command to George W. Bush after 9/11 and largely is considered the architect of America's then "war-on-terror" but probably more famous now for having a daughter, ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, who turned on a Republican president and worked with Democrats to undermine a duly elected president, has died.
His family announced his passing on Tuesday.
"Richard B. Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, died last night, November 3, 2025. He was 84 years old. His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed," the family told Fox News.
"The former Vice President died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. For decades, Dick Cheney served our nation, including as White House Chief of Staff, Wyoming's Congressman, Secretary of Defense, and Vice President of the United States. Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing. We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man."
A divisive figure after 9/11, online commenters blamed him for the war in Iraq seeking Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" in which thousands of Americans, and thousands of Iraqis, perished.
There were offensive memes announcing his death, to the accompaniment of fireworks.
But referencing the left's celebrations of the assassination a month ago of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, one said, "I don't have anything nice to say about Dick Cheney, so I'll leave it at condolences to his family. See, Libs, that's how you do it."
He had a long history of cardiac issues, including five heart attacks. He received a lung transplant in 2021.
Fox explained, "In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he never expressed doubt about his support for indefinite detention for alleged terrorist prisoners or even about waterboarding." In fact, he said, in 2008, "I feel very good about what we did. If I was faced with those circumstances again, I'd do exactly the same thing."
He also worked in the oil industry.
Cheney was born Jan. 30, 1941, in Lincoln, Nebraska, and grew up in Casper, Wyoming.
His daughter, Liz Cheney, like her father representing Wyoming in Congress before voters abruptly removed her, joined with Democrats, specifically Rep. Nancy Pelosi's partisan commission assigned to investigate the J6 events in Washington, against President Donald Trump. That group orchestrated information about that day in order to try to make Trump look responsible.
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A foster cat being care for by a Merced, California, family decided to express her gratitude: By adding some spice to the family's soup cooking on the stove.
A report at Fox26, KMPH-TV, explained the owner was "out feeding the dogs, when Wendy (the cat) snuck into the kitchen and decided to contribute her own meat to the soup pot."
A mouse.
"Her mom only discovered the feline's culinary surprise after reviewing the footage when she found Wendy sitting on the floor, continuously crying and staring at the pot," the report said.
While there were comments claiming it was staged by AI, others pointed out that commenter hadn't interacted much with cats.
Further, a report from Not the Bee noted that other such videos have appeared in recent weeks.
The report said Wendy is a foster cat from SPCA Merced, and the organization shared the stills online.
"The family said it was takeout for dinner that night," the report said.
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The leftists holding state power in Colorado are making it abundantly clear: They want their favorite leftist judges to be running the United States, not the duly elected president.
The proof comes in the fact they have sued the Trump administration 41 times already.
Their latest agenda is to keep the financial benefits of the nation's Space Command headquarters within their borders.
Courthousenews explains the newest fight:
"The state of Colorado and its attorney general Phil Weiser challenged President Donald Trump's decision to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, in a Wednesday lawsuit."
Weiser, an ardent Democrat, insists, "The Constitution does not permit the executive to punish or retaliate against states for lawfully exercising sovereign powers reserved for the states, as President Trump and the executive branch have unlawfully done here."
He opposes Trump's executive order to move the base, according to the report, "in retaliation for Colorado's robust vote by mail program — an executive action Colorado says violates the state's sovereignty."
Weiser even warns that Trump can "influence" Colorado's election, "then the executive branch can seize other powers not delegated by the Constitution."
The federal government, in fact, does "set some standards for voting systems, including standards for their functionality and their accessibility to individuals with disabilities, older individuals, and members of language minority groups," according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. And the president is commander of the nation's military.
Further, the federal government's Election Assistance Commission, created under federal law, establishes guidelines for systems used in states.
The Space Command has called Colorado Springs home since Trump created it in 2019, and Joe Biden made Peterson Space Force Base the formal home.
But Trump said Colorado elections, mandated by Democrats in the state to be by mail-in ballots, a system that allows for corruption more easily than some other options, are a concern.
"They went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections, and we can't have that. When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections because that's what that means," Trump confirmed.
The report said Colorado already has "filed and joined" 41 lawsuits against Trump.
Other topics include the disputed practice, under "birthright citizenship," of giving tourist babies and children born to illegal alien criminals American citizenship.
Also Colorado has attacked Trump over National Institutes of Health funding for research, an attempt to block the Department of Government Efficiency from even using the Treasury's central payment system, an attempt to block a freeze on federal cash handouts, disputes over Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rules, and more.