Day: January 16, 2025

CLAY TRAVIS: How Trump is already narrowing America’s racial divide

3:30 pm January 16, 2025

Even before he takes the oath of office next week, Donald Trump has already accomplished the most incredible comeback in American political history. In the space of four years, he’s gone from being universally banned by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Snapchat, Instagram, Shopify, Reddit, Twitch, TikTok and Pinterest to most of these companies donating to his inaugural celebration and their CEOs clamoring for invites to dinner at Mar-a-Lago with him. Trump’s 2024 election, I predict, will still be written about as an epochal event […]

Morning Glory: Goodbye Joe. Enjoy the beach

3:30 pm January 16, 2025

As President Joe Biden prepares to depart for Delaware, many wish they could say “Joe, we hardly knew ye,” but sadly the halting steps and the ghastly record of the departing president will oblige objective historians to taunt Biden’s supporters for as long as they read. Biden’s handlers have done all they could to obscure […]

Israel’s Netanyahu accuses Hamas of trying to back out of cease-fire deal

2:39 pm January 16, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of backing out of a cease-fire deal to release hostages and bring a pause to more than a year of fighting. Netanyahu’s office said Thursday his Cabinet won’t meet to approve the Gaza cease-fire deal until Hamas backs down from what it called a “last minute […]

AG nominee Pam Bondi seen as steadying force to steer DOJ in Trump’s second term

2:30 pm January 16, 2025

Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has vowed to head up a Justice Department free from political influence and mismanagement if confirmed – using her confirmation hearing Wednesday to assuage concerns that she might use the role to go after Trump’s so-called “enemies” or otherwise weaponize the Department of Justice. For weeks, […]

Pacific Palisades high school seeks temporary campus after devastating LA wildfires

2:30 pm January 16, 2025

Palisades Charter High School (PCHS) in Los Angeles is appealing to the community to help find a new campus after its previous one was severely damaged by the ongoing wildfires in California. “We started our high school experience during COVID, so that was online, and online didn’t really work for anyone,” said Charlie Speiser, the […]