@Lawton_Braves Im a WVian. I have a great great grandmother on each side first name only. They had shortened nicknames on some census records and just married last names. Never their parents listed.
As summer nears, Grand Teton National Park bursts into color. It's a good reminder to pause, breathe deep, and take in the beauty all around us.
Photo by John Tobiason / NPS
This clip of Charles Payne during Obama's second term is really incredible. Well done Charles.
In 2010 Obama put the federal government directly in charge of lending money to students. Eliminating private lending made the loans much easier to get, but they were not less expensive.
Before Obama took office, outstanding student debt was less than $100 billion. By 2015, outstanding student debt was approximately $800 billion and almost a third of the borrowers were in default. Of course the price of college continued to soar the entire time.
This is the best part. Payne predicted that someday the politicians would be promising to forgive student debt as a way to buy votes. He was spot on.
There are people like Ro Khanna on this site right now arguing that Elon Musk should be paying down the student debt when it's a problem that politicians created.
These turtles weren't just numbers. They were native wildlife, stolen from American landscapes and packed away in brutal conditions.
A federal judge sentenced Wei Qiang Lin to 2 years in prison for smuggling hundreds of turtles to Hong Kong in packages falsely labeled as toys.
For many North American turtles, replacing a single adult taken from the wild can take decades. That's why wildlife trafficking is such a serious threat.
Thanks to the outstanding work of @USFWS Office of Law Enforcement and our federal partners, this trafficker was caught and held accountable.
If you traffic America's wildlife, our officers will find you, build the case, and bring you to justice.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just stunned the world: ANY DAMAGE Iran does to the Gulf nations will now be repaired using IRANIAN FUNDS seized by the US from Iranian accounts
This man is legitimately an economic assassin...NOBODY wants to be on his bad side!
"Any damage it inflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted from Iranian Accounts.
Any tolls paid to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority will be offset by funds extracted from their accounts.
Every attack Iran launches will only deepen the economic and financial consequences it faces."
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! An Indian man has just been ARRESTED on a FEDERAL criminal complaint that he defrauded a bank out of nearly $100 million dollars, FA US Attorney Bill Essayli says
Mahender Makhijani, 44, faces up to 30 YEARS in prison
He came to the US from India and is now FAFOing thanks to the DOJ's MASSIVE focus on fraud 🔥
KEEP THE ARRESTS COMING!
Essayli:
"Makhijani controlled Cantor Group V LLC, a Newport Beach-based company that had a lending agreement requiring it to pledge only first-lien real estate loans to the victim bank.
Makhijani falsified title policies from September 2024 to April 2025 to make it appear Cantor held first-lien positions when other creditors were ahead. Makhijani and a subordinate forged documents in Adobe, altered metadata, and submitted the falsified records to the victim bank, while also providing misleading explanations during calls and in spreadsheets.
If convicted, Makhijani faces a statutory maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison. He is expected to make his initial appearance this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California. All defendants are presumed innocent until convicted in court.
Our nation’s economy and welfare depend on a healthy banking system. When lenders are deceived, it has downstream effects on consumers and businesses."
100,000 fake degrees. 1 million people. The H-1B program isn't importing the "best and brightest", it's importing fraud at industrial scale.
Americans are being replaced by fake experts with bought degrees,shut down the H-1B program until every qualified American has a job.