NEIL W. McCABE: At least 27 of the 94 U.S. Attorney's Offices have court-appointed prosecutors because John Thune and Senate Republicans refuse to confirm MAGA prosecutors.
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Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
Sure, the "imagine if it was reversed" argument is tired, but what do you seriously think would happen if entire communities of English men were using local girls as sex slaves in Pakistan?
NOW you can see why they're so terrified of us forming a tribal identity.
Every American who watched the movie Captain Phillips remembers how Somali pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades turned the waters off East Africa into a hunting ground.
What almost no American news network ever reported is who stepped up to guard that five-hundred-mile corridor alongside the U.S. Navy for the next fifteen years: the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
In 2009, while U.S. carrier strike groups were stretched thin across the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, hundreds of unarmed merchant ships carrying vital cargo were being ambushed in the Gulf of Aden.
Why could commercial oil tankers and container ships not simply fight off the pirates themselves or sail around Africa? Because routing around the bottom of Africa adds two weeks to every voyage, and a supertanker carrying millions of gallons of crude oil cannot risk a single rocket-propelled grenade spark on its deck.
In March 2009, Japan dispatched the destroyers JS Sazanami and JS Samidare seven thousand miles from home to the scorching coast of Djibouti.
At first, old Japanese laws only allowed those warships to guard Japanese-linked vessels. Tokyo refused to leave foreign sailors behind. In July 2009, Japan passed a brand-new Anti-Piracy Law so its destroyers could form an armed steel wall around American and international merchant ships too.
Operating in 120-degree desert heat and blinding sandstorms, Japanese P-3C Orion patrol planes flew over 3,000 missions from Djibouti, scanning more than 200,000 vessels from the sky while Japanese destroyers escorted over 3,900 merchant ships directly through the pirate zone.
Not one single ship under Japanese escort was ever hijacked.
In May 2015, the U.S.-led Combined Maritime Forces handed command of Combined Task Force 151 to Rear Admiral Hiroshi Ito of Japan.
When the sea turns lawless, you find out who your real friends are.
Indiana man receives 80 years after the convicted molester of his young relative served roughly seven of a 12-year term.
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Nicholas Stanley, 36, of Elkhart was sentenced Thursday to the maximum in Elkhart County Circuit Court for the June 24, 2025, sh*oting of Allen Cogswell, 35, at the Daylite Inn.
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Cogswell pleaded guilty in 2018 to molesting Stanley’s relative under age 14 and to possessing child p*rnography, with three additional counts dropped in the plea.
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He received 12 years plus probation and was released May 28, 2025, after a judge earlier denied early release over prison conduct violations.
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Stanley testified he went to room 251 intending only to confront and beat Cogswell.
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Seeing him through the window made his brain “explode like a tsunami,” so he retrieved a shotgun from his car, knocked, and fired twice into the head and chest when the door opened.
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“I decided that I had to do what I had to do to protect my family. I had to k*ll him,” Stanley told the jury.
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A jury convicted him of m*rder last month. The sentence is 55 years plus 10 for aggravating factors and 15 for the firearm enhancement, requiring at least 75 percent served.
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Judge Michael Christofeno refused a sudden heat instruction that could have allowed a mansl*ughter conviction, citing time for cool reflection while Stanley walked back to the car.
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Stanley’s attorney plans an appeal on that ruling.
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Cogswell’s mother called the sh*oting “overk*ll.” Stanley’s sister and friends wore shirts reading “de*d ped*philes don’t reoffend” and said they have written lawmakers demanding full terms for such offenders.
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The man who protected his family faces decades while the original offender walked free after serving little more than half his sentence.
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#Elkhart #JusticeSystem
A young patriot at the University of Oregon had a simple message for the radical leftists trying to shut down @alexstein99 event: you're the reason there's a sniper here.
I showed how Minnesota allows cheating in elections.
Now they want to TAKE MY RIGHT TO VOTE AWAY. This is lawfare. They want to scare all independent journalists who may challenge them. This is FASCISM.
https://t.co/fmb6v33F0T
When I started @xx_xyathletics 2 1/2 years ago, I could never have predicted that people would respond this way.
I just wanted to provide a brand that actually stands up for women instead of the pretend nonsense Nike and all the others do.
I'm still stunned every single day that a statement of fact -- there are two sexes (therefore women deserve their own sports & spaces) -- produces this kind of mob rage. It's truly deranged.
An anti-Trump pro-Hamas Capitol Hill protester in a Hamas headband hit me as I exposed that he was wearing an Islamic terrorism headband.
After he hit me, I told the mob:
“Wow, he just hit me. Your guy really wants to join Hamas.”
All the Democrats’ Hamas sympathizers desperately want the Democrats to win the midterms so they can impeach Trump for “war crimes.”
Clearly, this midterm election is the most important non-presidential election in American history.
Again, GOTV MAGA.
SO TIRED OF THIS.
Hit-and-run by an illegal left a Massachusetts mom to burn to death.
Erpharo Gilbert, 46, Raynham. Driving to work. Juan Leonardo Parra Altamirano hit her on Route 24, fled, and her car exploded in flames. She died. He said he ran because he was illegal.
Convicted. Released by Massachusetts. ICE arrested him yesterday.
Gov. Maura Healey’s sanctuary policies and Protect Act kept him free instead of handing him to ICE.
Democrats protected the kiIIer, not the mother.
🚨DEMOCRAT FRAUD: Charlie LeDuff is investigating Abdul El-Syed & Act Blue donations and stumbled upon a woman who allegedly made $150,000 in donations, except… something isn’t adding up.