"On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would head the 'Department of Government Efficiency.' That same day, the Treasury Department released a report showing why this effort is so desperately needed. ...

This week, the Treasury Department released its first report of the new fiscal year, which began in October.

What it found was that in just the first month, the federal government ran a deficit of $257 billion. That compares with a deficit of $66 billion in October 2023.

The massive jump is the result of a $76.6 billion drop in revenues compared with last year and a $114 billion hike in spending."

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"The latest global climate conference opened Monday in Azerbaijan. The timing is excellent. Any doubt regarding the wisdom of the next Trump administration's likely pullout from such meetings should be dispelled by the conference photos alone. Here are tens of thousands of well fed, well-dressed members of the global elite -- activists, employees of lavishly funded NGOs, armies of government bureaucrats, hundreds of heads of state -- who have all travelled via jet and private plane to this remote corner of the Earth and who expect that every minute of their day will be supported by abundant, magically available energy. None has sacrificed a single personal comfort to save the planet. They assume that their smartphones will draw on an invisible web of transmitters and that they will be able to search the Internet and run AI queries at will, notwithstanding that doing so requires voracious energy use from a growing archipelago of server farms. They expect their PowerPoints to be well lit and their conference and hotel rooms to be heated or air conditioned as needed. They're never without their bottled water, which is carried thousands of miles by carbon-emitting trucks and planes and kept sterile by plastic containers whose manufacture requires petrochemicals and plenty of energy. They do not wait on the sun to shine or the wind to blow to light their rooms, run their elevators, or power up their devices; they want energy now and without interruption.

"You don't have to be a 'climate denier' to see that climate-change politics have become the largest global grift in history, one that grows in proportion with each new conference. It was just a matter of time before Third World basket-case countries exploited the First World's virtue signaling. This year's UNFCC COP 29 conference in Azerbaijan (COP stands for Conference of the Parties) features the demand that developed countries fork over billions, if not trillions, more dollars to the Global South, ostensibly to help it adjust to climate change. Those billions will follow all previous foreign aid into the same sinkhole of corruption and incompetence."

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"Until the Daily Wire uncovered concrete evidence that the Federal Emergency Management Administration was telling relief workers to avoid Trump-supporting homes, the press was happy to take FEMA's word and debunk accusations of political favoritism.

"Now that the FEMA employee at the center of the current scandal is saying that she's a scapegoat and that the problem is far deeper and wider, will the mainstream press ignore this too?"

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"Democratic norms alert!

"The Associated Press and others have called the hotly contested Pennsylvania Senate race for GOP candidate David McCormick, since the outstanding votes give no hope for Sen. Bob Casey to close the gap -- but Casey won't concede as Democratic operatives try to overturn the will of the voters.

"Casey is even fundraising off his hopeless efforts to stay in power.

"This from the party that spent the entirety of the Biden term screeching about the threat such refusals posed to the Republic.

"And, like a rat jumping onto a sinking ship, perennial election villain and Dem superlawyer Marc Elias has entered the fray."

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"President-elect Donald Trump late Sunday announced former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan would serve as 'border czar' in his second administration, installing a key ally to enact a promised crack down at the southern border.

"Trump made the announcement on Truth Social and said Homan's responsibilities would include 'the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security.'

"Much of Trump's Day 1 agenda is likely to be focused on cracking down on immigration, and by appointing Homan, Trump is putting in place a staunch ally who has shown a willingness to carry out his orders."

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"President Donald Trump is a generational political talent, and nothing should detract from his historic comeback win Tuesday. But those who believe the election was all about Trump and his charisma should pay attention to the outcomes of ballot measures, which reveal an electorate that rejects the leftward lurch of the era initiated and presided over by President Barack Obama. There is a clear signal of a desire to return to better, more conservative policy."

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"Donald Trump pulled off the most improbable comeback in American political history Tuesday night, securing a likely return trip to the White House by beating back a relentless tide of media, Big Tech and Democrat opposition that stretched from the courthouse to the social media sphere.

"Trump was poised to become only the second American president to secure non-consecutive terms but he did so against far greater odds than Grover Cleveland a century earlier after being impeached and acquitted twice, indicted four times, facing two assassination attempts and enduring an avalanche of lawfare unparalleled in the nation's history.

"But even more consequential than his personal journey to President-Elect 47, Trump engineered a once-in-a-generation political realignment, one more deep and pervasive than his 2016 shocker as he peeled away long-rooted constituencies from the Democrat Party."

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"One could be forgiven for not noticing, but Vice President Kamala Harris did make her campaign's closing argument speech Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. To be fair, the little notice it received is not entirely her fault, for as she was making her remarks to a big crowd, President Joe Biden was making his own remarks, calling all Trump supporters 'garbage,' which drew everyone's attention away from Harris.

"Harris's speech nevertheless deserves attention. This is not because it was an exception but because it was an entirely pedestrian and unexceptional dribble of words that could have been given by any other Democrat in the last 100 years. That is a key problem with Harris's bid for the White House.

"Like many other Democrats before her, Harris promised to 'seek common ground and commonsense solutions.' She claimed she was 'not looking to score political points.' To that end, and this is the really weird and troubling part, she promised to end 'division, chaos, and mutual distrust' by pledging 'to listen to experts.'

"Democrats have yearned for, promised, and attempted government by the experts since at least as far back as the Woodrow Wilson administration. From President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration to President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan, Democrats have relied on experts to make more and more economic and social policy decisions. This has been done at the expense of citizens, at the expense of democracy, and for more than 100 years, the results have been disastrous."

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"As one of the most contentious presidential elections in history heads to the wire, Washington, D.C.'s newest tourist attraction has just opened, and its focus on civic education cannot come at a more critical time. America's billion-dollar presidential campaigns remain one of the wrold's great spectacles, increasingly stoking partisan fury, civil discord, and simple yet poisonous un-neighborliness (like stealing yard signs). To both sides, this is the most dangerous election in American history, comparable to the fateful 1860 campaign that preceded the American Civil War. Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins, half the country will believe the end is nigh.

"At this perfervid moment, then, the opening of  'The People's House: A White House Experience' is a welcome step back from the heated political climate. Designed to reveal the history and life inside the wrold's most famous home, 'The People's House' is a 33,000-square-foot educational center that explains the functioning of the Executive Mansion while humanizing the First Families who have lived there and the people who have worked behind the scenes. A project of the White House Historical Association, the interactive multimedia center is debuting in perhaps the most fraught election campaign in modern times. If Americans are going to relearn to debate politics instead of yelling, harassing, and shooting each other, then the lessons of democracy taught through the educational exhibits at the White House Experience may be central to that effort."

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"We have no doubt that, in the years to come, the media will describe the Biden-Harris administration as 'scandal-free.' But that's only because for the past four years they've vigorously ignored any and all scandals.

"Case in point is the $15 billion giveaway that Biden-Harris snuck through this summer without a single hearing, vote, or advance notice, in an attempt to buy seniors' votes. Followed up by a campaign email to these same seniors on behalf of Kamala Harris, also paid for by taxpayers.

"Is any of this legal? Who cares, if it helps Harris win in November? At least, that's how the mainstream press is treating this scandal.

"Here's the background."

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