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Nancy Pelosi Institute to Teach Speech Tantrums and Insider Trading

Our former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi — pretty much the embodiment of how I coined the term “Demofiend” — evidently donated so much of her ill-begotten wealth to the University of California, Berkeley that the school is opening an institute in her name. How’s this for a name that makes you want to laugh: the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy? The 86-year-old communist, er, Congresswoman, who is retiring from her life as Headmistress of the Swamp this year, claims her namesake will be nonpartisan. Hold the guffaws, please. I got my hands on an early copy of the prospective curriculum, and it wisely focuses on what she is both best at and most famous for — how to throw tantrums during speeches by someone she disagrees with, and how to game behind-closed-doors political maneuvering to win on Wall Street, aka stock-market trading based on inside knowledge of upcoming legislative actions. First on the agenda will be Ms. Pelosi demonstrating how to tear up an opponent’s speech, as she did on TV with printed copies of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address (pictured). Second will be how to secretly inform one’s spouse of upcoming investigations and legislation to

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Trump to Do What He Does Best: Renovate a Golf Course, This One a Public Site in D.C.

President Trump now has his sights set on something he has shown himself to be truly great at — buying, renovating, and improving golf courses throughout the golfing world. This one is a public golf course in D.C. called the East Potomac Golf Links, which he toured today. “We will build one of the Greatest Golf Courses anywhere in the World which, importantly, will also be made available to the Public,” Trump wrote on social media. “When completed, this Course will have the ability to host Major Golf Tournaments, including The U.S. Open, The Ryder Cup, The PGA Championship, and other top PGA Tour events.” Naturally, even this project is rife with controversy. National Links Trust, a nonprofit that operates East Potomac, was told by Trump and the Department of the Interior that it would have to accept mounds of dirt from the construction of the Trump White House Ballroom. When it didn’t (or did, depending on who’s talking), Interior issued a default notice that the nonprofit had violated the dirt order. The trust then agreed to let the administration take over the golf course. Trump said renovation will begin in September. East Potomac currently charges as little as $9

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Iran Claims Jewel of War with U.S. — Strait of Hormuz, Now and Forever

Iran is now claiming sole proprietorship over the Strait of Hormuz. In addition, it has shown that any vessel that tries to navigate waters belonging to Oman will get droned upon and disabled. Hmmmm…great war, there, Mr. President. “The management and full restoration of maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s responsibility,” asserted Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi today via Iranian media. “No other country or entity has any responsibility or authority in this matter.” The announcement comes after two days-plus of Iran and the U.S. exchanging volleys over Iran’s assertion of control of the Strait, which basically involves firing upon any vessel that tries to elude its authority (as noted above). Prior to the Foreign Minister’s statement, President Trump warned on Truth Social: “There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started,”  That point may be now. At the very least, the U.S. should restore its naval blockade to keep Iranian vessels from plying their oil trade and enriching the IRGC and Mullahs running Iran. POSTSCRIPT: After I wrote this earlier today, Iran and the U.S. agreed to cease

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My Take

Vance on Nixon and the Deep State: Careful Revealing Too Much, Mr. VP

I was just entering high school when Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy squared off in the first-ever televised presidential campaign debate. My parents were diehard Demofiends, so they proclaimed Kennedy the heir to the throne and couldn’t care less what he said. As for the official scorecard, Kennedy won if you watched the debate on TV, and Nixon won if you listened on the radio. Verdict: Nixon needed a better make-up artist and some medicine to keep him from sweating. Smiling more would’ve helped, too. The point I’m concerned about is the dynamic that developed between the two from that moment on. As matters turned out historically, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had its — dirty — hands in bringing down both of these gentlemen. I only bring this up because JD Vance had the gall to proclaim this past week, while on a visit to the Nixon Presidential Library, that our 37th president was brought down by the Deep State. You can fill in the blank and pencil in “CIA.” You could probably add “FBI” as well. Specifically, Vance said during his visit: “If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon,

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U.S. Strikes Iran Again, While IRGC Says Trump Just Buying Time with Ceasefire

After Iran struck a cargo ship traveling the Strait of Hormuz on an “unauthorized route” near the coast of Oman, the U.S. has struck back, bombing radar installations and missile and drone storage facilities on the Iranian coast. Iran vowed retaliation. Meanwhile, NewsNation today was able to interview Dr. Mohsen Rezaei (pictured), a leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for 16 years and an adviser to the nation’s Supreme Leader, who expressed doubts that the U.S. is bargaining in good faith. “We have still not seen any serious change in the behavior of Mr. Trump and his team. We feel they are simply buying time from us. They want to manage America’s domestic issues — for example, to get inflation and the banking crisis under control, hold the elections, and then the games will be over,” he said. “We have yet to see a serious move, a turning point in American behavior. Therefore, we have very little hope that this agreement will actually happen.” Dr. Rezaei also denied any nuclear ambitions on Iran’s part: “We have always said we were not pursuing an atomic bomb.” He also affirmed that Iranian officials have discussed “service costs in the Strait

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None Dare Call It Reverse Racism — or Assault

When I use the term “reverse racism,” the implication is that all racism is whites against minorities, especially against Blacks. I find that rather indicative of where we’re at as a society — blame whitey for everything. I bring this up because of a recent incident involving Caitlin Clark, a white professional basketball player, being slugged in the throat by a black player during a televised WNBA game. At the time, no foul was called on the offending player, Alyssa Thomas. Later, however, Thomas was suspended one game after a video review of her inexplicable action (inexplicable except for reverse, or Black, racism). Also, if you look up the legal definition of assault, Thomas easily qualifies. Her action was certainly not a basketball move gone awry or overboard. It appeared to be absolutely deliberate. Since entering the league in 2024, Clark has been subject to numerous similar, but perhaps not nearly as egregious, incidents. Recall how, before joining the WNBA, Clark broke the lifetime college basketball scoring record held by a man, Pete Maravich, who went on to become an NBA legend himself. Did her success spell resentment among other players? When Clark entered the WNBA — perhaps as the

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What Does ‘Separatioin of Church and State’ Mean?

The phrase, “separation of church and state,” has always been treated by liberals and their cohorts in the media as a sort of Constitutional gospel, but the phrase never appears in the U.S. Constitution. What the Constitution says in the First Amendment is that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…. ” In other words, there can be no national religion and people are free to choose whatever religion they like. The phrase about “separation of church and state” is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s third president. It does not appear in the Constitution. Instead, Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association describes the First Amendment as building a “wall of separation between Church & State.” That Jeffersonian phrase is essential to what President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission determined in finalizing its report, which was presented to Trump today. The report talks about building “bridges, not walls, between the City of God and the City of Man.” It concludes that a wall indeed has been built because of authoritarian abuse of the Jefferson-derived phrase. The report contains 12 recommendations, one

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