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The memoirs of Dr. (really?) Anthony Fauci are now taking their place alongside Mao’s Red Book as a dictator’s blueprint. Can you imagine having the power to order every business outside of government to shut down, to force people to lock themselves inside their homes 24/7, and to require the wearing of face masks even when at home with family members? Oh, and to get people arrested for taking their dog to the park for a walk? Wait, I forgot. How about wives turning in their husbands for breaking Fauci Dictates? Or the scientific community (I say with a chuckle) agreeing to suppress any thought that the Wuhan Institute of Virology might have had anything to do with the COVID-19 pandemic? “Off with their heads!” for those who dared challenge that the pandemic began with a chimpanzee that ate some forbidden fruit. Welcome to the United States of Soviet Socialist Republics circa 2020-2022.  Liberals and our Pravda media still worship at the feet of what Fauci achieved. He still worships himself as well, but man, how he misses being on TV daily. Thanks to Senator Rand Paul (R.-KY), we now have the 1,000-plus pages of notes, aka historic memoir, that

Cecilia Vega, one of the “60 Minutes” correspondents let go earlier this year, said in an interview that executives at CBS — post-Paramount takeover — asked her to insert “political bias” into the news segments she was assigned to. “I’ve gone head-to-head with editors for 25 years in this business,” Vega told an interviewer for ABC during the recent National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ annual conference in New Orleans. “But never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics.” One example came during coverage of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) shootings in Minnesota that left two Americans dead. She was told to include footage of protestors attacking ICE agents, but there was no such footage, she said. She was also asked to include comments from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey about his wanting police to combat ICE agents, but she claims she could find no evidence of such a request. CBS in general and “60 Minutes” in particular have been undergoing substantive changes since Bari Weiss took control of CBS editorial operations. Weiss was appointed by Trump ally David Ellison when Paramount, which Ellison heads, took over

The Fake News, as Donald Trump likes to call media that don’t curry favor with him, are speculating that the Iran war has severely depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, and that the U.S. has now abandoned its second offensive for that very reason. The White House insists the stoppage is due to the renewal of regional peace talks. The bombing lull comes after a Friday meeting between Trump and advisers, including Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs General Dan Caine. According to the New York Times (probably number-one on Trump’s fake parade), Trump shelved plans for a major military escalation against Iran after being warned about dwindling inventory of Patriot interceptor missiles and other air defense munitions.  When asked by the Wall Street Journal if supplies were low, Trump in typical fashion said that things were better than ever and that “we have far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need.”  According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), by the time of the April ceasefire in Iran, the U.S. had already expended at least half of its THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defenses] ballistic missile interceptors, nearly half of its

Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Donald Trump has governed with a distinctive duality. One face is that of the emperor: decisive, unapologetic in the exercise of American power, willing to smash through norms, international law, and bureaucratic inertia to deliver results that supporters hail as transformative. The other is the dunce: overconfident, prone to misjudging complexity, and capable of turning bold strokes into prolonged headaches through miscalculation or excess. From early 2025 through mid-2026, this tension has defined his second term—nowhere more vividly than in foreign military adventures, domestic immigration enforcement, and tariffs. The Emperor’s Triumph in Venezuela In the emperor mode, Trump has shown a capacity for bold, high-stakes action that achieves tangible wins. The clearest example came on January 3, 2026, with the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. After months of pressure, including strikes on alleged drug-related targets and a military buildup, U.S. special operations forces—drawing on Delta Force, the 160th SOAR, and other elite units—conducted a rapid operation that captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Trump announced the United States would “run” the country pending a transition, focusing on oil infrastructure, disrupting narco-trafficking networks, and sidelining the Maduro regime. The