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8+ min ago (351+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst President Donald Trump didn't make many new friends speaking to Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday night. Speaking to the New York Times after the speech, a tailor and seamstress said, "I'm offended that he finds the affordability crisis a hoax. He's probably never paid an electricity bill or shopped for groceries in his life." Donna Beny told the Times that the price of a zipper has more than doubled. "I don't want to, but everything is more expensive " utilities, insurance. Affordability is out of control. It's painful to go to the grocery store. I could stop eating, I suppose." Trump told his audience, "I have no higher priority than making America affordable again," But then he alleged…...

21+ min ago (493+ words) A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. Does this "tradition," which took shape nearly a century after "We the People" ratified the First Amendment, tell us something about what the government is and is not permitted to do "respecting an establishment of religion" or "the free exercise thereof"? The court has said no, and for good reason. What role should such traditions play in Second Amendment litigation? The anatomy of a "history and tradition" test A "history and tradition" test has two elements: history and tradition. Both elements refer to the past, but if each word has a job to do " something we usually assume in the law " then they must refer to two different parts of the past. My colleague Sherif Girgis has described these two ways of using…...

23+ min ago (343+ words) Musk appeared on "The Katie Miller Podcast," hosted by the wife of President Donald Trump's top aide, Stephen Miller, where the two discussed immigration trends. While on the topic, Musk suggested that immigrants were becoming increasingly influential in election results, and warned that it could soon turn the United States into a "communist hell." "Let's look at Rep. Illhan Omar (D-MN), who was literally " was voted into power, voted into Congress by" you know" a large group of people from Somalia who are in Minnesota, which is really far from Somalia," Musk said. "Or [New York City Mayor-elect Zohran] Mamdani, who was voted as " to be mayor by a majority of people who are not, um, born in America. That's my understanding, at least." Musk's similar suggestion regarding Mamdani was equally at odds with demographic data. Immigrants currently make up…...

29+ min ago (258+ words) And boom" front tire just goes right onto the car that's right in front of us. It was so scary." " Mike Hanson (@MikeWESH_2) December 9, 2025 Shocking viral video shows the moment on Monday that a plane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway " landing on a car " after the pilot reported engine trouble. Jim Coffey and his son Peter Coffey were traveling along I-95 at about 5:45 p.m. and recorded the small multi-engine Beechcraft 55 flying overhead before dropping on a Toyota Camry in front of them. The impact crushed the sedan against the median and scattered wreckage across the southbound lanes, forcing troopers to seal off the interstate as emergency crews arrived. The Florida Highway Patrol confirmed the Camry's driver, a 57-year-old woman," was taken to Viera Hospital with minor injuries." The pilot and their 27-year-old passenger walked away unhurt" and declined transport to…...

35+ min ago (394+ words) The "iron grip" Donald Trump had on the Republican party is starting to slip when he needs their backing most, a political commentator has claimed. Niall Stanage, writing in The Hill, suggested the president needs to keep a firmer grip on his power base after fielding a series of economic and healthcare woes during his second term. Though Trump has avoided the "rapid seeping away of power" usually found at the start of a second term, it's borrowed time for the president, according to Stanage. He wrote, "The 47th president has so far avoided the rapid seeping away of power that often occurs even in the early days of a second term. He retains the avid support of a solid base, even as he draws just as much horror as ever from liberals." "But above all, the sense is solidifying that…...

36+ min ago (266+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to deliver remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst The numbers show that more than one-third of people (37 percent) are starting to make cuts in their spending on recreation. Nearly half (46 percent) say that they couldn't pay for a vacation if it involved air travel. Speaking to Politico on Monday, Trump gave himself an "A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus" grade on the economy." In his Pennsylvania speech, he called the affordability crisis an outright "hoax" and said high costs were "coming down." He then blamed the crisis on former President Joe Biden and told Americans they should buy fewer toys for their children during the holidays. "You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter," Trump said. "Two or three is nice, but you don't need…...

39+ min ago (415+ words) Here at the Freakshow, we have observed that real life characters in Trumpland veer between the genres of Mario Puzo and Carl Hiaasen. There's the New York mob boss dining out on fear and blackmail, and then there's the Sunshine State Mar-a-Lago-faced greed-doomed, Ponzi scheming, why-read-a-book-when-you-can-golf protagonist. Often, and in the case of one man certainly, they are both. In her recent chat with Todd Blanche, Epstein's procuress Ghislaine Maxwell claimed Rothstein's firm demanded $10 million from her then-boyfriend billionaire businessman Ted Waite to protect her from litigation. "And that is the reason Ted and I broke up, was the basis of that," she said, according to the transcript. If Rothstein was blackmailing Ghislaine's billionaire boyfriend, is it possible he was shaking down other recipients of Edwards' deposition subpoenas? Like a certain New York businessman? At some point Rothstein took the…...

50+ min ago (358+ words) A Texas candidate for state railroad commissioner sparked fury online after fundraising for her campaign as a Democrat " then filing to run as a Republican. Katherine Culbert, a process safety engineer who has worked on oil and gas projects, would be co-running the agency that regulates energy across the Lone Star State, which most importantly involves the fossil fuels industry. Culbert previously ran for the Railroad Commission as a Democrat in 2024, losing to Republican Christi Craddick. As of just days ago, she fundraised for her new 2026 campaign through ActBlue, a fundraising platform for Democratic candidates. And according to Michelle Davis of the Lone Star Left Substack, Culbert reached out to Davis to promote her campaign through her list of Democratic campaigns. At the last minute, however, Culbert proclaimed on X that she has filed to run for the other team....

52+ min ago (386+ words) President Donald Trump stopped to bask when fans at his rally began screaming things like "You saved us!" and "I love you President Trump!" Trump has been'fighting a battle'over "affordability" since the Election Day bloodbath, insisting concerns over prices'are a "con job," and repeatedly claiming he's already solved the issue. After a raft of new polls showed Trump getting clobbered on the economy, he decided to take to the road to spread his message. His first stop was beautiful Mount Airy Casino Resort on Tuesday night, where he spoke for over 90 minutes to a raucous crowd. The president began the speech by wishing the crowd a "Merry Christmas" before launching into a riff on how he saved the phrase and the country. But Trump stopped in his tracks to show his appreciation when a woman screamed, "You saved us!" and…...

55+ min ago (401+ words) Glenn Beck may have moved to Florida to live amongst a sea of other Glenn Becks, but that doesn't mean he has retired. Oh, no. He's still hosting his show over at The Blaze, and has even started a new venture called The Torch. Does this involve Glenn Beck donning a sequin gown and belting out "The Man That Got Away" or "Stormy Weather"? Sadly, no. Rather it will be "the creation of an online library that will provide users with an artificial intelligence resource to navigate his vast collection of historical artifacts." Beck claims to have the world's largest private collection of American founding documents in the world, and plans to use these documents to fuel AI versions of the Founding Fathers, including George Washington, with whom he conducted a totally unscripted interview this past weekend. I think my…...