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Sunday, July 5, 2026
Paul Pelosi in Napa Hit-and-Run, Car Heavily Damaged
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's husband was involved in a hit and run on Friday in California's wine country that left one car with "major damage," according to local authorities, who said that the 86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges for the collision. Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible in Yountville, a small town in the heart of wine country in Napa County, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then drove away, Napa County Sheriff's department said in a news release on Saturday. There were no reported injuries. A witness saw the collision and called 911. Shortly after, sheriff's deputies then found Paul Pelosi with severe damage to the front of his car on a nearby road roughly one quarter of a mile away. The octogenarian told officers that he knew he hit something but wasn't sure when or what caused the damage to his car. Paul Pelosi didn't have any alcohol in his system at the time of the crash, according to the statement. The sheriff's department referred Paul Pelosi to the California Department of Motor Vehicles to initiate a process that will determine whether he is able to continue driving — a process that officials say is "common" for elderly drivers. He wasn’t arrested, and because no one was physically injured, the sheriff's department is recommending a misdemeanor that charges Paul Pelosi with fleeing the scene of an accident. A staffer for Congresswoman Pelosi didn't respond to an emailed request for comment on Saturday afternoon. Paul Pelosi pleaded guilty in 2022 to misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence in Napa County. He was sentenced to five days in jail and three years of probation — though he only served two days in jail and received good conduct credit for two other days, leaving just one day to serve in a work program at the local courthouse. As part of his probation, Paul Pelosi he was also required to attend a three-month drinking driver class, and install an ignition interlock device, where the driver has to provide a breath sample to prove sobriety before the engine will start. He was also ordered to pay about $5,000 in victim restitution for medical bills and lost wages and nearly $2,000 in fines. Shortly after that crash, Paul Pelosi was attacked and severely beaten with a hammer at the couple's San Francisco home in late 2022. |
Mr. Irrelevant: Bitter Newsom Tries to Rain on Nation's Birthday, Quickly Flattened by His Own Troubles
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It felt like former President Joe Biden’s famous “Red Speech” circa September 2022, when he told a Philadelphia crowd that “equality and democracy are under assault” and that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” The stage was bathed in dramatic, dark-red hues reminiscent of fascist regimes. Like, say, the Nazis. As I wrote at the time, it was a “foaming, vitriolic, vengeful speech that seemed designed to pull our nation further apart and inflame the more than 73 million Americans who voted for his opponent in the last election.” REMEMBER: Biden Delivers One of the Most Divisive, Hate-Filled Speeches in the History of Our Presidency How Bad Was Biden’s Oppressive Stage Presence? CNN Altered the Video Feed to Soften the Dire Visuals California’s failed governor Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, picked a very special day to deliver his own spiteful, malignant view of America — the nation’s 250th birthday. His eight-minute July 4 speech on Saturday didn’t mention the widespread decline seen under his watch, nor the suffering his “progressive” policies have brought to the citizens of the Golden State (many of whom are leaving). No, it was all about Trump, and how much he hates the man, even though the president is not responsible for the slow, agonizing death of California that has occurred under one-party Democratic rule: Instead of taking a day off from his endless grievance and hate politics, he thought this would be a good way to celebrate a historical milestone for our country and our people:
There are just a couple of problems with his diatribe: Trump has been cleaning up D.C. and is making it safe again, stopping the tsunami of Biden-era illegal immigration, and showing that we actually can have nice things if we simply do things right. That’s directly in the face of the Democrat narrative that Newsom ascribes to, which is that decline is natural and good, and we should just let it happen. The other problem that Gov. Hair Product has? His own house doesn’t appear to be so clean: RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reports: Whoa: A Sacramento Insider Wore a Wire in Dana Williamson/Gavin Newsom Probe What a putrid display, Governor. In my opinion, spoiled brat antics like this are one reason you’ll be flattened in the presidential run you’ve been planning for years instead of presiding over California and making life better here. As a resident of our once proud paradise of a state, I fervently pray that I’m right. I’ve seen the devastation the progressive movement can wreak, and if he gets to the Oval Office, our 250-year-old experiment will be in serious peril. Let’s make sure we don’t let that happen, America. |
Elon Decimates Mamdani's America 250 Speech With 1 Simple Fact - Then DeSantis Drops In From Top Rope
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's speech for our nation's 250th birthday has gotten a lot of well-deserved criticism. It was pretty awful on the whole. But there was one particular part on Friday that got a lot of attention, in which he lambasted America, attacked Elon Musk, and demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). READ MORE: On America's 250th - The Peril at Our Gate Mamdani's Anti-American Meltdown: Oligarchs, ICE, and 'Supremacy' on America 250 The swipe against Musk was particularly nasty, saying children go hungry while the world's first trillionaire (Musk) "hungers for more." In that you can see the evil of the radical left - to demonize the people who are actually achieving and whipping up envy and class warfare. But Elon Musk responded, decimating Mamdani with one simple fact. "Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker," Musk declared. Bingo. Mamdani is basically a nepo baby who had wealthy parents and went to an expensive private school, whose work history could be described as "light," at best. He worked briefly as a "foreclosure counselor" for an advocacy organization whose purpose was "organizing and advocating for systemic changes." Oh, and he was a "rapper" before he went into politics. It's sort of laughable for Mamdani to talk about "calloused hands," given his work history. But it's symptomatic of the champagne socialists we've seen. Mamdani isn't even worthy of mentioning Musk's name, given all that Musk has achieved with all of his companies. He creates wealth, employs more than 160,000 employees, and contributes things no one else can, such as with SpaceX and Neuralink. His real "crime"? He supports President Donald Trump. Notice you don't hear any of these leftists coming for Reid Hoffman or George Soros, the guys who contribute to Democrats. That's the real problem here. The Democrats think they have the right to seize money from Musk because how dare he be so rich? Regardless of whether they are, themselves, rich. But Elon wasn't the only one who found some problems with what Mamdani said. So did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). He laid a big smackdown on Mamdani for being "regressive. "When I see the Mamdanis of the world, they're basically offering these ideas, they claim they're progressive. They're really regressive. They are things that the founding fathers rejected," DeSantis declared, talking about how rights come from God and how these ideas fly in the face of the principles of limited government on which our country was founded. The governor added:
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Obamacare's Fraud Bill Just Came Due
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Nancy Pelosi told us in 2010 that we'd have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Sixteen years later, we're still finding out, and the answer keeps getting worse. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced this month that more than 1 million people enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace plans have no Social Security number on file. Kennedy called it a "glaring warning sign for fraud." He's not wrong. But he's also not telling the whole story, and neither is anyone shouting past him on cable news. I spend my working life underwriting risk: private credit, factoring, litigation finance, the kind of lending where you learn fast that an unverified identity is the first flag, not the last. In my world, a portfolio built on a million unverifiable counterparties gets shut down before lunch. In Washington, it got expanded for five years and called a policy win. Here's the shape of it. HHS says it has already pulled 2.9 million improper enrollments off the rolls, with another 2.6 million still under review, down from a peak of 5.6 million phantom, improper, and fraudulent enrollees in 2025. That's real progress, and credit belongs where it's due. But the honest caveat matters, too: a missing Social Security number isn't proof of fraud on its own. Some enrollees are lawfully present immigrants who qualify under other documentation. HHS itself hasn't said all 1 million cases are fraudulent, a distinction the "massive fraud" headlines tend to skip. Where the picture turns from suspicious to damning is the Government Accountability Office's own testing. GAO built twenty fictitious identities, fake people who don't exist, and submitted them for subsidized coverage. All four of its 2024 test applicants got approved, drawing roughly $2,350 a month in advance premium tax credits. Of twenty submitted for 2025, eighteen were still actively enrolled as of last September, pulling down more than $10,000 a month combined. GAO called the results "generally consistent" with the identical test it ran a decade earlier. A decade of warnings, and the marketplace still can't tell a real person from a Social Security number typed into a form. Then there's the reconciliation gap, which is where the real money sits. Every enrollee who draws an advance premium tax credit is supposed to file a tax return reconciling the subsidy against actual income. GAO couldn't find evidence that happened for more than $21 billion in credits tied to 2023 alone, roughly a third of everything paid to identifiable Social Security numbers that year. One number was used across more than 125 policies for a combined 71 years of coverage. Another 58,000 numbers matched Social Security's own death records, with $94 million sent out on behalf of people who were already gone. CMS didn't enforce reconciliation at all from 2021 through 2024. None of this happened by accident. The American Rescue Plan's zero-premium plans handed brokers a commission for every enrollee they could stack onto the rolls, whether that person consented or even knew about it. CMS logged 275,000 complaints in eight months from Americans who discovered they'd been signed up without asking. A brokerage president and a marketing executive were just convicted in a $233 million enrollment fraud scheme, with insurers collecting $180 million in taxpayer-funded subsidies along the way. That's not a fringe case. That's the incentive structure working exactly as designed. I'll grant the other side its strongest point, because a fair fight requires it: undocumented immigrants are not the driver of health care's cost problem. The most credible estimates put their share of total U.S. health spending at a percent or two, nowhere near the sum Washington now spends propping up a subsidy system too porous to verify who's cashing the check. If Congress wants to extend the enhanced subsidies set to lapse at year's end, fine. That's a legitimate debate to have. But extending a program without fixing the verification holes GAO just spent a year documenting isn't compassion. It's negligence with better branding. Tort reform, pharmacy middleman transparency, tighter eligibility enforcement: none of it is a silver bullet, and I won't pretend otherwise. Liability reforms in the states that have tried them trimmed premiums by a few points, not by half. But every one of those reforms shares a common thread with fixing the ACA's fraud problem. Washington must acknowledge that the current system fails to deliver, something neither this administration nor the previous one has been willing to do. Fraud in a $124 billion-a-year program isn't a rounding error. It's the bill coming due for a decade of pass-it-first, ask-questions-later governance. Kennedy and Oz are finally asking the questions. The rest of Washington should stop pretending the answers don't matter. Jay Rogers is a financial professional with more than 30 years of experience in private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and wealth management. He has a BS in criminal justice from Northeastern University and has completed postgraduate studies at UCLA, UPenn, and Harvard. He writes about issues in finance, constitutional law, national security, human nature, and public policy. |
Ellison's Independence Day Video Sparks Backlash Amid Pardon Scandal
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison released a video about America’s 250th birthday in which he encourages America to import foreigners and naturalize them. "Every time this country faced a moment of crisis, every time we had to decide who we really are, the best of us chose to expand the circle," Ellison said. "To bring more people in. To make that promise of freedom and justice real for more Americans." On June 10, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Ellison, and one other person pardoned an illegal alien and child rapist so that he could fight deportation. Minnesota’s Board of Pardons includes the governor, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the attorney general. “They want to take back the rights of the people born here," Ellison said. "They want to take back the rights of the people who came here.”
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, slamming Europe for importing what he called "Third World criminals." Trump's administration has focused on deporting illegal aliens and stopping illegal immigration at America's borders. — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 4, 2026 — Liz Collin (@lizcollin) July 2, 2026
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| French sailing training ship Belle Poule sails past the Statue of
Liberty during the Sail 4th 250 Parade of Ships in New York Harbor in
New York, on July 4, 2026. A fleet of tall ships from around the world joined together near the shores of New York and New Jersey for the biggest Fourth of July celebration in New York City history, marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. On Saturday, millions drew to the Hudson River and the Port of New York and New Jersey to witness the largest ever international flotilla for Sail4th 250. The celebration included vessels from several nations, such as:
20 foreign nations were represented among tall ships and 44 nations were represented in the New York Harbor. Countries including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Monaco, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom were represented. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Eagle, which was acquired as a war reparation from Nazi Germany and has been sailed by every Coast Guard Academy cadet, led the parade of ships. The Eagle carried a historical print copy of the Declaration of Independence, according to the Sail4th 250 Facebook page. Vessels from the U.S. Navy fleet were also anchored in the Hudson River for a Naval Review, including:
Vice President JD Vance participated in the Naval Review, even personally swearing in new Navy Sailors aboard the USS Kearsarge in the Hudson. Before the main parade, an aircraft parade flew in formations, trailing red, white and blue over the river and the Verrazano Bridge.
Sherrill said the inclusion of the international vessels has a deep meaning to the U.S.
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Doug Collins Fights for Vets, Demands Accountability at VA
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Watching a man like Secretary Doug Collins speak about the meaning of freedom and the legacy of our nation’s heroes ought to remind every American why this country endures. There are no happy Fourth of July parades, no birthday candles on America’s cake, and no thriving hometowns without the sacrifices of the men and women who wore the uniform. If the media and the left won’t recognize that simple truth, then patriots must shout it louder and hold leaders to account until the job is done. Doug Collins didn’t get where he is by accident — the Senate confirmed him to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs
in early February 2025, and he comes to the job as a fellow veteran and public servant determined to deliver results. His background as a former congressman and military chaplain gives him the credibility to speak for veterans and to press the bureaucracy for change. The country needs leaders in office who put veterans before ideology and Collins ran on exactly that promise. What Collins has made clear is that rhetoric must be matched by action: cutting the claims backlog, improving access to care, and streamlining red tape are not partisan talking points but moral imperatives. He’s repeated that the VA must be a service organization first, moving decisively to streamline disability claims and strengthen outreach to veterans at risk of homelessness and suicide. That kind of practical focus — not virtue signaling — is what will actually change lives for the better. The recent numbers show the problem remains serious but fixable, and they also vindicate the push for reform and accountability. After years of unacceptably long waits, the VA has reported meaningful reductions in the pending-claims backlog and faster processing times thanks to focused efforts across the agency; those improvements prove that with leadership and urgency, bureaucracy can be beaten. Veterans deserve faster decisions and cleaner, more transparent systems; anything less is a betrayal of service. If conservatives truly honor our veterans, we must back commonsense reforms with muscle: fund what works, demand transparency where it doesn’t, and reject any move to politicize care or use veterans’ issues as bargaining chips. The Department of Veterans Affairs runs a massive mission — medical centers, cemeteries, benefits — and it deserves leaders who will manage that mission with fiscal prudence and iron resolve, not ideological experiments. Americans on both sides of the aisle should unite behind getting veterans the timely care and benefits they earn. So here is the plain truth: we can celebrate our nation and sing our anthems, but if we forget the veterans who paid the price for those freedoms, our celebrations become hollow. Secretary Collins has signaled he will put boots on the ground to fight the bureaucracy; patriots must stay vigilant and press Congress and the VA until every veteran gets the dignity and care they deserve. For hardworking Americans and for those who answered the call, there should be no rest until the VA serves with excellence, honor, and gratitude. |
Pastor Manning's Bold Sermon Challenges Black Community to Face Hard Truths
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A viral sermon from Pastor David James Manning has lit up conservative feeds after he delivered an unflinching critique of what he called “black fatigue,” a blunt sermon that has drawn attention for its sharp condemnation of cultural decay and civic failures within parts of the black community. The clip, reposted widely across alternative platforms, shows Manning accusing community leaders of failing their people and urging a return to faith and responsibility, comments that have sparked debate online. In the footage Manning argues that patterns like fatherlessness, lawlessness, and cultural self-defeat have hollowed out neighborhoods and left ordinary families to pay the price, insisting congregations must confront uncomfortable truths before progress can happen. He skewers political and cultural elites who he says excuse destructive behavior and refuses to let victimhood be the final word for his listeners. Those direct lines of criticism — however uncomfortable to hear — reflect a broader frustration many Americans feel about endemic crime and failing institutions. Conservatives should welcome a pastor willing to tell his flock the hard truth instead of soothing them with empty promises from the same people whose policies delivered worsening outcomes. Accountability, personal responsibility, and faith-driven community renewal are conservative pillars that actually rebuild lives, not government dependency programs that paper over the rot. When leaders inside a community demand better of their own people, that honesty deserves amplification rather than automatic censure. The larger lesson here is political as well as moral: decades of left-wing social engineering and soft-on-crime policies have too often incentivized dysfunction and punished stable families and small businesses. Cities run by the wrong priorities have been hollowed out, and ordinary citizens are the ones who lose their safety and opportunity; the viral sermon simply puts language to what many see every day in their neighborhoods. What conservatives must do is pair that truth-telling with real solutions — restore law and order, strengthen marriage and fatherhood through community institutions, expand school choice so parents can protect their children, and empower faith-based organizations that actually rehabilitate men and women. These are practical, time-tested prescriptions that rebuild dignity and create the conditions for prosperity where government programs have failed. If the media won’t cover honest conversations about recovery and responsibility, the conservative movement must. Amplify leaders who preach values over victimhood, demand accountability from public officials who prioritize ideology over results, and keep pushing policies that restore neighborhoods and reward work. Pastor Manning’s sermon is a crude instrument and a blunt message, but the core challenge he lays down is serious: revival begins with truth and ends with action. |
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