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A senior Australian police officer has said the Afghan refugee responsible for Thursday’s terror attack in Melbourne “attributed his actions to perceived mistreatment of Muslims.” 32-year old Saeed Noori drove his car into a crowd of pedestrians on Thursday, injuring 18 people. Noori, who was arrested by an off-duty police officer after crashing the SUV on Flinders Street, arrived in Australia in 2004 under a refugee resettlement programme. According to Shane Patton, the Acting Chief Commissioner of Victoria State Police, Noori has a history of mental illness. It has also been reported that the refugee has a criminal past and...

I couldn’t tell you a single Taylor Swift song. I know everyone says that, but really, I couldn’t. And for a while I didn’t know which one was Taylor Swift and which one was Katy Perry. But I know now, and for the worst possible reason: politics. Perry, you will recall, ferociously backed Hillary at the last election, at the urging of her foolish management team. She isn’t now talked about for much else. As a host, she was a car crash at the VMAs, which I watched her stumble through from my ringside seat at The Forum Las Vegas....

In a few days, the pain will stop. The pain, that is, of awful and most heinous Christmas songs. I already know that I am going to Hell. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that I was going to Hell because I didn’t support Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. My friends and I are renting a party bus. We won’t be listening to Christmas Songs on the bus. They are headache inducing. Self-explanatory I hereby propose that the following Christmas songs have achieved a level of heinousness that would cause my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to shove...

Conservatives tend to regard the growing trend of single-parent families as an issue of personal responsibility, but what if the liberals who blame society are partly right? What if they can point their finger to a bill sponsored by two Republicans and signed into law by a Republican president? Prior to the 1930s, the labor force participation rate for black Americans was roughly equal to that of whites. Following passage of the first federal minimum wage in 1931, these rates started to diverge, and from the 1950s to the present, national black unemployment has remained at double the rate for...

Good Friday morning. Here is what's on the President's agenda today: In the morning, President Donald J. Trump will depart the White House for Joint Base Andrews, en route to Palm Beach, FL. I have a condensed, pre-Christmas version of the Morning Briefing for you today. Two minutes of hate:

On Wednesday, HuffPost writer Andy Ostroy attempted to virtue signal as a progressive liberal by attacking Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina as a token black man and a "manipulated prop" being used to sell the Republican's newly passed tax bill. "What a shocker... there's ONE black person there and sure enough they have him standing right next to the mic like a manipulated prop," Ostroy tweeted. "Way to go @SenatorTimScott."

More than three of every 10 prisoners held in federal jails are “known or suspected” illegal immigrants, a number that has shocked the administration into pushing harder for immigration reform. New Justice Department numbers reported that 58,766 held by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service are “known or suspected” illegals. Of that, the government has confirmed that 37,557 are in the U.S. illegally. The rest fall into the “suspected” category. Overall, there are 185,507 federal prisoners. In releasing the data, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the administration has been targeting illegals at the border and...

How did CO2 -- the elixir of life -- turn out to be the evil gas of 21st century? The special interest in CO2 began when a handful of scientists, backed by political elements, proposed their hypothesis -- one which suggested that CO2 emission from anthropogenic sources, such as coal-fired plants, is the primary reason for what they allege is a dangerous increase in earth’s temperature. Despite the lack of observational evidence, political institutions popularized this hypothesis through state-sponsored research programs. In order to sustain their claims, these climate alarmists designed climate computer models to manufacture friendly results that supported...

A federal court in New York City has dismissed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump that alleged his failure to divest from the Trump business empire violated anti-corruption provisions of the Constitution. U.S. District Judge George Daniels, a Clinton administration appointee, ruled Thursday that the case could not proceed because the plaintiffs could not prove that Trump’s actions tangibly harmed their businesses. The lawsuit was brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an anti-Trump watchdog group formerly led by Clinton ally David Brock. A number of accomplished lawyers and legal scholars participated in the effort, including Professor...

Not everyone who feuds with Donald Trump loses his job or reputation. But enough do that no prudent person would risk the humiliation. John Skipper, skipper of ESPN, was not prudent. He did not fire Jemele Hill after she called Trump a white supremacist. Skipper fired Curt Schilling after he called Obama Hitler. But not Hill.

The Washington Examiner published a lengthy piece on President Trump’s accomplishments in his first eleven months in office. It’s a lengthy Nice List, and one that much of the liberal media and the Democrats—that’s redundant, I know—refuse to discuss. So what are the Best of the Best in my oh-so-humble opinion? Well, here are my Top Six Trump’s Greatest Wins for 2017: Trump: Winning! (Photo Credit: Denver Post) ISIS: Barack Obama spent years pretend-fighting ISIS, a product of his piss-poor foreign policy. Candidate Donald Trump promised to beat the hell out of them if elected. Well, promise kept. And his...

Fox military analyst Ralph Peters hailed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Fox Business on Thursday, declaring that the former South Carolina governor "may end up our first female president." Peters praised Haley for taking a tough stance following the U.N.'s opposition to U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital but also cautioned against the U.S. making threats it's "not prepared to carry out." The U.N. in a 128–9 vote on Thursday overwhelmingly rebuked President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Thirty-five countries abstained from voting. "Is this like a game of chicken? They’re saying,...

So, the PapaJohn’s guy, John Schnatter, has been dumped. – Ok, well, that’s an over-statement, but if you listened to the initial reports on the matter from the fake news media, that’s what you would believe. Further, you’d believe Mr. Schnatter had been fired by the company he founded because he spoke out against the NFL’s failure to control its players. What in fact happened was what happens at many, many companies when a CEO reaches a certain age – he is just stepping out of the very active role of CEO, but will remain as the company’s Chairman of...

Dear members of the UN Security Council: After you decided to attempt to humiliate and insult the United States in the wake of our decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move our Embassy there by supporting a passive-aggressive resolution by Egypt stating its “regret” at the recent “decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem,” there’s only one thing left to say: Pound sand, you cowardly, worthless, corrupt, mismanaged savages! Yes, that includes the members, who are supposed to be our stalwart allies: the United Kingdom, Italy, and France, who have spent decades hiding under our nuclear NATO...

On Twitter, Sen. Rubio said it was time for a “reevaluation” of U.S. funding for the U.N. Senator Rubio’s suggestion follows comments by President Donald Trump threatening to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of the U.N. resolution condemning American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” Trump told reporters at the White House Wednesday.

On Thursday’s broadcast, Tucker Carlson unveiled some hot off the press government statistics that have previously been hidden from American citizens by the Obama Regime and perhaps prior administrations. Worse than that, we have been outright lied to in order to help Democrats import new voters. For years, we’ve been preached to by snooty liberals that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than American citizens — a claim that always sounded dubious even though they declared it from on high with such force and confidence. After all, illegal aliens started out by entering the country illegally. Well, as Tucker Carlson reported,...

As President Trump pushes forward with his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall, companies competing for the chance to work on the multi-billion-dollar project are facing mounting boycotts from local Democratic lawmakers moving to blacklist the border builders. Coordinated efforts have been launched in California, Arizona, Illinois, New York and Rhode Island that would prohibit cities and towns from doing any official business with the companies as part of a larger resistance strategy to delay construction of the controversial wall. Most recently, Berkeley’s City Council in California approved an ordinance that would ban it from contracting with companies involved in the construction....

Actress Jodie Foster says she knows who is to blame for a slew of sexual assault scandals in Hollywood since the fall of producer Harvey Weinstein: “Pretty much every man over 30.” The Hollywood star who made Clarice Starling famous in 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs” told USA Today this week that almost every man above the age of 30 bears culpability for sexual misconduct in the world. “It’s every industry,” the actress said Wednesday. “It’s not just one socioeconomic bracket or one complexion. Pretty much every man over 30 has to really look and start thinking about their...

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from a liberal watchdog organization arguing President Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution by paying foreign governments. Judge George Daniels dismissed the case on “lack of standing,” agreeing with Trump’s lawyers’ argument that the claims do not fall within the interests of the Emoluments Clause, and should be resolved through the “political process," according to the ruling. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit earlier this year claiming that because Trump has not fully divested from his businesses, he is receiving “cash and favors from...

A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee called on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation to “put up or shut up” regarding evidence of Trump campaign collusion with the Kremlin. “It’s time for Bob Mueller to put up or shut up. If there’s evidence of collusion, let’s see it,” Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said in an interview on Fox News Wednesday. “If there’s not, let’s move on as a country and let’s institute reforms at the FBI so that an egomaniac FBI director like James Comey cannot depart from the normal standard procedures that guarantees all Americans equal treatment...