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Today's News, April 29-30, 2025
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IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Trump has ordered investigations into more of the "resistance" glumbugglers.
2) Wait, they think this is a win? A WI judge says she won't "hold court" after the arrest of her colleague. Sounds good to me. The fewer iguana-loving poodlesniffers in black robes, the better.
3) A new Rasmussen poll shows that a whopping 71% of Americans believe polls are rigged to produce a partisan result.
4) My Brit counterpart, Niall Ferguson, states that "Donald Trump is Crushing his To-Do List."
5) Foreign funding for universities exploded under the brainless Rutabaga, as he allowed enemies to infiltrate all our educational facilities.
6) Daniel Street reviews some of Team Trump's recent (quiet) court victories.
7) US prosecutor Ed Martin has sent letters to two medical journals upbraiding them for ADMITTED bias in articles.
8) The Peace Corps, which as I detailed in my book, A Patriot's History of the Modern World, vol. II, the Peace Corps was largely staffed by utterly incompetent college kids who did not speak the local language, knew no local customs and had no usable skills. Now DOGE has turned its guns on the organization, which will undergo "significant cuts." Let's hope it goes the way of USAID and is cut out of existence..
9) As "Coffee and Covid" points out, the administration has also nixed the "National Climate Assessment," a useless green/globalwarming grift. As Jeff Childers notes, this is all from ONE DAY's worth of news. The BBC summarized Trump's first 100 days here, and almost certainly has understated the scope of the change.
10) Ruh Roh. The T
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