Joe Biden not only reinstated funding to UNRWA, he increased it as soon as he took office. Donald Trump will cut it off again, when he becomes president. TOI UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, continues to promote hateful content glorifying terrorism and demonizing Israel from its school curriculum. The report, […]

Rumor has it that if Mike Rogers is chosen to lead the FBI, we will end up with something as bad as or worse than Christopher Wray. He was an avid supporter of Jim Comey over Donald Trump and was willing to work with Democrats to keep Kevin McCarthy in the Speakership. Assassinating Edward Snowden […] The post Satan Was Busy So Mike Rogers Came Up as a Possible FBI Chief appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Rod Stewart first hit it big as a solo artist in 1971 with the incomparable Maggie May. That started a career spanning more than 50 years and millions of albums sold. He’s toured the world and entertained crowds of dedicated fans who love his signature raspy voice. A Rod Stewart show is like no other concert event. He sings, he dances, and he kicks a soccer ball or two. Rod always lets his fans know just how much they mean to him and puts on one heck of a show. Sir Rod Stewart announced his One More Time Tour as the last of its kind. After the tour wraps on August 15, 2025, in St. Louis, he’s finished. However, Rod Stewart won’t retire. He is just going to slow things down a bit. After all, there’s no one quite like him, and he knows it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sir Rod Stewart (@sirrodstewart) Rod Stewart Has No Desire To Retire Even though the tour’s touted as a farewell, Rod’s not going anywhere. He shared on Instagram this will be the last big tour, but he’s not retiring. “I’m fit, have a full head of hair, and can run 100 meters in 18 seconds at the jolly old age of 79,” he shared on Instagram. Rod added that he might change things up and play smaller venues for more intimate crowds. “But then again, I may not…” He signed his note, “The Ambiguous Sir Rod Stewart.” Fans don’t want to see Rod Stewart retire and fully support his plan. Like this person who wrote, “Love you always I love your music forever and ever . You are the rock legend, the best. If you love what you do, don’t stop doing it.” Rod, we can’t wait to see you one more time. But whatever road you choose, we’re right behind you win or lose. This story’s featured image is by Geoffrey Clowes via Shutterstock. The post Rod Stewart Announced His Farewell Tour—But It Doesn’t Mean What We Think appeared first on InspireMore.

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The Heritage Foundation and its independent partner, Heritage Action for America, on Thursday launched what they describe as a $1 million campaign aimed at expediting Senate confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet appointments.   The campaign will officially start in the middle of January 2025 and will continue for the entirety of the Senate confirmation process.  The campaign will be twofold, according to a Heritage press release. First, the Heritage Foundation will focus on educating Americans on the importance and history of presidential authority on Cabinet appointments.   In the statement, Steve Bradbury, a distinguished fellow at Heritage and a former general counsel to the U.S. Department of Transportation in the first Trump administration, said the Senate’s “advice-and-consent” function should not “obstruct the president’s ability to put qualified appointees in place.”  “We’ll publish policy papers, give interviews, go on TV, etc., to explain how the constitutional process was designed to work, how it’s gotten abused, and how President Trump can work with Senate leadership to expedite the appointments of his Cabinet nominees and sub-Cabinet appointees,” Bradbury told The Daily Signal in an email.  Heritage Action will seek to fulfill the second part of the campaign—targeting the home states of senators who are on the fence about some of Trump’s Cabinet picks and whose votes could be the determining factor in the Senate confirmation process. Those states include Alaska, Maine, and South Dakota. Alaska and Maine are the home states of two moderate Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, respectively, while South Dakota is home to the new Senate Majority Leader-to-be John Thune.  The campaign’s ultimate aim is to get Trump’s Cabinet nominees confirmed by the Senate and to build unity among Republicans to vote to confirm them, according to Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker.  “We’ll run digital ads,” Walker told The Daily Signal. “We’ll do a text-message campaign. We will target the Capitol building with all this content. We will do ‘patch-through calls’ to Congress, from grassroots like our Sentinels, to encourage them to vote ‘yes.’ But it’ll be a friendly pressure campaign to get these folks unified in support of these nominees.”   Walker added it’s important to note historical precedent in understanding the campaign. “In the first four years of the Trump administration [2017-2021], his nominees were under intense scrutiny, and the Senate failed to confirm them in a timely manner, so a lot of his nominees sat waiting for the Senate to take action, and government positions weren’t filled,” Walker told The Daily Signal.   The president of Heritage and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts, said the American people gave Trump a mandate to take down the deep state.  (Gwengoat/iStock via Getty Images) “If [Trump] succeeds, it will cement his legacy as the president who confronted Washington’s unaccountable bureaucracy and restored power to the people,” Roberts said in the press release. “His Cabinet choices reflect a commitment to this mission, and now is the time for every conservative to quickly unite behind his nominees and get to work saving this great republic.”    Republicans should unite in support of Trump’s nominees and confirm them as quickly as possible, Walker said. “We want to get these people into place, into their seats, so they can start implementing the agenda,” he explained. “We [at Heritage Action] want to be flexible in our engagement, and we want to continue this effort through the entirety. We want to be helpful to the Trump administration on getting these nominees confirmed. So, however long that takes, we will be there to support them.”  The post Heritage Launches $1 Million Campaign to Expedite Senate Confirmation of Trump’s Cabinet Picks    appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A nonprofit drafted a plan to prosecute backers of Donald Trump under Arizona law nearly a year before the state’s Democrat attorney general secured 18 indictments related to Trump’s 2020 campaign. One of the nonprofit’s founders is a former Obama White House staffer who authored books targeting Trump. The organization, the States United Democracy Center, provided a 47-page memo to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on July 25, 2023.  The memo outlined the potential criminal case against Trump associates and made repeated references to “Trump himself” as part of what it called a criminal “false electors scheme.” Mayes recently said that her prosecution of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward—all among 18 Trump associates indicated—would continue despite Trump’s election to a second term.  Recommendations and Results The July 2023 memo from the States United Democracy Center called for bringing criminal charges under Arizona law for forgery, tampering with public records, criminal impersonation, presentation of a false instrument for filing, fraudulent schemes and practices, and conspiracy.  Arizona False Electors Scheme MemoDownload The grand jury indictment this past April included six counts of forgery; two counts of fraudulent schemes and practices; and one count of conspiracy. Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator. The organization’s memo singled out individuals as targets of prosecution, including Ward as well as Republican activists who were among an alternate slate of Trump electors that signed certificates in case Arizona’s election result was overturned. Most, but not all, were indicted in April. But the 2023 memo went on to note “others,” including Trump and then-Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. “As established in Section II of this memo, Trump campaign staff and advisers drove the scheme and propelled it forward in the key states, including Arizona,” the memo says. “Trump himself sought and obtained Ronna McDaniel’s help in furtherance of the scheme.” The center’s memo called for more investigation of the “actions, intent, and knowledge” of Trump and others.  The memo also stressed to Mayes, Arizona’s attorney general, that the 2020 case was not too old to prosecute.  “Statutes of limitations will not provide a barrier to prosecution, so long as the prosecution is brought within the next four years,” the memo says. “Generally, for crimes classified as class 2 through class 6 felonies, the statute of limitations is seven years. … In any event, the relevant statutes of limitations will not bar a timely prosecution. Nor should concerns about timing—given that several years have elapsed since the scheme—preclude prosecution now. Thorough investigations of complex cases take time.” Arizona’s previous attorney general was a Republican, and the memo notes: “In addition, the voters of the state of Arizona elected a new attorney general [Mayes] who took office in January 2023. Under these facts, the investigation has been diligent, without undue delay.” Before issuing its memo, the center enthusiastically posted on the social media platform X about Mayes’ plans to “ramping up” the investigation of the 2020 election in Arizona.  In August, the organization posted about one of the indicted Trump supporters who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.  What Is States United Democracy Center? The States United Democracy Center was established in 2020 and initially called the Voter Protection Program, according to the Capital Research Center, a Washington-based investigative think tank that monitors nonprofits.  The group was established in anticipation that Trump would lose the 2020 election and challenge the outcome.  One co-founder is Obama White House ethics counsel Norman Eisen, who Obama later appointed as ambassador to the Czech Republic. Eisen was special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the first Trump impeachment in 2019 over Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president.  A Washington Post column said Eisen was a “critical force in building the case for impeachment” in the House. Trump eventually was acquitted in the Senate.  Eisen wrote three anti-Trump books: “A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump” published in July 2020; “Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy” in 2022; and “Trying Trump: A Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial” in 2024.  Eisen is now a senior adviser for the States United Democracy Center.  In fiscal year 2022, the Hopewell Fund, a nonprofit with services managed by the liberal philanthropy consulting firm Arabella Advisors, provided $1.6 million to the States United Democracy Center, according to Cause IQ, a database of nonprofit groups, as well as the Hopewell Fund’s 990 form.  Nonprofit organizations in the Arabella Advisors networks have been among the largest donors to left-leaning causes in recent years.  The Hopewell Fund was not the original source of funding to States United for Democracy Center. The Hopewell Fund previously served as the center’s fiscal sponsor while it was waiting for tax-exempt status. The fund also facilitated charitable contributions to the center as part of that administrative role. ‘Cabal of Powerful People’ When States United was known as the Voter Protection Program, the organization was mentioned in a Time magazine article as part of “a shadow campaign” in 2020. The magazine said it was part of a larger “cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.” Time’s article quoted Eisen as saying: “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation.”  Other co-founders of the center are former Massachusetts Chief Deputy Attorney General Joanna Lydgate, now CEO of the group, and former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during President George W. Bush’s first term. Whitman is now on the group’s bipartisan advisory board.   The organization stresses its work has never been about partisanship, but is about the rule of law and free, fair, secure elections. Its advisory board includes Republicans such as Whitman; former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who challenged Trump for the 2020 GOP presidential nomination; two former George W. Bush administration homeland security secretaries, Michael Chertoff and Tom Ridge (also a former Pennsylvania governor); former U.S. Rep. Tom Coleman, R-Mo; and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. States United has noted that it has filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of former Califronia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, as well as Weld, Whitman, and former Justice Department officials who are Republicans. Richie Taylor, spokesperson for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, told The Daily Signal that the office doesn’t comment on ongoing investigations.   States United Democracy Center didn’t comment specifically about the memo for this report.  The Hopewell Fund did not comment for the record. Arabella Advisors did not respond to inquiries. The post EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Indictments of Trump Supporters Mirror Nonprofit’s Suggestions appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The hosts of "The View" derided Joe Rogan as just a guy "who believes in dragons" while furiously decrying his audience on Thursday, and he responded hilariously. Joy Behar cited Rogan's incredibly successful podcast as an example of an unreliable news outlet that has led to the balkanization of Americans. 'So, this is the type of really, really bad information going out there.' "I think that's why people like our show because they know that we are checked by ABC News," said Joy Behar. “We went from Walter Cronkite, basically, to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons! I checked it!" "He believes in dragons?" asked Sunny Hostin. "He believes in dragons! And he also thinks that they, dragons, I guess like dinosaur-type of animals, roamed the earth when people did! So, this is the type of really, really bad information going out there," she added. Prior to her comments, Sara Haines opined that part of the problem was misinformation spread by foreign countries aiming at causing chaos in the free elections of the U.S. "People want us divided, and they aren't just here in this country. There are foreign adversaries who are infiltrating our social media because it is prudent for us to stay that way," said Haines. "So when you see something that really pisses you off [on social media], you should triple-check that one!" Rogan responded to the intended insult by changing his profile to add, "Dragon believer." "That’s my new official X description," he wrote on social media. Rogan has 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 16.4 million followers on YouTube. "The View" meanwhile garners about 2.6 million total viewers. Video of the comments were widely circulated on social media: Joy Behar is very upset about Joe Rogan: “We went from Walter Cronkite to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons! He thinks dragons roamed the earth when people did! This is really bad information going out there.” pic.twitter.com/iFi0pVs7gX— TheBlaze (@theblaze) November 21, 2024 Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Tom Homan, tapped as President-elect Donald Trump's border czar, suggested taking a hardline approach with Mexico to stop the wave of immigrant caravans racing toward the United States border ahead of Inauguration Day.During a Wednesday interview on Fox News' "Ingraham Angle," Homan was asked about a 1,500-strong immigrant caravan headed toward the country.'Let me give you a word of advice: If you impede us, there's going to be consequences.'Homan stated, "I think President Trump needs to make a phone call down there and tell them they are going to stop that caravan, or they're going to have consequences."During a rally earlier this month, Trump said that he would tell Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo "on day one or sooner" to help the U.S. stop the mass immigration crisis spilling over the border or he would impose a 25% tariff."If that doesn't work," Trump said, "I'll make it 50%; if that doesn't work, I'll make it 75%. Then I'll make it 100%."One of the many immigrant caravans that have taken off from southern Mexico shrunk in size after Trump secured the presidential victory, with some foreign nationals believing it would be substantially more difficult to enter and remain in the U.S. after President Joe Biden leaves office. Nevertheless, other groups of immigrants are continuing their journey, hoping to slip into the country ahead of Inauguration Day.Several leaders in sanctuary jurisdictions across the U.S., including in Los Angeles, Denver, and Boston, have pledged to protect illegal aliens in their communities from Trump's mass deportation efforts.Homan had a message for those city officials. "Those people who say they're going to stop us from what we're doing, they will not," he told Fox News. "Let me give you a word of advice: If you impede us, there's going to be consequences.""It is a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien," Homan warned. "For any governor or mayor who doesn't want public safety threats taken out of their communities, you should resign your office because your number one responsibility is [to] protect those communities," he added.Trump's border czar was also asked about the more than 1,400 acres of land along the southern Texas border that was offered to the incoming administration to facilitate the mass removals. Earlier this week, Dawn Buckingham, a medical doctor and the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, offered the land to Trump "to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation's history."Homan said the Trump administration "absolutely will" use the land.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!