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Supreme Court star Tom Goldstein sentenced to six years in prison for hiding millions in poker winnings from the IRS

A prominent Washington lawyer who argued more than 40 cases before the Supreme Court was handcuffed in a Maryland courtroom Friday after a federal judge sentenced him to six years in prison for tax evasion and financial fraud tied to a secret high-stakes gambling habit.

Thomas Goldstein, 56, stood before U.S. District Judge Lydia Griggsby in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the end of a day-long hearing and heard a sentence that caps one of the most dramatic falls in modern legal Washington.

The Democrat and co-founder of the widely read legal news site SCOTUSblog (I read this blog) had asked the court for leniency, his defense lawyers requested a term of supervised release that would let him "repay his debts, address his gambling addiction and contribute to society." Griggsby rejected that request outright.

Prosecutors had pushed for more than eight years. The judge split the difference but made clear she saw no ambiguity in the evidence. Reuters reported that Griggsby told the courtroom, "Every American understands that they have an obligation to pay taxes," and added bluntly: "I don't think this is a close case."

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USA Today columnist condemned for Race-baiting

Alveda King calls USA Today columnist's Emmett Till comparison to Caitlin Clark controversy 'race-baiting'

Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is calling out a USA Today sports columnist who compared the murder of Emmett Till to Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark's conduct on the basketball court, a comparison King says is designed to inflame, not inform.

King, a 75-year-old Fox News contributor, gave an interview to OutKick on Friday responding to a column published this week by USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour.

In the piece, Armour drew a line between Till's 1955 murder and what she characterized as Clark putting Black and lesbian WNBA players in physical danger through her on-court behavior, allegedly flopping and confronting referees over missed calls, which Armour argued eggs on Clark's supporters to send hostile messages to other players.

Alveda said:

"What people have learned to do, is to throw out inflammatory, emotional phrases that will make people emotional and forget how to think. There was no reason to throw Emmett Till's name out there. And so, that's called race-baiting."

Alveda King

Memphis Pizza Owner has skewed priorities

What This Memphis Pizza Owner Said After Kicking National Guard Troops Out of His Business Will Make Your Blood Boil

What Tamboli Did and What He Won't Tell You

On July 11, four uniformed National Guard members walked into Tamboli's Pasta & Pizza on Madison Avenue looking for a meal.

The owner, Miles Tamboli, turned them away. He then posted a video bragging about it – calling the decision an act of "patriotism and conscience." The left-wing internet loved it. The left-wing Guardian ran a glowing feature on his packed house and long lines. Local liberal activists launched a "buy-cott" – urging supporters to flood the restaurant with their dollars and their politics.

Since Trump launched the Memphis Safe Task Force in September 2025, Memphis Police Department data tells a clear story.

• Murders are down 44% in the first half of 2026.
• Motor vehicle thefts are down 62%.
• Overall violent crime has dropped nearly 40% compared to the same period last year.
• The task force surpassed 10,000 arrests and pulled 1,708 illegal firearms off city streets – and located 154 missing children.
• The National Police Association called Memphis a "blueprint for other cities around the nation."

Tamboli's answer to all of that: the soldiers who did the work can find somewhere else to eat.

Read more about the owner whose liberal politics were more important than the National Guard's accomplishments in making his city safer.

Memphis is a heavily Democrat city, serving as a major blue stronghold and one of the primary Democratic centers in the state of Tennesse.

Biden's last minute act for TPS

Eric Schmitt Releases Biden Memo on Last-Minute TPS Push for 3 Million Illegals

According to Schmitt, Republican Senator from Misouri, the January 2025 memo discussed expanding TPS to cover more than 3 million people. The memo reportedly listed about 1.5 million Guatemalans, 600,000 Ecuadorians, 464,000 Nicaraguans, and 455,000 Venezuelans as still eligible for the program.

It also referenced populations from Ukraine, Sudan, and Afghanistan who could potentially receive protection.

The timing is the key issue here. This was during Biden’s final stretch in office, after voters had already chosen President Trump to return to the White House on a platform that included tougher immigration enforcement.

Republicans argue the memo shows Biden officials were looking for ways to lock in protections before Trump could act.

“After the American people voted for President Trump’s promise to end the TPS scam, the Biden administration tried to subvert the will of the American people. This was mass amnesty-by-decree. America is for Americans, and it is our home—it is not a permanent refugee camp,” Schmitt added.

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U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt serves on the Armed Services Committee, the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and the Judiciary Committee.

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Mandami - arresting Netanyahu

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Where were the adults?

Two Muslim migrant men admitted into the United States under the Biden administration lured and sexually abused 13-year-old girls in a Utah park.

This is not merely another local crime story. It is a child-safety failure, a vetting failure, an immigration-policy failure, and a public-transparency failure.

Parents deserve to know who is being admitted into their communities, what authorities knew, why country-of-origin information is hidden, and whether other victims exist.

Protecting children should come before protecting the Red-Green Alliance's political narratives. [Rair Foundation USA/Luthmann]

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John Thune

Karoline Leavitt Returned in Full Force and John Thune Is Not Happy About Getting Taken to the Woodshed

Leavitt Confirms What Trump Voters Already Suspected

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stood behind the podium Thursday and delivered a line eight months of Senate inaction had been building toward.

"His patience is running out," Leavitt told reporters. She said Trump wants the SAVE America Act – the citizenship and voter ID law that would end the Democrat cheating machine for good – passed before the August recess.

The House has already done its job, passing versions of the bill more than once this year. The Senate has done nothing but stall.

Leavitt made the obvious point that Trump voters put Republicans in charge of both chambers of Congress, not just the Oval Office.

That is not a talking point.

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Socialist Troy Jackson

Democrats Pick Troy Jackson to Challenge Sen. Collins in Maine Senate Race

Jackson, a former state Senate president, is the Democrats’ replacement nominee after Graham Platner dropped out following sexual assault allegations.

He has been a registered Republican, Independent and now a Democrat. 

Despite being a progressive Democrat, Jackson began his political career as a Republican. Following the blockade, he unsuccessfully ran in 2000 as a Republican for the Maine House of Representatives. At the time, he was opposed to abortion, a position he has since reversed.

Jackson ran again in 2002, this time as an Independent, and won, beating the candidate he lost to two years prior. He changed his affiliation to Democrat in 2004 and has remained in the party since.

Jackson served as a delegate at the 2016 Democratic National Convention and was part of a small number of delegates who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who lost to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton went on to lose the election to President Donald Trump.

Jackson unsuccessfully ran for governor this year, losing to Hannah Pingree

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"In The Heights" now playing at the Lake Worth Playhouse

Off to lunch and the Lake Worth Playhouse

The best deal in town

The production launches Lake Worth Playhouse's 74th Main Stage Season, bringing one of Broadway's most celebrated contemporary musicals to downtown Lake Worth Beach. Filled with vibrant music, high-energy choreography, and unforgettable characters, In the Heights is a joyful celebration of family, culture, and community.

For many members of the cast, the story is deeply personal. Several performers draw on their own Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Latin American heritage, while others describe the production as a tribute to parents and grandparents whose sacrifices created new opportunities for future generations.

“At its core, In the Heights is about community,” said Artistic Director Daniel Eilola. “It's about the people who know your name, the sacrifices families make for one another, and the dreams that connect us across generations.”

Performances started on July 17 and ending on August 2 at Lake Worth Playhouse located at 713 Lake Avenue Lake Worth Beach, FL. Tickets can be purchased on the theater's website or by calling (561) 586-6410.

Ben Franklin Exhibit at the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Director Said She Has Zero Regrets After Getting Caught Smearing Ben Franklin With No Proof

The Smithsonian already stood accused of turning America's history museum into a woke propaganda machine.Then one exhibit about Ben Franklin walked into a House hearing and detonated everything.

What the Smithsonian said about him left even the room speechless. A Heritage Foundation researcher stood in front of the House Oversight Committee and pulled the pin. He told lawmakers about a Smithsonian display called The Electric Dr. Franklin.

The exhibit ran at the National Museum of American History from 2021 to 2025. Its subtitle asked visitors to consider "Enslaved People in Franklin's Research." The museum's own text admits it has no proof this ever happened.

"Indentured servants and enslaved people in his household could also have been used," the exhibit states, before admitting the museum may never know if that's true. That is not history. That is a smear dressed up in a museum placard.

Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez asked lawmakers why anyone would smear a Founding Father like Franklin over something so bizarre and unprovable.

Franklin spent his final years as president of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery. He personally petitioned Congress to end slavery in America.

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Bicyclist killed by Train

Bicyclist killed after being struck by Tri-Rail train in Lake Worth Beach

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office identified the bicyclist as Ulisses Aponte, who rode into the path of a southbound train after a northbound train cleared the crossing.

Aponte failed to realize another train was approaching from the opposite direction.

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Powerful speech by Senator Sheehy

United States Naval academy graduate and U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy spoke on the U.S. Senate floor casting his vote against the Iran War Powers Resolution.

The Senate voted 47–49, failing to advance a legally binding joint resolution sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the sole Democrat to vote against it, while Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted with Democrats. Key Republicans like Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) were absent or voted present, preventing the measure from clearing the chamber.

Media and Liberal Trickery

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Following up on a government report that confirmed the Smithsonian has been suppressing historical facts about the U.S. in favor of a leftist ideological bias that often denigrates America, President Donald Trump has ordered signs posted to correct the situation.

The response from the president, whose authority does not extend to replacing the museum's chieftains, is to order signs posted outside the museum, where the National Park Service, which takes orders from the president, runs the sidewalks.

Being posted now is the warning, above each entrance, "Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don't want you to love your country." [WND]

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Cory Mills under DOJ Investigation

Trump's DOJ opens investigation into Florida Republican Cory Mills amid mounting misconduct allegations

Donald Trump's Justice Department has launched an investigation into Rep. Cory Mills, a Florida Republican already facing a two-year House Ethics Committee probe, adding federal scrutiny to a growing list of allegations that includes assault, sexual extortion, and campaign finance violations.

A person familiar with the matter confirmed the DOJ probe to the Daily Mail, though the specific focus of the investigation remains unclear. Mills' office did not respond to a request for comment on the federal inquiry.

The congressman, first elected in 2022 to represent Florida's 7th District, now faces simultaneous investigations from the Justice Department, the bipartisan House Ethics Committee, and Florida state law enforcement, a convergence of legal pressure that few sitting members of Congress have weathered.

The DOJ probe lands on top of allegations that have already drawn public demands from within Mills' own party. Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, has called for Mills to be stripped of his responsibilities over the misconduct claims.

And Mills' longtime chief of staff and chief counsel, Catherine Treadwell, abruptly resigned earlier this month, leaving behind a resignation letter with a single memorable line.

"The horrors persist, but I do not."

Treadwell thanked her co-workers in the letter but offered no further public explanation of what prompted her departure. The word "horrors", from someone who served as both Mills' top staffer and his chief legal adviser, hung without elaboration.

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Obama compared JD Vance to a NAZI

🤡Barack Obama Called JD Vance a Nazi the Same Week He Spoke Aboard a Warship About American Unity

Barack Obama spent eight years telling you he was the president of all Americans.

Then he compared the sitting Vice President of the United States to a Nazi.

Obama just called that speech a "blood and soil" vision borrowed from Hitler's Germany.

Vance delivered his July 4th remarks in New York Harbor during the Sail250 International Naval Review, surrounded by more than 30 tall ships from allied nations.

His message was about unity –

Specifically, that Americans have accomplished everything "not as citizens divided against each other, but as a common people working toward a common future."

"Reject that America is a place for zero-sum thinking, because it's not," Vance said. "Reject the view of your nation that sees only its sins, but not its grace and its greatness."

Now a former president is calling that Nazi rhetoric.

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Poor woman listed as a major donor through Act Blue

88-Year-Old Widow in Trailer Listed as $150K ActBlue Donor to Dems

An 88-year-old widow in rural Michigan says she was shocked to learn that federal campaign finance records list her as a major donor to Democratic causes through ActBlue.

The woman, Elizabeth Waffle, lives in a trailer and says she does not have anything close to the money reflected in the records. According to reporting highlighted by journalist Charlie LeDuff, Federal Election Commission filings attribute 14,696 separate donations to her name over the past five years. The total is nearly $150,000.

That works out to roughly eight donations per day, every day, for five years.

Waffle told LeDuff she has made some small political donations before. She described herself as a “true believer” in liberal causes and acknowledged giving some money to Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. But she said the scale of the donations tied to her name does not make sense.

When shown the records, Waffle pushed back hard. “One hundred and fifty thousand?… Hell no. I don’t have that kind of money. This is very abnormal.”