SPLC’s Ben Carson on their Extremist File List

SPLC’s Ben Carson Blunder Resurfaces

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s old decision to place Dr. Ben Carson on its “Extremist File” is back in the spotlight. The move, made in 2014, sparked a wave of criticism at the time and still stands out as one of the group’s most controversial calls.

Carson was not some fringe political agitator. He was a widely known pediatric neurosurgeon with a long medical career and a strong public reputation. That is part of why the label hit so many people the wrong way. To a lot of observers, calling him an extremist seemed wildly out of step with reality.

After the backlash grew, the SPLC pulled the profile down. It also issued an apology and said the entry did not meet its standards. The group said it had reviewed the file and decided it should not have been posted.

Even so, it still suggested that Carson’s views should be watched closely.

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Iran the Pinocchio for peace

Spanberger

Evening Sky 4-23-26

This is déjà vu—but it’s also a blueprint.

When Democrats don’t like the scoreboard, they rewrite the rules.

Mid-cycle redistricting, ballot language games, “independent” commissions neutered after the fact—it’s all part of the same playbook. Dress it up as “fairness,” sell it with slick summaries, then ram through maps that predetermine outcomes.

That’s not governance—that’s engineering the electorate. And every time they pull it off, they push the system a little further from legitimacy. Because elections aren’t just about votes—they’re about trust. And once trust is gamed, the damage doesn’t stay local. It spreads. [Luthmann]

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The New White House ballroom

Federal Appeals Court Just Overruled the Judge Who Tried to Stop Trump’s White House Ballroom

Judge Richard Leon blocked it Thursday night. The DC Circuit put his order on hold Friday night.

And construction resumed before most people even knew it had stopped.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed suit in December to stop the ballroom – arguing Trump needed congressional approval before breaking ground.

The organization suing the president is legally required to seat his own Attorney General on its board.

Trump called them "a Radical Left Group of Lunatics."

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Zany Tim Walz

Minnesota Gov. Walz’s ‘Small Town PAC’ Draws Mockery Amid Fraud Scandal, Foreign Criticism

There’s an old rule in small-town America: if a man burns your barn down, you don’t let him bid on the rebuild. Somebody should pass that along to Tim Walz.

It’s been a rough stretch for Minnesota’s governor — though “rough” might be generous. The former high school football coach turned congressman turned 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee has spent the last year and a half watching his political brand curdle in real time. The massive fraud scandal on his watch — billions in taxpayer dollars siphoned through sham daycare operations — eventually forced him to abandon his re-election bid.

When Minnesota Republicans tried to impeach him and Attorney General Keith Ellison over it, Democratic legislators closed ranks and killed the effort. So much for accountability.

Then came the overseas tour. Just weeks ago, Walz appeared at a leftist political forum in Spain and called President Trump a “feeble-minded, trigger-happy president” who “plunged us into a war where no threat was present.” He labeled the Iran conflict “fascist-curious.”

This while American servicemembers were actively deployed. There was a time when politicians understood you don’t trash a sitting commander-in-chief on foreign soil during military operations. Walz apparently missed that day in class.

So what does a governor with collapsing rural approval ratings, a fraud scandal around his neck, a state that fought federal immigration enforcement at every turn, and a fresh reputation for badmouthing his country abroad do next? He launches a political action committee called the “Small Town PAC.”

You read that correctly. The man whose progressive policies drove rural Minnesota voters away in historic numbers now wants to be the Democrat Party’s ambassador to small-town America.

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What Chip Roy's MAMDANI Act Does to Socialist Immigrants

Chip Roy Just Introduced a Bill to Deport Zohran Mamdani and Everyone Like Him

Zohran Mamdani posted photos with an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

That socialist is now the sitting mayor of New York City.

Chip Roy just introduced a bill to make sure that never happens again. The legislation is called the MAMDANI Act, and the name is not subtle.

Roy's bill amends existing immigration law to bar admission, naturalization, and permanent residency to any alien who advocates for, belongs to, or is affiliated with a communist party, socialist party, Chinese communist party, Islamic fundamentalist party, or any organization promoting Marxism, socialism, communism, or Islamic fundamentalism.

It doesn't stop there

Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted on 11 Counts

'MASSIVE!' Feds indict SPLC for using donor money to pay white supremacists to stage 'hate crimes'

'Was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred'

A federal grand jury in Alabama has delivered an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, the now-scandal ridden activist group that came to fame by suing Ku Klux Klan organizations into bankruptcy.

Its next agenda was to incorrectly describe those with beliefs it disliked, Christians with pro-life and traditional marriage views, as "hate" organizations.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). The indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

"The SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups," Todd Blanche, acting attorney general, confirmed.

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"The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred." The charges include six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy.

FBI Severed Ties: In October 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel severed ties with the SPLC, labeling it a "partisan smear machine" that used its "hate map" to defame mainstream groups. The SPLC lists Act for America as a hate group.

Guilty on 25 out of 27 Ethics Violations

Indicted Democrat Cherfilus-McCormick resigns from Congress minutes before ethics hearing

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick quit the House on Tuesday afternoon, minutes before a House Ethics Committee hearing was set to recommend sanctions against her and days before a near-certain expulsion vote.

The Florida Democrat, facing a 15-count federal criminal indictment over an alleged $5 million FEMA fraud scheme, posted her resignation on social media and was not on the House floor when it was read aloud.

Her exit marks the third congressional resignation in a single week--Democrat Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzales, and ends a saga that saw bipartisan calls for her removal, a grand jury indictment, and an ethics panel finding that she committed 25 of 27 alleged violations. The timing, just before the committee could formally act, stripped the panel of jurisdiction and spared Cherfilus-McCormick a public sanctions hearing.

House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., confirmed the committee lost its authority the moment she resigned.

"In light of Ms. McCormick's resignation earlier today, the Committee on Ethics has now lost jurisdiction on this matter. There will not be a sanctions hearing."

The ethics case against Cherfilus-McCormick stretched more than two years. Committee staff reviewed tens of thousands of documents before the panel found in March what it called "clear and convincing evidence" that the congresswoman misused federal disaster relief money improperly paid to her family's healthcare company.

Federal prosecutors allege she stole $5 million in FEMA relief funds through the company and used some of the money to support her 2022 special election campaign.

A special House Ethics Committee panel ultimately found her guilty on 25 of 27 ethics violations after a lengthy investigation, including campaign finance-related misconduct tied to millions of dollars routed through businesses and family members.

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She won in a special election to fill Alcee Hastings seat.

Early Morn 4-23-26

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Judge Blocks Virginia's Referendum - Republicans Celebrate Court Win

Virginia Court Rules Democrat Redistricting Vote Unconstitutional in Major GOP Win

President Trump scored a major victory in Virginia after a judge blocked Democrats’ newly approved redistricting referendum, stopping a map that could have gutted Republican House strength in the state.

The ruling handed Republicans an immediate legal win and threw Democrats’ sweeping power play into chaos just hours after voters approved it.

Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley ruled Wednesday that the redistricting referendum was unconstitutional. The decision came one day after voters approved the Democrat-backed measure. Hurley found that all votes for or against the proposed amendment were invalid because the referendum did not meet required legal standards.

The ruling immediately froze Democrats’ effort to move the new map forward. It also showed that the legal fight over the referendum is far from over.

Republicans quickly hailed the ruling as a major breakthrough and Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced that the court had blocked certification of the election. “The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional,” Cuccinelli wrote on X.

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Iran's Peace Process

Evening Sky 4-22-26

The Southern Poverty Law Center Racket

So let me get this straight—you run a covert program for years, funnel millions to “sources,” hide the mechanics behind shell structures, don’t fully disclose it to donors, and then when it surfaces, it’s suddenly “nothing to see here”?

That’s a tough sell.

Southern Poverty Law Center can call it “informants,” critics can call it “paid agitators”—but the core issue is transparency and representation. If money was raised under one premise and used under another, that’s not just optics—that’s exposure.

They got Bannon for the same thing in the "Build The Wall" charity. And if the SPLC ended the practice recently, the timing matters. Questions about accountability don’t disappear just because the program did. [Luthmann]

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Interior Secretary exposes corruption

Democrat melts down after Secretary Doug Burgum drops bombshell about NGOs during committee hearing

Democrats had a meltdown during a committee hearing while grilling Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on all of the programs he is attempting to shut down.

And no one was ready for his answer.

HOLY CRAP! Trump Interior Sec. Doug Burgum just revealed he found NGOs where up to 100% PERCENT of their revenue was the federal government...

...and their CEO would make $650K a YEAR, and pay lobbyists $400K.

He exposes it: "We found organizations that were receiving grants from Interior, where 80 to 100 percent of the revenue of that NGO was a grant from the federal government."

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From Pence Aide to MAGA Enemy

Former Pence staffer Olivia Troye launches bid for House seat in Virginia

Mike Pence's top national security aide stood on the Democrat National Convention stage in 2024 and begged Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris.

Now she wants a seat in Congress – and Democrats just drew her a new district to make it happen. There is just one problem with her plan that Virginia voters will decide.

Troye spent four years presenting herself to America as a Republican – a "John McCain Republican," she called herself, someone with principled objections to one man's behavior.

That’s not surprising since John McCain was always closer to Abigail Spanberger than real Republicans.

She resigned from Pence's homeland security and COVID task force team in July 2020. Within weeks she was endorsing Joe Biden and cutting anti-Trump ads for a Never-Trumper political action committee.

By 2024 she was on the Democrat National Convention stage, telling her "fellow Republicans" that voting for Harris wasn't betraying their party – it was standing up for their country.

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Iran scared to bury the Ayatollah

Iran's Leaders are Scared to Do This One Thing

Iran’s Mullahs Are So Terrified of Their Own People They Can’t Even Bury Their Dead Supreme Leader — It’s Been 50 Days

We’ve all heard of governments that can’t protect their people. But a government that can’t bury its own boss? That’s a new one. It’s been fifty days since a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike turned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei into a footnote in history, and Iranian officials still haven’t put the man in the ground.

Fifty. Days. The guy’s own religion says you’re supposed to be buried within 24 hours. These are the same mullahs who lecture the entire world about Islamic law, by the way. Apparently the rules don’t apply when you’re too scared to hold a funeral.

Here’s what happened. On February 28th, Israeli jets dropped approximately 30 precision munitions on a regime compound in central Tehran. The CIA had been tracking Khamenei’s movements for months and learned that a big meeting of senior officials was happening. So we hit it.

Iranian state TV confirmed the 86-year-old Supreme Leader’s death the next day, and Trump posted the news on Truth Social because of course he did.

Now a normal country — even a terrible one — would hold a funeral. Mourn their leader. Put on a big show of strength. But Iran isn’t a normal country. Iran is a hostage situation where the hostage-takers are also hiding under the bed.

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Our Pharmaceutical vulnerability

A nation that cannot make its own essential medicines is a nation living on borrowed security

President Trump has recently signed a new proclamation to swiftly accelerate the onshoring of pharmaceutical manufacturing — one of America’s most strategically vulnerable sectors.

America’s vulnerability runs across all three stages of the medicine-making process. That begins with the raw ingredients, known as key starting materials; extends to the active pharmaceutical ingredients in the second stage; and finally it includes finished dosage forms, such as tablets, capsules, and injectables.

Today, more than half of the branded pharmaceuticals distributed in America are manufactured overseas. Upstream dependence is sharper still. Only 11 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturers are in the U.S., compared with 22 percent in China and 44 percent in India. And of all patented active pharmaceutical ingredients sold in the U.S., only 15 percent by volume are made here.

America’s vulnerability runs deeper still at the front end of the supply chain, where more than 40 percent of the key starting materials used in U.S.-approved pharmaceuticals are sole-sourced from China and another 16 percent from India.

While America still leads the world in pharmaceutical discovery, it no longer controls enough of the industrial base to turn that discovery into secure supply. We have become a design-and-discovery superpower with a hollowed-out production base.

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Minnesota Illegal faces a felony for illegally voting

Noncitizen in Minnesota faces felony charges after voting in 2024 election and calling it a 'mistake'

A 39-year-old man in Minnesota was charged Monday with perjury and a voting violation after authorities said records showed he registered to vote in 2023 and then submitted a ballot in the 2024 election, despite not being a United States citizen.

Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari initially denied voting when investigators confronted him, Fox News Digital reported, but later admitted to casting a ballot and told them he "made a mistake."

The case lands in the middle of a national argument over how well states guard their voter rolls against illegal participation. Minnesota officials insist their system works. Critics say the state's own policies made this kind of breach predictable.

Chaudhari faces serious consequences. The Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State told Fox News Digital that penalties for voting while ineligible may include deportation, a permanent bar on future citizenship, a fine of up to $10,000, and up to five years in prison.

For a man reportedly in the middle of a green card process, the felony charges could end more than just a legal case, they could end his ability to remain in the country.

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The State of Minnesota is culpable.

Early Morn 4-22-26

Pope gets our Deportations