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The CPAC Chainsaw
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I am back for my latest edition of the "Stream of Kurtiousness" and joined by my good friend Larry O'Connor, host of "O'Connor & Company" on WMAL and "LARRY" here on Townhall Media! We discuss highlights from CPAC – Vice President JD Vance's interview and Elon Musk and Argentinian President Javier Milei coming out with a chainsaw – our upcoming panel, and more!
WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE
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READ MORE: https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/02/21/the-cpac-chainsaw-n2652612
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Broken families break children
By
Aaron Baer
and
Brad Wilcox
February 19, 2025 10:34 am
Last month, the National Assessment of Educational Progress was released. Commonly referred to as the “nation’s report card,” it is funded by the Department of Education, and in classic bureaucratic style, it crunched its numbers through slick graphics and lots of heady language.
However, it couldn’t escape the data’s distressing conclusion: American children can’t read, and they can’t do math. (A mere 30% of American eighth graders scored “proficient” or better in reading. Twenty-eight percent were proficient in math.)
The NAEP spills a lot of ink on “trends” — it’ll spin the numbers as “not as bad” by suggesting “at least this community of children over here is ‘doing better’ than those kids over there” or that the children are doing “better than they were in (insert carefully chosen past year).” That information can be helpful when strategizing how to improve, but it also obfuscates the central problem: American children are in trouble, and what we’re doing isn’t working.
So, how do we really help them?
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READ MORE: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3323431/broken-families-break-children/
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Tom Cotton asks Trump to ban China’s DeepSeek from government devices
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked the Trump administration on Friday to ban DeepSeek from all government devices.
Citing the Chinese origin of the artificial intelligence tool, Cotton urged Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to prevent federal employees from accessing the chatbot, which exploded in popularity last month.
“While AI can be a useful tool for federal agencies seeking to improve efficiency and deliver value to the U.S. taxpayer, tools that provide our adversaries with advance warning of our government’s plans and policies should be prohibited,” Cotton said in a letter addressed to Vought.
DeepSeek, founded in 2023 by a Chinese hedge fund manager, upended markets when its AI assistant appeared in the Google and Apple stores in January. It quickly overtook ChatGPT as the iPhone’s most downloaded free app. But the tool has prompted the same concerns plaguing TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform.
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READ MORE: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3326401/tom-cotton-asks-trump-ban-chinas-deepseek-government-devices/
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NEWSMAX
Elon Musk to CPAC: Taking Chain Saw to Bureaucracy
By Mark Swanson | Friday, 21 February 2025 06:48 AM EST
Elon Musk, senior adviser to President Donald Trump and the driving force behind the Department of Government Efficiency, unveiled the “chain saw for bureaucracy” at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday and carried live by Newsmax.
After his interview with Newsmax host Rob Schmitt onstage, Argentine president Javier Milei presented Musk with the chain saw.
“This is the chain saw for bureaucracy,” Musk bellowed to the crowd.
Up to that point, Musk detailed for Schmitt, host of “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” how easy it is to cut waste in the federal government given the scale.
“People ask me, what's the most surprising thing that you've encountered when you go to D.C.? And I said, well, the most surprising thing is the scale of the expenditures and actually how easy it is to, just when you add caring and competence, where it was absent before, you can actually save billions of dollars, sometimes in an hour. Like it's wild,” Musk said.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/musk-newsmax-cpac/2025/02/20/id/1199900/
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NEWSMAX
Ed Henry to Newsmax: Murdoch Son 'Avowed Leftist,' Will Radically Change Network
By Eric Mack | Thursday, 20 February 2025 10:06 AM EST
Rupert Murdoch's son James, the heir likely to control Fox News, "is an avowed leftist," Newsmax host Ed Henry said Tuesday night.
Henry, a former Fox News host, told Newsmax's Rob Schmitt that the elder Murdoch lost a major legal battle over his trust, giving three of his liberal children led by James control over the future of the network. [See: Fox News Heir Vows to Radically Change Network]
Henry told Schmitt that while Murdoch and his son Lachlan lean conservative, Newsmax has been growing because of uncertainty over Fox’s future.
"Over at Fox, there's deep concern," Henry told Schmitt.
Even before the Murdoch family's legal battles erupted publicly, the network has come under criticism for its move to the left on key issues.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/leftist-ideology-fox-news/2025/02/19/id/1199702/
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NEWSMAX
FTC Chairman Asks Public to Expose Big Tech Censorship
By Jim Thomas | Thursday, 20 February 2025 06:04 PM EST
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced Thursday that the agency is soliciting public input on the content moderation policies of major technology platforms and is questioning whether such practices may be unlawful, CPI reported.
Ferguson urged people who have experienced tech censorship to submit comments by May 21.
"Big Tech censorship is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal," Ferguson posted on X.
"The FTC wants your help to investigate these potential violations of the law. We are asking for public submissions from anyone who has been a victim of tech censorship (banning, demonetization, shadow banning, etc.), from employees of tech platforms, or from anyone else who can shed light on these practices and the ways in which they may violate the law."
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ftc-andrew-ferguson-censorship/2025/02/20/id/1199890/
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Surging far-right AfD hopes to score new legitimacy as Germans prepare to vote
With a boost from Team Trump, once-shunned party looks to big gains Sunday
FILE - Leader of the far-right Afd, Alice Weidel, waves after a speech at a national election campaign event in Heidenheim, Germany, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File) more >
By Eric Lyman - Special to The Washington Times - Thursday, February 20, 2025
Germans will head to the polls Sunday looking for leadership at a deeply uncertain time, but all eyes will be trained on a party likely to finish a distant second.
As center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz struggles to keep his post, the bigger question is how the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will fare. The AfD has used the searing immigration question to surge up the polls in recent months.
The AfD is highly unlikely to win, and the country’s mainstream left and right parties say they will refuse to work with it in a coalition government. Still, it will likely score the best result since World War II for a deeply conservative party and gain a new level of political legitimacy.
That prospect sends shivers through the European establishment because of many AfD members’ neo-Nazi sympathies, as well as platform planks that include a hard line on immigration, skepticism about the European Union and support for better relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Critics say the party is still trying to break free from Germany’s dark Nazi past.
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READ MORE: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/surging-far-right-afd-hopes-score-new-legitimacy-germans-prepare-vote/
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Kash Patel Confirmed as FBI Director
The Senate voted to confirm Patel, a veteran of Trump’s first administration who drafted the ‘Nunes memo’ on the Crossfire Hurricane probe.
Kash Patel, nominee for director of the FBI, testifies before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 30, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
By Nathan Worcester
2/20/2025
Updated:
2/20/2025
WASHINGTON—The Senate on Feb. 20 confirmed Kash Patel as director of the FBI.
Senators voted 51 to 49 to confirm Patel, who gained prominence for exposing alleged FBI and Justice Department malfeasance during the Crossfire Hurricane probe into the Trump campaign. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) crossed the aisle to join Democrats in voting against Patel’s nomination.
Patel will lead an agency that President Donald Trump and some Republicans have accused of being weaponized for political purposes.
“There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as the FBI director,” Patel said during a Jan. 30 Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.
During the hearing, Patel condemned the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and denied having an “enemies list”—an allegation stemming from a list of names at the end of Patel’s book, “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.”
In an appendix to the book, Patel described the individuals named as “members of the executive branch deep state.”
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Townhall
TIPSHEET
The Associated Press' Latest Statement About Trump Gave the Whole Game Away
Matt Vespa
| February 20, 2025 6:00 AM
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
It must be lonely for Matt Taibbi. No, I’m not making light of his situation. He’s doing well covering the stories news outlets avoid out of political bias, and he’s a true blue Democrat. The former contributing editor for Rolling Stone isn’t a Trump supporter, nor can he be part of a Democratic Party that stifles speech and runs with some of the most obtuse and illiberal policy positions in recent memory, namely the attacks on freedom of speech. Taibbi is one of the few liberal reporters who was a Russian collusion skeptic and has torched his side for losing the plot on core democratic values.
He’s on an island alone but thriving, especially now that Biden is out of office and the IRS isn’t targeting him anymore. Taibbi got audited not long after he testified before Congress about the Twitter Files and the system on thought control and censorship the social media giant and the FBI had created before Elon Musk bought it.
It's why he’s likely equally amused by the Associated Press’ war with the Trump White House, which the latter couldn’t care less about. The legacy media’s influence is dying, the AP style guide is left-wing trash, and no one said anything about other systems of censorship before AP got hilariously barred from the Oval Office and Air Force One. Taibbi noted how the AP guide slowly became infected with the woke virus and how it’s not uncommon for journalists to be chilled out of the White House—Trump isn’t the first or last president to freeze out reporters he didn’t like. AP should recognize the changing times because they’ve already lost the PR war (via Racket News):
Statement from the Associated Press:
This is about the government telling the public and press what words to use and retaliating if they do not follow government orders.
The White House has restricted AP’s coverage of presidential events because of how we refer to a location. The Associated Press has provided critical and independent coverage of the White House for over 100 years.
“Telling the public and the press what words to use.” Right.
[…]
As anyone who’s read Hate Inc. can attest I’ve long been critical of once-common newspaper practices like plastering mugshots online. These linger and the acquitted tend not to live them down, and in many cases coverage is just unnecessary (broke moms busted for shoplifting, pictured and named?). But AP’s now-gigantic Stylebook goes beyond better practice and asks reporters to abandon common sense or speed for constantly shifting political precepts. Hence, no references to “both, either, or opposite sex” because “not all people fall under one of two categories for sex or gender.” These are journalists, not scientists, telling people how many sexes there are.
I left strict observance of AP style years ago over the Black issue, not for moral reasons but exhaustion (I guarantee that term will be changed five or six more times). As an independent I also don’t have to care now. But, the combination of AP’s nun-like word severity and increasingly transparent slant made the organization ripe for a dressing down. Enter this Gulf of America fiasco.
I don’t see what Trump is doing as a moral issue. The AP doesn’t have to change its guide, and Trump doesn’t have to let them in the Oval office. Both are trying to influence the other. It’s how this dance works.
I get some speech advocates are wringing hands over Trump’s open stating of the reason for barring, which does make it a technical violation of viewpoint discrimination. Still, it’s hard to summon outrage when previous White Houses have long frozen out or barred reporters without giving reasons (an example being the New York Post during the Biden years). That, and the fact that the AP and all the press orgs rushing to its side now haven’t said boo about years of state censorship or other actual threats to media, including some involving me. But fine, take it to court, since it does cross a line. The AP will win, and go back to cheering or ignoring actual suppression of media. But they’ll be a net loser in this PR standoff.
The real issue is why Trump felt it could bar the AP at all. Normally the White House is afraid to make enemies of a big, influential news organization. They stop being afraid when a) those organizations lose audience or influence, or b) when they figure they have no chance of getting anything but negative coverage anyway. Both factors come into play now. News organizations want to force politicians to treat them well. When they lose the ability to do that despite enormous resources, they should ask themselves why. Will AP ask itself that question?
For now, AP is barred from certain events. The censors have been censored.
“That’s how life works,” said Trump, which is a vintage answer.
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READ MORE: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/02/20/former-rolling-stone-editor-cant-help-but-be-amused-at-aps-latest-statement-about-trump-n2652524
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TIPSHEET
BREAKING: Senate Votes to Confirm Kash Patel As FBI Director
Jeff Charles
| February 20, 2025 2:28 PM
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
The Senate voted to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director on Thursday after a contentious confirmation hearing and an onslaught of Democratic fearmongering about his nomination.
Patel was confirmed with a 51 to 49 vote, with all Democrats voting against him. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (AK) and Susan Collins (ME) also voted "no" on the new FBI Director's confirmation.
Patel, who served for a decade as a federal prosecutor at the Justice Department, was nominated as a part of President Donald Trump’s effort to clean up corruption in the Bureau and prevent it from being weaponized against Americans for their political beliefs.
During his confirmation hearing, Patel stated, "Protecting the rights of the Constitution is of the utmost importance to me and has been every single time I’ve taken that oath of office.”
He further stated that he “will remain focused on the FBI’s core mission, that is to investigate fully wherever there is a constitutional factual basis to do so.”
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READ MORE: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/20/kash-patel-confirmed-n2651563
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Nguyễn Hoài Trang
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Cộng sản Việt Nam là TỘI ÁC
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