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Who needs caffeine when you’ve got the Christmas rush?
The Cult of Luigi: Mangione Returns to NYC, Is Arraigned
And the leftist girls squeal like he’s Harry Styles.
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old rich kid who allegedly shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the back on Dec. 4, was brought back to New York City on Thursday to face four federal criminal counts in connection with the murder. He was indicted earlier this week on state charges of murder as an act of terror.
Mangione was met with a large contingent of heavily armed officers, along with New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
CNN’s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, John Miller, believes the greeting party was unusually large “because of what they’ve been seeing in terms of the public support for him and their security worries about somebody not trying to attack him, but to try and free him from law enforcement.”
Even more than a week after his arrest, it’s still hard to wrap our head around how Mangione is being treated like a heartthrob, a hero, even a prisoner of conscience.
I can’t believe this is a real picture pic.twitter.com/kPVWHemmCs
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 19, 2024
Fani Willis Disqualified from Trump Election Interference Case
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her (former) special prosecutor boyfriend Nathan Wade will have plenty of time to rock around the Christmas tree at the fancy resorts of their choosing this year. The Georgia Court of Appeals has disqualified Willis and her underlings from the election interference case being waged against President Donald Trump and his codefendants.
The appeals court cited the impropriety of Willis’s romantic relationship with Wade, and how the trial court
did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring.
While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.
The Court of Appeals did not toss out the case against Trump and his codefendants, allowing it to potentially transfer to another county. However, with the case being garbage to begin with, the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, and the fact that Trump just won reelection, the chance of some other Georgia D.A. being foolhardy enough to take it up seems unlikely.
So it looks like another of the lawfare cases against Trump has fallen apart.
Canada Puts Another Little Victory in Trump’s Christmas Stocking
Remember when Trump threatened to slap harsh tariffs on Canada — now lovingly known as the “51st state” — if the Trudeau administration didn’t do something to stop illegal aliens from entering the United States from the north?
Canada just announced a new $1.3 billion border security initiative.
By the way, Trump may be teasing Canada about becoming the 51st state, but do you like the idea? Sure, it’d do wonders for our chances of taking home more gold at the Winter Olympics and give us plenty more geographic elbow room, but would there be any other benefits?
A Potential Victory for Life: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Abortion Funding Case
The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Thursday it will hear a case concerning taxpayer funding of abortion facilities. Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic deals with South Carolina’s decision to direct Medicaid funds away from abortion mills.
According to Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing South Carolina, a federal district court forced the state to reinstitute Planned Parenthood’s funding, ruling that Medicaid recipients have a right to choose their preferred provider.
The federal court is wrong, says ADF Senior Counsel John Bursh.
“Taxpayer dollars should never be used to fund facilities that make a profit off abortion. Pro-life states like South Carolina should be free to determine that Planned Parenthood and other entities that peddle abortion are not qualified to receive taxpayer funding through Medicaid,” he said. “Congress did not unambiguously create a right for Medicaid recipients to drag states into federal court to challenge those decisions, so no such right exists. Applying the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Talevski case, we expect the court to hold that Congress did not intend to allow federal courts to second-guess states’ decisions about which providers are qualified to receive Medicaid funding.”
Breaking News: Joe Biden a Few Ornaments Short of a Christmas Tree His Entire Term
One month out from Joe Biden leaving the Oval Office, a dozen people who worked around the White House are now confessing that he was never fully there. The Wall Street Journal published a long report detailing how soon after taking office, Biden’s aides were already working overtime to keep officials, including Cabinet members and Congressional leaders, at a distance from him. If there were meetings, they were kept short and limited, with aides always within ear- or eyeshot, ready to jump in to bail him out. If The Big Guy was having an “off day,” meetings would be scrubbed.
“He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to have to address this tomorrow,” a former aide recalled one official saying.
This reality — that the Commander-in-Chief of the United States, with his finger on the nuclear button, was mentally incapable of handling the office — was kept from the American people, even when we insisted something seemed wrong.
And you wonder nobody believes what these same people are saying about the mysterious drones spotted all over the Eastern Seaboard?
Speaking of which, Biden himself weighed in on the drone scare the other day. Sort of …
BIDEN FINALLY ADDRESSES NJ DRONES:
“Nothing nefarious, apparently… there’s a lot of drones authorized up there.. I think one started, and they all got — everybody wanted to get in the deal.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 18, 2024
More “Shocking” News: Racist Graffiti Found at Rhodes College Is a Hoax
I know you’ll drop your English muffin over this “shocking” news, but racist messages found on the campus of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, were a hoax.
The message — “F*** (n-word), Trump Rules” — was plastered on fliers found near the National Pan-Hellenic Council Plaza, which honors the school’s nine historically black Greek organizations.
Rhodes confirmed to Fox News that a student has confessed to fabricating the fliers to make Trump supporters look bad.
UPDATE: The Earliest, Complete Tablet of Ten Commandments Sells at Auction for $5 Million
The earliest, complete tablet of the Ten Commandments sold at auction Wednesday for more $5 million. As Al’s Christmas Tea predicted, the winning bid blew past the $1 million-$2 million presale estimate. The so-called Yavne Tablet dates from between 300 and 800 A.D. and is inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script — the only one of its kind from antiquity discovered thus far, according to the auctioneers at Sotheby’s.
The anonymous winner plans to donate the tablet to an Israeli museum.
Along The Stream…
Jules Gomes compares the former and future leaders of the National Institutes of Health in “A Tale of Two Christian Doctors: Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.”
We have a special treat coming up at 9 a.m. Eastern time: The Stream‘s Austin Roscoe has penned a beautiful inspiration piece, “How Do You Forgive When Things Still Haven’t Been Resolved?”
Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.
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