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GOOD: Pete Hegseth Drives the Stake Through Climate Change Driving Defense Policy. The Department of Defense is abandoning its nearly two decades-long focus on climate change as a national security issue. In a terse message to CNN, Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said, “Climate zealotry and other woke chimeras of the Left are not part of that core mission." This is a major change for the Department of Defense that goes back at least five administrations. For reasons I've never really understood, the military has been vulnerable to environazis for decades. At Fort (Braxton) Bragg, large swaths of training area were put off limits because they were allegedly the nesting grounds of the then-endangered (it had a status upgrade in December) red-cockaded woodpecker. A freakin woodpecker. An acquaintance of mine was relieved of his command because one of his troops had pasted a picture of the bird on a target on a rifle range (the 1,000-inch range), and the wrong person happened onto the scene. If you're wondering why US Navy ships compare unfavorably to Soviet trawlers, circa 1980, in terms of rust, it is because the best paint is environmentally friendly. {snip} If climate change is real, it will be addressed at home and abroad by agencies not called the Department of Defense. When the Defense encounters it, it will come in the form of weather and terrain; how we got there will be an academic exercise. Secretary Hegseth is right; his focus has to be on training troops, structuring forces, modernizing equipment, and building warrior spirit to win wars, something Defense has gotten out of the habit of doing over the last 41 years. https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/03/09/pete-hegseth-drives-the-stake-through-climate-change-driving-defense-policy-n2186468 .

Can you say government corruption ? I knew you could. DOGE Makes Another Bombshell Discovery Matt Margolis The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just dropped a bombshell that exposes the mind-boggling incompetence of Biden's administration. It has uncovered nearly $2 billion in "misplaced" funds at HUD, but that's just the appetizer in this feast of government waste. Here's the shocking truth: During 2020-2021, the Small Business Administration handed out 5,593 loans totaling $312 million to "business owners" who were 11 years old or younger. That's right — while our kids were stuck in Zoom school, we’re supposed to believe that a bunch of their classmates were apparently running multimillion-dollar enterprises. Even better, these pint-sized entrepreneurs all used Social Security numbers that didn't match their names. Totally legit, right? Remember, this was during the pandemic, and, according to Fox News Digital, it is “unclear what they were used for.” But wait; there's more! The SBA wasn't content just funding kindergarten startups — they also approved 3,095 loans worth $333 million to borrowers over 115 years old. One particularly industrious 157-year-old scored a cool $36,000. Now, we can sit here and pretend that this is all legit, like Democrats do, or we can acknowledge that Elon Musk is exposing massive amounts of real fraud and should be celebrated, not attacked, for shedding light on all this government waste. Sadly, Democrats can’t do that. For all their talk about saving Medicaid and Social Security, how many billions of dollars are wasted annually that could go towards the solvency of these programs? No. Democrats would rather raise taxes to achieve that. Heaven forbid that someone actually hold bureaucrats accountable for throwing away taxpayer money! These are the same people who screamed about "protecting democracy" while shoveling cash to overseas jihadists and radical social justice programs through USAID. This isn't just government incompetence; it's criminal negligence. Every dollar handed out to nonexistent children and impossibly old "business owners" was a dollar stolen from legitimate small businesses struggling to survive during the pandemic. And where was the Biden administration's legendary "oversight" during all this? https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/10/doge-exposes-another-massive-fraud-scheme-n4937747

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After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department. Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform. .

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Lefty UCLA Professor Calls for Military Coup Against Trump (to Defend Our Democracy, of Course) https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/03/09/ucla-prof-calls-for-military-coup-against-trump-n2409583

. It’s (D)ifferent when democrats do it !!