Why Is There No Accountability for John Thune?

 "The Senate GOP’s biggest failure shouldn’t get a promotion to minority leader."

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"What does this fake-baked nincompoop actually do all day?"

"I suppose I’ve become cynical enough that it’s very rare to read something that shocks me into a cough or a spit-take, but I nearly had one when I saw this on Wednesday…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., vowed that Republicans “will not stand idly by as the far-left, socialist wing of the Democrat Party attempts to unwind everything we’ve done.”

Thune’s pledge early Wednesday came after Democrats captured control of both chambers of Congress in a sweeping midterm election victory, prompting conservatives to demand accountability from Republican leaders.\In a lengthy post on X, Thune defended the GOP’s record under President Donald Trump, citing tax cuts, border security, judicial confirmations, and economic policies he said benefited American families.

“Over the last two years, Senate Republicans have put up a strong record of accomplishment that’s created safer streets, more money in Americans’ pockets, and new opportunities for families and businesses to get ahead,” Thune wrote." . . .

. . . "While Thune was touting his utterly meager achievements as the Senate Majority Leader before losing that job amid what looks like a nine-seat turnover (not a single pickup, and losses in nine states, most of which were thought to be unlosable) in Tuesday’s midterms, House Speaker Mike Johnson was giving a dignified resignation as the GOP’s caucus leader in that body." . . .

"Congressman Tim Burchett has just sternly questioned Senate Leader John Thune: Why has the House bill aimed at stopping American taxpayers funding the Taliban been shelved for nearly 11 months, yet has taken no action?!

Thun admitted he hadn't even read it. For every week of delay = $40 million of your extra money flowing to Afghan terrorists! This is crazy. Americans are funding our enemies, while Congress is sleeping soundly?!

'Very important' evidence found miles from Learjet crash site in Florida, investigator says

 JOSH FUNK, Associated Press  

“We’re going to crash into the ground,” she said, as the jet descended at a rate of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) per minute. And then, before the transmission cuts off: “We’re out of time!” 

"A piece of the Learjet that slammed into the ground in Florida, killing all nine people aboard, was found nearly 4 miles from the crash site, investigators said Tuesday, confirming that the plane was breaking apart before impact.

"National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman said most of the left elevator — part of the tail that controls the plane's pitch — was found in three pieces between 1.3 miles (2 kilometers) and 3.8 miles (6.1 kilometers) from Greenacres, near West Palm Beach, where the jet went down Sunday afternoon.

"'What that means exactly, in terms of what caused the aircraft to lose control, or whether the loss of this piece was a result of the forces on the aircraft, we don’t know yet,” Chapman said at a news conference.

"Without the elevator intact, the pilot would not have been able to pull the Learjet out of its nosedive, Chapman said.   

Investigators examine the site where a Learjet crashed to the ground, killing all nine
people aboard, in Palm Beach County, Florida Source: Reuters

"“At those speeds I don’t know that it would’ve been effective even if it had still been attached to the aircraft, but knowing that it was lost is a very important piece of evidence in terms of pointing us toward other things to investigate,” Chapman said.

"Weather will be a key initial focus of the investigation, Chapman reiterated Tuesday. The nosedive started after the co-pilot reported ice starting to build up on the plane and some significant turbulence as the Learjet flew into a rapidly developing thunderstorm cell.

"The pieces that broke off the plane were probably a byproduct of the nosedive, not the cause, aviation safety expert Jeff Guzzetti told The Associated Press. Their discovery within a few miles of the crash site suggests the elevator components fell off closer to the ground, he said.

"“If those parts would have broken off at altitude, those pieces would be a lot farther away,” Guzzetti said.

"Freeze frames from videos appear to show the entire horizontal stabilizer missing from the top of the tail before impact." . . . More.

Woman whose seven-year-old neighbor was abducted and murdered by pedophile slams California Governor Gavin Newsom for commuting his death sentence

Daily Mail Online    

‘It’s especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice,’ she said.

"A woman who lived just a few doors away from seven-year-old Danielle van Dam when she was abducted and murdered has launched a furious attack on California Governor Gavin Newsom after he commuted the killer's death sentence.

On November 5, 2026, Newsom used his constitutional clemency authority to commute the death sentences of all 548 inmates on the state's death row, including Van Dam's killer David Westerfield, reducing their punishments to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In his letter Newsom stated 'I know we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency.'

Yet Christina Buttons fired back against the governor's plan of action. In an emotional social media post she wrote, ‘I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam.’ 

‘And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen.’

Danielle was last seen February 1, 2002, when her father put her to bed in the family’s home in the upper-middle class Sabre Springs neighborhood of San Diego.

In what could only be described as every parent's worst nightmare, her nude body was found nearly a month later, dumped on a remote roadside, too decomposed to determine the cause of death or whether she had been sexually assaulted.

A massive search involving thousands of volunteers ensued, but suspicion soon turned to their 50-year-old neighbor Westerfield, who had driven away in his motorhome on the morning of her disappearance." . . .  More.

How the USS Arizona Actually Blew Up at Pearl Harbor

Reported Aboard

"How did the USS Arizona explode? One bomb. Four decks. Five inches of armor. And somewhere below them, a room the Navy still can't agree on.

"At 8:06 on the morning of December 7, 1941, during the Pearl Harbor attack, an armor-piercing bomb built from a battleship shell hit the battleship USS Arizona beside her second turret. About seven seconds later came the forward magazine explosion that sank her. 1,177 men were killed, nearly half of all the Americans who died at Pearl Harbor. For more than eighty years, the Navy, the Park Service and historians have argued about the USS Arizona explosion, and what happened in those seven seconds. "The clues were never lost. They are in the Navy's own 1941 plans of the ship, where one small compartment between the forward turrets was lettered in capital letters. They are in the explosion footage filmed from the hospital ship Solace. And they are in the statements the survivors wrote within days: an ensign sent to seal the doors who met a man looking for the magazine keys, a radioman on the forecastle minutes before the bomb came down, and one plain sentence that still haunts the record. "In this documentary, we follow the bomb deck by deck, open the plans, weigh four answers to what went first, see the oil still leaking from the wreck today, and go down with the divers who found something on the wreck forty years later that no one expected." . . .

Anchor slips up and makes a telling admission while gleefully reporting midterm results

V. Saxena   

Live Admission: While reporting on the blue-tsunami midterm results, Hunt said "us," implying personal alignment with Democrats' success.

" A CNN anchor with a history of left-wing bias seemed to make a telling slip-up live on television late Tuesday as Republicans were getting trounced in the devastating blue-tsunami midterm elections.

"CNN anchor Kasie Hunt made the slip-up while speaking on a small panel about the then-incoming election results. Hunt noted in her remarks that Republicans were getting crushed.

 . . . "Hunt made it sound as if Democrats winning the 2026 midterm elections was something that she'd personally desired.

NewsBusters, a conservative site that tracks liberal media bias, called it a "mask-off moment" for her and CNN.

It would be easy to dismiss Hunt's slip-up as just a rhetorical mistake if it weren't for her extensive history of left-wing bias.

In 2019, while at MSNBC, she famously misidentified Democratic segregationists as Republicans while teasing a segment on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden's comments about working with segregationist senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge.

She said that Biden had referenced "two former Republican colleagues."

Savannah Guthrie labeled 'unprofessional' and 'inappropriate' after she is heard reacting to Abdul El-Sayed's victory in hot-mic moment on NBC: 'Yikes'

"Others, however, quickly jumped to her defense. "Maybe she was just ready to go home and realized she still had hours to go," one user suggested. "Who knows what she was reacting to! I say UGH and OMG all day out loud while responding to my own thoughts no one else can hear!'"

Thank you, Haley Stevens, for refusing to stay silent

 MSN  

Our community owes Haley Stevens its gratitude, and it should say so loudly. I would guess she is sleeping soundly these nights, knowing she never put her name behind a career built on hatred of the Jewish state.

"On Sunday morning, two days before Michigan voted, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) walked into Perfecting Church in Detroit and took a seat beside Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers. She had been scheduled to attend a Detroit church service that same day with Abdul el Sayed, the man who narrowly beat her in the August Democratic primary, as a show of party unity. Instead, she was told she was no longer welcome. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), who helped organize the event, said she asked Stevens to stay away because the situation had become too distracting. A few hours later, Stevens announced she would back Rogers.

"The punishment arrived fast. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called it a “despicable betrayal.” Her chief of staff resigned. The chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party said she was no longer a member. On Tuesday night el Sayed won, and he is now headed to the U.S. Senate. By the usual Washington arithmetic, Stevens lost everything, and plenty of commentators will spend the coming years describing her decision as a political blunder.

"I see it as one of the most morally correct acts I have watched an American politician perform in a very long time.

"Consider how differently the same people reacted two years ago. When Liz Cheney crossed party lines to campaign for Kamala Harris, Democrats were overjoyed. Harris praised the Cheneys for putting country above party, and former President Joe Biden said he had never been so proud. When a Democrat crossed the other way because she could no longer stomach her own party’s nominee, the language of courage disappeared overnight and was replaced with talk of treachery. Apparently conscience is admirable only when it travels in one direction." . . .

The left-wing, MSNOW-ish Daily Beast calls her a "Loser"

New Jersey Middle School Instructs Students Islam Is the “True Faith”

"The Reply Brief argued that the “Establishment Clause prevents schools from advancing religious views that may conflict with the private beliefs of the student and his or her family.'”

New Jersey Middle School Instructs Students Islam Is the “True Faith” – Thomas More Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit [Must See Video] - Thomas More Law Center

"ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday evening in the New Jersey District Court against several officials and teachers of the Chatham Middle School and the School District of the Chathams, located in New Jersey.

"The lawsuit, claiming several violations of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, was filed on behalf of Libby Hilsenrath and her minor son. Seventh-grade students at Chatham Middle School were forced to endure Islamic propaganda and an explicit call to convert to Islam through a disturbing set of videos in their World Cultures and Geography class.

"TMLC’s affiliated New Jersey attorney, Michael Hrycak, filed the lawsuit. TMLC staff attorney, Kate Oliveri, the principle drafter of the federal complaint, observed: “The Board of Education and other Defendants are waging a war against the religious protections afforded by the First Amendment. They attack religious liberty by enticing young school children with a direct call to convert to Islam and providing a step-by-step guide on how to effect that conversion.”

"One of the videos, linked in this press release, seeks to convert students to Islam and is filled with the Islamic religious beliefs presented as facts, as well as pure Islamic propaganda.  This five-minute video ends with the prayer “May God help us all find the true faith, Islam. Ameen.”  

     This video includes the following phrases as facts:

• “Allah is the one God who created the heavens and the earth, who has no equal and is all powerful.”
• “Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is the last & final Messenger of God. God gave him the Noble Quran.”
• “Lo, We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a warner.”
• “What is the Noble Quran? Divine Revelation sent to Muhammad (S) last Prophet of Allah. A Perfect guide for Humanity.”
• “The Noble Quran: Guidance, Mercy and Blessing for all Mankind.”
• “The Noble Quran: Without any doubt and an eloquent guide from Allah.”
• “The Beautiful Quran: Guidance for the wise & sensible.”
• “Islam: A shining beacon against the darkness of repression, segregation, intolerance and racism . . .”      Click here to read the entire Federal Complaint    

The Thomas More Law Center, a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is committed to upholding American values rooted in Judeo-Christian heritage protecting free speech and religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and a free and independent United States.  It does not charge for its services.  

‘Lawyer Up’: Democrats Declare War on Trump Administration

 Mary Chastain

"Sen. Mark Kelly: “The American people just impeached Donald Trump.'”

Toon added by TD

"It didn’t take long for Democrats to aim their knives at President Donald Trump and his administration.

"The Democrats will control the House of Representatives and the Senate in January with massive majorities.

"Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) who will likely be the next Chairman of the House Oversight Committee https://t.co/4ZkkQKkn3I    — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 4, 2026

Good morning to everyone except:

—The Trump Crime Family
—Crony corporations ripping off the American people
—Corrupt Trump admin officials profiting off the presidency
—Associates of Jeffrey Epstein
—@CLewandowski_

Like incoming Chairman @RepRobertGarcia said: Lawyer up." . . .

More.

Bennie Thompson Warns DHS to Preserve Records as Democrats Prepare Investigations 

. . . "Thompson will likely chair the Committee on Homeland Security when the Democrats take over in January. He currently serves as the Ranking Member.

"I remind you once again that many Democrats let everyone know they intend to investigate everyone in the Trump administration once we learned the party won the House majority.

"On Wednesday, Thompson asked Democrats to support his bid to become chairman."

Oh, look. ICE is first on his list of what the Democrats on the committee plan to tackle (emphasis his):

Did Stock Market Surge Mean Investors Love Dems And Socialism? No, But They Love Gridlock

 Issues & Insights   

"Or extreme legislation reflecting the dangerously growing clout of socialism within the Democratic Party. Gridlock makes all of those things less of a threat, not more of one."

"Democrats have been giddy following the strong rise in the major U.S. stock market indexes the day after their blue wave crashed over Congress, giving them back control of both houses and leaving badly defeated Republicans as a demoralized minority. So do stock market investors like socialism? Hardly.

One thing is clear from this election: the Democratic Party mainly flies these days on its left wing. There are very few Democratic moderates and even fewer conservatives (if any) among Democrats. With its open embrace of the Democratic Socialists of America and its alliance with politically radical Islam, it is now all but in name a socialist party.

"But that isn’t what the stock market was applauding on Wednesday.

"OK, so why did the S&P500 Index gain 1.6%, the Dow 30 a whopping 3%, and the Nasdaq 1.4% the day after the Democrats shellacked the Republicans?

"Relax. The markets haven’t gone socialist. They are, as always, highly pragmatic.

"As we wrote just yesterday, “the only thing we know for sure is that for the next two years, Washington, D.C., will be in a state of gridlock while Democrats unleash a torrent of investigations, impeachments, and endless claims of corruption and wrongdoing.”

"Yes, “gridlock,” which is just another word for restoring lost political equilibrium through the ballot box.

"That’s why the market often does well after midterm elections. Midterm elections are usually a course correction for voters who feel angry or betrayed by a political party or a charismatic leader. And that can create a deeply divided government. Also known as gridlock.

"The truth is, markets like midterm elections because of this process, not despite it.

"President Donald Trump, after congratulating Democrats on their big victory, noted almost casually that he intends to veto Democratic bills he doesn’t like. No surprise there. A veto is a powerful thing: It takes two-thirds of both chambers of Congress to override one. That’s real gridlock.

"So regardless of what Democrats might want, unless they play ball with the now-minority Republicans in the House and Senate and with Trump, they’re unlikely to get it." . . . More.

The Meaning of the 2026 Election: Voters wanted affordability. Republicans gave them tariffs and unelectable candidates.

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   

"At the state level, those states with a Republican legislature and governor can continue to reduce taxes and reform government to attract talent, investment (and electoral votes) from blue states to red states."

Chat GPT

"The next two years are not about passing legislation. They are for highlighting the costs and damage of Democrat proposals and focusing voters on the agenda available only if the GOP wins the House and Senate in 2028.

"On Tuesday, the Republican Party lost its majorities in the House and Senate, four Governorships, a dozen state legislative chambers including both houses in Arizona, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin, the Pennsylvania Senate, and the House in Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Alaska, and even Texas. This hands Democrats control of a majority of the nation’s legislative chambers and new trifectas in at least five states. Democrats now hold 51 chambers, up from 29 when Trump won in 2016. 

"President Trump’s approval rating was 39 percent.

"If the Democrats elect a president in 2028, they can end the filibuster with a simple majority in the Senate and then proceed to add an unlimited number of states to the 50 we have now, add as many Supreme Court members as they wish, and organize immigration and naturalization laws to add as many voters as they wish from whatever nations they wish. (RELATED: Here Come the Court-Packing Democrats)

"Democrats can and will nationalize health care, ban independent contractors (as California has done), repeal Right to Work for all Americans, and impose the PRO Act that will force more workers to pay dues to unions that can then be recycled to the Democrat Party and its candidates.

"And Democrats will certainly impose a national property (“wealth”) tax on your home, your life savings, farms, and small businesses. They tried this in California this past week. They lost. But they want your money. They will be back.

"Tort laws will be “liberalized” to create more billionaire trial lawyers (read Democrat donors). And welfare will be targeted to Democrat voting blocs to free up their time to work for the “common good” — i.e., the various factions of the Takings Coalition that is the modern Democrat Party.

"America would become a one-party state for all intents and purposes.

"This future is not inevitable." . . . More. 

We will kill Trump: Iran's giant billboard shows US President behind bars in Tehran

India Today

"A billboard reading “We Will Kill Trump” appeared in Tehran on Tuesday, marking the latest display denouncing the president amid renewed diplomatic efforts and targeted defense strikes in the Strait of Hormuz on the eve of the U.S. midterms, which officials have called limited.

"Iran displayed an explicit death threat against Donald Trump on a massive Tehran billboard. The new threats come amid reports of preparations for possible fresh US-Israeli strikes against Iran following the November 3 US midterm elections." . . .

. . . Another billboard nearby features Trump alongside US Vice-President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. All four are portrayed with bloodied faces and torn suits, set against the backdrop of battered American and Israeli flags."

More.

Philadelphia anti-Israel groups to stage ‘boycott ride’ past Jewish-owned restaurants on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

Video: Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass

Kristallnacht: Pictures capture horrors of 1938 Nazi pogrom

"The pogroms on 9 and 10 November 1938 are often regarded as the starting point of the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany killed six million Jews."

Philadelphia anti-Israel groups to stage ‘boycott ride’ past Jewish-owned restaurants on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

Philadelphia anti-Israel groups are planning a bicycle ride targeting Jewish-owned businesses on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi-orchestrated pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria.

The “Boycott Ride,” organized by Philly Bike On Your Left in collaboration with Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza, Boycott CookNSolo and Philly Solidarity Calendar, is scheduled for Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. at Rittenhouse Square in the heart of Center City. A flier promoting the event states, “No business for Zionists,” adding, “These Zionist establishments must go.”

The flier names several Philadelphia businesses, including Dizengoff, a modern Israeli restaurant; Huda, a sandwich shop; Schlesinger’s Restaurant and Delicatessen, a Jewish deli; Mac Mart, a macaroni-and-cheese kiosk; K’Far Cafe, an Israeli cafe; and Goldie, a kosher falafel shop.

“Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” organizers wrote.

"Meet Philadelphia cyclist Hara Aslav, who is organizing a boycott of the city's Jewish restaurants this Sunday (November 8). "The very next day marked the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazi mobs smashed the windows of thousands of Jewish-owned businesses and looted their stores. "Absurd."

Denaturalize and deport.

— Katya Sedgwick (@KatyaSedgwick) November 3, 2026

After the Temple Israel attack, the cameras left, but the hate remains - Israel & Jewish News - JNS . . ."On March 12, my 4-year-old daughter and her little brother, who was 2 at the time, were at their preschool at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich., when a terrorist drove a pickup truck loaded with 35 gallons of gasoline and thousands of dollars’ worth of commercial-grade fireworks through the main entrance.

"As he drove down the hallway, he fired an AR-15-style rifle into the classrooms. He struck the head of security with his truck, eventually getting the vehicle stuck a mere 30 feet from where a group of children was sheltered in the gym area. The security team engaged him as the truck caught fire and thick black smoke poured through the building.

"The terrorist did not survive. Every one of the 140 children and staff did, but they will never be the same." . . . 

. . . "But we are still here. Our children are still here. And unfortunately, so is the hate. Whoever is elected on Nov. 3, we must do better.".  More.

Sadly, America put the "Death to Israel" crowd into Benjamin Franklin's Congress. 

"We've given you a republic...if you can keep it."