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This probably won't be a super long "Top 'O the Briefing," but it will be a happy one. We can all use a little happiness from time to time, even noted darker personality types like myself. We take our victories where we can get them these days, and this news has brought a lot of smiles to Tucson, Ariz. More on that in a moment. Despite the best efforts of its detractors to put it out to pasture, one of the greatest jets in the history of America's air arsenal will not be going anywhere just yet. This is from my friend and RedState colleague Ward Clark:QuoteEvery grunt's favorite Cold War leftover piece of close air support, it seems, is getting a few more years of active service. On Monday, the Secretary of the Air Force announced, with a nod to the Secretary of War, that the great A-10 Thunderbolt II, better known as the Warthog, will have its service life extended until at least 2030.The A-10 has been a fixture in the Tucson sky since the mid-1970s. Even I was young then. When they take off from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, they fly right over my neighborhood. I get a great view of them when they are landing, too, and I could sit outside and watch them all day.
Every grunt's favorite Cold War leftover piece of close air support, it seems, is getting a few more years of active service. On Monday, the Secretary of the Air Force announced, with a nod to the Secretary of War, that the great A-10 Thunderbolt II, better known as the Warthog, will have its service life extended until at least 2030.
Footage circulating online appear to show a University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point athlete and her family confronting a Turning Point USA journalist during an anti-ICE protest is now under federal investigation.Federal authorities are investigating the assault of conservative journalist Savanah Hernandez during an anti-ICE protest, as online footage appears to show demonstrators physically confronting a reporter documenting the event....Reporting by OutKick identified one of the individuals shown in the footage as a women’s soccer player Paige Ostroushko from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. The report stated that the athlete appeared in videos of the confrontation and was listed on the university’s athletics roster prior to the incident.Following the circulation of the footage, the athlete was later removed from the university’s women’s soccer roster webpage, according to additional reporting documenting changes to the team’s online roster....”Found out that the 3 people that attacked me today are a family that states they’re Ukrainian-Iranian,” she wrote. “After the daughter assaulted me, the mom came up and attacked me stating ‘you f*cking hit my daughter?’ The man who violently pushed me to the ground then screamed ‘don’t touch my f*cking daughter.’ Prior to their assault, all three had come up to me and were calling me a ‘b*tch,’ screaming in my face, putting dildos in my face, blowing whistles in my ears and then assaulted me as I was trying to leave.”...A video of the aftermath of the assault on Hernandez shows Paige attempting to run from law enforcement before being arrested. She subsequently posted a video of her own in which she claims to have been “f***ing assaulted by a f***ing piece of s*** Turning Point b****.”Hernandez confirmed that Paige and Chris will be charged with misdemeanor assault, but that “somehow Deyanna (sic) is not being recommended for charges despite being caught on camera attacking me alongside her daughter.”
California state treasurer Fiona Ma took thousands in campaign donations from the founder of a Chinese boarding school at the center of a bombshell fraud probe — and reportedly promised to hook up the children of Chinese elites with jobs and internships during a secret visit in 2023.Ma, who is running for lieutenant governor, has accepted more than $30,000 from Steven Ma, the founder of a $34,000-per-year, Qingdao-based boarding school under investigation for allegedly churning out bogus California diplomas for well-connected Chinese students.An astonishing 1000-page audit conducted by Riverside County found “a pattern of favors, official acts, promises, and payments” related to a government-approved pilot program between Pegasus California School and Val Verde School District in Riverside County.Pegasus California School handed out diplomas that looked like they were issued by Val Verde schools in California — a selling point for Chinese students wanting a spot in the elite University of California system — with the help of top officials with the Department of Education and Val Verde School District who pushed the program, according to the audit.Steven Ma worked closely with former California (Superintendent of Public Instruction) Tom Torlakson, Val Verde school administrator Michal McCormick and consultant Dave Long to help catapult the Chinese students into coveted University of California spots — in an arrangement deemed “sketchy” by one university official cited by Business Insider.
I see the tendency towards activistic idiocy runs in the family. What's that saying, something about apples and falling from trees?
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who was found guilty of ethics violations after stealing significant amounts of federal funds for her own campaign and personal luxury shopping, has resigned from Congress.The scandal-plagued Democrat representative from Florida under federal indictment resigned on April 21, but in doing so, she did not admit that she almost certainly broke campaign finance laws in spectacular and egregious fashion. She expressed no repentance for wasting taxpayer-funded relief on her jewelry and political campaign. Rather, she whined that she was a victim....Cherfilus-McCormick appropriated over $5 million in COVID-19 relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to her campaign. Not only was she using this taxpayer money for her personal political campaign, which is against federal law, but she even used the taxpayer money for luxury purchases such as a 3.14-carat yellow diamond ring, according to the New York Post. She is also guilty of a "straw donors scheme."
By 4pm, the light was softening over the Pacific, and the crew of the Don Maca were finishing a long day hauling in lines of swordfish and albacore. Down in the hold, the mood had settled into the familiar rhythm of a fishing day drawing to a close.“We were just working, waiting for the last trawler to return,” said Jhonny Sebastián Palacios, one of the fishers. “Everything was perfectly fine.”From nowhere, an explosion ripped through the boat. “There was a sudden crash – boom! It came from a drone,” he said.The blast tore through the vessel, shattering glass, and injuring several crew members. “I ran upstairs and saw the boat destroyed … The whole ship was stripped bare,” he said.A group of Ecuadorian fishers have described how they were attacked in a double drone strike and then detained at gunpoint by soldiers on a US-flagged patrol vessel, in a rare first-hand account by victims of Donald Trump’s militarized campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats off South America.
The Pentagon and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. US Southern Command said it had “no information to provide regarding any US government personnel involvement in any of the incidents” laid out.
