Author: American Greatness

Commentary: President Trump Can Make American Intelligence Great Again

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Trump Smiling

Eight years ago, after Donald Trump’s historic 2016 presidential election victory, I published an article with the same title above, listing urgent recommendations for President Trump to reform America’s then-17 intelligence agencies so they could revert to the great agencies they once were that helped our nation win the Cold War. I believed at the time that the growing politicization of U.S. intelligence, especially concerning the Russia collusion hoax during the 2016 campaign, and bloated intelligence bureaucracies had damaged the reputation of our intelligence agencies and undermined their ability to provide crucial intelligence support to the president.

After the extreme weaponization of U.S. intelligence against the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and his administration, as well as woke mismanagement of intelligence agencies by the Biden administration, intelligence reform is far more urgent today than when Mr. Trump assumed the Oval Office in January 2017.

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Commentary: Time to Ask Tough Questions About These Student Loan Bailouts

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Even as the Trump inauguration nears, Biden continues to cause controversy, including with student loan cancellations.

On January 13,  his Education Department announced yet another round of student loan forgiveness—this time, for more than 150,000 borrowers—bringing the Administration’s total number of individuals with student debt canceled to over 5 million.

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SEC Sues Elon Musk for Allegedly Failing to Disclose Purchase of Twitter Stocks

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Elon Musk

On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), over his alleged failure to disclose his purchase of Twitter stock in 2022.

As reported by Just The News, the alleged purchase of stock by Musk led to him underpaying Twitter investors at the time of his buyout of the company in October of 2022. The lawsuit claims that this action meant Musk was able to buy stocks at “artificially low prices.”

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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Attempting to Block Laken Riley Act

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Illegal immigrant being arrested

Outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is reportedly attempting to block passage of the bipartisan Laken Riley Act.

According to Breitbart, the report comes from independent reporter Pablo Manriquez, who said the DHS Secretary’s opposition to the bill is due to the fact that “sources at DHS” estimate the cost of the bill’s implementation to be between $20 billion and $30 billion.

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Report: President-Elect Trump Plans Many Ambitious Executive Orders on Immigration

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Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump reportedly has plans to issue as many as 100 executive orders on his first day in office, dealing with a wide range of topics including his signature issue of immigration.

According to Axios, the president-elect and his advisors detailed these plans during a meeting with Senate Republicans on Wednesday. Among those present at the meeting was Stephen Miller, who has been designated as the Chief of Staff for Policy in Trump’s second presidency, as well as the advisor for homeland security.

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Report: Republicans Push to Abolish ATF

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ATF Agents

Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are planning to introduce legislation to abolish the controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

According to Fox News, Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) will introduce the bill, which has earned several prominent co-sponsors, including: Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Bob Onder (R-Mo.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Keith Self (R-Texas), and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).

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Trump Vows to ‘Terminate’ Joe Biden’s ‘Costly and Ridiculous’ Executive Orders, Including His New Ban on Offshore Drilling

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Off Shore Drilling

President-Elect Donald Trump vowed Monday to “terminate” Joe Biden’s last minute executive orders, such as his new “permanent” ban on future offshore drilling, and other “money wasting hoaxes.”

Biden announced his latest executive action on Monday, to “permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo,” according to CNN.

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Commentary: Joe Biden Adds to His Shameful Legacy

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Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden

We watched as Joe Biden (and his handlers) continued to dishonor the Office of the Presidency as he finally exits the political stage in little more than two weeks. Last week, in a clearly partisan effort, he cheapened the prestige of the nation’s second highest civilian honor, the Presidential Citizens Award, awarding it to J6 Committee chair and vice chair Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney who were complicit in deleting records before the GOP retook control of the House of Representatives in 2022. But on Saturday, he outdid himself with many of his selections for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor.

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Commentary: A Critical Look at Elaine Pagels’ Religious Scholarship

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Elaine Pagels

Over at Instapundit, Mark Tapscott called my attention to an interview in our former paper of record that Times journo Nicholas Kristoff conducts with Elaine Pagels, the celebrated (by some) Princeton historian of religion.

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