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Understaffed Air Traffic Control Center Oversaw Wednesday’s Crash


Bloated bureaucracy cripples America’s government. Like Twitter before Elon
Musk, we know many federal agencies cast too wide of a net by employing far
more federal workers than they need.

The FAA could be an exception. According to an agency report, the air traffic
controller on duty during Wednesday’s deadly crash was stretched far too thin,
forced to perform the duties of two people all by himself. Staffing was “not
normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the report found, forcing
the overburdened employee to oversee helicoptersand airplanes around the busy
airport.

Reagan National’s air traffic control staff has been undermanned for years.
While the facility should typically have 30 people on deck, it has often
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Trump Orders Aviation Safety Assessment


Millions of Americans take to the skies each day. Can they trust their flights
to be safe?

Donald Trump says they can, and his administration is preparing to review all
elements of aviation safety to ensure nothing like Wednesday’s disaster happens
again. The president ordered an immediate and holistic review on Thursday,
including an evaluation of competence over diversity, equity, and inclusion.

His memorandum accused the Obama and Biden administrations of prioritizing
demographics over aptitude when hiring air traffic controllers, going so far as
to say his second predecessor encouraged the recruitment of people with "severe
intellectual disabilities." He said the crash "underscores the need to elevate
safety and competence as the priority of the FAA” and proves him right for
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Who Was on the Plane?


No survivors will emerge from Wednesday’s catastrophe. Heartbreaking details
about the victims are still coming to light.


Parents, siblings, service members, athletes, students, and more perished
during the crash. They had no reason to believe the flight would be their last.
At least one man, now suddenly a widower,was already at the airport
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to retrieve his wife after the plane’s scheduled landing. His and all the
impacted families’ grief must be unimaginable.

We live in a polarized and anxiety-provoking period. It’s easy to let our
differences tear us apart. Let this tragedy remind us to cherish our time with
one another, even when it’s imperfect. It’s impossible to know when it might
end.

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High Stakes Confirmation Hearings Consume Capitol Hill


The political universe’s previously scheduled events proceeded as usual on
Thursday, including the highly anticipated confirmation hearings for Tulsi
Gabbard and Kash Patel.

Gabbard vehemently rejected her detractors’ perpetual claims that she is some
sort of foreign agent, telling her interrogators that she’s nonsensically
painted as a Putin or Assad puppet because “What truly unsettles my political
opponents is I refuse to be their puppet.”

Patel also fended off a barrage of attacks, pushing back on accusatory claims
from Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Adam Schiff, and other hopped-up Democrats
seeking their moment in the spotlight.

The two nominees have long been among the biggest question marks of Donald
Trump’s cabinet choices. Their and RFK’s confirmation votes should come down to
the wire, potentially requiring JD Vance to step in to break a tie.




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Border Patrol Murderer Was… in a Trans Cult?


Vegan trans militant cults.

Did you know those exist? At least one of them does, and two of its members
were just involved in a Border Patrol agent’s killing.

Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt and Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut allegedly
initiated a firefight in Coventry, Vermont, earlier this month, killing agent
David Maland after he stopped their car in what should have been a routine
run-in. Bauckholt died in the skirmish, and Youngblut is in custody.

Authorities analyzed the criminals’ weapons after the shootout and believe
they are connected to a mysterious transgender cult that follows a leader named
Jack LaSota, also known by the alias “Ziz.” Police now link “the Ziz Cult” to
at least four killings.

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Collector Buys $15 Million Painting for $50


“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is as true a phrase as any.

When an antique collector stumbled upon a cool-looking garage sale painting in
2016, he quickly knew it had to be his. So he bought it. For less than $50.

Three years later, the piece made its way into the hands of the art research
firm LMI Group, which recently published a 450-page report concluding that the
work was not your everyday heirloom or inconspicuous piece.It’s a Van Gogh. And
it could be worth up to $15 million.

Experts say Van Gogh made the painting, titled Elimar, while living in
France’s Saint-Paul asylum in the late 1800s. Other unknown pieces by history’s
most famous artist may be out there. According to the report, Van Gogh "lost
many works, gave away works to friends and was not particularly careful about
any work he considered a study, of which there were many."Read more.
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Commentary


No One Trusts the Boy Who Cried Wolf


Out of respect for Wednesday’s crash’s victims and their families, you’d wish
the country would have paused and mourned before splitting into tribes and
going after each other’s throats. But that’s not what happened. The internet’s
blame game commencedbefore we even knew if the disaster had any survivors.


As is typical, the Left sought to pin it on Donald Trump. That’s their modus
operandi. But the Right wasn’t much better. Without bothering to gather the
facts, its minions immediately aimed their rage at one of the only things we
knowdid not cause this catastrophe: diversity, equity, and inclusion.


Has DEI infiltrated the government? Of course. And that undoubtedly includes
the FAA. But it’s not the reason two aircraft plunged into the freezing
Potomac. An edge case communication breakdown and an understaffed air traffic
control tower led to that. Listening to the pre-crash back and forth between
the helicopter and air traffic control proves it without a shadow of a doubt.


The people fighting to stop DEI are promoting a worthy cause. No one should
receive judgment based on their skin color or any other inherent
characteristic. At the same time, those crusaders must be cautious about
blaming the cancerous woke agendaevery time something goes wrong. Doing that
will make people lose interest by the time itactually causes catastrophes,
which it already has.


The California fires? Those would have played out a lot differently if the
Golden State had chosen its leadership based on merit. The 2024 election?
Perhaps Democrats would have wonat least one swing state if they’d selected
their candidate for reasons other than her race and sex. Even the Trump
assassination attempt may have been prevented if everyone in the president’s
security detail knew how to handle a gun. But they didn’t. And DEI is to blame.


Those who want to prevent further similar incidents must remain disciplined in
their messaging. Using DEI as a catch-all for explainingevery bad thing only
hurts the effort to destroy it. Democrats do that with racism, and we know how
ridiculous they sound. It is vital that the other side avoids the same lazy
ploys.


 

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This Day in History


January 31, 1995: Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 million economic stabilization
loan to Mexico. The Mexican economy was in disrepair, and Clinton figured its
continued destruction would lead to an influx of illegal immigration,
threatening American jobs and undermining border security. So he bailed it out.
Mexico paid off the loan in less than two years.


 

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