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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 helicopters and 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 settled for just 19. Read more.
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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 pursuing merit-based recruitment, hiring, and promotion. Read more. |
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 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.
Read about the victims here. |
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.
Read about Gabbard’s hearing here and Patel’s hearing here. |
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.
This could be one of the weirdest stories you’ll ever read. Learn more here.
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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. |
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 commenced before 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 know did 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 agenda every time something goes wrong. Doing that will make people lose interest by the time it actually 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 won at 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 explaining every 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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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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