Day: July 4, 2025

Trump’s Triumph with ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ to Realign America for Years to Come

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President Donald Trump’s triumph in passing the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” not only demonstrated he could conquer the often-maddening politics of Congress, he also set the United States on a fundamentally different course when it comes to taxes, government spending and domestic policies like Medicaid and food stamps.

Both chambers of Congress passed the Trump agenda megabill this week, ahead of their July 4 deadline, and it will be signed by the president in a special ceremony on Friday.

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Commentary: Remembering the Real Revolution of July Fourth

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by Patrick Garry   The words are engrained in our national consciousness: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These inspirational and linguistically beautiful words of the Declaration of Independence justified the American colonies’ break from England. But they did more than that. They explained to the world and to history that natural rights formed the basis of civil law and government. This was the truly revolutionary aspect of that document signed on July 4, 1776. After the Declaration, the world was never the same. The legacy of natural rights meant that law and government would no longer legitimately flow from the whims of a monarch. Tyrants would no longer carry any moral authority. Human dignity would transcend the interests of the empire. The Declaration and its natural law foundations vaulted the human world into a new orbit of political philosophy, where deprivations of individual dignity could not be convincingly justified by the self-interests of a ruling elite. The Declaration led to a political and legal system that in turn gave birth to a flourishing of…

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Shelby County Approves Permit for Turbines Powering Elon Musk’s xAI Supercomputer in Memphis

Tom Pappert
Elon Musk Super Computer

The Shelby County Health Department on Wednesday approved a construction permit for the installation of 15 turbines to power Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, which the billionaire said would become the world’s largest. Colossus is used to power the artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot Grok. 

According to the permit, xAI has authorization to install 15 combustion turbine units that will be powered using natural gas, with many of the turbines turbines subject to regular testing, and the facility required to keep regular emissions records. Should xAI be deemed out of compliance with the permit, it explains the company can be fined up to $10,000 per day, per violation. 

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Mortgage of Fallen Knox County Deputy Sheriff Paid Off by Tunnel to Towers Foundation

Kaitlin Housler
Tucker Blakely

The mortgage of fallen U.S. Army veteran and Knox County Deputy Sheriff Tucker Blakely’s family home was paid off by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation through its Fallen First Responder Home Program.

Blakely passed away on October 2, 2023, one day after he and his partner responded to a domestic violence call and, upon arrival at the home, were met with gunfire from an armed subject.

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El Salvador Releases Video from Kilmar Abrego Garcia Prison Cell amid Silence from Senator Van Hollen

Tom Pappert
KAG at CECOT

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador on Thursday released video footage purportedly showing the cell where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison complex, which the foreign leader says disproves the alleged human smuggler’s claims of torture while incarcerated in his homeland.

The video posted by Bukele to the social media platform X contains various photos and videos of Abrego Garcia at the CECOT prison, including footage of his cell from March 30, which appears to fall one day after the period when Abrego Garcia claimed guards were beating him due to his status as a new arrival at the prison.

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Analysis: Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers an Important Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific

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In an April 2025 executive order, President Trump affirmed that offshore critical minerals are key to creating supply chains that do not depend on adversaries like the People’s Republic of China. While US leadership on deep-sea mining directly serves the nation’s resource needs, it also brings mutually-beneficial partnerships with other nations.

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All 444 Maricopa County Tabulators Failed EAC Standards in 2022 Election, Group Claims

Rachel Alexander
We the People AZ Alliance

The grassroots election group We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) issued a video recently going over the problems with the printers and ballot tabulating machines in Arizona’s 2022 election, where there were extensive tabulator misreads. Shelby Busch, who heads WPAA, and her co-host Bryan Blehm, who previously represented Kari Lake in an election lawsuit, interviewed Dr. Walter Daugherity, a senior lecturer emeritus for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M, who graduated from Oklahoma Christian University with a degree in Mathematics, and then later earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. 

According to Busch, not one tabulator out of the 444 tabulators in Maricopa County’s 2022 election met the Election Assistance (EAC) standards due to every one of them encountering problems reading ballots. Those standards allow for an error rate of .2 percent, or one in 500 ballots. However, after litigation from Lake, the courts refused to redo the election.

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