Watch: Affordability? The Figures Don't Lie!

🚨UPDATE: Peter Doocy Dropped a jaw-dropping Fact-Check Comparing Inflation in Trump’s First Year to Biden’s

• Overall inflation: Biden 4.3%, Trump 1.6%

• Grocery prices: Biden 3.8%, Trump 1.4%

• Gas prices: Biden +24.4%, Trump -5.4%

Trump is Making America Wealthy Again🔥 pic.twitter.com/cDU9usYgiX

— TRUMP SUPPORTER (@_Postive_Vibes) February 13, 2026

You're Not Surprised At THIS, Are You?

Which state do people regret moving to the most in America?

You guessed it, New Jersey, just taking a wild guess it's all the insane progressive policies and taxes

Why do you think most people regret coming here? Btw, Every state that topped the list is run by Democrats 🔵 pic.twitter.com/rr0LpQFtWu

— Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey (@wakeupnj) February 13, 2026

If Only Ever NJ GOP Legislator Was Like KANITRA!

The Chairman talked crap about my hometown, shut my mic off and took away my right to question witnesses during yesterday’s disastrous illegal immigration hearing.

They want to keep the truth from getting out about your tax dollars being funneled to non-profits that protect… pic.twitter.com/V90BkSYDHm

— Assemblyman Paul Kanitra (@VoteKanitra) February 13, 2026

NJ State Assemblyman Paul Kanitra explains:

The Chairman talked crap about my hometown, shut my mic off and took away my right to question witnesses during yesterday’s disastrous illegal immigration hearing. They want to keep the truth from getting out about your tax dollars being funneled to non-profits that protect illegals and help them fight deportation. They don’t want you to know that if we send home the 900,000 illegals here, they’ll lose 4 Assembly seats and 2 Congressional seats. Housing will get more affordable. Taxes will drop. They don’t want you to know how the bills they passed yesterday endanger the lives of law enforcement and prioritize criminals over hard working legal residents. Watch this video to the very end and then let everyone across the country know what’s happening here in New Jersey so they can stop it in their states before it’s too late.

Remembering Gayle Michael: Formidable And Tireless!

It happened while I was in New York this past weekend watching an old Noel Coward inspired musical. One character in the show said to the other "You're not gonna die. You're not the dying type."

That's when I thought of my lifelong friend and mentor, Gayle Granatir Michael. Gayle was simply "not the dying type" -- which is why it was a jolt to everyone who knew her when she passed away last week. 

Gayle was part of a special generation of women who were strong, determined and indefatigable. They were trailblazers who predated the modern women's movement.

My first contact with her occurred when I was a student and she was my English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, NJ. Gayle told me I had "that certain something" and encouraged me to enter the school's prestigious speech contest, even though I was hesitant to do so. Eventually she ordered me to participate in the contest where I would present a dramatic reading -- just me, the stage and a single spotlight; no costume, no scenery, no props! Gayle coached me every step of the way and then pushed me out onto the stage. I won the contest!

Before I knew it, Gayle was more than my teacher -- she was a treasured family friend who often showed up at my house for dinner. My parents adored her! 

When I graduated high school, Gayle gave me a bottle of Monsieur de Givenchy, a classic French cologne. Gayle explained that she had intended to give the cologne to her father who passed away before she was able to do that. Today, on special occasions, I still wear Monsieur de Givinchy which  continues to be produced by the LVMH luxury group.

Gayle savored the better things in life — the better food, literature, clothing, hotels, sights, cities, places and, most of all  PEOPLE — and she went after all that. She selected friends carefully and connected them to one another. She was a networker long before the invention of the word and was very loyal to her friends. For example, even at the time of her death Gayle was still campaigning for her friend Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Paula Patrick. 

For Gayle, no goals was too high or unachievable. No want was necessarily out of bounds. Her philosophy was “reach for the stars.”

She was decidedly OLD SCHOOL but she always kept current. She was up on the news and the events of the day and even when social media came into play, she jumped into it. 

She was passionate about everything that she believed in and she wasn’t shy about what she believed in. She had opinions — lots of them .  First, at a time when people were not afraid to express their opinions and, later, when they were (and ARE!) she still expressed hers without hesitation. 

She was a patriot. She loved her country and was worried about what was happening, here and beyond. She was troubled about the current state of affairs and where we were headed. She really cared and was always determined to make a difference where and when  she could. 

I never heard her complain or explain; which is to say she was not a “woe is me” kind of person. She didn’t lament, and if you were looking for some deep psychological explanation from her about most things, you weren’t likely to get it because she was a person of ACTION. She didn’t spend time ruminating. She moved — and moved ON, when necessary.

Though she endured the loss of her handsome and accomplished husband, Vincent Michael, early in their marriage and was left with two young boys to raise, Gayle didn't flinch. Today, her sons are successful attorneys, outstanding citizens, husbands, fathers and distinguished professionals. 

Gayle understood that life is a performance. So, you get up each day — no matter what — and you dust yourself off, dress yourself up and get out there. And she did that — often against near insurmountable odds. And she always looked her best, just as you would if you were stepping out into the spotlight, on stage. 

She loved politics (and don’t we all?) but she also understood that everything is connected to everything else. So she was also into art, literature, music, sports, theater, the movies, the popular culture — whatever sparked curiosity and conversation — she was there.

She was a VIVID personality.— and formidable. But, my goodness -- what an incredible life she led! She remains one of my unforgettable characters and a defining influence in my life. She will be dearly missed!

Click here for Gayle's complete obituary.

Lincon's Enduring Legacy Powered By His Words!

Excerpts from Professor Walter Berns in a wonderful article that originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal:

Our extraordinary interest in him, and esteem for him, has to do with what he said and how he said it. And much of this had to do with the Union -- what it was and why it was worth the saving. . . .

It is not by chance that his best and most celebrated speech was delivered on a battlefield, on the occasion of dedicating a cemetery filled with the graves of patriots. I speak, of course, of the Gettysburg Address.
It is brief, a mere 272 words, and could not have taken much more than five minutes to deliver. In its central passage, Lincoln says, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." Well, what little do we remember?
We remember he said that this nation was founded in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence and its principles. We remember this because of the unusual way he said it. Not 87 years ago, but "four score and seven." . . . 
This, too, we remember: Lincoln goes on to say that the brave men, living and dead, who struggled on this ground, this battlefield, had "consecrated" it better than he or anyone else could. Consecrated? Had made it sacred, a battlefield? As if they -- presumably the Union soldiers -- were fighting for the Lord? No, but their cause was great and noble.
We also remember Lincoln saying that their work was "unfinished," and that we, the living, should highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain and that this nation, "under God, shall have a new birth of freedom," and that government of, by and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
What little do we remember? In a word, and despite what he said, we remember everything he said. And we remember it because he took great pains to say it beautifully. . . .

We say that a man can be known by the company he keeps. So I say that a nation, a people, can be known and be judged by its heroes, by whom it honors above all others. We pay ourselves the greatest compliment when we say that Abraham Lincoln is that man for us.

Today Is His Birthday; THIS Was His Sanctuary

In honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, today:

Tucked away in a corner of the nation's capital, on the grounds of the Soldier's Home, you'll find an historic spot that little known and rarely discussed or spotlighted.
Yet, it is a very important place in the history or our nation.
No, it's not a battlefield, though many old soldiers have spent their final hours there.
And no, it's not a monument as such but it does contain statues depicting a great leader and his horse.
It's Lincoln's Cottage and it's situated near the Petworth and Park View neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.

We recently visited this historic Cottage, which was built in the Gothic revival style and was constructed from 1842 to 1843 as the home of George Washington Riggs, who went on to establish the Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C.

We called an uber car from our hotel near the White House and were scurried off to the cottage, which really isn't a cottage at all but quite a large and impressive edifice that sits amidst tall trees with an impressive vista of open space beyond.

Lincoln lived in the cottage June to November 1862 through 1864 and during the first summer living there, Lincoln drafted the preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. Mary Todd Lincoln fondly recalled the campus; in 1865, she wrote, "How dearly I loved the Soldiers' Home." One can imagine how green and breezy the cottage may have been in those days when it was clearly separated from the congestion of swampy Washington.

Poet Walt Whitman, who was living on Vermont Avenue near the White House in 1863, often saw the president riding to or from Soldiers' Home. He wrote in The New York Times, "Mr. Lincoln  generally rides a good-sized easy-going gray horse, is dressed in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty; wears a black stiff hat, and looks about as ordinary in attire, &c., as the commonest man...I saw very plainly the President's dark brown face, with the deep cut lines, the eyes, &c., always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression." Whitman quoted this article in his 1876 book Memoranda During the War, adding the phrase: "We have got so that we always exchange bows, and very cordial ones."

The Soldiers' Home stands on 251 acres atop the third highest point in Washington. The Home was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 1974. In 2000, the cottage was placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 11 Most Endangered list. Then about 2.3 acres of the Home was proclaimed a National Monument by President Bill Clinton on July 7, 2000. The National Trust took on the restoration which was completed in 2007.

The Cottage exterior was restored to the period of Lincoln's occupancy in the 1860s in a joint venture by the Philadelphia firm J. S. Cornell & Son, and Stephen Ortado, Historic Structures, according to the standards of the National Park Service. Today the property is leased by the National Trust for Historic Preservation through a cooperative agreement with the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and is managed by President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home, an independent 501(c)(3) charity.

President Lincoln's Cottage opened to the public on February 18, 2008. A reproduction of the Lincoln desk on which he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation was commissioned by the Trust for use in the Cottage. The original drop-lid walnut paneled desk is in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. The desk is the only surviving piece of furniture that is known to have been placed in the White House and the Cottage during the Lincoln era.

The adjacent Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center features exhibits about the Soldiers' Home, wartime Washington, D.C., Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief during the Civil War, and a special exhibit gallery. President Lincoln's Cottage and Visitor Education Center is open to the public for tours seven days a week.

Take a break from the usual tourist attractions in Washington and soak up the allure of the most compelling figure in all of American history as you climb the cottage steps and run your hand along the exact same bannister that Lincoln used. It's a rare treat!

We hope you enjoy these photos that we took during our recent visit.

And The Dems STILL Won't Approve Voter ID!

 

CNN: PeopleWant Voter ID; Dem Leaders Are Blocking It!

CNN admits: "The bottom line is this: Voter ID is not controversial in this country... it is not controversial by party and it is not controversial by race."pic.twitter.com/lSJPrClKUZ

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) February 10, 2026

NJ LEADS -- In All The WRONG Departments!

 

Look At How Viewereship Tanked For Bad Bunny!