After disappearing during a powerful winter storm, a beloved dog was missing for nearly a week. Against the odds, the determined pup was finally reunited with its relieved and overjoyed family.

After disappearing during a powerful winter storm, a beloved dog was missing for nearly a week. Against the odds, the determined pup was finally reunited with its relieved and overjoyed family.

The armed perpetrator who rammed his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on Thursday, reportedly had relatives who were recently killed by an Israeli strike in Lebanon. Investigators believe this loss served as the catalyst for the targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.

We don’t have a voter ID law in this country. People can register to vote in national elections on an honor system, and we just had about 20 million pour in illegally. States like California have banned voter ID or made it mostly irrelevant. A whopping 84% of Americans want voter ID. No Democrat will […] The post We Don’t Have a Voter ID: Anyone Can Vote in the USA appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Critics of the War Department’s purchase of steak and lobster have largely fallen silent in the face of overwhelming evidence that this is standard practice for troops about to deploy. But while they were going, they were loud — and they were all Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blasted War Secretary Pete Hegseth on social media and accused him of wasting taxpayer money on luxuries such as “fruit baskets, Herman Miller recliners, ice cream machines, Alaskan king crabs, and a Steinway & Sons grand piano.” Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month – roughly the cost of extending the ACA tax credits for THREE YEARS. But instead of lowering American’s healthcare costs, Hegseth used millions of taxpayer dollars on fruit baskets, Herman Miller recliners, ice cream machines, Alaskan… https://t.co/bdCHRWip3P — Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 10, 2026 California Governor Gavin Newsom similarly circulated a viral post accusing the Pentagon of blowing through $93 billion in spending during a single month. By now, countless commentators have pointed out that there’s nothing unusual about serving steak and lobster to troops on the verge of deploying. Military leaders have frequently emphasized that small comforts can have an outsized impact on morale, particularly for troops stationed overseas or serving in stressful environments. And, according to a recent analysis from government watchdog group Open the Books, the War Department purchased much of its steak and lobster towards the end of the last fiscal year, when federal agencies often accelerate purchases before budgets reset. Faced with all this evidence, critics have been eating crow. But perhaps they should also eat fungus. In 2024, the Biden Defense Department awarded nearly $1.5 million to The Better Meat Company, a California firm that develops alternative protein products using fungal roots grown in bioreactors. The company’s process feeds water and nutrients to the fungus in a fermentation tank, producing a gray semi-solid material that can be processed into protein ingredients. Pentagon officials at the time insisted the project was not intended to place synthetic meat substitutes in soldiers’ Meals Ready-to-Eat (MREs). Instead, a Pentagon spokesman said the funding supported a facility for producing shelf-stable protein ingredients that could help sustain troops deployed around the world. “Where was the outrage when the Biden administration wanted to force-feed franken-meat to America’s military heroes?” Jack Hubbard, executive director of the watchdog Center for the Environment and Welfare, said. “‘Ick’ factor aside, there are no long-term health studies on the effects of lab-grown meat. Our armed forces deserve better.” Hegseth has made combating the Biden administration’s woke policies central to his mission at the helm of the War Department, saying that doing so boosts morale and makes the country safer. “We became the woke department. But not anymore,” Hegseth said during a 2025 address to generals and flag officers. “This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to rip out the politics.” Hegseth added that the effort included eliminating programs he said distracted from the military’s core mission. “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions,” he said. “As I’ve said before and will say again, we are done with that sh*t. I’ve made it my mission to uproot the obvious distractions that made us less capable and less lethal.”

The Chicago Teachers Union urged city leaders this week to cancel school on May 1 to allow students and teachers to join a nationwide protest against the Trump administration. Some leftists are attempting to make May 1 a day of “no work, no school, no shopping” to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration and tax policy, and the Chicago Teachers Union wants public school students and staff to join in on the political demonstration. “Educators say the president’s breaking of every rule mark a line in the sand for their students, school communities, and democracy as we know it,” the teachers union stated in a press release. The teachers union is pushing to cancel school on May 1 as Chicago public schools continue to report dismal student proficiency rates. Only 43% of students between third and eighth grades in Chicago public schools read proficiently at their grade level, according to the 2025 Illinois Report Card. Meanwhile, 27% of students in those grade levels were proficient in math. Last year, the Chicago Teachers Union helped organize protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement after Trump ramped up immigration enforcement in the city. When asked about its focus on politics while most Chicago students struggle, the Chicago Teachers Union directed The Daily Wire to a comment from its press release. “Teaching our students what civic action looks like requires more than textbooks when the President sends federal agents to occupy our cities and the Governor chooses to continue giving tax breaks to billionaires instead of giving our students the school day they deserve,” said Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jackson Potter. “If we still want to have democracy in the midterms this November, public schools that provide our students with quality education, and unions to defend workers’ rights, then it is up to every Chicagoan to stand up for what we believe in and show the authoritarian billionaire in Washington that when he breaks every rule, we will not go along with business as usual.” Windy City residents are growing increasingly frustrated with the Chicago Teachers Union, according to a recent poll conducted by M3 Strategies in partnership with the Illinois Policy Institute. The poll, which surveyed 437 registered voters in Chicago in late February, found that just 28% of respondents had a positive view of the teachers union, while 54% disapproved. Nearly half of registered Chicago voters also said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who accepted contributions from the Chicago Teachers Union, according to the poll. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose approval rating dropped to 14% last year, is also a member of the Chicago Teachers Union. He helped organize a teachers strike in the past. Johnson was endorsed by the teachers union for his mayoral run in 2023. In the 2023 mayoral election, the union was one of the biggest contributors, funneling millions to the effort to elect Johnson and apportioning $8 from each member’s union dues to arm its political action committees. Mailee Smith, the vice president of policy and litigation at the Illinois Policy Institute, told The Daily Wire that the Chicago Teachers Union has long acted more like a political party than a voice for teachers and students. “The Chicago Teachers Union is much more interested in pulling teachers out of school and pulling students out of school than it is focusing on the core curriculum,” Smith said. “They are much more focused on progressive politics because that’s what they do,” Smith added. “They’re not a teachers union. They’re not in this for teachers and what’s best for them. They’re not in it for kids and what’s best for them. They have been focused, particularly since 2010, on being a political party.”