The US Army was born on June 14, 1775. President Trump plans to have a huge anniversary parade to honor the US Army on this June 14th. This is a great way to honor the wonderful courageous men and women who have risked all for their countrymen. The parade for the 250th Anniversary of the […] The post Great News! DJT to Hold Huge Parade for US Army’s 250th Birthday appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

WASHINGTON—Internal documents obtained by The Daily Wire reveal the extent of the deficit spending that occurred at The Kennedy Center under the Biden administration — a scheme that left the performing arts center deep in debt and could open leaders up to potential legal action. Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell this week told the organization’s board of directors that, under the direction of recently departed president Debra Rutter, the group “found $26 million in phantom revenue, fake revenue.” “It’s criminal,” Grenell said, adding that “We’re going to refer this to the U.S. attorney’s office.” Rutter denied the allegations, telling the Washington Post that she and her leadership team prepared a budget each year that was approved by the board of directors. But in a letter to Grenell obtained by The Daily Wire, Kennedy Center Chief Financial Officer Donna Arduin says that Rutter’s budget claim is irrelevant. “Budgets and audits are on vastly different timetables and audits do not review the budgeting process,” Arduin wrote. “Audits are released up to a half year after the conclusion of the fiscal year, whereas budgets are approved well in advance of the fiscal year.” Arduin, known as one of the nation’s leading budget experts, came to the Kennedy Center after stints in top roles across the country. She’s been brought in to right the budgets of California under Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York under George Pataki, and Florida under Jeb Bush. In her months at the Kennedy Center, she determined that Kennedy Center leadership “veiled the fiscal year 2025 budget with $26 million in fictitious revenue and did not properly disclose such to the Board,” according to a letter to Grenell. In short, Arduin writes in the letter, “the Board believed that they were in good faith passing a balanced budget.” Additionally, Arduin notes in her letter to Grenell that “under Rutter’s watch, the Center’s leadership team changed the name of the debt reserve fund that held $54 million of donor contributions for the retirement of our bank loan to the ‘sustainability fund,’ apparently to appear that new funds had been raised for budget sustainability, and spent it to mask deficits.” This is the latest revelation of trouble at the Kennedy Center, which has become a flashpoint in the second Trump administration. Trump has pledged to make serious improvements to the performing arts center, repairing its outdated facilities and purging its repertoire of drag shows and other “woke” programming. Program offerings under former Kennedy Center leadership may have contributed to its dire financial straits. Sources with knowledge of the Center’s financial situation tell The Daily Wire that its programming has a net margin of negative $72 million. Under Grenell, The Kennedy Center is focusing on shows that will sell tickets and appeal to a wider audience. The Kennedy Center operates on a $230 million annual budget. A portion of its revenue, allocated by Congress, is earmarked for capital costs and facilities maintenance. The remainder of the Center’s money comes from donors. Sources with knowledge of the Center’s financial situation tell The Daily Wire that, under Rutter’s leadership, the organization raised $250 million and took out a $72 million loan to construct The REACH, a multipurpose space that includes rehearsal rooms, studios, and more.  President Donald Trump has criticized the project, which sources described as the “passion project” of Rutter and former Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein, whose portrait adorns the front door of the REACH. That the Kennedy Center raised and borrowed more than $300 million and did not use it to pay down its debt suggests that previous leadership teams were misguided in their financial priorities. “The former leadership built a broken budget with an operating deficit of 100 million dollars and a bottom-line deficit of $26 million,” Arduin told The Daily Wire. “We have now truly balanced the budget.” In March, The Daily Wire reported that Arduin informed staff the Kennedy Center had “no cash to pay our bills.” At the time, Grenell announced that he planned to make staff reductions and slash executive salaries.

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s a book that came out recently by Jake Tapper of CNN and Axios’ Alex Thompson called “Original Sin.” It’s about the cover-up, decline of former President Joe Biden and the disastrous choice of him choosing to run in 2024, until he was forcibly ejected from the ticket. We all have problems with this. And it’s essentially Jake Tapper—it’s a co-authored book but it’s Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper is a CNN grandee. Seven-figure salary. Kind of an iconic figure in this left-wing media outlook. But my point is this, for the last four years, again and again and again, if anybody questioned the obvious mental decline of Joe Biden—his cognitive difficulties—Jake Tapper, and went on CNN, Jake Tapper tore them apart. The locus classicus was Lara Trump, who said that he’s obviously—as early as 2020—in decline. And he suggested that she was berating him for a childhood stutter, which was absolutely ridiculous. So, what is my point? Here is someone who promulgated the greatest cover-up in the history of the U.S. presidency—helped. And we were told that Joe Biden “was fit as the fiddle.” We had medical reports that obviously or mysteriously did not have one critical indicator that were apparent on the Trump and Obama presidential medical records releases. There was no PSA test, an indicator of the health or malignancy of one’s prostate. That was a cover-up too, as we’re starting to learn. But my point is this, no one was more instrumental in berating—maybe Joe Scarborough, but other than he, Jake Tapper tore apart anybody who suggested that Joe Biden was as cognitive in decline as they saw with their own eyes and heard him. When The Wall Street Journal wrote in a definitive story, Jake Tapper wrote them off as Murdoch/Fox propagandists. So, why are we here? Why did he write a book now? Well, the obvious answer is that Joe Biden has no power. And these media people in Washington are—they’re like moths to a flame. They gravitate to power. And when you don’t have power, you don’t have friends. And there’s no downside in telling the truth. Why didn’t Jake Tapper write this a year ago? Because he knows what would’ve happened. Somebody in the White House would’ve called up and said, “Tapper, no one from CNN is gonna get a seat at a press conference. There’s not gonna be any CNN interview.” So he backed down. And now in a very cowardly fashion, now he comes out and he is blaming the White House cover-up. But what he doesn’t tell us is the White House cover-up would have been impossible had not CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NBC, ABC, CBS all conspired with the White House staff to downplay—not just downplay Biden’s cognitive decline but attack people. Bottom line: They had more interest in protecting this left-wing administration who was using this waxen effigy of Joe Biden and for someone’s purposes—we don’t know who was running the country, who was giving him the autopen executive orders. We have no idea who those people are. We have a suspicion that it was the Obama crowd. But nevertheless, they didn’t care about that. They did not care about that. All they knew is that this was a left-wing agenda and it had to be preserved by any means necessary. And that included lying, lying, covering up, and worst of all, demonizing and attacking people who sought to tell the truth about Joe Biden. And now, he wants to say—what? “I have a little humility. I may, may or not, I sort of, kind of was part of the cover-up. But now the real Jake Tapper is in this book, who’s now telling truth to power.” No, you’re telling truth to impotence. Joe Biden has got cancer. He is written off. He’s in decline. The family is disgraced. It’s easy now to write about that. It was hard and would have required intellectual courage, moral fortitude to say this when he was the most powerful man in the world. And so, Jake Tapper, you failed that test. And you should pay a penalty. CNN should look very carefully at whether they want to retain him because this is one of the greatest acts of duplicity, moral duplicity, I’ve seen in my entire life. And it joins a long, long, long list of collusion, capers, conspiracy, bogus, frauds, ruses. Jake Tapper, you should go back and see what was your position on Russian collusion? What was your position on Hunter Biden laptop disinformation? What was your position on the Steele dossier? What was your position on the 51 intelligence authorities? And I think in every one of those cases, you failed the test of truth and you really did this time in the greatest cover-up in the history, as I said, of the American presidency. And it’s not over yet because we’re gonna learn more and more, tragically, about Joe Biden’s medical condition and to see if not just whether the cognitive disabilities of Biden were covered up, but whether his prostate metastasized cancer contributed to that and that source was also covered up. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Jake Tapper’s Own ‘Original Sin’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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It’s always heart-breaking to see a promising new multiplayer game scrapped, but it’s even sadder still to see one wrap up development before it even fully launches. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happened to Battle Aces - an RTS game aiming to deliver super-fast 1v1 and 2v2 matches while still boasting plenty of strategic depth. Despite its promising premise, and the fact that it has a former Starcraft dev as a game director, Battle Aces has reached the end of its journey. Continue reading Rapid-fire RTS game Battle Aces is no more as studio ends development MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RTS games, Best strategy games, Best grand strategy games

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