A Boeing plane caught fire after two wheels exploded on the runway on Sunday.

The pilot of Etihad Airways flight EY461 from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi was forced to halt the takeoff on Sunday due to an emergency with the aircraft’s tires.

Firefighters rushed to the plane and sprayed firefighting foam on the landing gear and tires.

A spokesperson for the airline told The Sun that all 300 passengers safely disembarked.

The Sun reported:

FIRE crews swarmed a packed Boeing plane after its pilot was forced to abort take-off and “slam the emergency brake”.

Passengers on board the Etihad Airways flight EY461 bound for Abu Dhabi feared the plane’s tyres had burst after take-off was halted.

The emergency has reportedly led to extensive delays in departures and arrivals at Melbourne Airport.

A Melbourne Airport spokesperson told The Sun: “Etihad Airways flight EY461 rejected take off this evening when departing Melbourne Airport for Abu Dhabi.

“The Aviation Rescue and Firefighting Service responded to a request from the aircraft and deployed fire fighting foam as a precaution.

“Due to damage to the aircraft’s tyres, we have been unable to tow it off the runway.

“Repairs are currently underway. All passengers have disembarked the aircraft and have been bussed to the terminal.

“We continue to have one runway available for operations, which will be used for all arrivals and departures. Disruptions to other flights have been minimal.”

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Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed voters for Kamala Harris’s crushing election loss during an appearance on “Meet The Press” on Sunday.

Schumer said voters just didn’t realize how much the Democrats did for them during the Biden years.

Here is a handful of the Democrat-Biden-Harris accomplishments:

• Disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that resulted in 13 dead US service members.
• Record 40-year inflation rates/spiking grocery prices.
• Soaring gas prices because of Biden’s anti-energy agenda
• More than 15 million illegal aliens entered the US because of Biden’s open borders.
• Record fentanyl overdoses.
• Supply chain crisis.
• Covid vaccine mandates.
• Calling millions of Trump supporters “garbage”
• Soaring crime
• Job-destroying tax hikes
• Endless Ukraine-Russia war/giving Ukraine BILLIONS of dollars
• Weaponization of DOJ/locking up political opponents
• Woke/gutted military

“So we did a lot of good things, but all too often, Kristen, we talked about the mechanics of the legislation and the details of the legislation and we really didn’t show the kind of empathy and concern to average working families who didn’t realize how much we had done,” Schumer said to Meet the Press host Kristen Welker.

WATCH:

Chuck Schumer claims Democrats “did a lot of good things,” but lost in 2024 because people “didn’t realize how much we had done” for them. pic.twitter.com/Si5NtRtfsC

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 5, 2025

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On the streets of Port-au-Prince, children as young as nine carry guns instead of school

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She might “have a voice,” but she doesn’t seem to have much understanding of her job.

Delegate Stacey Plaskett, who represents the U.S. territory of the Virgin Islands, had her microphone cut in the middle of a tirade Friday over the voting rights for U.S. territories in Congress when it comes to the House speaker.

As it turns out, they have none — something a U.S. delegate should probably be aware of, if she understood at all how the House works.

During the dramatics that ended with the election of House Speaker Mike Johnson by a squeaking 218-215 vote, Plaskett demanded to know why she and other members of Congress from U.S. territories had not been called upon.

“I note that the names of the representatives from the  American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana, Puerto Rico Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia were not called, representing collectively 4 million Americans,” Plaskett said, to raucous, standing-ovation applause from her fellow Democrats.

“I ask why they were not called.”

House Clerk Kevin McCumber had an answer: They weren’t called because they don’t have a vote. Only representatives from the states have a vote.

“Delegates-elect and the resident commissioner-elect are not qualified to vote. Representatives-elect are the only individuals qualified to vote in the election of a speaker,” he said, citing House rules.

“The speaker is elected by a majority of representatives-elect, voting by surname.”

Of course, any American who’s experienced what Democrats have become in the 21st century would know that citing “rules” doesn’t really matter to any Democrat with a bee in her bonnet. They’re the party of anarchy in American politics, a group with a fundamental disrespect — a seething contempt actually — for laws and rules that don’t suit their agenda.

And Plaskett proved she had more than that when she used McCumber’s answer to launch into a rant about a “colonies problem” supposedly faced by the United States.

It was a rant she continued until her microphone was unceremoniously cut off.

Check out the video here. The key moment comes about the 1:55 mark, when Plaskett declares “I have a voice” — just when the mic goes fortuitously silent.

Now, Americans of good faith can have good faith arguments over the status of U.S. territories and the voting rights of their representatives in Congress.

Americans of good faith can also debate the merits of statehood for the territories or the District of Columbia (though the Constitution is pretty clear that D.C. can’t be a state).

But what Americans — particularly Americans in positions of power — should not be debating is whether the rules of the game apply in every circumstance.

The rules for selecting the speakership are not new. And every member of Congress, whether representing a state or a territory should be aware of them.

There’s a time and place for making changes if they’re considered necessary, but those times are not on the day the speaker is chosen.

Now, Plaskett is a progressive Democrat — she was part of the team of managers of President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, according to her congressional biography — so she can’t be trusted. But she’s also no dummy.

She might be expected to know how the House works. She might be expected to know that the rules were when she rose in House on Friday. She might be expected to know she had no business casting a vote any more than the representatives of other territories did.

But she rose anyway, ostensibly to make a point, but more likely to make headlines, and push an agenda.

When Democrats can’t win by the rules, their solution is to change the rules — which explains their fetish for maneuvers like giving non-citizens the right to vote, or periodically proposing packing the Supreme Court to make sure they win every legal case.

Plaskett’s job is to represent her territory’s voters in the United States Congress, to contribute to the work of the whole. And if changes are considered necessary, she has all the time in the world to convince her fellow members of Congress to implement them.

Her job is not to throw hissy fits on the House floor, no matter how much her fellow Democrats might approve.

And if she does, her voice deserves to be silenced.

On Friday, she got what she deserved.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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When Democrats show you who they are, believe them.

Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medals of Freedom to George Soros in a ceremony on Saturday.

Soros has made it his life’s mission to bring down the US and Western civilization and let darkness reign for generations to come.

So who is George Soros?

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Soros and his works. He slipped into the US after World War II.

After the war, he was later questioned on ’60 Minutes’ about his ghastly work in Germany during the war collaborating with the Nazis and stealing from Jews on their way to the death camps.

And he held “no remorse” for his actions.

Here is Soros’s famous admission on ’60 Minutes’ in 1998.

Steve Kroft: You’re a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian. You watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

George Soros: I was 14 years old, and I would say that that’s when my character was made.

Steve Kroft: In what way?

George Soros: That one should think ahead, one should understand and anticipate events. And one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a very personal experience of evil.

Steve Kroft: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted god’s son. Yes. Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews. That’s right. Yes. That sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

George Soros: Not at all. Maybe as a child, you don’t see the connection But it created no problem at all.

Steve Kroft: No feeling of guilt?

George Soros: No.

Steve Kroft: For example, I’m Jewish, and here I am watching these people go, I could just as easily be there. I I could be there. None of that.

George Soros: Well, of course, I could be on the other side, or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there because that was… Well, actually, funny way, it’s just like in markets that if I weren’t there, of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator. The property was being taken away. So I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.

This is who Democrats celebrate.

The full interview is here.

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A two-time Olympic medal-winning sprinter was hit with a stun gun and then arrested Thursday night in Miami Beach, Florida, after an altercation with police.

An arrest report said Fred Kerley, 29, was talking with police about his vehicle, which was near a police scene, when his “demeanor became increasingly aggressive,” according to NBC.

Kerley was “asked to leave the area,” but instead “assumed a fighting stance,” police said. After Kerley allegedly resisted arrest, “a dart-firing stun gun was effectively deployed,” police said.

Bodycam footage of the incident had been posted to YouTube.

WARNING: The following video contains some graphic language that some viewers will find offensive.

The video shows an officer touching Kerley, which appeared to launch the struggle.

Kerley was charged with suspicion of battery of a police officer, disorderly conduct, and resisting an officer.

Kerley was released Friday after appearing in Miami-Dade bond court, according to WPLG-TV.

“It looks like he was beaten up pretty badly by the police, from what I read,” Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer said.

Yale Sanford, Kerley’s attorney, said the incident was “nothing more than an overreaction by the police.”

“This was a situation where he was inquiring and it turned into an action where a police officer was actively putting his hands in front of — no case that I’ve ever been involved is there, for one individual, four officers needed. Discharging a taser,” he said.

Sanford called the incident “a complete overuse of any reasonable force by officers” and “a simple misunderstanding from the beginning that was escalated by the police.”

A prosecutor at the hearing said the simple fact of Kerley, who is 6-foot-3, pushing an officer amounted to a charge of battery on a law enforcement officer.

“Well, what about what they did to him?” Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer said. “Was there any responsibility on behalf of the police?”

Glazer said she was hopeful that bodycam footage would sort out the facts.

“I don’t know what happened here, sir,” Glazer told Kerley. “But obviously your behavior was not — you were not at your best behavior here when dealing with these police officers.”

A Miami Beach police sergeant appeared remotely at the hearing and said Kerley was “pretty aggressive” while contending that the officers were justified. She confirmed that there was indeed body camera footage.

After releasing Kerley on his own recognizance, the judge added a warning.

“Sir, you’re probably smart to stay off Miami Beach. Go somewhere else to go to dinner, avoid getting in trouble, because if you get re-arrested, you’re going to be locked up in jail until your trial,” she said.

Officer Christopher Bess, a spokesperson for the Miami Beach Police Department, said that officers “attempted to de-escalate the situation multiple times.”

“However, unfortunately, the defendant escalated it by using physical force on an officer and was subsequently dealt with accordingly,” he added.

NBC noted that Kerley won a bronze medal in the 100-meter sprint at the Paris Olympics and a silver in that event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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