A progressive scored an unexpected upset in Florida’s Democratic primary for Senate, a left-wing breakthrough in President Trump’s home state that tees up a tough, GOP-favored fight this fall. Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) but was not endorsed by the national organization, toppled Alex Vindman, whose star rose as a witness in...
Independent Bill Hill has advanced in the race for Alaska’s at-large House seat, challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Nick Begich III, Decision Desk HQ projects. Hill, a Bristol Bay fisherman, advanced alongside Begich in Alaska's open primary system — in which the top four vote-getters advance from the primary, regardless of party, to a ranked-choice general...
Former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola and incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan are advancing to the general election Senate in Alaska, Decision Desk HQ projects. It’s the third cycle under Alaska’s new voting system, in which the top four candidates will advance from the primary, regardless of party affiliation, to a ranked-choice general election. Alaska has been...
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) wants to make it unsustainable for people to drive gas cars. The resulting policy effects make it so that rich people can drive gas cars while the poor and the middle class get priced out and forced into less desirable alternatives. The California Air Resources Board voted to pass new fuel […]
The Pentagon’s Unidentified Flying Object analysis division, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, delivered its annual report this week. AARO’s director, Jon Kosloski, also briefed the Senate on AARO’s work. Kosloski has shown a more open-minded, less arrogant approach toward his work than his predecessor, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, did. Speaking to the media last week, Kosloski […]
Henry Gunther was killed at 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, the last fatality of World War I. The former bank clerk from Baltimore was charging a German machine-gun emplacement in eastern France, possibly because he wanted to redeem himself after being reduced in rank from sergeant to private. There had been heavy fighting throughout […]
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, the co-chairwoman of his transition team, for education secretary. If the Senate confirms her, she could be one of the president-elect’s most important Cabinet appointments. McMahon’s resume is impressive. She worked in Trump’s first term as the administrator of the Small Business Administration, founded World Wrestling Entertainment with […]
Hamas is a violent terrorist organization. In Hebrew, the word chamas means “violence,” “cruelty,” or “injustice.” Since 2007, when Hamas seized control of Gaza through force, Hamas has been the de facto governing authority in the strip. Everything in Gaza is effectively controlled by Hamas, from hospitals and schools to human lives. Hamas has been torturing its own people, though most of them never […]
Say what you will about President-elect Donald Trump, but he is never short of surprises. I don’t think anyone quite expected these top Cabinet picks: What do Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), former Rep. Matt Gaetz, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have in common? We are told from numerous reports that the […]
There is no more pressing national security matter for President-elect Donald Trump than that of how to deal with China. The China problem our 47th president is inheriting from the Biden administration is grave. Like the two terms of former President Barack Obama’s White House before him, President Joe Biden’s China policy has telegraphed diffidence and […]
“Harris falls short with female voters, stunning Democrats,” reads the election postmortem in the Hill. Truth be told, Democrats weren’t the only ones stunned by the scope of the resounding win for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Consultants and pundits on both sides of the political aisle expected a massive gender gap, […]
The first priority of the Trump administration’s new attorney general and FBI director will be to dismantle the ideological weaponization of the DOJ and...
