The U.S. trade deficit grew to $88.6 billion in July, a 24% increase from June, as the country imported goods to fuel the artificial intelligence boom and President Trump worked to rebuild his tariff framework after legal setbacks.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s plan to deploy space-based nuclear weapons to destroy Western satellites should be a wake-up call to the isolationists on the...
The group of voters who constantly talk about protecting democracy are some of the most egregious when it comes to wanting to subvert it. A new poll revealed that nearly 80% of Democrats think that former President Donald Trump should be removed from the ballot for the 2024 presidential election. It’s the latest example of […]
Last week, while the nation’s elected officials were debating foreign aid to Ukraine, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) helped some school children visiting the Capitol to remember the United States. In what could only be described as a spontaneous moment of beaming, unbridled patriotism, Paul, walking between casting a vote in the Senate and back to […]
One of many problems with Tucker Carlson is his almost obsessive use of the straw man fallacy: rejecting an argument that differs from the one actually being made. Here’s an example: Alice says, “Cars are dangerous,” and then Bob replies, “Alice is a moron! She thinks we should ban cars!” Alice hasn’t said anything about […]
Criminal justice reform activists simply want to make things easier for criminals while making normal people’s lives harder. Chicago is a prime example. Mayor Brandon Johnson is not renewing the city’s contract with SpotShotter, a system that helps police identify the origin of gunshots. As the executive director of United Working Families boasted, “Elections matter. […]
JACK SMITH IS IN A HURRY, BUT HE CAN’T SAY WHY. You’ve read it in this newsletter here and here, but it has popped up again. Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor pursuing former President Donald Trump, is again urging a court to speed up procedures in Smith’s case charging Trump in connection with the 2020 election […]
There is great dissatisfaction in the intelligence community over House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner’s (R-OH) decision to brief the full House of Representatives on an evolving Russian nuclear-armed, anti-satellite system. While Turner did not explicitly publicize the system in question, he is not an idiot. He knew that once the full House was briefed, […]
Alarmism and hyperbole are nothing new in politics. Whether it was the Bush administration’s warnings of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or the histrionics about the impending dawn of fascism if Donald Trump becomes president again, exaggerations and hyperbole have long been a part of political discourse. But as Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) showed […]
Christian spectators of the 2024 Super Bowl received a drop of respite in a bucket of sacrilegious attacks on their faith. Actor Mark Wahlberg was featured in a short, 30-second advertisement for his prayer app Hallow, calmly inviting viewers to “stay prayed up” with him for Lent. One can only hope this quick breath of […]
The policy for dealing with illegal immigrants has shifted from deportation to indifference, to encouragement, to subsidization, and next to forced cohabitation. An elderly English couple living in the United Kingdom was sent a letter by the North Northamptonshire Council that referred to their newly purchased home as “empty” and “derelict” to intimidate them into […]
In a video filmed during his recent trip to Moscow, Tucker Carlson angered a wide swath of political commentators for showcasing the artistic beauty of the Kiyevskaya metro station. The station was built by Joseph Stalin in the 1950s, largely as a means to tout the USSR’s cultural infrastructure to the West, and is a […]
The Republican Party experienced more electoral disappointment on Tuesday when Republican Mazi Pilip lost to Democrat Tom Suozzi in the special election for New York‘s 3rd Congressional District. The contest was to replace former GOP Rep. George Santos. On Dec. 1, 2023, Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives by a sizable majority that included 105 […]
