Kari Lake has lost in Arizona once again. If you think being a two-time loser is enough, she can’t wait to add a third loss to her resume next year as well.
High-level communication between the U.S. and China is key. Absent that communication, mistrust and miscalculation might see this increasingly hostile relationship inadvertently slip into war. But beyond limited improvements to communication, the prospect of a U.S.-China detente is nearly nonexistent.
Establishment media and other Democratic activists are so scared of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) that they may already be hitting peak anti-Florida hysteria, even though they obviously don’t believe any of it.
The junior senator from the Palmetto State, Tim Scott, entered the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday. Scott laid out an optimistic message filled with faith and patriotism, a message that the lion's share of the GOP base surely agrees with.
Yesterday, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) tweeted out a graph showing the price of rent over time, along with a caption saying, “Letting in too many people drives up housing costs for normal Americans. Stop Biden’s border crisis, and stop his war on home affordability.”
As a Christian, I am supposed to pray for the conversion of every soul and to trust in God’s mercy. But when I read about Father Thomas Francis Kelly, I find myself hoping that hell is far hotter than I ever imagined.
A WHISTLEBLOWER SCANDAL IS BREWING INSIDE THE HUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATION. Just last month, this newsletter covered the emergence of a whistleblower in the joint Justice Department-IRS investigation of President Joe Biden's son Hunter. The whistleblower was a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who, according to his lawyer, could reveal "clear conflicts of interest" in the Biden investigation as well as "examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected."
The Biden administration deserves praise for reaching a new defense agreement with Papua New Guinea. Alongside other deals that will see the Pacific nation receive tens of millions of dollars in U.S. grants and aid, the defense pact will allow the U.S. military access to Papua New Guinea.
Unable to secure even the Democratic votes necessary to raise the debt limit without reform, Democrats are increasingly hoping President Joe Biden will, in the words of one recent article, “invoke the 14th Amendment to pay the country’s bills after the debt limit is breached.”
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers were swept out of the Western Conference finals. We can only hope that this marks the end of LeBron’s run as the “king” of the NBA.
