Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to spend up to $2 million on robot “dogs” to assist its agents' operations, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding document. A funding document posted to DHS's Acquisition Planning Forecast System on Thursday said the agency could spend between $1 million and $2 million on...
Two Trump administration officials are calling for an independent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigation into the government's response to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment — which caused toxic chemicals to spill into the town. In a joint Friday letter, Vice President JD Vance and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asked the EPA’s acting inspector...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) walked back its move Friday to advise its journalists not to refer directly to Al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the U.S. as an act of terrorism — guidance that garnered widespread criticism from political leaders. In an internal memo this week first reported by The Toronto Sun, CBC’s...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions of four Army officers picked for promotion to one-star rank, some of whom have ties to top Army generals the Pentagon chief ousted earlier this year, The Hill has learned. Some of the officers pulled from the list have links to former Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, who...
For too many Washington bureaucrats, American border security is reduced to a narrow, checklist exercise — counting crossings and manning checkpoints while ignoring the torrent of illicit goods and other poisons flooding our communities. But during my time at the Department of Homeland Security, I saw a fundamental shift: Border Patrol was no longer operating […]
The Weekend at Bernie’s joke, propping up a dead man while everyone plays along, has moved from Democratic Party headquarters to Capitol Hill. Lawmakers from both parties treat their seats like paid vacation, available to skip while taxpayers cover the tab and the public’s business sits unfinished. The ghost votes Rep. Frederica Wilson, the 83-year-old […]
MONONGAHELA, Pennsylvania — Downballot primary results for seats in the Pennsylvania legislature and Congress had both parties heading into very different directions for November’s midterm election cycle. The Democrats are marching far left, and Republicans are beating back challengers from their far-right flanks. In Washington County, in a strident race, Republican state Sen. Camera Bartolotta […]
On May 6, Georgetown University Law Center announced that former Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro, its 2026 commencement speaker, had withdrawn from the ceremony. His apparent offense: writing opinion essays defending Israel and criticizing higher education’s response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. After a student petition labeled his views “controversial, Zionist, […]
“Has China defeated our country?” chirped right-wing activist Mike Cernovich when reposting a clip of President Donald Trump speaking to Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Friday. The Make America Great Again movement, committed to confronting China, not Russia, was not impressed by the recent summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom it sees […]
Jeff Bezos dissed politicians’ "technique of picking a villain and pointing fingers," noting quite rightly that bad government policy creates many problems — including...
On the day Kentucky Republicans rejected pathologically Israel-obsessed Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) reelection bid, Maureen Galindo, a Texas Democrat, promised to turn an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center “into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” The new facility, she added, would “also be a castration processing center for […]
President Donald Trump on Monday announced more than 600 drugs added to his signature drug coupon platform TrumpRx, increasing the number of drugs found within the program by more than 700%. For years, Americans have been paying too much for prescription drugs because insurance companies and the pharmacy middlemen they own have found ways to […]
This April, the international scientific committee that designs climate scenarios for the United Nations did something it should have done a decade ago. It officially retired SSP5–8.5 — the corollary to the infamous RCP 8.5 — declaring the scenario “implausible” and removing it from the framework that will underpin the next IPCC assessment. For more […]
After arguments regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Louisiana v. Callais last October, I wrote the likely holding striking racially gerrymandered voting districts would affect the West. Unsurprisingly, following Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s 6-3 opinion, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray advised Fremont County that its use of a court-ordered racially gerrymandered […]
President Donald Trump renewed his commitment to seeing America win the AI race at his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Trump administration has rejected the Biden approach of centralized government control and heavy regulation and taken the right approach of allowing American technology to flourish. However, these efforts are being challenged by […]
Within hours of its debut in February, ByteDance‘s new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, was churning out hyperrealistic clips of Brad Pitt brawling with Tom Cruise on a rooftop. Darth Vader dueling Deadpool aboard a starship. Fabricated finales of Game of Thrones. Shrek, Spider-Man, the Stranger Things children, all rendered with startling fidelity and zero […]
The U.S. government is on a trajectory to a fiscal apocalypse in this century. Since fiscal 2001, the federal government’s annual planned expenditures have consistently exceeded expected revenues, with the shortfall covered by borrowing. As of fiscal 2025, total U.S. government debt amounted to $37.6 trillion, representing 124% of the GDP of $30.4 trillion. The […]
