Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, the Air Force judge overseeing the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 9/11 trial, wrote a 2023 essay on domestic extremism in military ranks.
WHAT THE CPAC STRAW POLL SAYS. The Conservative Political Action Conference finished up its convention this weekend in Dallas with the traditional straw poll of attendees. Vice President JD Vance emerged as the leading 2028 prospect, with 53% of the vote. Secretary of State Marco Rubio placed second with 35%. No one else had above 2%. […]
Agencies cannot be cowed by parent advocates into keeping a disabled child in a home with parents who are completely overwhelmed by the responsibilities...
Today’s Democrats hate President Donald Trump so much that they’re willing to abandon long-held positions and twist themselves into pretzels in their determination to defeat him. Take, for example, the case of Virginia’s current redistricting referendum. Democrats in the Old Dominion, empowered by their victories in last fall’s off-year election, are raising and spending tens […]
Congressional budget reconciliation proved an effective vehicle to achieve a first-of-its-kind victory for taxpayers in restricting the eligibility of large abortion providers to receive Medicaid reimbursements. Even so, these defunding provisions are set to expire July 4 if House Republicans do not commit to a second reconciliation. Leadership on Capitol Hill is limited to reconciliation as the sole path to further defunding, at least […]
Medicare and Medicaid will devour more than a third of federal government spending within a decade. Republicans take a beating every time they try to slow that growth, with Democrats remaining eager to paint the GOP as the party of throwing granny off a cliff. But there is a way out of this broken cycle. […]
If President Donald Trump backs down at this point in the war, it will leave the Gulf States to face a more radicalized and dangerous Iran seeking to impose its will on the Muslim world. After Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Osama bin Laden offered to defend Saudi Arabia using his network of jihadist […]
Wisely sensing a political opening with gasoline prices up by more than $1 per gallon since the start of the Iran war, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) outlined an energy agenda that Democrats would pursue in 2027 should they win the congressional elections this November. Unfortunately, his speech revealed Democrats to have learned nothing […]
Democrats now risk a midterm-elections fiasco if they can’t let go of their anti-ICE obsession, and their related insistence on protecting even violent-criminal illegal...
