Former White House national security adviser John Bolton on Monday said the negotiations to end the war in Iran are "a mistake." Bolton, an outspoken critic of President Trump's handling of the conflict, told CNN's Pamela Brown that he hopes to see the discussions "break down." "I think the ceasefire was a mistake," he said....
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Monday was pepper-sprayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers while demonstrators gathered outside an immigration detention facility in Newark, N.J. Videos circulated online of mutual aid volunteers pouring water into Kim's eyes while he held an ice pack in his hand. One video showed Kim speaking directly to ICE...
QUICK TURNAROUND: TRUMP SHORT-CIRCUITS FUNDING CONTROVERSY. The flap over the Trump White House’s temporary freeze on some discretionary federal funding was the first controversy of the second Trump administration that reminded observers of the early days of the first Trump administration. The new White House issued a wide-ranging directive without fully detailing what it would and […]
It was odd watching Senate Republicans trying their best to put an unhinged leftist like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into a position of power. Perhaps the only thing odder was watching Democrats doing their best to stop them. But nowadays, our principles hinge on the whims of one man. Kennedy, of course, would have garnered […]
Among the executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one that established an end to the practice of birthright citizenship. “The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” the order said. “The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright […]
Move fast and break things. That’s the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and it seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his second term. That makes a certain sense. In a largely successful society, unrocked by revolution, institutions come to be […]
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley undermined his position and the U.S. military by his partisan engagement with the media. Milley should have resigned. The performance of former U.S. Central Command commanding officer Gen. Kenneth McKenzie was similarly poor. Responsible for supervising the disastrous August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, McKenzie then […]
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing regarding the Panama Canal on Tuesday. In his opening statement, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) brought up the issue of foreign influence in the canal. “The United States paid for and built the Panama Canal, but Panama is treating America unfairly and ceding control of […]
Hosting President Donald Trump on a state visit to China in November 2017, President Xi Jinping threw out the red carpet. He did so both figuratively and literally. Trump was subject to a lavish display of deference and praise. He was feted by Chinese media and Communist Party activists. But these theatrics were not motivated […]
Senate Democrats are unwilling to sanction the International Criminal Court because they are more worried about vague support for global institutions than American interests. Senate Democrats united to block the GOP’s bill to sanction the ICC, with only Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) crossing the aisle to lend his support. This is after the House overwhelmingly […]
