If our citizens understood the dangers we are facing with our wild, out-of-control spending and the enormous advantages of a balanced or near-balanced budget, we might get support for fiscal sanity in Washington. We have no fiscal sanity today, and worse, the optimistic projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office show the situation getting much […]

There’s a cadence in the Army: if the Army gives you $100, they will take back $99. There is something fundamentally wrong when the U.S. government tells a service member, “Thank you for your sacrifice,” and then turns around and takes away benefits they have earned. That’s exactly what happens under the military’s outdated 60-day […]

On June 19, a hall in Switzerland sat empty. Hundreds of journalists had gathered near Lucerne for the ceremony that would formally close the war between the United States and Iran. Vice President JD Vance was scheduled to fly in. At the last minute, he didn’t. The official explanation was logistics. It was not logistics. […]

President Trump lashed out at the Republican lawmakers who supported an Iran war powers resolution in the Senate on Tuesday. Several GOP lawmakers voted with nearly all Democrats to approve the measure, including Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine) and Rand Paul (Ky.). “Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and...

We should acknowledge and celebrate the gains we have made, but we must also remain vigilant.

The strategies that led to the overturning of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision will not carry the movement forward after Dobbs.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) didn’t mince any words Tuesday in calling out what he characterized as a the “bulls--t” arguments of fellow Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) on social media, revealing the tensions within the Senate Republican conference over how to push forward on the SAVE America Act. Tillis said Lee’s push for Republicans to...

After a year and a half spent watching Trump’s inner circle sideline and weaken the State Department at every turn, Rubio may soon be faced with a nearly impossible task: actually doing his job. 

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President Trump pushed back against “Communists” after several candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani secured major wins in House primary races on Tuesday. “America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!” Trump posted on Truth Social early Wednesday, after several Mamdani-backed candidates came out on top. These candidates include Democratic socialists...