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Dem claims Trump wielding nuclear strike authority ‘should terrify you’ — then people point out the obvious

Sen. Ed Markey claims people should be terrified that Trump will have nuclear strike authority, but people pushed back, noting that Trump already had that authority during his first term.

The president-elect’s relationship with the legal system will play a decisive role in his second term

President-elect Donald Trump‘s fraught, tempestuous, yet ultimately empowering relationship with the legal system has defined his political career. It dominated his first term, continued to play a critical role during his antipresidency, and is now poised to exert a decisive influence on his second administration. It will do so in the same forms it has […]

The empathy hoarders

In 2020, political writers who favored Joe Biden seemed to all coalesce on the same word: empathy. Time magazine ran a big story about “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Importance of Empathy.” The Atlantic enthused that “in the entire history of American presidential campaigns, there may never have been a wider gap in empathy […]

Trump can’t let Ukraine be his Afghanistan

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring a swift end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict in his second term, but it remains unclear what exactly he means to do. His Cabinet appointees are an eclectic mix of national security hawks and skeptics, and Trump himself seems far more focused on competition with the Chinese Communist Party […]

Time to talk Turkey

This is the season of light and hope. We dared to dream that we were past the worst. The pardoning of Hunter Biden looked like the last act of the senile and corrupt President Joe Biden. The peevish race-baiting of perma-President Barack Obama is confounded, the Democrats’ antidemocratic schemes hoist by their own petard. President-elect […]

When books came home

I rise in the middle of the night, go outdoors at sunrise, but both in the fields and at home I study, think, read, and write … Every day I wander over the rocky mountains, through the dewy valleys and caverns … Meanwhile here I have established my Rome, my Athens, and my spiritual fatherland; […]

How big business is making its relationship with Republicans great again

Donald Trump’s Washington is going to be packed with heavyweights from big business such as Elon Musk, Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick. They all...

Sen. Booker ‘frustrated’ by lack of transparency about drones, says it’s causing ‘misinformation to spread’

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., says he is “frustrated" by the government's lack of transparency over the large drones spotted in various northeastern states in recent weeks.

Top GOP rebel angles for powerful House leadership-backed committee post

Rep. Chip Roy is floating himself as a possible candidate to chair the influential House Rules Committee next year.

Tren de Aragua are ideological terrorists disguised as a street gang warns former military officer

A former high-ranking Venezuelan military officer is sounding the alarm about the migrant gang Tren de Aragua being used as a tool of the Venezuelan government to sow violence and discord throughout the United States.

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