The House passed legislation Thursday to overturn President Biden's moratorium on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, marking the latest instance of centrist Democrats joining Republicans to buck the president's green energy agenda.

The White House confirmed Thursday that Russia is developing a space-based military capability that poses a national security threat, but insisted there is no immediate danger to the U.S.

Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade on Thursday said expenses for trips he took with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis "balanced out," taking pains to distinguish his role as a taxpayer-funded investigator from the finances of his former girlfriend, who is leading the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump.

Criminal justice reform activists simply want to make things easier for criminals while making normal people’s lives harder. Chicago is a prime example. Mayor Brandon Johnson is not renewing the city’s contract with SpotShotter, a system that helps police identify the origin of gunshots. As the executive director of United Working Families boasted, “Elections matter. […]

One of many problems with Tucker Carlson is his almost obsessive use of the straw man fallacy: rejecting an argument that differs from the one actually being made. Here’s an example: Alice says, “Cars are dangerous,” and then Bob replies, “Alice is a moron! She thinks we should ban cars!” Alice hasn’t said anything about […]

Last week, while the nation’s elected officials were debating foreign aid to Ukraine, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) helped some school children visiting the Capitol to remember the United States. In what could only be described as a spontaneous moment of beaming, unbridled patriotism, Paul, walking between casting a vote in the Senate and back to […]

Alarmism and hyperbole are nothing new in politics. Whether it was the Bush administration’s warnings of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or the histrionics about the impending dawn of fascism if Donald Trump becomes president again, exaggerations and hyperbole have long been a part of political discourse. But as Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) showed […]

There is great dissatisfaction in the intelligence community over House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner’s (R-OH) decision to brief the full House of Representatives on an evolving Russian nuclear-armed, anti-satellite system. While Turner did not explicitly publicize the system in question, he is not an idiot. He knew that once the full House was briefed, […]

JACK SMITH IS IN A HURRY, BUT HE CAN’T SAY WHY. You’ve read it in this newsletter here and here, but it has popped up again. Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor pursuing former President Donald Trump, is again urging a court to speed up procedures in Smith’s case charging Trump in connection with the 2020 election […]

The policy for dealing with illegal immigrants has shifted from deportation to indifference, to encouragement, to subsidization, and next to forced cohabitation.  An elderly English couple living in the United Kingdom was sent a letter by the North Northamptonshire Council that referred to their newly purchased home as “empty” and “derelict” to intimidate them into […]