Senator Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, made it plain on the Hugh Hewitt Show this week: finish the military plan and keep the blockade in place until Iran is neutralized. His comments put a sharp spotlight on the pause in U.S. air strikes after 13 nights of strikes and the White […] More

The Rubin Report clipped a short CNN segment and handed conservatives a neat little gift: CNN senior data analyst Harry Enten saying that roughly 58% of voters now call the Democratic Party “too liberal.” That line lit up right‑leaning feeds like a match to a stack of political tinder. If you want a quick read […] More

The Senate Leadership Fund just turned a pledged war chest into live fire in the Maine Senate race. Hours after Maine Democrats picked Troy Jackson as their replacement nominee, the top Senate GOP super PAC announced roughly $42 million aimed at Maine and began a six‑figure ad push. If Democrats hoped a late convention pick […] More

President Donald Trump is welcoming the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers to the Rose Garden today for a White House ceremony. The event is supposed to be a simple tradition: celebrate a sports title and honor the players. Instead, predictable outrage has followed, with local columnists calling the visit “tone deaf” and a few […] More

Someone inside the old Biden White House appears to have cooked up a plan to make mass deportations harder for the current administration. Senator Eric Schmitt has posted what he says is an internal presidential memorandum recommending a massive expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The memo, if real, would aim to put millions of […] More

Saudi Arabia says it stopped multiple drones fired at its eastern oil facilities, and it blames Iran-backed Shiite militias operating from Iraqi soil. This is not a run-of-the-mill border spat. It is another chapter in a widening campaign by Tehran and its proxies to punish Gulf states and disrupt global energy flow — and Saudi […] More

The Government Accountability Office dropped a hard-hitting report this week showing the federal government routes about $1.1 trillion through state-run programs that are wide open to fraud. The GAO found glaring holes in how money moves from Washington to states to contractors and back again — and warned that the system is barely keeping up […] More

The University of New Hampshire’s Granite State Poll gave Democrats a little surprise to chew on: U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez now tops the list of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire. The numbers are small and narrow, but the headlines screamed like it was a coronation. Let’s look at what the poll really says […] More

Democrats in Maine held a hurried convention in Bangor this week and handed the party’s U.S. Senate nomination to Troy Jackson. The vote was a blowout — 566 delegates for Jackson and just five for his lone remaining rival — and it ends a chaotic few weeks that began when the June primary winner bowed […] More

A new Jewish Telegraphic Agency report says several prominent Jewish Democrats in Metro Detroit are preparing to bankroll or at least vote for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers if progressive Democrat Abdul El‑Sayed wins the August 4 primary. That’s not background noise. It’s a political earthquake in a swing state where suburban Jewish voters […] More

A 21-year-old man from Kent, Washington, pleaded guilty this week in federal court to conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. The case is a clear example of online radicalization turning into real-world danger — and a reminder that law enforcement sometimes catches these plots before they become tragedies. What the plea says he did […] More

Senator Rand Paul just dropped more than a thousand pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary entries, and Dr. Fauci is set to testify under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this Wednesday. That’s the news — and the rest is the political and legal fireworks everyone should be watching. If […] More

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez brushed off recent GOP warnings that the Democratic Party is “descending into communism,” telling reporters that congressional gridlock makes radical change unlikely. She pointed to the long failure to raise the federal minimum wage as proof that sweeping reforms simply don’t happen easily in Washington. That remark is the news here — […] More

In a narrow, party-line victory, the Senate has finally put a confirmed leader back atop the nation’s intelligence apparatus. The confirmation of Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence ends a clumsy interim period and hands the intelligence community a steady, Senate‑approved hand at a time when clear leadership matters. Senate confirms Jay Clayton as […] More

The Fox Cities dodged the worst this week, but it was close. A violent tornado carved a long, violent path through Appleton, Menasha and nearby communities. National Weather Service survey crews have given the twister a preliminary EF‑3 rating, and state and local officials have declared emergencies. By luck, timing and warning systems, there were […] More

New York City just rolled out a bold experiment: municipal grocery stores that promise a guaranteed 30% discount on a “core basket” of staples. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team says the city will build up to five stores, give the brand and capital money, then hire private operators to run them. It sounds noble on TV. […] More

A leaked donor call has blown a hole in the Michigan Democratic primary this week. In the recording, Senate candidate Abdul El‑Sayed used the phrase “put one ogre on a pike,” and the remark went viral. Representative Haley Stevens forced a public clarification on stage during the final debate, and Democrats are scrambling to clean […] More

The long, ugly chapter that began with the murder of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband has reached a clear legal moment: federal judges have sentenced Vance Boelter to two life terms plus 40 years with no possibility of parole. This is the headline everyone needed — a punishment that matches the […] More

New reporting shows nearly 865,000 New Yorkers received cash assistance over a 12‑month stretch and the city is budgeting roughly $2.7 billion for public assistance. That is the immediate news — and the real story isn’t just the big number. It’s the choice Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his team made to keep those welfare baselines […] More

Representative Don Bacon’s social‑media outburst about citizens who oppose a major farm visa rewrite has lit a fuse inside the GOP. The flashpoint is H.R. 9535, the Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act — a wide H‑2A overhaul pushed by House Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson and cheered by big farm groups. Conservatives say the bill looks […] More

The big development this week is simple and explosive: Sen. Rand Paul published roughly 1,141 pages he calls Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic‑era diary entries, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used that release on Fox to allege Fauci suffered a pulmonary infarction months after his high‑profile vaccine photo op — and didn’t tell the […] More