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Reasonable people can have disagreements about the the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, but the news...
You don’t have to care about the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But the president clearly cares a great deal about it, and...
From the U.S. National Park Service’s court filing before the Supreme Court in defense of the continuing construction of the White House ballroom:...
A point about President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that didn’t fit in today’s Morning Jolt: On Wednesday, Trump said: I get along with...
I have very little to say about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs, other than to say parenthood is one of the great joys and...
The Trump administration remains the undisputed world champion and a first-ballot hall-of-famer in the category of picking stupid fights with little...
Way back in the early 1990s, when we rode dinosaurs to school, I remember a college professor looking at the breakup of the Soviet Union, and...
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary, state house speaker Lisa Demuth has 179,545 votes, and...
Nearly one year ago, on August 15, Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent the U.S. Department of Justice the first of...
President Trump in a phone interview with Wayne Allyn Root, yesterday: By the way, they talk about munitions and we’re fine with munitions. You...
The Morning Jolt, reporting from Riga, Latvia, back in May: And a Latvian official who deals with national security issues speculated that perhaps a...
“Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?” asks the headline at Rolling Stone. Five paragraphs later, correspondent Josh Eells writes: Among his...
On X, there's been a considerable debate about the cost of living and whether burritos really cost $20. One of our TPUSA college students gave me...
Yesterday, Amy Walter, Editor-in-Chief, Cook Political Report and former editor of National Journal’s Hotline, suggested that this year’s midterm...
Interviews on the Sunday morning news talk shows don’t generate as much buzz as they used to, but the comments of Dr. Ashish Jha, Biden’s...
At 10:05 p.m. ET on Saturday, President Trump declared on Truth Social that “the U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic...
Last week, former Senator Lindsey Graham's sanctions bill won overwhelming support in the U.S. Senate, with 84 senators voting in favor of a...
As laid out on today’s forthcoming Three Martini Lunch podcast, it’s understandable that critics of Dr. Anthony Fauci are frustrated by his...
Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, wrote to Senator Mitch McConnell and demanded, “as governor of the state you serve, I am calling on...
Anyone have a spare $4 million? Then you could be the next owner of William F. Buckley’s home in Sharon, Connecticut: “The Buckleys sold parts of...
Very few people seem to care much about the origin of the Covid pandemic anymore. But Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is an exception, and on Saturday, he...
The 2028 presidential cycle has not begun yet. But if you pay attention to the polling in states that are likely to be early in the cycle – the...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Qatar and other unspecified “mediators” are working Monday to “push the U.S. and Iran into a new...
A point that didn’t fit in today’s already-long Morning Jolt about data center construction, relating to security concerns… Back in July 2025,...
I don’t want to say that the U.S. Senate race in Maine is over, but new numbers out today show incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins has $11...
In response to Tuesday’s Morning Jolt, some readers contended that the inflation rate of 3.5 percent, year over year, wasn’t so bad, and that...
Last month, President Trump started using his new Qatari-donated version of Air Force One. “The safety and security of the commander in chief is our...
It may be small and little-noticed, but I would rank it among President Trump’s finest achievements in his second term so far: getting Chinese house...
It says a great deal about today’s GOP that few if any Republicans think the gargantuan growth of the president’s wealth while in office is even...
I remain a skeptic that the Democratic Party will nominate Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee for a second straight cycle. There’s a school...
Earlier this month, the parliament of Finland, the newest member of NATO, voted to change its laws to allow nuclear weapons to be deployed on its...
It was never clear who the intended target audience was for Jill Biden’s White House memoir, It’s Everyone Else’s Fault But Mine — er, excuse...
In perhaps the least surprising news ever, Iran is breaking its promises in the Memorandum of Understanding. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
Elaborating on today’s grim assessment of the U.S.-Iran MOA — I might use a different three-letter acronym to describe the so-called deal — if...
Nothing will refute the accusation that broadcast network late-night talk shows are an increasingly outdated, heavily left-wing, increasingly unfunny,...
Last week, I wrote a Corner post about President Trump sharing an image of patches, reportedly from the New Jersey Department of Corrections and the...
To elaborate on Jeff’s unpopular-but-accurate assessment of the Los Angeles mayor’s race, Spencer Pratt’s third-place finish is deeply...
Back in March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is awaiting White House approval for a deal that was proposed by the Ukrainian...
Supporters of Israel who also support President Trump like to contend that that Trump is the pro-Israel president in American history. That’s about...