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Finally, ICE Catches and Detains the Worst of the Worst

Reasonable people can have disagreements about the the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, but the news...

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Trump Administration Threatens to Demolish the Kennedy Center

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...

26.08.2026 9

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Trump says he’s ‘the affordability president.’ That’s rich.

Trump says he’s ‘the affordability president.’ That’s rich.
25.08.2026 30

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Schrödinger’s White House Ballroom

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:...

24.08.2026 10

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Trump: North Korea ‘Has 57 Very Powerful Nuclear Weapons’

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...

20.08.2026 10

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Our troops are exhausted. The answer isn’t to buy a key chain.

18.08.2026 10

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For AOC, the Time Is Now

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...

14.08.2026 10

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The Trump Administration Picks the Kennedy Center Name Fight Again

The Trump administration remains the undisputed world champion and a first-ballot hall-of-famer in the category of picking stupid fights with little...

13.08.2026 10

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Alberta Isn’t Likely to Become Independent . . . At Least Not Anytime Soon

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...

13.08.2026 10

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In Your Dreams, Mike Lindell

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary, state house speaker Lisa Demuth has 179,545 votes, and...

12.08.2026 10

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The Federal Department of Time-Wasting Vendettas

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...

11.08.2026 10

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President Trump: Our Munitions Stockpile Is ‘Fine’ and ‘Low’

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...

11.08.2026 10

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Biden’s sad cancer news explains uncomfortable realities for Democrats

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Once Again, More Evidence That Putin Is Already at War with NATO

The Morning Jolt, reporting from Riga, Latvia, back in May: And a Latvian official who deals with national security issues speculated that perhaps a...

10.08.2026 10

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Rolling Stone Predictably Swoons Over Hasan Piker

“Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?” asks the headline at Rolling Stone. Five paragraphs later, correspondent Josh Eells writes: Among his...

10.08.2026 10

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Regarding Those Claims of $20 Burritos . . .

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...

06.08.2026 10

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Will This Year’s Midterms Look Like 2006 All Over Again?

Yesterday, Amy Walter, Editor-in-Chief, Cook Political Report and former editor of National Journal’s Hotline, suggested that this year’s midterm...

05.08.2026 10

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What ruined the Reflecting Pool? Jeanine Pirro had a choice.

04.08.2026 40

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Biden’s Covid Coordinator: ‘It Is More Likely to Have Been a Lab Leak.’

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...

03.08.2026 10

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Go Figure, It Turns Out the Iranian Regime Is ‘Unbelievably Duplicitous’

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...

03.08.2026 10

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If You Want to Hurt Russia’s Economy, Graham’s Bill Is the Best Option

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...

03.08.2026 10

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Why Today’s Senate Appearance Is Not Helping Dr. Anthony Fauci

As laid out on today’s forthcoming Three Martini Lunch podcast, it’s understandable that critics of Dr. Anthony Fauci are frustrated by his...

29.07.2026 10

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More Frequent and Detailed Health Updates Would Be Better, Senator McConnell

Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, wrote to Senator Mitch McConnell and demanded, “as governor of the state you serve, I am calling on...

29.07.2026 10

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Whom will Democrats nominate in 2028? The scales just tilted.

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Own a Piece of National Review History, For Just Under $4 Million

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...

27.07.2026 10

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, January 2020: ‘Now We Know the Market Was Not the Source, It Was the Amplifier’

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...

26.07.2026 20

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An Early New Hampshire Poll Finds Democratic 2028 Frontrunner . . . AOC

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...

22.07.2026 10

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Surprise, surprise. Trump’s Qatar Force One already has issues.

21.07.2026 20

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Oh, Good, More Negotiations with the Iranians

The Wall Street Journal reports that Qatar and other unspecified “mediators” are working Monday to “push the U.S. and Iran into a new...

20.07.2026 10

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Note to Self: Do Not Build Global Critical Infrastructure in the Middle East

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,...

20.07.2026 20

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Susan Collins, with $11 Million to Take On . . . to Be Determined

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...

16.07.2026 20

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No, We Should Not Give Up on the Goal of a 2 Percent Inflation Rate

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...

16.07.2026 20

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An agonizing interview failed to end the GOP’s Marx problem

15.07.2026 30

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It Turns Out the New Qatari-Donated Air Force One Isn’t Completely Secure

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...

09.07.2026 20

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Kudos to the Trump Administration for Securing Ezra Jin’s Release

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...

06.07.2026 20

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Trump’s Economy Is Working Really Well for at Least One Guy

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...

01.07.2026 20

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Kamala Harris, Privately Reaching Out to Mayor Mamdani

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...

01.07.2026 20

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Not all states could stomach Trump’s Great American State Fair

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Russian Lawmaker: We Still Have Enough Equipment to ‘Blow Up Half of Finland’

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...

29.06.2026 20

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Shockingly, Very Few People Want to Buy Jill Biden’s Book

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...

29.06.2026 20

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Say, I’m Starting to Think These Iranian Mullahs Might Not Be Trustworthy

In perhaps the least surprising news ever, Iran is breaking its promises in the Memorandum of Understanding. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard...

25.06.2026 20

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What’s America really like? Ask the World Cup tourists.

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The Violations of the MOU Have Already Begun

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...

22.06.2026 30

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Coming Soon: Late-Night Talk Show Host Rosie O’Donnell

Nothing will refute the accusation that broadcast network late-night talk shows are an increasingly outdated, heavily left-wing, increasingly unfunny,...

22.06.2026 20

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Good luck, JD Vance. I sense a setup.

15.06.2026 40

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Good News: The Point Pleasant Beach Police Don’t Support the Punisher Logo

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...

11.06.2026 20

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Spencer Pratt’s Frustrating, but Not Shocking, Third-Place Finish

To elaborate on Jeff’s unpopular-but-accurate assessment of the Los Angeles mayor’s race, Spencer Pratt’s third-place finish is deeply...

10.06.2026 30

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A ‘forgotten world war’ helped forge America

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Ukraine Wants to Help Us with Drones, but We Won’t Take It

Back in March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is awaiting White House approval for a deal that was proposed by the Ukrainian...

08.06.2026 20

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Trump on Israel and Iran: ‘I Call All the Shots’

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...

08.06.2026 20

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