North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, calling on lawmakers to maintain strong federal funding for transportation infrastructure, provide greater flexibility to states, and enact permitting reforms to accelerate project delivery and reduce costs. Speaking on behalf of the National Governors Association during a hearing titled Read More…
Texas State Senator Angela Paxton filed for divorce Thursday from her husband, Attorney General Ken Paxton, ending nearly four decades of marriage between two prominent Republican political figures. The filing, made in Collin County, cites adultery and irreconcilable differences as grounds for the split. Angela Paxton publicly confirmed the divorce on the social media platform Read More…
(The Center Square) – As lawmakers begin crafting the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund the federal government in fiscal year 2026, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has implied that his party will refuse to cooperate in the process if Republicans revoke billions in funding from previous years. The Senate is set to vote Read More…
Montana’s U.S. Senators Tim Sheehy and Steve Daines praised the Senate’s passage of a sweeping legislative package dubbed the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” calling it a major victory for working families and a key step in advancing the America First agenda. The comprehensive reconciliation bill, backed by President Donald Trump and Republican leadership, includes provisions Read More…
This has been a furiously busy segment, with supposed scandals erupting and fizzling, programs becoming canceled and refunded, and Biden-era machinations continuing to be exposed. It has been a lot to take for the press…meaning a lot for them to get wrong. Advertisement We had everything from threatened journalists, hateful Muppets, soda reformulated, and more Read More…
Take a moment and think about where we are as a country. Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, laid bare the Obama administration’s years-long Russia collusion hoax that tore the country apart for years. In a press release from the DNI, it states, “President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured Read More…
As we reported, Hunter Biden did a curse-filled interview with YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan. The interview was released on Monday and had some wild moments. He did that typical Democrat thing where he tried to argue how important it was to have “immigrants” to do our work for us. He also had an anger-filled rant Read More…
As Democrats and their propaganda arm, the media, continue to defend and cover for criminal illegal immigrants, their dangerous rhetoric is causing a frightening increase in the number of attacks on Border Patrol and Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) officers. The latest incident involved a Border Patrol agent and a friend on Saturday night in Read More…
It’s not a good time to be a Democrat, either in office or seeking office. At least, if you’re not crazy, because that’s sure the road that the Democrats are heading down. Just look at any public statements made by any of these people; look at New York, where Democrats nominated an actual communist for Read More…
Here is what a treasury secretary is supposed to do: work to demystify what is being done with Americans’ money, answer why Wall Street and the Fed do what they do, and why it should matter to us. If anything remains a financial mystery, it’s what happens at the Federal Reserve. Does Fed Chairman Jerome Read More…
It’s the same story over and over again, usually in blue cities in blue states. Man (or woman) commits crime, gets arrested, perp is released on parole or some other technicality, commits more crimes… Lather, rinse, repeat. Advertisement We’re seeing it in the case of the CPB officer shot in the face by an illegal Read More…
Trump Media and Technology Group said it has accumulated roughly $2 billion in bitcoin and related asset, totaling about two-thirds of its total liquid assets. Shares of TMTG, which trades on the Nasdaq as DJT, popped as high as 9% when markets opened. Trump’s stake in the company — which trades on the Nasdaq under Read More…
In the summer of 2024, two successive events transpired to assure that Donald Trump would rise to the White House for a second term. The July attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, galvanized many voters to see the inherent danger posed in this country, and then on July 21, the called-for debate by President Read More…
By John Thompson It has been a long-running joke with conservatives about how boatloads of “right-wing conspiracies” turned out to be 100 percent true. The list is long and includes Hunter Biden’s laptop, the various Russia hoaxes and J6 conspiracies, the origin of the Wu Flu, the safety and efficacy of various COVID vaccines, and Read More…
Hunter Biden claims that former President Joe Biden took Ambien before his disastrous 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump, suggesting the sedative contributed to his father’s “deer in the headlights” appearance. Advertisement The former President’s performance at the debate was so alarming that it resulted in the Democrat party and their media minions finally abandoning Read More…
Did the Trump administration arrest and deport an 82-year-old Chilean legal immigrant in poor health to Guatemala? That was the stunning claim that appeared on Friday as several different press outlets repeated a report from The Morning Call, a local newspaper based in Allentown, PA. Advertisement According to family members, who are the entirety of Read More…
The New Yorker Magazine did what some in the publishing industry thought would “never happen” – it laid off dead weight in late 2023. But as long as the mag remains in circulation and Donald Trump is breathing, its remaining staff will have a visceral, obsessive hatred for the man. An article (and usually a Read More…
This is a story about John Two Guns White Calf, the last chief of the Blackfeet. His proud visage was immortalized on the Washington Redskins’ logo, designed by Blackie Wetzel to honor Native American strength. For decades, from 1972 to 2019, that emblem blazed across NFL fields, a tribute to “Indian Country” that stirred pride Read More…
Since receiving his nepo-baby pardon from his father, Hunter Biden has been mostly out of sight and out of mind. In a brazen show of arrogance, though, he’s returned to trash the Trump administration over illegal immigration and decries “white men in America.” Advertisement The interview took place with an outlet called “Channel 5 News,” Read More…
President Donald Trump has been in office now six months in his second term. He hit the ground running from the very start, and I don’t think he’s slowed down since he came in. His team on Sunday released a long list of things he’s achieved in that short period of time, including securing the Read More…
In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1875 poem “The Masque of Pandora”, the character Prometheus renders an immortal saying: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” It’s an apt saying, if one does a quick browse through history, and Prometheus’ observation in Longfellow’s work is repeated in essence over and over in the literature of Read More…
In an unrelated article I wrote on Sunday, I began with the following: If this story angers you, disgusts you, or reinforces the importance of President Donald Trump’s aggressive use of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to hunt down and detain “the worst of the worst” illegal aliens, many of whom were welcomed into the Read More…
The more that comes to light about the wastefulness and incompetence of the Biden administration – a fish that really did rot from the head – the more we should be glad to see that administration in the nation’s rearview mirror. In the latest example of wastefulness that should have any sensible person’s eyes rolling Read More…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested that implementing a “higher tariff level” on countries would put more “pressure on those countries to come with better agreements.” “The important thing” with President Donald Trump’s trade negotiations, “is the quality of the deal, not the timing of the deals,” he told CNBC. Trump has postponed his country-specific tariff Read More…
If you wait long enough, the press will always admit conservatives were right all along. The catch is that they’ll only do so when they think they can shift the narrative in their favor. That’s exactly what’s happening regarding illegal immigration and government-funded healthcare. Advertisement For well over a decade, the official line has been Read More…
Disney-Marvel used to be a cultural powerhouse, but ever since End Game, the brand has been on a steep decline thanks to the injection of modern political influence that leans heavily to the left. Despite signs that Disney is trying to course correct in various ways, it would appear that Marvel may continue to push Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles There is a sickness inside our hearts. It aches for something brighter, better, a more resplendent mode of being. God, perhaps. Or temporary deliverance from the pain of being alive, and of knowing we will die. It urges us to create something: family; home; work; and art. To contribute something Read More…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that countries can still negotiate with the U.S. after Aug. 1, but that is the deadline for countries to begin paying so-called reciprocal tariffs. Lutnick also suggested smaller nations would likely have a baseline tariff of 10%. “The bigger economies will either open themselves up or they’ll pay a fair Read More…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly told President Donald Trump not to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, The Wall Street Journal reported. Bessent, who cited the possible legal, political and economic fall-out, mark a departure from other top Trump administration officials, who have increased their public criticism of Powell. Powell has repeatedly resisted Trump’s demands Read More…
President Donald Trump said that “even if” the courts release the grand jury transcripts in the cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, “nothing will be good enough.” Trump’s post comes one day after the Department of Justice asked federal judges to unseal the grand jury testimonies in the criminal cases, following a request by Trump. Read More…
In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller is joined by Ana Kasparian to break down her latest investigation into Los Angeles’ ballooning police overtime budget—and the unintended fallout from efforts to defund the LAPD. Despite cutting thousands of officers since 2020, the city is now spending more on policing. Staff is stretched thin, and Read More…
The Department of Justice asked federal judges to unseal grand jury transcripts in the criminal cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The formal requests came one day after President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to “produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval.” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Read More…
President Donald Trump sued Rupert Murdoch for libel after his Wall Street Journal published an article saying Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday. The Journal reported that the letter, allegedly sent in 2003, was among documents included in evidence assembled by federal criminal investigators as part of their probe of Read More…
FBI agents assigned to review files in the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein were instructed to “flag” any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump, Sen. Richard Durbin said Durbin asked the Justice Department and FBI to explain what his office called “apparent discrepancies” regarding handling of the Epstein files and findings from a Justice Department memo. Trump Read More…
Trump has escalated his demands on the EU following weeks of negotiations over a possible framework deal, the Financial Times reported. The EU had been hoping for a deal similar to the U.K.’s, which maintained a 10% baseline tariff with some sector exemptions. Trump has often bemoaned the EU’s 198 billion euro ($231 billion) trade surplus in goods Read More…
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he and House Republicans want “maximum transparency” on notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump insists there is no “smoking gun” and demands his supporters drop their focus on the so-called Epstein files. But Trump recently asked embattled Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce “any and all pertinent Grand Jury Read More…
The framework amounts to 1.26% of the EU’s average gross national income and will run for a seven-year period starting from 2028. “This is a budget for the realities of today, as well as the challenges of tomorrow,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during a press conference. The proposal must still be Read More…
The British government said on Thursday that it plans to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections. The move marks the biggest change to the electorate since it was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1969. HULL, ENGLAND – MAY 01: A sign reading “Polling Station” is seen during local Read More…
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President Donald Trump said he asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release grand jury testimony related to the criminal prosecution of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has tried, without success so far, to force his political base to abandon conspiracy theories about Epstein and a rumored client list. Trump’s announcement came hours after Read More…
A “bawdy” letter to Jeffrey Epstein, bearing President Donald Trump’s signature, was included in an album of letters Epstein received for his 50th birthday in 2003, The Wall Street Journal reported. The letter was sent at the request of Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the newspaper. Epstein died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 after Read More…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell formally replied to White House OMB director Russell Vought’s July 10 letter, which asked pointed questions about the Fed’s headquarters renovation. Powell explained the reasons the project cost had exceeded its initial budget, and denied that the renovated offices would include luxurious extras. Vought’s letter was the latest chapter in Read More…
President Donald Trump “would not recommend a special prosecutor” to review the handling and files of the criminal case against the late serial sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, the White House said. There have been growing calls in Congress for the Justice Department to release more evidence assembled in the criminal case against Epstein. Trump has Read More…
President Donald Trump underwent a comprehensive medical exam that revealed he has a common vein disorder but cleared him of more serious illnesses, the White House said. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also said that bruises periodically visible on the back of Trump’s hand are consistent with irritation from “frequent handshaking.” Leavitt’s disclosure of the 79-year-old Read More…