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There is perhaps no more dangerous appointment in a constitutional republic than an attorney general who mistakes his obligation to defend the Constitution for a choice to defend the president. Todd Blanche is demonstrating, with alarming regularity, that he does not understand the difference.

Once Donald Trump's skilled personal lawyer, ...Read more

Abdul El-Sayed's election to the U.S. Senate is consequential. It is also a moment that calls for clear-eyed scrutiny, not panic nor complacency.

The most troubling part of El-Sayed's victory is not his Muslim faith. A candidate's religion is not proof of disloyalty, extremism or hostility to America. Nor should political opponents casually ...Read more

After the shellacking Republicans just took in the midterm elections, a common refrain among conservatives is that we should all be terrified of what comes next. Whether you get your commentary from X, Instagram or friends on Facebook, you may have heard fear that the Democrats will vastly expand the size and scope of government, usher in ...Read more

Chinese sex spy Christine Fang (aka Fang Fang) targeted Capitol Hill's HI (the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee). The Beijing sex kitten wrapped California Democratic congressman and HI member Eric Swalwell around her charming wrist, waist and fangs.

Now Chinese Communist Party spy Alice Huang has targeted and successfully love...Read more

If Republicans are to recover from a crushing midterm election, they need to understand why their defeat was so sweeping and what must be done to regain the trust of the American people.

Voters told pollsters that the issues most crucial to them were government corruption and the cost of living.

Democratic ads featured allegations that ...Read more

Some businesses fail, and people lose jobs.

So politicians say, "We must protect workers!"

Some states expanded the WARN Act, making it harder to lay off workers.

But there's a downside to protection, says economist Allison Schrager.

"There is no prosperity, no growth ... no 'upside' without risking loss."

Schrager's new book "Worth the ...Read more

He was pontificating -- in the presence of the pope.

"They've been deceiving us. They've known the science. They've denied the science," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a May 16, 2024, speech at the Vatican.

What was it Newsom believed these adversaries knew the science on yet denied? It was "climate change."

Who were these deniers?

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Stephen Miller's appointment as White House chief of staff came with one very routine adjective: "hardliner." To elitist media operatives, that is defined as "anyone who dramatically disagrees with us."

Take this Nov. 7 Associated Press headline summarizing Miller's positions: "In his words: Stephen Miller is an immigration hardliner and a ...Read more

ERIE, Pennsylvania -- In the last week of October, fall foliage in Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains reached its peak, with native hardwoods and understory trees ablaze in red, orange, yellow and purple. A Democratic governor cruising to reelection had no obvious reason to travel through these rural counties, but Josh Shapiro went anyway. A...Read more

Paris is burning and facing economic turmoil as young protesters and criminals have taken to the streets in violent temper tantrums.

The leaders of Paris sit back in a state of petrified paralysis and have forfeited control as civil protest has turned whole neighborhoods into zones of chaos and jungle warfare. It's like a scene out of a ...Read more

Republicans' dismal showing in 2026 has made their 2028 presidential primary much more interesting.

It has long seemed likely the 2028 GOP presidential nomination would be decided by President Donald Trump. He has dominated Republican Party politics for a decade. The GOP base adores him for bucking the amnesty-pushing GOP establishment and ...Read more

Perhaps the most telling polling of the post-election Republican debacle compares the public's view of the economy during President Donald Trump's first term (before COVID-19) and second.

During Trump I, the president was a +9 on the economy, even when his personal approval number was atrocious. Today, the president is at -35 on the economy. ...Read more

Tuesday's election wasn't a blue wave or even a blue tsunami: It was a blue apocalypse.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who leads the one notable bright spot on the map, referred to the wipeout as "close to an extinction-level event" for the GOP. It was the worst midterm defeat for one party in over a half-century.

Much of the postmortem ...Read more

For the last two years, the Trump administration has been governed by a simple mantra: "We can just do things." On Tuesday, voters replied, "So can we," and wiped out the GOP. This was not a blue wave. This was not a blue tsunami. This was the breakup of a winning coalition.

Those voters, in breaking up the coalition, treated down-ballot ...Read more

We had a midterm election in which the Democrats and the Left were wildly successful. There is one way in which this makes some of them look either deeply stupid or dishonest. Many of them who rejoice now tried to claim there wouldn't be any more elections if Trump won in 2024, or that he might cancel the midterms.

On Oct. 18, 2023, Rachel ...Read more

More than a "thumping." That's what George W. Bush called it when Democrats won majorities in both houses by gaining six Senate and 30 House seats in 2006. In Tuesday's midterm elections, Democrats won majorities in both houses, gaining seven Senate seats, with chances at two more, and have gained or are ahead in 40 Republican House seats.

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Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia.

The presidential buzz had begun even before Ossoff won reelection by 18 points in purplish Georgia, and will get more intense now.

Perhaps he doesn't run -- and the ...Read more