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Conservative talk show host Steve Deace wrote earlier this week, “Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a ...
The saga of New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones and the subpar education of her daughter in a lower-rated New York City public school is no...
When you see that the Trump White House has revoked the press passes for correspondents of MSNOW, CNN, and Politico, it is understandable if you feel...
Back in July 2025, Kamala Harris decided to not run for governor of California, and I expressed some skepticism that she would run for president, and...
As noted on today’s edition of The Editors, besides Donald Trump Jr.’s abysmal judgment in who he accepts lavish wedding parties from, and general...
Back in 2018, President Trump’s job approval rating was around 43 percent, but despite doing badly in U.S. House, gubernatorial, and state...
Out in Iowa, Republican incumbent governor Kim Reynolds is not seeking a third term, and Republican Zach Lahn is in a tough race against Democrat...
President Trump, speaking on the Ellipse, Tuesday at a ceremony honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks: For three months after September 11th, the...
Anyone with even a slim majority of the five senses likely sensed that Corey Lewandowski was exceptionally bad news and you wouldn’t want to trust...
We can question whether the U.S. wanted to see Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek...
This is really Jeff Blehar’s beat, but last week in the Morning Jolt, I noted, “after a troubling spike during the pandemic and immediately after,...
Look, maybe I’m just showing my age, but we’re rapidly approaching the 25-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and I cannot imagine anyone...
The first week of Joe Biden’s term in 2021, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve had had 638 million barrels of oil. The first week of President...
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...