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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...
Last night, the president shared images on Truth Social of two patches, reportedly from the New Jersey Department of Corrections and the PBA Local...
Former first lady Jill Biden told CBS Sunday Morning that she never, ever saw any signs of her husband falling into cognitive decline, and even...
The Morning Jolt, from Riga, Lativa, back on May 14: If you compiled a list of the countries that are most likely to get invaded by a hostile force in...
You might be asking, what could be worse than a Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo? How about, a House candidate who did some work for al-Qaeda? Adam...
The phrase “it’s an op” – meaning an influence operation – is often, though not always, a marker of paranoia, a tendency towards conspiracy...
You can contend, as many do, that the reasons for the Democrats’ defeats in 2024 are obvious. But the Democratic National Committee’s job is to...
If you’re an Iran hawk, you had reason for some optimism when the U.S. war against Iran – don’t be like Putin and use the euphemism of a...
The big takeaway from last night’s primaries was that a endorsement from President Trump remains a likely sure-fire ticket to victory in a GOP...