Missouri Attorney General blasts Kansas City mayor’s open invitation to migrants
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey threatened legal action against Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas after the Democratic leader invited migrants from sanctuary cities to live and work in the Midwest state. In a letter released Thursday, Bailey, a Republican, accused Lucas of offering an “open invitation for illegal aliens to come to Missouri” and claimed Lucas’s […]
Insane: School suspends student for saying ‘illegal alien’
The progressive capture of our education system is getting harder and harder to deny. The latest example of liberalism run amok in America’s schools comes courtesy of North Carolina, where a school reportedly suspended a student for daring to use the term “illegal alien” during a classroom conversation. The 16-year-old was in English class during […]
CIA chief warns US politicians to ‘get their act together’ to best China
U.S. political “dysfunction” is hampering the country’s options to exploit Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vulnerabilities, according to the CIA chief. “Even with all its ambition, even with all its expanding capabilities, and a really serious military modernization program, [China]’s not 10 feet tall,” CIA director Bill Burns said this week at the George W. Bush […]
Senate renews FISA spy powers after late-night breakthrough
The Senate reauthorized a controversial FISA spying program on Friday night in the face of days of hardened opposition, casting a flurry of votes in the hours before the law expired. A bipartisan group of privacy hawks had refused to fast-track the legislation, which renews Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but they […]
Biden administration greenlights production of first nuclear warhead in 40 years
Senate testimony by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Jill Hruby revealed the Pentagon is building the first new nuclear warhead in 40 years. The W93 warhead will be built without nuclear testing and will be used on submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Currently, the United States is adhering to a prohibition on […]
‘Squad’ members come to defense of Omar’s daughter after school suspension
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) took to X to show their solidarity with Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter, Isra Hirsi, following her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest at Barnard College. Hirsi announced on X that she was one of three students suspended “for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.” “From […]
Fetterman slams media for leaving out Hamas hostages in coverage
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) continued to call for Hamas to release its hostages, six months after operatives kidnapped them from southern Israel. Since the Oct. 7 attack, Fetterman has displayed the photos of all the hostages Hamas took on his Senate office walls. The terrorist organization is holding over 100 hostages, according to Israel Defense Forces, though […]
Arizona governor breaks veto record sparring with Republican legislature
The Republican-controlled Arizona legislature hasn’t agreed with Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) on much. As a result, Hobbs has used her veto power 185 times since January 2023, breaking a state record. The last governor to veto this many bills, Democrat Janet Napolitano, did so over the entirety of her term. Arizona Republicans hold slim majorities […]
Postcards from the edge of cannibalism
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — Several years ago the Smithsonian magazine ran an elegant story about the use of postcards in American culture as a way both to communicate to loved ones far away and to illustrate what the traveler wants you to see about where they have been. The key phrase is “wants you to see.” […]
If US wants to ‘unleash prosperity,’ listen to Stephen Moore
When the pandemic was in its earliest days of raging through a frightened world, as big governments forced shutdowns and threw fake money at the resultant financial devastation, longtime conservative economic writer Stephen Moore began a daily memo, weekends excluded, offering better ideas. His goal, as he says now, was “to systematically attack what turned […]