THURSDAY PDB – OF COURSE, WE ARE! – We may already be in a Cold War with China. Although bilateral trade with China in 2022 increased to a record $690.6 billion, bilateral relations deteriorated to their lowest level since the normalization of relations in 1979. One could argue that we’ve entered a Cold War with China. CHINA […]
Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell will spend the next few days in the hospital for observation after falling during a private dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C. The extent of his injuries was not immediately known. On Thursday afternoon, the senate minority leader’s communications director posted that “Leader McConnell tripped at a dinner event […]
Congressman Darin LaHood, R-Ill., has made a startling revelation with the potential for far-reaching repercussions. It involves Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). LaHood, a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) member, chairs the committee’s FISA Working Group, overseeing Section 702 and deciding whether the provision should be renewed before it expires […]
A U.S. Appeals Court has sided with former Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren and agreed to expedite his lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) Last year, Gov. DeSantis notified Warren of his immediate suspension, accusing the liberal prosecutor of exercising “presumptive non-enforcement.” Warren publicly refused to enforce the state’s abortion restrictions or enforce laws cracking […]
A business owner in a crime-ridden city recently used his firearm to stop a burglar stealing from his business. The Portland, Oregon business owner stopped an individual Monday who “tried breaking into a business on Northeast Columbia Boulevard, east of Northeast 33rd Avenue. During the alleged break-in, police say the suspect and business owner got […]
Donald Trump is known for handing out some whopper nicknames to Democrats and fellow Republicans. Having suffered years of RINOs (Republicans In Name Only), I truly enjoyed him calling everyone and anyone out over the past eight years. In 2016, it helped push the conservative message and give congressional members more backbone. But the 2024 […]
Trump’s Former Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli has launched a political action committee, encouraging Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to enter the 2024 presidential race. In the launch video for the PAC, Cuccinelli highlights several successes DeSantis has achieved during his time serving as Florida’s governor. These include “defending parental rights, defending freedom […]
The National Archives has informed Congress it received nine boxes of documents from the office of President Joe Biden’s personal attorney’s office. A letter sent to Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveals new details regarding the ongoing questions surrounding Biden’s handling of government documents and Patrick Moore. Moore is credited with finding […]
ANALYSIS – Tucker’s misguided attempt to use cherry-picked moments of the newly released video of Jan. 6 to argue that nothing bad happened at the Capitol that day is horribly timed and very dumb. As I wrote the day after I personally observed events at the Capitol that day, January 6 was neither a deadly […]
Iowa is the recent success story of school choice. Accuracy in Media revealed in a hidden-camera investigation that school district administrators were bragging about skirting anti-CRT provisions. That created considerable political pressure in Iowa in favor of school choice, as legislating curriculum clearly did not work. That political pressure wasn’t enough in 2022, however. Plans to expand […]
A Democrat opposition research firm used a stolen Social Security number to illicitly access the military records of 11 Republican candidates, including two current members of Congress, POLITICO has revealed. The breach has Republicans asking the Justice Department to investigate whether a crime was committed and asking what Indiana Democrat Congressman Frank Mrvan knew about […]
Green Energy Needs Blue-Collar Jobs. Gen Z Doesn’t Care
The list of issues confronting the political classes’ push to electrify more daily activities has run into several obstacles along the way. But if we look past the issues with materials, the rickety grid network, terrorism and the weather itself, what else could make the transition slower, and more costly, than advertised? A shortage of […]