On Tuesday, Judge Juan Merchan declined to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump and his legal team despite the mounting speculation. During the Tuesday afternoon arraignment, Merchan warned Trump and his team, as well as the opposing counsel, not to make social media posts that could incite violence. Early reports indicated the judge […]
Bad news for Wisconsin… Tuesday evening Wisconsin voters rushed to the polls to decide the balance of the state’s Supreme Court in what became one of the most expensive races in the state’s history. Democrat-backed Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz won the crucial seat, defeating Republican-backed former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly. According to data […]
Washington, D.C. – North Carolina Democrats were left scrambling Tuesday as media outlets throughout the state began reporting state Rep. Tricia Cotham would be crossing the aisle. Cotham, who represents portions of Mecklenburg County, is expected to make the switch as early as Wednesday, giving the GOP a narrow, three-fifths supermajority in the state’s lower […]
ANALYSIS – Communist China’s militarized Coast Guard just spent over 80 hours, more than three and a half days, circling the Japanese Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sunday after refusing orders to leave. This latest incursion is part of China’s ever-increasing low-intensity ‘gray zone warfare’ against its neighbors and a major part of its […]
Republican lawmakers in one state capitol are on the cusp of a decisive victory. According to multiple reports, lawmakers in the North Carolina House of Representatives say one Democrat is preparing to jump ship and change their party affiliation to Republican. The move would give the GOP a veto-proof majority in North Carolina General Assembly, […]
The federal budget is (very) slowly working its way through Congress with a fiscal year-end deadline in September. While Congress has an ingrained, bipartisan habit of missing that deadline, the budget preliminaries have provided at least one clear assessment of why we’re in such a fiscal mess. In testimony before the House Budget Committee, Tax […]
Former President Donald Trump has been processed and arraigned before a judge on more than two dozen felony charges. To some observers, Trump’s appearance before Judge Juan Merchan signified one of the few times in his adult life when he entered a room and wasn’t in control. Indeed, as a defendant in criminal court, Trump […]
ANALYSIS – Warning: false flag, Kremlin intrigue or something else? Russia’s Investigative Committee – the country’s top state criminal investigation agency – announced the arrest of a 26-year-old woman, Daria Trepova, for the assassination of the pro-war 40-year-old Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. The blogger was killed in a bomb blast at a St Petersburg […]
On the same day as his indictment, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to go on a tear about Fox News’ recent editorial decisions. Trump, who’s had a love-hate relationship with Fox over the years, explicitly told his supporters to switch channels whenever his critics are on air. The comments followed former Attorney […]
The United States has successfully carried out a military strike to kill a senior Islamic State leader. The “unilateral” strike in northwest Syria, carried out Monday, killed Khalid ‘Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri, CENTCOM head Gen. Erik Kurilla said in the statement. The statement noted that al-Jabouri was a senior ISIS figure who “was responsible for planning ISIS attacks into Europe and […]
TUESDAY PDB – Finland doubling NATO’s border with Russia in blow to Putin. The blue-and-white Finnish flag rises outside NATO headquarters Tuesday afternoon, making Finland a member and doubling Russia’s border with the world’s biggest security alliance. Four maps explain how Finland could alter NATO’s security. The move will transform Europe’s security landscape for years to come […]
US Navy Needs To Be Everywhere In Pacific, All The Time, To Stop China
ANALYSIS – Short-term appearances, or sporadic transiting Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS) by U.S. Navy ships, won’t keep China from dominating the Western Pacific, says one expert. To effectively combat Communist China’s encroaching semi-permanent military and naval presence there, we need an enduring presence ourselves – everywhere. But this is impossible with the less than 300 […]