More signs that the Republican presidential field is approaching a reckoning: columnist George Will whose wife is a consultant for South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, is calling on the fairly well funded, but badly trailing candidate to drop out of the race: This is the South Carolina Senator’s choice: He can acknowledge that his energetic […]
UPDATE: Israel has denied launching an airstrike that killed hundreds at a Gaza Strip hospital. An Israeli statement blames the massive explosion on a misfired Palestinian rocket, contradicting Gaza health authorities. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: An airstrike on a Gaza City Hospital reportedly killed 500 people, says the Palestinian Health Ministry. The deadly blast comes hours before […]
Criminal charges against Alec Baldwin may be revived in the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. CNN revealed on Tuesday that a New Mexico grand jury will decide Baldwin’s fate. In August, an independent forensic report showed the gun Baldwin held in front of Hutchins fired normally. The conclusion that it functioned correctly – […]
Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade had choice words for a Republican Member of Congress earlier this afternoon. Kilmeade called Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) a “dumba**” after he became the first member of the House Republican Conference to vote in opposition to Jim Jordan’s nomination for speaker. With a 221-seat Republican majority, Jordan can only afford […]
The Justice Department (DOJ) appealed the sentences of five members of the Proud Boys, including its former leader over their roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, and Zachary Rehl were convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack, while Dominic Pezzola was […]
Ukrainian and U.S. officials have announced that Kyiv ordered the use of the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for the first time. Washington discreetly shipped a small number of ATACMS to Ukraine in recent days. Kyiv long sought the coveted surface-to-surface missiles as a means to launch airstrikes far behind the front lines. The […]
Palestinian terror organization Hamas revealed Tuesday on Telegram that an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip eliminated one of its highest-ranking commanders, Ayman Nofal. Nofal, a senior military council member overseeing Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades, held a rank equivalent to brigadier general. As the world holds its breath ahead of an anticipated and costly ground incursion […]
ANALYSIS – A sobering new 145-page report from the bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture warns that China and Russia together pose an “existential challenge” to the United States. The report adds that without immediate action, the U.S. will be “ill-prepared” to defeat the rising double nuclear threat and calls for a dramatic overhaul of America’s nuclear arsenal […]
Nearly every Republican in the United States Senate is sounding the alarm on a Biden administration proposal to reinstate so-called “net neutrality” rules, a group of heavy-handed Obama-era regulations on the internet. Under the Biden plan, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would reclassify the internet as a “public utility.” That would allow the FCC to […]
MONDAY PDB – Eisenhower carrier strike group to join Ford in eastern Mediterranean. It will join the brand-new Ford Carrier Strike Group to provide support to Israel. While the White House says there are “no plans or intentions” for their use, it means U.S. military assets would be in place to provide significant air support to protect […]
House Republicans will limp back into Washington, D.C., with a speaker nominee in Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who, as of this writing, didn’t have enough votes, even from his own caucus, to win the job. That’s hardly surprising, given the party’s recent descent into self-parody. Jordan, whom former Speaker John Boehner once described as a […]
US Long-Range ATACMS Used To Strike Russian Targets For First Time
ANALYSIS – Ukraine has reportedly used the long-awaited U.S. ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) to strike Russian targets for the first time. Ukraine had begged Team Biden for over a year to send ATACMS, pronounced “attack-ems,” which can strike targets at ranges over 100 miles. The highly accurate, GPS-guided missiles, also designated MGM-140s, have a longer […]