Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) has made bold claims linking drones seen near former President Trump’s New Jersey estate to an Iranian “mothership” off the East Coast. The assertion has sparked significant attention, as questions swirl about the mysterious drones that have been spotted across New Jersey skies for weeks. Van Drew, in a conversation […]
I could not be more excited about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency. The federal government doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. We have thousands of government agencies spending money. With the federal debt now $36 trillion, it is long overdue that we have one […]
I don’t think any gun rights supporter actually likes the ATF, with the possible exception of any that might work for the ATF. No, I don’t understand why anyone who values the Second Amendment would work for the one agency explicitly designed to restrict a constitutionally protected right, but they might well have reasons. By […]
The trend line of 2024 as the fifth highest for gun sales and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks is holding for the year. November 2024 had the sixth-highest gun sales for that month. It was close. November of 2022 had .28% higher numbers. The NICS background checks were the fifth most for the month. […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated his commitment to feminism while expressing frustration over the United States’ recent presidential election results. Speaking to a supportive audience, Trudeau lamented that Americans once again declined to elect a female presidential candidate. “We were supposed to be on a march toward progress,” Trudeau said. “And yet, just a […]
Longtime FBI Director Christopher Wray has announced his imminent resignation as FBI director, paving the way for Kash Patel to take over. Seven years into his 10-year term, Wray faced two options: wait for President-elect Donald Trump to fire him or step down first. He chose the latter. Wray announced his plans to resign come […]
Here’s just a small slice of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrest record across the Massachusetts over the last several months: In April, ICE arrested a Guatemalan illegal alien who was facing nine separate child sex crime charges. In August, ICE took into custody multiple illegal aliens from Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil–all facing various criminal charges ranging […]
President Joe Biden is reportedly considering removing Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a notorious Islamic group with ties to al-Qaeda, from the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list. This move comes in the wake of the overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a seismic event that has reshaped the country’s political landscape. According to […]
The shocking assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, a disillusioned 26-year-old, encapsulates both a heinous act of violence and an egregious misreading of the complex dysfunction that bedevils the American health care system. Mangione, a graduate of an elite Ivy League university and the son of health care professionals, left behind a […]
Is Elon Musk Trump’s New Political Enforcer?
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump’s way — or his. Trump’s second term comes with the specter of the world’s richest man serving as his political enforcer. Musk not only supports Trump’s agenda and Cabinet appointments but is intent on seeing them through to the point of pressuring Republicans […]