In a recent interview with OutKick’s Clay Travis, President Donald Trump expressed optimism about his relationship with Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Trump, who has had a contentious relationship with the media throughout his political career, said he had developed a more positive rapport with Bezos since his first term in office. […]
A national secret is not always stolen with a spy’s whisper. Increasingly, it dies in silence—archived, encrypted, intercepted, and stored, awaiting the day mathematics no longer protects it. That day may arrive sooner than we think. The advent of quantum computing, a technology that manipulates the strange rules of subatomic physics, threatens to break the […]
Could Trump’s legal troubles come back to haunt him? President Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon predicted Thursday that President Trump will go to prison if a Democrat wins back the White House in 2028. “God forbid we don’t win in ’28, President Trump is going to prison,” Bannon, who was Trump’s advisor in his first presidency, said Thursday during an […]
Congressional investigators are looking into troubling allegations the Biden administration pressured tech companies to use artificial intelligence to censor speech by private American citizens that differed with official Biden administration positions. The U.S House Judiciary Committee reports Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) “sent letters to Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic PBC, Apple, Cohere, International Business Machines Corp., […]
President Trump reportedly issued a pardon to Nikola founder Trevor Milton on Thursday. Trump pardoned Milton for his 2022 conviction of misleading investors about the electric vehicle maker’s technology. “I just got a call from the president of the United States on my phone and he signed my full and unconditional pardon of innocence, I […]
Within 60 days of assuming office, President Donald J. Trump has accomplished what the Biden administration failed to do in four years: unleash a tsunami of private-sector investment—$1.4 trillion—in American industry without spending a dime of taxpayer money. The contrast is not merely instructive. It is revelatory. Consider Hyundai. This week, the South Korean auto […]
Every year, like clockwork, Equal Pay Day arrives with the solemnity of a national day of mourning. The media dons black. Democratic politicians take to the pulpit. The statistic is intoned like scripture: women earn just 82 cents for every dollar earned by men. This is meant to suggest systemic injustice—an economy rigged against half […]
Details are still emerging… A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled Thailand and Burma on Friday, causing buildings to collapse and leaving more than 150 people dead across both countries. Dramatic footage captured in Bangkok showed an apartment building that was under construction falling down, scattering dust and debris throughout the city’s streets. At least eight […]
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review a restraining order that temporarily blocks its use of an 18th-century wartime immigration law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals. Fox News reports that the appeal comes shortly after the DC. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Wednesday to uphold a lower court’s decision to […]
In the months leading up to the 2024 election, behind closed doors, some of the Democratic Party’s top officials were quietly preparing for former President Joe Biden to either step aside from the 2024 race or die in office. This secretive contingency planning, which began as early as 2023, is revealed in the new book […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Trump next week will consider three options for his Golden Dome missile-defense project, as DOD might create a new office to build the ambitious, futuristic missile shield. The huge effort will likely require more coordination than today’s Missile Defense Agency can offer. The effort will likely include near-term goals—such as improving the […]
Sovereign Stakes: Aligning American Power With Fiscal Prudence
Suppose the United States could reduce its deficit without raising taxes, while simultaneously improving the efficiency of federal contracts and enhancing the long-term solvency of Social Security. This is not political alchemy, but a proposal rooted in the economic realities of procurement, incentives, and financial prudence. It involves neither speculative ventures nor risky investments. Rather, […]