Nice try… Kevin O’Connor, who served as President Biden’s physician during his term, asked the House Oversight Committee to postpone scheduled testimony, citing disagreements on the scope of the questions the Republican-led committee can ask him. O’Connor is scheduled to give a deposition on Wednesday as part of the committee’s probe into Biden’s mental acuity and his use of […]
It is tempting, in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster, to reach for a human culprit. The storm must have been triggered, the flood must have been engineered, the horror must have been avoidable. But before indulging that impulse, we must remember what has actually transpired. The floodwaters in Central Texas have not yet […]
Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit was found dead in his car Monday, only hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed him from his post. Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for Russia’s State Investigative Committee, said the former minister’s body was found in his personal car with a gunshot wound and that the committee was on the scene investigating. Starovoit’s […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – How Russia could complicate US efforts to defend Taiwan. There are questions about how much these two nations would cooperate should China opt to invade Taiwan. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte recently suggested that the cooperation could be significant as China could pressure Russia to assist. “There’s an increasing realization, and […]
The threat of political violence is reaching a fever pitch. Democrat lawmakers say their voters are enraged at the lack of ability to counter President Donald Trump‘s agenda, with some sounding the alarm that they could potentially resort to “violence,” Axios reported Monday. The outlet says it spoke to over two dozen House Democrats to measure the temperature of […]
A federal judge has temporarily halted a key provision in President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” that would have stripped Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding for one year, handing the organization an early legal victory in its challenge against the defunding measure. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued a […]
As the death toll from the devastating Fourth of July flash floods in Central Texas climbs, meteorologists and weather officials are pushing back against Democratic claims that staffing cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS) under the Trump administration contributed to the catastrophe. Democratic leaders and public figures […]
TSA To Flyers: Keep Your Shoes On
The Transportation Security Administration, in an announcement greeted with collective national relief and a sense of long-overdue sanity, has finally ended its longstanding one-size-fits-all policy requiring travelers to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints. Our long national nightmare is over. The end of this rule marks the close of a performance that, for more […]