The Financial Times laments that when President Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska, there will be “no experts in the room.” To many in Washington, that phrase is intended to alarm. It is meant to evoke images of a president outmatched, deprived of sage counsel, and vulnerable to manipulation. But what if the absence of […]
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes upcoming meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, he warned of “very severe consequences” if there’s no end to the war in Ukraine. Trump issued the warning on Wednesday as he is preparing for a sit-down with Putin in Alaska this Friday. “Yes, they will. There will be consequences,” Trump said […]
When 10 juveniles brutally attacked former DOGE whiz kid Edward Coristine – nicknamed “Big Balls” – in an attempted carjacking that left him bloodied, Washington, D.C.’s violent crime rate exploded into a political flashpoint. President Trump’s decision to federalize the D.C. police and bring in FBI agents and the National Guard to fight crime has upset […]
A Maryland judge handed down a shocking sentence of mere home detention for man convicted of savagely assaulting two elderly men as they prayed in front of a Baltimore abortion mill in 2023. Tom Brejcha, President and Chief Counsel of Thomas More Society, issued statement “condemning the disgraceful sentencing of Patrick Brice, who was handed […]
View from a recent D.C. resident. “This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back,” President Trump announced Monday as he touted the federal takeover of the District’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). This, after already ordering various federal law enforcement agencies to ramp up local patrols and sending National Guard […]
A 27-year-old Brooklyn woman — once a youth organizer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and state Sen. Julia Salazar — is facing serious charges after allegedly urging violence against a public high school with a large Jewish student population. The suspect, Iman Abdul, shared a Google Maps image of Leon M. Goldstein High School for the […]
Multiple states have reportedly signed agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to expand the agency’s assistance with local law enforcement departments. On Wednesday, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey plans to announce a wide-ranging agreement the state has forged with ICE, enlisting the West Virginia State Police, Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation and National Guard to aid […]
Sherrod Brown, the veteran Democratic senator from Ohio, is planning a return to the U.S. Senate in next year’s midterm elections after losing his seat to Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024. Sources indicate Brown plans to formally announce his candidacy within the next two weeks to challenge Republican U.S. Senator Jon Husted, who holds the […]
The newly unclassified FBI memos tell a story at once damning and instructive. They describe a career intelligence officer, loyal to the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, who began warning the FBI in 2017 that then-Representative Adam Schiff was instructing his staff to leak classified information to damage President Trump. The whistleblower objected that […]
The White House announced a hardline approach to addressing the growing homeless crisis in Washington, D.C., stating that individuals living in homeless encampments will soon face a clear ultimatum: accept treatment and shelter—or go to jail. During a Tuesday press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt outlined the Trump administration’s latest actions following President […]
In an era where the First Amendment often feels like an afterthought, Mark Trammell is treating it like a lifeline. Trammell, the CEO of the Center for American Liberty (CAL) is leading a legal charge on behalf of Americans he says have been abandoned by legacy civil rights organizations — groups he believes have been […]
Maryland’s Governor Doesn’t Understand The Chain Of Command
It is an iron rule of American federalism that certain powers rest with the states until, by explicit constitutional and statutory design, they do not. Among these is the command of a state’s National Guard. The Maryland National Guard, like all state Guards, exists in a dual status. In its ordinary configuration, it answers to […]