PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Most Americans likely believe the internet comes from space, via satellites. But the vast majority of information that flows across tens of billions of devices connected to the internet comes from the sea. 500 fiber-optic undersea cables carry more than 95% of all internet data. And they are very vulnerable. This, […]
On Monday evening, President Donald Trump’s top security officials are reportedly planning to convene in the Oval Office for a closed-door “next steps” discussion on Venezuela. Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that senior figures, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, are […]
President Trump’s renewed halt on Islamic migration to the United States, alongside a policy of promoting remigration for certain Islamic refugees and migrants, is routinely denounced as xenophobic, unchristian, even fascist. The charges are serious. They are also philosophically sloppy and theologically uninformed. If we take St. Thomas Aquinas seriously, especially Summa Theologiae I–II, Question […]
A 17-year-old from the south suburbs, known in the local rap scene as “4 Block Lil Mari,” has been arrested after a botched carjacking in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Prosecutors say Kamari Bonslater was shot by a woman he attempted to rob at gunpoint, a woman who turned out to be a legally armed concealed carry […]
The man accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday now faces upgraded charges after one of the victims died from her injuries. U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, succumbed to her wounds Thursday, prompting prosecutors to add a first-degree murder charge against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national. Lakanwal […]
Indiana lawmakers are poised to consider a congressional map that could flip two Democrat-held U.S. House seats, escalating a partisan battle that has drawn in national GOP figures ahead of the 2026 midterms. The proposed map targets the districts represented by Democrat Reps. Frank Mrvan in the 1st District and André Carson in the 7th […]
The execution-style ambush in downtown Washington, in which Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal gunned down National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and left Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe fighting for his life, was not an isolated bolt from the blue. It was the foreseeable consequence of a moral and strategic decision by the Biden administration to fly tens […]
One of the men tasked with putting President Donald Trump in prison may now face criminal charges of his own. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee reports Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) “referred Thomas Windom, former Senior Assistant Special Counsel to Jack Smith, to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution after Windom declined to answer nearly […]
Podcast host and Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali delivered a racially charged tirade Friday in response to President Donald Trump’s pledge to halt “third world migration,” telling white Americans that “brown people” were “a breeding people” and declaring that Trump’s efforts are destined to fail. Ali’s comments came during a livestream on his Substack program […]
The video of the ambush is brief and sickening. Two young National Guard soldiers, barely into adulthood, walk their post near the White House. An Islamic terrorist rounds the corner, raises a revolver, and opens fire. By the time other guardsmen tackle him, Specialist Sarah Beckstrom is fatally wounded and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe is […]
The Media Missed The Story: 8 Ways Trump’s New FBI Is Actually Working
The latest report from the National Alliance of Retired and Active Duty FBI Special Agents and Analysts has been widely described as damning. Headlines highlight words like “toxic,” “paralyzed,” and “in over his head.” Some commentators present the document as proof that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are failing. This is a mistake. A close […]