Texas Firebrand Jasmine Crockett Launches Senate Bid
On Monday, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D) filed to run for U.S. Senate. In the Democratic primary, Crockett will face state Rep. James Talarico, whose campaign has generated national headlines and who raised a record $6.2 million in the first three weeks of his campaign announcement, according to CBS News. After Crockett filed her paperwork, Talarico […]
Elderly Man Shoots Attacker In Alleged Self-Defense After Being Struck With Snow Shovel
A 60-year-old man is cooperating with authorities after shooting a man who allegedly assaulted him with a snow shovel in a Sunday evening altercation that Kalamazoo police believe may have been a case of self-defense. By Luke McCoy for USA Carry The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of Douglas Avenue. According to […]
Habba Resigns After Court Rejects Her Appointment As Acting US Attorney
Alina Habba has stepped down as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, days after a federal appeals court ruled she had been serving in the role unlawfully. Her resignation ends months of legal uncertainty around her status and opens a new round of questions for the Justice Department. Court Rejection Triggered Exit […]
Congress Takes Aim At Scheme To Turn American Farms Into Solar Panel Wastelands
A pair of Republican lawmakers hope to end a federal scheme to use taxpayer dollars to pay companies to cover critical American farmland with solar panels. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) announced in a statement they have “introduced the Protecting American Farmland Act, which would put an end to Green New […]
Trump’s Close-Knit National Security Team Moves Fast As New Threats Emerge
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Moves fast and maybe breaks things. Trump has entrusted only a handful of his closest advisers to tackle his most important foreign policy priorities from Russia to the Middle East. Even as their portfolio expands — including possible strikes on Venezuela — the group remains small. It’s a mark of the […]
Ex-NFL Star Abruptly Ends Senate Bid As Crockett Rumors Swirl
He’s down, but he’s not out… On Monday, former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) announced he is ending his bid for Texas Senate and instead opting to run for Texas’s new 33th Congressional District as progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is widely anticipated to launch a bid for Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) seat. “In the past few days, I’ve come to believe that a […]
Birthright Citizenship At SCOTUS: Returning To Text, History, And Allegiance
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment contains 14 words before the comma, and three of them still do most of the work. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. Those words are spare, yet they direct the reader toward a […]
Capitol Hill On Edge As Report Claims Up To 20 More House Republicans May Retire
Capitol Hill is buzzing after a Puck News report suggests that as many as 20 more House Republicans could call it quits in the coming months. Lawmakers are reportedly fed up with mounting frustration over stalled legislation, nonstop fundraising demands, and a sense that the chamber simply isn’t functioning. Most of the potential retirees come […]
Thai Military Launches Major Strikes On Cambodia, Breaking Trump-Brokered Truce
Thailand launched large-scale artillery, air, and rocket strikes on Cambodia on Monday, the sharpest escalation since a ceasefire mediated by President Donald Trump at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Kuala Lumpur. The attacks came despite the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord, an expanded ceasefire Thailand and Cambodia signed this summer to end […]
How Biden Weaponized The DOJ & FBI Against The Democrat Party
A familiar argument says that one needs only study the prosecutions of Donald Trump and his supporters to see how deeply the FBI and DOJ were corrupted during Joe Biden’s presidency. That argument has force, but it also carries a predictable burden. Many readers will dismiss it as partisan grievance, even when the record shows […]