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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is shadowboxing while former President Donald Trump is going in for the knock-out punch even before the fight officially begins. The contrasting styles of the leading contenders in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race were evident in speeches on successive nights before the 2023 North Carolina Republican Convention. While DeSantis alluded to Trump without mentioning the...

Commentary For decades we have heard the old Washington saying about our two political parties. The Democrats were the evil party, the Republicans the stupid party. It was a nasty crack, but, basically, it fit. Still, we lumbered along. Until now. With the multiple indictments of Donald Trump, the most recent ones from no less an authority than a special...

Luis Miguel “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” In modern America, politics is often thought of as the art of subtlety. It’s seen as civilized and polite, conjuring images of smiling politicians kissing babies and helping little old ladies cross the road.  That’s the idealized concept we have of what...

Democrats have introduced a bicameral proposal to overhaul the debt ceiling process, leaning heavily into the recent default scare to push a bill that would essentially let Treasury ignore the debt cap and continue writing cheques with no limit. The Debt Ceiling Reform Act, introduced jointly on Friday by Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), authorizes the...

The return of Dianne Feinstein to the Senate after a three-month illness has intensified the debate over retirement from a political office because of old age. In February, 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein fell ill with shingles, after which she suffered complications including encephalitis and facial paralysis. The three-month absence of the Democratic senator and chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee...

The Biden administration’s agents working along the U.S.–Mexico border are primarily providing illegal immigrants with “care and welfare” services, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari made the claims during a hearing before a House Oversight subcommittee on June 6 to discuss the ongoing law enforcement staffing challenges relating to the southern...

SolStock/iStock/Getty Images Plus Those who seek tyrannical control over the masses would much rather deal with docile men than with ones willing to fight back. Understanding this provides a useful heuristic for understanding many modern social phenomena. From transgenderism to feminism to the promotion of sedentary lifestyles, a lot of the things being inculcated in people — particularly men —...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution to curtail specific aspects of gun rights. “Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” Newsom said in a Thursday press statement announcing the proposed amendment. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do...

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by GOP Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), has now scrapped plans to convene a vote to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress. Comer had been after an unclassified FD-1023 form that the FBI generated, which contained allegations that then-Vice President Joe Biden took a bribe from a foreign national. The...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador complains about U.S. meddling, and Republican lawmakers deplore and criticize meddling by Mexico. The relationship between Mexico and the U.S. isn’t looking good. And you can blame whomever you want. There doesn’t seem to be any desire for communication or conversation. At least for now. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador complains about U.S. meddling, and...

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is building on his reputation as a tenacious legislator who aggressively chases information and holds government officials to task. Spearheaded by Jordan, the committee is looking into FBI actions that Republicans contend are misdeeds and improper conduct aimed at derailing Donald Trump’s campaigns for president.   To that end, the committee is investigating...

Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus Colorado’s ban on free speech near abortion clinics dates back to 1993, and Wendy Faustin has been fighting against those restrictions for just as long. Now, with the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) last year overturning Roe v. Wade, Faustin thinks she has a fair chance of throwing out that...

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who responded to a survey plan to quit their jobs in the coming year, according to Department of Homeland Security Office Inspector General Joseph Cuffari. Cuffari said neither agency has a plan to deal with staffing issues that may arise due to problems cited...

A new agreement, which should be ratified by Congress, will avert a financial crisis. And it puts President Joe Biden in a position of strength for 2024. The president promised not to negotiate under threat, but everyone knew he was going to have to make some concessions to the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. What they didn’t know...

Don’t be fooled by the catastrophic launch of Donald Trump’s campaign to knock Ron DeSantis out of the race. The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination has many other assets to use in beating Trump. Donald J. Trump’s absolute dominion over Republicans has defined the Grand Old Party for seven years now. Not once since 2016, despite the scandals, indictments...

Rep. Anna Luna (R-Fla.) said on Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is afraid their confidential informant on an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his family will be killed if their identity is revealed. “Just left meeting for House Oversight. The is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info...

With his calm manner, the U.S. president has managed to avoid what would have been a catastrophic default. He was barely visible, subdued and conciliatory, while his adversary Kevin McCarthy loudly trumpeted his rhetoric. Having last weeks, this bitter debt dispute seemed to provide Joe Biden’s critics with new arguments. They complained that the president is too old, too cautious...

Former FBI Director James Comey said he wouldn’t support anyone but Presiden Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential race. “It has to be Joe Biden,” Comey told Biden’s former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on her MSBNC show aired on June 4, when asked whether he intends to vote for Biden again or Republican candidates other than former President...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that FBI Director Christopher Wray will face charges of contempt if he doesn’t prove a document that alleges a bribery scheme between President Joe Biden and a foreign national to the House Oversight Committee. “We have a responsibility of oversight,” the California lawmaker told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in an interview with host...

AP Images James Comer In the latest wrinkle involving the notorious FD-1023 form that allegedly has damning information about the Biden crime syndicate, and which FBI Director Christopher Wray has refused to turn over to Congress, the FBI has now deigned to permit House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and ranking member Jamie Raskin to view the document in a...