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AP Images Kari Lake Is Kari Lake, the once consummate anti-establishment candidate, turning her back on those whose support has brought her this far? As first reported by Politico, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the campaign arm of the Senate Republican caucus with a long reputation as an instrument of the GOP’s establishment wing, formally endorsed Kari Lake in...

PeskyMonkey/iStock/Getty Images Plus NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on the bloc’s members to step up defense production in the event of “a confrontation” with Russia “that could last decades.” Stoltenberg has repeatedly warned that Western economies are ill-prepared for such a conflict. With Ukraine’s counteroffensive faltering and Russian forces expected to capture the major Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, media...

AP Images J.D. Vance The Democrats have buried an impeachment booby trap inside the $95 billion supplemental foreign aid bill that will waste another $61 billion on Ukraine’s unwinnable war with Russia. Worse still, Republicans gleefully helped.  GOP Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio says the bill contains a provision that, should Donald Trump unseat President Joe Biden, invites a third...

A few things seem clear, and much else murky, after the seismic shift that occurred on Thursday. Donald Trump, more because of Thursday than by encouraging public polling of recent weeks, runs as the favorite in the 2024 presidential election. A victory by him in November would mark the greatest political comeback in U.S. history. There seems a good chance...

AP Images Matt Rosendale Representative Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) announced today that he is entering the race for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senator Jon Tester. Rosendale looks to flip the seat held by Tester, a Democrat, and stated he would defeat his GOP primary opponent Tim Sheehy, who he says was hand-picked by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Mitch...

AP Images Having lost the Nevada primary on Tuesday to “none of these candidates,” GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley lost again yesterday in the state’s caucuses because she didn’t compete. So former President Donald Trump won all the state’s 26 delegates. Trump also prevailed in the U.S. Virgin Islands, winning its four delegates. Why Haley insists on staying in the...

Greg Meland/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Thursday, U.S. lawmakers inched closer to approving a new round of military aid for Ukraine after 17 Senate Republicans joined with Democrats in pushing the funding legislation closer to a vote, overcoming a potential procedural roadblock.  The 67-32 cloture vote surpassed the 60-vote majority needed to advance the $95 billion spending bill, meaning opponents would...

Politics Biden: Survival of the Unfittest Biden’s snap press conference paraded all his weaknesses before the nation—but don’t expect the Democrats to do anything about it. Joe Biden’s presidency imploded on live television Thursday night.  Hours after a special counsel report found him culpable of violating federal secrecy yet excused him on grounds of mental incompetence—calling him “a sympathetic, well-meaning,...

Politics The ‘Putin Supporter’ Slur Has Jumped Shark The intellectual bankruptcy of fanatical Ukraine war supporters is laid bare in their wacky equation of Russia and Hamas, and right and left skeptics alike. Credit: Asatur Yesayants “To call for a ceasefire is Mr. Putin’s message.” So said California’s Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi recently, before proceeding to call for FBI investigations...

AP Images Nikki Haley GOP voters in Nevada sent a message to presidential candidate Nikki Haley in yesterday’s primary election: We want Trump. She lost to Nobody, meaning “none of these candidates,” and by a big margin. And because the Silver State doesn’t award delegates in the primary but instead at a caucus that will be held tomorrow, Trump will...

In an effort to protect children from groomers, revolutionaries, and perverts seeking to indoctrinate them with obscene and illegal material, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita quietly launched a new “Eyes on Education” portal for parents and citizens to upload objectionable content from schools. The education establishment, along with groomers and perverts in government schools, are freaking out.  “Our kids need...

AP Images Nikki Haley Results from the Nevada primary held last night show Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley gathered less votes than ballots marked “None of These Candidates.” The Associated Press is reporting with 88 percent of votes counted, Haley received 30.5 percent (21,199) of the vote, and “None of These Candidates” gathering the most votes with 63.2 percent (43,893)....

AP Images Mitch McConnell In a win for the American people, U.S. Senate Republicans have abandoned the illegal-alien amnesty they called a border security bill. The reason, GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, is that House Republicans said it would never pass the House. But killing the measure did more than deep-six language that would have imported more cheap...

STILLFX/iSTock/Getty Images Plus California has won the race to be the first state in the nation to formally introduce legislation that would pay slavery reparations to black Americans with a series of bills — including one that claims to restore property that was seized in “race-based” eminent domain cases and one constitutionally problematic proposal for giving public funds to only...

AP Images Dan Crenshaw Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who is increasingly gaining notoriety as a voice for what’s left of the neocon movement, is calling on his party to not immediately shoot down a border and migration deal being worked out in the Senate. Contrary to the sentiment of some of his GOP colleagues who have expressed misgivings about the...

AP Images Rashida Tlaib Two members of the leftist Squad in the U.S. House of Representatives took their extremist views to a new level yesterday when they said, without actually saying it, that they hope terrorists immigrate to the United States. Democrats Cori Bush of Missouri and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan voted no on a bill that would prohibit Hamas...

AP Images Kevin McCarthy Kevin McCarthy may have retired from Congress, but he’s far from done with politics. The former GOP leader who was ousted from the speakership by the hard-right flank of his own party last October has a new project that he’s passionately devoting himself to: Seeing to it that the Republicans who contributed to his downfall are...

AP Images Once again, President Joe Biden has claimed that his son Beau died in Iraq in combat. This time, he was on the phone with the parents of Army Spc. Kennedy Sanders, who was killed in a drone attack in Jordan on January 28. But Biden likely isn’t lying. Because he clearly has dementia, as one of his own...

A government schoolteacher in Maine asked students to confess their “unconscious biases” and gave a homework assignment asking them to write a “Declaration of Independence” from “something problematic” in their lives such as … “parents” or “authority” more broadly. Critics lambasted the exercise as part of a far left and “woke” indoctrination scheme. The scandalous exercise, assigned by high-school “social...

AP Images James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, released a video on the O’Keefe Media Group X page showing an undercover video of White House Cyber Official Charlie Kraiger. According to Kraiger, the White House is concerned about President Joe Biden’s cognitive ability, but cannot publicly acknowledge the concerns, saying, “They’ve got to toe the line…. They know it. Of...