Scott McKay, American Spectator If the Republicans were smart, they’d unleash a whirlwind of legislation and dare Schumer to filibuster all of it. Ram the nine remaining appropriations bills through the House and throw them in Schumer’s face, and then bring bills on every 80-20 issue the Democrats are on the wrong side of and legislate as aggressively as you dare. It’s time to legislate. It’s time to take the spoils of this victory and to leave the defeated enemy utterly demo

W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner The federal government has been shut down for more than 40 days, as it took 15 Senate votes for Democrats to relent and allow a short-term funding bill to pass. It’s possible attempts to reopen the government will fall apart in the House, but Republicans have only a tiny, fractious minority. Democrats may well feel better about shifting the debate to healthcare, a tough issue for Republicans, without the immediate threat of a shutdown.

Daily Caller News Foundation (Melissa O'Rourke), The Star News Network The International Olympic Committee is expected to ban men identifying as women from competing in female events before the next games. The pending decision follows a review examining whether males retain physical advantages even after lowering testosterone levels, which reported its sources say the move will be likely be announced in February. The issue came under intense scrutiny during the 2024 Olympic G

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness The current Trump economy is in a race of sorts. The rub is a failure to highlight the radical improvement from the Biden years in just a few months, to explain that novel policies are already in motion that may revolutionize the American economy within a year, and to recognize the destructive efforts of partisan shutdowns, partisan high interest rates, and partisan hysterical doom and gloom fake news. If Trump meets these challenges, v

Just the News (Misty Severi), Star News Network Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials set a record this week for most suspected illegal migrants held in detention – 66,000. The previous record was set during President Donald Trump’s first administration – 56,000 people in 2019, according to CBS News. There were about 39,000 individuals in ICE’s detention system when Trump returned to power in January, and ICE has the capacity to hold as many as 70,000 people, the news

Seth McLaughlin, Washington Times Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is adamant that the GOP has lost its way. She also categorically rejects speculation that her outspoken criticism signals a presidential bid. She dismisses such talk as annoying inside-the-Beltway gossip. She also rejects the storyline that she has broken with her party. She said it’s the other way around. “Everybody’s like, MTG breaks with Trump. MTG breaks with our party. And it’s like, not actually. If you look

Byron York, Washington Examiner If Trump were to launch a full-court press — announcements in the Oval Office, etc., he could stress a very clear, simple message. The basics: No. 1, here is the bill to fund the government that the House has passed. No. 2, it is a straight bill, no tricks, identical to one agreed to by Democrats just this year. No. 3, Senate Democrats are using the filibuster to stop it. No. 4, the president and the GOP will negotiate the Democrats’ concerns,

Daily Caller News Foundation (Adam Pack), Star News Network Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to embrace democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor could come back to haunt her bid for a second term. Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, a close ally of President Donald Trump, announced her campaign to unseat Hochul on Friday morning, torching the incumbent for aligning herself with a “defund the police, tax-hiking, antisemitic communist.” Stefanik,

Daniel J. Flynn, American Spectator Pelosi inadvertently fixed it so the Democrats could not win in 2024 by nominating a vacuous woman as uncomfortable in her own skin as the rest of us were in hearing her expropriate various regional accents. That was Pelosi’s ironic last act: delivering the White House to Donald Trump. She said in her retirement announcement, “There has been no greater honor for me than to stand on the House floor and say, ‘I speak for the people of San Fra

Scott McKay, American Spectator This is a civil war. There isn’t… much… shooting yet, but it’s time to wake up and see it for what it is. We are up against people who spit on the idea of political consensus and will happily crater our society in order to get the absolute political power they worship. Act accordingly. Kill the filibuster now, and start making policy in a lightning round. Shock and awe, like it was earlier this year. And make policy that cuts at the societal ro

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness Republicans must react to even these paltry 2025 results in two states and New York City. To the new left, this is just proof that their new candidates and voters “mean business.” They cannot be shamed—not even by mocking Charlie Kirk’s wound or hoping Trump is not so lucky a third time. There is plenty of time for Republicans to digest these results, especially the strategy and dangerous nature of the new left, along with the mercurial

Daily Caller News Foundation (Jason Hopkins), The Star News Network The Trump administration is rolling out sweeping air traffic reductions. The Department of Transportation (DOT) will be temporarily cutting air traffic by 10% at 40 major airports across the country, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced during a Wednesday press conference. The drastic move is in response to the continuing government shutdown, now the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history, which ha

Phillip Wegmann, Real Clear Politics Republicans look for signals ahead of the midterms. “REPUBLICANS, TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER! GET BACK TO PASSING LEGISLATION AND VOTER REFORM,” the president wrote on social media before returning to Truth Social about an hour later to add, “…AND SO IT BEGINS!” But for congressional Republicans, one year after the president’s against-the-odds return to the Oval Office, the off-year elections may begin a reevaluation. His popularity with his

Jeff Mordock, Washington Times President Trump said on Wednesday that he did not think the results were good for the Republican Party or the American public. “It was not expected to be a victory. I don’t think it was good for Republicans. I’m not sure it was good for anybody, but we had an interesting evening, and we learned a lot,” Mr. Trump said at a breakfast with Republican senators at the White House. “Trump wasn’t on the ballot and the shutdown were the two reasons that

Daily Caller News Foundation (Melissa O'Rourke), The Star News Network The typical age of first-time homebuyers reached a record high in 2025, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors. The median age of a first-time home buyer rose to 40 in 2025, up from 38 in 2024, according to the NAR’s Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers released Tuesday. The median sale price of a home currently stands at $410,800 — up more than 25% since 2019 — while the average

Byron York, Washington Examiner Put the numbers together, and they are basically in line with the RealClearPolitics average: 43.7% approval and 53.6% disapproval. It is not terribly hard to believe that Trump’s job approval rating is around 43% — it has spent much of the year bouncing around in the 44%-45% range, so a dip to 43% is not surprising. And it is significantly better than his approval in the RealClearPolitics average at this point in his first term, which was 39%.

Stephen Dinan, Washington Times Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served multiple Republican presidents before helping President George W. Bush lead the country into the global war on terrorism, died Monday, his family said. Mr. Cheney, 84, laid claim to being one of the most powerful vice presidents in American history. He was also a deeply polarizing figure. His critics, and some admirers, viewed him as the power behind the Bush White House, pushing the aggressive reta

Scott McKay, American Spectator There are Republican legislators voting for the carbon capture idiocy because the oil company lobbyists are begging them. Until the constituents start hearing about things like eminent domain for carbon pipelines running through their property. Then it gets sticky. Now, opposition to this stuff is turning into a conservative litmus test, and politicians who had been making votes trying to keep domestic energy production alive amid the onslaught

David Catron, American Spectator In Virginia, elections are usually pretty straight. The Democrats won’t be able to cheat (too much). The big problem is the unemployed apparatchiks in the northern part of the Commonwealth. They are not happy and they will vote for Abigail Spanberger. Moreover the early vote numbers suggest many already have. And there is, of course, the fifth column that we continue to call “educators.” In the end, though, Virginia gave us a 45-day preview of

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness The U.S. is reascending at home and abroad, and its allies, including even Europe and especially Asia, are reenergized. Conservative movements and governments are rebounding in Europe. So for Chinese strongman Xi Jinping, it was time to cut a deal, to pause, to regroup, and to hope that in three, seven, or eleven years, another Obama- or Biden-naif would return. And then it might finish its now half-century-long effort to relegate a cal