Daily Caller News Foundation (Emily Kopp), The Star News Network The Trump administration’s latest attempts to curtail press leaks disallows White House reporters from accessing the inner offices of senior communication officials in order to protect national security secrets. A memo released addressed from the National Security Council (NSC) to President Donald Trump’s White House Communications Director Steven Cheung and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt states reporters shou

Roger Kimball, American Greatness Mamdani will, in short order, drive New York into the slough of economic and social immiseration that always follows the institution of socialist policies. His “eat the rich” attitude will precipitate an aggressive flight of wealthy taxpayers, making the city’s economic prospects even more dire. Crime will soar, and in place of the broken-windows policing, the city will have an abundance of broken windows. As the anomie expands, Mamdani will

Scott McKay, American Spectator It turns out Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, having spent 14 years as a congressman prior to that. He’s leaving the Senate after next year’s election cycle, finally giving us a respite from his style of Chicago machine governance after 44 years. Nobody should be a princeling on Capitol Hill for 44 years. It’s impossible to calculate the psychic and moral damage that much time in power will do to a person. And it’s done plenty to

Just the News (John Solomon and Steven Richards), The Star News Network A memo buried in the 235-page evidence production that Patel sent the House Judiciary Committee chronicles how the FBI’s Washington Field Office rifled through financial records and campaign expenditure reports producing a “tactical intelligence report” trying to link payments between Trump’s re-election campaign and a vendor named American Made Media Consultants (AMMC) to possible casino gambling. In sho

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness The left is outraged. But the public largely supports destroying the cartels’ seaborne drug shipments bound for the U.S. Polls show majorities favor banning transgender males from female sports, ending DEI racialist fixations, and enacting long-overdue higher education reforms. Yet the daily news is about politicians’ f-bombs, government shutdowns, Trump’s social media trolling, and street violence. But the facts tell a different story

Tim Hains, Real Clear Politics CNN data reporter Harry Enten discusses the results of new polls from AP-NORC and Quinnipiac on how the public is responding to the partial government shutdown. Harry Enten: "So we’ve got a situation here where Republicans, with the shutdown, are actually rallying their base, but it’s also something that’s not hurting them with the voters in the middle. If anything, it’s helping them with folks in the middle. And this is the type of math that, i

Just the News (Amanda Head), The Star News Network Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon: "We’ve been asking states to produce the data of their voter rolls, to be able to make sure that they only have citizens on the rolls and that they don’t have duplicates and have people voting in multiple jurisdictions,” Dhillon told Just The News. “So we’ve had to file eight lawsuits throughout the United States to enforce our data requests, which is something that

Debra Heine, American Greatness The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has declared that it deems most of Joe Biden’s autopen pardons and executive actions “illegitimate” following its investigation into who was running the White House during Biden’s mentally impaired presidency. The committee released a 100-page report calling on the Department of Justice to launch a full investigation into the legality of Biden’s questionable pardons and executive actions. The

Sen. Rand Paul, Washington Examiner Federal rules and regulations cost the U.S. economy more than $3 trillion each year and dictate nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives — from the food they can eat to the types of cars they can drive. But while Americans can vote out their representatives in Congress for enacting harmful legislation, there is no similar accountability mechanism for unelected agency bureaucrats who implement bad rules. The Regulations from the Executive in

Kaitlin Housler, The Star News Network Governor Glenn Youngkin slammed Virginia Democrats for what he calls an “illegal” and “desperate grab for power” through a new redistricting proposal. On Monday, the Virginia House of Delegates amended its agenda to allow a redistricting constitutional amendment to be put forward. The resolution was filed on Tuesday as HJ 6007. Youngkin said Democrats are trying to overturn the results of a bipartisan redistricting process that Virginian

Scott McKay, American Spectator This is the new brand of their party. Ilhan Omar. Rashida Tlaib. Pramila Jayapal. Zohran Mamdani. Omar Fateh. It isn’t just the American-born anti-Americans, the people who insist this country was founded by stealing land from Native Americans and building the country on the backs of slaves (and not accurate). That’s old and tired. The new hotness for the Democrats is to embrace as its leaders people from far worse places with greatly inferior

Jeff Mordock, Washington Times President Trump on Tuesday vowed to expand his use of the National Guard in U.S. cities, adding that some cities are in so much trouble that he may deploy “more than the National Guard.” “We have cities in trouble. We can’t have cities that have trouble,” Mr. Trump told U.S. Service members in Japan, while aboard the USS George Washington at the Yokosuka Naval Base. “We’re sending in the National Guard and if we need more than the National Guard

Just the News (Misty Severi), The Star News Network The stock market on Monday closed at record highs, one day after the Trump administration announced that the United States and China have agreed to a “substantial framework” in trade talks. The framework comes as Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump are set to meet in South Korea on Thursday. The S&P 500 climbed 1.23% to 6,875.16, marking the first time it’s ever closed above 6,800 points, according to CNBC.

David Catron, American Spectator Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman almost certainly has his eye on the White House, and even people like Bill Maher realize that he is the kind of person who has the potential to fix much of what ails most Democrats — charisma and authenticity. As Maher phrased it, “Trump has that package and so does Fetterman. He’s only been a senator two years, and he is already more famous than most of his colleagues … Fetterman is that rare Democrat who i

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness Social media is now ablaze with attacks on federal officials. State and local officials both threaten violence against ICE. When challenged by federal officers, violent street thugs run to the protection of sympathetic local police. If an ICE officer is besieged, he has no assurance that local or state officers will come to his aid and confront his attackers. Assassins are praised; their victims are slandered. So we are Bleeding Kansas.

The Center Square (Andrew Rice), The Star News Network Two national public employee unions sued the Trump administration over its restrictions preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining commercial drivers licenses. The American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed a petition for review against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The employee unions challenged a rule implemented by Department of Transp

Scott McKay, American Spectator Democrats will fold. And when they do, perhaps we can finally get to where a Republican majority begins training Temu Obama and whoever will take over for Schumer after the Left finally eats him in the finer points of legislation, minority-style. Meaning that if you want something from the majority, you’d better be prepared to bring something to the table. They don’t currently have that understanding. All they know is name-calling and pressure

W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner Democrats see faultlines that could be similarly ripe for exploitation. There isn’t an obvious exit ramp, and it is not clear whether there is a Democratic leader strong enough to take it. Activists in both parties believe their own ineffectual leaders meekly follow the rules while their ruthless opponents trample them with reckless abandon. Trump was, to some extent, at least a temporary solution to this problem for Republicans. Some r

The Center Square (Brett Rowland), The Star News Network President Donald Trump and his administration plan to inform Congress about using the military to target drug traffickers, but stopped short of saying they would ask for authorization to use military force. Since September, Trump has been using the U.S. military to destroy suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. The military campaign and build-up of U.S. military forces comes amid fresh pressure

Waters and Ellwanger, Real Clear History Democrats owned the world of things and the real-world effects of their policies – however incoherent – were evident to all. An underlying premise of the Trump campaign was a return to things. To infrastructure. To clean streets and safe cities. To American-made products. And to historic landmarks and monuments that memorialize America’s greatness. Trump recognized that conservative ideas are meaningless until we rebuild the material c