Politics

Depending on what 24/7 mainstream news channel you watch or political party you ascribe to, you are either fed that the biggest threat to America is Russia or China. No doubt worthy adversaries, particularly China, who I’ve long admired for their dedication to a cause and ‘long-game’ foreign policy. However, …

Former Democrat and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell blasted Al Sharpton as a “professional shakedown artist” after the ‘reverend’ declared the indictment of former President Donald Trump to be “spiritual” payback. Sharpton, whose closest foray into spirituality comes when he thanks God for still being employed despite being a well-known …

By Dr. Derek Ellerman I had held out hope that my country could stave off imperial decline until after my lifetime, or at least until I was an old man, too old to care.  Unfortunately, things aren’t turning out that way. We have found ourselves, tragically, living in interesting times.  …

By Mary Stroka (The Center Square) Twenty-one states’ attorneys general wrote a letter opposing Department of Energy regulations regarding gas stoves. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined the coalition in a letter Monday to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm that said the department’s standards for consumer conventional cooking products are an …

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who once described his own country as ‘Third World,’ slammed the indictment of former President Donald Trump, suggesting America itself would view similar actions in another country as an attack on democracy. “Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being …

NASHVILLE — Jacqueline Acevedo is a shy seventh grader who spends long hours at the Baptist church where her father serves as a volunteer pastor after earning a scant wage from his day job selling bread. Gabriel Garcia is a talkative 10-year-old whose mother is a chemist but drives for …

If anything, Mr. Trump’s rivals now see a moment of peak power for him that they hope will dissipate. “Trump just got a big old shot in the arm with people who don’t like where we are and don’t trust the government,” said Katon Dawson, a former chairman of the …

If House Republicans follow through on their threat to expel three Democratic lawmakers, those lawmakers can run in the special elections, and if they win, they can’t be expelled again. The Tennessean reported: Tennessee’s Republican supermajority is poised to take the unprecedented move of expelling three Democrats as punishment for …

Mike Pence has dropped his appeal, and he will testify in the 1/6 investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Politico reported: Mike Pence has decided against appealing a court order requiring him to testify before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election. “Vice President …

By Philip Wegmann for RealClearWire The fever dream finally broke when former President Trump was arrested Tuesday evening. Minus handcuffs, his New York arraignment happened almost exactly like “the Resistance” long hoped and dreamed. And then, Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago; all but called the Manhattan district attorney, as well as …