President-elect Donald Trump may send the personification of tough talk on immigration south of the border to get in the face of the Mexican government on one of his signature issues. Kari Lake, a staunch Trump supporter who lost her race for the U.S. Senate last month, is under consideration...

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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa on Monday announced she will support Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Ernst’s announcement came on the same day as her support for journalist Pete Hegseth to become the secretary of defense. Ernst issued a statement saying she would "support Pete through this process”...

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley explained why those who outgoing President Joe Biden may issue preemptive pardons to could still face criminal prosecution. When Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden earlier this month for both the federal gun and tax crimes he had been convicted of, the president...

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The leader of the free world was caught wearing an expression of bemused befuddlement Monday while again being directed which way to turn. Biden was attending the Tribal Nations Summit and was vacantly looking toward his left during a video of a photo op posted to X. “I think they...

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It was only a matter of time before FBI Director Christopher Wray was out. Even though he still has three years left in his 10-year appointment, the FBI director serves at the pleasure of the president. Wray, who replaced the noxious James Comey in the position, did little better to...

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The American health care system is broken. We pay expensive premiums and have huge deductables for care we're often denied because, thanks to market interference from government and three-card-monte cost-shifting, we spend exponentially more for less care than we would in a free and transparent system. What's the solution to...

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They say time heals all wounds. How quickly -- well, that depends. If one is to judge by body language, however, we can make a safe assumption: Five months isn't enough durational convalescence to properly heal throwing a president off his own party's ticket without a single primary vote and...

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It looks like the queen of liberal cancel culture has finally gotten herself canceled. Taylor Lorenz, the controversial former Washington Post and New York Times reporter who recently went independent, is not getting her podcast distribution deal with Vox Media renewed amid a series of vile comments and non-apologies regarding...

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One of America's most wanted was captured Monday in one of America's most familiar settings. Louigi Mangione, the suspected assassin of health insurance executive Brian Thompson, was arrested in a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, over 200 miles from the scene of the Wednesday morning murder in Manhattan, according to...

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Few men in recent political history are as contemptible Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The first black man elected to his prestigious position, Bragg is also known for a number of other things. Namely, he's perhaps best known for being the New York paper pusher who became vaingloriously obsessed --...

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In a flaming letter replete with instances when the FBI let America down, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa called for FBI Director Christopher Wray to step down. Wray still has three years left in the 10-year term to which he was appointed, according to the New York Post. President-elect...

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Is The Gray Lady actually a "Karen"? That appears to be the consensus after the once-venerable New York Times was caught feeling a bit too ennoscriptd when it came to manipulating the narrative surrounding Marine veteran Daniel Penny. Penny, whose trial has captured the nation's attention, was defending his actions...

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Fixing the basics is the first step to fixing government, Elon Musk wrote Monday in announcing his preferred noscript as he begins his work to repair the federal government. Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are heading President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. In a post on X, Musk said...

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President-elect Donald Trump slapped down contrived left-wing hysteria over Tulsi Gabbard's nomination as Director of National Intelligence, underscoring she has his unwavering support. Trump made the declaration Sunday on "Meet the Press," during which NBC News' Kristen Welker asked about Gabbard's 2017 meetings with now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. "In...

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President-elect Donald Trump worked so hard to restore his own political fortunes that one could easily overlook his dynastic achievements. In fact, among the president-elect's most prominent allies and surrogates, only 70-year-old Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. belongs to the same generation as the...

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CNN's conservative commentator Scott Jennings had to spell it out. In a discussion that combined the big Monday news stories of Daniel Penny's acquittal in New York City and the arrest of a suspect in the assassination of a health insurance executive, Jennings created a small chart to illustrate a...

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A bomb threat against Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ended in an unintended death, thanks to a car accident on the way to respond to the incident. According to WAGA-TV, a Rome, Georgia, police officer got into an accident responding to the bomb threat on Monday afternoon, leaving one...

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The U.S. national debt constitutes a standing indictment of one of history's most corrupt ruling classes. By borrowing trillions of dollars and saddling posterity with the repayment obligation, our elected officials have covered themselves in disgrace. Fortunately, a 13-year-old clip showcasing the colorful personality of former Republican congressman Billy Long,...

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President-elect Donald Trump took his trolling of  Canadian Prine Minister Justin Trudeau to a new level Tuesday by suggesting his nation was an American fiefdom. “It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” Trump posted Tuesday on Truth...

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President-elect Donald Trump's overwhelming victory in the 2024 election suggests that a dwindling number of Americans will tolerate woke nonsense. Thus, the combination of a liberal jurist and a feminist musical should turn the stomachs of everyone besides coastal elites. According to Entertainment Weekly, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson...

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