I have changed my mind about enough important things over the years to learn something uncomfortable: changing your mind is rarely just a matter of changing your mind. We like to imagine ourselves as rational creatures who examine the evidence, weigh the arguments, and follow the facts wherever they lead.…
Iran appears on the brink of dragging itself back into a war that it apparently feels it can win with nothing but domestic propaganda. Early Thursday morning, Iranian forces and the country’s infrastructure faced a fresh barrage of US strikes, marking the second night in a row that the American…
“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak…
Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Canada a lost decade. A key contributor to the country’s stagnation was the Liberal government’s obsession with climate change and its ushering in of green energy policies that were disastrous for a nation rich in natural resources. To make Canada great again, Prime Minister…
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The many donors out there to the Graham Platner Senate campaign who might be upset about the incredibly poor vetting that was performed on their candidate might be interested to know about evidence of malfeasance and corruption by one of the primary vetters that has just been revealed by an…
Good Thursday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 1:00 PM THE PRESIDENT receives his Intelligence Briefing 3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in Signing Time 4:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting 5:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in…
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski served up a shocking bit of selective skepticism as scandals continued to engulf Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner. After John Heilemann stated that Platner had “lied” to prominent Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in saying that no more damaging revelations were…
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is calling on Senator Mitch McConnell to publicly disclose more about his health after the longtime Republican lawmaker remained out of public view for nearly three weeks following his hospitalization in Washington. In a letter released Wednesday, Beshear said Kentuckians deserve more information about McConnell’s condition…
The Trump administration says it has uncovered a dramatic increase in Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants, resulting in a broad crackdown on suspected fraud that officials say has already blocked hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable payments. Administration officials said Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants,…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would halt trade with Spain, calling the country a “terrible partner in NATO” and accusing Madrid of refusing to meet the alliance’s defense obligations. Trump made the remarks while meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the alliance’s summit in Ankara,…
Canada’s picturesque Sea to Sky Highway from Vancouver to Whistler, British Columbia, stretches 75 miles through soaring scenery. One of my favorite drives, the route takes travelers from sea level to an elevation of 2,200 feet, with nearby peaks rising more than four times higher. Canada’s economic ascent during the…
The American economy grew by 2 percent during the first three months of 2026, hardly the picture of collapse that critics of the Trump administration keep promising is just around the corner. The country has not tanked under Donald Trump, not even with tariffs in place. Trump has been accused…
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark stream which seaward creeps.On this green…
Following the season, one of baseball’s greatest pitchers ever will be retiring from the game. Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander, a winner of three Cy Young Awards, made the announcement Wednesday that his last campaign of Major League Baseball will be here in 2026.Currently in the middle of a…
By Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, July 09, 2026Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes a question from a reporter outside the West Wing after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Abbott met with Trump to discuss the situation…
A Chinese national has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for taking part in a fraud scheme in which he redeemed more than $2 million in gift cards purchased by victims throughout the United States.Wang Jun, 64, a lawful U.S. permanent resident, was sentenced to 70…
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The disgraced former Democratic politician who nearly became Florida’s governor in 2018 was arrested days before July 4 on drug-tied offenses, Headline USA can confirm.Andrew Gillum, once a leftist darling who lost the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial race to Ron DeSantis, was arrested after allegedly possessing drugs and…
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,…
‘He’s enamored with her faith’ By CP StaffThursday, July 09, 2026Author and aspiring Christian influencer Tracy Duhon appears during an episode of “The White House Pod” that aired June 11, 2024. | Screenshot/YouTube/David A.R. WhiteOn June 28, a day after he claimed God delivered him from his legal woes during…
A federal judge in Atlanta blocked the Justice Department from obtaining the names and personal contact information of every person who worked during the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, ruling the grand jury subpoena “unreasonable” and declaring the DOJ has no right to use its investigative powers for purposes…
An ICE officer shot and killed a Mexican national in Houston on Tuesday after the man allegedly rammed a federal vehicle and tried to run over an agent during a targeted immigration enforcement operation, according to a report detailing the fatal encounter. The man, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was…
Becky Small spent more than a week begging doctors to take her symptoms seriously. Two general practitioners in Hampshire sent her home, one with medication for inflammation, the other with pills for a stomach bug. Neither ordered imaging. Neither ran blood work. By the time the 33-year-old mother of three…
Federal agents arrested a 51-year-old Australian woman at a New Orleans courthouse after a grand jury indicted her on charges she falsely claimed U.S. citizenship to register and vote in two consecutive federal elections, a case the Department of Homeland Security held up as proof that enforcement against noncitizen voters…
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Georgia quashed a Department of Justice grand jury subpoena seeking the names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of every election worker and poll volunteer in Fulton County who worked the 2020 election, ruling the request lacked any legitimate law enforcement purpose and calling…
President Donald Trump used a Fourth of July weekend podcast appearance to offer kind words for former President Bill Clinton, even as Hillary Clinton continued lobbing accusations of corruption and incompetence at the current administration from her X account.Trump made the remarks while sitting in the Oval Office as a…
A second woman has accused Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner of sexual misconduct, this time alleging he removed condoms during sex without her consent, landing roughly 24 hours after a separate rape allegation that had already sent his campaign into a tailspin and prompted leading Democratic senators to…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the interim ceasefire with Iran is “over,” hours after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched ballistic missiles and drones at American military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait and the United States struck back at targets inside Iran. The declaration, delivered to reporters while Trump attended a…
George Hutchinson, the man whose voice opened every session of the United States Supreme Court for a decade, including the oral arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, has died at 102. His three words, “Oyez, oyez, oyez,” were not the most consequential spoken during those landmark proceedings. But they…
President Trump approved and ordered a sweeping military operation against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while attending the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, after three separate Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz shattered a fragile ceasefire in a matter of days. U.S. Central Command hit more…
Contrary to some modern, sanitized versions of the history of the American Revolution, the real Revolutionary War in the United States was a thoroughly violent affair. Proportionally, the war displaced a larger number of people than even the French Revolution, and more Americans died in that war than in any…
Everyone knows, except for the Ignorant and Apathetic among us, that the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC) and their minions in the three branches of government have, through Treason, converted most of “government” into a criminal enterprise for their profit at the expense of voters. The serious takeover of our…
The Trump administration is triggering hysteria in legacy media ranks over its agenda to relax gun rules. They’re rolling back a “tsunami” of gun regulations, Axios announced over the weekend, adding that “the effect critics fear is more guns moving with less federal scrutiny.” The New York Times told readers on Sunday, “Trump Administration…
The last three days have led to another escalation in the Strait of Hormuz. At the beginning of the week more tankers took the southern route along the Omani coast instead of the northern route on which Iran, following the Memorandum of Understanding, insists. The Omani route is under observation…
Among the many violent events–Ruby Ridge, Waco, 9/11, for example–that never received a real investigation is the Oklahoma City Bombing. On April 19, 1995, the Murrah Federal Building was blown up resulting in many deaths, injuries, and damage to nearby buildings. The foul deed was blamed on Timothy McVeigh and a…
What’s going on? Are neocons having a come-to-Jesus moment? After Bob Kagan writing an article on how the U.S. is facing “total defeat” in Iran (see my article yesterday) you now have Max Boot – the very author of “The Case for American Empire” and one of the most vocal advocates…
Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) “has explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens,”…
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced a policy, effective since July 4, that allows businesses to combine 7(a) and 504 loans to secure up to $10 million in funding.The 7(a) loan program provides financial assistance of up to $5 million to help small businesses acquire real estate, finance equipment…
The US Military on Wednesday evening released unclassified footage of the latest strikes against Iran. According to the Pentagon, US forces struck 90 Iranian military targets on Wednesday. Per CENTCOM: U.S. forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets including air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites,…
Please follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram New York, NY — In one of the most audacious romantic gestures in recent memory, Russian rooftopping duo Angela Nikolau and Ivan “Vanya” Beerkus illegally climbed to the very top of the Empire State Building’s antenna on…
Protein powders aren’t subject to review by the FDA, meaning consumers to relied on the wholesale giant not to mislead them, they say.SEATTLE (CN) — Consumers hit Costco with a class action claiming violations of consumer protection laws through the sale of a protein powder they claim has undisclosed, dangerous…
The ruling by a magistrate judge in San Jose, California, follows a sweeping rebuke of the policies by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.(CN) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to resume processing I-765 employment authorizations for noncitizens after the federal government…
President Trump on Wednesday reacted to the Graham Platner scandal as top Democrats jumped ship on his campaign, and his withdrawal from the race was looming. Trump appeared to question the legitimacy of the claims and called out the double standard with rape allegations from conservative women versus those from…
Founder of Kernel, Bryan Johnson gestures during a interview at the main stage of the Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov. 7, 2017. Patricia De Moreira/AFP via Getty ImagesA California-based man who spends $2 million per year to achieve immortality revealed he was diagnosed with an incurable disease.Bryan Johnson, a…
After a campaign already surrounded by controversy, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing growing pressure from within his own party to end his bid following a rape allegation. Platner is still considering what to do next, according to The New York Times. The paper cited a person familiar…
French President Emmanuel Macron was prepared for the possibility of a “shooting war” with the United States earlier this year, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported this week that Macron reached that position after American forces carried out a precision strike in Venezuela that…
Now that MS NOW has cut its NBC ties, the liberal cable mainstay apparently feels free to say the ugly quiet part out loud. In Graham Platner’s case, that quiet part is this: Democrats had already heard troubling allegations about him before. He had been accused of partner abuse. There…
Andrew Gillum, the former Democratic nominee for governor of Florida who narrowly lost to Ron DeSantis in 2018, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug-related charges. Gillum, 46, was taken into custody Thursday night in Daphne, Alabama, a city in Baldwin County near the Florida Panhandle. According to online…
A Utah judge appeared to react sharply in court while watching footage from the moment Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last September. State District Judge Tony Graf, who is overseeing the case against Tyler Robinson, made clear before the video was shown that the footage…