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This absolutely had to be my last one for the night.
As you may - or may not - have known, it's been a couple of busy days for the president and our glorious First Lady.
From ducking madmen and comforting an angry and concerned nation on Saturday night... ...to rearranging Norah O'Donnell's derriere... ...President Trump has scarcely had a moment to chill out. Not that he'd want one.
And then, today? Chuck and Camilla stopped in for a visit. And it was everything British royalty could appreciate from their American cousins for their first state visit
The troops looked gorgeous.
Sure, it's not antisemitism. It's a political statement against Bibi Netanyahu or something.
A benefit concert for the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia has been canceled because the choir that was scheduled to sing refused to share the stage with a Jewish choir group.
You can't make this up. Surprised to find an action like this from the cultural elite? I'm not.
A choral concert fundraiser for the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack at a Jewish event in Sydney has been canceled after local Greek singers opposed singing alongside their Jewish counterparts
As we reported, King Charles is visiting the United States.
He spoke to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
He also met with President Donald Trump, as Trump gave a speech on how "In recent years, we've often heard it said that America is merely an idea," but that it was much more than that; that "the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776," and that the American founding was based on struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice to have the freedom we enjoy today. I think this was likely a retort to one of Joe Biden's classic lines
US President Donald Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Citing US officials, the report said that in recent meetings, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran’s economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports.
He assessed that his other options—resume bombing or walk away from the conflict—carried more risk than maintaining the blockade, officials added, the report said.
The US and Israel launched a joint offensive against Iran on Feb. 28, prompting Tehran to respond with strikes on what it described as US interests across the region, many of them in Gulf countries.
A ceasefire
New York City's self-described democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has made history, just not the kind worth bragging about. Barely months into office, he has blown past a statutory budget deadline for the first time since 2015, declared a fiscal crisis of "historic magnitude," and responded to a $5.4 billion budget gap the way any good socialist would: by asking someone else to pay for it.
Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin appeared together at City Hall on Tuesday to announce they would delay the executive budget, originally due May 1, until May 12 while lobbying Albany to bail out a city
Yesterday the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of David Morens, who was a Senior Adviser to Anthony Fauci during the covid era. The indictment includes allegations against two co-conspirators, who have been identified as Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Gerald Keusch, an associate director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory Institute. EcoHealth Alliance is the nonprofit that got grant money from the National Institutes of Health and passed it on to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do research on coronaviruses
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Today the FBI executed twenty-two search warrants around the metropolitan Twin Cities in its continued investigation of the massiive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators. The United States Attorney will present the evidence to a federal grand jury and secure indictments in due course. In the Feeding Our Future case, the time between the searches and the first indictments ran some nine months.
The FBI conducted the searches today on a panoply of daycare centers (thank you, Nick Shirley), autism providers, and perhaps other businesses receiving funds under one or another of Minnesota’s fourteen waivered Medicaid programs. These programs have been looted by fraudsters
On Tuesday afternoon, CNN and MS NOW swooned over King Charles III’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress, choosing not to focus on the historical lessons and shared values that kept the West alive (although its current state is debatable), but on the moments regarding climate change, checks and balances, NATO, and Ukraine to name a few the left has declared outright jabs at President Trump. The two networks trumpeted Charles as a “headmaster” delivering an “extremely political” but “vivid” “masterclass” with a set of values “in complete opposition” that were “batted for” embattled Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. CNN led the way in its proverbial weak knees
Virginia Democrats are running out of runway.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has denied Attorney General Jay Jones's motion to stay an injunction issued by a Tazewell Circuit Court judge. The injunction blocks certification of the redistricting referendum results and throws the party's carefully engineered power grab into serious legal jeopardy.
Certification was scheduled for Friday. With the stay denied, that deadline is now in doubt, and the ripple effects could reach all the way to the August primary elections. Virginia law requires the Department of Elections to move voters into new districts before any primary can proceed — a process that takes several weeks.
Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map is officially cleared for use, after the U.S. Supreme Court formally overturned a lower court’s ruling Monday.
In November, the high court allowed the map to be used temporarily. Monday’s ruling maintains that status quo, ensuring the new lines will be used for the 2026 midterms. The ruling ends, for now, the lengthy legal battle over Texas’ efforts to add as many as five more Republican seats to the U.S. House.
Texas took up this unusual mid-decade redistricting effort over the summer, after President Donald Trump pushed the state to help shore up the GOP’s narrow majority
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has identified over 30,000 dead people’s names on their voter rolls in the latest illustration of exactly why Republicans are right to push election integrity reforms.
Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon highlighted the exposure of the 34,000 deceased voters’ names. She has been leading the federal charge on trying to pressure states into investigating and cleaning their voter rolls, and is currently fighting dozens of leftist states in court for their data. The new North Carolina data is just one more vindication of the Trump administration’s argument that our elections
I’m a professional political writer: PJ Media pays me to analyze politics, culture, news, and entertainment. Our business relationship isn’t complicated: I write it, and PJ Media publishes it.
But it’s a high-risk job on all sides. When you opine about controversial topics like race, gender, public policy, and war, you’ll inevitably offend someone. (And not always deliberately!)
Question: If I write something that millions of PJ Media readers find offensive, disgusting, and gross, whose fault is it?
Maybe it’s the audience’s fault. If you guys misinterpreted what I wrote, then I’m blameless. Hey, that’s on you people. Can’t blame me for the misinterpretations of others. Right?
Wrong!
It’s my fault.
Consumer Confidence Defies Expectations, Rises in April as Labor Market Outlook Brightens
MIAMI, FLORIDA - APRIL 11: U.S. President Donald Trump waves to the media after walking of(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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Consumer confidence rose in April to the best level of the year, as consumers took a more optimistic view of the jobs market and their income prospects.
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index climbed to 92.8 from an upwardly revised 92.2 in March, handily beating the consensus forecast of 89 in surveys of economists conducted by both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
The Expectations Index
Lame-duck Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made a stunning about-face after the federal raids on Minnesota day care centers Tuesday — after previously denouncing fraud investigations as “white supremacy.”
FBI Director Kash Patel, however, quickly hit back after the failed 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee appeared to take credit for the federal operation.
In a thread on X, Walz said he was putting criminals “on notice” and said the FBI was working with state officials. “Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today. But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under
Agriculture Secretary claims review found
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that a recent review found thousands of Americans who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in just one state are actually driving luxury vehicles.
Rollins did not identify the state, except to say it was led by a Republican, but said a scrutiny of the federal food stamp program uncovered that thousands of people who are getting the benefits in that one state are also rolling to stores in Bentleys and Teslas.
The study, conducted by the Foundation for Government Accountability, connected 14,000 luxury vehicles to food stamp enrollees, with Lexus being the most common brand.
WASHINGTON — King Charles III on Tuesday reaffirmed the United Kingdom and the United States’ long “special” relationship, calling it a "story of reconciliation, renewal and remarkable partnership" born out of "bitter divisions of 250 years ago." In a rare speech to Congress, the king marked the landmark anniversary of America's independence from British rule, and he nodded to his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who addressed the Congress from under the same “watchful eye of the Statue of Freedom above us” 35 years ago.
“The story of the United Kingdom and the United States is, at its heart, a story of reconciliation, renewal and remarkable partnership,”
President Trump hailed “the two most exceptional nations the world has ever known” as he and First Lady Melania welcomed the Royal couple to the White House on Tuesday morning for the first full day of the state visit marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. King Charles III and his Queen Consort Camilla arrived at the White House on Tuesday morning as invited guests of U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania, met by an impressive display of martial music, an honour guard of U.S. troops, and the executive mansion draped in American and British flags.
President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles to the White House, calling it an “honor” and “tremendous privilege” to host the royals.
Trump noted in his remarks the irony of honoring the British king to mark the 250th anniversary of the country, calling American patriots who gained independence in 1776 heirs to the United Kingdom.
“American patriots today can sing ‘my country ‘tis of thee, great land of liberty’ because our colonial ancestors first sang ‘God Save the King,’” the president said.
Trump hailed the U.S. and U.K. militaries for fighting together
The spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Defense has said that the United States is no longer in a position to dictate its policies to independent nations, adding this reality has been demonstrated to the world.
Brigadier General Reza Talaei-Nik, speaking upon arrival in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers’ meeting, stressed the importance of continuing the strong path of Iran’s armed forces and the exemplary resistance of the Iranian people on the international stage. Talaei-Nik considered Shanghai Cooperation Organization, given its importance and impressive geographical and demographic
Iran used a Shanghai Cooperation Organization defense meeting in Bishkek to signal that it is ready to share military experience and defense capabilities with other SCO members, giving a sharper geopolitical edge to the gathering hosted by Kyrgyzstan under its current chairmanship of the bloc. The meeting of SCO defense ministers opened on April 28 at the Ala-Archa state residence in Bishkek. Defense officials from the organization’s member states attended, along with SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev. Kyrgyzstan’s Defense Minister Ruslan Mukambetov chaired the session. In a statement, Talaei-Nik said Iran was ready to share its defense weapons capabilities and experience with “independent countries,” especially SCO member states.
The State Department is rolling out limited-edition U.S. passports to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence. The new passport designs, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, prominently feature President Donald Trump's image on the inside cover. Mock-ups show Trump's image surrounded by the text of the Declaration of Independence and American flag along with the president's signature in gold. Another page features the famous painting of the founding fathers at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The passports, which are set to be released this summer, are part of the Trump administration’s broader "America250" celebration,
David Brooks has a lot of nerve
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When I write about politics, or the pope, or abortion, or immigration, I expect to get a lot of blowback from people who disagree with me.
It comes with the territory, that territory being opinion writing.
I have a thick skin, and forge ahead with my views on everything from papal infallibility to Taylor Swift's universal and incomprehensible appeal.
Which is why I’m prepared to hear complaints for calling out the hypocrisy spewing from The Atlantic’s David Brooks and his much younger second wife.
Brooks is a man who makes mashed potatoes look ethnic, he is so suburban, preppy and white. I don't mean "white" as in Caucasian. I mean the color.
Breaking: The Virginia Supreme Court Just
Dropped a One-Sentence Hammer on Dems'
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Dropped a One-Sentence Hammer on Dems'
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Just one day after the Supreme Court of Virginia (SCOVA) heard oral arguments about the legality of the legislative process used by Democrat lawmakers to get last week's redistricting/gerrymandering referendum in front of voters, the court on Tuesday shut down efforts by Attorney General Jay Jones to certify the results of that referendum.
At the heart of Tuesday's order was the RNC v. Koski case, which RedState's Jennifer Oliver O'Connell reported on last week.
On Wednesday afternoon, Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. ruled that Tuesday's referendum is unconstitutional and issued an injunction preventing the certification of the election maps.
Why Dems LOVE to Stoke It
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There is a pattern now. Not an accident. Not a coincidence. A pattern.
Say something reckless, watch the temperature rise, act surprised when something breaks—and then, because apparently nothing was learned, do it again.
If that sounds harsh, just look at what happened this week.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said something that shouldn’t even be controversial: rhetoric matters. When people in positions of power constantly frame their opponents as existential threats or enemies, they aren’t calming anything down. They’re pouring fuel on it. That’s just reality.
But instead of taking the hint—maybe dialing things back even a notch—House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went the other direction entirely. He leaned in.