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In an ordinary midterm congressional election, the usual outcome is that the President’s party loses seats in the House of Representatives. If history repeats itself in November, the Democrats may well flip enough seats to overcome the razor thin Republican majority and take control of the House. But there is reason to believe that the GOP will defy history in the upcoming midterms because it won the 2025-2026 “redistricting war,” the struggle between red and blue states to gain an edge by engaging in mid-decade redrawing of their congressional districts.
California State Senator, professional leather-wearing gay man, and candidate for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat, Scott Wiener, just discovered that, no matter how far left you are, to the Jacobins who have taken over the Democrat base, the fact that you are Jewish nullifies everything else about you. As my friend Robin M. Itzler likes to say, when they start loading the trains to the new Auschwitz, they’ll load up the leftist Jews as fast as they will the conservative ones.
For a long time, Wiener has been the perfect progressive Democrat: He’s a product of the Ivy League (Harvard Law), his leftist political positions are impeccable, and he’s super-duper gay,
The recent sweeping victories by Democratic Socialists in New York have political observers of both parties paying attention, although for different reasons. The Democratic Party appears to continue to abandon most of its traditionally reliable voting blocs. But while Democratic Socialists blather on about helping working people, there is one specific group of working people who may get hit the hardest by the new crop of socialist candidates, and it will determine where their support ultimately ends up. The leaders of one of New York City's most prominent labor union have spoken out about the Democratic Socialist wins in the Big Apple. Robert "Bobby" Bartels, Jr.,
The United Kingdom is having a hot summer. Granted, that's a little bit of an eyebrow-raiser in the U.K., which is famous for cool, damp weather, but it happens. Of course, many places see warm summer weather, and for the last few decades, people who live in the civilized world have had a great modern solution to hot weather: Air conditioning. AC not only makes life more comfortable, but for some people, like the elderly and people in poor health, it can be a lifesaver during serious heat waves. It's a lifesaver that's now being denied to Brits, because of the government's lunatic Net Zero policies.
Residents of a small Massachusetts island community are shocked and furious upon learning from town officials that they may not be able to fly American flags to celebrate the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday.
As Fox News reported on Saturday, homeowners on Plum Island received a letter from the town of Newbury warning them last week that it had become aware of multiple “devices and materials intended to deter” protected shorebirds from frequenting beach and dune systems.
These materials included “mylar streamers, flags, and reflective materials.”
The Times May Be a-Changin’
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“Come MPs and prime ministers, please heed the call,” Bob Dylan might sing about Europe. “Don’t stand in the doorway. Don’t block up the hall…. For the times they are a-changin’.”
Or at least may be changing – not only in Europe but across the globe.
Europe’s ruling elites opened their countries’ borders to millions of unvetted, largely Third World, often Islamist migrants with little interest in assimilating – and gave them free lodging, food and medical care (paid with other people’s money), and an official blind eye to rising crime and molestation of women.
In 2023,
The U.S. and Iran have agreed to “stand down for now” and allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz after renewed fighting in the past few days, a U.S. official told The Hill on Sunday.
“Technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU. Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely,” the official said, referring to the memorandum of understanding signed by both sides earlier this month.
The war against Iran, which started four months ago on Sunday, has stressed the global economy, raised gas prices in the U.S. and strained America’s relations with Israel and traditional European allies.
Sen. Dave McCormick Steps Up to Undo Cancelation
of Pennsylvania Participation in America
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of Pennsylvania Participation in America
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Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) is stepping up to undo Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-PA) cancelation of Pennsylvania’s involvement in the Great American State Fair on the National Mall.
In a press release from McCormick, it was revealed that he and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) were announcing “a coalition of Pennsylvania organizations” that will ensure that the state has a presence at the event organized by Freedom 250 —which runs from June 25-July 10. The announcement also came “after working in coordination” with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.
For calling gay marriage a sin, the Asbury Theological Seminary has lost its approval as [a] school for ordained ministers through the United Methodist Church.
David Watson, president of the evangelical Christian seminary, said in a statement Thursday that the decision came from the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, and it was not a “shared resolution.”
The Methodist denomination’s “requirements, particularly those related to the UMC’s 2024 Social Principles concerning ‘Human Sexuality’ and ‘Marriage,’ are not aligned with Asbury Theological Seminary’s institutional ethos and the historic witness of the Christian faith,” Watson stated.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that he will introduce legislation to increase the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour. If the legislation passes, it would be the first change to the federal rate since 2009. The Living Wage For All Act would require large corporate employers to implement a $25 wage floor by 2032, while other businesses would have until 2039 to do so. The bill would mandate automatic, continued increases of the federal minimum wage to two-thirds of the national median wage. “There is nowhere in America where a worker with just one dependent can
Democrats are not simply furious at the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Trump administration on removing temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians because this cuts cheap foreign labor and is a win for law and order over mass migration. It’s also because Democrats specifically weaponize mass migration to change the demographics of red states. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) pointed out a key part of Democrats' fury over the SCOTUS ruling against Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians, both of which were granted by the U.S. government more than a decade ago in response to past crises. There are hundreds of thousands of Haitians alone living
Today, many people think that belief in a Creator is a subjective preference based on their personal faith. But that was not the view of America’s Founders. Nor was it the view held by many of the thinkers who preceded them.
More than two millennia ago, key Greek and Roman thinkers already argued that nature supplies objective evidence of a Creator. Marveling at the vast array of stars in the heavens, the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero concluded: “Not merely did their creation postulate intelligence, but… intelligence of a high order.”
‘ASK MERCY OF GOD’: Republicans Slam
Dems Over Endorsement of Leftist Group
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Dems Over Endorsement of Leftist Group
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Republicans are calling on their Democrat opponents to distance themselves from a leftist group accused of propping up the Ku Klux Klan in order to fundraise against it.
Kevin Martin, a Republican challenging Rep. Lucy McBath in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” because the group allegedly funded members of the Ku Klux Klan.
“Any current politician or any candidate that has any association with them needs to … step as far away as possible from them,” Martin told the Daily Signal in a phone call Friday.
If any candidate “received any sort of funding or financing”
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., told the Daily Signal that a recent campaign poll of his found many of his constituents view the rise of “Islamification” and Islamic rule as a top concern.
As stated by Fine, respondents prioritized the issue above topics such as abortion, health care, and the conflict involving Iran.
“I had to fight with my pollster, because no one ever asks about the rise of radical Islam in America, and I wanted it placed in my survey,” Fine said. “It was one of the largest issues people rated. My constituents believe it concerned them more than the war in Iran, abortion, and more.”
Iran has “no choice” but to develop a nuclear bomb, a media outlet linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said — the latest threat to the peace deal.
The article, titled “No choice but to build the atomic bomb,” claims that Iran must negotiate with its enemies from a position of strength, and was published by Iranian state news outlet Fars on Sunday.
“To achieve the peace and calm that Iran needs, it must absolutely reach nuclear deterrence to ensure that the rest of the issues can be resolved through negotiation,” thunders the piece, before comparing Iran’s situation with the US to that of China in the 1970s.
As we reported, the U.S. responded after the Iranian regime attacked a cargo ship exiting the Strait of Hormuz, hitting some of the regime's coastal installations. Then Iran responded by attacking U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait. The regime claimed they destroyed eight important military facilities. In fact, there were no US casualties or damage to US bases after the barrage of missiles and drones. They did hit a residential building in Bahrain. Fortunately, no one was killed. Kuwait said it intercepted two ballistic missiles, and there was no damage or injuries.
The regime also fired on another commercial ship in the Strait.
Americans already pay plenty to own a car. They pay sales taxes when they buy one. They pay gas taxes every time they fill up. They pay tolls, insurance premiums, registration fees, inspection fees, and in many states, yearly property taxes simply for the privilege of owning a vehicle.
Now Congress wants to add another bill to the pile: a new federal annual vehicle registration fee.
Some in Congress are calling it an “EV fee” aimed at electric and hybrid vehicles. Americans should not assume it will stop there. We have seen this movie before.
In 1997, Virginians revolted against one of America’s most despised taxes: the local personal property tax on cars.
The clip features two unidentified women discussing the comments of Xavier Becerra, who as head of the Department of Health and Human Services under the previous administration oversaw a gargantuan network of unaccompanied migrant minors passed off to barely vetted sponsors. We now know that many of these sponsors were unrelated to the children and exploited them, sometimes for sexual purposes. The allegedly leaked audio sheds some light on Becerra’s attitude, as he saw these vulnerable children as a sort of product, not as individual humans. Hilton indicated he has more information about to become public.
Countries do not have to like each other, but global friction is reduced when they share standards of good conduct. The world is better off because the risk of war is reduced when all states share those standards, which have been established over many decades or centuries of international politics.
The greatest source of tension in world politics is that Communist China rejects those standards in almost all aspects of international politics, all the time. Americans need to know what Communist China has been doing and how its practices demonstrate they are a dangerous, immoral actor, which has planted the seeds of global conflict through the rejection of good conduct.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 he framed the acquisition as a battle to safeguard free speech. Twitter, he said, was “the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated”. Last week I, a grooming gang researcher and journalist, posted a video to X laughing at the ineptitude of the Rape Gang Inquiry report’s writers in tackling the subject. Musk’s contribution to that vital debate, delivered to his 240 million followers, was to demand I be sent to jail. “To prison for her,” he wrote. Like Elon I consider myself a “free speech absolutist”.
As socialist candidates surge in New York and New York City, it’s worth noting that one leader of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapter is the niece of Neville Roy Singham — a propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party and ardent supporter of Maoism and socialism.(snip)Notably, Alicia Singham Goodwin, a leader of the NYC-DSA chapter who is also heavily involved with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is the niece of a communist multimillionaire who funds Chinese propaganda.(snip)Goodwin served as the NYC-DSA delegate to the DSA National Convention in 2025, was the political director for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (and helped lead the “Jews for Zohran” coalition
After the candidates he backed swept their democratic congressional primaries, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his democratic socialist message can win nationally. "I think a democratic socialist can get elected anywhere across this country for any position," Mamdani told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview that aired Sunday. (Snip) Pressed by Karl on whether he plans to use his political capital in races outside of New York ahead of the midterms, Mamdani said while he's focused for now on the candidates he endorsed, the issues that resonated in New York are felt across
Over the last year and a half, the Democrats have gnashed their teeth about why they lost in 2024 – against Donald Trump, the candidate they hate so much they imagine that everyone else does, too.
Was it because the Democrats advocated transsexual boys in the girls’ bathrooms? Was it because they favored abandoning the southern border while simultaneously lying to us that it was secure? Was it because they nominated a nitwit candidate without a nomination convention?
Watch the reaction to the primaries in New York last week and you will hear a word that would have ended a campaign a generation ago: socialism. Candidates now say it with pride. Commentators warn, accurately, that the platform beneath it, abolishing borders, defunding the police, seizing private property, is something far more radical than the politics most of the public grew up with.
Here is the question almost no one is asking: where did these ideas come from? They did not appear overnight on a ballot. They were taught. For two decades, they were cultivated, rewarded, and treated as obvious in American classrooms, first in our universities and then