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Midterm elections go one of two ways. They're either a validation of the sitting president, or they're a repudiation. Historically, they've almost always been a repudiation. The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be no different - a firm rebuke to ...

President Trump claimed recently that "they're saying this is the best 10 months in the history of the presidency." Hmmm. Maybe the merry elves are saying that in the Oval Office when they tell Trump he is the best Santa ever. You never know about ...

The liberals at Mediaite.com gushed over the latest anti-conservative comedy from NBC: "Kash Patel Gets Absolutely Smoked in Punishing SNL Sendup By Aziz Ansari: 'I'm the First Indian Person to Suck at Their Job!'" After another vomitous episode of ...

If you stand on the banks of the Monongahela River just south of Pittsburgh, you can still hear the echoes of an America that used to build things. It is a quiet testament to a bygone era, the kind of place where the skeletal remains of old factories ...

Every time there's a headline that the war in Iran may be winding down, bombs go off and wind it right back up again. So maybe I shouldn't say that the president has cooled his jets when it comes to the pope, but he has taken a break from going off ...

This year's midterm elections aren't just about who wins in November; they're about who wins fights over gerrymandering taking place right now. Nowhere is the battle fiercer than in Virginia, a state where voters just six years ago approved a ...

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart,

President Trump's first year and a half of his second term has been nothing if not controversial. After winning decisively in 2024, he has seen his popularity drop sharply. In fact, Democrats are eagerly looking forward to gaining the majority in ...

For months, polling and prediction markets have forecast that Democrats will retake the House, but that Republicans will retain control of the Senate. However, recently, the prediction markets have moved toward the Senate being a toss-up. The latest ...

Bondi Beach is meant to be neutral ground. A place without history. A democratic stretch of sand where politics dissolves into sunlight, surf, and families pushing strollers toward the water. That illusion died when Jews gathered there to light ...