President Donald Trump won North Carolina this year by 3.2 percentage points after winning the state by a narrow 1.3 points in 2020, with the help of a highly diverse coalition of voters. North Carolina is on track to become one of the most diverse coalitions of President Trump’s working-class alliance, with the president making […]
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December 13, 2024 [The following is based on remarks delivered by Koonin and Mills at an MIT Free Speech Alliance debate, which can be viewed here.] The climate change debate continues to rage. Though the science remains “unsettled,” what does seem settled is that President Trump will withdraw, again, from the now infamous Paris Climate […]
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When I was in school, admittedly a long time ago, we were taught that America’s Founding Fathers were intelligent, moral, visionaries who had looked at the world that existed and took only the things that were good and dumped the rest. They were heroes. Some of the stories about them were likely not factually true […]
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Consumer inflation in the U.S. ticked up another 0.3 percent in November at an annual rate of 2.7 percent, according to the latest data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For most Americans who have seen inflation outpace their incomes for four years now as production fell behind demand after Covid and the federal government printed […]
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by KellyDec 12, 2024 Pete Hegseth, nominated by Donald Trump for Secretary of Defense, faced accusations that he was not accepted into West Point, as initially claimed by the academy. In fact, Hegseth was accepted to West Point but did not attend. Instead, he went to Princeton University, where he graduated in 2003 with a bachelor’s […]
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by KellyDec 12, 2024 Secretary of State Antony Blinken did attend the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday. He testified before the committee regarding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, marking it as his last appearance before this committee on this topic. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday admitted that U.S. tax dollars had reached the Taliban […]
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Russia’s 2015 military intervention in Syria was a bold assertion of its great power ambitions, rescuing Bashar al-Assad’s regime and projecting influence in the Middle East. However, recent rebel advances and Assad’s sudden deposal threaten to isolate Russia’s Khmeimim airbase and Tartus naval facility, undermining both the practical and symbolic foundations of Moscow’s global power […]
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Young blood is here. President-elect Trump has gone full throttle for a new generation of leaders. Consider these nominees: Lee Zeldin, 44, EPA administrator Pete Hegseth, 44, Secretary of Defense Kash Patel, 44, FBI Director Tulsi Gabbard, 43, Director of National Intelligence Though he withdrew his bid to lead the Department of Justice, Matt Gaetz, 42, fit the profile as well […]
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Editor’s note: This article uses the generic “he” to refer to all sources who requested anonymity, but this use doesn’t necessarily mean the person cited is a man. Pete Hegseth, the Fox News Channel host and veterans advocate who is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, has been hard at work on Capitol Hill seeking […]
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By Julie Kelly Even as President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to act “very quickly” on pardons for many of the protesters involved in the events of January 6, the Biden administration’s Justice Department is continuing to arrest and try people for actions that occurred almost four years ago while opposing motions to delay trials […]