This is confirmed — Senator Lindsey Graham died on the evening of Saturday, July 11, 2026, at age 71, after what his office described as a “brief and sudden illness.” Emergency responders were dispatched to his Capitol Hill home for a reported cardiac event. Radio traffic from response to Sen. Graham’s home: Emergency radio traffic […]
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Mexico and Democrats Cry Oppression An ICE agent in Houston shot and killed a Mexican national during a vehicle stop on July 7. The man had no legal status, ignored commands, rammed an ICE vehicle, and tried to run down an officer. The agent fired in self-defense. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo died at the hospital. Mexican […]
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And Blaming Trump Won’t Make It Disappear California Governor Gavin Newsom is suddenly very defensive about his family’s finances. He has gone on the attack, accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing the Justice Department against him and his wife. The timing is no accident. Federal investigators have been looking into Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s taxes and […]
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President Trump has been living with an Iranian death sentence since he ordered the strike that took out Qasem Soleimani in 2020. That threat never went away. This week it sharpened into something more immediate. Reports confirm that Israel passed fresh intelligence to the United States indicating Iran had developed a new plan targeting the […]
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Government commissions come and go. Most deliver their reports to polite applause and prompt obscurity. But the Religious Liberty Commission that recently presented its draft report to President Donald Trump deserves a look that extends well beyond the Oval Office. At stake is something fundamental to the American character: our distinctive religious pluralism and the constitutional architecture that has […]
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President Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore last week identified what makes America great—and that communism is the rising ideology threatening American greatness. On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, the president known for his love of “American exceptionalism” delivered a speech with familiar sentiments about the beauty of our nation. But he included a […]
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Democrats are in the process of exorcising Graham Platner from the party and the Maine Senate race, but Platner’s ghost could haunt Democrats for years to come. Platner’s candidacy was an ambitious experiment led by progressive party outsiders, as self-proclaimed socialists racked up wins from California to New York and plenty of states in between. Primarily […]
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Movies work like a cultural seismograph: They record public anxiety before politicians get around to admitting it exists. This year’s “Citizen Vigilante” is set in Europe, but the reaction to it belongs in a Washington conversation. Germany’s censors banned the film outright rather than let audiences see a story about migrant crime and judicial leniency, and the critics […]
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For the last month or so, we’ve heard nothing but “Graham Platner, Graham Platner, Graham Platner.” He is a quote-unquote “oyster man from Maine” that was a four-tour combat veteran, who the Democratic Party, Mr. [Morris] Katz, a very obscure 27-year-old activist, recruited for the Democratic Party to run against Susan Collins for the senior senator slot in Maine. […]
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Something stinks in New York City hall. While the United States is still sorting through the wreckage of recent military exchanges with Iran, a senior official in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration quietly scheduled a meeting with Tehran’s ambassador to the United Nations. The get-together never happened because Washington stepped in and killed it. This is […]