Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss the debate over President Trump’s federal takeover of the police in Washington and opposition from Democrats to taking it nationwide, the takeaways from the first day of the DNC’s summer meeting, and President Trump’s latest threat against the “fake news media.

Trump patrols DC tonight with police and military amidst political tensions.

Washington is ‘perfectly safe’ — if one looks at only half the city.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 1, 2025 The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good. The details in the report provide little solace. The jobless rate ticked up only to 4.25% from 4.1%, but that was in part because the labor force continued to shrink. The labor...

Exploring Robby Starbuck’s views on children’s issues in modern culture. But I’m skeptical about his new movie, “The War on Children.”

Most Americans think of the Civil War as an unambiguous conflict between the North and the South over slavery, and that is generally accurate. It was an insurrection against the federal government committed by 11 states whose Democrat governors and legislators feared that the recently elected Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, would deprive them of their non-citizen labor force.

Violent rioters in Portland, Oregon, attacked a federal ICE facility, injuring officers and breaching the building with explosives and rocks on Saturday. What many on the left will call a “peaceful” protest, it’s not— it’s domestic terrorism enabled by weak local leadership.

Almost immediately after the “mostly peaceful” protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles to engage in Latin American-style protests — throwing rocks, burning cars, waving Mexican flags, etc. — the media begged the rioters to stop.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, announced he is launching an investigation into one of the entities that possibly funded the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles.

By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – wsj.com – June 9, 2025 We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest. That is why, under my direction, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting the restoration of public trust above any pro- or antivaccine agenda. The public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our...