By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – September 17, 2025 Telling us that it doesn’t matter when one side commits violence warps public policy, news coverage, and more. After Tuesday’s press conference by Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray laying out extensive excerpts from text messages that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer sent to his transgender romantic partner, as well as other evidence collected in...

No, the text messages about Charlie Kirk’s murder were not ‘touching.’

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – September 4, 2025 A metaphor no more. We are going to wage combat against drug cartels that are flooding American streets and killing Americans,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday night. America’s “war on drugs,” he revealed, was a metaphor no more. Indeed, open hostilities had already begun. Earlier that evening, the firepower U.S. Southern...

He’s sending in the National Guard; he’s firing federal bosses — the turbulence of Trump’s second administration continues, with his “resistance” still in disarray. And although the White House’s policy maelstrom has made things less predictable for American businesses, there’s one big lesson the executive suite and middle management should learn from the president’s strategy: don’t sweat the small stuff.

By: Rahm Emanuel – wsj.com – August 31, 2025 Can Americans stop fighting each other long enough to appreciate the threat from China? The latest illustration of the division and dysfunction in our politics—images of the National Guard occupying our nation’s capital—has justifiably infuriated my fellow Democrats. But the military’s deployment in Washington shouldn’t be understood merely as the latest MAGA...

D.C. celebrates a significant milestone in crime reduction under President Trump’s leadership.

For now, the Trump administration can continue with a February plan for large-scale layoffs. President Donald Trump has seized the authority to lay off federal workersand reorganize the federal government in a way that critics say no president has been able to do in more than 100 years.

By: Ammon Blair – washingtonexaminer.com – May 29, 2025 Using the National Guard to help with border security is hardly unprecedented. In fact, it has a long tradition in American history. The Department of Homeland Security has requested 20,000 National Guard troops to assist its efforts to secure the southern U.S. border, a move the media has declared “unprecedented.” It’s not. In 1916, after...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – July 13, 2025 Many news reports on immigration-enforcement actions bury key information about apprehended individuals so deep that it’s next to dinosaur bones. Few groups are as susceptible to trends as the press is. And, boy, when reporters get on a trend, they commit. For example: It’s a trend now that, whenever there’s a Democratic-related...

DOJ and FBI building conspiracy case against deep state efforts to stop Trump, claims journalist John Solomon.