After 17 years, California still has no tracks for its high-speed rail. However, the gravy train has run on time in every single fiscal year — until now. A new report from the Department of Transportation reveals that nearly $7 billion in federal funds resulted in exactly zero feet of high-speed track laid in the...
Remember Karine Jean-Pierre? You know, the White House Press Secretary who made “Circle Back Barbie” look like a truth-telling genius? She disappeared into the Witness Protection Program–or something similar–on January 20th, 2025, and hasn’t been seen since. Even those “now it can be told” books have basically ignored her role in the White House, and...
Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are ostentatiously “Catholic,” despite their rejection of the core moral teachings of the Church. They–and most liberals who see the Church as one of their main opponents in the culture war–have been doing their best to redefine what it means to be a Catholic (or Christian, for that matter), and...
If there’s anything we’ve done pretty well for a Stateside blog, I think it’s trying to keep y’all up with what’s happening across the pond. Granted, we have no deep understanding of either European tribalism or feudalism and it’s damn near every day I thank God the Founding Fathers did not harness us with the...
Well, Mohamed Soliman is in luck. He won’t ever get to see his family again, at least if Pam Bondi and Colorado prosecutors have anything to say about it. The Boulder firebombing terrorist likely talked himself into life sentences in his interrogation with police and FBI agents, at least according to the indictment against Soliman....
Democrats keep screaming about the cuts to Medicaid in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” and the Pravda Media tends to present very little concrete information on exactly where the cuts are coming from. Sure, we hear that 7-8 million people will lose their Medicaid benefits, but aside from that sounding pretty bad, what exactly does...
Spoiler alert: Nothing will be learned from it. When Hillary Clinton lost a narrow election to Donald Trump, Democrats and progressives wasted no time in heaping blame on white women as the scapegoat for their own choice of nominees. In the wake of last November’s more humiliating election loss, Democrats found a new cohort to...
There has been a lot of angst expressed about the Chinese buying up vast swathes of US farmland, perhaps making them the second-largest threat to US agriculture after Bill Gates (I kid, I kid…sort of). But what if the Chinese aren’t purchasing that land to gain access to land adjacent to US military bases or...
The Trump administration effort to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting took another step today when President Trump asked congress to get involved in pulling back funds that have already been appropriated. President Trump took yet another step Tuesday to place NPR and PBS at the center of his broader clash with major cultural institutions,...
Ed, David, and I have all written about some aspect of the alternate joint US-Israeli aid program underway in Gaza right now. American contractors have set up a relief system to get food into the area and are predicting that they will be able to feed over half of the residents, hopefully by the end...
MSNBC is not having a great week so far. Yesterday former host Joy Reid was in the news again, this time accusing her former network of trying to silence her to please President Trump. This all came up in an interview she did with Katie Couric. “I try not to speculate too much publicly because,...
Yesterday, I wrote a post called “Anatomy of an Anti-Israel Hoax.” It took me about 5 minutes of thinking to conclude that the claims that Israel opened fire on Gazans seeking aid from Israel and the United States at an aid distribution site were not accurate. The claim made no sense on its face; the...
I’d say “too ironic to check,” but this goes well beyond irony and into prophecy fulfillment. George Orwell wrote his masterpiece 1984 as a warning about how authoritarians would manipulate language and amend texts to obfuscate truths and oppress the masses. Orwell set his protagonist Winston Smith in the Ministry of Truth to highlight how...
I read this opinion piece earlier today and it is somewhat surprising to see this in the NY Times after they and other big media outlets spent months demonizing Musk. This gist here is that Musk shouldn’t be judged like a normal politician because he’s more than that. It’s titled “How History Will Remember Elon...
VURT DA FURK? It was hard enough getting used to ‘New Math,’ but in this day and age, ‘scholar’ doesn’t exactly mean anything near what it used to, either. Like, at Columbia, the argument for not deporting his hate-filled, anti-American butt is that  Khalil is a gentle Palestinian ‘scholar.’ He’s simply passionate about his people....