National Security Advisor John Bolton attends U.S. President Donald Trump’s a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, April 17, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Former White House national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday defended his decision not to discuss alleged details from his upcoming book which

Raymond Ibrahim, a longtime and regular contributor to PJ Media, will be speaking about his book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, next week at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. This is significant: the War College first invited Mr. Ibrahim to speak last year; however,

Richard Grenell, U.S. ambassador to Germany, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 18, 2019. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) President Trump is expected to recall the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, to name him the acting director of national intelligence, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Grenell, an outspoken Trump ally, would replace Joseph Maguire,

Bernie Sanders leads the race for the Democratic nomination. He may become America’s first self-described “democratic socialist” president. What does that mean? Today, when Sanders talks about socialism, he says: “I’m not looking at Cuba. I’m looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden.” But Denmark and Sweden are not socialist. Denmark’s prime minister even came

The Virginia State Senate Judiciary Committee sank the hopes of Governor Ralph Northam’s bill to expand the definition of “assault weapons,” in a bit of a surprise. Earlier this month, the narrowly divided Virginia House of Delegates passed the bill, 51-48. Democrats in the Senate were less enthusiastic, … Read More

Hear Me Out Michael Bloomberg, the former seventy-two-term mayor/dictator of New York City, has encountered a new, seemingly unbeatable foe as he rises in the polls: his past. Politicians who have been in the public eye for a long time are target-rich environments when it comes to finding things from long ago to bite them

(Pixabay) Debt and deficits are not exciting issues, but they’ll have a huge impact on our future. In what was little more than a footnote amid the noise of impeachment and the continuing chaos of the Democratic primaries, late last month the Congressional Budget Office officially announced that for the first time since 2012, our

Largely unknown to and unreported in the West, a large, two-day conference was recently hosted by Al Azhar University in Egypt and attendant by the leading clerics and politicians from 46 nations on January 27-28.  Titled, “Renewal in Islamic Thought,” it is currently the most significant response to Egyptian President Sisi’s calls for reform, which

(Pixabay) Our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm — not with creating it by levying penalties for “offenses” that present no real risk to anyone.  The Virginia state senate has voted unanimously to approve a bill that would require art therapists to be licensed — citing concerns about the sharpness of scissors

In the latest edition of “The Rubin Report” podcast, two people I adore, Dave Rubin and Heather Mac Donald, dialogue about some of the great issues facing America. Interestingly, though both are secular, Dave opened the interview asking Heather about God and religion. She began by saying that she is not conservative because of religion

Congressman Daniel Lipinski arrives at the Chicago Ridge Metra commuter train station before campaigning for re-election in Chicago Ridge, Illinois, January 25, 2018. (Kamil Krzacznski/Reuters) Next month, U.S. representative Dan Lipinski (D., Ill.) will face a progressive challenger, Marie Newman, in the Democratic primary in Illinois’ third congressional district, which encompasses a large section of

The Return of the Paste-Eating Lightbringer President Momjeans decided to insert himself back into the conversation yesterday (which Megan wrote about here) and I have no doubt that he thought he was being brilliant. He does, after all, believe everything that he does is brilliant. The Trump economy took off upward about an hour after

Campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The Department of Education cracks down on alleged foreign funding of Yale and Harvard. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Education had opened investigations into Harvard and Yale for allegedly failing to disclose billions in donations from foreign governments. The department

WESTBY, Wisconsin — Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with him. It is likely one of the most misunderstood threads among this new conservative populist coalition. To get the real reasons

People wear protective masks at an Apple Store in Shanghai, China, January 29, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) Apple said in a press release Monday that it will not meet its revenue projections for the quarter due to the coronavirus outbreak in China, signaling that its iPhone production and Chinese demand for its products were being impacted

Today is the day we ostensibly remember the American Presidents, and as it comes around this year we all know that to say “America First” is racist, anti-Semitic, and evil in all kinds of other ways, and that the best U.S. Presidents have been those who were most respected around the world, in places such

President Trump in Washington, D.C., February 6, 2020 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) In response to No, Pro-Lifers Shouldn’t Vote for the Democratic Nominee The Washington Post recently ran a column by Michael Gerson entitled “It is Difficult for Pro-Lifers to Vote Democrat. But it is Better than Trump.” Like many pundits, Gerson argues that the president exerts

The Power of the Incumbency Compels You President Trump is certainly enjoying all of the inherent advantages of incumbency as he campaigns for re-election. While the Democrats are flailing and trying to figure out how to count votes or not nominate a communist, the president is using that nice big plane of his, flying all

From left: activist Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, January 14, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) A survey of the candidates’ views on criminal justice ‘We need to rethink our approach to public safety,” proclaims Elizabeth Warren,

For proof that Republicans can be just as lazy, self-serving, and cowardly as Democrats, look no farther than the South Dakota Senate. As reported by my colleague Tobias Hoonhout, this week Republican senators Duhamel, Rusch, Steinhauer, and Soholt of the Health and Human Services Committee all joined the … Read More

There is no justice in America when Roger Stone is going to prison for making idle threats and telling tales about irrelevant instant messages while the entire coup conspiracy group of bad actors in our Justice Department and other federal agencies get completely off without even being investigated. Listen to me rant about it on

The Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule was arguably its most radical attempt to “fundamentally transform” the United States. As I wrote at the time, Obama’s AFFH gives the federal government “a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood — imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nev., February 15, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) ‘Socialism!’ the Democrats cry. ‘But don’t take us too seriously!’ For once, conservatives were ahead of the curve. American conservatism functioned as a political mass movement in the postwar era not because of the rhetorical gifts of its

Andrew McCabe, while acting director of the FBI, testifies before a Senate committee on Capitol Hill, June 7, 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/ Reuters) The proof that he willfully deceived investigators appears strong, but the Justice Department likely felt there were too many obstacles to convicting him. The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its

A group of firefighters look on as a house burns in the wind-driven Kincade Fire in Healdsburg, Calif., October 27, 2019. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) 2008—In Ricci v. DeStefano, a Second Circuit panel that includes Judge Sonia Sotomayor buries the claims of 19 white firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter that New Haven city officials engaged in racially

As a spectator sport, politics has rarely been more entertaining. Put aside for the moment the stakes involved, with partisans on both sides claiming that the upcoming election is “the most important in history,” (as was the last one, and the one before that, but this time they really mean it), and take the time

Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) arrives for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., November 6, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) On the Senate floor yesterday afternoon, Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) delivered brief remarks on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, addressing some of the common misconceptions about the legislation. The bill is sponsored by

When I attended a Bernie Sanders rally at Portland’s Memorial Coliseum in August 2015, I viewed the excursion as a foray into opposition research. Here was my opportunity to see what a real socialist candidate looked like in the flesh. I attended two presidential campaign rallies in the run-up to 2016, one for Donald Trump

AfD leader Alexander Gauland attends a TV interview with ARD in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, September 15, 2019. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters) The new breed of populist-nationalists revel in tales of national ‘greatness’ and wallow in narratives of vulnerability. Germany is this week marking the 75th anniversary of the Allied firebombing of Dresden.

Here we go! Part 1 of  my interview with my good friend and RedState Editor-At-Large Kira Davis. Today we’re talking about the job-killing AB5 law in California and the extraordinary bipartisan coalition that’s forming to fight it. I know I’ve been mentioning this a lot lately but, as you’ll hear, there are national ramifications at