It was a Trumpian take, followed by an implicit denunciation of opening up trade relations with China. But rather than dwell on that critique, Marco Rubio's speech delivered at the Munich Security Conference segued back to "centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry," all parts of "the common civilization to which we have fallen heir." The audience, as evidenced by its standing ovation, took Rubio's tough but futuristic comments as compliments.

When you hear that Donald Trump and, by extension, we patriots are the most fascist, racist, sexist, corrupt, perverted, and also fascist monsters in the history of ever, you have to wonder something. You don’t wonder why they’re saying it. You know why they’re saying it. They’re liars and dirtbags, and they are losing their grip on power, and they’re desperate. What you have to wonder is “Where do they go from here?”

In a recent story about another tragic school shooting, the AP-Associated Press provided the shooter’s name, their age, and talked about possible issues with mental health. But something felt wrong, so I searched and found a story on “LGBTQ Nation” that provided the full details about the shooter – an 18-year-old trans woman. That fact is critical given that at least three other recent shootings have connections to the transgender movement. If the storied Associated Press promotes itself as being unbiased, why isn’t it?

Decades ago, the Democratic Party had leaders like Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy who were proud of our country and our citizens. These leaders would have never embarked on a foreign “apology tour” like Former President Barack Obama or allowed our country to be invaded by millions of illegal immigrants like Former President Joe Biden. In the 1980’s, a coalition of moderate congressional Democrats known as the “Blue Dogs” assisted President Ronald Reagan.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flew to Munich, Germany, this week to participate a Security Conference where she and her fellow Democrats whine about their claim that the President is a "fascist" in the home of fascism, “genocide” in Gaza in the places where real genocidal plans were hatches, and "Climate Change" (in person) when they could have simply done a Zoom call and saved the “carbon footprint” of the flight.

The House is expected to pass the SAVE America Act, after which it will move to the Senate. The challenge will be in the Senate, where at least seven Democrats are needed to join 53 Republicans to reach the 60 needed to pass the filibuster plateau. Should this bill be passed and signed into law? Absolutely. The core premise of this bill is beyond any question or dispute -- that anyone voting in a federal election must be a U.S. citizen and provide documentation to prove it.

Well, with an Election Year upon us and Early Voting starting next week, it will soon be the season for the shifting winds & fleeting alliances to determine who will be Texas House Speaker in 2027. And because the Speaker is elected by the sitting members of the House, that means the Texas GOP’s leadership (read the State Republican Executive Committee,) has already tried to influence the race by bullying some great candidates and incumbents not to run in the party's primary. Beware the so-called "Purity Test."

Remember when Americans spoke in November 2024 and elected President Trump to restore the Rule of Law at our border and carry out the largest deportation effort in our nation’s history? Well, the Democrats have forgotten it. In fact, protests in Minnesota and the approaching Government Shutdown standoff is about whether Immigration Law will be enforced at all – and that's what the Democrats want.

A strange thing happened during a recent U.S. Supreme Court Hearing. Justice Samuel Alito asked: “What does it mean to be male or female — especially when the law provides sex-based protections like separate athletic teams?” The attorney’s response was startling & absurd: “We do not have a definition for the court.” Read that again. And, don't women’s sports exist because biology is real?

President Trump may have just delivered the most historic week for Prescription Drug Reform ever. Congress has talked about lowering drug prices forever, and Democrats even shut down the government down last year claiming that would help. It didn't, BUT then on Thursday Trump RX was launched – and its impacts will be real. Think of it as Google Hotels or Google Flights for drug pricing, routing consumers to the cheapest prices around.

There are some people who should be grateful that breathing is a reflex. If it required any mental ability whatsoever, they would suffocate on the street having forgotten to do it. These people should be pitied, but Democrats hold them up as aspirational figures. I get why they do it – Democrats actually have very little to be proud of. But what is disturbing is that so many are even more dumb to fall for it.

By enforcing the immigration laws against those who are violating them in this country, the Trump administration has deterred illegal border crossings. According to DHS, the Border Patrol encountered a daily average of 5,110 individuals at the southwest border during the Biden administration, while daily encounters averaged only 251 in the first year of Trump's second term. This country must never go back to former President Joe Biden's open borders.

As cities descend into repeated cycles of chaos and lives are lost in Minnesota, Americans are asking a simple question: how did we get here? Many Americans, understandably shocked, look at the protests, the violence, and the loss of life and point to immediate causes. Some cite fraud and corruption in federally funded social programs, apparently tolerated by state officials. Others point to aggressive enforcement of immigration law that sparked deadly confrontations. But these are symptoms, not the cause.

Republicans have not held the governor's mansion in California since 2010. During the Tea Party Wave election, across the country Republicans swept into power, even in blue states--except for California. Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, threw nearly $200 million at the governor's race, but she couldn't overcome the old retread Jerry Brown, who had remained in California politics decades after his prior gubernatorial term.

On Wednesday at the Trump Accounts Summit, I witnessed something rare in modern politics: a bold policy vision that places the American family, not bureaucracy or Wall Street, at the center of our nation’s future prosperity. As I walked into the historic Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, famously named after a giant of American industry and our nation’s 49th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, I saw not only high-powered business leaders and philanthropists, but I saw families.

The framers of the Constitution understood political power with a level of sophistication unmatched in their era. In a matter of months, 55 delegates constructed a governing framework that has outlasted monarchies, empires, and ideological revolutions. Nearly 250 years later, the United States remains the most stable and influential republic in the world because the framers designed a system that restrains ambition, divides authority, and prevents any single institution from controlling public life.

Minnesota has always been an odd, progressive political animal – even a little bit loony; the Common Loon is the State Bird – and Leftist Politics have had a home there longer than most realize. The last time the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" actually voted to elect a Republican president was 1972 when Richard Nixon won a 49-state victory. But Republicans are close to taking back power, and a victory there would deliver a huge blow to Democrat power across the country.

For those tracking the chaos in Minnesota, here’s a detail that might shed some light on the brazen lawlessness of its State Officials – like the Attorney General. To qualify to be Attorney General of Minnesota, you must be: 1.) A Qualified Voter, 2.) At least 21, and 3.) A resident of the state for at least 30 days. In Minnesota, you don’t have to be a lawyer — or even know the law — to be Attorney General. That helps explain Keith Ellison.

Well, apparently President Trump has some valid points on Greenland. It sits astride Missile, Drone & Air Transport Routes between North America and Eastern Europe – and Western Russia. Such facts are why worldwide leaders dealing with American presidents since at least FDR have felt duty-bound to cater to each's personal styles (Roosevelt's was condescension, LBJ's domineering) despite personal distastes.

According to Minnesota’s political class—and the federal judge they are hoping will indulge them—federal immigration law is binding except when local officials find it inconvenient, uncomfortable, or politically risky. In those moments, the thinking goes, the state can simply ask a court to restrain Immigration and Customs Enforcement and call it “constitutional balance.” Thankfully, the Trump administration is having none of it.