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There Are Warning Signs For The GOP In ’26

Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently shifted 14 points toward Democrats -- a staggering 31-point swing. That race is not an anomaly. Republicans closely tracking special elections from Texas to Mississippi to Georgia are seeing the same troubling pattern: deep-red districts drifting, sometimes sharply, toward Democrats. These are not battlegrounds. They are places Republicans ...

Vogue Magazine Gets Gushing Over Gavin Newsome

Conservatives have complained about media bias for decades. But there is bias and then there is bias. Lots of major media institutions -- the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and many others -- are filled with everyday examples of slanted stories. But some, like the still-popular fashion magazines, are on a different level altogether. Consider the new issue of Vogue and its profile of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The article, by Maya Singer with photos by the renowned celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, begins with Newsom’s final State of the State address. ...

Mr. President, time has come to set Caleb Bailey free

“How can the life of such a man / Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?” — Bob Dylan, “Hurricane” You’ve probably never heard of Caleb Bailey, but he is a political prisoner who has been locked behind bars for nearly eight years; nine more years remain on his sentence. Anyone who has publicly supported Donald Trump should cringe when hearing the facts of his case. In his state of residence, Maryland, violent rapists, armed robbers and kidnappers have received shorter prison sentences. Yet Caleb has never in his life committed a violent act. Not once. So why is he in ...

What’s good for Peter Navarro should be good for Bill Clinton

The walls are closing in —on Bill Clinton. The former president and practiced political escape artist is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress. This time, the Democrat party, which stuck with him during his scandal-plagued 1992 campaign and during his 1998 impeachment, isn’t rallying to him in unison. The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee just voted 34-8 to hold Bill Clinton in contempt for ignoring a congressional subpoena regarding the Epstein scandal, with nine Democrats voting in favor, eight voting against and two abstaining. In other ...

Canada should warm up to Donald Trump’s plans for the arctic

Donald Trump’s Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making. When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in 1492, he intended to find a direct path from Europe to Asia. He didn’t, of course — but the first transatlantic explorer to sail under an English flag, John Cabot, tried again a few years later and became the first modern explorer to reach what is now Canada. The commercial potential of the Northwest Passage was obvious from the start, but even once explorers at last figured out how to thread their way through the Arctic’s ice and islands, there was no ...

Every aspect of Epstein scandal must be probed

Of course, Bill Clinton should cooperate with any investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking of underage girls. The suggestion that Democrats would shield a former president from questions that might tarnish his legacy speaks ill of Democrats. This concerns a criminal enterprise, not bad-boy behavior. Democrats siding with the pursuit of justice should be commended. Nine of them joined Republicans on the House Oversight Committee in voting to hold Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify. Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., then gave Clinton two weeks to ...