The U.S. Navy is now interdicting vessels tied to Iranian ports, crippling their economy and costing an estimated $435 million dollars per day. It is also ending the special access China had quietly negotiated with Tehran. While Beijing sputters about a “dangerous and irresponsible act,” the move has already sent a crystal-clear message: America controls the chokepoints that matter, and we’re not afraid to use that leverage.

It’s always the people you most suspect… Everyone hates it when bad things happen to good people. In the case of the demise of Eric Swalwell, we’re lucky that isn’t the case. Swalwell is one of the dumbest and worst people to ever serve in the federal government, and I include all bureaucrats. The smug Californian was done in by his arrogance, and that’s worth laughing at. Democrat Eric Swalwell had a reputation for being a scumbag who slept around, cheating on his wife, and getting aggressive with young ladies.

The Left went crazy over President Trump's recent tweet warning that if the Iranian "Regime" didn't cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he'd hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure, and promised that "a whole civilization will die tonight. On Monday, the Democrat & Media Borg was declaring Trump a savage & deranged maniac. But since the Left has called for investigations of War Crimes, by all means let them begin. They'd better be careful what they ask for.

California’s education budget has grown into one of the largest public spending commitments in the United States, yet the relationship between funding and student outcomes remains weak, uneven, and increasingly difficult to defend. Over the past decade, state leaders have treated higher appropriations as a substitute for structural reform. That approach has produced a system where spending expands automatically, while accountability mechanisms remain largely unchanged.

Late last month, a wealthy family with the last name of Ellison inked a deal to acquire Warner Bros.-Discovery – which includes a vast stable of media assets that includes CNN. While Democrats are quaking in their boots and are right to be scared, American TV viewers are about to witness the possible dismantling of a system that has for decades lied to them every day. CNN will likely be under new management – the egregious, self-righteous, liberal media distortions will be on their way out.

It’s a question for the ages: Is there a bottom the Democrat Party leadership can hit that will cause their supporters to wake up? Apparently there's no bottom, and anything can be justified. No matter how many times you're certain they can’t do something more corrupt, sleazier, more hateful or idiotic, they find a way to exceed what anyone thought possible. Democrat Party voters, the fact is, are being played.

The U.S. Supreme Court is finally about to rule on an issue that should have been decided long ago: the practice of accepting ballots after the "Election Day" deadline. So far, the Court's majority looks more inclined to bring the much-needed order and common sense back to our nation's elections – and in fact, the case could shift the 2026 Mid-Terms in Republicans’ favor. Democrats often win by broad, unjustified election expansions, which opens the doors to cheating.

Donald Trump’s comments about the war are all over the map. To his detractors, that looks like flailing inconstancy. Among his supporters, it’s brilliant strategic ambiguity. But most acknowledge that Trump appears to be suing for peace even as Iran continues to throttle maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, increasing global commodities prices and putting immense pressure on the U.S. and Israel to wrap this up soon — even, perhaps, short of their objectives.

If you want to understand what’s really happening in Iran right now, don’t listen to the spin. Watch the behavior. Watch who’s being expelled. Watch who’s being deployed. Watch who’s suddenly willing to talk. Because when you line up the facts—not the narratives—you see something unmistakable: This isn’t a stalemate. This is a regime in collapse. According to U.S. leadership, Iran’s military—long hyped as a regional powerhouse—has been dismantled at a pace that even seasoned observers didn’t expect.

For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on healthcare? The answer has been pretty much the same over this whole period. Voters trust Democrats more, sometimes by a two-to-one margin. Well, the GOP certainly better start "doing healthcare," because the issue of medical care access and affordability is front and center for American families.

One of the first things I do every morning, even before I get out of bed, is check the news to discover if something good happened while I was asleep. I rarely find any such news. Just about all that is reported is crime, war, hatred, Democrats, Washington, D.C., California, New York City, the Middle East, Congress, China, Trump is Hitler, transgenderism, promiscuity and decadence, ad nauseam, ad infinitum. Every time I see a picture of Gavin Newsom, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, or Chuck Schumer, I want to puke.

By the end of his second term, we’ll either be wishing President Trump had never tried to change the world, or we’ll be carving his likeness on Mount Rushmore. But if he can do it – and Trump is a very different type of president from anyone who’s come before – and wants to build some hotels in Gaza, Tehran & Havana, I’m all for it. The history-bending initiatives he’s taking on are not only unprecedented, but could make life far better for the rest of us.

If New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work a lifetime for – including their homes, their businesses or farms, and their savings – could be stripped away on their deathbeds. No more Empire State; he'd make it the Expropriation State. Only one thing in life is certain: We all die. Mamdani is exploiting that certainty to close what he claims is a $5.4 billion city budget gap.

The duty of statesmen is not to follow public opinion, but to lead it. In moments of crisis, leaders are not called to read the polls — they are called to rise above them. And that is exactly what President Donald Trump has done to this point in the war with Iran. When asked about public polling — where most surveys show a majority opposing the war — Trump responded, “I don’t care about polling.”

A new poll confirms it: President Trump is right about the importance of the SAVE America Act, an election integrity bill awaiting action in the Senate. It shows that election integrity is a bipartisan issue, with overwhelming majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents wanting to require proof of citizenship to vote. This legislation would require that a voter present documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and would require a photo ID to cast a ballot.

It's not just California and New York. Blue states all across the nation are committing political & economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this misguided, ideologically driven push to "punish" the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor, of course. Leftist Democrats calling for states to "tax the rich" are ignoring the fact that the rich can exit their state – taking jobs, tax revenue, and the right to Congressional Seats with them.

Senate Republicans have been encouraging President Trump to endorse Senator John Cornyn in an upcoming Primary Run-Off Race – and the President has upped the stakes in his endorsement tease by adding that the candidate he declines to endorse should exit the race. Cornyn's opponent, Ken Paxton, at first promised to withdraw only if the Senate passed the "SAVE Act" – which he know is unlikely to happen – and then he withdrew his offer to withdraw.

Democrats have had trouble in recent years attracting conservative evangelical voters, who mostly vote for Republicans. In 2000, former Vice President Al Gore gave it a try. He failed badly when he said the first instance of pollution in the Bible is when "Abel's blood cried out from the ground" after his brother Cain murdered him. Gore said this meant Abel's blood had "defiled" or "polluted" the ground, rendering it incapable of yielding crops. Not exactly.

State Senator James Talarico beat out Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett for the party’s nomination Tuesday by a healthy, though not embarrassing, margin. Under normal circumstances, with normal people, this would just be an election where one candidate won and the other lost. But we are dealing with Democrats here, and they are anything but normal people, and that makes for abnormal circumstances.

Most students of history have likely pondered the question: Is it the times that make the man, or is it the man that makes the times? Rarest of all is the man who is summoned and elevated by the times, and also has the courage and conviction to shape the times in return. It is the lattermost group who are the truly great men of history. Tehran's "death to America" chants since 1979 have been daily, and its anti-American atrocities legion. With "Operation Epic Fury," President Trump isn't starting a new forever war — he's ending one.