Thursday, November 13, 2025
The “Schumer Shutdown” is effectively over, just in time for us to clean up the airport mess get the food that SNAP recipients. This epic failure of the record-setting shutdown of the federal government is carved in political stone for as long as Schumer will be remembered.
The Congressional Democrats looked and acted like children throughout this record-setting escapade.
The biggest loser?—after the people actually hurt or at least inconvenienced by this stunt? That would be the Democratic “leader” in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and by a lot.
His strategy from the start was to head off a primary challenge in 2028 from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and that’s it.
Schumer put everyone through this business because he thought it might help his chances of spending another six years in elected office, something he has been doing since 1975. Schumer has been on the taxpayer’s payroll for over 50 years already.
The collapse of his costly “Schumer Shutdown” stunt will trail Schumer for the rest of his career—a career that may well be shorter as a result of this gambit.
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Thursday, November 13, 2025
President Trump’s tariff strategy is not merely an economic and trade whim; it is a crucial and lawful defense against existential threats that require presidential action. In a world where adversaries use trade to undermine America's security, the commander-in-chief must possess the authority to declare emergencies and implement tariffs as strategic measures for national survival.
Critics argue this is overreach, but both the Constitution and Congress empower him to act decisively, as statutes like Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act layout.
Consider the stakes: Annually, trade deficits exceed $1 trillion, particularly with China. These are not just benign figures; they represent “unusual and extraordinary” vulnerabilities that weaken U.S. manufacturing, compromise military readiness, and contribute to the fentanyl crisis, which claims over 100,000 American lives each year.
We face existential emergencies. Tariffs are needed to save and secure the republic.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
About Zohran Mamdani’s election, a few thoughts: Listening to his supporters and statements, there is no question as to Marxist loyalty. And, as DSA Founder Michael Harrington wrote, Karl Marx is “a democratic socialist in the most profound sense of the phrase.”
Neither should we be fooled by the DSA’s use of the word “Democratic.” China, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela all claim to be Democratic Socialist republics in their constitutions, so did the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR), in its day. About which: one popular supporter of Mamdani’s, with millions of social media followers, said on election night in New York: he wished the USSR, not the U.S., had won the Cold War.
Fourth, the Democratic party is welcoming of all this into its ranks, with prominent members endorsing it, hardly any denouncing it.
It’s time for all America to take Marxism seriously. After all, the youth movement behind Mamdani, Mamdani himself, and seemingly the bulk of the Democratic party, do.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
What did Senate Democrats get out of the 40-day Schumer Shutdown?
Nothing more than what they would have gotten with the clean continuing resolution.
Democrats didn’t get anything they wanted. They didn’t even get a pass on the filibuster for the debate on ACA subsidies, let alone a commitment for an extension. Schumer’s demand for a reversal of the Medicaid changes in the reconciliation bill got completely rejected.
The only real concession in this deal from the GOP is a pledge to rescind OMD Director Russ Vought’s layoffs. But those only took place because Schumer shut the government down first.
How bad was this collapse? Not one Democrat can explain what this shutdown accomplished – other than derailing air travel, federal paychecks, and aid to poor families.
The Schumer Shutdown has been an utter clown show. The progressive Left that demanded a fight against Donald Trump over nothing at all will figure it out sooner or later. Bet on sooner.
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Monday, November 10, 2025
After Tuesday night’s “thumping”— President Donald Trump has some big decisions to make.
Tuesday was not a realignment. The simple reality is three blue states got bluer.
What matters most and immediately right now in politics is redistricting of Congressional maps in red states that can do it. Republicans should not be shy about doing so.
Trump has the unique ability to pull voters off their couches and to the polls.
It's going to be a fun year in politics, and the Democrats’ hangover this week and next and next year is Comrade Mamdani, the new face of their party as he takes the reins in NYC. His nonsense economics don’t work. That reality, plus the prospect of Trump-on-the-trail, should encourage GOP voters who might be a little down in the dumps.
Like baseball, the four-year cycle in American politics is a very long season. A blow-out on one night says very little about the election nights ahead in 2026 and 2028.
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Friday, November 7, 2025
It's the end of an era in American politics. Vice President Dick Cheney spent five decades as a leader in our country – as a member of the House, an official in three different administrations.
Cheney reinvented the office of Vice President, with the support of President George W. Bush. He acted as a master strategist for the war on terror, promoted the effort to export liberty as a forward defense strategy, and helped ensure that the US did not suffer another devastating attack in the years after 9/11.
Cheney charted his own course, and became a lightning rod for criticism, from both the Left and the Right. No man serves his country for as long as he did without attracting critics and opponents. We have plenty of time to assess his legacy.
However, we should remember and celebrate the many years that Cheney devoted to our nation and his tireless work on our behalf. Rest in peace, Mr. Vice President, and thank you.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
The images from Nigeria are heartbreaking. Women and children are being slaughtered, babies murdered, and Christian communities destroyed. It’s almost too horrific to comprehend.
So it was both important and welcome when President Trump designated Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern.” The U.S. is calling out the atrocities being committed against Christians just for living out their faith.
The CPC designation matters. It pressures Nigeria’s government to act — and signals that America is watching. So do warnings there will be consequences if persecution continues.
Since Nigeria’s current president took office in 2023, more than ten thousand people have been killed.
And yet the United Nations — and the loud voices on “human rights” in Gaza — stay silent.
Kudos to the Trump administration for supporting African Christians.
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