Posts on Thursday, April 16, 2026

In a little over a year in office, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has achieved a series of military triumphs that have not, perhaps, been equaled since World War II: the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, and the air campaign against Iran’s regime. These missions have been flawlessly executed by Hegseth’s department, so naturally the Democrats want to impeach him. The first articles of impeachment were filed in January by Michigan Congressman Shri Thanedar, but got little attention. A new, expanded set of articles was filed today. You can read the document here. Axios describes the articles here. The impeachment resolution is being introduced by

SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS: The Constitution is the means of government; it is the Declaration that announces the ends of government. The Constitution achieves this purpose by protecting our natural rights and liberties from concentrated power and excessive democracy. Our Constitution creates a separation of powers and federalism—truly for the first time in modern history—to prevent the government from becoming so strong that it threatens our natural rights. Federalist No. 10 proposed the idea that the great threat to our rights comes from majority faction.Human history teaches us, alas, that numerical majorities frequently seek to control government, and use the state to violate the rights of the minority.

WASHINGTON – President Trump claimed Thursday that the US and Iran have a “good” chance of finalizing a peace deal in the coming days after the Islamic Republic agreed to two major demands put forward by the White House — and teased that he may go to Pakistan himself to seal the agreement. “It’s very important that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, and they’ve agreed to that,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a two-day western trip. “Iran’s agreed to that, and they’ve agreed to it very powerfully.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the Court’s most respected and conservative justices, offered a pointed reminder of what he sees as the progressive movement’s true priorities.(snip)"Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government," Justice Thomas said. "It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights."

One of the fundamental tenets of Christianity is that Jesus is the Son of God and that he is the Messiah (or Christ) — God’s chosen deliverer for His people. Jesus’ role as the Messiah fulfilled God’s promises of redemption. “In the Bible, the Messiah is the anointed king through whom God establishes his rule over the world,” explains the Lexham Theological Wordbook. (Snip) There’s apparently still some confusion about Jesus’ Messianic role — that is, if you get your theology from The View. Joy Behar, that brilliant theological mind, said something that was as ignorant as it was blasphemous.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he attended a White House meeting to discuss the growing list of missing or murdered nuclear scientists in the United States who worked on sensitive military and aerospace projects. "I hope it's random," Trump told reporters outside the White House. "We're going to know in the next week and a half. I just left a meeting on that subject." He also said: "Some of them were very important people, and we are going to look at it."

A woke Minnesota district attorney has brought charges of assault against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer for pointing his gun at a driver who recklessly swerved in front of his vehicle in rush hour traffic. And the Minnesota justice system is so egregiously rigged that we cannot have any confidence there will be objective justice in this case. It is a political witch hunt, and whether the ICE agent truly messed up or not, the DA is going after him precisely because he is an ICE agent. Significantly, anti-ICE Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty specifically cited multiple cases in which she hopes to see charges against federal immigration officers,

I know you'll be shocked, but the latest attempted rapist in northern Virginia is another illegal alien. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, who sexually assaulted a local woman while she waited for a rideshare, is a Guatemalan who entered our country as a "gotaway." That means he sneaked across the southern border without getting stopped by border officers. He has at least 25 other criminal charges against him in Arlington County, stretching all the way back to 2020, but apparently, woke authorities decided none of those merited serious prison time or turning him over to ICE.

Step aside, St. Louis, there’s a new, greater, and more beautiful arch coming to town (ok fine, it’s coming to D.C.). White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced that the official plans for President Trump’s Triumphal Arch will be submitted on Thursday. “The United States triumphal arch will be outfitted with beautiful artwork and depictions celebrating the success of the American people over our 250-year history and the enduring triumph of the American spirit,” Leavitt said, calling the project an “architectural masterpiece to celebrate our history.” “Great nations build beautiful structures that cultivate national pride and love of country,

RealClearPolitics has flagged this X post by Jesús Enrique Rosas by including it in its lineup this morning. It is necessary and clarifying. Last week the pope met with former Obama strategist David Axelrod. CBS News reported that the meeting took place this past Thursday. No one said anything about what went down at the meeting. Axelrod’s memoir, by the way, is entitled Believer. The reference is not to religion. The subtitle clarifies the subject: My Forty Years in Politics. Conrad Black notes in his Brussels Signal column this morning that over the weekend, “The CBS television program 60 Minutes, a long time spigot of anti-Trump bile, gathered together three haemophiliac bleeding-heart cardinals,

Since President Trump’s 2020 loss, Florida-based attorney Peter Ticktin, who’s been his friend since both were 15-year-olds at New York Military Academy, has worked on the issue of election fraud.(snip) In addition to his in-depth knowledge about how the Deep State operates, Ticktin is a tough, no-nonsense guy who knows what the nation needs right now to restore trust and confidence between the Department of Justice and the American people. He has an experienced and sharp legal mind, for he’s successfully worked in the trenches for decades.

A Chicago criminal notorious for livestreaming the racist torture of a disabled white teenager has been arrested again. Tesfaye Cooper, 30, who served a seven-year prison sentence for the 2017 on-camera incident, was arrested on April 8 after allegedly chasing down and mugging a cyclist near a train station in the city. He was taken into custody alongside Mazi Pearson, 33, who also had active warrants for failing to appear in court on four pending felony court cases, reports CWB Chicago The two men allegedly chased and robbed the white cyclist when the victim waved at them, which led them to shout that they are 'GDs', or 'Gangster Disciples', police said.

Israel and Lebanon have reached a ceasefire, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Thursday, after Israel’s continued bombing of its neighbor emerged as a major sticking point in the U.S.’s talks with Iran over the broader conflict. “I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel,” Trump wrote. ”These two Leaders have agreed that in order to achieve PEACE between their Countries, they will formally begin a 10 Day CEASEFIRE at 5 P.M. EST.”

A sheriff in Wisconsin is taking legal action against a U.S. citizen who is accused of lying about being in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention for 40 hours. Following a lengthy investigation, Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said officials were suing Sundas Naqvi of Skokie, Illinois, who claimed she was held by federal authorities in Illinois and Wisconsin, Fox News reported Wednesday. In a social media post on Friday, the sheriff’s office said it was refuting the false detention claims and presented a timeline and evidence. “After a thorough review of all available records, evidence, and timelines,

Six so-called “Republicans” voted Wednesday alongside Democrats to advance legislation that would extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants despite the Trump administration’s efforts to end the widely exploited program. Republican Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Carlos Gimenez (Fla.) and Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.) voted alongside Democrats to pass Democrat Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s discharge petition that would extend TPS for Haitians until April of 2029.Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) told Newsweek she voted to extend TPS for Haitians because she thinks of America as an economic opportunity zone.

The Democrat-led Ukraine impeachment effort of 2019 was linked to and a continuation of the Russiagate saga and of the failed effort by special counsel Robert Mueller to unearth criminality by President Donald Trump, newly-declassified documents and testimony indicate. Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and released by Just the News on Sunday were written by investigators for intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who first handled the CIA analyst's complaint. Gabbard also declassified long-secret transcribed interviews from the watchdog, and these, combined with the memos, provide further evidence that the Ukraine impeachment saga was a continuation of the Russiagate saga which had flamed out.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is accustomed to unrelenting personal attacks from the left that began with his nomination to the Court. This week, however, the ad hominem insults came not from cable programs but a colleague. Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law to level a personal dig at Kavanaugh as an out-of-touch elitist. I have long criticized the growing number of public statements by justices on controversial subjects and cases, including Justice Sotomayor. However, this appearance represented a new low in lashing out at a colleague as effectively blinded by his own privilege. In her comments, Sotomayor raised Kavanaugh’s concurrence in

On Monday, we posted an editorial reflecting our most recent I&I/TIPP poll, which found that by a 4-to-1 margin, Americans think their taxes have gone up, despite the seven major tax cuts contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “Our poll findings should be a red flag for President Donald Trump,” we wrote, and went on to say: He needs to do a much better job of telling the public the truth about the tax cuts he signed into law. [snip] Well, Thursday morning, we came across this headline in Newsmax: “Trump to Promote Tax Breaks in Las Vegas.”

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, appears for an interview with Katie Pavlich to outline the importance of bringing all of the information about the Intelligence Community targeting of President Trump to the public. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and We the People want to see accountability for the Machiavellian conduct. The intelligence community targeted President Trump and people within the CIA ran an operation to remove him. These people have names and titles that have remained hidden, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is putting those names, specific names into the public psyche so we can have a full understanding of what took place. Now, for many here this may seem like

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is widely known as a liberal jurist who can reliably be expected to vote with her leftist colleagues, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, on virtually every issue, as the three mostly march in lockstep. Ketanji Brown Jackson, in particular, seems to decide cases based on her own personal opinion, not relying too much on that pesky old Constitution. But now Sotomayor can add a new adjective to her profile: “obnoxious.” The Obama-appointed jurist took the unusual step of making a personal attack on a fellow justice, Brett Kavanaugh, at an appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law on April 7.

It’s no secret that John Cornyn is in grave danger of having the good people of Texas dislodge him from the senatorial sinecure he’s occupied without distinction for four endless terms. He seeks a fifth term for no apparent reason other than he loves having lackeys address him as “Your Senatorness.” And that’s all he does – his opponent, Kenny Paxton, lays waste while John Cornyn lays around. He is, as one might say in the otherwise awesome Lone Star State, as useless as mammaries on a bull. Today, Cornyn is a non-player timeserver; it’s tomorrow that we need to worry about.

Britain’s civilizational collapse bothers me. As much as we Americans enjoy defining ourselves by the whooping our ancestors gave to the Crown, Brits and Yanks share a common language, enjoy similar beliefs, and broadly relate to one another. Rebelling against the British Empire is one thing. Watching foreign peoples conquer what’s left of that empire in another thing altogether. Every day the United Kingdom becomes less united and more likely to collapse upon itself. The U.K.’s media Establishment used popular actor Idris Elba to promote a documentary last year entitled, “Our Knife Crime Crisis.”

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax before turning the gun on himself in their Annandale home, police say Thursday. Officers responded to the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive shortly after midnight. When they arrived, police found a man and a woman dead inside the Annandale home. “Former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, shot and killed his wife inside of their home and then shot and killed himself,” Fairfax Police Chief Kevin Davis told reporters at a briefing. According to Davis, Fairfax shot his wife several times in the basement in the home, killing her. He then ran upstairs to the primary bedroom and killed himself

There’s a MeToo reckoning happening on the Hill, and it’s going to shake up both parties, honestly. For now, Democrats are left taking it on the chin as former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) steps back from public life in disgrace. The California liberal, who was leading in California’s gubernatorial race, saw his career destroyed in less than 72 hours after multiple sexual misconduct and rape allegations derailed his campaign. He withdrew from the governor’s race and later resigned. His resignation came hours after another accuser claimed the former congressman had violently raped her in 2018. This follows a previous allegation by a former staffer in 2019. Former pharmaceutical executive

Homeless services vary greatly in California, as Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Choe revealed for City Journal. They received a tip that the state was providing homeless illegal aliens with access to transgender surgeries. I’m not joking. They visited these encampments, spoke with some of the people there, and discovered that the Golden State has gone off the rails in providing basic needs for them. Many can accept their taxpayer dollars funding homeless shelters for beds, blankets, food, and clothing—but a sex change is something entirely different. This is insane:

We're not sure why CNN tapped David Hogg to appear on a program to discuss Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, but they did. Unfortunately for Hogg, Scott Jennings was also on the panel, and Jennings was ready to teach the Harvard graduate a thing or two about debate and foreign policy. (X) "Anybody with an elementary school understanding of foreign policy could have told you that the Strait of Hormuz was going to get shut down," Hogg said. "That is exactly what happened." "And who controls it right now?" Jennings asked. Instead of answering the question, Hogg deflected. "Why are gas prices so high then?" "Why were they high during Biden's administration?

When West Lake, Ohio police got a call for a welfare check on a 91-year-old grandmother, they feared the worst. Both the family and the authorities tried to call the woman but were unable to reach her. The woman was part of the city's 'Are You Okay?' program, where participants agree to get a daily welfare check call, and she wasn't answering those, either. Police showed up at her house to find her garage partially open and her car in the garage. When they entered the home, however, they found a plot twist they did not expect.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has, since her election as a “moderate” Democrat last fall, quickly proved that she’s neither a moderate nor even remotely intelligent. If she were, she’d never have agreed to sign Virginia onto the left’s unconstitutional scheme to bypass the Electoral College. With Spanberger’s signature this week, Virginia became the 18th state to join the “National Popular Vote Compact.” States that do so agree that, regardless of how their state votes for president, their Electoral College votes will go to the winner of the national popular vote. If states

An influential Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says the bombshell evidence disclosed this week challenging the credibility and bias of a CIA analyst who prompted the Ukraine influence scandal seven years ago is so powerful that it warrants Congress expunging the 2019 impeachment vote against President Donald Trump. "I think it is time that we expunge this impeachment and get rid of it," Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Wednesday night. "...Historically, we need to show that we're going to stand up for the rule of law, for truth and justice. And this was unfairly done to President Trump."

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday referred the 2019 Ukraine impeachment whistleblower against Donald Trump, as well as the former intelligence community inspector general, for criminal investigation by the Justice Department, officials told Just The News. The criminal referrals were sent to the Justice Department just four days after Gabbard declassified intelligence that the CIA analyst who filed against Trump that prompted the impeachment had misled the investigators who first received his whistle-blower complaint and that then-inspector general Michael Atkinson kept evidence of the whistleblowers' bias from the impeachment proceedings.

leading Republican hoping to replace the retiring Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who led an investigation of the House Jan. 6 Committee, ironically has an apparent social media history of criticizing President Donald Trump over the incident. Dr. John Cowan is running for Congress in Georgia’s 11th District, hoping to succeed Loudermilk, who opted against seeking another term. The neurosurgeon's website makes no mention of Trump whatsoever, but campaign materials shared with Just the News have asserted that the district “needs a proven conservative who knows what it means to have a backbone and fight alongside President Trump.”

The Democrat-led Ukraine impeachment effort of 2019 was linked to and a continuation of the Russiagate saga and of the failed effort by special counsel Robert Mueller to unearth criminality by President Donald Trump, newly-declassified documents and testimony indicate. Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and released by Just the News on Sunday were written by investigators for intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who first handled the CIA analyst's complaint. Gabbard also declassified long-secret transcribed interviews from the watchdog, and these, combined with the memos, provide further evidence that the Ukraine impeachment saga was a continuation of the Russiagate saga which had flamed out.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is handing out $500 vouchers to migrants so they can enjoy haircuts, massages and other self-care benefits, despite the city's budget plunging nearly $50 million short. Applicants who are 'low-income, isolated queer and trans migrants, asylum seekers and refugees' are prioritized for the 'wellness allowance.' The initiative, called 'Boston Matters', was created by OUTnewcomers, a nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ migrants in Boston alongside the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement, Mass Daily News reported. Applicants get $250 to $500 toward 'non-clinical care' completely funded by the city agency, which is run by the Democrat's administration.