Posts on Thursday, June 25, 2026

Victor Davis Hanson is, without a doubt, one of the bigger names in conservative commentary. He's been doing it for a long time and, as both an academic and a commentator, he is able to bring something to the table that many of us simply can't. Because he's on the right, it's easy to simply assume that he supports gun rights. In this case, you'd be correct, though that's not the given that many assume. Still, like many people, Hanson valued gun rights as more of an abstract for some time before something made it personal.

Although neither of them intended it, two recent news reports combined to make the case that federal fuel economy standards are killing people. And neither article mentions that President Donald Trump has a plan that will save lives. The New York Times this week featured an article looking at the rise in pedestrian deaths, which had been trending downward for decades, but then steadily turned upward after 2009. “While speeding and poorly designed infrastructure have helped fuel the increase, many safety advocates have also drawn a connection to the growing portion of the U.S.

An elderly woman was killed and another man was injured after a rogue Tesla in Autopilot mode crashed into a home in Texas on Friday night, local officials say. According to a press release from the Harris County Sheriff's Department, Michael Butler was traveling eastbound down a residential street in Katy in a Tesla Model 3. Butler said that he was using the car's Autopilot mode at the time of the crash. The sheriff's department said that Butler failed to drive in a single lane, left the roadway and crashed through the side of a house. Ring doorbell footage of the crash shows the vehicle crashing into the home at a high

DALLAS - Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors at the Christian camp for girls along the Guadalupe River in Texas. Camp Mystic has been under increasing pressure since the July 4 disaster. Owners had planned to reopen the Texas Hill Country camp this summer for its 100th anniversary but reversed course in April amid outrage from victims’ families and lawmakers. Victims’ families filed lawsuits accusing the camp of failing to protect the girls as the powerful floodwaters approached. Camp Mystic’s owner, Richard Eastland

More than a dozen travelers were banned from sailing with Carnival Cruise Line after fighting at the port in Miami. The altercation took place in the Customs and Border Protection debarkation area, according to the company. The June 22 fight occurred between two families and police responded, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office (MDSO) said. “The incident was deemed a mutual combatant incident,” MDSO told USA TODAY in an email. Police documented the fight, but the parties declined to press charges. “We are appreciative of law enforcement’s swift response and handling of the matter,” Carnival said in an emailed statement. “We do not tolerate such behavior, and 16 people have been placed

Since Islam’s arrival upon the world stage 1,400 years ago, when an illiterate Arab by the name of Mohammad, born in Mecca, claimed to be a messenger sent by God (whom he called “Allah”) to spread Allah’s word, approximately 270 million human beings have been slaughtered in Islam’s and Allah’s name, according to the Center for the Study of Political Islam. (Approximately 120 million Africans, 80 million Hindus, 60 million Christians, and 10 million Buddhists.) Until fairly recently, Westerners were unfamiliar with Islam or its practitioners. However, since Congress enacted America’s Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, our doors have been flung wide open to a Third World, non-Western population whose

Left-wing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico says he opposes defunding the police and has a "proven track record" of supporting law enforcement. Perhaps that is true now, but in 2022, he called to slash police and prison budgets and redirect the money to social programs, a move he argued would "make prisons obsolete," video footage shows. Talarico's remarks came during a 2022 speech he delivered to a group of Texas inmates graduating from a high school diploma program. After approvingly quoting the prominent prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore—Talarico described her as an "anti-prison activist" who said "prisons are a catchall solution to our social problems"

I'll take a wild guess and say ... the Democratic Socialists of America? Obviously, but they're not alone. Give Politico some credit in this report from the House GOP confab this morning. The word pounce never appears. And readers have to get to the penultimate paragraph before seeing the word seized. Otherwise, we all know what Politico wants to say in this reaction from The Morning After, when Democrat establishmentarians more or less find themselves on the ceiling of the ballroom of the Poseidon after the tsunami. Republicans may not be pouncing yet, but they're coiling themselves in anticipation of the messaging bonanza to come: Inside a closed-door House GOP meeting

Brits visiting the United States for the first time for the 2026 World Cup are apologizing to Americans on social media. “We owe America a huge apology,” one fan from England said. Foreign World Cup fans have been traveling to various towns across the country this month to watch games, allowing them to get a glimpse of life in the United States, and some have taken to social media to admit they have been pleasantly surprised. “We owe America a huge apology, because America is nothing like the media tells us. Everyone is so friendly, everyone is so accommodating, and I’ve honestly had the best time,”

An Indiana University professor who presented the slogan "Make America Great Again" as a form of white supremacy that is "worse than police killing people of color" is no longer employed at the institution. In a graduate-level course, "Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice," instructor Jessica Adams showed a pyramid graphic listing statements and actions that she called overt forms of white supremacy, which included lynching and racial slurs. Alongside these acts was a list of what Adams calls covert white supremacy, which includes the Trump campaign slogan "Make America Great Again"

Second Lady Usha Vance took to social media Wednesday afternoon to have some fun at the expense of the New York Times, which had just published an absurd article in which the author vigorously clutched her pearls over the recent MAGA baby boom. Egads, wrote Vanessa Friedman (who is apparently the paper's chief fashion critic), not only is Vance enjoying her pregnancy, she's flaunting it for all to see! To which Mrs. Vance basically replied, "Oh well." Friedman's premise seemed to be that the second lady – along with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, wife of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller,

RNC (Republican National Committee) Chairman Joe Gruters was making the media rounds after Tuesday's New York primary, pointing out that Republicans are not only on offense for the midterms, but have a good chance to hold and flip even more seats in the Empire State — especially after the Mamdani/Democrat Socialist takeover on Tuesday night. Gruters dubbed the New York Democrat socialist slate accurately: "leftwing wackadoos who only a mother could love." But that doesn't mean he is taking any chances on New York. The RNC has a war chest of $123.8 million cash on hand, which means they have money to play with. Like epically trolling

President Donald Trump's meeting with Senate Republicans might have been meant to find a way to pass voter ID and citizenship verification legislation, but it devolved into a tense shouting match over the war in Iran. Tensions among Senate Republicans were already simmering with Trump over his last-minute decision to nuke the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan housing package filled with his priorities that the GOP viewed as an easy win to sell to voters in the upcoming midterm elections. Trump described the closed-door affair in a positive light afterward. "I think we had a really great meeting, and we're very proud of the party,"

CARACAS, Venezuela — Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, causing widespread damage, collapsing buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets. The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes roiled the region, with buildings evacuated in cities as far away as Brazil’s Amazon, about 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles) from Caracas. In a brief address to the nation late Wednesday, acting President Delcy Rodríguez said the earthquakes caused damages in several states, but she did not give any figures on the number of homes and buildings affected, or on injuries or fatalities. The earthquakes damaged the country’s main airport, Simón Bolívar International Airport, severely