Posts on Friday, July 3, 2026

There are a couple of more intense columns that I had planned on writing, but now that we are this close to the big America 250 party I'm overwhelmed by the mood to churn out "Yay USA!" content. I am forever grateful that I write for a company and an audience that's perfectly OK with that. Let's clear up the headline first. People who read everything literally are going to struggle with it, of course. I'm obviously alluding to the lack of air conditioning back in the Old World.

We reported earlier on how the hotly contested Senate race between Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and her Democrat opponent, Bernie Sanders-backed Graham Platner, had tightened up significantly in recent weeks, with fresh polling numbers out on Thursday showing Collins taking a three-point lead over Platner for the first time. Another poll released this week, which had Platner up by two, also contained some big warning signs for his campaign, indicating his extensive baggage is starting to catch up with him to the point that it has cost him support - even among voters who say Democrats winning back the Senate is a top priority.

The weather might not be the only thing heating up this week. As America heads into Independence Day and the nation's 250th birthday, the country has plenty to celebrate. The United States, alongside Canada and Mexico, is hosting the biggest sporting event in the world, the World Cup. The U.S. Men's National Team advanced to the Round of 16 Wednesday night with a 2-0 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina and now faces Belgium in a highly anticipated rematch of their 2014 World Cup showdown. FIFA projects the tournament will generate billions of dollars in economic activity and support roughly 180,000 jobs. As Just the News reported last month,

50,187-acre wildfire in Colorado has been declared the nation's No. 1 firefighting priority. Spanning Pueblo and Custer counties, the Aspen Acres Fire is expected to cost $15 million of taxpayer's money to fight, according to an estimate from The National Interagency Fire Center. But the final cost will be determined by a wide range of factors, including which resources are used to fight the fire. “Colorado was moved to No. 1 as priorities for the entire Western United States, and the Aspen Acres fire was moved to the No. 1 priority [for the entire nation],” Mike Morgan,

As New York baked under another summer heat wave, parts of the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx, home to a large Jewish community, lost power after Con Edison shut off electricity to protect its equipment. Con Edison announced the outages Thursday, saying it temporarily cut power to some customers in Riverdale to reduce strain on the electrical grid and speed up service restoration. The utility directed affected residents to report outages and seek relief at city cooling centers. The outages left parts of Riverdale sweating without air conditioning during a dangerous citywide heat wave. The timing also puts intense pressure on Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that “I would never pretend to say anything good about any of this new crop of people that are coming into the Congress.” And Democratic leadership needs to “police our own ranks right now and say, look, this is not a big tent kind of situation. These are people that have intensely extreme, anti-American kinds of views.” Fetterman said, “I don’t know why we have other Democrats — even people that are calling for their jobs in leadership, saying, you’re next, you’re next —

Hey. Remember that chirpy video the commie mayor of New York City dropped on Tax Day this year? Well, he got what he wanted on those ritzy second homes for the folks who can afford them. Again, these have already had both humongous real estate taxes paid when they bought them, not to mention (what any sane person would consider) the crippling annual city and state property taxes commensurate with places of stratospheric value. That wasn't enough for the commie the city elected, though. And after the mayor personally targeted Citadel founder Ken Griffin's place as Example Number One of the rapacious filthy rich

There was a time, back when I was young and virile, and the girls flocked to be seen with me, when the DSA went to great lengths to distinguish themselves from and even keep out the communists. Their vision was more akin to implementing 1970s Nordic social democracy, with a mixed economy, a generous-to-a-fault welfare state, and strict limits on income inequality. It was a very flawed vision, but it was distinguishable from communism. "The DSA’s posture toward terrorism, which ranged from equivocation to outright support, drove away many of the organization’s remaining advocates of liberal democracy. Two dozen prominent old-line members announced their resignation the next month,

The FBI had a mole inside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political orbit before the agency’s corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, The Post has learned. Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom’s then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May, according to Williamson’s attorney. The revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024 explains why a swath of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall informing them that their phone calls had been intercepted during the investigation