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President Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 election, and Saturday night he was whisked away again from another lethal threat when a heavily armed gunman briefly breached a security checkpoint at one of Washington's most famous black-tie galas and exchanged gunfire before being subdued by the Secret Service. But Trump would not recoil. First he wanted to return to the White House Correspondents' Dinner before it was canceled, hoping to send a signal to a nation gripped by political vitriol and shaken by recent assassinations — from Charlie Kirk to Minnesota legislators – that “sick people” cannot “change the fabric” of the United States.

That description comes from Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist, and relates to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which was just indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama. The SPLC formed years ago to seek damages for KKK victims. Over the years it amassed a fortune and used it and its connections with the media and the Democrats unfairly to tar and ruin the livelihoods and reputations of individuals and organizations with which it disagreed -- including groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education. The switch proved immensely profitable.

It's pretty safe to say at this point that Democrats want as many illegal immigrants to enter the country as possible because they believe they will eventually become loyal Democrat voters. So it's no surprise that they have complete disdain for agencies like Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who are trying to remove those potential Democrat voters. And as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demonstrated, they don't care who knows it. According to Breitbart Texas, during a late-night Senate debate on funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ending the partial government shutdown that, yes, is still going on, Schumer said this:

America's insurance system is broken — and patients are rightfully frustrated. But Democrats are exploiting that frustration to push for a cure that would be worse than the disease: socialized medicine. U.S. Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) recently suggested that the solution to America's insurance woes is to simply "allow everyone to buy into Medicare."What this conveniently ignores is that Democrats' years-long push for socialized health care created the mess we're in today. Democrats shoved the Affordable Care Act through Congress and expanded it into a vast system of healthcare subsidies.

A few years ago, I was eating breakfast in a DC hotel listening to two men talk about their schedule for the day. Their business was decorating homes for Christmas, and they were discussing their heavy workload. As I listened quietly the men were describing premium rates for DC families who wanted their decorating services completed fastest. The average rate was $15,000 per residence for 30-day interior holiday decorating, and the rates went up from there. They were overwhelmed with business calls. I sat there stunned doing spit-takes with my coffee while thinking, “holy cow, who has that kind of money to blow, just renting Holiday decorations?”

The narratives often suggest that the US campaign has failed and that Tehran remains firmly in control. In reality, however, US President Donald J. Trump has pursued a strategy that departs radically from decades of precedent — one that has left the Iranian regime cornered in ways not previously seen. Rather than adhering to the usual norms of the international system, Trump redefined them — combining military force, economic coercion, serious deadlines and diplomatic "off-ramps" in rapid succession — denying Iran the ability to settle into its familiar pattern of adaptation and delay.

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is edging out his potential Democrat challengers in the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial race, an Echelon Insights survey reveals. The survey put Trump-endorsed Donalds against former Democrat David Jolly – a Republican turned Democrat. Donalds leads Jolly by six points, garnering 49 percent support to Jolly’s 43 percent support. The survey also put Donalds against Democrat Mayor of Orange County, Florida, Jerry Demings. In that scenario, Donalds leads by four points – 48 percent to Demings’ 44 percent support. “Byron Donalds is the only candidate in this race who can defeat any Democrat, unite Republicans, and defend the Florida Dream for our families, seniors, and young people,”

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed Texas its third win Friday on border security. As the border crisis escalated during the Biden administration, Gov. Greg Abbott took a series of measures to implement border security efforts, including building and expanding concertina wire barriers, building a border wall and installing marine barriers in the Rio Grande River, all on Texas soil. He also signed several border security bills into law, including SB 4. Border barriers were implemented through Abbott’s border security initiative, Operation Lone Star. In response, the Biden administration and private groups sued.

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday that the upcoming talks between their government and the United States will be facilitated by Pakistan and therefore, they will not have direct peace negotiations with the Trump administration. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff are expected to head to Islamabad, Pakistan, this weekend for the next round of peace talks at Iran's request. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet with Pakistani officials as part of its efforts to end the "American imposed war of aggression and the restitution of peace in our region."

The Trump administration is continuing to crack down on fraudulent visa schemes that are occurring nationwide. In New Jersey, a Korean man pleaded guilty to fraudulently using a B-1/B-2 visa program in a forced labor and charity fraud scheme. The visas are for business or tourism and prohibit visa holders from working in the U.S. In this case, Hyung Ki Kim and coconspirators were involved in a 13-year conspiracy to bring South Koreans to the U.S. through “fraudulently obtained visas as part of an unlawful work scheme,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.

Athletes betting for or against themselves and their teammates is something that's been going on for decades. We regularly see insider trading in the finance, corporate, and political worlds. But active duty military members betting via prediction markets on matters of national security is kind of new. In 2025, the prediction marketplace Polymarket began allowing people to enter "binary event contracts related to whether certain events involving Venezuela and/or [Nicolás] Maduro would, or would not, occur," according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). A 38-year-old from Fayetteville, N.C. named Gannon Ken Van Dyke won almost $410,000 on all of these Maduro- and Venezuela-related bets. The problem?

My deep-seated loathing of the United States Department of Education and all that it has wrought is well known to people who have been reading my stuff for a long time. I've been writing about school choice for a couple of decades now. On the most recent episode of "Faith All Over the Place," I told my friends Chris Queen and Ashley McCully something to the effect of, "I can blame most of the societal ills that plague America on federal involvement in public education." (Side note: for the precise quote, please listen to the podcast! It's always all-access.)