On Oct. 31, 2014, William Burns was hours away from retiring as former president Barack Obama’s deputy secretary of state. Before walking “out the door of State Department for last time,” as Burns put it, he emailed a confidant to discuss his interest “in consulting or advisory arrangements”…
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Anti-Israel Group That Stormed University of Minnesota Building Now Leads Illegal Anti-ICE Agitation
A University of Minnesota student group has emerged as a leader behind illegal—and sometimes violent—anti-ICE agitation gripping Minneapolis. It’s a significant shift for the school’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter, which roughly one year ago stormed a campus building in an anti-Israel raid, trapping employees inside and…
Wes Moore Says the KKK Chased His Great-Grandfather Out of South Carolina. Historical Records Tell a Different Story.
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—Maryland governor Wes Moore, who is widely expected to seek the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, has a powerful family story of racial injustice that he repeatedly tells during public speeches: His grandfather, as a small boy, fled 1920s Charleston with his family in the dead of…
‘Climate Change’ Was Supposed to Make DC Winters ‘More Southern’—And It’s Colder Than It’s Been in Three Decades
Mainstream media outlets have long reported that climate change would bring “mild-ish” winters to Washington, D.C., that are “more like the South” than the Mid-Atlantic. Then D.C. experienced its longest cold streak in more than three decades. Temperatures in the district remained below freezing for a nine-day period…
‘I Have Little Talent But Lots of Passion’: New Mamdani Appointee Called for Defunding Police in Since-Deleted Posts on X
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) new director of appointments—who says she has “little talent but lots of passion”—supported the Defund the Police movement on an X account she has since deleted, a Washington Free Beacon review of thousands of scrubbed posts found. Stephanie Silkowski, whom the…
Drama Erupts in Texas Senate Primary as Crockett Opponent Slammed for Racist Attack on Black Men
The Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas is finally starting to heat up. James Talarico, the baby-faced state lawmaker running against congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, has been slammed as a racist for allegedly dissing former congressman Colin Allred (D., Texas) as a “mediocre black man.” Allred, who withdrew…
Democrat Stacey Plaskett Called Epstein Her ‘Friend,’ Gave Disgraced Pedophile Exclusive Information About Her Legislative Work: Text Messages
U.S. Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett (D.) called Jeffrey Epstein her “friend” in newly released text messages and provided the sex offender with exclusive non-public details about her legislative work, directly contradicting Plaskett’s claims about her relationship with Epstein. In a Sept. 24, 2018, text message, Plaskett thanked Epstein,…
Colorado Dem Seeking Swing Seat in Ranching District Spent Years Calling Animal Agriculture ‘Horrific’
When Manny Rutinel, a Democrat running in a swing district in Colorado, was a University of Florida student, he stripped his shirt and donned a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sign to promote veganism. “In order to go green, you have to eat green,” he told…
Trump States Gaining Population As High-Tax States Lose People, New Census Data Show
Low-tax, Republican-leaning states are gaining people, while higher-tax, Democrat-leaning states are losing them, according to new domestic migration data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Source: Unleash Prosperity analysis of U.S. Census data. Unleash Prosperity, a pro-growth advocacy group that parsed the data, listed North Carolina,…
Mamdani Voter Ezra Klein Tries, Fails To Achieve Solidarity With Student Activists Who Called Him a ‘Zionist Pig’
Ezra Klein. Bless his heart, the poor guy. Earlier this week, the New York Times columnist and Democratic Party thought leader tried to express solidarity with pro-Hamas activists who disrupted his event at Sarah Lawrence—a mid-to-bottom-tier liberal arts college in New York. He was not successful. In a…