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By Jennifer Van Laar As he was leaving the White House for Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump told reporters that he is looking into the circumstances surrounding the death or disappearance of 10 U.S. scientists over the last three years. Almost all of the scientists involved either worked directly for the U.S. government or on government-funded programs related to nuclear energy, aerospace, or UFOs, working at places like Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and California Institute of Technology (Caltech).  Trump was asked by Fox News' Peter Doocy, "Based on what you've been briefed, do you think is happening here, and do you think that this is connected or totally random?" BREAKING: President Trump vows to look into the 10 scientists who have gone missing or turned up dead: "I hope it's random, but we're going to know in the next week and a half." "I just left a meeting on that subject...

By Bob Hoge You can’t help but wonder what goes on in the heads of those idiots who keep trying to breach the White House. The People's House has snipers, dogs, heavily armed agents, and who knows what else, so your chances of ending up dead are high. There have been several invaders who have gotten alarmingly far over the years, however, so maybe they’re thinking, “I could get lucky.” Or maybe they’re just insane and aren’t thinking much at all. On Thursday, we saw yet another attempt, this one by an unknown male who jumped a construction barrier near the White House but was quickly taken down by the Secret Service. One officer suffered a cut and is being evaluated. 🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 🇺🇸 Breaking: Intruder Arrested After Storming Fence at White House A man was arrested by the Secret Service on Thursday after he jumped over a security barrier at the White House complex. Video from the scene shows the moment he crossed the line and got… pic.twitter.com/eNLnyTk3Pg — Corefront...

These men deserve a place with statesmen and generals as America turns 250. By James Grant America’s semiquincentennial would be a sad and grudging affair without a nod to the nation’s founding capitalists. Robert Morris, the “Financier of the Revolution,” donated his own fortune to supply the raggedy and underpaid armies of George Washington. George F. Baker sold the bonds that raised the money that equipped the Union side in the Civil War. Along with the statesmen and the generals and the keepers of the home fires, the moneybags deserve their day in the sun, too. Morris and Baker were rich, bold, indomitable, enterprising, self-made, proficient, cool in a crisis, and incapable of despair. Each was an unshakable optimist on the American future. “While you may make many mistakes,” J.P. Morgan’s father advised his son, “never be a bear on your country or you will surely go broke.” Baker, who heard the story directly from the younger Morgan, was always a bull, too. Morris, who die...

By Robert Spencer Tucker Carlson, theologian, is at it again, giving rise to a new round of questions about what has happened to the man. The former Fox host and patriotic stalwart is now a full-time agitator against Israel and public relations agent for the religion of Islam, and if any religion ever needed a PR makeover, it’s Islam. In his  newsletter  Wednesday, Carlson includes an entry with the curious title “Islam Is the Enemy? Are We Sure About That?” It’s an odd title because there isn’t anyone in either the Trump administration or the Israeli government who is saying “Islam is the enemy.” Certainly there are people who point out Islam’s 1400-year war against any and all non-Muslim entities, and its doctrines calling for warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers, which make it unique among what are called “the world’s great religions.” Up until now, however, Tucker has focused his ire upon the Netanyahu government, which is supposedly exercising Svengalian con...

By Teri Christoph There is a horrible story unfolding Thursday morning in Virginia as news emerges of a murder-suicide at the home of former Democrat Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. Police have yet to publicly name the victims, but we know that a man and a woman inside the home are dead of gunshot wounds, and it was the son of the deceased who apparently called law enforcement to the scene. The details are few at this point, but some media outlets are  reporting  that Fairfax shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself at their home in Annandale, Virginia.  Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife inside their Virginia home and then killed himself, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said. The shooting stemmed from an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding “what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce,” Davis said. News of the incident broke early Thursday on social media, with accounts reporting that Fairfax and his wife, Cerina, were in th...

By Jamie K. Wilson Frequently, wise-sounding aphorisms get misattributed to Albert Einstein. Our favorite genius was genuinely wise in important ways; his later reflections on ethics, pacifism, and the danger of “compromising with the Devil” show real moral depth. But when we think of Einstein, we don’t think, “so wise.” We think, “he was brilliant,” intelligent, "Super Genius. Over and over, quoters upgrade any clever observation by slapping “Einstein” on it because, in today’s world, intelligence carries far more prestige than wisdom. This habit points to a deep cultural problem: we have become dazzled by intellect while undervaluing the slower, quieter virtue of wisdom. We flex IQ scores and credentials online as if that makes one an expert in everything. In politics and media, progressives routinely praise “the smart ones” in government, academics and technocrats whose experience often comes from elite institutions, not the messy realities of ordinary life they are often t...

By Efrat Lachter Péter Magyar has gone from political outsider to Hungary’s most powerful politician almost overnight. The 44-year-old lawyer and former insider in former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ruling party swept to victory in Hungary’s 2026 election, ending Orbán’s 16-year rule and stunning Europe. "Thank you to every Hungarian at home and around the world!" he wrote on X. "It is an immense honor that you have empowered us to form a government with the most votes ever received, and to work for the next four years for a free, European, functioning, and humane Hungary." Here are the key things to know about the man now set to lead Hungary. He grew up admiring Viktor Orbán Magyar was born in 1981 in Budapest, Hungary, into a family of lawyers. He was just nine years old when communism collapsed in Hungary and the country held its first democratic elections. As a child, he idolized Orbán, who at the time was a young anti-Communist activist demandi...

By IAN HANCHETT On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” California gubernatorial candidate former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra (D) said that he thinks “many of us had heard the rumors” about Eric Swalwell, and he had “never seen any corroboration. But, certainly, I think that the word had gone out.” Co-host Pamela Brown said, “So, last hour, Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) said this about the Swalwell allegations. Let’s listen.” She then played video of Liccardo saying, “I first heard about the rumors when Swalwell announced his run for governor in November, and knew some political consultants who talk about what we call oppo. files, these opposition records that political consultants compile, talking about Swalwell’s sexual misconduct. At that time, nobody was talking about rape, as we’re hearing now. It was not sexual assault, but clearly sexual misconduct, abuse of his position. And there’s no question, I think, as Sen. Gallego (D-AZ) said, rumors about that were g...

By Sarah Anderson "We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this," President Donald Trump said on Monday. "This" meaning the conflict in Iran.  If I had a dollar for every time the president said something about what's coming in Cuba over the last three months, I'd have enough cash to buy a plane ticket to Washington, D.C., so I could stand outside the State Department,  hold a boombox over my head , and beg Marco Rubio to give me an interview on the topic. And if I had a dollar for every "anonymous sources" exclusive the MSM put out about what the president plans to do in Cuba, I'd have enough money to fly back home when the State Department inevitably takes out a restraining order. Sigh.  I kid, but those of you who read me regularly know how I feel about anonymous sources, especially when it comes to big stories in the Western Hemisphere. While Cuba is a little sexier, the United States mainstream media spent so much time ignoring L...