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By David Manney President Donald Trump has again put Europe on notice. The Pentagon plans to pull 5,000 troops from Germany, and Trump has signaled that deeper cuts could follow.  Germany still hosts major American military hubs, but locations alone don't settle strategy. Troops should sit where they strengthen deterrence, reassure serious allies, and make Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing study their maps with greater care. Poland has made the obvious case; Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Poland wants more U.S. troops, though he added he would rather not weaken European solidarity by simply poaching forces from Germany . Polish President Karol Nawrocki has been more direct, saying Poland is ready to host American troops withdrawn from Germany and pledging to encourage Trump to keep those forces in Europe. Good. Poland sits closer to the danger, spends as if it is a serious NATO ally, and understands Russia with the memory of a nation forced to learn hard lessons without t...

By Nick Arama Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on X on Friday, greeting former President Barack Obama, which drew a lot of attention.  Welcome back to Canada, President @BarackObama . Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us. pic.twitter.com/S2lrJLL5Td — Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) May 9, 2026 Welcome back to Canada, President @BarackObama . Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us. It even had a music track.  That prompted many on social media to wonder what Obama was doing meeting with Carney, since Obama is no longer in government. Carney seemed to be implying they were somehow working on something to "build a better and more just future."  The official reason that Obama was in Canada: to deliver the keynote speech at a think...

By Jennifer Van Laar When the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Friday morning invalidating Virginia's redistricting initiative, my second thought (after excitement for my friends in Virginia) was how disappointed I was that Californians opposed to Gavin Newsom's Election Rigging Act weren't allowed to have their day in court regarding the questionable procedural maneuvers Democrats utilized to gut voter-approved constitutional protections around redistricting. Despite what many claim, California's Proposition 50 hasn't been fully ruled on by the courts, either state or federal. State courts rejected petitions for writ and applications for stay completely out-of-hand, and the federal case is still pending. What was denied was an emergency injunction to block the use of the new maps while the federal suit proceeded. Well, you can thank the Virginia democrats for stepping on a rake...Again🤣 pic.twitter.com/akFdHXibyH — Trackman (@TheeTrackman) May 9, 2026 Few rea...

By Ward Clark With all the trouble in the world, war, pestilence, oppression, poverty, disease, Democrats, it's nice to see something come across once in a while that makes one feel unambiguously good. This is one of those; following the dreadful tornadoes that did so much damage to the great state of Mississippi, one man was picking through the wreckage, and was alerted to the presence of a tiny survivor by an equally tiny meow . As storm chaser Ashton Lemley picked his way through a tornado-ravaged Mississippi trailer park, he heard the unmistakable meow of a kitten pierce the predawn darkness. The homes were flattened just hours earlier as storms spawned at least three tornadoes across the bottom half of Mississippi, injuring a dozen at the trailer park in the rural community of Bogue Chitto. Lemley had no idea where the kitten was, but he was determined to find it. After a few minutes, the meowing stopped, and Lemley feared the worst. Then, five minutes later, he heard it ...

By Greg Norman-Diamond The United Kingdom is deploying its HMS Dragon warship to the Middle East ahead of a possible mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz. A Ministry of Defense spokesperson  told Bloomberg  that “The pre-positioning of HMS Dragon is part of prudent planning that will ensure that the UK is ready, as part of a multinational coalition jointly led by the UK and France, to secure the Strait, when conditions allow." The Royal Navy says the HMS Dragon, a Type 45 air defense destroyer, is "one of the most advanced warships in the world." "HMS Dragon's main role is air defense: providing protection to her fellow ships by detecting, interrogating and neutralizing enemy threats with the fearsome Sea Viper anti-air missile system," it said on its website.  The office of French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday that the country’s only aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, is also heading toward the southern Red Se...

By Bonchie Things have gone from a joyous celebration to an incredibly bleak state on the left in record time. After beginning the mid-decade redistricting battle years ago, Democrats were convinced they had outmaneuvered the GOP response in Texas with the passage of a 10-1 map in Virginia, eliminating four Republican seats in the otherwise purple state.  Obnoxious State Sen. Louise Lucas (D-VA), who was more recently raided by the FBI and is under investigation for corruption, led that fight. Here was a bit of her arrogance. pic.twitter.com/ul9iJO64lO — Mr. E 🇺🇸 (@bigjeepenergy) May 8, 2026 Incredible pic.twitter.com/EhWXLuNwbv — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 8, 2026 At the end of April, though, things began to shift. The Supreme Court handed down a ruling invalidating Louisiana's racially gerrymandered map, which had been drawn after Democrats sued to create a second majority-black district. As has so often been the case, left-wing lawfare backfired big time.  The...

By Ben Smith At least 276 people are under arrest. Nine overseas fraud compounds have been shut down, and federal charges were unsealed in San Diego recently, the result of a coordinated international crackdown on cryptocurrency scam networks that spent years stealing millions from Americans, the Department of Justice announced. These were not opportunists running a side hustle. Prosecutors described the compounds as structured criminal enterprises, complete with recruiters, managers, and layered operational systems, built specifically to target Americans at scale from thousands of miles away, counting on foreign borders to keep them safe. The operation brought together the FBI, Dubai Police, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, and Thailand's Royal Thai Police in what officials called an unprecedented coordination effort. At the center of it were so-called "pig-butchering" scams, a tactic as calculated as the name suggests. Scammers would spend weeks posing as f...

By Alec Schemmel Some of the country's most prominent Catholic colleges and universities are holding separate LGBTQ-affirming graduation ceremonies this spring, including one that also plans to include a drag performance. At least 20 colleges or universities associated with the Catholic Church have held, or plan to hold, these "lavender graduation" ceremonies and celebrations, which are done separate from the main commencement ceremony and are intended to "honor and celebrate the achievements of our LGBTQ+ graduates," according to a Fox News Digital review of university websites and social media posts. The term "lavender" has been used to describe LGBTQ+ affiliations amongst the gay community for decades, but the phrase has also carried a loaded meaning in Catholic circles, where critics have used it in phrases like "lavender mafia" to refer to alleged homosexual networks within Church institutions. The schools that have held, ...

By Nick Arama Iran took an action on Friday that had a lot of people scratching their heads because it didn't make a lot of sense. They announced that they had seized a tanker. “During a special operation, naval commandos of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army detained the violating oil tanker Ocean Koi,” state television reported, saying the vessel was “attempting to disrupt oil exports and the interests of the Iranian nation.” The tanker appears to be managed by a Chinese company, according to a shipping database. Wow, that sounds pretty bold.  Except for one thing. It's a tanker, sanctioned by the U.S., carrying Iranian oil. Tehran said the tanker was "exploiting regional conditions." Their state media said the tanker had been turned over to judicial authorities.  This may be one of the funniest things the Iranians have done so far. So it appears that either they seized a tanker shipping their own oil in the wake of the U.S. attacks on them on Thursday, to appe...

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By Becky Noble Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) — she makes it too easy for us. Just when you think she has no more buffoonery left to give, she does not disappoint. The best part is that she is convinced of how intelligent she sounds. On a recent episode of the  "It's Open with Ilana Glazer"  podcast, once again, AOC delivered. But wait, she says she has sympathy for Trump supporters. pic.twitter.com/9gUTFmRBqJ — DVZ MΞMΞS (@FreedomInc5) May 8, 2026 AOC told podcast host Glazer that "red states" that supported Trump are clearly "oppressed" and "neglected." But New York City? Why it's a model of urban perfectionism. She went on to say that  she feels "sorry" for MAGA voters.  You might think that is a lot of personal growth for AOC, but no. The reason she feels sorry for MAGA voters is that they have come to their political views due to the horrible oppression and neglect that is running rampant in their sta...

By Ward Clark The far left, when you boil their agenda down, always comes down to the same three things: "We want more stuff, less work, and control over everyone else." Oh, they deny that, or at least, the less stupid ones do, in an attempt to deceive. But it's interesting to see what socialists and communists say when the mask comes off. In Minneapolis, we recently had a great example of just that; remember,  more stuff, less work, control . Communist and socialist activists are increasingly joining broader liberal protest movements, where they are promoting a 20-hour workweek, rent caps, seizure of private property and confiscating wealth from billionaires. The proposals, outlined in interviews with Fox News Digital at a recent Minneapolis demonstration, would mark a dramatic shift away from private ownership and free-market principles toward a worker-controlled model if they were ever to come to fruition and would fundamentally change the United States as we know ...