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By Matt Margolis When a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey last week, the story that dominated headlines was the infamous Instagram post — specifically, the image of seashells arranged to spell out "86 47," which prosecutors say a reasonable person familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of intent to harm President Donald Trump. On Sunday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sat down with NBC's Kristen Welker on  Meet the Press  and made one thing abundantly clear: the seashells are just the beginning. Welker came in swinging, asking Blanche how an image of seashells could amount to a serious threat against the president's life. "Rest assured that the career assistant United States attorneys in North Carolina, the career FBI agents, the career secret service agents that investigated this case didn't just look at the Instagram post and walk away," Blanche said. "That's why you saw an i...

By Bob Hoge The Democrats are certainly guilty of leading parts of the country down a socialist, “progressive” path that has left many of our cities in ruins. They divide the country with their polarizing, violent rhetoric, and they regularly spit on patriots who think it’s OK to celebrate our country. But they have long had a partner, one that has caused as much if not more damage than they have: the mainstream media, or whatever name you want to call the collection of leftist legacy outlets that for many years dominated the news landscape. (Thanks to conservative outlets like RedState, their dominance is fading, but all too many people still pay attention to the extremist drivel they package as unbiased news.) In case you thought they were changing their ways, just look at this garbage piece thrown up by CBS News on Sunday on what was once their celebrated news magazine, 60 Minutes: After natural disasters, white nationalists, militias, and conspiracists often arrive, offering he...

By Ward Clark The alleged would-be presidential assassin, Cole Allen, is now making his way through the American system of crime and punishment, which sometimes seems to take as long as the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel of the same name. He is appearing in a courtroom presided over by Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, who, on Monday, apologized to the alleged gunman for the unpleasant conditions of being, you know, in jail. Yes, really . On a Fox News report on Monday, Chief White House Correspondent Mike Emanuel had that news. 🚨 JUST IN: Judge Zia Faruqui has just APOLOGIZED to the man who tried killing President Trump in court, Cole Allen Remove this judge NOW! "The judge is concerned about the treatment he's gotten." KUDLOW: "The judge APOLOGIZED to this guy, who would've SPRAYED the whole… pic.twitter.com/jET1zJFxQZ — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 4, 2026 Here's what Mr. Emanuel said to Fox hosts Sandra Smith and Larry Kudlow: "Sandra, good aftern...

By Ward Clark There's an oft-repeated saying, when discussing past and future conflict, that while the Great War was the war of chemists, the Second World War was the war of physicists, that any third world war will be the war of biologists. While that's likely true (and horrifying), any such future conflict will also be a war of computer programmers, with decisions in and around the battlespace made in microseconds by advanced AI. The United States' geopolitical adversaries are looking into advanced AI to help fight future wars, and it's in America's interest to do likewise. We have to understand this new technology to make use of it, and more, how to counter it. To that end, the War Department has inked deals with several major tech firms to look into that very prospect. The Pentagon said Friday that it has reached deals with seven tech companies to use their artificial intelligence in its classified computer networks, allowing the military to tap into  AI-pow...

If you still believe you “own” your car, you’re already behind the eight ball. What you actually own is a permission slip on four wheels. A machine that watches you, evaluates you, and decides, in real time, whether you’re allowed to drive it. Not a police officer. Not a court. Not even common sense. But instead — an algorithm. Every piece of  technology  fails at some point. When it does, you’re stuck explaining to a machine why you deserve to drive your own vehicle. And if that sounds like something ripped out of a dystopian script, it’s because we’ve crossed the line where dystopia gets rebranded as public safety. And our elected officials have voted for it. View to a kill Automakers are already moving toward biometric identification, behavior-based safety systems, and deeper integration with external data sources. The stated goal is reducing drunk driving. The real-world effect is broader: cars that monitor drivers and increasingly act on that data. The trigger for all ...

By Eric Mack The first van loads of beagles left Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin on Friday, beginning an effort to move roughly 1,500 of the 2,000 dogs from the controversial breeding facility into rescues and shelters across the country. FOX6 Milwaukee reported that 300 dogs were removed from the Marshall, Wisconsin, facility Friday, with hundreds more expected to leave over at least the next 10 days. The dogs were screened by veterinarians, vaccinated and given Benadryl to guard against reactions before being transported to animal welfare groups. The release follows a deal between Ridglan Farms, Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy to buy 1,500 of the facility’s roughly 2,000 beagles for an undisclosed price. The dogs are expected to receive medical exams, microchips and vaccinations before being evaluated for adoption, according to The Associated Press. "It’s a very big win and I am ecstatic to have these dogs out and get them into loving homes,"...

By Ward Clark President Donald Trump sure looks like he intends to leave the world a very different place than he found it in January of 2025. From Venezuela to Cuba to the Middle East, he's dropping a lot of opprobrium on countries that aren't friendly to the United States - and making deals with countries that are, or who we want to be, friends of the USA. In the latest such move, President Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has greenlit a massive, $8 billion arms sale to Israel and several Gulf Arab states, citing that the deal is in the  national security interests of the USA . The State Department on Friday approved over $8 billion in arms sales to Persian Gulf countries and Israel, nations that have all been involved in the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran. Purchases approved included an Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) to the  United Arab Emirates  for $147.6 million,  to Israel  for $992.4 million and  to Qatar  for $992.4 m...

By Ben Smith Congress's own watchdog just released a report with findings that deserve far more attention than they have received. The Government Accountability Office (GAO)  reviewed  whether DOGE team members accessed National Labor Relations Board systems during the period they were formally assigned there. The answer, according to auditors who reviewed the actual system logs: no evidence they ever did. In April 2025, NPR  published  a widely circulated report built around a single whistleblower, Daniel Berulis, an NLRB IT staffer. Berulis claimed DOGE operatives had broken into internal systems, disabled security monitoring tools, and potentially moved sensitive labor data out the door. The story landed hard. Democrats demanded investigations. Congressional letters flew. Other outlets picked it up. The narrative took hold. None of it appears to have happened during the period auditors were able to verify. Two DOGE staffers were formally detailed to the N...

By Rusty Weiss The University of Oregon is weaponizing its official emergency alert system against federal law enforcement by adding “ICE presence” notifications to the same UO Alert platform used for active shooters, fires, and/or other imminent life-threatening dangers.  Sanctuary campus radicalism on steroids, folks. Beginning on May 5th, according to the " Daily Emerald ," a student-run news organization at the University of Oregon, students and employees will receive urgent emails and texts whenever immigration enforcement activity is confirmed on campus. The newspaper obtained a university-wide email from Associate Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Jimmy Howard, stating that reports of ICE's presence on campus will be confirmed "within minutes." They are treating the presence of federal law enforcement like  any other risk , as "an imminent threat to health and/or safety to the campus community.” In a sane world, the alert syste...

By JOSHUA KLEIN President  Donald Trump  announced Sunday that the United States will begin what he dubbed “Project Freedom” on Monday to guide and free foreign ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz, warning that any interference with the humanitarian operation “will be dealt with forcefully” as vessels he described as “neutral and innocent bystanders” remain stranded amid the conflict. In a Truth Social post, President Trump said countries “from all over the World” that are not party to the ongoing regional conflict have asked Washington to help free ships “locked up in the Strait of Hormuz,” describing them as “neutral and innocent bystanders.” “For the good of Iran, the Middle East, and the United States, we have told these Countries that we will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways, so that they can freely and ably get on with their business,” he wrote, adding that U.S. representatives have been directed to “use best efforts” to secure the ...