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By Bob Hoge Rep. Andy Ogles (TN-05) took to X Thursday to debut his ASSIMILATION Act, which is aimed at curbing the abuses of our immigration system and pushing for newcomers to the country to integrate into American society. The goal, he said, is simple: to “end replacement migration and ensure American cultural cohesion.” Excited to announce that my 83-page ASSIMILATION Act has been introduced. Months of labor were undertaken by my staff, @SenTuberville and myself in order to GUT the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, as well as scrap provisions of the Immigration Act of the 1990s. The goal of this bill… pic.twitter.com/Kq5CvB1MIe — Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) May 14, 2026 Excited to announce that my 83-page ASSIMILATION Act has been introduced. Months of labor were undertaken by my staff, @SenTuberville and myself in order to GUT the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, as well as scrap provisions of the Immigration Act of the 1990s. The goal of this bill is simple: end replacement migration and ...

By Ward Clark Those of us who support the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms, as confirmed in the Second Amendment, are used to seeing some pretty dumb takes from the other side. One of the dumbest in recent history, the 1994 "assault weapons" ban, even put bayonet lugs on the list of proscribed features, because, presumably, of all the massed bayonet attacks carried out by criminal gangs. But now and then, something comes along that sets a new low for even the dumbest of dumb takes; this time, it's a video from the Associated Press, clutching pearls about how black-powder guns, like those used in the Revolutionary War, aren't regulated like modern guns . I'm getting really, really tired of these infringements... Whenever the Left is ready, let's get it on... pic.twitter.com/EIrtB3Lwjp — Trackman (@TheeTrackman) May 14, 2026 The post reads: A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second. Imagine what that can...

KEVIN WARSH is sworn in to testify during his April 21 Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs confirmation hearing. (Getty) By Bryan Mena Kevin Warsh was narrowly confirmed Wednesday by the Senate to serve as the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve, inheriting a central bank that has long been under political siege from President Donald Trump and an economy rattled by geopolitical tensions that are driving inflation higher. Warsh will formally succeed Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whose eight-year tenure was marked by several economic crises and a heated clash with the White House to defend the US central bank’s political independence. Warsh was confirmed in a 54-45 vote, mostly split along party lines, with only Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania crossing the aisle to vote in favor of Warsh’s nomination. It was the most partisan vote for a Fed chair nominee in history, underscoring the unease among Democrats with Trump’s fight against the Fed, though Repub...

By JOHN NOLTE The Israeli government announced it is preparing to sue the far-left  New York Times  for defamation. “Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper,” wrote the Israel Foreign Ministry  wrote  on X,  “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.” Prime Minister Netanyahu later released his own  statement  on X: Today I instructed my legal advisers to consider the harshest legal action against The New York Times and Nicholas Kristof. They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers. Under my leadership, Israel will not be silent. We will fight...

By Nick Arama The Chinese are certainly pulling out all the stops and rolling out the red carpet and all the bells and whistles for President Donald Trump. 🚨 WOW! Several HUNDRED Chinese youth and a military band just gave President Trump a GRAND WELCOME as he arrived in Beijing 47 is LOVING IT, stopping to watch 🤣 China's VP, ambassador and foreign minister are there as well This is what TRUMP RESPECT looks like! 🇺🇸🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/NvFc3DRg36 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 13, 2026 Chinese students welcome President Trump to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing 💐 🎥: @MargoMartin47 pic.twitter.com/wChlpVnphh — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 14, 2026 China has been put in a box with Operation Epic Fury, when so much of Iran's oil would normally go to China. Then, too, they don't want to get walloped with big tariffs. So they know they have to work hard. On Thursday, Trump had a more than two-hour meeting with Xi, and it sounds like he got s...

By Ben Smith A Dallas judge has apparently been running her courtroom like it's spring 2020. Masks required. Health screenings required. Discussion of gastrointestinal symptoms required. The only thing missing was a six-foot social distancing sticker on the floor. And honestly, who knows? The WHO — yes, that WHO, the same unelected international health bureaucracy that spent the early days of COVID-19 cheerleading for China and assuring the world there was "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission" — convened its Emergency Committee for the 15th time and finally called it. COVID emergency over. May 5, 2023. Done. And even then, Director-General Tedros couldn't fully stick the landing, warning the virus was "still killing and still changing" in the same breath he used to declare it finished. The man declared victory and issued a warning simultaneously. Yesterday, the #COVID19 Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I...

By Elle Purnell Virginia Democrats have accidentally made a case against the months-long ‘election season’ they prize. What if SCOTUS took them up on it? Jay Jones, the Virginia attorney general who fantasized about executing a Republican colleague and wished death on his children, has not developed a reputation for thoughtful reflection. So perhaps it’s unsurprising that, in his typographically-challenged frenzy to salvage Virginia Democrats’ gerrymandering efforts, he has accidentally made a case to the U.S. Supreme Court against the months-long “election season” that his fellow Democrats prize. The only thing that could make the cosmic irony sweeter would be the Supreme Court taking Jones up on his request to interpret the Constitution as mandating a single Election Day. The Virginia Constitution requires constitutional referendums, like the one Democrats rammed through changing the makeup of the state’s congressional representation from six Democrats and five Republicans to ...

By PATRICK K. O'DONNELL A recent leaked CIA report stated the Iranian regime can hold out against the blockade for three or four months. We cannot throw them a lifeline in the form of a deal that leaves them in power. Now is the time to crush them. The world cannot allow a terror-state to blackmail and shut down major oil and trade arteries and threaten the global economy. Yet that is exactly what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its proxies are attempting right now, firing on shipping lanes and oil infrastructure and civilian targets, daring the civilized world to respond. Any “deal” that leaves the IRGC in control of Iran’s oil revenue is no deal at all. A strategic win for the IRGC over the Strait of Hormuz would be catastrophic, not only for America, but the balance of global power. Giving Iran control of the strait would set up the IRGC as the dominant regional power and irreversibly diminish American deterrence and influence by showing us to be a...

By Amy Curtis Just yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was bragging about closing the city's budget deficit without cutting services. It's a lie, of course. He "closed" the deficit by delaying the city's pension payments and taking a bailout from Albany , which means he did it off the backs of working New Yorkers and not by "taxing the rich." But it turns out there are some cuts he made, specifically to services for veterans, including events like parades. Veterans are calling it a "slap in the face." Mamdani blasted for planned cuts to veterans services, axing events including parade https://t.co/54R2kCqJLx pic.twitter.com/ncBl5GmNOM — New York Post (@nypost) May 13, 2026 Here's more: Critics pushed back on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed city budget Wednesday as it emerged he planned to cut $1 million from veterans services and events including a ticker-tape parade for former service men and women. The Department of Vet...