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By Bob Hoge Lately, one can’t be faulted for thinking the Brits have gone insane. They have taken sharp left turns on so many issues, from immigration to free speech to healthcare to their support for the U.S., that sometimes they don’t seem recognizable anymore. But now a U.K. doctor’s trade union, the British Medical Association (BMA), is actually showing some resemblance to normal behavior as it makes a sharp turnaround in its view of a landmark study on transgender care. The report is called the Cass Review, and it  questioned liberal orthodoxy  on the subject of treating children suffering from gender dysphoria. That orthodoxy is basically, "go all in on a child's claim to be a different gender than they were born with and let 'em have whatever surgeries and drugs they want." The Cass Review , published in April 2024 and conducted by Dr Hilary Cass, found that children and young people were let down by a lack of research and evidence on medical interventions,...

By Ward Clark Things in the Strait of Hormuz are still tense, and if reports are accurate, a new event may ratchet those tensions up some. But in this latest, what appears to be an act of senseless belligerence, the goblins in Tehran should be looking, not west at the Gulf states and American forces, but east, to China. A Chinese-owned oil tanker is reported to have been hit near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, and it's serious enough of a hit that the  ship was reportedly set afire. A Chinese-owned oil products tanker was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, Chinese media outlet Caixin reported, as President Donald Trump launched a U.S. plan that day to help stranded vessels but suspended it a day ‌later. This was the first time a Chinese oil tanker has been attacked, a person with knowledge of the matter told Caixin on Thursday. If Iran really did fire on a Chinese-flagged tanker, that's a serious deal - and it's a safe bet the United States or Israel wouldn...

By Bob Hoge Political violence, most of it committed by leftists in recent years, has gotten so pervasive in this country that I am forced to make an admission: I saw this story and thought, “Wait, which deranged attack was that exactly?” But of course, we can’t forget, and it should never become acceptable. It happened in June of 2025, in Boulder, Colorado, when a 45-year-old Egyptian illegal alien antisemite threw Molotov cocktails and used a makeshift flamethrower to attack people who were participating in a walk for Run for Their Lives, a group advocating for the Hamas hostages. His attack injured 15 people — one of whom died a month later from her injuries. Sick stuff. It could have been worse, though; much worse. He planned to kill as many as 20 people. Now, he’s going to  pay for his crimes : The  Boulder firebombing attack  defendant pleaded guilty to state charges, including first-degree murder, in court on Thursday morning. Mohamed Soliman admitted to attack...

By Ward Clark Over the decades, many United States Air Force aircraft have gone into the famous boneyard at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, but few have come out again. The warbirds there are generally there for the long haul, and no matter how well prepped for storage, it seems likely that many of them, after a few years, are no longer recoverable. Now, though, we learn that one warbird has emerged, phoenix-like, from the boneyard. It's a B1B Lancer, known to the crews as the "Bone." Formerly named Rage, the rebuilt, refitted, refurbished B1B is now to be dubbed Apocalypse II,  and it's back on duty. The U.S. Air Force may once have eyed the  B-1B Lancer  for retirement, but the swing-wing bomber is now set to  remain in service longer , and the fleet is even regaining a jet it had previously retired. The B-1B in question was once parked in the “boneyard” in the Arizona desert, but is now back in service after an intensive regeneration and depot maintenance eff...

By Matt Margolis Brian Krassenstein has spent years as one of the left's most reliable attack dogs on social media. He's built his brand on opposing Donald Trump and everything adjacent to Trump's orbit. So, when Krassenstein announced he bought a Tesla Cybertruck, his followers didn't congratulate him on the smart purchase. They threatened to kill him. I might get hate for this too but I bought a Cybertruck. With a young family, safety was important and so is not polluting the atmosphere with $5 a gallon gasoline. pic.twitter.com/XJqFqR6O9r — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) May 6, 2026 That’s a reasonable explanation. Practical. The kind of logic any parent would understand. Safety for his kids. Lower fuel costs. A vehicle that, by any objective measure, is the safest pickup truck on the market. The 2025 Tesla Cybertruck is  the only  pickup truck to earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick+ award — the agency's highest possibl...

By Rusty Weiss Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is tapping the  scandal-plagued ActBlue  platform — currently under DOJ investigation and congressional scrutiny for allegedly misleading lawmakers about foreign donations — to bankroll a hard-left Senate takeover effort. Sanders is jointly fundraising for progressive Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed (MI), Peggy Flanagan (MN), and Graham Platner (ME) via an ActBlue donation page that links to  his own . The  new page , launched after Sanders campaigned alongside  El-Sayed  this past weekend, urges donors to help the trio “transform the Democratic Senate caucus overnight.” The  New York Times  reported in April that ActBlue, the dominant Democratic fundraising platform, may have misled Congress about its safeguards against illegal foreign donations. 🚨🚨 Fraud on ActBlue: New Report Details Potential Illegal Activity on the Democrat Platform. READ IT HERE: https://t.co/hRaaVlAl3R — House Judiciary GO...

By David Manney As the old saying goes, you know you're over the target when the flak starts flying. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) seems to be learning that lesson in real time. Fetterman has spent months frustrating parts of his party by refusing to follow the modern Democratic script on Israel, campus protests, and political tribalism. His latest clash came after criticism from Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who publicly suggested Fetterman should “get back to being a Democrat” after several high-profile disagreements with party activists and progressive voices. While speaking on CNN this week, Shapiro, another rumored 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, appeared exasperated about Fetterman amid reports that he is  receiving pressure to jump ship  on the party. “Look, I don’t know what Sen. Fetterman is going to do,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I know that Pennsylvanians voted for a Democrat to represent them in the  United States Senate .” “So, I thin...

By Sister Toldjah Last July, there was a massive immigration sweep in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park that had Democrats like the city's mayor, Karen Bass, and then-Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14)  gaslighting  about how supposedly safe and family-friendly it was, and how the feds must "get out now." Their claims about the park were at odds with reality, however, as many who either lived in or had visited the area explained at the time. This was one of many examples: “It is a playground, a picnic spot, a community spot” - Eric Swalwell, telling us he’s never been to MacArthur Park without telling us he’s never been to MacArthur Park pic.twitter.com/SgSq1MgdIZ https://t.co/luV6Lo0oAY — Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) July 8, 2025 After all the smoke and dust cleared, we found out that Bass had, months later,  quietly  "greenlighted a multi-million-dollar project to clean up the city’s drug-filled MacArthur Park — mere months after the Democrat berated immigration off...

By Scott J. Street Leftists cherish the right to bodily autonomy so long as the person exercising it is a woman seeking to abort a child, not an adult who objects to putting an experimental medication in her body. After six years, plenty of people would like to move on from the Covid-19 pandemic. But with one of Tony Fauci’s top deputies under indictment for concealing emails about  Covid’s origins,  now seems like the perfect time to reflect on the many things that government got wrong during the pandemic, the human toll its overreactions took, and what courts can do to prevent them during the next emergency. Those issues are at the heart of the petition we filed in  Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Carvalho , which the Supreme Court will discuss at its May 14 conference. But  Carvalho  is not just about the rules that apply during a pandemic. It involves important questions about the scope of Americans’ right to bodily autonomy, the freedom to choose what t...