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By Ward Clark Plenty of people are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence, or AI. Two of our four kids are freelance graphic artists, and they are (legitimately) worried about their incomes being yanked as more people use AI for simple graphics chores like designing logos, and increasingly for more complicated work, like graphics for television programming and websites. It's a fair thing to be worried about, but as I have advised them both, that genie ain't going back in the bottle, so they'd best figure out how to work with it - or find another line of work. These kinds of worries are, increasingly, spreading through the younger generations, and at least one report informs us that young college kids are  seeking out AI-proof lines of study . Two years ago, Josephine Timperman arrived at college with a plan. She declared a major in business analytics, figuring she’d learn niche skills that would stand out on a resume and  help land a good job  after colle...

By Sister Toldjah It's pathetic but not surprising to see some of the Democrat/media reactions in the aftermath of the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (WHCD)  shooting  that took place Saturday night. What's  made some  of them especially disgraceful, however, was that they were written in the light of day on Sunday and going into Monday, well after it was more than clear who the gunman's targets were, according to his  deranged manifesto : Officials in the Trump administration, and President Trump himself. For example, there was Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), who  proclaimed  he won't be lectured to about civility, even though prominent Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are elevating America-haters like far-left podcaster Hasan Piker, who has openly advocated political violence against the right. As we also reported, there was Francesca Hong, the current Demo...

By Bob Hoge She wrapped up what she thought was going to be her final press briefing on Friday, as she was scheduled to go on maternity leave. After Saturday night’s assassination attempt by a crazed leftist against President Trump and his cabinet members at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, however, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt felt that Monday was too important a day to stay home. It would be nice to rest up on the couch and prepare for her soon-to-be-born baby, but instead, she brought her usual fire to the podium and blasted the Left for their incendiary rhetoric. Asked what the administration could do to bring down the temperature in this country, Leavitt brought out the receipts, quoting the inflammatory remarks made by folks like House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem “ Maximum Warfare ” Jeffries (NY-08), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the always hate-mongering Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and the self-infatuated governor of Illinois, JB Pritz...

The shooter, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, laid out his plan and motive in a 1,000-word document. By Zach Jewell Former President Barack Obama commented Sunday on the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump and administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and claimed that it was unclear why the gunman opened fire at the event. Obama addressed the shooting in a social media post hours after  reports  shed light on the gunman’s plan and reason for targeting Trump at the dinner. When Obama condemned the attack, however, he claimed that “details about the motives” remained a mystery. “Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama  wrote . “It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m ...

By Bob Hoge Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon has seemingly been everywhere since she took on the job in April 2025. She’s been investigating all  the dead people  on the nation’s voter rolls, she’s come after states that are practicing what I call “ legalized discrimination ” ­— DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) — and she’s fought  for religious liberties . On Friday, she announced she’s targeting the state of Colorado, which is trying to force artificial intelligence companies to force their output to contain woke messaging. Her response: See you in court. Today, @CivilRights & @DOJCivil intervened in a lawsuit to prevent Colorado from requiring AI companies to alter their algorithms & advance CO’s woke DEI goals. It’s illegal under the 14th Amendment to discriminate based on race, sex, & other protected classes—see you in court! pic.twitter.com/3MpJyn14Gn — AAGHarmeetDhillon...

By Bob Hoge Following the latest act of political violence — the Saturday night assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — Democrats and the media, led by the likes of the  odious Rep. Jamie Raskin  (MD-08), are playing the innocents and acting like this isn’t exactly what they’ve been calling for. Of course, we all know that they’ve been feverishly fanning the flames of extremism for years now, and the results have been clear: three assassination attempts against Donald Trump, the successful murder of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, and the cold-blooded killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by leftist hero Luigi Mangione. Among the worst of the worst are the major networks’ late-night “comedians,” folks like CBS’ Stephen Colbert and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, who spout nightly hate from their platforms and have not told a funny joke in years. Colbert’s reign is slated to  end in May  because he was losing the outlet a reported...

By Ward Clark On Monday, the Supreme Court handed the great state of Texas a win in its redistricting efforts, striking down a lower court block on the new Texas GOP-proposed district map. This could be a deciding factor in control of the House of Representatives  after the 2026 midterms . 🚨 BREAKING: Supreme Court hands Republicans a redistricting win by striking down lower court block on Texas map pic.twitter.com/0V9MXFzRCv — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 27, 2026 A brief summary on Fox News, also on Monday morning,  presents a few more details . The Supreme Court handed down a victory for the Republican Party on Monday, striking down a lower court's ruling that had blocked Texas' plans for redrawing its congressional districts. The court hung its order on reasoning from a previous ruling in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens, but did not elaborate. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the decision. This effort is...

By Mark Tapscott Hardly a day goes by without luminaries of the left like Vermont's Independent Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders pumping half-truths, undocumented claims, and outright lies about the evils of fossil fuels versus the saintly characteristics of renewables like solar and wind power. Here's a  typical example  of the routine sort of can't Sanders deals on energy issues: "At a time when solar and wind are the cheapest forms of new energy in the world, Trump wants to open a BILLION acres of US water to oil drilling. Why? To line the pockets of his fossil fuel billionaire friends. The rest of the world moves forward, we get left behind." Thanks to the sharp-eyed researchers working for James Agresti's  Just Facts  (based in Conroe, Texas), exposing the fallacies and fables in Sanders' energy claims is no more difficult than a mouse click and a few minutes of illuminating reading. Apparently it's not easy enough for editors and reporters at ma...

By Streiff The Small Business Administration (SBA)  announced Thursday  that it had launched an unprecedented crackdown on fraudulent Biden-era loans made ostensibly to help businesses weather the brunt of the manufactured financial disaster enabled by COVID. Led by Vice President JD Vance’s White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud (see  Trump Signs Task Force EO Launching 'Whole of Government' Assault on Fraud – RedState ), the SBA announced it had referred 562,000 suspected fraudulent  Paycheck Protection Program ( PPP) and  COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loans  (EIDL)—worth $22.2 billion—to the U.S. Treasury for collection. This marks a 180-degree turn from the Biden administration's policy of turning a blind eye to fraud, whether in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, Medicaid, or immigration. In fact, all 562,000 targets of this enforcement action had been identified by the Biden administration as fraudulent, but it decided ...