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By Teri Christoph It's a day ending in "y," which means yet another Democrat-adjacent organization is suing President Trump, this time around for daring to improve the appearance of the Reflecting Pool, which glitters to the east side of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  Except, the pool hasn't been all that glittery of late, leading the president to initiate a massive cleanup project, including the application of a fresh coat of blue paint to enhance its appearance. He also cleaned up a $300 million plan by the Biden administration to replace all of the granite at the bottom of the pool; the paint job, by contrast, costs $1.5 million, according to the president.  The group suing the administration, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), wants to put a halt to the Reflecting Pool painting project, claiming "the current application of blue paint to the basin of Reflecting Pool on the National Mall is being done in violation of...

Louisiana v. Callais could be the kind of once-in-a-century Supreme Court decision that returns America to its constitutional roots. By J.R. Dunn Louisiana v. Callais is one of the most consequential decisions of recent years. Like many of its kind, the actual implications haven’t yet sunk in. To say that they are both broad and profound is to understate to the point of depreciation. It’s possible, even likely, that this decision will become one of those, like Dred Scott or Roe , that is so epoch-making that using the full name isn’t necessary. Louisiana v. Callais essentially bans redistricting on racial grounds. For nearly sixty years, the prevailing interpretation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was that, to ensure racial parity in election results, certain districts had to be set aside to represent minorities alone. In practice, this meant black-majority voting districts. I know of no case where a district was created for Hispanics, Asians, or anybody else. This ena...

By R.C. Maxwell A retired U.S. Army officer who trains active-duty leaders and battalion staff has engaged in a pattern of public statements and behavior that contradict Pentagon guidance on post-retirement conduct, discipline, and accountability, RedState has learned. Brad Duplessis, a combat veteran, National War College graduate, and former professor at the Army's Command and General Staff College, serves as a Leader Training Program Battalion Coach for V2X Inc. Despite educating current Army officers and staff who will one day retire and become subject to the very standards Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is pushing to strengthen, Duplessis has publicly contradicted the Department of War’s guidance on retired officers’ conduct while highlighting his work shaping future Army leaders to offer credibility to his contradictions.  Duplessis has openly criticized the new standards, which emerged after the so-called “Seditious Six” controversy in November 2025, when Sen. Mark Kelly,...

By CARLOS GARCIA President Donald Trump has criticized two of the justices he appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court for ruling against his signature promise to raise revenue by hiking up tariffs. The president said he "loves" Neil Gorsuch but went on to hammer him and Amy Coney Barrett for joining the majority ruling in the tariff case in February — and warned them ahead of another ruling expected on a separate pivotal policy. 'I don’t want loyalty, but I do want and expect it for our Country.' "I 'Love' Justice Neil Gorsuch! He’s a really smart and good man, but he voted against me, and our Country, on Tariffs, a devastating move. How do I reconcile this? So bad, and hurtful to our Country," the president  posted  on Truth Social Sunday. "I have, likewise, always liked and respected Amy Coney Barrett, but the same thing with her," he added. "They were appointed by me, and yet have hurt our Country so badly! I do not beli...

This current hantavirus situation is a contained, rare event involving a virus that is primarily rodent-borne, with very limited potential for wider spread. It is not something the general public should fear. By Tex Background on the Incident In early 2026, a small cluster of cases emerged among passengers and crew on the Dutch-flagged expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, which had departed from Ushuaia, Argentina — a region where the Andes strain of hantavirus is endemic. As of early May 2026, reports indicated around eight cases (with several laboratory-confirmed as Andes virus), including three deaths. Initial exposures likely stemmed from rodent droppings, urine, or saliva during shore activities or onboard. Passengers have been monitored, evacuated where necessary, and quarantined, with contact tracing underway. U.S. authorities have been tracking a small number of American passengers returning home, with limited positives or mild symptoms and no evidence of broader co...

By Sister Toldjah RedState reported Sunday on the sheer desperation that has set in among Democrats at the state and congressional levels after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the process state Democrats used to put their gerrymander referendum on the ballot was a violation of Virginia's Constitution.  This effectively nuked the Democrats' plan to implement a new map that potentially would net them another four seats in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, which would have made the congressional delegation 10-1 Democrat-Republican. Perhaps the most extreme of the measures that, per The New York Times , were being considered during a meeting Saturday that included House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), was to have "Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for state Supreme Court justices... from 75 to 54," a plan that, if seen through, would force out every justice currently sitting on the state Supreme Court. Afterwards, th...

By Nick Arama The Iranian regime seems to have an endless supply of bad moves and braggadocio.  We saw this past week how the regime claimed to be a superpower like the United States. They claimed they hit a U.S. warship, then released a video that didn't show any such thing . And in maybe the wildest move of them all, the regime seized a tanker shipping its own oil.  The regime appeared to be at it again when the official account for the Iranian Embassy in Sierra Leone posted a video. They are so in denial! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/wocwnhXb1D — Melinda 🇺🇸🇺🇸♥️ (@Melindaashx) May 9, 2026 Interesting footage of an Iranian Navy officer taunting Americans while chasing their warship out of the Persian Gulf.  He's calling them 'liars' and 'old foxes,' saying, 'This is Iran, the land of lions and Islam—no place for you hyenas to flex your muscles. Run for your lives!' First, if this guy were spouting off against a U.S. warship, rather than striking the shi...

By Matt Margolis Something big is on the horizon — and the people saying so aren't fringe voices on a podcast. They're senior Trump administration officials. Monica Crowley, the U.S. government's chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it's coming soon. "He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that," Crowley said. Now, she didn't lay out a timeline or spell out exactly what the evidence would look like, but the message was clear. According to the Washington Times, she offered no further details on the nature of what's being prepared. That ambiguity will inevitably give critics ammunition, of course. But here's the thing, Crowley’s remarks didn’t just come out of nowhere. Her claims track almost perfectly with what FBI Director Kash Patel told Maria Bartiromo last month. As PJ Media previously reported , Pate...

By Nick Arama Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has sparked a lot of outrage after comments he made on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan about the status of our armaments at this point in the fight with Iran.  Brennan tweeted about the interview.  After hearing the Pentagon classified brief on Iran war impact on US weapons stockpiles, Senator Mark Kelly says it is "shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines." He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend… — Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) May 10, 2026 After hearing the Pentagon classified brief on Iran war impact on US weapons stockpiles, Senator Mark Kelly says it is "shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines." He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves have been hit hard. He says it'll take years to replenish those stockpiles, which could affect a hypothetical ...

By JOSHUA KLEIN President Donald Trump on Sunday rejected Iran’s latest response to the American offer to end the conflict as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,” warning Tehran it would “be laughing no longer” after reports indicated the regime refused key U.S. nuclear demands while pushing for sanctions relief, frozen assets, an end to the naval blockade, and control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran submitted its response Sunday through Pakistani mediators following nearly 10 days of deliberations over the latest American proposal, which reportedly centered on ending hostilities, restoring maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and opening a roughly 30-day negotiation window over Tehran’s nuclear program, uranium enrichment activities, and stockpile of highly enriched uranium — issues Trump has repeatedly insisted must end with Iran permanently barred from obtaining a nuclear weapon. “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives,’” Trump wrote Sunday afternoon...