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By Jonathan Turley We all recall Bill Clinton’s infamous declaration that “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” One of his supporters, disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Cal.), now has his own “that person” moment. FBI material released this week shows that Swalwell admitted to what he refused to admit publicly: he did have sex with “that person.” Moreover, the material confirms that he not only enabled Fang Fang, an alleged Chinese spy, in pushing foreign interns for his office but may have received illegal foreign contributions. What is most striking about this report is that Nancy Pelosi was briefed on this information and still refused to remove Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee. After the scandal broke, Swalwell was repeatedly asked about his association. Still, he dismissed suggestions that he had a sexual relationship with an accused Chinese spy, a major allegation for a member with access to some of the most sensitive intellige...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell After coming in fifth for governor in the June 9 South Carolina primary election, while surrendering her congressional seat because she mounted that ill-fated gubernatorial bid, Rep. Nancy Mace (SC-01) appears to be at loose ends. Unlike her former colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene, she hasn't gone full-gonzo anti-Trump, which means the "The Spew View" has not extended any invitations to their table. So, what else is a soon-to-be retired politician to do but go on YouTube and start her own channel? In February, Mace did a tell-all with POLITICO, where she revealed that she has sleeves of tattoos on her arms that were applied "in rapid succession."  Mace is a 48-year-old twice-divorced mother of two. She often walks with a gun. She sometimes shops in a wig. She always sleeps (the little she sleeps) under a 20-pound heavy blanket she thinks isn’t heavy enough. She says she does what she does because of “an engine” that she “can...

By Teri Christoph Trans violence is getting out of control in the United States. We're coming up on the one year anniversary of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, MN. On August 27, 2025, biological male Robert/Robin Westman, 23, opened fire through the windows of a church during a school Mass, killing two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children. The FBI investigated his crime as domestic terrorism and a hate crime. Benjamin Hanil Song, a trans Antifa militant, was convicted of attempted murder after opening fire during the July 2025 attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, shooting a responding police officer in the neck. The Justice Department called the assault a “terrorist attack,” and Song was sentenced in June to 100 years in prison. There's also Tyler Robinson, who has been charged with aggravated murder in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And, now, Ryan Michael English/Riley Jane English, 25, has b...

By Ward Clark Sometimes you just have to wonder what's going through a liberal politician's head. Given that the head in question is likely filled with kapok and feathers, that's always an interesting point to ponder. Case in point: California's impeccably coiffed Governor Gavin Newsom. On any given day, Governor Newsom makes several statements that make people with enough brains to pound sand go "wait, what?" On Tuesday, though, he seems to have outdone himself, as his press office has sent out a press release touting the governor's plan to spend $95 million in taxpayers' dollars to build more electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and to expand hydrogen fueling in the once-Golden State.  In what universe does this make good economic or energy sense ?  Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that California will invest $95.2 million to accelerate the build-out of zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure across the state, funding EV charging and h...

By Bob Hoge As our Teri Christoph and others have covered extensively, there’s some weird stuff that goes on in Fairfax County, Virginia. Is there something in the water over there? For starters, you’ve got a governor in Abigail Spanberger who ran as a moderate and then, upon taking office, immediately started down a gun-grabbing, election-meddling extremist path that she’s shown no sign of moderating. You’ve got a district attorney in Steve Descano who considers the well-being of hard-core criminals to be more important than the welfare of his residents. The latest nuttery out of the schizophrenic county shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, considering what we’ve seen. As Fox News’ Bill Melugin says, we’ve got an “insane story here.” Insane story here. An Islamist extremist illegal alien murderer was able to flee back to his home country of Tajikistan after officials in sanctuary Fairfax County, VA allowed him to leave a mental health hospital on unsupervised visits and even hel...

By Frank Lasee A new study from Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the UK Met Office, published in Geophysical Research Letters , shows Europe's summers have warmed nearly twice as fast as the rest of the extratropical Northern Hemisphere since the 1980s. The driver is not a sudden surge in carbon dioxide. It is cleaner air. Europe spent decades scrubbing sulfate pollution from power plants and factories. Those particles were unhealthy, yet they reflected sunlight and brightened clouds, masking roughly a degree of summer warming. Remove the shield and the heat arrives. The study's authors note that climate models reproduce this pattern but at only a fraction of the observed size. We did much of this to ourselves. The same law of unintended consequences is playing out over the oceans. In 2020, international rules cut sulfur in ship fuel by about 80% . The bright, reflective ship tracks that once shaded the sea largely disappeared. James Hansen, who first warned...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell As my colleague Ward Clark reported , Monday marked the end of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) , the signing of which precipitated the beginning of a 60-day ceasefire of military operations against Iran . The MOU is officially DOA. On Monday, President Donald Trump called for Iran to "put up the white flag of surrender," and declared that the administration had a backchannel to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). RedState and Townhall Media's Pentagon correspondent RC Maxwell further reported : A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday that Tehran has shifted from a defensive posture to a “fully offensive” one and is prepared to escalate in the Strait of Hormuz if diplomacy with the United States fails. “Iranian entities must be prepared to escalate tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and wider region, as Iran will be ready to make decisions and take action on difficult decisions,” the official said.  The Iranian...

By Ben Smith Jill Stein skipped court Monday. A St. Louis judge responded by issuing a warrant for her arrest. The case goes back to Stein's 2024 arrest at Washington University, where prosecutors say she kicked a police officer during a pro-Palestinian protest. The warrant was gone by the afternoon. Stein's lawyer, Joseph Welch, came to court later Monday, and Circuit Court Judge Karma Johnson quashed it. Johnson reset the case for Sept. 14 and ordered Stein to appear in person. Miss that one, the order says, and another warrant issues. The case has been dragging on for more than two years. Monday did not help move it along. Johnson had scheduled Monday's hearing for 9 AM, with a court filing specifically requiring all attorneys and parties, including Stein, to appear in person. Prosecutors were there. Stein and her attorney, Joseph Welch, were not. "There will be a failure to appear warrant for Ms. Stein," Johnson said from the bench. Prosecutors told John...

By Victor Davis Hanson Hamas or Israeli Values? Israel dominates the daily news in this 2026 midterm election year—almost always in a boring, fatiguing, negative light. Tens of thousands of innocents may be slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, butchered, and tortured by the world’s dictators, yet an overwhelming and obsessive abhorrence is reserved for tiny, democratic Israel. Such perverse asymmetry is strange, since, at least privately, most Americans would concede that of the 18 Middle Eastern nations, only Israel is a genuine consensual democracy. As far as tolerance goes, in the entire region, only in Israel is it legal to criticize political or religious figures. Only there can one choose to adopt an openly gay or trans lifestyle. Only there can an apostate renounce one’s religion or urge others to do the same. And only there can Christians establish a new church almost anywhere they choose. Some of Israel’s fiercest feminist critics who wear miniskirts and halter tops, some of ...