You had a rough week if you were paying attention to the news. Gas approaching $4. Airports in chaos. A jobs report that somehow lost 92,000 positions. Iran calling our peace plan "maximalist and unreasonable." Ground troops being discussed. Senate Democrats howling about mission creep. It's a lot. Let's go through it the right way. Start with the jobs number, because it's the one people are treating as a harbinger. February shed 92,000 jobs. That's a bad month. But here's what CNN didn't say in the same breath: the February survey was completed before February 28. The Iran war started ...Continue reading

A federal judge gave the FBI a clear directive: produce the documents. The FBI's response was to hand over a list of reasons why it wouldn't. That's where the Seth Rich files stand today — and with Kash Patel now running the bureau, the long-running standoff may be about to break. The case is Huddleston v. FBI, filed in the Eastern District of Texas by attorney Ty Clevenger under the Freedom of Information Act. For years, Clevenger has been fighting to force the bureau to release records related to the 2016 murder of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic National Committee ...Continue reading

In July 2021, the federal government paid a South Florida healthcare company $4.95 million on a COVID vaccination staffing contract. The company had requested $50,000. FEMA sent $5 million. It was a clerical error — the kind of thing that gets caught, flagged, and returned. Instead of returning the money though, according to a 15-count federal indictment, the owner of that company kept the money, laundered it through multiple bank accounts, used it to fund a congressional campaign through illegal straw donors, and spent more than $100,000 of it on luxury items, including a 3-carat yellow diamond ring. That company ...Continue reading

For years, conservatives have watched election nights stretch into election weeks — apparent winners on Tuesday night becoming apparent losers by Friday as mail-in ballots trickled in from across the country, changing results with each update. Justice Samuel Alito put a name to the frustration Monday during oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee: "We don't have Election Day anymore. We have election month, or we have election months." The case before the court is straightforward on its face. Mississippi has a law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day but arrive up ...Continue reading

The Iran war dominated every headline from Friday through Monday. The 48-hour ultimatum. The Strait of Hormuz. The power plant threats. All of it is real and all of it matters — but while the media's cameras were pointed at the Persian Gulf, a remarkable amount of other news happened that your regular news feed almost certainly buried. Here is your 72-hour catch-up. Elon Musk offered to pay 50,000 TSA workers out of his own pocket. On Saturday morning, Musk posted on X that he would like to personally cover the salaries of every TSA officer working without pay during ...Continue reading