NEW: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth & his wife just landed in Germany after opting to skip the Munich Security Conference to instead talk to American troops throughout Europe, including Poland & Belgium. "I would much rather talk to troops than go to cocktail parties."

BREAKING: CNN reports Elon Musk is now Harry Bōlz. Experts warn this a full-blown Constitutional crisis.

$40 Billion is enough to cure world hunger if you take it from billionaires, and completely inconsequential if you take it from the federal budget. Youth in the youngest congresswoman is like a breath of fresh air, but an enormous red flag when hired at DOGE.

“… the strength of a mind might be measured by the amount of "truth" it could endure—or to speak more plainly, by the extent to which it REQUIRED truth attenuated, veiled, sweetened, damped, and falsified.” — Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil gutenberg.org/files/4363/436…

Children raised in single parent households have worse outcomes. But the outcomes aren't nearly as bad when the cause is parental death, rather than out of wedlock birth. This indicates single parenthood alone may not be the cause.

"Misinformation" was basically spun up out of whole cloth to try to explain away Trump 2016 and Brexit as accidents by misled rubes.

Grok 3 is incredible. Truly a masterpiece. x.com/i/grok/share/K…

“there are no Democrats [in the Senate] who side with the American people on matters of defense and intelligence, as evidenced by Gabbard, Hegseth, and Patel receiving 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜 Democrat votes …” — Seth Keshel 💯🇺🇸

Despite ongoing tech layoffs and poor job numbers, the government has opened up the H-1B visa lottery registration today, potentially allowing 120,000 foreign workers to replace American workers. The H-1B is a random lottery that doesn't take skill level or wages into account.

Judd Legum Hello Mr. Legum, You’ve built a website that relies on a specific interpretation of “potential” in the context of federal spending it. While Oilfield Rando mentioned this earlier, I went a step further and confirmed these definitions myself. In the USASpending

The money used to go to a third party could get voter ID on the ballot & end automatic vote by mail in California, Oregon, & Washington. Just saying.

The asylum system should be abolished entirely, it was designed for postwar Europe when many had lost everything and had to travel to safety on foot, not for a world where you can be anywhere in $500 and twelve hours

I’m sympathetic to the argument that burning the American flag is protected speech, but right now we are putting people in prison for spinning their tires over the Pride flag, so it might be a good idea to have the debate about which symbols are sacred in America today

I'm sorry, but as long as this is the status quo, I'm not going to work myself into a state of hysteria about Trump's executive order on burning the American flag

“Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’”—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Peter Thiel doesn't qualify as LGBT Elon Musk doesn't qualify as an immigrant Giorgia Melonin doesn't qualify as female empowerment Thomas Sowell doesn't qualify as black. It's entirely political. When the left pretends to advocate for "minority groups" they are advocating

If you repeatedly tell people they can't have the basic requirements of the good life, such as "not being murdered by drug gangs", because that's fascism... Then pretty soon they will conclude that fascism is the way to get those things, and it sounds like an excellent idea.

The "rule of law" is when you can import 10 million illegals overnight but need a lengthy court hearing to deport each individual one of them. No thanks, actually.

After Charlottesville, there was a massive crackdown on anything Confederate. Amazon even banned the Dukes of Hazzard. Can we get a ban on 'Property of Allah' t-shirts after the Austin bar shooting?