Aug 2, 2025 – Donald Trump has bagged an extraordinary trade deal. From now on, most EU exports to the US will be subject to a 15 per cent tariff, which will raise tens of billions of dollars in revenue for the US Treasury. Tariffs on US car exports to the EU will be lowered...

Aug 2, 2025 – The Trump administration’s move to rescind all designated Offshore Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the United States is being characterized as a “major policy reversal,” but what it truly represents is a refreshing application of rationality in a field too long dominated by dogma, groupthink, and the wishful economics of...

Aug 2, 2025 – Here’s a fun one for you: Is there enough money set aside to pay for both the tear-down of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and another 30 or so years of radioactive waste storage on that scenic bluff over the blue Pacific?This, friends, is one of the question bubbles bobbing...

Aug 2, 2025 – Much has been made of the lopsided deal Ursula von der Leyen struck with Donald Trump, which among other things traded zero tariffs on US goods for a 15 per cent tax on EU exports to the US.  She and her Commissioner for Trade  Maroš Šefčovič plead that this is...

Aug 3, 2025 – The Department of Justice official who signed off on $2 million in taxpayer-funded payments to disgraced Russia collusion hoax participants left the Department of Justice to help lead the “legal resistance” to President Donald Trump and other duly-elected Republicans, new records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist reveal.FBI Special Agent Peter...

Aug 2, 2025 – The Jones Act is a regulation that requires ships to be U.S.-built, U.S.-owned, U.S.-flagged, and U.S.-crewed if they move goods between American ports (cabotage).  For over 100 years, the Jones act has thus restricted competition in American shipping.The U.S. only had 92 Jones Act-compliant ships in 2024. However, there were...

Aug 2, 2025 – As more Americans become disillusioned on transgenderism and public opinion turns strongly against men in women’s sports, so-called “sex change” operations for minors, and gender ideology in schools, many high-profile Democrats are frantically trying to appear more moderate on the issue. But when pressed, it becomes clear that the same...

Aug 3, 2025 – There comes a point when even the most willfully blind must acknowledge what is plain to see. That point arrived quietly—but thunderously—on July 22, 2025, when PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for 65 million Americans across 13 states and the District of Columbia, released the results of its latest capacity...

Aug 3, 2025 – It is fitting that what was arguably Hulk Hogan’s most memorable late-career public appearance at the 2024 Republican National Convention happened almost exactly a year before his death. In his speech, Terry Bollea (Hulk’s real name) expressed his reluctance to speak on politics. But he said that the humiliations and degradations...

Aug 2, 2025 – I. More Than Missiles and ManeuversAs global attention increasingly focuses on a potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait, many observers point to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China as a formidable military force. Armed with hypersonic missiles, stealth aircraft, space-based capabilities, and massive investments in artificial intelligence and cyberwarfare,...

Aug 3, 2025 – Legal Insurrection readers will recall that I have written about the woke attempts to normalize obesity as “body positivity” and deride any attempt to promote a healthy height-to-weight ratio as “fat shaming.”This trend was especially troubling during the earliest stages of the COVID pandemic, when the disease appeared to be...

Aug 2, 2025 – About half the country has almost a decade’s worth of rage that has been building and building over the utter lawlessness atop the Democrat Party.What’s sad is that the angry half doesn’t seem to include any Democrats.The utterly horrific Russiagate scandal, which gets worse with every disclosure emanating from Director...

Aug 3, 2025 – Predictably, the New York Times pooh-poohed the release of the classified annex to the Durham report. Charlie Savage wrote:Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and other Trump allies have declared that a newly declassified report on the Russia investigation provides “evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and...

Aug 3, 2025 – Archaeologists have found menorah artifacts and Hebrew inscriptions that may prove a 4th-century church was actually a Roman-era synagogue.Archaeologists in southern Spain have uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that a Roman-era building—long believed to be an early Christian church—may, in fact, have been a synagogue serving a small, now-forgotten Jewish community. The...

Aug 3, 2025 – The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to consider a major challenge that could reshape how voting maps are drawn, potentially giving Republicans a significant advantage in upcoming elections.The justices agreed Friday to expand a Louisiana case and weigh arguments about whether the 1965 Voting Rights Act still justifies creating districts...

Aug 3, 2025 – Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have stepped back out into the news cycle this week. Did anyone miss them?The Biden-Harris presidency, which felt like it lasted an eternity, is fading from memory, but it really should not. The scandal that was the cover up of Biden’s declining cognitive condition should be fully investigated and exposed,...

Aug 3, 2025 – A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements.In 1981, Angel Luevano sued...

Aug 3, 2025 – Times are tough for Claudia Sheinbaum.In addition to deep concerns about tariff threats from the Trump administration, the Mexican president finds her party, Morena, embroiled in a narco scandal involving one of her top party officials in the Senate, Adán Augusto López. The situation threatens to profoundly undermine both the...

Jul 29, 2025 – There doesn't seem to be any question that the concept of an 80/20 issue has failed to penetrate at even the most basic level in either elected Democrat officials' brains or the bleeding heart liberal media that encourages and supports them.The worst offenders, naturally, are in those deep blue bastions...

Jul 30, 2025 – Documents released over the last month have exposed a post-election plot designed to derail President Donald Trump’s first term. The recently declassified material reveals former President Barack Obama sought to continue the Russia-collusion hoax Hillary Clinton had launched during the presidential campaign by directing select members of his intelligence community...

Jul 30, 2025 – Senate Republicans are mulling various strategies to circumvent Democrats’ unprecedented roadblocks slowing the confirmation process of President Donald Trump’s nominees. Trump has urged Senate GOP leadership to make significant progress clearing the backlog of roughly 150 nominees awaiting floor consideration or forgo the traditional August recess to continue plowing through confirmation...

Jul 30, 2025 – In the summer of 2015, Germany experienced a refugee crisis that has affected the country ever since, leaving it deeply divided. Ten years later, it’s worth examining how this event and its interpretation became entangled with Germany’s Nazi past—and how historical memory was manipulated to justify controversial policy decisions.From the...

Jul 30, 2025 – The startling swarms of drones Russia and Ukraine are fielding against each other—an arms and technology race with lethal consequences—underscores how unprepared Europe is for modern warfare. That makes the twenty-seven European Union (EU) member states, particularly those neighboring Russia, vulnerable to a rapidly innovating and battle-tested Russian military.Andrius Kubilius,...

Jul 31, 2025 – In a huge win for American taxpayers and private property rights, the U.S. Department of Energy under President Donald Trump and Secretary Chris Wright has officially canceled a $4.9 billion loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express. The project—which relied on eminent domain lawsuits to take land from unwilling property owners—was...

Jul 30, 2025 – Those claiming that wind and solar energy are cheaper than fossil fuels should be writing scripts for science fiction dramas.Yet global organizations such as investment firm Lazard and the International Renewable Energy Agency expect this bogus claim to be taken seriously as a basis for investing many billions into essentially...