“Without music, life would be a mistake.“
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but instead protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.“
– Ayn Rand
“Never trust a person who betrays others. Even if he betrayed them for you.”
– Niccolò Machiavelli
“Intellectuals are naturally seduced by the idea of a planned society, because they think they will be in charge of it.“
– Philosopher Roger Scruton
“The doctrines of socialism, if consistently followed, mean the ultimate annihilation of civilization.“
– Teddy Roosevelt
“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.”
– Jean Cocteau
“From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.”
– Ronald Reagan
Happy Mother’s Day: To the world you may just be a mom. But to your child, you are the world.
Obama’s Hypocrisy: The irony and hypocrisy of President Obama’s cry, “Don’t Weaponize the DOJ” is priceless.
Evidence clearly shows that Obama and his team weaponized the DOJ and other federal agencies against President Trump. They bent over backward to raise suspicions, handicap Trump’s presidency, and stir up hate against Trump… all for political gain.
Losing the election wasn’t enough, the Democrats had to show Americans the democracy was at risk because the American people elected someone the liberal elite couldn’t stand.
Obama’s DOJ/FBI used the Clinton-funded Steele dossier, bogus FISA warrants on Carter Page, and Crossfire Hurricane to chase the Trump-Russia hoax for years —even after they were briefed it was a Clinton campaign smear. Durham’s report later confirmed the FBI’s confirmation bias, lack of evidence, and procedural failures. Preaching “norms” while targeting your opponent? Classic.
More corruption to be exposed… but it appears that all roads lead back to Barack Obama?!?
Tennessee Liberal Democrats on Reapportionment: Replacing a Democrat, who happens to be white… with a Republican, who happens to be black… is racism?!?
Progressive liberal Democrats are finding that arguing on issues… be it open borders, transgender crap, fake racism, more taxes, rampant crime, failing school curriculum, etc. isn’t working.
So, they play the race card, Hitler, and saving democracy as their rallying cry? A great message for America.
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–Saul Anuzis
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This Week: Veterans Affairs making major improvements, Black voters moving to the GOP, and President Trump calls out Jeffries for violent rhetoric!
The Republican Path to Victory in 2026
The path to Republican Victory has three components.
Despite all the gloom and doom talk among liberal talking heads, the slanted and biased polls used by the liberal media, and the exhaustion among House and Senate Republicans (and even some in the Trump Administration), there is a clear path to a historic Republican victory in 2026.
The path to Republican Victory has three components:
1. Bring down the price of gasoline and clearly communicate a series of steps toward affordability (for example, the dramatic breakthroughs in drug costs and the increased income from a variety of actions).
2. Communicate clearly and emphatically the enormous number of positive achievements in the first two years of this term, including enormous savings from fraud, etc., so people have a context for understanding how Republicans are making their lives better despite every effort by the liberal media to block the good news from reaching the American people.
3. Convince the vast majority of the American people that President Trump was right in his State of the Union comment that “these people are crazy,” and drive home to every American the extraordinary range of issues on which the Democrats oppose the American people sometimes by as much as 85 to 15.
Karl Rove caught a large part of this opportunity in his April 29, 2026, Wall Street Journal article “To Save the Midterms, go on the offensive” when he wrote, “Republicans must contrast – a polite word for attack – whenever possible.”
NRCC unveils internal polls in key battleground House races
The GOP’s House campaign arm shared five new battleground polls with POLITICO, its first publicly released surveys this cycle.
The National Republican Congressional Committee insists that it’s staying on offense heading into November, despite the historic headwinds that face incumbent parties in midterm elections and poor poll numbers for President Donald Trump.
Now, the GOP’s House campaign arm is pushing out polling for the first time this cycle — shared first with POLITICO — to back up their claims.
The polls show Republicans are well-positioned in five Democratic-held battleground House races that Trump won in 2024, all seats that have long been at the top of their target lists for the cycle.
“House Democrats are staring down a political buzzsaw in districts that already rejected their party at the top of the ticket last cycle,” NRCC Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) said in a statement. “These polls underscore the NRCC’s strategy to go on offense, expand the battlefield and flip seats, putting Democrats on the back foot and making their climb out of the minority even steeper.”
Maine’s 2nd District, which is open after moderate Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) decided not to run for reelection, appears to be the GOP’s best shot at a flip, based on these polls.
The US economy is leaving most other big rich countries in the dust so far in 2026, data shows
The US has enjoyed dramatically larger economic growth so far this year than most other large developed countries in the world, economic data shows.
US gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 2% in the first quarter, compared to the previous water, Bureau of Economic Statistics Data released last week showed.
Compare that to the Group of Seven (G7) bloc of countries — which has a projected economic growth of 1.1% over the same period.
And the US figure is blowing away the meager 0.1% growth reported in the EU.
Germany — Europe’s largest economy — clocked a 0.3% growth rate. France was dead flat — 0% growth, while Italy reported 0.2%
El-Sayed partners with far-left U.S. Senate candidates to ‘transform the Democratic Senate caucus’ using ActBlue
Attorneys: ‘It can be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections’
Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is partnering with Sen. Bernie Sanders and other far-left candidates to “transform the Democratic Senate caucus” using a fundraising platform accused of funneling illegal foreign contributions.
“Stand with Abdul El-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan, and Graham Platner for Senate,” reads the error-riddled fundraising page on ActBlue, the go-to fundraising platform for Democrats that’s currently under federal investigation.
“Abdul, Peggy and and Graham are take on the Democratic establishment and the financial establishment of this country,” the page reads. “They need our help –because if they win, we will transform the Democratic Senate caucus overnight.”
The page links directly to an ActBlue fundraising page for Sanders, an elderly progressive Independent former presidential candidate from Vermont.
Ukraine’s Secret Weapon: Adaptation
Nothing beats outthinking the enemy.
SOMETHING IMPORTANT IS HAPPENING on the battlefields of Eastern Europe. Quietly and steadily, without much fanfare, Ukraine is beginning to reverse the strategic geometry of its war against Russian aggression.
There are many reasons why Ukraine has regained the strategic initiative, but they all come down to the same principle: adaptation. Military leaders have always spent enormous effort thinking about how to outmaneuver opponents and gain an advantage, because warfare is never static. One side always falters or becomes complacent, which allows the other side to adjust. Every battlefield evolves, every new technology creates both opportunities and risks, and every enemy at some point presents vulnerabilities. Successful commanders are usually those who can recognize changing conditions fastest, discard outdated assumptions, and adapt before the enemy does, in small and big ways.
During my time commanding in Iraq, we learned that even the phrases we used needed to evolve. Early in the war, we borrowed the mantra of “winning hearts and minds” from earlier insurgent wars. But we realized Iraqis didn’t want Vietnam-era slogans, and they certainly didn’t want to be like us; instead they wanted security, reliability, and partnership. We shifted our thinking toward “gaining trust and confidence” with both Iraqi soldiers and civilians, and we showed it by fighting alongside them rather than merely operating around them. It was an adaptation—not just in tactics, but in mindset, language, and operational approach.
Michigan Should Follow Mississippi’s Lead on Reading
Mackinac Center outlines steps for literacy improvement in Michigan
Nearly two-thirds of Michigan students cannot read proficiently, and the state now ranks in the bottom 10 nationally for literacy. A new Mackinac Center report shows how Mississippi reversed a similar crisis — and how Michigan lawmakers can do the same.
The report, “Mississippi Learning: Lessons on Literacy Laws for Michigan Lawmakers,” details how the Magnolia State climbed from 49th in fourth grade reading in 2013 to ninth in 2024. Mississippi lawmakers established a strong literacy law, and school officials faithfully implemented it. The law required early screening, evidence-based instruction and third grade retention policies tied to reading proficiency.
“Mississippi’s success wasn’t a miracle — it was the result of clear expectations, early intervention and accountability,” said Molly Macek, director of education policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and author of the study. “If Michigan wants better results, it must follow through with implementation and ensure all students can read before they leave third grade.”
The Mackinac Center report recommends that Michigan policymakers:
Clarence Thomas becomes the second longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history
The first baby boomer on the Supreme Court hit a milestone on Thursday, becoming the second-longest serving justice in history at a time when his influence has never seemed greater.
Once an outlier on the nation’s highest court, Justice Clarence Thomas has become a towering figure in the conservative legal movement over the last decade as he helped secure landmark rulings on abortion, voting and Second Amendment rights.
The only justice with a longer tenure is liberal William O. Douglas. Thomas would overtake Douglas in 2028 if he remains on the court — and there’s no sign he plans to retire anytime soon.
“I think he’s more energized and excited now than when I first met him,” said John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who served in Republican President George W. Bush’s administration after his time as a Thomas clerk three decades ago.
Thomas was confirmed in 1991 after contentious hearings that included sexual harassment allegations. More recently, his acceptance of luxury trips has raised a storm of ethics questions. He’s nevertheless gone from near-silence at oral arguments to asking the first questions and penning a landmark ruling expanding Second Amendment rights.
Susie Wiles isn’t ‘leaving anytime soon’
Susie Wiles “was going to be an English teacher” and, in her own words, became one of the most powerful women in the world by “happenstance.”
Wiles, the first-ever female White House chief of staff, has one of the lowest public profiles within President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. But she was the center of attention at the International Women’s Forum annual gala on Thursday night. The “Ice Maiden,” as she’s affectionately known within the White House, was the recipient of IWF’s Barbara K. Olson Woman of Valor Award, and she spent a few moments reflecting on her decades-long career behind the scenes of many a winning campaign.
“It’s not about me. I mean, that’s why it’s easy to have it not about me. I’m not on the ballot. I just have a team, and the team is incredible. Many of them have been with me and with President Trump for years, and so it is easy to not be personal about it, because it just doesn’t require that,” she told the crowd during a fireside chat with IWF Chairwoman Heather Higgins.
The Democratic civil war is just getting started for Chuck Schumer
Chuck Schumer’s headaches may only just be getting started after the Senate minority leader’s handpicked candidate to take down Sen. Susan Collins was forced to drop out early in Maine’s Democratic primary.
Why it matters: Progressive candidates are mounting serious, well-funded campaigns against more traditional Democrats in Senate primaries across the country.
Moderate Democrats are worried that progressive candidates, especially those with baggage, will hurt their chances of flipping key Senate seats if nominated.
Progressives argue that party leaders are relying on an outdated, cookie-cutter formula to determine who is “electable.”
After oyster farmer Graham Platner became the Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine over Gov. Janet Mills, Senate leaders have more anti-establishment fights ahead.
Trump’s new culture of government reform delivers more life-saving benefits to veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Sunday a major improvement in services delivered, an overhaul that reflects the president’s term-two ethos and broader blueprint for federal efficiency. It is hoped by proponents that it could prove that targeted reforms and accountability can deliver tangible results for those who served, without Washington’s perpetual bureaucratic bloat.
The VA says they have dramatically sped up the delivery of benefits to veterans and their survivors, slashing average processing times for disability claims from 141.5 days to 80.7 days since the start of Trump’s second administration, the agency announced.
In a post on X on Sunday, VA Secretary Doug Collins credited the improvements to focused leadership under Trump, saying the department is now “delivering benefits faster than ever.” The backlog of pending claims has dropped below 80,000 for the first time in years, according to Collins, allowing more veterans and families to receive earned payments more quickly.
The gains extend beyond disability claims. The average processing time for initial veterans pension claims fell from 170 days to 57 days, a 66% reduction, while survivors’ pension claims dropped from 172 days to 73 days and dependency and indemnity compensation claims decreased from 163 days to 73 days, according to the VA news release linked in the post.
Burial claims processing time was cut from 70 days to 31 days.
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