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Coons was trying to highlight his party's issue with the Trump administration looking to get involved with Greenland for the sake of national security. As Townhall covered all last week, Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance traveled to Greenland, where they met with American Guardians at a U.S. Space Force base on the island. The Democratic senator claims he wants to see the administration focus on other issues, arguing that perhaps Americans are hoping for that as well. He couldn't just say that, though. He had to insult these Americans in the process as well. In...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was signing an executive order to give tech billionaire Elon Musk more power over the federal workforce, adding to Musk's swift and sweeping consolidation of political influence. With Musk standing to his right in the Oval Office, Trump praised the work of his office, known as the Department of Government Efficiency Service (DOGE). And Trump said he wanted Musk to now do more, even as DOGE faces multiple lawsuits from labor unions and Democratic state attorneys general over whether it is acting within the law.

Russia is facing a critical challenge to its war effort in 2025: The nation is quickly running out of cash, with financial reserves potentially running out before the end of the year, according to estimates from one European economist. Anders Åslund, a Swedish economist and a former fellow at the Atlantic Council, thinks liquid reserves in Russia's National Wealth Fund could potentially be depleted by the fall of this year. That spells trouble for the nation's military efforts in 2025, he said, given how heavily Russia has relied on its wealth fund over the last several years. Liquid reserves in...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) warned Senate Republicans not to overrule parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough if some desired border security provisions are thrown out. Such a move would be akin to nuking the legislative filibuster, the new Republican leader said... Senate Republicans could seek out sweeping border policy changes that would be prohibited under reconciliation rules. Thune’s ruling should stop such a move that would step over the respected MacDonough. She’s served the Senate since 2012 and holds bipartisan praise. Thune lauded her in 2015 when Republicans sought to repeal portions of Obamacare....

We see eye-to-eye in most situations, but when it comes to Trump she is extremely set in her ways. She constantly says how much she hates him whenever he's on the news, and repeatedly asks me how I can possibly support him.We had to turn off the debate between Trump and Kamala Harris halfway through because we couldn't stop arguing. I don't think our marriage would have survived a second debate!So, as the election approaches, we've decided to stop talking about politics altogether. We've stopped watching the news when we're both at home. We don't discuss what we are reading.This...

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he will be voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential election. The former Republican governor of California shared his shock endorsement on X Wednesday. 'I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians,' the actor wrote. Despite that, the Terminator star, 77, said that it's time for the country 'to move forward,' and that 'the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.' 'We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is the type of "progressive sex symbol" modern women want, a liberal Washington Post columnist argued in her column published Friday. "Move over, Ryan Gosling. The modern female fantasy is embodied by the man who might soon become our first First Gentleman,"Catherine Rampell wrote. Since Gov. Tim Walz joined the 2024 Democratic ticket, media figures and Harris supporters have argued that Walz and Emhoff embrace a more modern version of masculinity that men should aspire to. In leaving his prestigious law career to support Vice President Harris after the 2020 presidential race, Emhoff showed he was...

Karl Rove joined the chorus of voices impressed by former First Lady Michelle Obama for her performance at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday while also praising Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff for humanizing Vice President Kamala Harris in an appearance on Fox Business Network Wednesday.After playing a clip from Obama’s speech, host Stuart Varney noted that it was “very well-received” before turning to Rove and asking if it was also “very effective.” “Oh, absolutely — she was the star of the evening, outshone her husband,” replied the former advisor to George W. Bush. “In fact, I think Doug Emhoff outshone...

Have noticed now twice on video of Tim Walz with the "nominee" in public events-- giving the palms together raised gesture normally seen perhaps in India at a Hindu event or a jazz show-- the "Namaste". He purports to be a Presbyterian "christian" at a congregation that has guidebook indicating that God should not be referred to as "Him" (something Athiests relegate to "he must never be capitalized"- yes that petty). Check it out- and spread it around. We are not a COMMUNE- we are the United States of America. We are not a non-sovereign nation, we are not a...

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz attends a church that preaches beliefs related to gender, race and sexuality that many Christian denominations strongly oppose. Walz, who is the governor of Minnesota, identified Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul as his parish during a 2020 briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord’s Prayer, among other liberal practices. Pilgrim Lutheran Church is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church...

His eyes are trained on a January move to the White House, but right now potential First Gentleman Doug Emhoff is in the doghouse. On Saturday DailyMail.com broke the news that Emhoff's first marriage ended when he got his children's nanny pregnant. Now, we can reveal, life at Number One Observatory Circle – the vice president's official residence – has been frosty to say the least.

Michael Moore has gone full Kamala — declaring “this country is female” and that white males will be “shown the door” come November. In a blog post published Monday titled “Now, We Crush Trump,” Michael Moore spelled out the steps he believes Kamala Harris needs to take in order to ensure electoral victory — namely, to lean heavily on identity politics and fully embrace the anti-Israel left, especially the enormous Muslim population in his native Michigan. Moore made no mention in his essay about Kamala Harris’ record as vice president or as a U.S. senator — her complete failure to...

VIDEOHas actor Hugh Jackman fallen on hard financial times or does he genuinely worship Bill Gates as someone who knows what is best for everybody else? The latter scenario is actually scarier than the first.

Aww: isn't he sweet? Good boy! On Monday's CNN This Morning, CNN's Dana Bash and Kasie Hunt gave Republican Lance Trover a pat on the head for being "evolved" about the supposedly disparate press treatment of male and female sports coaches. The matter arose in the context of a long Washington Post profile of LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey. After noting that the article "details her kind of pugnacious coaching personality," Hunt skeptically wondered: "Would we talk about that with a male coach? I don't know."Republican strategist Lance Trover, who recently toiled for Doug Burgum for President, replied: "I...

When any television viewer would tune in for a Kansas City Chiefs game, several times a game the TV cameras would pan to pop star Taylor Swift in some secure luxury suite. Movie stars and music legends being shown on the TV screen are nothing new. Who hasn’t viewed Jack Nicholson for any home Los Angeles Lakers game? Or anytime an alumnus such as Peyton Manning from a college program would be seen roaming the sidelines during a big game? Or some famous somebody in sports, movies, music, or politics sitting in the crowd that the network has identified?

David Letterman is certainly enchanted by Taylor Swift‘s relationship with a particular football player… or Frasier star?! According to The Daily Mail, the late night legend shared his support for the pop star and Travis Kelce‘s high-profile relationship on Instagram, but he didn’t quite get it right. “Taylor Swift — I don’t think in the history of show business, in the history of pop culture, we’ve ever witnessed anything like this,” he explained, deeming her work “tremendous.” While highlighting that Swift “fills stadiums around the world [and] puts on a three-hour show,” he proceeded to argue that “we live in...

New York CNN — Right-wing media is burning red at Taylor Swift. With the Kansas City Chiefs headed to Super Bowl LVIII, influential MAGA Media personalities have started circulating conspiracy theories about the pop superstar, promoting the deranged notion that she is part of a sprawling psychological operations plot staged by the NFL and Democratic Party to deliver the 2024 presidential election to President Joe Biden. The attacks on Swift have been steadily building for weeks (see Fox News host Jesse Watters asking on his prime time program earlier this month if Swift is a “Pentagon asset,” for example),...

Dwyane Wade’s legacy with the Miami Heat will be immortalized with a statue outside the Kaseya Center in 2024, team president Pat Riley announced on Jan. 14. It will be the first statue erected to honor a former Heat player. “When we retired his jersey in February 2020, I said Dwyane was the face of this franchise forever and I meant it,” Pat Riley said. “Dwyane’s legacy is a towering one

JUST IN: Governor Ron DeSantis gets handed a participation trophy by a man during a campaign stop in Iowa, drawing some laughs from the crowd. "Real quick before we get started. Thank you everyone. Governor DeSantis, I want to present to you this participation trophy." "Now, you're probably not gonna win the election, right? But we're proud of you for trying. He's special. He's unique and he's our little snowflake."

The video begins with DeSantis running into the hotel store in an attempt to avoid Loomer. DeSantis then stands in the store, does not purchase anything, and eventually leaves, reluctantly walking into Loomer’s questioning. ” I confronted DeSantis as he was walking into his hotel, and he hid from me inside the hotel convenience store and used his staffers, including @Kelly_Kundinger, to physically block my body. His staff also shoved me and tugged on my clothing so that DeSantis could get away from me and run into an elevator. But, I didn’t back down!!!!!”