Jeanie Hannaman

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal - Last time I talked about our North American problems with Canada. Now I want to turn the emphasis to Mexico... President Donald Trump has threatened all sorts of trade sanctions on Mexico, a 25% tariff. But why is he doing this? And I think the answer is there’s four things that Mexico knows it has been doing to us with impunity, especially under Joe Biden, that are not sustainable. ...

By Elle Purnell, Elections Editor, The Federalist - When Donald Trump first sailed into the Oval Office, his detractors shrieked that his blunt rhetoric was dividing the country. His supporters pointed out that Trump wasn’t so much creating division as he was revealing divisions that had been growing in America for a long time... The reaction to the novel Wuhan coronavirus did the country a similar service, by revealing a new fault line: two sets of rules, which were applied differently to Americans depending on their membership in certain political cliques.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - Last week President Trump said farmers in South Africa who are facing confiscation of their lands without compensation under a new land expropriation law could be offered an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship... What was important about Trump’s response, though, is that by offering Afrikaner farmers an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship, the president acknowledged that America isn’t just an idea but a nation... Prioritizing certain foreigners over others is a repudiation of the popular but fatuous notion that any person from any culture or part of the world can become an American simply by going through a neutral administrative process. In other words, it matters where you come from, what you believe, and how you live.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV - In recent days, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reported a wide-ranging list of dubious federal government expenditures of taxpayers’ hard-earned money that have now been cancelled. Here are just a few of the most egregious contracts cancelled... Americans no longer have to pay for lucrative contracts outsourcing plant-watering and something called an “enterprise mail management program”: “The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge.”