Author: Bob Weeks
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Pentagon Transformation: Hegseth Announces “Department of War” Overhaul at National War College
In a speech echoing Donald Rumsfeld’s words from September 10, 2001, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared war on the Pentagon’s own bureaucracy – canceling the 300-day requirements process, collapsing 3-8 year acquisition timelines to under one year, and warning defense contractors to embrace “wartime speed” or be “gone.” The transformation renames the Department of Defense…
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Get Your 50-Year Mortgage Here
President Donald J. Trump’s administration recently floated the 50-year mortgage as something that would help make homes more affordable.
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Trump’s Privately Funded White House Ballroom: Risks, Ethics, and Historical Context
President Donald Trump’s proposal to construct a large, privately funded ballroom on the White House grounds has generated widespread concern over transparency, donor influence, and the preservation of a historic federal landmark. While presidents have overseen renovations to the White House in the past, the scale, financing structure, and political context of this project make…
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Fox News Interview: Healthcare Claims, Murder Statistics, and Economic Assertions
President Trump’s November 10, 2025 interview with Laura Ingraham contained a mixture of false claims, accurate statements, and assertions requiring substantial context. The interview demonstrated a pattern common in Trump’s public statements: mixing accurate observations about economic trends with significantly false claims about policy proposals and immigration statistics. The most serious inaccuracies involved mischaracterizing Democratic…
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Trump Discusses Government Shutdown, China Policy, and Controversial Positions in Fox News Interview
President Trump clashed with Fox News host Laura Ingraham over allowing 600,000 Chinese students in U.S. universities, defended demolishing the White House East Wing for a $250 million privately-funded ballroom, and claimed Democrats wanted $1.5 trillion for healthcare for “11,888 murderers” who entered the country illegally.
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Analysis of Oregon v. Trump: Federal Court Ruling on National Guard Deployment
This is significant constitutional case, raising profound questions about the balance between security and liberty, federal and state power. The court sided decisively with the Founders’ caution about military power, requiring genuine emergency conditions, not mere law enforcement difficulties, before soldiers can be deployed domestically.
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Analysis of the James Comey Criminal Case: Motion to Dismiss and Government Response
FBI Director James Comey, who was fired for his handling of the FBI’s investigation into Trump, may now become the test case for whether a President can use prosecutorial power against political enemies – the very thing Comey warned about when Trump first took office. Comey argues vindictive and selective prosecution. This is an analysis…
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Trump and Orbán Bilateral Meeting: Hungary Seeks Russian Energy Exemption as Leaders Discuss Ukraine Peace, Immigration, and “Golden Age” in Relations
Trump and Orbán Bilateral Meeting: Hungary Seeks Russian Energy Exemption as Leaders Discuss Ukraine Peace, Immigration, and “Golden Age” in Relations.
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The Tucker Carlson – Nick Fuentes Interview: A Fracture In American Conservatism
The Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes interview controversy matters not because one conversation will determine American politics, but because it concentrates multiple tensions within conservatism into a single episode. It forces questions about movement boundaries, leadership accountability, institutional authority, and ideological coherence that conservatives would prefer to avoid but can no longer ignore.
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President Trump Misinforms America on Thanksgiving Prices
President Trump claims prices of a Thanksgiving dinner have declined, but the data he cites does not support his conclusion.
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The $80 Billion Nuclear Bet: Understanding the Trump Administration’s Westinghouse Deal
The core question is not whether nuclear power has technical merit. Rather, it’s whether this particular arrangement represents sound policy or a costly mistake that mixes industrial policy with crony capitalism. Is this another step towards Trump’s version of state capitalism, or even outright socialism?
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Trump Announces GLP-1 Agreement, Discusses Tariffs, Shutdown, Other Topics
The meeting covered drug pricing details, Most Favored Nations policy, Medicare/Medicaid expansion, TrumpRx.gov platform, manufacturing investments, negotiation process, tariff strategy, Supreme Court case, the medical incident, CEO remarks, FDA vouchers, safety questions, MAHA movement, and extensive Q&A on government shutdown, air traffic control, Thanksgiving costs, India relations, NYC politics, and healthcare reform.