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Sitcom viewers will recall the “Soup Nazi” from Seinfeld, but the famous Soup Nazi needs to yield to the latest iteration of this low form of comedy, as this week’s episode features the person who has been called “the Shampoo Nazi”—Charles Haywood. We would have thought that people named “EricKKK EricKKKson” (see how easy it […]

Donald Trump’s outrageous demands and confrontational rhetoric may be more calculated than his critics realize. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down Trump’s “art of the deal” strategy, from threats to retake the Panama Canal and acquire Greenland to his pressure campaigns against Canada and NATO. Hanson argues that Trump’s willingness to make extreme demands, provoke outrage, […]

There’s good news and bad news, Toto: We are still in Kansas, but it’s not the safe state we’d grown used to. With the midterms less than a month away, and reports confirming the GOP’s move to divert funds to tightening races in the agricultural belt, Henry opts to fly solo this week to survey […]

Erick makes the case that the Republican midterm bloodbath is overstated, backing Ken Paxton over James Talarico in Texas and Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, with a look at Senate races in Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio and North Carolina. He then digs into the new CBS News report on the Iranian attack on Camp […]

Erick opens with a Gulf Coast hurricane warning for Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, then breaks down the New York Fed report showing tariffs raised prices on 67 categories of goods by 2.9 percentage points, plus Morgan Stanley data on the stock market slump and an AI boom holding up the economy. He defends Treasury […]

Erick turns a left-lane road rage story, complete with his Claude voice assistant joking about driver stereotypes, into a sermon on America as a low-trust society, from McDonald’s free refills to razor blades locked behind glass, with Jeff Bezos on Fox News defending success. He also takes on the code enforcers threatening a San Jose […]

President Trump is firing back at Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Marco Rubio delivers a powerful speech, and new questions emerge about the Biden administration’s handling of national security threats. Plus, Brandon Gill sounds the alarm on Somali immigration and fraud, Kathy Hochul brags about refusing to cooperate with ICE, and the Chicks react to […]

Why are diesel prices soaring, and why doesn’t American energy independence shield consumers from global shocks? Richard Epstein discusses how war, restrictions on pipelines, and strained international relationships affect energy supplies. He also looks at the limits of energy self-sufficiency, the risks of disrupting global trade, and why expanding supply is essential to easing pressure […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Thursday 3 Martini Lunch as they discuss Secretary of State Marco Rubio praising and defending Western Civilization, an Islamist terrorism plot against the Mall of America getting foiled, Democrats pretending to be against boys in girls sports at a politically convenient time, and the coffee shop celebrating the 10/7 […]

In this episode, we are joined by Chris Miller for a clear-minded and sobering discussion of the future of AI. The geopolitical competition between the United States and China in the field of artificial intelligence is the arms race of the 21st century, yet in this case, the product is self-improving. Some warn it could […]