National confidence, unfortunately, is in short supply these days. In this season of springtime renewal, Americans would do well to look up — literally. Artemis II, NASA’s first meaningful manned space mission in over a half-century, has taken the nation by storm this month. In so doing, it has provided a timely reminder of what a great nation, acting with confidence and clarity of purpose, can still achieve.
New York may be the greatest city on Earth – but don’t count its mayor, Zohran Mamdani, among its fans.
According to Mamdani, New York City is little more than a cesspit of racism and white supremacy, and has been ever since it was stumbled upon by the Dutch in the 17th century. ‘New York’s history has been one of colonisation, exploitation and racial oppression’, states the mayor’s recently released Citywide Racial Equity Plan. The city’s ‘racial inequalities’, it asserts, are ‘rooted in our 400-year history’, beginning with the European settlement of New Amsterdam in 1624 and continuing unabated until, we can only suppose, Mamdani’s election as mayor in November.
Americans never tire of asking themselves whether their country is turning into Rome. A Latin motto on the Great Seal of the United States proclaims a novus ordo seclorum – a “new order of ages.” But in the poem from which that phrase is adapted, Virgil’s fourth eclogue, the words mean a quite exact replay of past events: there will be, for example, another voyage of the Argo and another Trojan War. Our new order might likewise repeat the history of Rome.
As a professor at Georgetown University and Washington Post columnist, Shadi Hamid is a made guy in today’s leftist establishment, and it is from those positions of oracular authority that he has delivered a sobering message to the growing movement to ban Sharia in the United States. In the WaPo on Wednesday, he declared that Muslims should not have to assimilate into American society and should not be expected to do so, and that efforts to ban Sharia were not only bigoted and “Islamophobic,” but also futile, as Muslims simply weren’t going to give Sharia up. And he’s right about that part, albeit in the midst of being wildly disingenuous about the nature of Sharia itself.
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The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end. pic.twitter.com/1yjAgHEOYl
— NASA (@NASA) April 11, 2026
Four British nationals were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in a remote stretch of Somerset County woods after illegally crossing from Canada into the United States on April 3, federal court documents filed this week reveal.
One of them captured the whole thing on a GoPro camera, narrating a celebration as the group set foot on American soil.
h/t handy n handsome
Nobody got too excited about it, but there was an Islamic State (ISIS) attempted bombing in New York City a few weeks ago, and new details are emerging about exactly what happened. Now dashcam footage capturing a conversation between the two would-be jihad murderers has just emerged, and it further sets the record straight about one of the most wildly misreported events of our propaganda-laden age.
A grumpy veto president is exactly what Trump haters should most fear.
The 1949 NATO treaty was ratified by the Senate. The agreement is that an attack on one member is an attack on all of them. NATO members are required to participate in mutual defense efforts.
Since U.S. NATO membership arises from a Senate ratified treaty, the Senate would have to approve withdrawal from NATO; however, there are enough Senate Democrats and RINO Republicans to block NATO exit.
WASHINGTON — Today two of the most powerful committees in Washington have jointly demanded that the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department take immediate enforcement action against Chinese Communist Party-linked organizations operating inside America’s tax-exempt sector — citing, among other evidence, the same New York diaspora networks that featured prominently in the high-profile foreign influence prosecution of former New York State government aide Linda Sun, and in investigative reporting by The Bureau and the New York Times into Chinese consulate influence over New York City elections.
SHERIDAN Gorman’s face has haunted me ever since I first saw it online. It’s a rather nice face, actually quite a lovely face, the face of a vivacious young woman on the cusp of adult life and independence. It’s the face of a young woman other young women would like to befriend, and that teachers would be happy to have in their classes. I suspect it’s also the face of someone who had much to give, was a benefit and a blessing to all who knew her, and someone who went out of her way to serve others and put them at their ease, able to elevate the collective mood of any room she entered.
A former international student in Canada has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge Wednesday, telling the court it was a “morally reprehensible idea” to support the Islamic State group by plotting to use automatic weapons to kill Jewish people at a Brooklyn centre.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 21, said he answered the group’s call for Muslims to kill Jewish people by plotting to attack the Jewish centre in October 2024.
Oh but he’s reformed!
You can’t screen because all Muslims believe in Jihad so ban them all.
At a CUNY-hosted conference, apologists for Cuba’s Communist regime planned street protests and discussed strategies for bypassing U.S. sanctions.
On March 14 and 15, the City University of New York hosted a U.S.–Cuba normalization conference titled “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” At the gathering, activists praised Iranian drones, touted Cuba’s intelligence apparatus, and outlined an “action plan” centered on sustained street protests.
First Lady Melania Trump is pushing back on claims she was linked to the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a surprise address at the White House.
‘I am not Epstein’s victim,’ she stated during the address on Thursday afternoon. ‘Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband by chance at a New York City party in 1998.’
Trump and Melania met that year at the Kit Kat Klub in New York when the former supermodel was 28 years old. Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agency boss who is serving as Trump’s special envoy for global partnerships, claims he introduced the couple. They later married in 2005.
JUST IN: First Lady Melania Trump calls on Congress to act regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
The comment came after the first lady ripped those, including Democrat strategist James Carville, for spreading “baseless lies” about her.
“My attorneys and I have fought these unfounded and… pic.twitter.com/j3JKRNLCdH
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 9, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid is making the case that Muslims don’t need to assimilate in America.
“The assimilation defense — look how well we’ve integrated — is satisfying to make. But it concedes a premise I no longer accept: that a minority community’s right to be in the United States depends on its willingness to converge with the cultural mainstream. It shouldn’t depend on that. It shouldn’t depend on anything,” Hamid wrote Wednesday.
I agree they shouldn’t have to assimilate because they shouldn’t be here to begin with.
The FBI has arrested a former military special operations employee accused of providing classified information to the media, the agency’s director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday.
The US Department of Justice said in a press release that the former employee, identified as Courtney Williams, 40, was arrested on Tuesday and indicted on Wednesday for allegedly sharing classified material with a journalist.
While the journalist is not named in the criminal complaint, Williams was interviewed by the investigative reporter Seth Harp for his 2025 nonfiction book about Fort Bragg, the North Carolina headquarters of the US Army’s Delta Force, a clandestine special operations unit.
