https://redstate.com/coldwarrior/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usMon, 24 Aug 2026 18:14:10 -0400<![CDATA[To those of us who watched it all in real time, the horrific events of September 11, 2001, still seem like yesterday. But for those who lost loved ones that awful day, they continue to relive that pain every day. Since that day, efforts have continued to identify victims. Now, however, a new method may make those identifications easier, even after all this time. But for true crime fans, it might be something already familiar.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:00:57 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[Angel Families]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/08/24/new-technology-may-bring-closure-to-more-families-as-911-25th-anniversary-nears-n2206007<![CDATA[Fresh off a Muslim foot-washing controversy that ended in the Texas governor threatening legal action and DFW airport backing out, we’ve now got a real doozy of a story about the Girl Scouts.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:56:34 -0400<![CDATA[Kyle Becker]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Maryland]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/08/24/girl-scouts-of-america-offers-muslim-badges-wait-til-you-hear-how-to-earn-them-n2206010<![CDATA[Never let it be said that the Trump administration or, in particular, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is afraid to take bold steps. One in a while, though, a certain action has the chance of making more than a few people think, "I hope he knows what he's doing."]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:47:16 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Syria]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/24/this-is-big-syria-no-longer-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-n2206012<![CDATA[The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major win on Monday afternoon, staying a lower-court injunction that had blocked key provisions of President Trump's election-integrity executive order from being implemented against 23 states and D.C. for the 2026 midterms.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:38:19 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/08/24/breaking-scotus-hands-trump-big-win-on-election-integrity-order-ahead-of-midterms-n2206011<![CDATA[In the aftermath of the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk last September, some despicable things were said on social media by the "compassionate left" that were vile and celebratory in nature. In some particularly disturbing cases, some leftists suggested other popular conservative commentators - and perhaps Kirk's family members - should be next.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:32:44 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Washington Post]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/24/hot-takes-wapo-columnist-who-got-reinstated-gets-it-wrong-about-charlie-kirk-again-n2206005<![CDATA[The Democrat nominee for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, is now mired in yet another controversy of his own making.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:00:19 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/24/new-el-sayed-piker-controversy-n2206002<![CDATA[Despite Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s multiple efforts to thwart U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from trying to clean up Joe Biden’s illegal alien mess, ICE swooped into the Cavalier State — and Maryland too — and nabbed almost 1,500 “undocumented immigrants” (otherwise known as people who have broken our laws to get here).]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:18:16 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Markwayne Mullin]]><![CDATA[Maryland]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/24/govs-spanberger-and-moore-going-to-be-big-mad-as-ice-swoops-down-on-va-md-arrests-1300-n2206008<![CDATA[Corporations that rely on foreign guest workers to fill jobs American workers could hold are about to face a steep new bill. The Department of Homeland Security filed a proposed rule Monday that would add $103,265 to the cost of every cap-subject H-1B petition, a price the administration says is long overdue.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:10:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Alejandro Mayorkas]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Harvard University]]><![CDATA[Jobs]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/24/court-knocks-down-trumps-h-1b-fee-so-he-builds-it-3265-taller-n2206006<![CDATA[The idea of a plane that can land on and take off again from water isn't a new thing. Landing on water is easy, but it's taking off again that's the trick, which is why flying boats, as they came to be called, were a common thing back before the country was so liberally dotted with airfields. The United States and other countries made heavy use of them, right up through the Cold War. But the idea goes back to the very beginnings of powered flight. There are two basic designs: a small airplane fitted with floats instead of wheeled landing gear, and a larger model where the fuselage itself is, essentially, a boat with wings. Most of these used in military applications are of the latter sort.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:49:08 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Japan]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Department of War]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/24/does-americas-military-now-need-seaplanes-again-n2206004<![CDATA[A female pilot showed she had the "right stuff" as her family plane was about to crash-land in the Atlantic Ocean.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:25:58 -0400<![CDATA[Kyle Becker]]><![CDATA[ABC News]]><![CDATA[Feel Good Friday]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[The Atlantic]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/08/24/heroic-female-pilot-dodges-swimmers-paddleboarders-as-she-crash-lands-into-atlantic-ocean-n2205988<![CDATA[I’m not going to lie: the numbers are still daunting, because California is dominated by a 16-year-long one-party leftist rule and a union stranglehold on virtually all the levers of power. This, after all, is the state that watched Gov. Gavin Newsom begin his quest to burn the state to the ground and rewarded him with another term so he could finish the job.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:57:53 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Polling]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/24/so-youre-saying-theres-a-chance-polling-in-ca-gubernatorial-race-takes-surprising-twist-n2205999<![CDATA[President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had been warning the Iranian regime that "Economic D-Day" was coming if they didn't make a deal.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:53:34 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/24/bessent-remarks-on-operation-economic-outcast-n2205997<![CDATA[In a recent phone interview with Noam Amir, the military correspondent for Israel's Channel 14, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu let slip the news of what he described as an Iranian assassination plot, which Netanyahu said was aimed at one of his sons. The plot was not successful.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:19:41 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/24/new-iranian-assassination-bid-against-netanyahus-son-revealed-n2206000<![CDATA[There's an old saying from my younger years: When the load gets tough, the tough get loaded.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:46:12 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[History]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/24/why-are-baby-boomers-now-smoking-more-pot-n2205994<![CDATA[As we’ve reported, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been recruiting gamers to man air traffic control towers because the competitive ones have mastered the art of the controller and managing streams of data hitting their consciousness all at once.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:42:22 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Sean Duffy]]><![CDATA[One Big Beautiful Bill]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/24/stop-cancelling-my-flight-sean-duffy-previews-major-air-traffic-control-software-overhaul-n2205995<![CDATA[Vice-President JD Vance was in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, to deliver remarks at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works, a steel mill, on Friday.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:50:09 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Jobs]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/24/vance-delivers-fun-surprise-to-ladies-at-donut-shop-n2205990<![CDATA[The Trump administration has come out swinging after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spent the weekend acting as if Canada was preparing for an all-out economic war with the United States. President Trump appears to have heard Carney's bluster and has decided to show the prime minister what an economic war with the U.S. might look like.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:17:06 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Tariffs]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/24/admin-responds-to-carney-saying-canada-is-at-war-with-the-us-n2205992<![CDATA[Notwithstanding the protestations of Attorney General Todd Blanche and others that it was a grand jury that indicted disgraced ex-FBI Director James Comey, one could be forgiven for thinking his current prosecution seems a bit petty on its face.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:45:43 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Sellers]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[James Comey]]><![CDATA[North Carolina]]>https://redstate.com/ben-sellers/2026/08/24/comeys-case-looks-increasingly-like-a-reverse-mueller-probe-and-were-here-for-it-n2205991<![CDATA[If you are over the age of fifty, you might hear the words "Gary, Indiana" and instantly think of The Music Man.]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:30:40 -0400<![CDATA[Kyle Becker]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Gary Peters]]><![CDATA[Indiana]]>https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/08/24/environmental-racism-gary-indiana-man-in-shambles-after-finding-out-actual-cause-of-blackout-n2205986<![CDATA[As we reported earlier, it looks like Iran may be on the brink.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:25:46 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/24/trump-post-iran-completely-collapsing-n2205982