https://redstate.com/erick/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usMon, 11 May 2026 07:17:58 -0400<![CDATA[The other day, the oddest thing happened. I went outside, and parts of the sky were a strange color, sort of a pale blue, and there was this big, bright thing up there. Not sure what was going on, but I think it triggered some ancient memories.]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Alaska]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/11/alaska-man-monday-plane-crashes-armed-teachers-and-real-estate-n2202191<![CDATA[Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has sparked a lot of outrage after comments he made on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan about the status of our armaments at this point in the fight with Iran.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 21:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Face the Nation]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Mark Kelly]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/10/mark-kelly-remarks-about-depletion-of-weapons-n2202206<![CDATA[We're all worried (at least, most of us are) about what our kids and grandkids are listening to and watching online. My kids are all grown long since and can watch whatever they like; two of my six grandkids are also adults now. But we still have little ones in the family, they have their tablets to watch dinosaur videos, baby ducks, and monster trucks on. The question is, what else are they watching?]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 18:34:27 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/10/drawing-beards-how-uk-kids-bypass-new-online-age-gates-n2202205<![CDATA[The Iranian regime has finally sent back its response to the U.S. on the question of a peace deal. But with Iran, you have to know going in that they are giving you something that looks like movement, while having a whole lot of "gaps" in the meantime, as the Wall Street Journal phrased it.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 16:53:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[White House]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/10/heres-irans-response-on-deal-and-trumps-reply-n2202203<![CDATA[In recent years, most of us who follow politics have become pretty jaded. Outrageous things happen, outrageous acts are perpetrated, usually by the left, and nothing ever seems to be done about it. That's changing some now, with the Trump Department of Justice looking to bring some people to account for some of the more egregious acts.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 16:36:38 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[January 6]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Kash Patel]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/10/white-house-official-bombshell-new-2020-election-truth-about-to-be-revealed-n2202204<![CDATA[President Donald Trump made an interesting comment about the Iranian regime's nuclear material on Sunday that's likely to make them very nervous.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 16:22:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Space]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/10/trump-remarks-on-nuclear-material-n2202200<![CDATA[Rodents are potent disease vectors. Bubonic plague, leptospirosis, salmonella, tularemia, hantavirus, and typhus can all be spread by mice and rats, either by direct contact, through contact with their droppings, or by the fleas that infest them.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 15:33:34 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Science]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/10/you-wont-believe-how-a-simple-birdwatching-stop-created-the-hantavirus-cruise-outbreak-n2202201<![CDATA[The Virginia Supreme Court’s decision to throw out a voter-approved redistricting amendment has House Democrats scrambling, and at least one option on the table would require blowing up the state’s entire Supreme Court to get there.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 15:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[Joe Cunningham]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/joesquire/2026/05/10/democrats-plot-coup-against-virginia-supreme-court-in-redistricting-fight-n2202202<![CDATA["Mother's Day is every day."&nbsp;]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 14:50:41 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/05/10/spencer-pratts-raw-and-real-mothers-day-video-n2202194<![CDATA[Steve Hilton has a simple message for California voters, and he delivered it on Fox Business Sunday morning: you're paying the highest taxes in the country, getting the worst results, and Sacramento Democrats have no intention of changing either.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/10/steve-hilton-exposes-the-real-cost-of-gavin-newsoms-california-n2202198<![CDATA[Former President Joe Biden plans to go to court to block the Trump administration from releasing roughly 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of his conversations with a ghostwriter, the Justice Department said in new court filings Friday.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[Joe Cunningham]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://redstate.com/joesquire/2026/05/10/biden-moves-to-block-release-of-70-hours-of-audio-recordings-with-ghostwriter-n2202199<![CDATA[I suspect a severe lesson is about to be incoming for the Iranian regime after their&nbsp;actions on Sunday.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 12:05:35 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Qatar]]><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/10/iran-hits-us-flagged-tanker-n2202190<![CDATA[China is the United States' primary geopolitical rival now. The Middle Kingdom has been arming up, building a navy, and casting a speculative eye at Taiwan - and some other places in the western Pacific. This is the only country right now that could engage the United States in anything like a near-peer conflict.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 12:03:52 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/10/trump-xi-beijing-showdown-technology-trade-deficit-and-human-rights-n2202195<![CDATA[Happy Sunday, and welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. What do you suppose caught people's attention in yet another eventful week? Grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger if you're so inclined), and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:45:58 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[Trump Assassination Attempt]]><![CDATA[Weekly Briefing]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/05/10/redstate-weekly-briefing-n2202193<![CDATA[You can always count on the left to be vocal champions of free speech. Until, that is, someone disagrees with them. Then, that person's speech suddenly becomes "hate speech" or "misinformation," and the speaker requires silencing - or re-education. In the latest such incident of free speech suppression, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has transferred an experienced NYPD captain into what sure looks like a punishment posting after he spoke out against the Big Apple's "democratic socialist" Mayor Zohran Mamdani.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:20:16 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/10/mamdanis-no-speech-zone-nypd-transfers-captain-for-daring-to-say-not-my-mayor-n2202192<![CDATA[Kamryn Jones is 24: legally blind, largely non-verbal, cognitively functioning at the level of a toddler. Two Medicaid-funded caregivers around the clock. Her parents allege it still wasn't enough.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 10:20:17 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Caregiving]]><![CDATA[CBS News]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Maryland]]><![CDATA[Medicaid]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/10/maryland-let-a-blind-non-verbal-woman-get-raped-under-state-supervised-care-the-rapist-is-still-free-n2202189<![CDATA[Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper is&nbsp;urging federal regulators to investigate Sysco's proposed acquisition of Restaurant Depot. The merger, Harper warns, could hand even more influence over America's food supply chain to Wall Street-backed corporate giants tied to firms like BlackRock and Vanguard — the same asset managers now facing a federal antitrust challenge over allegations they coordinated pressure campaigns tied to coal production.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 09:35:51 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Georgia]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/10/the-same-wall-street-giants-accused-in-coal-collusion-are-now-facing-scrutiny-over-americas-food-supply-n2202188<![CDATA[James Carville has always been known for many things, but being subtle isn’t one of them. The Democratic strategist responsible for putting Bill Clinton in the White House is now telling Democrats to cut past the faux-moderate messaging and just downright commit to their radical agenda. Maybe he thought he was just whispering into their ears, but conservatives heard it, and if they’re smart, they could use this as the most honest campaign ad they’ll ever get for completely free of charge.]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[RedState Guest Editorial]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[James Carville]]><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2026/05/10/backus-theyre-telling-you-exactly-what-theyll-do-but-is-anyone-listening-n2202176<![CDATA[This may be one of the more baffling and frightening stories you will hear about something happening at an airport and/or during air travel. Late Friday night, as the flight crew of a commerial airplane was beginning its takeoff at a major U.S. airport, the combination of what came to pass could only be described as chaotic. Luckily, almost everyone involved got through it unscathed, with just minor injuries. One man who made a careless choice was not so fortunate.]]>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becca Lower]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[TSA]]>https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/05/09/chaotic-flight-crew-reports-they-hit-pedestrian-on-tarmac-of-denver-airport-n2202169<![CDATA[Well, this would be a great Mother's Day gift for a lot of Russian and Ukrainian mothers who are worried about their sons being maimed or killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War; Russia's Tsar Vladimir Putin, speaking to reporters, indicated that the war was "nearing completion." It's a completion that, if it happens, will end a conflict that has killed, by most estimates, 1.8 million people, making it the biggest European conflict since 1945.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 09 May 2026 20:52:55 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]><![CDATA[Volodymyr Zelensky]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/09/peace-putin-indicates-russo-ukraine-war-now-moving-toward-completion-n2202187