Results for state of the union

  1. Dismantle the Deep State, Now? Yes, Please! https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/10/dismantle-the-deep-state-now-yes-please-n2197008
    We have, here in the United States, today, the embryo of Blish's planet-spanning Bureaucratic State. … We call it the Deep State, we call it the Swamp, and it's made up in large part of unaccountable executive agencies that the president … impending Bureaucratic State by returning unfettered control of the Executive Branch to the Chief Executive.…
  2. Letitia 'No One Is Above the Law' James Sued for Threatening School Board Members Over Trans Athletes https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/12/09/letitia-no-one-is-ab…hreatening-school-board-members-over-trans-athletes-n2196980
    ’s sports.The alleged threats came in a "guidance letter" [from James] that warned of the removal of any school board member who uses … There’s something called the First Amendment:"The First Amendment here reigns true, and so whether or not you have these state laws … , a state cannot come in and just erase the First Amendment out of the Constitution," Hermann said.…
  3. Adult Education: CA Public High School Reportedly Rents Itself Out for Foot-Licking, Drag Queen Videos https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/12/09/adult-education-ca-p…rents-itself-out-for-foot-licking-drag-queen-videos-n2196964
    Your tax dollars at work in the Golden State, folks.Amy Reichert, Founder of Restore San Diego, posted about the inappropriate antics … school says it wasn’t aware of the provocative nature of the video shoot. … of the agreement between CCAF and the production company, as well as the District’s community standards and policies,” the SDUHSD…
  4. Bible Verse Is Now 'Blasphemy': Hate Speech's Slippery Slope https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/09/bible-verse-is-now-blasphemy-hate-speechs-slippery-slope-n2196966
    Part of the freedoms we enjoy in that culture, in the Western world, is free speech. Or, at least, it used to be. … The words were a Biblical verse: Chapter 3, verse 16 of the Gospel according to John, “For God so loved the world that he gave his … the left, who are the all-time champions of hate.…
  5. AI's Nuclear Nightmare: Machines Now Poised to Spark Global War? https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/09/ais-nuclear-nightmare-machines-now-poised-to-spark-global-war-n2196957
    Part of their reasoning for this is that a long-standing nuclear tactic takes the form of a decapitation strike; the first round of … We were fortunate indeed that when the Soviet Union fell, none of the outgoing Soviet leadership decided to take the world down with … And what about the other nuclear nations of the world?…
  6. Tammy Duckworth Outs Herself As a Liar Seconds After Claiming She Saw Video of Drug Boat Strike https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/12/08/watch-tammy-duck…ds-after-claiming-she-saw-video-of-drug-boat-strike-n2196915
    With her own eyes.Duckworth described it as "deeply disturbing" during an appearance on CNN’s "State of the Union" Sunday, accusing … "You have seen the classified video of this particular strike, the first strike, and then the double tap, as it's known."" … Bradley, then the head of Joint Special Operations Command overseeing the operation in early September, ordered the second strike after…
  7. Hilarious: X Bodies the EU With the Perfect Response to Their Fine https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/12/07/xs-perfect-response-to-eu-fine-announcement-n2196891
    As we reported, the European Union (EU) dropped a big fine on X and Elon Musk. … The days of censorship against Americans are over, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned the EU. … was X head of product, Nikita Bier, who delivered the coup de grace to the EU for their action.…
  8. The Downfall of America's Cities: Incompetent Leadership https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/04/the-downfall-of-americas-cities-incompetent-leadership-n2196800
    Working as I am from a rural Alaskan homestead, I have been and still am an odd one to be writing about the state of America's urban … month, activists packed the Chicago Teachers Union Center for the annual conference of the National Alliance Against Racist & … The event was hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union, one of Johnson’s most aggressive backers.Let's get one thing straight right from…
  9. Wait, What? Minneapolis Police Chief Urges Residents to Call 911 on ICE Agents https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/12/03/wait-what-minneapoli…ice-chief-urges-residents-to-call-911-on-ice-agents-n2196790
    in the union. … the feds, much of it committed by the large Somali community there.City leaders are freaking out over the ICE presence, and apparently … Perhaps now he’s just trying to win back the favor of the far-left city council — or maybe he’s just had too much of the water from…
  10. The Jackson Plan for Dealing With Nullifiers and Insurrectionists https://redstate.com/adam-turner/2025/11/27/the-jackson-plan-for-dealing-with-nullifiers-and-insurrectionists-n2196607
    the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding … "… I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union …  It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality…
  11. 1945-2025: Reflecting on the Longest Stretch Without Major War https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/11/25/1945-2025-reflecting-on-the-longest-stretch-without-major-war-n2196545
    The history of mankind is a history of war. The history we are taught, the history of humanity, is punctuated by wars. … afford, the Soviet Union collapsed.But that wasn't the end of history, much as many may have thought at the time.It has also been … of the nuclear taboo—the unstated global norm that the use of nuclear weapons should be off the table.Nuclear weapons exist.…
  12. Golden State Exodus: One Taxpayer Lost Every 104 Seconds https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/11/24/golden-state-exodus-one-taxpayer-lost-every-104-seconds-n2196506
    California is losing taxpayers at a rate of one every 1 minute 44 seconds – the fastest of any state in the nation. … The once-Golden state has the nation's highest population of homeless people. … odds are there of the once-Golden State changing?…
  13. Morning Minute: Comey and His Phony Baloney https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/11/25/morning-minute-n2196536
    and the English Bill of Rights of 1689Gun controllers, including the various gun control groups, and the anti-gun attorneys general … Bessent (removal of independent agency leaders - National Credit Union Administration Board) — the Supreme Court DENIES petitioners …  The big news, of course, was the dismissal of the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James on the basis of Lindsey Halligan's…
  14. A New Wrinkle: SecState Distances U.S. From 'Unacceptable' Ukraine Proposal https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/11/23/a-new-wrinkle-secs…ate-distances-us-from-unacceptable-ukraine-proposal-n2196487
    The whole thing has evolved into a sort of high-tech version of the Great War, with lines mostly stabilized - but with one major difference … Ukraine to surrender quite a bit of territory, including all of the contested Donbass region, as well as requiring Ukraine to sharply … around a leaked peace plan for Ukraine, saying Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured them the document does not represent the Trump…
  15. Comrade Mamdani's Chinese Help https://redstate.com/erik-durneika/2025/11/22/from-beijing-with-love-n2196405
    Mamdani’s victory signals the mood of the people. … The mood of the people has been confirmed. … has been the rule of billionaires.…
  16. Here We Go Again: Federal Judge Says No to Trump's D.C. National Guard Deployment https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/11/20/here-we-go-again-fe…finds-trumps-dc-national-guard-deployment-unlawful-n2196410
    the deployment of any members of the National Guard in the District of Columbia pursuant to a series of orders and memorandums issued … on the merits of both. … First, the DOD Defendants have exceeded the bounds of their authority under Title 49 of the D.C.…
  17. MALONEY: If GOP Does Not Address Low Propensity Voter Problem, We Risk Another Trump Impeachment or Worse https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2025/11/20/mal…problem-we-risk-another-trump-impeachment-or-worse-n2196380
    we absolutely need to be all in.We’re about to see the impact of this failure play out in New York in a big way.As a result of the …  While the state may not have the same financial significance as New York, it’s still filled with millions of good, hardworking … the Founder of the PA CHASE program.…
  18. Florida Commemorates Victims of Communism Day As NYC Residents Prepare to Flee From Mamdani’s Reign https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/11/08/florida-commemor…s-nyc-residents-prepare-to-flee-from-mamdanis-reign-n2195993
    Ron DeSantis, governor of the free state of Florida, took a pointed jab at New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani during remarks … commemorating Victims of Communism Day on Friday.Victims of Communism Day was established in the Sunshine State in 2022, but takes … principles of the American republic," the governor said in a statement.Today in the state of Florida it is Victims of Communism Day.We…
  19. Foreign Policy Observers Are Playing 'Where's Waldo' With Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/11/07/foreign-policy-obser…s-waldo-with-russias-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-n2195988
    collapse of the planned Putin–Trump talks in Budapest. … Secretary of State Marco Rubio — but overplayed his hand. … the war and much closer to Moscow's point of view.…
  20. Socialist Hypocrite Mamdani Jets to Luxury Resort in Puerto Rico https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/11/06/socialist-hypocrite-mamdani-jets-to-luxury-puerto-rico-resort-n2195955
    Us older Cold War folks remember the images from inside the Soviet Union in those days; the lines of bedraggled people, wearing gray … How much more he will ask remains to be seen, but apparently asking some of the key people in the city to stay in the city is not going … in New York's government think of the optics of all this?…
  21. Trump Bids Adios to Pelosi As Only He Can, Calls Her Retirement a 'Great Thing for America' https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/11/06/trump-bids-adios-to…can-calls-her-retirement-a-great-thing-for-america-n2195931
    of the Union speech on the House floor in 2020, won’t be running for reelection and is retiring from her seemingly endless political …  The Golden State Democrat had been one of Trump’s fiercest rivals during his first term in the White House, sicking the chamber … “This president is impeached for life regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell,” Pelosi gloated during the first…
  22. Politics, Ronald Reagan, the 1980 Election, and Me https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/11/06/politics-ronald-reagan-the-1980-election-and-me-n2195935
    Jimmy Carter was president, the mood of the country was still unsettled after Watergate, and I unleashed a few blasts of the typewriter … With the benefit of several decades of hindsight, I still think the Carter administration was feckless and disorganized. … As I often did, I asked the Old Man what he thought of one of the candidates, who was clearly the front-runner. "Reagan?"…
  23. Fetterman Drops a Short, Savage Assessment of Socialism When Asked About Mamdani https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/11/03/mamdani-result-for-gop-n2195799
     Elon Musk called him out as the "future of the Democratic Party." … He did so on CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper over the weekend, where he declared that while New York City was going to make … the fault of Trump or capitalists.…
  24. Bessent Says SNAP Relief 'Could Be' Coming Soon As Democrats Continue to Put Politics Over People https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/11/02/bessent-says-snap-benefits-could-be-funded-by-this-date-n2195770
    Sunday marks day 32 of the Schumer Shutdown and day 2 of no funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a program … of the Union and told host Jake Tapper that SNAP benefits "could be" funded by Wednesday. … President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food… pic.twitter.com/MpyTqQBktq— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) November 2…
  25. German 'Anti-Greta' Climate Skeptic Now Seeks Asylum in US https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/10/31/german-anti-greta-climate-skeptic-now-seeks-asylum-in-us-n2195716
    speech advocate and supporter of the AfD party, I am the target of• intelligence surveillance• state media… pic.twitter.com/rdsj4Qg4BB … Part of her claim is that elements of the German government have been tracking her statements "for years," and that the German police … Between the various governments of the European Union cracking down on free speech and the ever-increasing Islamification of the Continent…