https://redstate.com/streiff/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 21 May 2026 12:39:49 -0400<![CDATA[As America’s 250th birthday approaches, you had to know that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum would do something awesome, because that’s just who they are.]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:43:14 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/05/21/reagan-library-presents-powerful-america-250-exhibit-lincolns-gloves-gettysburg-cannon-and-more-n2202555<![CDATA[There's one way to slam the door on a political issue in the United States: Pass and ratify an amendment to the Constitution. That, once an amendment is ratified, makes whatever was proposed part of the highest law in the land. They can be repealed; the 18th Amendment, which made Prohibition part of the Constitution, was repealed by the 21st Amendment. But they can't be overturned by a court. Any court. If, say, a constitutional amendment were ratified stating that, henceforth, anyone elected to the Senate or the House of Representatives, or anyone appointed to high office, must be a natural-born citizen, as any candidate for president must be now, then that would be pretty final.]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:13:13 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Ilhan Omar]]><![CDATA[Nancy Mace]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/21/america-first-victory-proposed-new-amendment-bars-foreign-born-from-power-n2202560<![CDATA[A California doctor was convicted Monday in what federal officials called the largest Botox fraud scheme in the United States. Prosecutors said she billed Medicare for $45 million in injections that were never given, medically unnecessary, or used purely for cosmetic purposes. President Trump's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud was built to catch schemes exactly like this one.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:30:02 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Medicare]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/21/the-botox-scheme-that-left-taxpayers-paralyzed-and-her-facing-20-years-n2202559<![CDATA[Thursday, May 21, 2026]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:30:18 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Morning Minute]]><![CDATA[Riley Gaines]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/05/21/morning-minute-n2202556<![CDATA[Elon Musk may be about to become the world's first trillionaire. Not a government. Not a sovereign wealth fund. One American, one company, one IPO.]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:59 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Space]]><![CDATA[SpaceX]]><![CDATA[Tesla]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/21/spacexs-ipo-numbers-are-so-massive-they-could-make-elon-musk-the-first-trillionaire-n2202558<![CDATA[Two foreign-owned firms have been quietly running American boardrooms. Now a coalition of state attorneys general is moving to stop them. Nebraska Attorney General Michael Hilgers filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), accusing the firm of pushing climate and DEI agendas on corporate America while telling its clients it was giving them straight, neutral advice. Attorneys general from at least 17 states are backing the effort.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 08:00:52 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Nebraska]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/21/nebraska-just-took-a-sledgehammer-to-the-esg-machine-behind-corporate-america-n2202557<![CDATA[A 1940 fireside meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King has quietly shaped every major North American defense project for nearly a century. King fought hardest to expand Canadian autonomy from Britain, and now, under Mark Carney’s aggressive push for “strategic autonomy” from the United States, that partnership has been suspended.]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 06:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[RC Maxwell]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Mark Carney]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[Department of War]]>https://redstate.com/rc-maxwell/2026/05/21/dow-axes-canada-defense-board-over-carneys-antics-as-pm-downplays-the-hit-n2202548<![CDATA[There are few contemporary experiments as instructive for the friend of liberty as the one currently unfolding in Argentina. Beneath the soil of Patagonia, in the province of Neuquén, lies a 30,000 km geological basin known as Vaca Muerta — “the Dead Cow.” According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, it holds the world’s second-largest reserves of shale gas and the fourth-largest of shale oil. Discovered in the early 2010s, this deposit should have turned Argentina into a major energy power. Instead, it remained largely untapped for more than a decade. The reason was neither technical nor geological. It was institutional.]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Argentina]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Javier Milei]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/05/21/the-markets-revenge-on-energy-statism-n2202529<![CDATA[The Biden administration caught him at the border, released him into the country, and walked away. Now two people are dead on a California highway, and the man behind the wheel of that semi-truck is an illegal immigrant from India who never should have been there.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:39:06 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Oregon]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/20/dhs-says-illegal-immigrant-truck-driver-killed-two-after-biden-admin-released-him-n2202554<![CDATA[The defeat of Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-04) on Tuesday night by Trump-backed candidate Ed Gallrein in the GOP primary was welcome news for conservatives who had grown tired of Massie's attention-seeking antics and theatrics, and his frequent breaks with President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans on America First policies.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:54:36 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Chris Murphy]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Thomas Massie]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/05/20/chris-murphy-tells-a-whopper-about-why-thomas-massie-lost-and-its-time-to-set-the-record-straight-n2202550<![CDATA[Three people are dead, and more than a dozen first responders were&nbsp;hospitalized after a suspected overdose at a rural New Mexico home turned into a full-blown hazmat emergency Wednesday morning.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:40:57 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DEA]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[New Mexico]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/20/three-dead-25-exposed-after-new-mexico-overdose-scene-sickens-first-responders-n2202553<![CDATA[As tensions between the United States and Cuba heat up, the U.S. sent a message to our neighbor to the south in the form of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, comprising the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and numerous support vessels. It arrived in the Caribbean this week, not far from the island nation. Although the deployment was planned long in advance, the timing of the arrival is nonetheless noteworthy.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:05:38 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/05/20/the-nimitz-enters-the-chat-carrier-strike-group-arrives-in-caribbean-as-us-cuba-tensions-increase-n2202552<![CDATA[The race for Los Angeles mayor is not going exactly how the Democrats may have envisioned in mid-Dec. 2025 when Karen Bass, the first Black woman mayor elected in the City of Angels, made the announcement that she was running for reelection.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:50:01 -0400<![CDATA[Becca Lower]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/05/20/karen-bass-exposes-her-failings-cnn-host-presses-her-on-homelessness-record-n2202549<![CDATA[California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to be president. Last Thursday, he gave America a preview of what that would look like.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:50 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/20/gavin-newsom-claimed-californias-deficit-was-gone-his-own-budget-analysts-just-blew-that-up-n2202551<![CDATA[As President Donald Trump continues to repair the devastation that the four years of Joe Biden and his open borders policy did to the nation, we keep discovering more side effects from allowing millions of illegal immigrants and other entities not friendly to the U.S. from foreign nations into the country.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 18:09:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/05/20/rep-chip-roy-introduces-bill-to-keep-american-homes-out-of-the-hands-of-americas-foes-n2202540<![CDATA[In solidly blue states, Republicans have been arguing for as long as I can remember that it takes a lot of nerve for Democrats to say "put us back in office," considering how continually electing them has run many blue states into the ground.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 18:02:14 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/05/20/ca-dem-gubernatorial-candidate-best-argument-against-voting-for-dems-n2202545<![CDATA[In April 2024, Republicans introduced and helped pass a bill that appears to be making a major dent in drug deaths by Americans—including from opiods like fentanyl.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:56:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becca Lower]]><![CDATA[Border Patrol]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Cartels]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/05/20/repubicans-white-house-fentanyl-drug-deaths-n2202544<![CDATA[We've all heard the old gag about smuggling a file into a prison inmate where the file was baked inside a cake. But a former Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney smuggling confidential material by emailing it to herself disguised as cake recipes? That's a new one.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:33:21 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[FBI]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/20/new-ex-doj-attorney-stole-official-records-disguised-as-cake-recipes-n2202546<![CDATA[I just wrote an article Tuesday about the miserable House Minority Leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), and how his bitter outlook on America and the world was so diametrically opposed to the optimism and hope brought by Donald Trump and the Republicans.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:15:33 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Connecticut]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Sports]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/05/20/while-universities-lecture-trump-inspires-coast-guard-cadets-hear-what-other-grads-wont-n2202543<![CDATA[Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05) has, at least, broken her very uncharacteristic silence on the accusations that she is involved in the various Minneapolis-area fraud scandals. This is rather remarkable, as Rep. Omar generally has no problem with being vocal on any issue other than this.]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:14:18 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Ilhan Omar]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/20/ilhan-omar-speaks-at-last-and-her-new-flat-false-fraud-denial-raises-major-doubts-n2202542