https://redstate.com/libbasher/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 11:19:24 -0400<![CDATA[I've long thought that when humans finally expand into space to stay, it would be the private sector, for the most part, that takes us there. There are incredible mineral resources as close as the asteroid belt, which (unlike resources found on a planet) don't have to be lifted out of a gravity well. Some of the moons of the gas giants, while still having that gravity well issue, have nearly-unlimited volatiles, like methane, and even water vapor.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:52:41 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Space]]><![CDATA[SpaceX]]><![CDATA[Tesla]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/12/so-i-placed-a-new-buy-order-for-some-spacex-stock-n2203288<![CDATA[As my colleague Ward Clark reported on May 29, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) has a new primary challenger named... Dan J. Sullivan. As Clark surmises, it's Alaska, where the natives delight in their political oddities as much as they do their isolation.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:10 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Alaska]]><![CDATA[Dan Sullivan]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/12/ak-sen-dan-sullivan-gets-challenger-dan-j-sullivan-disqualified-n2203283<![CDATA[Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was gracious on the night he lost in the primary to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Senate race. He said he had always supported the Republican ticket and would continue to do so.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:50:20 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[John Cornyn]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/12/cornyn-remarks-presler-ny-times-n2203281<![CDATA[Friday, June 12, 2026]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:30:18 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Morning Minute]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/06/12/morning-minute-n2203284<![CDATA[On Thursday, President Trump delivered a significant win for America's commercial fishing industry, signing a proclamation that rolled back a bunch of Biden-era restrictions on commercial fishing in the Pacific. The proclamation is titled "Restoring American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific."]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:36:52 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/12/trump-delivers-big-new-economic-boost-to-pacific-fishing-communities-n2203282<![CDATA[Democrats are ready to make Brett Kavanaugh and abortion a central issue in Maine's Senate race, and the strategy tells you almost everything you need to know about how little else they have going for them.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:15:04 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Abortion]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/12/democrats-want-maine-voters-talking-about-brett-kavanaugh-graham-platner-is-the-problem-n2203280<![CDATA[On June 3, former Utah court clerks Jennifer Joma (27) and Lauren Morrow (26) were indicted on conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, harboring illegal aliens, and obstruction of proceedings before departments and agencies. Joma is also charged with transporting illegal aliens.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:55:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Utah]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/12/what-is-up-utah-court-clerks-allegedly-hatch-a-plot-to-help-an-illegal-circumvent-ice-arrest-n2203274<![CDATA[Seven ministers have now resigned from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government in the span of a month. Thursday's back-to-back departures from the Ministry of Defence brought the tally to seven, and made clear the crisis has reached a new level.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:25:09 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/12/bloody-thursday-for-starmer-two-more-ministers-quit-seven-gone-in-a-month-n2203278<![CDATA[I can’t lie, I didn’t used to pay a whole lot of attention to the Department of the Interior. If you knew that Deb Haaland was the secretary under Biden, you got me beat.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:12 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Washington]]><![CDATA[Woke]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/12/burgums-interior-department-says-goodbye-to-woke-kicks-43-leftist-groups-to-the-curb-n2203277<![CDATA[Country superstar John Rich has been tapped by President Trump to serve as a Special Envoy for American Landowners, the Agriculture Department (USDA) announced in a press release this week.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becca Lower]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USDA]]>https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/06/11/usda-taps-john-rich-to-support-us-landowners-pressured-by-blue-state-dems-green-energy-mandates-n2203275<![CDATA[On Tuesday, Graham Platner officially became the Democrat Senate nominee for Maine, easily besting two other candidates, including Gov. Janet Mills, the Schumer-backed Democrat who had suspended her campaign in late April but who reminded voters during the Platner sexting revelations that she was still on the primary ballot - and that the votes would count.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:09:52 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/06/11/report-another-platner-ex-steps-forward-and-has-info-on-nazi-tattoo-n2203271<![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing by another one of his socialist comrades, and he wants you to know she has "evolved."]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:18:02 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/11/mamdani-backs-candidate-who-called-america-a-fing-disgrace-says-shes-changed-n2203273<![CDATA[Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has turned out to be a real charlatan. Although she ran as somewhat of a moderate, she quickly morphed into a far-left progressive after taking office in January. She undoubtedly makes her failed California counterpart Gavin Newsom proud.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:13:25 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/11/see-you-in-court-doj-coming-after-spanberger-over-virginias-unconstitutional-anti-ice-laws-n2203272<![CDATA[Three weeks ago, I wrote that SpaceX's IPO numbers were so massive they could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:14:45 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[SpaceX]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/11/spacex-just-locked-in-a-177-trillion-valuation-the-elon-musk-trillionaire-talk-is-back-n2203270<![CDATA[One thing that has been so revealing in all the scandals surrounding the guy the Democrats have nominated as their candidate for the Senate in Maine, Graham Platner, is how all the "believe all women" party was suddenly dismissive of the allegations that he had been demeaning and abusive to women.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:09:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/11/media-hot-take-on-platner-n2203267<![CDATA[A “deranged” vandal apparently figured out a way to kill or discolor the grass on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to spell out the numbers “8647.”]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:10:39 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[James Comey]]><![CDATA[Trump Assassination Attempt]]><![CDATA[Washington]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/11/paging-james-comey-who-defaced-the-national-mall-with-giant-86-47-numbers-n2203268<![CDATA[Politicians love to say they will be the guy (or gal) who represents all the people. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the same thing throughout his 2025 campaign for the highest office in the Big Apple: that he would be mayor for all the people. But at least one New York City councilman is now saying, "not so much," when it comes to where in the city that Mamdani is focusing on various improvement projects.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/06/11/nyc-councilman-alleges-mamdani-only-improving-parts-of-the-city-that-voted-for-him-n2203257<![CDATA[The Cleveland Clinic has reached a settlement with the Trump administration over pediatric gender-transition treatments, becoming the second major hospital system to do so in less than a month. Under the agreement, the hospital will stop providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, commit $2 million to detransition care, and pay $308,000 to resolve billing allegations&nbsp;]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/11/doj-forces-another-major-hospital-to-halt-youth-gender-treatments-n2203266<![CDATA[President Trump seems to be holding forth from the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon on a variety of his hot-button topics (the president has an abundance of those). One more clip shows the president taking on two Senate Republicans who have been confounding progress on the SAVE America Act: Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Lisa Murkowski. Independent journalist Nick Sortor caught the president's comments in an X post.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:20:57 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Lisa Murkowski]]><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/11/new-trump-goes-beast-mode-after-mcconnell-and-murkowski-block-save-america-act-n2203265<![CDATA[Leaders of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Justice Department (DOJ) held a joint press conference on Thursday about the administration's wins in the effort to get to the bottom of the thousands of unaccompanied minors who went missing during the Pres. Joe Biden era - and holding those responsibie to account.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becca Lower]]><![CDATA[Border Patrol]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/06/11/homeland-security-illegal-immigrant-kids-democrats-n2203264