https://redstate.com/politicalfireball/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 13:30:45 -0400<![CDATA[On Friday, in Midland, Texas, an as-yet unidentified gunman opened fire, resulting in one victim killed and at least nine wounded. The shooter, as of this writing, has barricaded himself in a building, which is surrounded by police.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:19:19 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Law & Order]]><![CDATA[Mass Shooting]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/12/active-shooting-midland-texas-11-victims-suspect-holed-up-in-building-n2203296<![CDATA[On Friday morning, Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in recorded human history. SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq, opened 11 percent above its suggested IPO price, and Forbes estimated its net worth had crossed $1.1 trillion before noon Eastern. No person had ever done this before. Not even close.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:05:36 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[SpaceX]]><![CDATA[Tesla]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/12/elon-musk-becomes-the-first-trillionaire-in-human-history-the-lefts-response-was-immediate-n2203295<![CDATA[Grizzly bears are impressive creatures. Here in Alaska, we live among them, and we're well aware of their capabilities; they are 500-pound murder missiles that can run 35 miles an hour, can rip off the door of a truck, and can smell a drop of olive oil for a mile downwind.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:27:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/12/glacier-park-grizzly-drags-hiker-20-30-feet-in-trail-attack-n2203292<![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee took a decisive step this week toward restoring a name that once embodied America’s military might, approving language in the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act to re-designate the Department of Defense as the Department of War. The move, which passed the committee 18-9, mirrors a similar provision already advanced in the House. It builds directly on President Trump's 2025 executive order&nbsp;directing informal use of the original title and aligns with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's emphasis on projecting strength over bureaucratic euphemisms.The Pentagon has operated under the softer "Defense" branding since 1947, when the National Security Act created a unified command structure to improve coordination between military branches and emphasize deterrence over constant warfare. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and others have championed the rebrand as a rejection of post-Cold War weakness that invited adversaries to test U.S. limits. The rebrand seems to have come at the right time, after years of alarming shortfalls that left the services struggling to fill ranks; military recruiting has staged a remarkable turnaround. In fiscal year 2025, every branch met or exceeded its active-duty goals for the first time in years. The Army hit 101.7 percent of its 61,000 target with 62,050 recruits. The Navy crushed its goal, reaching 108.6 percent. The Air Force, Marines, and Space Force all cleared their marks as well.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:50:29 -0400<![CDATA[RC Maxwell]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Tommy Tuberville]]><![CDATA[Department of War]]>https://redstate.com/rc-maxwell/2026/06/12/senate-committee-moves-to-bring-back-department-of-war-amid-strongest-recruiting-surge-in-over-a-decade-n2203289<![CDATA[I've written many times on how and why, as a biologist, the notion of biological agents, not to mention messing around with pathogens, scares the absolute kapok out of me. Nukes have some after-effects, but once the bomb has gone off, it's over. The same can be said for chemical agents.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:42:52 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Tulsi Gabbard]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/12/dni-tulsi-gabbard-exposes-120-us-funded-biolabs-worldwide-n2203290<![CDATA[It sounds like Iran is being Iran again.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:35:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/12/trump-remarks-on-iran-indian-ships-n2203287<![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