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‘Kevin McCarthy Is Plotting His Revenge’: Rep. Eli Crane on ‘The Kevin Roberts Show’ 

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Republican Rep. Eli Crane joined “The Kevin Roberts Show” Wednesday to discuss the southern border, challenging the Republican leadership in the House, and how he feels out of place in Washington, D.C.  The congressman told host and Heritage President Kevin Roberts that the voters of Arizona’s 2nd District picked an uncommon person to represent them in Congress. “This guy doesn’t have any experience. He’s got a lot of tattoos. He often wears a ball cap on the campaign trail, but I think this guy might be a little—I think he…

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‘The Most Entertaining Dead-Cat Bounce in History’

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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Not very long ago, the harshest thing Nikki Haley would say about Donald Trump was that “chaos follows him”—a sort of benign jab that creatively avoids causation and suggests mere correlation, like noting that scorched trees tend to appear after a forest fire. For most of the Republican-primary campaign to date, Haley adopted a carefully modulated approach toward the former president, and reserved most of her barbs for her other primary rivals. Her motto seemed to be “Speak…

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Defense officials say a year-long continuing resolution would be ‘The Bad Place’

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With no solid prospects for passage of the 2023 federal budget, the Department of Defense wants lawmakers to know just how bad life will be if they have to function for a full year on a continuing resolution (CR) instead of a real budget. “DoD has never lived with a year-long CR. So there’s probably some levels of badness we haven’t fully explored because we haven’t had to live it yet,” said Mike McCord, DoD undersecretary of defense and comptroller at the Professional Services Council Federal Market Forecast Conference on…

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‘The DC 5’: Callousness, Cruelty of Post-Viability Abortion 

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At the corner of Connecticut Avenue and I Street Northwest in the District of Columbia, residents and visitors walking under the springtime cherry blossoms pass by a beautiful bit of quasi-haiku posted for the city’s “Golden Haiku” contest: “First trimester—her new passworda baby’s name” A few blocks away, the bodies of 115 nameless preborn babies—a small number among the thousands aborted every year in the District of Columbia—were recovered March 25 from Washington Surgi-Clinic on F Street Northwest. The bodies were “medical waste” bound for the city’s incinerator, where they…

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