Articles by James Caldwell

“Everyday Americans Cannot Lie to Banks”

Letitia James wrote in February 2024 that “everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them. There simply cannot be different rules for different people.” She was attacking President Trump on social media while celebrating...

Democrats Suddenly Embrace “States’ Rights” to Fight Trump’s Plan for a Federal Takeover of Chicago

Listen closely to the sounds of our modern political debate, and you will hear something strange and disorienting. Democrats are passionately defending “states’ rights” and the sanctity of local control. Republicans, meanwhile, are championing a massive and unilateral assertion of federal...

ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Driving 18-Wheeler With New York License Listing His Name as “NO NAME GIVEN”

An illegal immigrant from India was driving a commercial truck on Interstate 40 in Oklahoma carrying a New York state CDL with “NO NAME GIVEN” listed as his first name. ICE arrested Anmol Anmol during a routine truck scale inspection on September 23, discovering he entered the country illegally...

FBI’s “Arctic Frost” Spy Operation: How Jack Smith Secretly Tracked Nine GOP Lawmakers Without a Warrant

FBI Director Kash Patel just opened a file the Bureau didn’t want anyone to see. Inside: proof that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team tracked the private phone records of eight Republican senators and one House member – without those lawmakers ever knowing they were targets. The operation had...

Federal Judge Accuses Trump Administration of Playing “Whack-A-Mole” to Circumvent Court Orders on Troop Deployments

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order Sunday night blocking President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland. Then the Trump administration tried deploying California Guard members instead. So Immergut expanded her order to block troops from any...

Shutdown Stalemate Deepens as Critical Republican Coalition Vote Wavers

Senator Angus King voted with Republicans five times to reopen the government despite caucusing with Democrats. The Maine independent joined Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto in crossing party lines to support GOP funding bills that Democratic leadership has...

Supreme Court Hands Trump 21 Wins on Emergency Docket

President Trump has won roughly 21 emergency rulings from the Supreme Court since taking office in January, allowing his administration to implement controversial policies while legal challenges work through the courts. The White House is celebrating an almost flawless record on what’s known as...

Supreme Court Slams Door on Maxwell’s Last Appeal

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her sex trafficking conviction, ending her primary legal avenue for overturning the 20-year sentence she’s serving for recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. The Court’s order list revealed...

Did The White House Compile A Hit List of Federal Agencies for Mass Firings Before Shutdown Even Started?

The White House didn’t wait for the government shutdown to decide which federal agencies would face mass firings. Officials had already compiled a target list before midnight on October 1, and they’re prepared to announce layoffs as soon as this weekend – possibly tomorrow. The list was...

FBI Director Who Promised “No Retribution” Just Fired 15 Agents Deemed Insufficiently Loyal To The President

Kash Patel told senators during his confirmation hearings that he had “no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards.” He promised there would be “no politicization at the FBI” and “no retributive actions taken.” On Friday, the FBI director who promised not to go...

Portland Police Sergeant’s Email Criticizes Counter-Protesters Who Were Assaulted at ICE Facility

A Portland police sergeant wrote an email describing three people who were assaulted outside an ICE facility as a “chronic source of police calls” who “constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed.” The victims included a conservative journalist...

Trump Lectured Generals About Military Fitness After Dodging Vietnam Draft Five Times

President Trump stood before 800 generals and admirals at Quantico on Tuesday and declared the military would end “political correctness” and return to merit-based standards focused on “fitness, ability, character, and strength.” He praised Pete Hegseth’s speech condemning “fat...

Every American military officer swears an oath that begins with ten critical words: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Not the president. Not the party in power. Not the Secretary of Defense. The Constitution. That distinction has...

Nearly 800 generals and admirals from around the world received orders last week to report to Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday. No explanation was provided. No agenda was disclosed. Just a command to appear – and speculation about what happens when that many stars gather in one room at the same...

Vice President JD Vance walked out of the White House on Monday afternoon and delivered the news nobody wanted to hear. “I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing. I hope they change their mind.” The hour-long meeting between President Trump and...

A coalition of celebrity chefs, the friendly faces who teach America how to cook, have now stepped onto the front lines of a high-stakes constitutional battle. They are fighting against a new California law that bans “forever chemicals” in cookware. But this is a story about more than just...

For more than 150 years, a single sentence in the Constitution has provided a clear and powerful answer to a fundamental question: Who is an American? Now, the President of the United States has formally asked the Supreme Court to adopt a new, radically different interpretation of that sentence....

The doors of a church are meant to be a threshold to a sanctuary, a sacred space where the conflicts of the world are left outside. On Sunday morning, in a quiet suburb of Michigan, that threshold was violently breached by a gunman, turning a house of worship into a scene of carnage. This is not...

A young Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska fled a war zone to find safety in America, only to be stabbed to death on a public train in Charlotte, North Carolina. The revelation that her accused killer, a career criminal, had been released from jail 14 times has ignited a furious and deeply...

Does the First Amendment protect a senior FBI agent’s right to express contempt for a political candidate he is actively investigating? In a powerful and constitutionally significant ruling, a federal judge has just delivered a definitive answer: no. The dismissal of former FBI agent Peter...