The deported a father and family man from Maryland to a foreign gulag but let these people in. Every single Republican can STFU about immigration from now on, they've lost all credibility.

ITMFA

Plonk them and forget they even exist.

Hogg might actually breathe new life into the party, no wonder the ancient gasbags in charge are concerned.

You do what the Admiral demands when you're part of his battle group.

We called it the Arabian Gulf back in the 90s when I was still giving daily intel briefs in the USMC because the Saudis got their feelings hurt if we didn't.

What a charade, he tried this in 2020 and the courts stopped it then and they almost certainly will again.

Not a peep from the 2nd amendment crowd.

I don't think there is anyone in the world who thinks Trump isn't in charge or senile.

Phew for a second I though it might be Dolan.

Let's hope the new one is way more like Francis than like Benedict.

There will be a lot of drunk priests tonight, hide your alter boys.

The entire administration is amateur hour.

More: Senator Murray reminded the FBI Director that the budget request was legally required "last week," and after the director responded, she surprisedly added, "And your answer is you just understand you're not going to follow the law?"

"I am following the law, and I'm working with my interagency partners to do this and get you the budget that you are required to have," Patel explained. Then the discussion went from bad to worse, culminating in Senator Murray calling Patel's preparation for the budget hearing, without a budget, "insufficient and deeply disturbing."

MURRAY: And you have no timeline. Well, we also need a full budget request, not a single paragraph full of wild talking points that we saw with the skinny budget proposal. We're now having a budget hearing without a budget request. So, Director Patel, where is the FY 2026 budget request for the FBI?

PATEL: It's being worked on, ma'am.

MURRAY: Have you reviewed it? Have you approved it?

PATEL: But not yet.

MURRAY: When will we get it?

PATEL: As soon as I can get it from my interagency partners and get it approved.

MURRAY: Six months from now? I don't know, ma'am, I'm not going to take that time. Well, how do we, as Congress, do our budget and our work without that request and without the spent one?

PATEL: Well, ma'am, I'm here. I'm doing the best I can. I can't make up answers. I'm going to commit to you to work on getting you the information you need.

MURRAY: That is insufficient and deeply disturbing. No response.

PATEL: I've given my response.

The Charlotte Observer editorial board wrote a good piece on the judges that allows this ridiculous attempt to go on for so long.

Tell us that you didn't read the article without saying you didn't read the article.

More: "Donald Trump does not know the first thing about how a factory operates, of course, and neither do most of the private-equity dorks and middling media figures with which he has stocked his administration, a veritable museum of minor Fox News figures. But he has been inside Macy's, and even had a product-licensing deal with the department store once upon a time"ghastly shirts and ties with a predictable Gordon Gekko meets Liberace aesthetic.

And so Trump's version of quasi-monarchical Leninism is no surprise. It's not one big factory: It's one big Macy's, with him leading the parade."

"Donald Trump's vision of the economy is classic socialism," he continued. "Trump's view of a man at a desk moving pieces of the economy around like rooks and pawns on a chessboard is what socialism is all about"though the old tyrants in Moscow at least had the humility to assume that a committee of experts would be necessary to manage the economy according to scientific' principles or at least the guile to pretend that they believed it, whereas Trump apparently has swallowed his own silly god-man horsepucky, being, as he is, an ass of exceptional asininity."

"He is economically more in Lenin's camp than in Adam Smith's and Milton Friedman's and Ronald Reagan's," concluded Williamson. "He already imagines himself as a kind of royal figure"any guess who the serfs are going to be when we get to the end of this road?"

Trump's tariff-heavy trade policy has drawn criticism from a wide variety of conservative voices.

In an editorial published on Tuesday, National Review torched the president over his "anti-abundance agenda," slamming him for "yammering about American children being spoiled" without ever having had "to make do with less."

More: Libya serves as a hub for migrants trying to get to Europe, and the country has several detention facilities for refugees and migrants. In a 2021 report, Amnesty International said those facilities made up a "horrific" "hellscape" with evidence of "sexual violence against men, women and children."

Meanwhile, the Global Detention Project said migrants held in Libya may be the subject of "physical mistreatment and torture," as well as forced labor and slavery.

The State Department pointed to "harsh and life-threatening" conditions in the detention centers in the country in its annual report last year. It found that migrants had "no access to immigration courts or due process."

A Libya expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Frederic Wehrey, told The Times: "I have been in those migrant prisons and it's no place for migrants."

He added: "It's just a horrific place to dump any vulnerable person."

"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

The sole Republican judge to defend the rule of law in North Carolina is Republican Justice Richard Dietz, who has remained steadfast in his belief that rewriting the rules of an election after the election is unlawful and unwise. Resisting the pressures of partisanship in North Carolina is no easy feat these days, and his courage should be commended.

Outside of North Carolina, however, Griffin's crusade is over. North Carolina may be a state where Republicans get to do whatever they want to do, but federal judges aren't willing to participate in what is essentially a judicial coup. Griffin can appeal this ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals, but they shouldn't expect a different result there. That court has already ruled against the argument once.

It's yet another reminder of how baldly and awfully partisan judges in North Carolina have become. The depth and diversity of people who know this lawsuit has no merit is incredible. It includes voters from both parties, elections officials of all political stripes, military leaders and hundreds of judges, government officials and attorneys from across the political spectrum. Now, a Trump-appointed federal judge has agreed. It's North Carolina's Republican judges who are the extreme outliers.

Republicans cannot lament a rogue judiciary or overreach by "radical left judges." They cannot accuse the judge who issued the ruling of partisan bias, although they may still try. This is a conservative judge, appointed by Donald Trump. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society and the National Rifle Association. It's exactly the kind of judge Republicans would hope " or expect " to side with them. But he isn't " he's rebuking Republican logic and laying bare their attempt to steal an election.

In his 68-page ruling, Myers said Griffin and the NC GOP's unprecedented effort to challenge over 65,000 ballots presented an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.

"This case concerns whether the federal Constitution permits a state to alter the rules of an election after the fact and apply those changes retroactively to only a select group of voters, and in so doing treat those voters differently than other similarly situated individuals," he wrote. "This case is also about whether a state may redefine its class of eligible voters but offer no process to those who may have been misclassified as ineligible.

"To this court, the answer to each of those questions is no.'"

The president, while taking questions following a press conference confirming the NFL 2027 draft will take place in Washington, D.C., was asked: "How did you decide to reopen Alcatraz? Can you walk us through that decision? How will you use it? How did you come up with the idea?"

Trump rambled in response:

"It represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is I would say the ultimate, right? Alcatraz, Sing, Sing. And Alcatraz, the movies. But it's right now a museum, believe it or not. A lot of people go there. It housed the most violent criminals in the world and nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there but they, as you know, the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up and it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of, lot of problems. Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz and just represented something strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country. And so we're going to look at it. Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that and we had a little conversation. I think it's going to be very interesting. We'll see if we can bring it back, in large form, add a lot. But I think it represents something right now. It's a big hulk that's sitting there rusting and rotting. You look at it, it's sort of an, you saw that picture that was put out. It's sort of amazing but it sort of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable, weak. It's got a lot of, it's got a lot of qualities that are interesting and I think they make a point."

Some critics pointed to the airing on Saturday of the 1979 Clint Eastwood film "Escape to Alcatraz" on WLRN in South Florida, where Trump was staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort, as possibly the real explanation for his order to get the long-shuttered penitentiary back up and running, despite its crumbling infrastructure.

Why is it every "idea" Trump is a failed notion from the turn of the last century?

...the Asians never fought a war over religion. This is a uniquely Christian concept.

So you've never heard of India and Pakistan?

Also Buddhist extremists, yes that's actually a thing, are currently engaged in ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.