Syrian officials say they have thwarted a plot by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists of Lebanon to attack Israel from Syrian soil.

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For too long, the crime problems festering in Washington have been a national embarrassment.

Thanks to President Donald Trump, that shame is lifting as crime rates plummet in the District of Columbia to levels unthinkable just a few years ago.

All it took was a different attitude and a little action.

Trump announced in August, shortly after the murder of two young embassy workers, that he’d had enough of the crime and would be deploying National Guard troops to the city.

“Citizens, tourists, and staff alike are unable to live peacefully in the nation’s capital, which is under siege from violent crime,” he said in a statement. “It is a point of national disgrace that Washington, D.C., has a violent crime rate that is higher than some of the most dangerous places in the world. It is my duty to our citizens and federal workers to secure the safety and the peaceful functioning of our nation, the federal government, and our city.”

At the time, this move was dismissed by media detractors and chided by prominent Democrats who lashed out at Trump’s intolerable act of leadership.

But it turns out you can just do things. Washington didn’t have to have high crime. Trump’s “surge” is paying off.

Since Trump’s announcement, the District of Columbia has witnessed a staggering reduction in crime that far outpaces the already impressive declines across the nation. So far this year, there have been only 20 recorded homicides in the District.

If that trend holds, 2026’s final tally could end up well below the previous modern low of 88 homicides recorded in 2012.

It’s not just homicides—a good stat to track because of the difficulty in manipulating the numbers—other kinds of crime are going down too.

The White House posted some of the best numbers, which can be found on the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia’s website.

It’s not just statistics. Residents of the city say they feel the city is changing for the better.

These positive changes even seem to be happening in the city’s most dangerous areas.

It’s a remarkable turnaround from just a few years ago when, following the George Floyd riots and COVID-19 lockdowns, crime spiraled out of control. The city endured 226 homicides in 2021, 203 in 2022, and a staggering 274 in 2023.

This was the “Black Lives Matter” and “defund the police” era in which blue cities across the nation foolishly embraced the Left’s “solutions” to what they called the “systemic racism” of policing.

Ironically—though I’d say predictably—it was also this era in which a far higher number of Black lives were taken due to the lawlessness and criminality created by left-wing ideology making its way into policy.

So, after suffering nearly 300 homicides three years ago, it would take a massive summer surge to even reach 100 by the end of this year.

That plummeting motor vehicle theft statistic should stand out too.

Since 2020, Washington practically became the carjacking capital of the country.

In that horrible year of 2023, there were nearly 1,000 carjackings in the city, in addition to other vehicle thefts. Much of this was driven by juveniles who faced absurdly low penalties for what is a very serious crime.

It was during this time, when homicides and carjackings were out of control, that D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb infamously said that the city “cannot prosecute and arrest” its way out of the problem.

Yes, it could. And that’s how we get to the fuller story of Washington’s seemingly miraculous crime drop.

X user “Austin Justice” had an excellent summary of how things turned around so quickly.

The most notable change from the top was Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.

As Austin Justice explained, this filled the gap of “a 50-year low in local police staffing—a hole created by city council budget cuts that some estimate will take a decade to fully close.”

Mass makes a difference. The National Guard surge allows the police to do their jobs more effectively.

But it’s not enough to simply arrest criminals. That’s where the justice system comes in.

The city has a new U.S. attorney, Jeanine Pirro, who has aggressively pursued prosecutions, a far cry from President Joe Biden’s appointee Matthew Graves, whose record on that front could fairly be called “abysmal.”

Pirro stepped up efforts to charge some juveniles as adults for violent crimes.

As Cully Stimson, the acting director of the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation, noted, the arrest-to-offense ratio for carjackings was an extremely low 25% in the Biden years.

But in Trump’s first year in office, there is now a “58% arrest-to-offense” ratio in the city due to the willingness to prosecute more 16- and 17-year-old carjackers as adults.

And that really is most of the story. More police, more arrests, more prosecutions, less crime. It’s common sense, not rocket science.

What the District of Columbia is experiencing is just a small taste of what it’s like to not live under a leftist, Democrat regime. That isn’t so bad, is it?

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was once under investigation for perjury for signing conflicting statements about his residence in an attempt to remain the highest-paid judge in Texas and was later accused of "double dipping" by supplementing his Senate salary with public pensions that he failed to disclose for years.

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One of the most stunning and yet tediously repetitive features of America’s Donald Trump Experience is the expectation that President Donald Trump is going to become someone else.  

People across the political spectrum seem permanently immune to the realization that the country has elected a man who says and does extraordinarily shocking things. With metronomic consistency, they exclaim, “Can you believe what he said?  He’s just completely nuts! Where’s my 25th Amendment?” 

And then, everyone recovers, reverts to their prevailing view of Trump, and buckles up for the next outrage, which lands with no less unjustifiable surprise. 

But it seems Trump may have gone just a bit too far, even for conservatives, with his most recent aggravations of the natural order. Their odiousness, along with the alleged rancid smell of the Iran war, are causing a slow slinking away from a president they perceive as gone stinky. 

Trump conjured up and posted on Truth Social an AI image of himself as Jesus healing the sick, then deleted it and claimed he thought it had portrayed him as a doctor—you know, one of those doctors who dress in first-century robes. 

He engraved a post onto Truth Social that said Pope Leo XIV, who opposes the Iran war, is “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy,” telling him to “get his act together” and suggesting that he, Trump, was responsible for Leo being chosen pope. 

He said “a whole civilization might die tonight” instead of just threatening to bomb Iran. 

None of this is great. People have a right to be offended. But they should consider a few things before withdrawing support for Trump. 

Conservatives during the presidential primaries in 2016 ceded some of the moral high ground they felt they always held by choosing Trump, a great but imperfect man.  

They had a choice closer to moral perfection in Jeb Bush, but they concluded, correctly, that these harrowing times demanded something else. America’s self-destruction seemed too near for a conventional candidate. It was time to get a little rude and go on offense.  

We got what we asked for. Over the course of two terms Trump has altered the course of U.S. history, diverting and even reversing leftist agendas that seemed hopelessly unstoppable. 

• He revamped the Supreme Court, resulting in myriad decisions favorable to conservatives, most prominently the demolition of Roe v. Wade, something long thought a lost cause. 

• He completely plugged up the massive hole in the border—which presupposes that there still was a border—ending the ceaseless waves of illegal immigration into the U.S. that threatened to swamp our culture with something else. 

• He changed the entire conversation on “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” polite terms for dropping our Judeo-Christian culture into the Memory Hole and replacing it with a Marxian, totalitarian dictatorship commanding obedience to dissolute collectivism and relativism. In high schools, colleges, and the workplace, woke equity is now on the defense. 

• He defeated the Islamic State caliphate, and he dawned a new age of Arab-Israeli cooperation with the unprecedented Abraham Accords. 

• He withdrew from the Paris climate accords and refocused the country back toward fossil fuels, ensuring Americans’ pockets wouldn’t be picked by European internationalists while China cheerfully burned through its coal. 

These are pivotal realignments that eclipse ephemeral measures such as a point added or subtracted to GDP or an increase or decrease in the crime rate, as important as those things are. 

I would personally add ending—or at least vastly delaying—Iran’s nuclear ambitions to the list, but that’s exactly what some conservatives don’t agree with. And that’s the point. It’s a disagreement. An argument. Not grounds for divorce. 

If you agreed to marry someone who spewed profanities and insulted the neighbors, don’t be surprised if that doesn’t change after the ceremony. And don’t act shocked if he turns the volume up sometimes. 

To repeat, we got what we asked for: Trump. 

Let’s also remember that much of the outrage Trump mobilizes is pure Madison Avenue, designed preponderantly for effect, manufactured in the vast PR-generating region of his frontal lobe. He’s selling—propaganda for friends, deception for enemies. 

Unlike many other presidents, he’s warm to actual human beings whom he has no political use for. He says hello to the janitor. His exaggerations and insults can be unpleasant and outrageous, but there’s a humanity and even an honesty within them.  

He does things I don’t like. But he’s prevented many worse things I don’t like. 

Trump is a towering figure who will be written about for centuries. Sometimes that indecorous tower—excessively embroidered with Trump gold—reflects sunlight. Sometimes it casts very dark shadows. It sways a bit with the wind, but in the end, it has stood for conservative values more resolutely than any of the smaller edifices easier on the eye, and ear.  

We conservatives made our bargain with Trump long ago. Let’s own it. 

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President Donald Trump said Monday that Energy Secretary Chris Wright was “wrong” for claiming gas prices might not fall below $3 per gallon anytime soon. Wright was interviewed by CNN’s […]

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The Senate is about to try to use one of Congress’ most powerful tools—the budget reconciliation process—to fund border security and immigration enforcement over Democrats’ objections.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is plowing ahead with plans to release a framework for a party-line budget bill that would inject funding into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone without appropriations since Feb. 14, as Democrats have refused to pass a bill that would fully fund the agency.

President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., have embraced a plan to fund ICE and CBP through reconciliation, while funding the rest of the agency through appropriations.

Under the budget reconciliation process, the House and Senate have to pass a budget resolution including instructions for the committees involved in crafting the bill.

This mostly non-binding document, which is not the underlying law itself, sets the budgetary targets for the relevant committees.

In the case of this reconciliation bill, Thune has repeatedly reiterated his desire for the focus to be “skinny” and focused solely to funding border and immigration enforcement, rather than pulling in other priorities.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Republicans passed in July was used to both extend the expiring 2017 tax cuts and enact campaign promises such as eliminating taxes on tips.

Reconciliation does not allow for provisions that are more policy-oriented than budgetary.

There is a camp of Republicans who want to use reconciliation to advance a host of ambitious legislative goals.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., for example, has said Republicans should “put as much stuff in there as we can get,” listing defense spending and election reforms as priorities.

Proceeding to consideration of a budget resolution triggers a process known as the “vote-a-rama,” under which senators can offer amendments to the resolution.

The process also requires another vote-a-rama once the Senate votes on the bill itself.

These marathon voting sessions usually serve as a test of party discipline, as the majority party tables the minority party’s amendments

Some Republicans are eyeing this process as an opportunity to slip in additional provisions.

“I would love to do as much as we can do, and there will be several amendment opportunities to do that,” Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said last week.

Any Senate budget resolution would also have to be approved by the House in order for Congress to advance to reconciliation.

The House Freedom Caucus, a large faction of hardline conservatives in the House of Representatives, has already come out in opposition to funding only part of DHS through reconciliation, instead calling for funding the entire agency for the remainder of Trump’s term.

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President of Argentina Javier Milei and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday launched the "Isaac Accords," a new strategic framework aimed at strengthening cooperation between Argentina, Israel and like-minded partners in the Western Hemisphere.

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