Let’s be real. The Lakers need LeBron James. And he needs them. Why is this taking so long? Luka Doncic (77) will be back next season with the Lakers, but LeBron James’ future remains up in the air. There’s no better free agent on the market than James, who pretty much single-handedly carried the Lakers...
Oil and gas prices fell ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, as shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz picked up, easing the global supply strains created by the war with Iran. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $72.05 a barrel as of Friday afternoon, while the U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate stood […]
Vice President JD Vance argued during an interview with Bill Maher Friday that "America wins" even if Iran refuses to sign a deal that would end the war.
The billionaire tax is on the ballot. There will be no backroom deal to keep it off. The fact that the SEIU’s Dave Regan even tried to use the billionaire tax as negotiating leverage to force other changes shows how cynical the union bosses have become. They treat the rest of us as pawns. Gavin...
Veteran political strategist James Carville predicted that the next GOP primary front-runners will attack President Donald Trump from an unexpected direction.In a clip from the Politics War Room podcast, a viewer asked Carville if the GOP will "return to normal" by nominating candidates like Jeb Bush or Nikki Haley in the 2028 presidential election, which will decide Trump's successor. Carville and co-host Al Hunt doubted that future successful GOP presidential candidates will come from the center-right like Bush or Haley, however."A candidate, or more than one, is going to run for the Republican nominee and attack Trump on the basis that he lost connection with MAGA," Carville predicted. "He wasn't MAGA enough."He elaborated on his prediction of what successful GOP candidates will say, adding, "When Trump starts losing MAGA, people are going to start attacking him, saying, 'The reason you fell down, you were popular, but then you turned your base on MAGA,' and they gonna use the Iran war as example number one to attack him. MAGA doesn't like that."The June 27 runoff election to select the GOP nominee to replace outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) will be a "telltale event" for how accurately he's reading the shift among GOP voters, Carville said. The race is between the Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) and Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, who is "way to the right of the MAGA-endorsed candidate," Carville said."My prediction is it's not going to be Nikki Haley or Jeb Bush or something like that. It's going to be a person who runs at MAGAism from the right," Carville said. "So pay attention. I think the attack that's coming at Trump will insist he lost his MAGA core, his central theme."
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's warning about electing Democrats ended up sounding like 'a good time' to online critics.During a full-throated speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition "Road to Majority" Conference on Friday, Johnson (R-LA) tried to admonish voters, "If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body.""They'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted," Johnson said.The reaction on X to Johnson's warning was a mix of suspicion that the House Speaker is confirming the Trump administration has something to hide, and critics of Trump said the prediction sounded enticing."Don't threaten us with a good time," political commentator Jamie Bonkiewicz joked."Good point," Dan Pfeiffer, a co-host of Pod Save America, wrote in reaction to Johnson's warning. "If you think politicians, billionaires, elites, and members of the Epstein Class should be able to do whatever they want without any accountability, vote Republican this fall.""It'd be nice to have a Speaker who'd say: 'And let them, we have nothing to hide, and they'll look like fools for doing it,'" posted Tom Nichols, veteran political commentator and a staff writer at The Atlantic. "But what he's saying here is: They're gonna uncover a lot of stuff, and you don't want that."The account for the political news network MeidasTouch similarly interpreted the warning as "Mike Johnson giving Democrats more reasons to vote.""He's admitting that they are criminals," progressive news personality Alex Cole posted. "Wow.""Just the Speaker of the House pledging that if you vote Republican he will continue to make sure all the corruption and criminality happening in the Trump admin will be covered up by him and his do-nothing committee chairs," Ron Filipkowski, political commentator and editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch, wrote.
The big story of the June 23 primary elections is progressive Democrats' insurgent triumphs in New York, which burnished Zohran Mamdani's reputation and struck fear in the heart of would-be national power broker Hakeem Jeffries and his Democratic Establishment allies.
But as the resignation in protest of a member of the Rent Guidelines Board suggests, the battle may not be over.