My last living sister Adrienne passed away in September. So, now it is just me and my two brothers. The five Oliver sisters no longer exist, at least in this life. Last year, before my sister had passed, I wrote about my complicated relationship with Mother’s Day as well as our unique family circumstances. Advertisement Adrienne…
Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. What do you suppose caught people’s attention in this latest whirlwind week? Grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger if you’re so inclined), and sit down with this…
I probably should have thought twice, felt concern or apprehension. Maybe even a little fear. But when the editor asked if I would volunteer to help cover a war and — oh, by the way — ferry $15,000 cash in $5’s, $10’s, and $20’s into the Vietnam and Cambodian combat zones, I said, “Of course!”…
The mainstream press being full of partisans is not exactly a novel discovery, but sometimes a piece comes along that is so brazen that it even surprises me. Jonathan Chait’s latest over at The Atlantic fits that bill. We aren’t just talking about typical levels of left-wing bias. What ended up published crosses the line…
In a promising development for resolving the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended an olive branch, proposing to restart direct peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, free of any preconditions. This offer, announced on Sunday, signals a potential turning point in the three-year war, fostering optimism for a…
We’ve been covering the story of the aggrieved congresscritters and a progressive mayor who stormed an ICE facility in Newark Friday and seemed to believe the laws don’t apply to them because they’re entitled New Jersey Democrats. Although they have gone on to claim victimhood, video evidence has exposed that they were extremely aggressive and…
As RedState’s Rusty Weiss reported, President Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning that talks facilitated by the United States have led to a “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan. The two nuclear-armed neighbors had ratcheted up tensions in recent days and had lobbed missiles at each other. The conflict was in response to…
One of the craziest stories of the year broke on Friday after a contingent of Democrat politicians stormed an ICE facility in New Jersey, supposedly in protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. But while they claimed to have done nothing wrong, the more evidence emerged, the more obvious it became that they were lying…
Ahead of more Congressional committee meetings to carve out the cuts and appropriations for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” the usual suspects and the legacy media are going full-court press on evil Republicans taking away your entitlements. This week’s offering from Rolling Stone magazine, features an exclusive interview with AOC—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who…
House Republicans didn’t spend Friday night on the dancefloor; instead they released portions of their tax measures that they have been working on for months to further Donald Trump’s agenda and present him with his desired “big, beautiful bill.” Advertisement Trump has said all along that he wants to make his 2017 tax cuts permanent,…