Ben Clerkin

Alberta

Will Alberta become the 51st state?

11 March 2026 12:00 pm

Albertans are very good at keeping things that damage their prosperity out of their province. Take rats, for instance. The…

MIAMI, FLORIDA - MARCH 7: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Miami International Airport on March 7, 2026. President Trump returned to Miami after attending the Dignified Transfer of six US soldiers killed in Kuwait at the Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Can the US Navy really defend the Strait of Hormuz?

10 March 2026 8:16 pm

George W. Bush’s war haunts Donald Trump, who is now calling the Iranian operation a “little excursion”. But Iran differs…

Did Israel bounce the US into war?

3 March 2026 9:53 pm

Operation Epic Fury has developed from a war to deprive Iran of nuclear weapons into a political war of blame.…

Tony Gonzales

Release the Gonzales files

25 February 2026 7:34 am

We know the terrible details of how congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, 35, died. She poured gasoline on herself and then…

Mamdani’s People’s Republic of New York

19 February 2026 11:27 pm

Proudly displayed in the window of my local Barnes and Noble are copies of a children’s book called Zohran Walks New…

Tom Homan

Tom Homan is Minnesota’s good cop

13 February 2026 6:22 am

In announcing an end to the ICE surge in Minnesota, Tom Homan has become for Democrats an unlikely good cop…

Fulton

Is something rotten in Fulton County?

6 February 2026 4:20 am

“I suspect that the FBI is going to find things missing.” As a member of the Georgia State Election Board,…

Does America want to re-litigate 2020?

31 January 2026 12:15 am

The collective memory of Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen has, for most Americans, been buried if…

Facts, unlike opinions, are hard to come by in Minneapolis

26 January 2026 7:44 pm

Did an ICE officer kill Alex Pretti in self defence after being alerted that he was carrying a gun in…

Powell

The trouble with Jerome Powell

13 January 2026 8:06 am

Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly…

Mamdani

Mayor Mamdani: South Africa is the model for New York

2 January 2026 2:38 pm

It was a performance worthy of an Oscar or maybe a Tony. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s address at his swearing in…

A chief White House usher of 21 years is the ultimate insider

17 December 2025 8:46 pm

Gary J. Walters knows where a lot of the bodies are buried in the White House. He was chief usher…

Can Zelensky surrender?

28 November 2025 10:42 pm

Kyiv The urge to run from danger is only human. It was palpable when air raid sirens sounded as I…

Zelensky risks coup or civil war

22 November 2025 6:24 am

Kyiv When is the price of peace ever fair? War does not determine who is right, only who is left,…

Ukrainians think Trump is putting the screws on Zelensky

21 November 2025 11:45 pm

Kyiv, Ukraine The rumour reverberating around Kyiv is that the FBI has been leaning on Ukrainian anti-corruption police to investigate…

How Republicans win New York?

3 November 2025 5:00 pm

Is Maud Maron crazy? Bill Ackman certainly thought the Republican candidate for Manhattan DA was, she tells me, when she…

Is Jack Carr behind the Department of War?

26 October 2025 4:00 pm

As a Navy SEAL for 20 years, who reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander and served in Iraq and Afghanistan,…

Exclusive: Errol Musk: my son and Trump are right about the ‘white genocide’

22 May 2025 8:14 am

Elon Musk stood silently in the Oval Office, eyeballing the South African president while Donald Trump tore into the ANC…

Is Trump killing the American dream for mom-and-pops? 

16 April 2025 7:00 pm

He’s survived an assassination, bounced back from bankruptcy and – so far, at least – avoided all attempts to jail…