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Is Mike Huckabee Putting Personal Faith Above National Duty?

by Jack Hunter | Jun 19, 2026 | Featured Articles

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in his keynote address to the graduating class of Yeshiva University on May 28, “I want you to know I'm not a Zionist because I'm Jewish.” It’s worth noting that Huckabee is a Southern Baptist minister from Arkansas and is the first non-ethnically Jewish U.S. ambassador to Israel since 2011. Huckabee continued, “I'm a Zionist and an unapologetic one because I believe the Bible.” Many American evangelical Zionists, including by his own admission here, Southern Baptist Huckabee, believe that the current state of Israel formed in 1948 are the Jews of...

Massie’s Detractors Still Pretend the Israel Lobby Doesn’t Exist

by Jack Hunter | Jun 1, 2026 | Featured Articles, Politics

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently lost the most expensive primary race in American history. Why? For some, this remains a grand mystery. It was a mystery, apparently, for The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles after the primary runoff defeat of Senator John Cornyn in Texas. Knowles posted: Why did the Israel lobby remove Cornyn? That is the key to understanding all these primary upsets, right? — Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 27, 2026 To which comedian, libertarian and Jewish-American Dave Smith replied with the-most-obvious-observation-in-the-world to anyone who has remotely paid...

Thomas Massie Gives the ‘America First’ Leadership Trump Promised

by Jack Hunter | May 18, 2026 | Featured Articles, Politics

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2024, he promised, among other things, no more U.S. regime change wars, no more of America sending its citizens’ dollars to fund foreign nations, and that he and Elon Musk would drastically cut federal departments and overall spending, finally taking a hatchet to the country’s mounting debt. In other words, the opposite of the last Republican president, George W. Bush. It is 2026, the United States is stuck in a seemingly endless regime change war in Iran, America continues to funnel money to nations around the world (particularly Ukraine and Israel),...

Zionists Are Gunning for Your Freedom of Speech

by Jack Hunter | May 1, 2026 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the United States guarantees the right to free speech. This right has long differentiated the United States from other Western nations like the United Kingdom and Canada where laws against so-called “hate speech” laws exist and are enforced. Thankfully, America is different. In our country, even alleged hate speech is protected speech to ensure democratic principles and debate. In a 1929 dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the Constitution secured “freedom for the thought that we hate.” In...

Tucker Carlson Defends GOP’s ‘Traditional Conservative Base’ Against Neocons

by Jack Hunter | Mar 5, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

Co-founder of The Daily Wire Jeremy Boreing recently shared a clip of an interview he did in which he criticized Tucker Carlson and his foreign policy views: As Tucker's attacks on the Trump Administration and the traditional conservative base become more pronounced, the electoral future of the American Right may come down to one all-important question: Do the radical voices that claim JD Vance actually have a claim on JD Vance? My… pic.twitter.com/IChHLgyY4w — Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) February 23, 2026 This happened right before President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a U.S. war...

The One Man Who The ‘Epstein Files’ Make Look Better

by Jack Hunter | Feb 17, 2026 | Featured Articles

As we continue to learn more about the Epstein Files, including the gruesome details, due in large part to the valiant leadership of Congressmen Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), we are also beginning to hear more names that are mentioned in the documents. We are also becoming aware of, as Drop Site News put it, “Epstein’s well-established ties to Israeli and U.S. intelligence.” But one curious name that has appeared in the previously classified data of the late convicted felon sex offender is Ron Paul. Ron Paul? The successful OBGY, former congressman, three-time presidential...

In the Killing of Alex Pretti, Only Libertarians Get it

by Jack Hunter | Feb 2, 2026 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics

On January 24, protester and legal gun owner Alex Pretti was shot and killed by United States Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, making national news. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem almost immediately said that Pretti brandished a gun and attacked the officers, yet the footage available from multiple angles demonstrated that this was not the case. In fact, Pretti had been disarmed before he was shot. Many conservatives, both influencers and politicians, rushed to justify the agents’ actions, with a particular emphasis on the reported politics and past...

Mike Huckabee Lectures the World’s Oldest Christian Churches

by Jack Hunter | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

This month a statement from leaders of some of the most ancient Christian churches around Jerusalem condemned “damaging ideologies, such as Christian Zionism” that “mislead the public” and “sow confusion” that “have found favor among certain political actors in Israel and beyond who seek to push a political agenda which may harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East.” Christian Zionism is a belief prevalent among many evangelical Christians that Jews of the Old Testament also represent the current state of Israel formed in 1948 and that true believers should...