Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's husband was involved in a hit
and run on Friday in California's wine country that left one car with
"major damage," according to local authorities, who said that the
86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges for the collision.
Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible in Yountville, a small
town in the heart of wine country in Napa County, when he struck a
legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then
drove away, Napa County Sheriff's department said in a news release on
Saturday. There were no reported injuries.
A witness saw the collision and called 911.
Shortly after, sheriff's deputies then found Paul Pelosi with severe
damage to the front of his car on a nearby road roughly one quarter of a
mile away.
The octogenarian told officers that he knew he hit something but wasn't sure when or what caused the damage to his car.
Paul Pelosi didn't have any alcohol in his system at the time of the crash, according to the statement.
The sheriff's department referred Paul Pelosi to the California
Department of Motor Vehicles to initiate a process that will determine
whether he is able to continue driving — a process that officials say is
"common" for elderly drivers.
He wasn’t arrested, and because no one was physically injured, the
sheriff's department is recommending a misdemeanor that charges Paul
Pelosi with fleeing the scene of an accident.
A staffer for Congresswoman Pelosi didn't respond to an emailed request for comment on Saturday afternoon.
Paul Pelosi pleaded guilty in 2022 to misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence in Napa County.
He was sentenced to five days in jail and three years of probation —
though he only served two days in jail and received good conduct credit
for two other days, leaving just one day to serve in a work program at
the local courthouse.
As part of his probation, Paul Pelosi he was also required to attend a
three-month drinking driver class, and install an ignition interlock
device, where the driver has to provide a breath sample to prove
sobriety before the engine will start.
He was also ordered to pay about $5,000 in victim restitution for medical bills and lost wages and nearly $2,000 in fines.
Shortly after that crash, Paul Pelosi was attacked and severely
beaten with a hammer at the couple's San Francisco home in late 2022.
It felt like former President Joe Biden’s famous
“Red Speech” circa September 2022, when he told a Philadelphia crowd
that “equality and democracy are under assault” and that “Donald Trump
and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very
foundations of our republic.”
The stage was bathed in dramatic, dark-red hues reminiscent of fascist regimes. Like, say, the Nazis.
As
I wrote at the time, it was a “foaming, vitriolic, vengeful speech that
seemed designed to pull our nation further apart and inflame the more
than 73 million Americans who voted for his opponent in the last
election.”
California’s failed governor Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, picked a very special day to deliver his own spiteful, malignant view of America — the nation’s 250th
birthday. His eight-minute July 4 speech on Saturday didn’t mention the
widespread decline seen under his watch, nor the suffering his
“progressive” policies have brought to the citizens of the Golden State
(many of whom are leaving).
No,
it was all about Trump, and how much he hates the man, even though the
president is not responsible for the slow, agonizing death of California
that has occurred under one-party Democratic rule:
Instead of taking a day off from his endless grievance and hate politics, he thought this would be a good way to celebrate a historical milestone for our country and our people:
“The American people will go to the polls, and President Trump knows what’s coming,” Newsom said in his speech.
“And,
because he knows that, he is afraid for himself. He doesn’t care about
you, he doesn’t care about America, and he hardly cares about his own
political party.”
Newsom shot multiple attacks at Trump for
corruption, while the governor himself and his wife face probes from the
federal Department of Justice.
“He has added more than $4 billion
to his personal fortune while sitting in what is supposed to be a
public trust. He told you he was going to drain the swamp, but he gave
it a presidential suite,” Newsom said on Trump.
“He is degrading
the concept of American self-government in a way that no king and no
foreign power has ever managed to do,” the governor added.
There are just a couple of problems with his diatribe: Trump has been cleaning up D.C. and is making it safe again, stopping the tsunami of Biden-era illegal immigration, and showing that we actually can have nice things if we simply do things right. That’s directly in the face of the Democrat narrative that Newsom ascribes to, which is that decline is natural and good, and we should just let it happen.
The other problem that Gov. Hair Product has? His own house doesn’t appear to be so clean:
RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reports:
In
my opinion, spoiled brat antics like this are one reason you’ll be
flattened in the presidential run you’ve been planning for years instead
of presiding over California and making life better here. As a resident
of our once proud paradise of a state, I fervently pray that I’m right.
I’ve
seen the devastation the progressive movement can wreak, and if he gets
to the Oval Office, our 250-year-old experiment will be in serious
peril.
Let’s make sure we don’t let that happen, America.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's speech for our nation's 250th birthday has gotten a lot of well-deserved criticism.
It
was pretty awful on the whole. But there was one particular part on
Friday that got a lot of attention, in which he lambasted America,
attacked Elon Musk, and demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE).
The
swipe against Musk was particularly nasty, saying children go hungry
while the world's first trillionaire (Musk) "hungers for more."
In
that you can see the evil of the radical left - to demonize the people
who are actually achieving and whipping up envy and class warfare.
But Elon Musk responded, decimating Mamdani with one simple fact.
"Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker," Musk declared.
Bingo.
Mamdani is basically a nepo baby who had wealthy parents and went to an
expensive private school, whose work history could be described as
"light," at best. He worked briefly as a "foreclosure counselor" for an advocacy organization whose
purpose was "organizing and advocating for systemic changes." Oh, and
he was a "rapper" before he went into politics. It's sort of laughable
for Mamdani to talk about "calloused hands," given his work history. But
it's symptomatic of the champagne socialists we've seen.
Mamdani isn't even worthy of mentioning Musk's name, given all that
Musk has achieved with all of his companies. He creates wealth, employs
more than 160,000 employees, and contributes things no one else can,
such as with SpaceX and Neuralink.
His real "crime"? He supports President Donald Trump.
Notice you don't hear any of these leftists coming for Reid Hoffman or
George Soros, the guys who contribute to Democrats. That's the real
problem here. The Democrats think they have the right to seize money from Musk because how dare he be so rich? Regardless of whether they are, themselves, rich.
But
Elon wasn't the only one who found some problems with what Mamdani
said. So did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). He laid a big smackdown on
Mamdani for being "regressive.
"When I see
the Mamdanis of the world, they're basically offering these ideas, they
claim they're progressive. They're really regressive. They are things
that the founding fathers rejected," DeSantis declared, talking about
how rights come from God and how these ideas fly in the face of the
principles of limited government on which our country was founded. The
governor added:
"Their ideas have failed
throughout history. And we have a chance now with 250 to look back and
say — we're inheritors of an awfully good legacy. We got lucky to have
the Founding Fathers pledge their lives, fortune, and sacred honor the
way they did when they did it!"
Nancy Pelosi told us in 2010 that we'd
have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Sixteen years later,
we're still finding out, and the answer keeps getting worse.
I spend my working life
underwriting risk: private credit, factoring, litigation finance, the
kind of lending where you learn fast that an unverified identity is the
first flag, not the last. In my world, a portfolio built on a million
unverifiable counterparties gets shut down before lunch. In Washington,
it got expanded for five years and called a policy win.
Here's the shape of it. HHS says it has already pulled 2.9 million improper enrollments off the rolls, with another 2.6 million still under review,
down from a peak of 5.6 million phantom, improper, and fraudulent
enrollees in 2025. That's real progress, and credit belongs where it's
due. But the honest caveat matters, too: a missing Social Security
number isn't proof of fraud on its own. Some enrollees are lawfully
present immigrants who qualify under other documentation. HHS itself
hasn't said all 1 million cases are fraudulent, a distinction the
"massive fraud" headlines tend to skip.
Where the picture turns from suspicious to damning is the
Government Accountability Office's own testing. GAO built twenty
fictitious identities, fake people who don't exist, and submitted them
for subsidized coverage. All four of its 2024 test applicants got
approved, drawing roughly $2,350 a month in advance premium tax credits.
Of twenty submitted for 2025, eighteen were still actively enrolled as
of last September, pulling down more than $10,000 a month combined. GAO
called the results "generally consistent" with the identical test it ran a decade earlier. A decade of warnings, and the marketplace still can't tell a real person from a Social Security number typed into a form.
Then
there's the reconciliation gap, which is where the real money sits.
Every enrollee who draws an advance premium tax credit is supposed to
file a tax return reconciling the subsidy against actual income. GAO
couldn't find evidence that happened for more than $21 billion in credits tied to 2023 alone,
roughly a third of everything paid to identifiable Social Security
numbers that year. One number was used across more than 125 policies for
a combined 71 years of coverage. Another 58,000 numbers matched Social
Security's own death records, with $94 million sent out on behalf of
people who were already gone. CMS didn't enforce reconciliation at all
from 2021 through 2024.
I'll grant the other side
its strongest point, because a fair fight requires it: undocumented
immigrants are not the driver of health care's cost problem. The most
credible estimates put their share of total U.S. health spending at a
percent or two, nowhere near the sum Washington now spends propping up a
subsidy system too porous to verify who's cashing the check. If
Congress wants to extend the enhanced subsidies set to lapse at year's
end, fine. That's a legitimate debate to have. But extending a program
without fixing the verification holes GAO just spent a year documenting
isn't compassion. It's negligence with better branding.
Tort
reform, pharmacy middleman transparency, tighter eligibility
enforcement: none of it is a silver bullet, and I won't pretend
otherwise. Liability reforms in the states that have tried them trimmed
premiums by a few points, not by half. But every one of those reforms
shares a common thread with fixing the ACA's fraud problem. Washington
must acknowledge that the current system fails to deliver, something
neither this administration nor the previous one has been willing to do.
Fraud in a $124 billion-a-year program isn't a rounding
error. It's the bill coming due for a decade of pass-it-first,
ask-questions-later governance. Kennedy and Oz are finally asking the
questions. The rest of Washington should stop pretending the answers
don't matter.
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison released a video about America’s 250th birthday in which he encourages America to import foreigners and naturalize them.
"Every time this country faced a moment of crisis, every
time we had to decide who we really are, the best of us chose to expand
the circle," Ellison said. "To bring more people in. To make that
promise of freedom and justice real for more Americans."
On June 10, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Ellison, and one other person pardoned an illegal alien and child rapist so that he could fight deportation.
Minnesota’s Board of Pardons includes the governor, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the attorney general.
“They
want to take back the rights of the people born here," Ellison said.
"They want to take back the rights of the people who came here.”
The biggest political story in the country right now is that Tim Walz and Keith Ellison pardoned a convicted child rapist.
But you wouldn’t know it if you relied on Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Star Tribune, for your news.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison’s 4th of July message: Let’s import millions more foreigners and fast-track them to citizenship. This
comes just days after he joined the board that pardoned a foreign child
rapist — wiping his record to help shield him from deportation. Priorities? 🇺🇸… pic.twitter.com/PWvSITBmgP
— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) July 3, 2026
Meanwhile,
President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, slamming Europe for
importing what he called "Third World criminals." Trump's administration
has focused on deporting illegal aliens and stopping illegal
immigration at America's borders.
AG
Keith Ellison started well speaking on historical points and then lost
the bubble. The moment Ellison asserted that Lincoln spoke on "having
freedom and justice for all" Ellison went off the rails. Lincoln was
clear that he fought to have a free and united America and that all… https://t.co/WLDxIUuJIJ
— Renee' Springer - (@SpringerRC24720) July 3, 2026
French sailing training ship Belle Poule sails past the Statue of
Liberty during the Sail 4th 250 Parade of Ships in New York Harbor in
New York, on July 4, 2026.
A fleet of tall ships from around the world joined together near the
shores of New York and New Jersey for the biggest Fourth of July
celebration in New York City history, marking the 250th anniversary of American independence.
On Saturday, millions drew to the Hudson River and the Port of New
York and New Jersey to witness the largest ever international flotilla
for Sail4th 250.
The celebration included vessels from several nations, such as:
30 Class A Tall Ships;
30 Class B Tall Ships;
Navy, Coast Guard, Government, and International vessels;
More than 120 aircraft led by the Blue Angels;
15,000 U.S. and foreign sailors.
20 foreign nations were represented among tall ships and 44 nations were represented in the New York Harbor.
Countries including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Monaco, the
Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the
United Kingdom were represented.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Eagle, which was acquired as a war
reparation from Nazi Germany and has been sailed by every Coast Guard
Academy cadet, led the parade of ships. The Eagle carried a historical
print copy of the Declaration of Independence, according to the Sail4th 250 Facebook page.
Vessels from the U.S. Navy fleet were also anchored in the Hudson River for a Naval Review, including:
USS Arlington;
USS Kearsarge;
USS Iwo Jima;
USS Farragut;
USS Nitze;
USS Jason Dunham.
Vice President JD Vance participated in the Naval Review, even
personally swearing in new Navy Sailors aboard the USS Kearsarge in the
Hudson.
Before the main parade, an aircraft parade flew in formations,
trailing red, white and blue over the river and the Verrazano Bridge.
“Nearly 250 years ago, it was here at Sandy Hook that George
Washington’s army drove the British from New Jersey,” said New Jersey
Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), a former naval officer. “It was from
this day that the last British ships of the Revolutionary War departed.”
Sherrill said the inclusion of the international vessels has a deep meaning to the U.S.
“America never fights alone because we fight alongside our friends
and allies,” Sherrill said. “Today, it’s a joy to be here to celebrate
with all of our allies and friends.”
“Fifty years ago, people lined the Hudson to cheer [on] hundreds of
ships from around the world,” she said, referring to the country’s 1976
bicentennial celebration. “This week, millions will turn out again for
another massive boat parade, united by a shared love of country, pride
in our history and hope for the future.”
Watching a man like Secretary Doug Collins speak about the meaning of
freedom and the legacy of our nation’s heroes ought to remind every
American why this country endures. There are no happy Fourth of July
parades, no birthday candles on America’s cake, and no thriving
hometowns without the sacrifices of the men and women who wore the
uniform. If the media and the left won’t recognize that simple truth,
then patriots must shout it louder and hold leaders to account until the
job is done.
Doug Collins didn’t get where he is by accident —
the Senate confirmed him to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs
in
early February 2025, and he comes to the job as a fellow veteran and
public servant determined to deliver results. His background as a former
congressman and military chaplain gives him the credibility to speak
for veterans and to press the bureaucracy for change. The country needs
leaders in office who put veterans before ideology and Collins ran on
exactly that promise.
What Collins has made clear is that rhetoric
must be matched by action: cutting the claims backlog, improving access
to care, and streamlining red tape are not partisan talking points but
moral imperatives. He’s repeated that the VA must be a service
organization first, moving decisively to streamline disability claims
and strengthen outreach to veterans at risk of homelessness and suicide.
That kind of practical focus — not virtue signaling — is what will
actually change lives for the better.
The recent numbers show the
problem remains serious but fixable, and they also vindicate the push
for reform and accountability. After years of unacceptably long waits,
the VA has reported meaningful reductions in the pending-claims backlog
and faster processing times thanks to focused efforts across the agency;
those improvements prove that with leadership and urgency, bureaucracy
can be beaten. Veterans deserve faster decisions and cleaner, more
transparent systems; anything less is a betrayal of service.
If
conservatives truly honor our veterans, we must back commonsense reforms
with muscle: fund what works, demand transparency where it doesn’t, and
reject any move to politicize care or use veterans’ issues as
bargaining chips. The Department of Veterans Affairs runs a massive
mission — medical centers, cemeteries, benefits — and it deserves
leaders who will manage that mission with fiscal prudence and iron
resolve, not ideological experiments. Americans on both sides of the
aisle should unite behind getting veterans the timely care and benefits
they earn.
So here is the plain truth: we can celebrate our nation
and sing our anthems, but if we forget the veterans who paid the price
for those freedoms, our celebrations become hollow. Secretary Collins
has signaled he will put boots on the ground to fight the bureaucracy;
patriots must stay vigilant and press Congress and the VA until every
veteran gets the dignity and care they deserve. For hardworking
Americans and for those who answered the call, there should be no rest
until the VA serves with excellence, honor, and gratitude.
A viral sermon from Pastor David James Manning has lit up
conservative feeds after he delivered an unflinching critique of what he
called “black fatigue,” a blunt sermon that has drawn attention for its
sharp condemnation of cultural decay and civic failures within parts of
the black community. The clip, reposted widely across alternative
platforms, shows Manning accusing community leaders of failing their
people and urging a return to faith and responsibility, comments that
have sparked debate online.
In
the footage Manning argues that patterns like fatherlessness,
lawlessness, and cultural self-defeat have hollowed out neighborhoods
and left ordinary families to pay the price, insisting congregations
must confront uncomfortable truths before progress can happen. He
skewers political and cultural elites who he says excuse destructive
behavior and refuses to let victimhood be the final word for his
listeners. Those direct lines of criticism — however uncomfortable to
hear — reflect a broader frustration many Americans feel about endemic
crime and failing institutions.
Conservatives should welcome a
pastor willing to tell his flock the hard truth instead of soothing them
with empty promises from the same people whose policies delivered
worsening outcomes. Accountability, personal responsibility, and
faith-driven community renewal are conservative pillars that actually
rebuild lives, not government dependency programs that paper over the
rot. When leaders inside a community demand better of their own people,
that honesty deserves amplification rather than automatic censure.
The
larger lesson here is political as well as moral: decades of left-wing
social engineering and soft-on-crime policies have too often
incentivized dysfunction and punished stable families and small
businesses. Cities run by the wrong priorities have been hollowed out,
and ordinary citizens are the ones who lose their safety and
opportunity; the viral sermon simply puts language to what many see
every day in their neighborhoods.
What conservatives must do is
pair that truth-telling with real solutions — restore law and order,
strengthen marriage and fatherhood through community institutions,
expand school choice so parents can protect their children, and empower
faith-based organizations that actually rehabilitate men and women.
These are practical, time-tested prescriptions that rebuild dignity and
create the conditions for prosperity where government programs have
failed.
If
the media won’t cover honest conversations about recovery and
responsibility, the conservative movement must. Amplify leaders who
preach values over victimhood, demand accountability from public
officials who prioritize ideology over results, and keep pushing
policies that restore neighborhoods and reward work. Pastor Manning’s
sermon is a crude instrument and a blunt message, but the core challenge
he lays down is serious: revival begins with truth and ends with
action.
