House Democrats are getting torched by their own base - and some of their constituents are literally suggesting they light a match. Shocker, we know - from the party that held nationwide riots over George Floyd (though 'mostly peaceful' of course), tried to assassinate Donald Trump and Steve Scalise, and put Rand Paul in the hospital.

Liberal activists are confronting Democrat lawmakers in town halls, office meetings, and online, demanding they ditch political niceties and start “fighting dirty” — even if it means getting hurt, arrested, or worse.

“There is fear and despair and anger among our voters that puts us in a different position where  we can't keep following norms of decorum anymore,” one House Democrat admitted to Axios, as Dems face a mounting tidal wave of frustration from within their own ranks.

In candid interviews with over two dozen House Democrats, Axios found a theme of rage  and a dangerous appetite for violence.

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Has Elon Musk gone off the deep end yet again?

Until a few days ago, we thought he had established a cautious truce with President Trump, having apologized for all the awful things he said about the man who had given him a major role in government, estranging their relationship significantly.

Ostensibly, it was all supposedly over the passage in Congress of Trump's budget, known as the Big Beautiful Bill.

It's true that federal spending did increase with its passage and should not have, but it wasn't a massive expansion. It contained critical tax cuts, money for immigration enforcement, money for defense and other important spending.

Nevertheless, Musk was incensed, as if this was the first time he ever heard of it, his ego wounded because it seemingly negated his DOGE work (it didn't so long as DOGE remains in place as it does), and now he says he wants to start a third party, presumably to challenge Trump's party as well as the leftists.

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A quick visit to my Wikipedia page will confirm, “Jack Cashill is an American author, blogger and conspiracy theorist.”

Yet, as I wrote here two months ago, I turned down a serious offer to co-author a book on Jeffrey Epstein, and this after a month of research and several proposal drafts.

I have no doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was an evil pervert. Where I lacked confidence is that I could prove Epstein kept a client list or that he used his videos to blackmail prominent individuals, let alone that one of those individuals orchestrated Epstein’s murder.

I do have confidence, however, in the integrity of FBI Director Kash Patel and Assistant Director Dan Bongino.

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President Trump at last has realized that Putin has been playing him for a fool and in an extraordinary, colorful outburst yesterday (7/08), has accused the Russian president of feeding him “bullsh-t”.

If he is as upset as his expletives suggest, the Russians need to be concerned. What has really changed is that Trump knows his air power can easily penetrate Russian air defenses following the attacks on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

The Russian president might not live on potatoes but most of the country does, and with the price of spuds rising and Russian sons returning in over a thousand boxes a day, this is the very time President Trump must turn the screw and force Putin to negotiate for peace.

It is now the US president who holds all the aces.

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Donald Trump is opening up a new frontier in his trade war.

Despite striking a pact with China last month, the US president is threatening to reignite tensions with Beijing by entangling the entirety of Asia in a sprawling web of tariff deals.

Even with fresh levies imposed on Japan and South Korea, Trump is racing to land a string of agreements across the continent, including with Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia.

If he pulls that off, he will build a cage around Xi Jinping’s ability to use Asian markets to prop up Beijing’s strained export-driven economy.

“What we are witnessing is no passing trade war,” says Neil Shearing, an economist at Capital Economics. “Rather, it is the manifestation of a deeper, more durable superpower rivalry between the world’s two largest economies.”

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When we look back on the 1980s, a decade characterized by renewed Western strength and prosperity after the malaise of the 1970s, many of us think of three towering figures: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.

These three people were committed to individual liberty, both political and spiritual, and they provided the economic, military, and moral impetus for that amazing decade, a decade that ended with the collapse of the once formidable—indeed, seemingly unbeatable—Soviet Union.

When I look at the world today, I’m beginning to wonder whether, in place of the Trio of Titans in the 1980s, the third decade of the 21st century will bring us the Dynamic Duo of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Working in tandem in the last few months, these months have brought about the military downfall of Iran and its proxy armies (Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis), even as we’re witnessing the resurgence of the Abraham Accords, which will bring Israel into the fold of its Arab-Muslim Middle Eastern neighbors.

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[I’ve known Grover for over 40 years. In all those years, the dream of his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, is what this bill makes possible.  We’ll be talking about this more in tomorrow’s HFR. Read Grover now for a head start. – JW]

President Donald Trump’s permanent tax cut will change the world.

The "big, beautiful bill" is the capstone of years of work to create a pro-growth tax policy that will make the American economy so strong we will leave Europe in the dust and convince China they cannot compete with us militarily or economically.

The big bill provides lower tax rates for all. Permanent, immediate expensing of business investment. Tax simplification. America competing in the world economy with lower taxes, not lower wages.

And the largest spending cut of any budget resolution in history.

The importance of permanent 100% business expensing cannot be overstated. This is an achievement pursued by the taxpayer movement for the past five decades.

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