https://pjmedia.com/author/rick-moran/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 09 Apr 2026 17:34:43 -0400<![CDATA[If you're old enough to remember the 1979-81 U.S. hostage crisis, you're probably getting an eerie feeling of déjà vu.]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:42:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Pakistan]]><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/09/whos-in-charge-in-iran-a-splintered-government-makes-negotiations-nearly-impossible-n4951620<![CDATA[I used to enjoy watching MSNOW's emotionally damaged left-wing commentator Lawrence O'Donnell when he appeared with Chris Matthews on the old MSNBC. Like the other deranged leftist, Keith Olbermann, O'Donnell's spittle-flecked rants about the tiniest transgressions or supposed transgressions were legendary.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:37:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[MSNBC]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/09/lawrence-odonnell-gets-the-vapors-after-secdef-hegseth-uses-the-term-man-to-describe-rescued-pilot-n4951611<![CDATA[How confusing is this "ceasefire" between the U.S. and Iran currently in effect, supposedly for the next two weeks, and why is everyone still shooting at one another?]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/09/whatever-is-happening-in-iran-and-the-middle-east-it-isnt-a-ceasefire-n4951603<![CDATA[OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no Big Tech owner has ever done: "He's publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he's racing to build and spread," according to Axios.]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:04:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[Big Tech]]><![CDATA[Cyberattack]]><![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/08/the-government-claims-that-anthropics-mythos-is-a-generational-leap-beyond-other-ai-models-n4951588<![CDATA[California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell has a problem. He can't seem to keep it in his pants.]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:04:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Eric Swalwell]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/08/rep-eric-swalwell-denies-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-just-ask-the-chinese-spy-he-slept-with-n4951570<![CDATA[Twitch streamer and political gadfly Hasan Piker has a nose for publicity. More than a billion people have seen his Twitch stream that features some truly outrageous, hate-filled — even for a radical leftist — rants.]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/08/democrats-playing-with-fire-by-embracing-hasan-piker-n4951564<![CDATA[The phenomenon of Democrats belittling, mocking, smearing, and otherwise denigrating the white working class is not new. It goes back to the 1980s and the Democrats portraying Ronald Reagan as a bomb thrower and his supporters as ignorant hillbillies.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:12:51 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]><![CDATA[Tim Walz]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/07/the-democrats-comical-efforts-to-rebrand-candidates-as-born-again-populists-n4951546<![CDATA[Who needs artificial intelligence when the real thing can accomplish feats like rescuing a downed airman over enemy territory without the loss of a single American life?]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[CIA]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/07/inside-the-daring-rescue-of-us-airman-shot-down-over-iran-n4951531<![CDATA[Donald Trump has made his most specific threats against Iran to date, saying on Monday that the "entire country could be taken out in one night, and it might be tomorrow night."]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/07/iran-defiant-on-us-demands-as-deadline-to-destroy-every-bridge-and-power-plant-by-800-pm-eastern-n4951526<![CDATA["What Level of Iranian Degradation Is Sufficient to Produce a Settlement That Does Not Simply Reconstitute the Threat Within a Generation?" asks the Middle East Forum.]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Houthis]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/04/forget-about-talk-of-an-endgame-irans-ability-to-threaten-israel-and-its-neighbors-must-be-ended-n4951440<![CDATA[UPDATE April 3, 2026, 11:57 a.m. ET: CBS is reporting that one crewmember from the two-seater F-15E downed in Iran this morning has been rescued:]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/03/breaking-iran-shoots-down-us-fighter-jet-the-race-is-on-to-rescue-any-survivors-n4951414<![CDATA["Road to Damascus" moments are rare in these times. Social media strongly discourages changing one's mind about anything; otherwise, you risk being branded a hypocrite or worse.]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/03/former-climate-activist-perfectly-explains-why-the-goal-of-net-zero-carbon-emissions-leads-to-disaster-n4951409<![CDATA[How flummoxed are the Democrats about 2028? With more than two years before the first primaries to choose a presidential nominee, some Democrats believe their best bet is to choose a candidate who looks and sounds like, well, a Republican.]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Pete Buttigieg]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/02/some-democrats-believe-that-their-best-hope-for-2028-is-a-straight-white-christian-man-n4951377<![CDATA[Mark Twain is rightly considered one of America's best and most beloved writers. His first commercial success was a short story about the California Gold Rush titled The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Published in 1865, it highlighted people's extraordinary gullibility when a tale is told well enough, and the storyteller can charm his listeners into believing anything.]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/02/gavin-newsom-the-jumping-fraud-king-of-calaveras-county-n4951364<![CDATA[Yesterday, four human beings sat atop the most powerful machine ever built and launched themselves toward the moon.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:52:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Boeing]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[SpaceX]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-and-the-waste-of-space-n4951362<![CDATA["How blue is California? They're already voting for the 2028 election, just to make sure the Republican candidate doesn't get any ideas."]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:10:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/01/no-joke-two-gop-candidates-are-ahead-in-the-california-governors-race-n4951323<![CDATA[The 41-year-old Lebanese national who targeted the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., on March 12 "acted under Hezbollah’s direction and control,” according to the Department of Justice.]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/03/31/michigan-synagogue-attacker-acted-under-the-direction-and-control-of-hezbollah-says-doj-n4951291<![CDATA[Air Canada’s chief executive, Michael Rousseau, was forced to resign after giving a statement of condolence to the families of victims of the collision between an Air Canada passenger jet and an airport fire truck at LaGuardia Airport.]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:19:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Mark Carney]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/03/31/air-canadas-ceo-forced-to-resign-because-he-cant-emote-in-french-n4951271<![CDATA[The great French poet, essayist, translator, and art critic, Charles Baudelaire, famously said, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[The Atlantic]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/03/28/tolerant-canada-now-home-to-a-polite-pogrom-n4951166<![CDATA[Donald Trump has been warning Iran for the past 10 days that they have to make a deal to America's liking or the U.S. would "unleash hell," as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:55:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/03/27/pentagon-readies-final-blow-against-iran-including-an-unknown-number-of-ground-troops-n4951139