https://pjmedia.com/feed/PJ 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-usMon, 29 Jun 2026 12:12:28 -0400<![CDATA["The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America," read the very first sentence of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution defining the executive branch of the United States government. "And it means what it says," the Supreme Court basically ruled Monday morning in a little case called Trump v. Slaughter.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Green]]><![CDATA[Chief Justice John Roberts]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/29/scotus-the-chief-executive-is-you-know-like-the-chief-executive-n4954482<![CDATA[The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it won't touch a 2023 jury verdict ordering President Donald Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming her. While the court has handed Trump several key wins on challenges to his presidential actions, the refusal stings precisely because it's the first time since he returned to office that he's asked the justices to step into a personal legal fight, and they walked away from it.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:22:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/29/scotus-just-let-a-rigged-verdict-against-president-trump-stand-n4954484<![CDATA["When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people" to look back on 250 years of the world's longest and greatest experiment in representative democracy — a republic if we can keep it — it is incumbent upon those people to take just a moment to do an end zone dance.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/29/250-reasons-why-we-love-america-n4954468<![CDATA[This story involves two of the things I enjoy most in life: wine and seeing Democrats get what they vote for, good and hard. Unfortunately, it's the winemakers — and out-of-state wine-enjoyers like Yours Truly — paying the price for a new groundwater tax on winemakers who don't even abuse the groundwater supply.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:16:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Green]]>https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/29/california-dems-solve-a-fictional-water-crisis-by-taxing-wine-n4954475<![CDATA[Exactly two and a half centuries ago on Sunday, Thomas Jefferson, with the help of the other members of the Committee of Five, completed a draft declaration that would soon make history.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:09:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Delaware]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/29/250-years-ago-jefferson-and-friends-complete-a-draft-declaration-of-independence-n4954469<![CDATA[Top O' the Briefing]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/29/the-morning-briefing-good-news-open-borders-loons-had-rough-one-last-week-n4954467<![CDATA[It's been two years since Joe Biden's catastrophic debate against President Donald Trump, which ultimately made his party realize they could no longer pretend he was fit for office and forced him out of the race. Two years later, Biden is still proving how unfit he was, this time stumbling through a combative speech in front of the very people who used to cheer him on.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:55:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Inflation]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Maryland]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/28/bidens-own-party-heckled-him-during-a-speech-and-then-he-embarrassed-himself-n4954470<![CDATA[“The aim of every political constitution,” says The Federalist Papers (no. 57), “is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.”]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:39:00 -0400<![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/06/28/you-may-have-been-wild-in-college-but-you-werent-as-wild-as-this-dem-rep-n4954466<![CDATA[Hardly a week goes by without some lefty public official saying something on a major issue that is so far from the real-world facts Americans deal with every day that it leaves you wondering how anybody could be so removed from realty.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:45:37 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2026/06/28/when-reality-bites-gavin-newsom-has-no-clue-on-concealed-carry-n4954453<![CDATA[Democrats are not simply furious at the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Trump administration on removing temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians because this cuts cheap foreign labor and is a win for law and order over mass migration. It’s also because Democrats specifically weaponize mass migration to change the demographics of red states.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:40:07 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Haiti]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/28/brandon-gill-shows-how-dems-used-temporary-protected-status-to-change-red-states-n4954465<![CDATA[The Tehran terrorists are not hiding their genocidal intentions toward America.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:10:21 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Islamic Jihad]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/28/iranian-media-calls-for-nukes-as-official-says-we-are-at-war-n4954464<![CDATA[Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) lost his Senate seat in last month's Republican primary, and since then, it seems like he’s intent on proving the voters made the right call. Instead of accepting the verdict with anything resembling grace, he's been busy attacking the very people who pushed for the policy he once claimed to support.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[John Cornyn]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/28/john-cornyn-keeps-proving-why-he-had-to-go-n4954463<![CDATA[You really have to hand it to Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. When it comes to trying to stop lawful immigration enforcement, they are willing to twist the law and themselves like pretzels to please the open-borders crowd. &nbsp;]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:22:33 -0400<![CDATA[Hans A. von Spakovsky]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson]]><![CDATA[Justice Sonia Sotomayor]]>https://pjmedia.com/hans-a-von-spakovsky/2026/06/28/the-supremes-help-ensure-border-security-to-the-dismay-of-liberal-justices-n4954459<![CDATA[As the 250th birthday of the United States of America gets closer, we know that a country that has survived rebellion, war, depression, terrorism, cultural upheaval, and its own repeated habit of making a mess of things has much to be grateful for.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]><![CDATA[Bible]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/06/28/what-lincolns-second-inaugural-says-to-america-at-250-n4954404<![CDATA[London’s Metropolitan Police have found evidence suggesting there are thousands of child sex exploitation gangs or offenders in London.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:55:03 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/28/police-believe-4000-sex-exploitation-gangs-are-in-london-n4954458<![CDATA[Greetings, and welcome to Sunday, June 28, 2026. Today is America's Kids Day, Log Cabin Day (last Sunday in June), National Ceviche Day, National Tapioca Day, Paul Bunyan Day, Insurance Awareness Day, Descendants' Day, and Happy Heart Hugs Day.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:47:36 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/28/joe-biden-the-perfect-symbol-for-todays-democrat-party-n4954457<![CDATA[The Democrat Party has a socialism problem, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) just made it worse.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/28/hakeem-jeffries-surrenders-to-the-socialists-n4954455<![CDATA[Today (June 28) is the anniversary of the 1778 Battle of Monmouth, a battle which displayed both the worst and the best of the Revolutionary Army's leadership. As we are only a few days away from America's 250th birthday, it's the perfect time to investigate and celebrate the split-second decisions on which U.S. independence depended.]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Washington]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/28/monmouth-and-america-250-when-washington-saved-the-revolution-n4954451<![CDATA[Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is calling attention to allegedly leaked audio of his Democrat opponent and former Biden HHS secretary urging staff to traffic illegal alien kids the “way you do an assembly line.”]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:55:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[HHS]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/28/hilton-highlights-audio-of-becerra-detailing-assembly-line-of-migrant-children-n4954450<![CDATA[Obamacare is expensive, unconstitutional, socialist, and bloated. It is also — surprise, surprise — riddled with fraud.]]>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:55:15 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[HHS]]><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]><![CDATA[Social Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/27/a-million-obamacare-users-enrolled-without-a-social-security-number-n4954441