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-usThu, 18 Jun 2026 13:31:38 -0400<![CDATA[The race is on to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), who is far more interested in representing the interests of his radical out-of-state donors than he is the people of the Peach State. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) won the runoff this week, and it’s going to be fun to watch him defeat the far-left Ossoff.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Georgia]]><![CDATA[Jon Ossoff]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/06/18/jon-ossoff-has-some-nerve-playing-the-daddy-card-against-mike-collins-n4954104<![CDATA[Mike Strickland is asking for his Second Amendment rights to be restored in a Portland courtroom on Thursday. The request comes ten years after his 2016 assault on the streets of Portland by Antifa and Black Lives Matter's activists at a "Don't Shoot Portland" event. I've reported on his case multiple times since the incident.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[Antifa]]><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/18/ten-years-after-antifa-attack-a-reporter-seeks-to-win-back-his-second-amendment-rights-n4954103<![CDATA[One of the alleged ringleaders of a plot to commit a terrorist attack at the America 250 UFC White House event on Sunday is an illegal alien.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:54:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/18/dhs-ufc-white-house-terror-plotter-is-an-illegal-alien-n4954101<![CDATA[James Talarico wants Texans to send him to the U.S. Senate. He's 37 years old. He also doesn't have his own checking account.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/18/james-talarico-shares-a-bank-account-with-his-mommy-n4954102<![CDATA[Iran is facing a dilemma. It is about to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. to end the war, allowing it to continue enriching uranium and building ballistic missiles, but it must be careful about what it says and how it says it.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:03:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Houthis]]><![CDATA[Iran]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/18/hardliners-in-iran-hate-the-mou-but-the-government-media-is-restrained-n4954099<![CDATA[From Israel's point of view, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed by Donald Trump and the Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, is a disaster of unprecedented proportions.&nbsp;The Israeli government is biting its tongue for the moment, but its allies in the media and among former officials are unleashing a stream of bitter denunciations of the terms of the deal and of what they see as America's abandonment of their most strategic ally in the region.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:53:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/18/israel-feels-betrayed-by-us-catastrophic-capitulation-to-iran-n4954094<![CDATA[It was a&nbsp;violent, full-court press&nbsp;against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by Antifa and other leftists in Minneapolis last winter, and some of the planning included a major labor union.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/18/feds-reveal-violent-antifa-conspirators-coordinated-with-a-major-labor-union-to-fight-ice-in-minneapolis-n4954092<![CDATA[Hello, and a warm welcome to you on this Thursday, June 18, 2026. A lot of fun listings in the observances today: It's National Go Fishing Day, National Wanna Get Away Day, and National Cheesemaker's Day. (How did Monty Python put it? Blessed are the CheeseMakers?)]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[Lisa Murkowski]]><![CDATA[Never Trump]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]><![CDATA[Thom Tillis]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/18/the-usual-suspects-how-the-never-trump-gop-keeps-handing-democrats-their-wins-n4954096<![CDATA[When President Donald Trump ordered the start of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, like many people I assumed a brief air campaign to further degrade Iran's nuclear weapons program. The instigator was Iran's own negotiators, who boasted to Trump advisor Steve Witkoff that they had produced enough nuclear material for nearly a dozen weapons. All Tehran needed to do was make the final uranium enrichment step from 60% to 90%, then assemble the warheads.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:10:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Green]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/18/iran-war-was-easy-the-peace-is-the-problem-n4954079<![CDATA[One of the more hackneyed leftist political tropes is when leftists take a number for federal spending that they don't like and then wonder aloud all the good that could be done if the money were spent elsewhere, like on their pet projects. This is the only time Democrats even care about government spending.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/18/maria-shriver-reminds-us-how-leftists-never-put-their-money-where-their-mouths-are-n4954097<![CDATA[Since Donald Trump returned to office, the Democrat Party and its allies in the media have tried to sell you a story: that Trump was somehow Jeffrey Epstein's partner in crime, a co-conspirator hiding in plain sight, maybe even complicit in unspeakable things. They never had evidence. They had vibes, doctored images, and a desperate need to make their Trump Derangement Syndrome look like journalism. Now, a deep New York Times investigation has taken that whole narrative out behind the barn.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:36:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/18/the-dems-trump-epstein-conspiracy-theory-just-died-a-horrible-death-n4954095<![CDATA[Top O' the Briefing]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:59:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/18/the-morning-briefing-trump-chips-away-at-the-dept-of-education-but-will-it-be-enough-n4954064<![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday that on June 10, a crew with Coast Guard Station Miami Beach approached a vessel that failed to comply with orders to stop. It was about a mile south of Key Biscayne, Fla.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:16:00 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Panama]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/06/18/well-well-well-look-what-the-coast-guard-dragged-in-n4954089<![CDATA[Constant Change and Social Media&nbsp;]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:11:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ashli-Meghan Eskeldson]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[Social Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/ashli-meghan-eskeldson/2026/06/17/whatever-happened-to-hard-copies-of-news-n4953800<![CDATA[The Trump administration is promoting a new agreement with Iran as a diplomatic breakthrough. White House talking points emphasize Iranian commitments to forgo nuclear weapons, international verification, regional stability and economic incentives tied to compliance. Yet many of the details that have emerged so far raise more questions than answers.]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:37:09 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/benshapiro/2026/06/17/an-iran-agreement-defined-by-unanswered-questions-n4954091<![CDATA[People are excited about peptides.]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:18:23 -0400<![CDATA[John Stossel]]><![CDATA[Big Pharma]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]>https://pjmedia.com/john-stossel/2026/06/17/magic-medicine-n4954090<![CDATA[Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) went after President Donald Trump's Iran deal with the kind of warning conservatives are built to hear. Cruz, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, said a possible $300 billion reward for Iran would be used to kill Americans.]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Ted Cruz]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/17/ted-cruz-wanted-a-fight-on-iran-don-jr-brought-the-receipts-n4954086<![CDATA[A report from the UK proves that the tinfoil hat crowd was right once again: Muslims have been committing barbaric sex crimes against white British girls and women at terrifying rates, and the police, courts, schools, and elected leaders made it all possible.]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin Downey Jr.]]>https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2026/06/17/new-inquiry-reveals-the-terrifying-truth-of-muslim-atrocities-against-uk-girls-and-women-n4954076<![CDATA[When the woke mob was tearing down statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and more in 2020, like so many, I was quickly appalled by the so-called online lessons his teachers were submitting his then eight-year-old intellect to, so I started searching for things for him to read.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Frank Miniter]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-miniter/2026/06/17/how-to-save-boys-heroes-from-the-woke-mob-n4954074<![CDATA[One of my favorite quotes about branding is something Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is credited with saying: “Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.” As the father of adult children, I’ve found that these words of wisdom also apply to what kind of father you may or may not have been.]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:06:33 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/17/the-father-i-didnt-know-i-was-n4954083