adminThe recent wave of resignations from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota is a sobering wake-up call about the politicization of our Justice Department. At least six career prosecutors, including First Assistant Joe Thompson, stepped down after what they described as pressure to treat the January 7 killing of Renee Good as an assault on a federal officer and to pursue lines of inquiry that seemed politically motivated rather than evidence-driven. These departures follow internal fights over whether federal investigators should coordinate with state authorities and whether the widow of the victim should face federal scrutiny, raising legitimate questions about the rule of law in politically charged cases.
Americans should applaud career prosecutors who refuse to bend their consciences to political whims; their resignations are a badge of integrity in a landscape where loyalty to politics too often trumps loyalty to justice. The episode exposes a Justice Department that, under current leadership, appears more interested in enforcing a political narrative than upholding impartial law enforcement. Conservatives who value an independent judiciary must now demand accountability from an administration that seems to reward loyalty and theatrics over restraint and procedure.
On the foreign policy front, this administration’s hard line over Greenland produced a dramatic White House meeting on January 14 that ended without agreement, despite the Trump team’s insistence that Greenland is a strategic necessity. Vice President JD Vance hosted Danish and Greenlandic officials to hash out security concerns, but both Copenhagen and Nuuk publicly rejected any notion that Greenland is on the table for sale or takeover, and officials described the talks as frank and unresolved. The United States rightly has national security interests in the Arctic, but diplomacy must respect the sovereignty of allies even as we press for cooperation on defense.
Still, make no mistake: putting American security first is not a provocation, it is a duty. The Arctic is rapidly becoming a theater of geopolitical competition, and any administration that hesitates to assert U.S. interests will pay the price in strategic advantage. Conservatives support a strong posture that protects American assets and supply chains, but the administration would be wise to pursue partnerships and leverage rather than brinkmanship that risks fracturing NATO and alienating potential allies.
On immigration, new estimates show the United States recorded net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in decades, a seismic shift that owes much to the administration’s tighter border controls, visa restrictions, and the winding down of humanitarian pathways. Economists estimate net migration was somewhere between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000, signaling that firm enforcement and legal reforms are altering the flows of people into the country. For citizens worried about jobs, wages, and cultural cohesion, these numbers are a vindication of policies that put Americans first and restore the principle that immigration must be controlled, legal, and merit-based.
Finally, the massive Verizon outage on January 14 that knocked hundreds of thousands — and at peak millions of reports — of users offline exposed a striking vulnerability in our communications infrastructure. When phones go dark for families, businesses, and first responders, it is another reminder that domestic resilience matters as much as foreign policy. Conservatives should push for accountability, investment in robust infrastructure, and a regulatory environment that rewards redundancy and private-sector competence instead of hollow platitudes from Washington.
