Guy D. McCardle

Quiet Skies was a $200 million-a-year ghost hunt that swapped due process for paranoia and turned air marshals into glorified skybound voyeurs with clipboards.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. didn’t just carry his father’s famous name ashore on D-Day—he carried the fight, a cane, and the kind of guts that turned chaos into victory.

By federalizing the California National Guard and defying the governor, President Trump is doing more than responding to a crisis—he’s staging a demonstration of force to prove he still holds the biggest stick in the room.

Trump’s bromance with Musk implodes as the billionaire steps away from DOGE leadership, leaving the agency—now under ambiguous control—to rummage through Americans’ private data with Supreme Court approval, while Russian spies secretly label China a threat, and Gaza’s aid efforts collapse into deadly chaos. This and more in your Evening Report for Saturday June 7th, 2025

Trump’s new ride may be wrapped in gold and gifted with a bow, but this Qatari jumbo jet is shaping up to be a four hundred million dollar headache masquerading as a bargain.

Welcome to your Saturday morning brief for June 7, 2025. In a week packed with major moves, Trump’s feud with Elon Musk sent Tesla stock tumbling, a rare thaw in U.S.–China trade reopened the flow of critical minerals, and new executive orders cleared the skies for America’s drone industry to take off.

As NATO scrambles to meet Hegseth’s 5% defense demand, Poland ditches its Black Hawk deal, transgender troops brace for forced separation, and Trump rings up Xi to hit pause—briefly—on a trade war that’s far from over. It’s Friday, June 6, 2025 and here is your Evening Brief.

Frank M. Bradley isn’t some PowerPoint general ticking boxes at the Pentagon—he’s the kind of warfighter who’s lived every line of the operations order and still has dust from Kandahar in his boots.

They were kids turned killers by circumstance, storming a foreign shore not for glory, but because someone had to break the grip of evil—and they didn’t flinch.

As Trump trades blows with Musk, Russia rains missiles on Kyiv, and Israel pounds Beirut’s suburbs, the world feels less like a chessboard and more like a powder keg with a lit fuse. Welcome to Friday, June 6, 2025, here is your morning brief.

This travel ban isn’t a security strategy—it’s a diplomatic Molotov cocktail lobbed into the middle of America’s already shaky foreign alliances.

Derrick Anderson’s journey from battlefield commander to Pentagon nominee reads like a war-hardened blueprint for how grit, failure, and redemption can forge the type of leader that this country needs.