https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/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, 03 Sep 2026 10:06:26 -0400<![CDATA[I recently wrote about pollster Patrick Ruffini's deep dive into more than 3,000 polls conducted over the past four election cycles, which found that pollsters overestimated Democrats by an average of 3.7 points, with that error ballooning to roughly 5.9 percentage points during the summer months before correcting in the fall.]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:57:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/03/new-poll-devastates-democrats-ahead-of-midterms-n4956852<![CDATA[Hey! Nice to have you here. Today is Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026.]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:39:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/09/03/faked-polling-numbers-n4956846<![CDATA[The last time Texas elected a Democrat as governor was in 1990, when Ann Richards squeaked out a win over Republican Clayton Williams. Honestly, had Williams not stuffed both feet in his mouth with a completely inappropriate “joke,” he would have won. This writer had just started college. It’s been three and a half decades since a Democrat occupied the governor’s office. Gina Hinojosa, a Democrat and Texas state representative since 2017, hopes to change that.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[Amy Denton]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Abortion]]><![CDATA[Greg Abbott]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://pjmedia.com/amy-denton/2026/09/03/texas-governor-greg-abbott-goes-for-a-fourth-term-n4956845<![CDATA[Pamela Cisneros came to a just end. After a short rampage through New York City’s Times Square, where she used two very sharp kitchen knives to critically wound an unsuspecting 68-year-old man and to kill a young mother, she was tried and convicted by a jury of herself.]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:59:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Lindsay Clancy]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/09/03/knives-out-in-times-square-pity-for-killers-has-lefts-fingerprints-all-over-it-n4956843<![CDATA[Top O' the Briefing]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/09/03/the-morning-briefing-talaricos-resident-alien-campaign-keeps-getting-weirder-n4956833<![CDATA[Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary on Aug. 4. Since then, his biggest problem hasn't been Republican nominee Mike Rogers. It has been El-Sayed — specifically, the things he said when winning over progressive primary voters mattered more than convincing the rest of Michigan.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:38:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/09/02/abdulrahman-mohamed-el-sayed-won-the-primary-now-come-the-receipts-n4956841<![CDATA[In 2022, politicians in Minneapolis and St. Paul voted for rent control.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:29:58 -0400<![CDATA[John Stossel]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://pjmedia.com/john-stossel/2026/09/02/rent-control-still-doesnt-work-n4956837<![CDATA[The Biden administration released a Haitian illegal alien into America who murdered one of his relatives and tried to strangle another.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/02/biden-released-illegal-alien-who-killed-and-strangled-women-in-florida-n4956838<![CDATA[In May 2025, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, went on BBC Radio and told the audience that 14,000 babies in Gaza were going to die "in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them."]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:57:09 -0400<![CDATA[David Harsanyi]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Palestinians]]>https://pjmedia.com/davidhasanyi/2026/09/02/the-gaza-genocide-is-a-hoax-n4956844<![CDATA[Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his Army post in Afghanistan on June 29, 2009. The military launched a major search; several service members were injured during those operations, and Bergdahl ended up in the hands of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network for nearly five years.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:10:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/09/02/bowe-bergdahl-was-spared-prison-then-a-judge-tried-to-erase-even-that-n4956839<![CDATA[What do you think was the final straw?]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:29:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Eric Swalwell]]><![CDATA[FBI]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/09/02/one-question-that-most-americans-have-been-wondering-about-eric-swalwell-is-now-answered-n4956809<![CDATA[We have the Gulf of America and Lake America now, and President Donald Trump isn’t finished. Late Wednesday morning, he wrote:]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/09/02/are-you-ready-for-the-trump-strait-n4956834<![CDATA[The Canadian government ignored all the red flags about a man who is related to a top Iranian leader and had developed weapons for Iranian terrorists, awarding him lucrative contracts. Western politicians are suicidal.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:10:41 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/02/canada-gave-contracts-to-iranian-ex-vice-presidents-jihad-engineer-son-n4956832<![CDATA[President Donald Trump will not say one way or the other whether he is considering sending weapons to Persian protesters within Iran, but he did express strong admiration for them and disgust at the regime that keeps massacring its own people while bombing Americans and other foreigners.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:06:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Peter Doocy]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Truth Social]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/02/trump-wont-say-if-hes-willing-to-arm-persians-but-praises-their-courage-n4956829<![CDATA[On September 2, 1945, one of the most murderous regimes of the 20th century officially surrendered to the Allies on an American battleship, finally ending World War II.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:25:27 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Japan]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/02/america-250-genocidal-imperial-japan-surrenders-on-the-uss-missouri-n4956827<![CDATA[“Why didn’t the cops shoot her in the leg? Or shoot the knives out of her hand? Why did they have to kill her?”]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:45:13 -0400<![CDATA[Jack Dunphy]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]>https://pjmedia.com/jack-dunphy/2026/09/02/the-keyboard-kops-weigh-in-n4956836<![CDATA[Well, what do you know? A prime minister who falsely accuses the United States of violating international law and Israel of committing genocide can't be trusted when it comes to speaking to his own people about an ongoing national crisis that a majority feel he hasn't done enough to rectify.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:35:09 -0400<![CDATA[Aaron Hanscom]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Spain]]>https://pjmedia.com/aaron-hanscom/2026/09/02/sanchez-blamed-israel-for-the-ceuta-crisis-then-came-a-bombshell-police-report-n4956820<![CDATA[America has gone crazy, and the only beneficiaries will be the Communists in Beijing, who are feeding the frenzy like an arsonist carefully feeds a fire to turn a tiny campfire into a raging wildfire.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:56:38 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Greg Abbott]]><![CDATA[Data Centers]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/09/02/the-backlash-against-the-data-center-backlash-has-begun-n4956821<![CDATA[A while back, I got curious about how different AI models “think,” so I ran a small experiment. At the time, I was using ChatGPT to research and brainstorm. I asked it to tell the classic story of The Little Red Hen&nbsp;in the voices of three popular American AIs. The results were interesting, and surprisingly different in tone.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:22:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jamie K. Wilson]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Data Centers]]>https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/09/02/the-little-red-hen-why-the-datacenter-fight-is-a-culture-fight-n4956830<![CDATA[If you heard any collective screaming from the left on Wednesday, this is probably why. The U.S. Mint rolled out a commemorative dollar coin with President Donald Trump’s face on it to mark America's 250th birthday.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/02/this-is-the-reason-leftists-are-screaming-right-now-n4956824