“Tax the rich” is no longer just an economic slogan. It’s become a moral escape hatch for the populist left — a convenient excuse to blame billionaires, landlords, and business owners for every personal or financial frustration. At the center of it all sits one word: “inequality.” It’s not just echoing in one city — […]
Frank Kendall ran the Air Force under former President Joe Biden. Last week, the Pentagon yanked his security clearance, accusing him of telling a reporter that the Qatari-donated jumbo jet now serving as Air Force One lacks some of the defensive gear the old plane carried. Kendall says he is completely mystified. Maybe he is. […]
We do not know why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, reportedly ended their engagement. She has not explained it, and there is no evidence that politics, race, or her ambitions for higher office caused the breakup. So let me be clear from the beginning: what follows is speculation. This week, […]
The housing market is stagnant, and while people are staring at interest rates as the culprit, there’s a second culprit: a capital gains tax bill Washington wrote in 1997 and has left alone since. Congress has a chance to fix that with a bill that would index capital gains taxation on home sales for inflation. […]
America has a critical minerals problem. Washington knows it. China knows it. And increasingly, mining companies know that having the right people in Washington, D.C. can matter almost as much as having the right rocks in the ground. That reality helps explain why NovaRed Mining, a Vancouver-based junior exploration company, brought former Department of Homeland […]
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that could substantially alter the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States. Among other things, the order calls for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to be given as three separate shots, says childhood vaccines should be spread out between medical visits as much as possible, […]
The Trump administration is searching for a legal way to impose tariffs to combat unfair foreign trade practices. After the Supreme Court slapped down Trump’s initial round of tariffs, it’s unclear whether this second attempt will meet legal muster and accomplish the administration’s objectives. There is a better way. The administration already has access to […]
Aaron Farinacci, the alleged arsonist in the Washington state catastrophic wildfires, has, according to prosecutors, “admitted to starting one Spokane wildfire and more than two dozen others since last year.” Whoever the arsonist was, he is eminently deserving of the death penalty, and if it was Farinacci, he deserves it in spades. The premeditation is […]
Federal agents secretly monitored progressive groups and protesters during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, according to court documents filed Thursday. The surveillance, detailed in a 26-page motion filed in federal court in Minnesota, was part of two investigations dubbed “Operation Puppet Master” and “Project Whipple Shield,” which officials said were to track a...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Thursday she found it "funny" that some people are criticizing her for publicly sharing her journey to freeze her eggs. The New York Democrat, who is seen as a top contender for the 2028 presidential race, weighed in on the reaction during a 10-minute video posted to Instagram documenting the...
Rep. John Larson's bill seeking to amend the War Powers Resolution failed to address the law's core weakness regarding the definition of hostilites and the ability of presidents to circumvent congressional oversight.
A suspect has been taken into custody for allegedly vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Friday. Her office filed two felony charges against a woman named Melissa L. Farris after neon-orange graffiti was found painted on the memorial’s Atlantic Pavilion and its fountain was filled with a...
