In quintessential Howard Lutnick fashion, the commerce secretary forced the White House to spend 24 hours performing cleanup after his comments about changes to the H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers. Lutnick had insisted that President Donald Trump’s new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas was not just an annual charge, but one that would […]
Sure, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) may be transitioning California’s electric grid to less reliable energy sources and forcing people to buy electric vehicles, but at least he promised to help lower electric vehicle costs for Californians. He isn’t going to keep that promise, of course, but it’s the thought that counts. Upon taking office, President […]
Sometimes, the jokes write themselves. If you were a low-grade comedy writer with a chip on your shoulder and the same liberal opinions as everyone else you know, you might fantasize about a president who came down a golden escalator getting stuck going up an escalator at the United Nations building and then, as a […]
Is the United Kingdom really poorer than Mississippi? Have the Brits truly sunk to the point where, if they were to join the United States, they would be the 51st state out of 51? Douglas Carswell, director of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, first made this claim in 2023. A Conservative and then UK […]
The collapse of community and the crisis of belonging comprise the biggest stories of the past 50 years. In 2000, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community sounded the siren on this crisis — the long-term decline of “social capital,” as author Robert Putnam put it. If you read the book closely, you […]
President Donald Trump rightly lit into the United Nations on Sept. 23, noting that instead of acting effectively to end wars, all it does is “write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up.” That day, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump came out with his strongest statement yet […]
Responding to Nazi Germany‘s aerial bombing onslaught against European cities during World War II, Arthur Harris, commander of Britain’s own aerial bombing forces, invoked a biblical quote. Harris warned that the Nazis had “sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.” The Nazis did reap the whirlwind of their unprecedented aggression. […]
When Jimmy Kimmel returned to the stage of Jimmy Kimmel Live! after a weeklong suspension that rocked Hollywood and sparked a national firestorm, the audience’s cheers were thunderous. The defiant host directly confronted Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, whom he lampooned in a biting sketch featuring Robert De Niro as a mob-style censor. “Every night […]
Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens (D) on Friday introduced the "Stop RFK's BS Act" which would reverse the funding cuts that have been carried out under Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s rule. The bill, according to its text provided first to The Hill, would immediately reinstate grants and awards that have...
North Carolina state Rep. Marcia Morey, a Democrat, faces criticism for claiming "no correlation" between Iryna Zarutska's murder and her alleged killer's 14 jail releases.
The John Brown Gun Club posted flyers at Georgetown University with messages echoing a slogan etched on bullet casings found after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
After a fatal anti-ICE shooting, a special federal agent working on deportations revealed that their “biggest fear" is they will be left stranded by sanctuary jurisdictions.
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
James Talarico is a Texas state representative who’s recently announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. He’s a Democrat, but not afraid to criticize some...
