“Only monsters play God.” This is the tagline of Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The film, which stars Oscar Isaac as the titular egotistical scientist and Jacob Elordi as the creature he creates, was released to limited theaters on Oct. 17 and will hit Netflix on Nov. 7. The tagline signals […]
My daughter is a teenager, so naturally she likes Starbucks (“Starbys,” if you speak Generation Z). We go out for “coffee” a lot, partly because it’s a convenient way for fathers to get their 14-year-old daughters to spend time with them. I put “coffee” in quotes because Bret usually orders some lemonade concoction, while I stick with […]
The Democrats’ government shutdown ransom, the permanent extension of former President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 health insurance bonus subsidies, was always farcically untethered to the party’s core complaint about President Donald Trump. If Trump is acting like a dictator in unprecedented ways that undermine the future of democracy, how does shoveling hundreds of billions of taxpayer […]
Hawaii occupies a strange place in the consciousness of most Americans. For most of us, it’s a vacation spot. A tropical island paradise with idyllic beaches, majestic waves, and towering volcanoes. But Hawaii’s history is also one that is completely different from the 49 mainland states. It is one of only two states that, as […]
No one cares more about illegal immigrants than California Democrats, who continue to find new privileges to grant them while giving California‘s legal residents the bill. Earlier this month, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1303, which strips the requirement for people to enter their Social Security numbers to enroll in the California LifeLine […]
If you were born in the late 1930s, the chances of you declaring yourself to be what we call “transgender” or “nonbinary” as an adult were almost zero. For the next 60 years, that number hovered around 0.4%, despite dramatic changes in sexual equality and sexual morality. This number rose suddenly after 2008, when the cohort born […]
“My name is Ernie. I am here as a representative of a small town called Charleroi, PA, which you may have heard about here on the news recently,” truck driver Ernie Merritt told a Trump campaign rally in western Pennsylvania, last September. “Over half of our town is now filled with Haitian immigrants and illegal […]
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will rise 2.8 percent in 2026 after the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), the federal government announced Friday. The Social Security Administration announced the 2026 COLA as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the September consumer price index (CPI) report. The CPI report, which tracks inflation, had...
Club for Growth President David McIntosh said the powerful free-market PAC is undecided on whether it will support Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) as he faces a Trump-backed challenger — despite its previous strong support for the incumbent. "I don't really understand what Thomas has been doing recently, you know, siding with the Democrats all the...
President Trump defended his decision to call off trade negotiations with Canada on Friday, accusing the U.S.'s northern neighbor of attempting to "illegally influence" a pending Supreme Court case over tariffs. "CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!!" Trump posted to Truth Social. "They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs,...
Annual inflation rose to 3 percent in September as a jump in gasoline and energy prices pushed price growth to its highest level since January. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.3 percent last month and 3 percent over the 12-month span ending in September, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor...
The Professional Staff Congress — the City University of New York’s professors’ union — was recently exposed for illegally using government email accounts to electioneer for socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D). This is not just a violation of the law but also a symptom of the systemic corruption of our colleges and universities with leftist...
President Trump on Friday will travel to Asia for his first visit to the region since returning to the White House. The visit comes as the government shutdown hits Day 24 with no end in sight. Trump departs for Malaysia later this evening to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) before visiting Japan...
Former NBA superstar Charles Barkley on Thursday called out the NBA in connection to a probe into illegal sports betting that led to the arrests of Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups. Barkley clashed with fellow commentator Kenny Smith during an "Inside the NBA" panel on ESPN, after the latter suggested...
