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Gavin Newsom’s tax return bait-and-switch: An attack on democracy

Gavin Newsom promised to "release" his tax returns. He did no such thing.

Attention Gavin Newsom: Donald Trump’s war on fraud is no bluff

California and Minnesota officials may have to shake down state taxpayers for a billion...

Gavin Newsom’s latest utility bailout — bad policy, bad for democracy

Gavin Newsom is secretly pursuing an 11th-hour push to shield California's three for-profit utility...

A few questions about the new hopeful Gaza peace plan

One enforcement arm is supposed to be the International Stabilization Force, but it's meant...

Gore’s ‘truth’ aged badly, a disastrous discipline ‘reform’ and other commentary

Al Gore’s alarmist documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” 20 years ago triggered the “inculcation” in...

Attention Gavin Newsom: Donald Trump’s war on fraud is no bluff

California and Minnesota officials may have to shake down state taxpayers for a billion dollars to pay for their states’ Medicaid programs this year. 

Gavin Newsom’s tax return bait-and-switch: An attack on democracy

Gavin Newsom promised to "release" his tax returns. He did no such thing.

Gavin Newsom’s latest utility bailout — bad policy, bad for democracy

Gavin Newsom is secretly pursuing an 11th-hour push to shield California's three for-profit utility monopolies from the financial consequences of the wildfires they cause,...

A few questions about the new hopeful Gaza peace plan

One enforcement arm is supposed to be the International Stabilization Force, but it's meant to have a mere 5,000 troops — and so far...

Gore’s ‘truth’ aged badly, a disastrous discipline ‘reform’ and other commentary

Al Gore’s alarmist documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” 20 years ago triggered the “inculcation” in “millions of Americans” of the belief that “climate change poses...

Mamdani beware — Cleveland’s forgotten folly holds a warning for NYC

If not for a staggering Ohio tax demand in 1913, New York’s rise as the nation’s undisputed center of capital, commerce and culture may...

California’s automatic minimum wage hikes hurt ‘affordability’

California’s minimum wage is rising to $17.40 per hour, starting next January 1. It’s an automatic increase, though Gavin Newsom is trying to take...

Trump is facing a major Iran war hurdle — this time on the homefront

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump’s...

Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 1, 2026

The pied-à-terre tax foolishness by Mayor Mamdani that includes harassing thousands of New Yorkers who have to prove the city is their primary residence...

Democrats’ swing state ‘blue wall’ becomes a haven for socialists

The Democratic Party’s surrender to socialism is not just taking place in deep-blue cities. The socialist wing is taking over in the Midwestern swing states that have decided the last three presidential elections. Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes dropped out of the Wisconsin governor’s race, acknowledging the reality that the Democratic primary is socialist Francesca […]

A multipolar world would be disastrous for international security

Writing in The Guardian this week, Yale Law professors Ash Bâli and Samuel Moyn celebrate what they suggest is the end of the unipolar American-led international order. To borrow from Mark Twain, I suspect that news of America’s superpower death is exaggerated. Still, in their optimism about how a new multipolar order might be established, […]

A hospital bed has no political party

America has become accustomed to talking about what divides us. We debate taxes and tariffs, immigration and education, healthcare and climate change. Cable television reminds us what separates us. Social media rewards us for disagreeing more loudly than yesterday. Yet, beneath those disagreements lies something quietly remarkable. Some experiences strip away nearly every political label […]

When ‘free healthcare’ can’t fix your joint, it offers you euthanasia

The clueless market universal healthcare as a right: free at the point of use, available to all. In reality, when price is removed and budgets constrain supply, care is rationed by time. Patients wait. Disease progresses. Productivity evaporates. And in the extreme, some systems offer an exit when treatment does not arrive.  If something constitutes […]

Stop banning data centers while binging Netflix and using ChatGPT

Data centers have become essential national infrastructure powering everything from banking systems to healthcare, government services, and platforms like ChatGPT and Facebook. Yet public discourse and the Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) movement increasingly frame them as environmental liabilities.  That sentiment is now shaping public policy. New York has approved a one-year pause on […]

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