ALTOONA, Pa. — The pizza was still warm at Family Pizza on Pleasant Valley Boulevard when Andrea Verobish called Blair County’s special election “an election on steroids.” She had just won it overwhelmingly in a state House district Republicans have held since the Carter administration. Across town, though, Democrats were not mourning. They were taking […]
One month after the bond market went ballistic, with the 10-year Treasury yield breaching 4.7% and the 30-year Treasury yield skyrocketing to 5.17%, the market is now well and truly imploding. The benchmark 10-year hasn’t come down, and the 30-year has catapulted toward 5.3%, hitting its highest level since before the Great Recession. The financial […]
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico likes to posture as a Christian pastor. In reality, he is nothing more than a toxic progressive who will happily fuel racial divisions to mobilize the voters he thinks he needs to grab power. The trial of Karmelo Anthony was fairly straightforward. The Texas teenager stabbed and murdered another […]
One of Europe’s most tedious habits is its reflexive sense of superiority over Americans. Europeans consider themselves more intelligent than Americans (even though many more technological, medical, and economic breakthroughs come from America than from Europe). Europeans consider themselves more caring than Americans (even though Americans give seven times more to charity on a per […]
Twenty-three years ago, Congress did something almost unheard of in today’s political climate: it came together unanimously to confront one of the darkest realities inside America’s correctional system. The Prison Rape Elimination Act, signed into law by then-President George W. Bush in 2003, established a national policy of zero tolerance for sexual abuse in prisons […]
As Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court to stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the reaction to his attack remains unsettling. When it comes to political violence, one relatively consistent pattern is that the political movement that shares the ideology of the perpetrator will attempt to distance itself from the attacker. Partisan media […]
Last summer, I went out on a date with a woman, a dame, if you would, to a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game. We had amazing seats, saw an amazing game, and the Phillies won. A great time was had by all. While walking home after the game, we came to a street corner where the […]
While much attention has been fixed on the southern border, a different kind of smuggling operation has been quietly thriving 5,500 miles to the north. And Canada’s failure to stop it is now a card the Trump administration is playing at the USMCA negotiating table. For too long, Canada has taken advantage of U.S. prosperity […]
North Korea’s perspective on Japan is shifting. On August 4, Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea and sister to supreme leader Kim Jong Un, strongly criticized Japan’s military buildup, warning that Pyongyang could take “additional military steps” in response. What provoked North Korea was the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s test-firing […]
An office charged with combating antisemitism cannot fulfill its mission if its officials fear losing their jobs for challenging the mayor who appointed them. That is the troubling question now facing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration following an alleged admission by one of his Jewish outreach officials: “I can’t speak out against my […]
As the war with Iran approaches its seventh month, the Trump administration should resist a dangerous conclusion: Because the Islamic Republic has survived, it must therefore be stronger than many believed. Survival is not strength. The regime has been severely weakened militarily, but the deeper evidence of its vulnerability is inside Iran itself: an economy […]
International markets are rattled by global events. That was made clear by the Aug. 18 widespread global selloff of U.S. Treasury securities, raising 30-year yields to roughly 5.34%, the highest level since 2007. There are several causes for the rising investor anxiety. This includes renewed conflict in the Middle East, along with a continued guessing […]
