Opinion

When President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, the return of “maximum pressure” is likely. During Trump’s first term, as sanctions took their toll on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s economy and hard currency reserves, Tehran found an ally in Beijing. China continued trading with Tehran and helped it circumvent U.S. sanctions. However, Beijing’s support […]

Building speculation that President-elect Donald Trump was seriously considering appointing former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) to lead the FBI was brought to an abrupt end Friday, and welcome news it was. Rogers would have been exactly the same sort of FBI director that has led Trump and so many conservatives to distrust the agency to […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the stereotypical weak-willed, socialist sympathetic left-winger. Facing an electoral loss next year, Trudeau has decided to align Canada with terrorists and antisemites. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. This is the latest in the efforts […]

It is just after 9:00 p.m. on election night in an oversized suite on the 24th floor of downtown Pittsburgh‘s Fairmont Hotel. All of the couches and cushioned chairs have been placed along the wall and replaced by around a half dozen campaign staffers working at desks, or makeshift desks, watching data start to pour in […]

With his early nominations and personnel appointments, President-elect Donald Trump has made clear his intent to shake up the status quo. Yet Lina Khan, the Biden-appointed sitting chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, has been inexplicably floated in some circles as a candidate to stay on in the Trump administration.  Khan has done nothing to quell the […]

The International Criminal Court disgraced itself with its indictments of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The indictment is legally without grounds: Hamas is both a terrorist organization and the aggressor, breaking a long-standing ceasefire to strike into Israel and lead the slaughter of Jews. Israel responded militarily, uprooting […]

Is the tide finally turning against left-wing insanity? As surprising as it sounds, a progressive policy proposal just failed in California. “Californians rejected a measure that would have raised the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour,” the Washington Examiner’s Jenny Goldsberry reports. “Over two weeks after Election Day, California has counted over 99% of […]

Like most Western states, Utah’s land is disproportionately owned and controlled by the federal government.  Nearly 70% of Utah land is under federal control, with approximately half of that acreage classified as “unappropriated” lands without any designated purpose or plan for future use (this excludes national parks, national forests, national monuments, and similar designations). This […]

There’s probably no industry more reviled in the age of populism than Big Pharma. Both political parties now engage in knee-jerk demonization of one of the most successful and valuable sectors of the economy. It’s not just lazy and irrational — it’s probably going to get people killed. No industry has done as much to […]

President-elect Donald Trump‘s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services roiled the political scene. It also sent shivers through certain sectors of equity markets. The media was outraged that Trump nominated an outspoken antivaccine activist to head the nation’s most prominent healthcare agency. Nonpartisan medical experts also expressed concern […]

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) may have finally conceded his election loss to Republican challenger David McCormick, but far too much damage has already been done to voter faith in our country’s electoral process. It is, of course, bad enough that the state of Pennsylvania was still counting votes more than two weeks after Election Day. […]