Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra clashed nonstop for an hour Wednesday in the sole televised debate in their contest for California governor, presenting sharply contrasting visions for how they would deal with homelessness, soaring household costs and high taxes in the nation's most populous state.
The housing market is stagnant, and while people are staring at interest rates as the culprit, there’s a second culprit: a capital gains tax bill Washington wrote in 1997 and has left alone since. Congress has a chance to fix that with a bill that would index capital gains taxation on home sales for inflation. […]
America has a critical minerals problem. Washington knows it. China knows it. And increasingly, mining companies know that having the right people in Washington, D.C. can matter almost as much as having the right rocks in the ground. That reality helps explain why NovaRed Mining, a Vancouver-based junior exploration company, brought former Department of Homeland […]
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that could substantially alter the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States. Among other things, the order calls for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to be given as three separate shots, says childhood vaccines should be spread out between medical visits as much as possible, […]
The Trump administration is searching for a legal way to impose tariffs to combat unfair foreign trade practices. After the Supreme Court slapped down Trump’s initial round of tariffs, it’s unclear whether this second attempt will meet legal muster and accomplish the administration’s objectives. There is a better way. The administration already has access to […]
Aaron Farinacci, the alleged arsonist in the Washington state catastrophic wildfires, has, according to prosecutors, “admitted to starting one Spokane wildfire and more than two dozen others since last year.” Whoever the arsonist was, he is eminently deserving of the death penalty, and if it was Farinacci, he deserves it in spades. The premeditation is […]
I love explaining what “girl math” is to my friends who gamble because they seem to think that I’m the financially irresponsible one. In reality, their hobby costs them more than girl math ever could, and is quite frankly, unattractive. The science behind girl math is focused on the change in one’s bank account. Things […]
On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, a mutual-defense pact declaring that an attack on any one signatory will be treated as an attack on all three. Two days later, Iran-aligned Houthi forces attacked Saudi Arabia and Saudi-backed forces in Yemen anyway — an early test of what […]
American interests in the Gulf region, including advancing an accommodation between Saudi Arabia and Israel, have been undermined by the present quagmire. The Saudi priorities include protecting its infrastructure and addressing the danger posed by an Iranian nuclear weapon. The latter helps explain the kingdom’s pursuit of a nuclear program, including fuel reprocessing and enrichment, […]
Sixteen years after passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), America has accumulated enough experience to ask a question that extends beyond any one administration or political party: Where did the money go? The Affordable Care Act fundamentally reshaped American healthcare. Millions gained health insurance, and protections for patients with pre-existing conditions became permanent law. […]
Heading into Aug. 11’s primary elections in a pair of Upper Midwest states, the conventional wisdom led many observers to expect certain outcomes. In Wisconsin, socialist Francesca Hong was running away with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, we were told, with multiple polls showing her in a dominant position. In Minnesota, pillow magnate Mike Lindell received […]
President Donald Trump has made a clear promise on military artificial intelligence: move faster without breaking the constitutional chain of command. His June 5 national-security AI memorandum orders the Pentagon to accelerate adoption of advanced systems while making them reliable, steerable, controllable, and accountable. It also gives the Pentagon 90 days to update its directive […]
North Korea has launched yet another missile. On Aug. 6, Pyongyang fired an unidentified projectile into the East Sea. South Korean and Japanese authorities immediately assessed the situation, and military authorities braced for the possibility of further provocations. Yet, this news no longer halts South Korean society in its tracks. A breaking news alert flashes, […]
ROME — For years, the European commentariat has warned that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would drag her country back toward dark traditions. The real test of that prophecy may now arrive in the form of a former army general whose politics make Meloni look like a liberal. Roberto Vannacci’s new far-right party, National Future, […]
The inspector general for California‘s high-speed rail project has an update: The project is going broke (again), is being delayed (again), and is not being transparent with the public (again). Benjamin Belnap’s report highlighted several missing details in the project’s 2026 business plan and concluded that the project would again run out of money as early as […]
