Opinion

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) is rightfully urging lawmakers to enact harsher penalties for criminals amid rising crime rates in New Mexico. The special legislative session scheduled for Thursday is a ripe opportunity for policymakers to protect communities that have been ravaged by violent crime due to years of leftist legislation. Lujan Grisham’s proclamation cited […]

REPUBLICANS HOLD CONVENTION, DEMOCRATS CRACK UP. Milwaukee — The remarkable thing about the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, and now into Thursday, is that the news, the chatter, the buzz, isn’t about Republicans. It’s about Democrats. The theme of Wednesday was supposed to be the speech of new vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance. Beyond that, […]

MILWAUKEE — Although Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) has come to Wisconsin as the proud Republican representing Utah’s 4th Congressional District, the ordinary workers staffing the four-star Pfister Hotel recognize him as the veteran safety who won the 1980 Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders. While Owens’s congressional colleagues are a dime a dozen in the […]

Joe Biden’s presidency has been falling to pieces before our eyes for months, but recent events have made it clear that his Humpty Dumpty moment has finally arrived. Few will weep. If you’re looking for a rundown of how awful Biden’s presidency has been, Victor Davis Hanson offers a pretty good summary. Yet for me, […]

At this year’s Republican National Convention, former President Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, delivered a speech showing a level of humanity that could deliver this election to Trump on a silver platter. She appeared onstage with her father, Donald Trump Jr., and stole the crowd’s heart with personal stories of her grandfather.  Her speech was […]

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to be the most useless and incompetent Cabinet secretary in recent memory. It is an open question whether he has done anything right in his 3 1/2 years on the job. Each new detail revealed about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump reflects poorly on Mayorkas, both […]

On Wednesday, Gold Star families who lost loved ones at the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan gave a speech at the Republican National Convention. On the RNC stage, they criticized President Joe Biden’s inability to protect U.S. troops and interests. The tear-ridden speech was a powerful and moving reminder of the broader disaster of Biden’s […]

President Joe Biden is attempting to save his collapsing reelection campaign by embracing increasingly extreme left-wing policy positions, but it has not been enough to reverse course. Earlier this week, Biden endorsed federal rent control and called on Congress “to pass legislation presenting corporate landlords with a basic choice: Either cap rent increases on existing […]

The Biden administration’s creepy old white van is circling the neighborhood again, offering voters free candy if they’ll just climb inside. This time, Biden officials are using medical debt cancellation to entice their victims.  Earlier this year, the administration proposed a new rule under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would prohibit medical debt from […]

Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah continue to escalate. Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks on northern Israel have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Should war erupt, its effects could reverberate through the energy market. What happens in southern Lebanon will not stay in southern Lebanon. Iran would likely come to Hezbollah’s aid even […]

After Donald Trump narrowly avoided an assassination attempt because the Secret Service was more worried about avoiding slippery roofs, the former president barely had time to change his now-famous ear bandage before appearing at the Republican National Convention, where he was announced as the official GOP nominee for president. Despite the concerns of so many […]