President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
For all of its efforts to forgive student loans over the past three years, the Biden administration has made precious little effort to address the runaway college tuition costs that are at the core of the student loan and college affordability crisis. But that hasn’t stopped officials in the Justice Department and the Education Department […]
NO, KAMALA HARRIS CANNOT ‘FLIP THE SCRIPT’ ON THE BORDER. You may have seen reports that Vice President Kamala Harris, currently running for president without an agenda, plans to “flip the script” on the border. “Harris tries to flip the script on Trump on the border during raucous Georgia speech,” NPR reported after the vice president’s […]
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” the White Queen famously declares in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Nearly all of the best children’s books are full of impossible things: talking bears and spiders, magical wardrobes and toll booths, or crayons that turn imagination into reality. Harold and the Purple […]
Homeless encampment sweeps in San Francisco this week bring renewed attention to Social Security policy. It is especially salient given the presidential election season. Numbers of homeless seniors may seem dire or dramatized depending on one’s home city. Still, it is sensible to conclude that seniors are ending up homeless at far greater rates than […]
An old saying suggests that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that holds, then all the wonderful, virtuous mothers in Moms for Liberty should feel very flattered at the moment. This is because the Democratic nominee for president stole the group’s slogan. Vice President Kamala Harris dubbed herself and her dangerously far-left running […]
When former President Donald Trump announced that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) would be his running mate, few people in Republican political circles were happy about it. Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of several right-of-center news outlets, was not happy with the choice, nor were establishment Republicans such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Republican political operatives […]
Proposition 1 would not only write the most extreme "trans rights" into the state Constitution, it would legalize rank discrimination on the basis of...
Voters in Minneapolis have a chance in Tuesday’s primary to defeat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) bid for renomination, thus extending a growing voter backlash against the most radically leftist Democrats in Congress. The Minnesota voters would be following the lead of Missouri Democrats who voted to evict Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) on Aug. 6, as […]
With polls showing “booming” support for Kamala Harris, “GOP strategists might take heart in what could be called the Harris boom-and-bust cycle," notes the Washington...
