CUMBERLAND, Maryland — When former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won the Republican primary race last month for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat, many experts speculated that would be his high-water mark and everything would go downhill from there. Case in point: When Angela Alsobrooks emerged as the winner of the Democratic primary, Politico reported […]
People are having fewer babies than ever before. Birthrates have fallen for more than 15 years, and last month, the United States announced a record-low total fertility rate of 1.62 babies per woman in 2023. Yet, the Social Security Administration, in its newest calculations about the future of the trust fund, assumed the birth rate […]
BIDEN’S DANGEROUS DEFICIT. Just a few months ago, in February, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the federal budget deficit for 2024 would be $1.5 trillion. That is bad enough, but the CBO has revised its forecast: The 2024 deficit will now be $1.9 trillion. That is a 27% increase in the gap between federal government spending […]
There is no dancing around the reality: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is a pro-criminal activist pretending to be a prosecutor. Bragg’s office has dropped the trespassing charges against 30 of the protesters who invaded a building at Columbia University. His team also tried to drop charges against 14 more so long as they avoided […]
Former President Donald Trump has made it a point to do something that most, if not all, previous Republican presidential candidates have failed to do in recent years: actively engage the black American community and try to earn their vote. On Saturday, in Philadelphia, Trump is doing exactly that by holding a rally in a […]
Louisiana activated the latest “separation of church and state” hysteria this week when Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) signed legislation requiring all classrooms to display a poster of the Ten Commandments. The response was predictable howling that the legislation violated the separation of church and state. The American Civil Liberties Union announced it would file a […]
A recent Fox News poll drew wide attention when it showed President Joe Biden pulling marginally ahead of former President Donald Trump for the first time since October. His 2-point lead was due to an 11-point swing among independent voters, who had favored Trump by 9 points in May. This good news for Biden may, […]
Summer’s here, and the time is wrong for voting in the booths. The personal ratings of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron have never been lower. The British and French economies are feeble, and Sunak and Macron’s parties are deeply unpopular with their publics. Yet both leaders have called snap elections […]
Considering the polarization that has afflicted politics in recent years, it is remarkable that Congress can agree on anything. A happy exception to that rule was the recent passage of the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act, which is designed to jump-start America’s ailing nuclear energy industry. The bill was […]
Media reports indicate that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and her fellow Democrats are pushing forward with antitrust bills that would grow government power over the economy, exacerbate Big Tech censorship, and blow a hole in the TikTok divestment law. Republicans should vote “no.” House Democrats are set to reintroduce the “American Innovation and Choice Online […]
Overcome with Trump derangement syndrome after the brash billionaire from New York launched his candidacy in June 2015, the Left threw out the playbook for how political campaigns should be run. Although politicians have been fighting dirty throughout history, up until then, most had managed to stay within the bounds of decency and the limitations […]
America is in a debt crisis that is both deep and wide. More than 43 million Americans hold some amount of student loan debt, with the amount this spring standing at more than $1.7 trillion. Credit card debt also tops $1 trillion. All told, Americans carry nearly $18 trillion in personal debt. Our national government […]
More than 30 Philadelphia coffeehouse workers are out of work after a successful attempt to unionize resulted in an unexpected cost: their own jobs. “It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the closure of all three OCF Coffee House locations,” OCF Realty posted on Instagram last week. “After 13 wonderful years of […]
