Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson said Friday that President Trump should be removed from office if he is considering using nuclear weapons first, saying even entertaining the possibility should disqualify a president from serving. “The second any president actively considers the first use of nuclear weapons, that person should be removed from office immediately, because that’s...
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed apologized Saturday for comments he made following an attack on a Detroit-area synagogue earlier this year, as he seeks to ease concerns among Jewish voters ahead of the November election. “I made a mistake,” El-Sayed said during an appearance before the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus at the state party’s...
In its penultimate Summary of Economic Projections before this year’s Election Day, participating members of the Federal Open Market Committee announced they anticipate just one 25-basis point cut to the federal funds rate this year. A single cut, likely at the Federal Reserve‘s final FOMC meeting of the year, would mean interest rates would remain […]
Despite President Joe Biden‘s laudable refusal to attack the political independence of the Federal Reserve, his Democratic allies on the Hill have failed to follow suit. For the umpteenth time during Biden’s presidency, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has spearheaded a partisan attack on independent monetary policy, calling once again for the Fed to slash interest […]
The consumer price index report for the month of May was broadly positive, with prices remaining flat and the annual inflation rate ticking down by a tenth of a percentage. The data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday are welcome news to both consumers and President Joe Biden. You’ll be hearing about […]
The newly anointed Republican nominee for the Nevada Senate race, Sam Brown, has a curious history with political campaigns: He has run for office in two states. In 2014, Brown ran for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, but he lost in the primary and faded into obscurity. But eight years later, he […]
Remember the anti-science fanaticism that led to policies determined by irrational COVID panic? The direct effects carried far into 2024, multiple years after common sense should have prevailed. The Los Angeles City Council has only now voted to end its COVID vaccine requirement for city workers, unanimously repealing it on Tuesday. In other words, the […]
Despite inflation persisting at nearly twice the Federal Reserve’s maximum target rate of 2%, Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi has called upon the central bank to slash interest rates. It’s not that the Fed should arbitrarily shift its inflation target and destroy its credibility, Zandi argues, but rather that it should distort its entire measure […]
President Joe Biden made a mistake back in 2020 when he picked Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate. Beyond her extremist and intolerant record on social matters, she is simply a bad politician who does not instill confidence in voters. People have trouble imagining her as president. That exacerbates one of the Democrats’ […]
When Colorado first legalized marijuana, one of the first arguments supporters used was about the immense tax benefit the state would receive. But the state has only collected $2.3 billion in revenue since 2014, a tiny fraction of the state’s budget. Since then, almost half of all states have legalized recreational marijuana, bringing in an […]
This primary cycle, former President Donald Trump has established a pattern of endorsing candidates opposed by the House Freedom Caucus. Moreover, he has backed the preferred Senate candidates of the National Republican Senatorial Committee against challengers attempting to outflank them from the right. In other words, Trump learned from his mistakes in 2022 and is […]
Not a full fortnight after Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted in criminal court, Hunter Biden became the first son of a sitting president to earn the same honor. In just three hours, a Wilmington jury found President Joe Biden‘s eldest surviving child guilty on two counts of lying on his […]
In an attempt to discredit the Supreme Court, an undercover leftist activist, Lauren Windsor, secretly recorded a conversation between herself and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at a private event. Windsor posed as a conservative and, at one point, claimed to be a devout Catholic. She asked Alito pointed and leading questions conversationally while at […]
