Four Democratic campaign officials in Bridgeport, Connecticut, were arrested and charged with election fraud Tuesday in relation to the 2019 mayoral primary race in which incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim defeated state Sen. Marilyn Moore by only 270 votes. City Councilman Alfredo Castillo, Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee Vice Chairperson Wanda Geter-Pataky, and two other campaign workers […]
Democratic politicians want black people to think society is rigged against them so they must be dependent on the Democratic Party’s political success. Polling shows how that is playing out and what the party’s formula is for making that happen. Pew detailed how “most black Americans believe racial conspiracy theories about U.S. institutions” in a […]
Former President Donald Trump’s choice of a running mate has ramifications far beyond short-term political advantage. Trump has not exactly established a clear vision for his second term in the Oval Office. His campaign has largely relied on criticism of President Joe Biden, but has few well-defined proposed solutions. Trump has contradicted himself numerous times on how […]
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 […]
Citizens Against Government Waste, the organization dedicated to ending wasteful government spending with its mascot “Pigfoot,” released its Congressional Pig Book on Wednesday, a list of earmarks hidden in bills each fiscal year. Since its inception in fiscal 1991, CAGW has identified 132,434 earmarks costing taxpayers $460.3 billion. This year, it identified 8,222 earmarks costing […]
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’ […]
