President Donald Trump pardoned two North Carolina turkeys in the Rose Garden on Tuesday, maintaining the annual Thanksgiving tradition dating back decades.
“I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves,” President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in January 1981 during his first inaugural address, “ready to do what must be done to ensure happiness and liberty for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children.” Reagan was nothing less than what the Greek philosopher […]
President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in commemoration of Thanksgiving Day, as penned by Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward. The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful […]
Despite being charged with no crime, more than half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation’s sidewalks, highways and...
THEY KNEW EPSTEIN WAS GUILTY OF TRAFFICKING UNDERAGE GIRLS. THEY STUCK WITH HIM ANYWAY. EXCEPT TRUMP. In 2014, the journalist-turned-adviser Michael Wolff wrote an unpublished profile of Jeffrey Epstein. This was a few years after Epstein served a prison sentence for sex trafficking a minor girl. Epstein gave Wolff, who had once hoped to go into […]
Former President Joe Biden was roasted by economists in December 2023 over incoherent claims he made while getting blamed for high prices, which had sent his poll numbers plummeting. Nearly two years later, prices are rising again, but this time it’s President Donald Trump who is trotting out the bogus claims. In a recent interview with Fox […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters recently came to PETA’s office, just up from the White House, and shot a video of themselves dumping paper sheep’s heads on our property. Their axe to grind, according to the woman on the bullhorn, was that PETA has failed to denounce Israel. That’s like attacking Habitat for Humanity for not building houses […]
Et tu, Brute? It is with profound sadness that I report the death of a once-cherished cultural touchstone: South Park. Cause of death: Trump Derangement Syndrome. The decline began a decade ago, around Season 19, with the introduction of PC Principal and a lurch into serialized storytelling. Still, even in those uneven years, the show retained its […]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — 2010, to be precise — the Affordable Care Act became law. Known as Obamacare, it was sold by President Barack Obama and his administration as a miracle cure for the ailing healthcare system, promising affordability, access, and a new golden age of healthcare. Instead, […]
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio approach the United Nations with skepticism for a reason. In Washington, at least, the U.N. has a reputation for waste. Many senior American policymakers today got their start as revelations emerged about the U.N.’s multibillion-dollar Oil for Food Program, the appearance of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Anna’s […]
Despite millions of dollars spent by the marijuana industry, the Trump administration is cracking down on the drug, closing loopholes that have let the industry expand banefully in states that have not legalized it, and stepping up prosecutions of those who use it on federal lands. This summer, reports surfaced that President Donald Trump had […]
American colonists revolted against the British government under the banner “no taxation without representation.” The banner for the new property tax revolt in America is “no taxation without consent.” The first property tax revolt was launched by Proposition 13 in California in the 1970s. Double-digit inflation rates increased the assessed value of homes, and property […]
There are many things to like about the deal that ended the government shutdown last week. Most importantly, it reopens the government without committing taxpayers to tens of billions of dollars in new spending on COVID-era enhanced premium subsidies for coverage sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. But the battle over these subsidies is far from over. Republican leaders […]
There’s a pervasive fear among average Americans about how artificial intelligence will shape our understanding of what it means to be a worker. The...
