On Oct. 1, a new half-cent per dollar sales tax took effect across LA County. It will cost families hundreds of dollars a year. But that's not even the...
President Joe Biden insisted that giving the Internal Revenue Service $80 billion and hiring 87,000 new agents would be all about targeting the wealthy, not the middle class. Unsurprisingly, it turns out his new bulked-up IRS is the same as it always was. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration issued a report on the […]
Children are more anxious than ever, and birth rates are lower than ever. Parents say raising children is too hard, and millennials and zoomers are opting out of the whole thing. There are a ton of reasons for this, but one big one is helicopter parenting. Parents feel they cannot leave their child unsupervised for […]
Do you know the difference between “polyamory” and “open monogamy”? Because if you don’t, and you just call any relationship where at least one partner has sex with other people “polyamory,” then you are being “misleading at best and potentially harmful at worst.” This is all according to “Sex & Relationships Doctor” Zhana Vrangalova, Ph.D. […]
Oregon in 2020 made the decision to decriminalize certain hard drugs. In a far-from-shocking development, an increase of hundreds in overdose deaths followed, and now the state is reversing course. In 2020, 58% of Oregon voters supported decriminalizing possession of personal amounts of drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, making the punishment for possession a […]
If there were any concerns that former President Donald Trump has lost his ability to raise money, the latest fundraising data from the campaign and the Republican National Committee should put that to rest. On Wednesday, the Trump campaign and the RNC announced that they had raised $65 million during the month of March and […]
What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine that the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in a record-high number of migration encounters — more than three-quarters of a million — in the usually low-immigration months of October, November, and December 2023? Did they […]
Third World countries have to focus on real-world problems because they do not have the luxury of being affluent enough to worry about climate change. On Saturday, BBC reporter Stephen Sackur interviewed Guyana President Irfaan Ali. He turned the conversation toward the efforts being made to greatly expand Guyana’s oil industry and used it to […]
While the majority of the country is focused on the November presidential election and the rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, voters in Wisconsin approved changes to the state constitution that could have significant ramifications for November. Two ballot referendums, one that prohibits private funding for election offices and another that […]
According to the latest slew of swing state polling from the Wall Street Journal, President Joe Biden isn’t even on par to win Pennsylvania or Michigan — crucial states he won in 2020 and cannot win the Electoral College in 2024 without — let alone accrue new purple state pickups. That hasn’t stopped his campaign […]
MORE BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN: IS IT ‘ROSY RETROSPECTION’ OR JUST FACT? The 2024 presidential election is extraordinary in a lot of ways, but especially in this one: Voters can judge the presidential job performance of both major candidates. It has only happened once before, in 1892, when former President Grover Cleveland ran against incumbent President […]
Commentators on the Right and Left have been calling on the government for years to regulate social media to protect children from the apparent harms. The most common retort worldwide is that the government should have no role and that parents who don’t want their children to have an iPhone or a TikTok account should […]
