The most galling revelation from Tony Bobulinski’s congressional testimony is not that President Joe Biden was indeed complicit in Hunter Biden’s overseas influence-peddling-for-profit scheme. House Republicans have already amassed multiple bank statements, witness testimonies, and emails confirming that the president repeatedly appeared at the first son’s business dealings and that paychecks from the younger Biden’s […]
Former President Donald Trump has been toxic to the GOP in many ways in elections, and that includes his unrelenting opposition to mail-in voting. Republicans lost a state House race in Pennsylvania in a Biden plus-10 district by 35 points, with over 95% of the vote tallied. This is thanks, in part, to the Democratic […]
What does America’s overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is “not much.” They think ordinary people’s splurging on natural resources is destroying the planet and needs to be cut back forcefully. And that the government needs to stamp down on ordinary people enjoying luxuries that, in their view, should be reserved […]
Like El Salvador, Ecuador has wielded political power to purge its crime, a basic responsibility of government too many elites have forgotten. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has been inspired by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s effective assertion of state power over crime syndicates. Both countries were once among the most dangerous in the world due to […]
PROSPERITY, Pennsylvania — If you make a fish fry dinner, people will come for miles around. They will even cross several state lines to get to your church basement if the fish sandwich is fresh and spilling out of both sides of the bun, the macaroni and cheese is homemade with just enough crisp on […]
Despite a long filibuster by Republican Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), J.D. Vance (R-OH), and others, the Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill early Tuesday morning. Over $60 billion in aid would go to Ukraine, with the rest split between Taiwan and both sides of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Not that a nation $34 […]
Some people see the child tax credit as a special-interest giveaway to parents, but I argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week that it is just a basic fairness measure. I showed that without the child tax credit, a family of five would pay twice as much in federal income taxes as would […]
Vice President Kamala Harris says that she is “ready to serve.” Whether she officially tops the ticket or not, Harris is the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, and she knows it just as everyone else does. It was always a popular (and sound) theory to think that President Joe Biden would not finish a second term. […]
Does the State Sponsor of Terrorism list mean anything anymore? The list was created almost 45 years ago as a diplomatic tool to identify terrorism sponsors and impose automatic sanctions upon them, but White House and State Department inconsistency and mendacity enable those on the list to dismiss the designation as unjust. Equally important, failure […]
POLITE VS. PASSIONATE: THE HALEY-TRUMP INTENSITY GAP. SUMMERVILLE, South Carolina — Nikki Haley has two big problems as the South Carolina primary approaches. The first is that not enough Republicans support her. A new CBS News poll of South Carolina finds that former President Donald Trump leads Haley by 50 points, 74% to 24%, among […]
When control of Congress and the White House falls under one party, it’s easier to get legislation passed. As Democrats proved in early 2021, a tie in the Senate and rules surrounding reconciliation, bypassing cloture motions, allowed them to pass the American Rescue Plan Act, a $2 trillion behemoth of a spending bill. However, when […]
Congressional Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Tuesday night, as the Washington Examiner’s Anna Giaritelli previously reported. In a historic vote, and by the slimmest of margins, 214-213, the House approved two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas: failing to detain illegal immigrants trying to enter […]
Maintaining the world’s most lethal fighting force is expensive. From a high of 35% during World War II to 11% during the Korean War and 9% during Vietnam, the United States has always devoted a significant share of its economy to providing the world the security needed to lift billions of people out of poverty. […]
Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged she is “ready to serve’’ when asked last week about President Biden’s advanced age and how voters are concerned...
