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Gavin Newsom’s first 2028 test: This fall, in Nevada

LAS VEGAS — If California Gov. Gavin Newsom runs for president in 2028, next-door Nevada will be a crucial test. This fall’s governor’s race is offering a preview.As GOP...

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—September 7

2000—Nearly two years after Florida voters vote, 73% to 27%, to amend the state...

Taking Venezuela’s Oil: If America Becomes a Rogue, the Future Is Dark

Undermining the rule of law and a relatively free market will have long-term ramifications.

Elite Formation Is Fueling the Socialist Project

America’s institutions are overproducing ambitious young people hungry for consequence. The DSA is exploiting...

Labor Day Is a Triumph of Capitalism

Socialism doesn’t protect the dignity of individual workers — the free market does.

Helping Palestinians requires eradicating Hamas, not funding it —as Biden’s aid package would do

Biden must understand the reality on the ground: We can only help the people of Gaza by aiding Israel in its mission to obliterate...

UnScientific American, Trump is yesterday’s man and other commentary

“You could be forgiven for assuming that scientific truth would play a pivotal role” in the output of Scientific American, quips James Esses at...

UN chief’s justification for Hamas attacks shows the organization is worse than useless

Guterres and his institution are no solution to anything; usually, they’re a big part of the problem.

Obamacare caused higher profits, worse care, and lower costs

There’s a decent chance your doctor’s practice was bought up by a hospital in the last decade or so. Such consolidation has run rampant for years, and a new study looks at the impacts. The bottom line: Hospital consolidation results in higher hospital profits, higher costs to consumers, and maybe worse long-term outcomes for patients.

Here’s how the SALT deduction drives down our birthrate

Former President Donald Trump’s tax reform cut rates for everybody and reduced one particular tax break for the rich: the deduction for state and local taxes (abbreviated as SALT). Democrats and some suburban Republicans want to lift the $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction.

Can a new speaker reinstate an old norm?

After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He’s Mike Johnson, first elected to the House in 2016 from a district in northwest Louisiana. He’s almost unknown to the public, has a right-wing voting record, and has been a supporter of Donald Trump. He grills witnesses effectively but calmly, with no visible anger.

Mike Johnson lucked into speaker job — but he has talent to pull it off

Mike Johnson, at 51 the youngest House speaker save for Paul Ryan in 150 years, has demonstrated both talent and luck are on his...

Gavin Newsom is China’s newest useful idiot

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) inability to go more than a few weeks without fluffing his ego has real costs. That includes Newsom playing directly into the hands of Chinese propaganda.

Holocaust denier Queen Rania could donate to Gaza from her Swiss bank accounts

Rania al Abdullah, the sixth queen consort of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, descended one of her nine palaces to berate us plebeians from her perch at CNN. Queen Rania did not just fail to spare a single word of condemnation of the Hamas atrocities inflicted upon Israeli citizens. While lambasting those Israelis for justly defending themselves, Rania denied that such atrocities had even occurred.

Israel war: Hamas leader compared Palestinian struggle to ‘racist killing’ of George Floyd

The violence by Hamas against Israeli civilians has led to a worldwide condemnation of the terrorist group. Needlessly murdering babies, children, women, and innocent concertgoers tends to have that effect on people. But a recently resurfaced video sheds more light on the radical and toxic ideology fueling the group. It should be no surprise that much of their values and beliefs align with contemporary left-wing political thought.

A defense of Trump — from the ACLU

A DEFENSE OF TRUMP — FROM THE ACLU. Millions of people support former President Donald Trump. They come from all walks of life. But one place it is hard to find Trump defenders is in the upper reaches of the legal establishment.

NHL executives should focus on hockey whenever they find their spines

The National Hockey League is run by spineless corporate fools who are desperate to be on the “right” side of social issues and are apparently less concerned with simply running a hockey league.

Eric Adams wins: Data prove ‘tough love’ works amid NYC migrant crisis

Mayor Adams instituted a 30-day limit (60 days for families with kids) on migrants in shelters. And guess what? Fewer than 20% of the...

Johns Hopkins doctor’s bullying exposes whole profession

Johns Hopkins pathologist Jonathan Epstein allegedly bullied colleagues to back up his wife's diagnoses, including one where a man's bladder may have been wrongly...

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