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Iran-backed attacks threaten a second major oil chokepoint as new risk emerges for US consumers

Houthi missiles and drones struck Aramco facilities across Saudi Arabia, threatening to squeeze both the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb.

Newsom admits democratic socialist ideas ‘mainstream’ in Democrat party: ‘Pretty aligned’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Democratic Party is "pretty aligned" with the DSA on Medicare for All, climate change and fossil fuels.

Trump posthumously awards Medal of Freedom to 9/11’s ‘man in red bandana’

President Donald Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Welles Crowther, the heroic "man in the red bandana" who saved up to 18 lives during the September 11 attacks.

Dem city bashed for policy ‘encouraging criminal illegal aliens’ as rap sheets revealed: ‘Lives on the line’

Danbury, Connecticut's City Council voted to let DACA recipients serve as police officers, drawing a sharp rebuke from DHS over recent ICE arrests.

How I learned to love the 9/11 Memorial — after years of being a skeptic

I refused to go see the memorial once it opened in 2011, and...

The week in whoppers: Kamala gaslights on energy, Eric Adams changes his tune on migrants — and more

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that lowering energy costs was a priority for the Biden administration.

No deal for KSM and other 9/11 plotters

A plea deal that spares 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the death penalty? Hell no.

Woke Target, broke Target: When will retailers stop shilling politics?

Target faced a woke culture backlash over its Pride Month merchandise and saw its sales plummet for the first time in six years.

New York’s lazy Legislature can’t be bothered to work

New York state lawmakers now all draw full-time, six-figure pay — having voted it to hike it 29% to a $142,000 base last December...

Eric Adams needs a spine of steel to stop Council lunacy scuttling Garment District plan

Mayor Adams wants to turn obsolete buildings into apartments. Left-of-Lenin Council members don't want to help, and unions are making a naked power grab...

California’s economic decay is another striking failure for Democrats

California continues to be the epitome of economic mediocrity for the vast majority of its residents, no matter how many times Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) boasts about the state’s gross domestic product.

Biden’s flailing semiconductor plans provide a lesson about industrial policy for conservatives

"Bidenomics" involves giving lots of money or regulatory protection to politically favored big businesses in the expectation that those companies will do politically desirable things, such as hire a bunch of Americans, provide a geopolitical advantage, or advance the cultural priorities of the governing party.

Poll: 86% of LA residents don’t want homeless in hotels

With Los Angeles residents set to vote in March 2024 on a ballot measure requiring all hotels to house the homeless, a new poll shows that voters are overwhelmingly skeptical of the proposal.

Nearly two-thirds of the electorate say they won’t or ‘probably’ won’t vote for Trump

With one week before the first Republican debate and five months until the Iowa caucuses, the party's presidential contest is still far from over. Still, despite the 91 criminal charges and impending financial drain because of his legal proceedings, former President Donald Trump remains the dominant front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, with a 40-odd point national lead over his closest competitor, Ron DeSantis, and comfortable double-digit margins over the Florida governor in the crucial early primary states.

Biden is a disaster — which is why we need someone better than Trump to beat him

If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, every progressive politician and news anchor will rejoice, knowing that’s all they need to discuss until Election...

Polling roundup: Trump has no realistic path to win a general election

While former President Donald Trump and his team try to build up his air of invincibility in the GOP presidential primary, the fact remains that he would be facing a near-certain loss in the general election.

Trump is still untouchable

When former President Donald Trump was still a big general election gamble in January 2016, he said at a campaign stop in Iowa: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." He was right.

An Iran disaster of Biden’s own making

Princeton University’s announcement that it has hired President Joe Biden’s senior Iran envoy Robert Malley is full of praise for Malley’s career experience, and it notes that Malley is spending time this fall at the school while he is “on leave” from the State Department. In what I’m sure is an innocent oversight, the press release neglects to explain why Malley is suddenly on leave and available to spend a semester or more at Princeton in the midst of the administration’s ongoing negotiations with Iran.

Garfield disproved the idea only cutthroat people win in politics

A recently released biography of assassinated 19th-century President James Garfield is not only an extraordinarily good read but showcases public-service virtues the public should rediscover.

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