Opinion

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) showed House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) how best to question an FBI director on Wednesday. Gooden showed that productive congressional oversight rests on questions centered in the national interest rather than the pursuit of TV sound bites.

It’s not often that you hear crying in a legislative chamber, but what happened in California’s state capitol yesterday certainly made it excusable.

HereTogether, a homelessness nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, has just petitioned city leaders to contribute $828,000 in taxpayer money to the Clackamas County Office of Equity and Inclusion. The organization’s insistence that DEI-related issues are at the core of Portland’s homelessness crisis could not be any more out of touch with reality. The exuberant fiscal decision will only decrease necessary resources and cause more harm to homeless Portlanders.

EXCLUSIVE — During the National Safer Communities Summit in June, President Joe Biden claimed people in Philadelphia were selling AR-15s out of trucks. It was a preposterous claim predicated on hysteria and misinformation. Biden said it to appeal to his audience and anti-gun-loving base. Yet I knew his statements were not based on reality. Recently, I contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Philadelphia Police Department, and they confirmed that they couldn’t corroborate Biden’s claim that AR-15s sold out of trucks.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has essentially admitted that he is either a Democratic hack or he is a gullible fool. You can draw your own conclusions about which characterization is more sympathetic.

The United States and Israel are conducting the latest iteration of their bilateral Juniper Oak military exercise. The intention is to deter Iran from further moves toward weapons-grade purity enrichment of its uranium stocks. Still, Tehran is unlikely to be intimidated.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has really outdone itself with its latest politicized health guidance.

Last week, a transition team convened by new Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson released a 223-page transition report titled “A Blueprint for Creating a More Just and Vibrant City for All.” Needless to say, it is a train wreck.

“I’m not the world’s expert on your message,” Tucker Carlson told Andrew Tate about 25 minutes into their two-and-a-half-hour discussion posted on Twitter yesterday, “but I’ve seen a lot of it and it’s not explicitly political, actually.”

It took the Hedayat family 16 months to reach the United States after seeking refuge from Taliban persecution. Now immigration court delays have left the family in terror over the possibility that they might be deported to Afghanistan — and back within the Taliban’s reach. An evacuation volunteer who helped the Hedayats told the Washington Examiner about the family’s arduous journey to safety on the condition of anonymity.

Among the world’s many frozen conflicts, the division of Cyprus may appear to Americans the sleepiest. After all, it has been nearly a half-century since Turkey invaded the island. If Turks say Greek ambitions to annex the island justified their first invasion, such logic fell apart a week later when the Greek military junta collapsed. That Turkey then invaded again, seizing an additional 30% of the island during peace talks, is an affront to good faith, diplomacy, and international law.

Fueled largely by the failure to keep schools open during COVID, public satisfaction and trust in public K-12 education are near all-time lows. Parents are not happy with a system that funnels infinite resources to teachers unions with no accountability or good results. They overwhelmingly want school choice (65%-22% in this Morning Consult poll), and more Republican-controlled states are delivering.