Scandal-embroiled Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on Tuesday was forced into a runoff election after weeks of backlash to reports alleging he had an affair with a former staffer, who...
An emergency Texas Supreme Court ruling scrapped a judge’s order to keep Dallas County polls open later, prompting Rep. Jasmine Crockett to accuse Republicans of rigging the race.
Rep. Tony Gonzales' election is headed for a runoff against social media influencer Brandon Herrera after he failed to clinch 50% of the vote in his district.
Four-term Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, lost his Republican primary to State Rep. Steve Toth following years of turmoil with the MAGA faction of the Republican Party.
“Only monsters play God.” This is the tagline of Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The film, which stars Oscar Isaac as the titular egotistical scientist and Jacob Elordi as the creature he creates, was released to limited theaters on Oct. 17 and will hit Netflix on Nov. 7. The tagline signals […]
My daughter is a teenager, so naturally she likes Starbucks (“Starbys,” if you speak Generation Z). We go out for “coffee” a lot, partly because it’s a convenient way for fathers to get their 14-year-old daughters to spend time with them. I put “coffee” in quotes because Bret usually orders some lemonade concoction, while I stick with […]
The Democrats’ government shutdown ransom, the permanent extension of former President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 health insurance bonus subsidies, was always farcically untethered to the party’s core complaint about President Donald Trump. If Trump is acting like a dictator in unprecedented ways that undermine the future of democracy, how does shoveling hundreds of billions of taxpayer […]
No one cares more about illegal immigrants than California Democrats, who continue to find new privileges to grant them while giving California‘s legal residents the bill. Earlier this month, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1303, which strips the requirement for people to enter their Social Security numbers to enroll in the California LifeLine […]
Hawaii occupies a strange place in the consciousness of most Americans. For most of us, it’s a vacation spot. A tropical island paradise with idyllic beaches, majestic waves, and towering volcanoes. But Hawaii’s history is also one that is completely different from the 49 mainland states. It is one of only two states that, as […]
If you were born in the late 1930s, the chances of you declaring yourself to be what we call “transgender” or “nonbinary” as an adult were almost zero. For the next 60 years, that number hovered around 0.4%, despite dramatic changes in sexual equality and sexual morality. This number rose suddenly after 2008, when the cohort born […]
“My name is Ernie. I am here as a representative of a small town called Charleroi, PA, which you may have heard about here on the news recently,” truck driver Ernie Merritt told a Trump campaign rally in western Pennsylvania, last September. “Over half of our town is now filled with Haitian immigrants and illegal […]
There has never been a better time to be a filthy rich automotive enthusiast. From the $3 million Gordon Murray T.50, perhaps the most pedigreed and purist-oriented hypercar in human history, to the astounding new $5.5 million Bugatti Tourbillon with its purely mechanical instrument cluster and 276-mph top speed, the diversity and sheer opulence of […]
First published in France in 1973, Jean Raspail’s novel The Camp of the Saints is one of those books many talk about but very few appear to have actually read. After a long period out of print, rumored to be for political reasons, the book has circulated for years in the form of PDFs and […]
A friend asked me to come to his birthday dinner next week. “That is,” he added, “if they’ll let you out.” “Let me out?” I asked. I have been a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary for more than a year. I’m about mid-way through the Master’s in Divinity program, on my way — God […]
In the mid-1990s, the late Sen. Joseph Lieberman, then an Orthodox Jewish Connecticut Democrat, and Sen. Daniel Coats, an evangelical Indiana Republican, founded the Center for Judeo-Christian Values in America to promote “the value of human life; the sanctity of the traditional family; the value of hard work, responsibility, honesty, loyalty, compassion and tolerance; and […]
People sometimes don’t realize how much of the training soldiers get is about saving lives, not taking them. Throughout my enlistment, we were often stuck reviewing medical stuff. As a combat engineer, I understood the importance of soldiers being prepared to treat wounded comrades, but I hated medical training. Evaluate a casualty: “Calmly ask in […]
In modern America, most people would agree that the job of the White House press secretary is to lie to the press. That was not always the case. Certainly, all members of a president’s administration would be partial to their boss’s side of things, but the job was created to inform, not to obfuscate. That […]
Luca Guadagnino’s new MeToo-era drama After the Hunt begins with a credit sequence that meticulously recreates those that have adorned Woody Allen’s movies for the past 50 years: the names appear in a slender Windsor typeface on black. Guadagnino goes so far as to list the cast in alphabetical order, as is Allen’s wont, along […]
