President Biden on Thursday will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 individuals at the White House, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has been an outspoken critic of President-elect Trump and some of his allies. The medal is awarded to U.S. citizens who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or...
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote for a speaker on Jan. 3 as current Speaker Mike Johnson aims to retain his position in the chamber's top post.
For all the heat generated by the recent discussion among Republicans about H-1B visas, there is much agreement within the conservative coalition on the matter. It shows that the incoming Trump administration has thought these matters through and is prepared to make the immigration system serve Americans once again. The H-1B visa program was created […]
A New Year’s Eve firework display in a Hawaii neighborhood quickly went wrong after three people were killed and 20 injured on Tuesday night. When fireworks were lit in a neighborhood in Honolulu, the large display tipped over and was aimed at the onlookers. One woman died at the hospital and two died...
In March 1976, Time magazine profiled a Democratic governor from Georgia who was making a long-shot bid for the presidency. A former peanut farmer, he was viewed as an oddity in progressive circles. He talked about his relationship with Jesus and promised not to tell a lie when (not if) he was elected president. Even […]
More than a year after Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel, antisemitism in the United States is alive and spreading. Recently released FBI data reveal anti-Jewish hate crimes reached a record number of 11,862 incidents in 2023, accounting for 15% of all hate crimes against a community that totals just 2% of the American population. This is over […]
One need not overstate the claims of Jimmy Carter’s supposed post-presidential saintliness or understate the failures of his presidency to recognize three of his signal achievements. Democrats customarily are heavy regulators, but Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, deregulated the air, truck, and rail industries very much to the public’s benefit. Carter […]
President Joe Biden and his team are trapped in their own delusions about what his legacy will be when the reality is that Biden will never be remembered as anything more than a failure. Biden’s team and supporters flocked to the Washington Post to lament that voters just did not respect his “substance,” as Rep. […]
President-elect Donald Trump has given the Chinese intelligence services a big Christmas present by petitioning the Supreme Court to delay the enforced sale or suspension of TikTok. TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, the United States’s preeminent adversary. Trump’s petition asserts that he “opposes banning TikTok […]
Almost everyone has an opinion about work-life balance. But for many among the highest achieving social classes, work-life balance is a luxury that cannot be afforded. Each moment of leisure is a moment of lost opportunity, lost productivity, and a lost competitive edge over those who devote their entire lives to their work. In a […]
Another win against the pornography industry approaches in the form of a new Florida bill. The law, aiming at online protections for minors, has had the same fortunate result as many others: a statewide self-ban by Pornhub. It has happened in 13 states so far. Louisiana led with an age-verification bill, and then several states […]
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines them to narrow provider networks. […]
