The Golden State is losing its glitter as the Billionaire Tax Act triggers a high-stakes escape. California’s elite business titans aren’t just complaining about the new levies — they are fleeing the state entirely, taking their massive tax contributions and corporate headquarters with them. CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest people living […]
So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. That is a frequently voiced charge by partisan Democrats, and a fear of many ambivalent voters who find many of Trump’s policies agreeable but worry about […]
The violent crime rate in the United States has dropped to record lows. It is wonderful news, but people shouldn’t become complacent and shouldn’t accept the weakening of the justice system at the hands of criminal justice reform activists and Democratic politicians. According to FBI data, the violent crime rate in the U.S. in 2024 […]
Anyone with a functioning moral compass is horrified by the thought of the government seizing confused children from parents and allowing strangers to mutilate their bodies via “gender-affirming care,” a perverse euphemism for plying children with puberty blockers or hormones, or worse. During the State of the Union, President Donald Trump proposed that “no state […]
Last night, as 70 Democrats refused to show up to the State of the Union, President Donald Trump showed up for American workers. During his speech, Trump announced a truly transformative policy in modern U.S. history — savings accounts that will allow all American workers to have a real piece of the American dream and […]
“I forgot how fun this was. I could watch it for three more hours.” This observation from a young, male conservative encapsulates how middle America viewed President Donald Trump’s historic State of the Union speech. Trump delivered what they were looking for, from plans for the economy, celebrations of Olympic wins, spotlights on forgotten Americans, […]
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) finally revealed his true colors last night during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech. And for a politician who has regularly paraded himself as a bastion of constitutional morality and defender of American rights over the last year, he utterly failed in spectacular fashion when asked to demonstrate his allegiance […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Feb. 25, 1776 Gen. George Washington’s mind is working overtime, […]
In 2019, the then-Sen. Marco Rubio co-wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump, warning him about “the steady erosion of freedom, the rule of law and quality of governance” in Viktor Orban’s Hungary and pointed to Budapest’s strategic alignment with Moscow. In a striking about-face, Rubio traveled to Budapest this week, this time as secretary of […]
“All across the [American Great] Plains,” wrote Dayton Duncan in 1993, “[Frank and Deborah] Popper have become as well known a couple as Donald and Ivana Trump — and about as well liked.” That a progressive Democrat like Duncan, who worked for the failed presidential campaigns of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis and later served […]
President Donald Trump did something entirely new in his State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday evening. Playing to one of his greatest strengths, which is that he is a gifted populist showman, he simply put on a populist show. It was an address of record length, yet it was not the “laundry list” […]
