Gov. Gavin Newsom announces Golden State Start, a new California program offering 400 free diapers to every family with a newborn starting this summer.
If you care about economic growth and lifting wages for working people, something exciting is happening in the halls of Congress. This year, the Republican-controlled House and Senate set out to prevent the largest automatic tax increase in American history, which is set to occur at the end of the calendar year when major portions […]
Americans in every corner of the country yearn for financial relief. The cost of living remains high, and according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American household spends more than $77,000 per year on expenses like housing, transportation, groceries and more. Today, the average national price for a gallon of gas is […]
New Jersey residents were facing a 20% hike on energy bills this month, thanks to bad policymaking designed to force consumers into using 100% renewable energy. Some customers already pay over $500 a month. But the Board of Public Utilities is bailing out Trenton lawmakers by delaying the rate increase until Sept. 30. While it’s […]
Benji Backer, executive chairman and founder of the American Conservation Coalition, recently took to X in hysterics over the Senate reconciliation bill’s inclusion of the HOUSES Act, a proposal to use a minuscule fraction of our excessive federal land stock to address the housing crisis. In his post, Backer said Senate Republicans were “secretly trying […]
Have a cursory glance at the artificial intelligence news cycle under the new administration, and you might think it is only about data centers, trillions of dollars in investments, bellicose statements regarding geopolitical rivalries, and rescinding woke AI policies. Yet, underneath the surface, there are also important matters of AI governance being settled this month. AI […]
By targeting senior Iranian government and military officials, eliminating top nuclear scientists, and crippling critical components of the regime’s nuclear weapons infrastructure, Israel has forced the mullahs into a position they likely never imagined possible before the strikes. Through superior intelligence gathering and a meticulously executed military strategy, Israel has dealt a catastrophic blow to […]
President Donald Trump and the Democrats are fighting over the national flag, America’s preeminent patriotic symbol. Democrats know it’s a problem that they’re accurately seen as often being anti-American in their policies (e.g., mass illegal immigration) and worldview (e.g., shouting that the United States is irredeemably racist). So on flag day, they handed out little […]
The first American casualty of the Israel-Iran conflict was Tucker Carlson. “The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans,” Carlson said on June 7. The Tehran Times, which calls itself the “voice of the Islamic Revolution,” praised Carlson’s acuity and agreed that American foreign policy is controlled by Fox News’s Mark Levin. […]
Ben Wattenberg died 10 years ago this month, but his legacy still looms large. Wattenberg, a pundit, demographer, and political operative, reshaped Washington and America through his farsighted thinking and writing. He constantly told his once beloved Democrats to stop drifting further and further to the left. They just as steadfastly refused to listen, with […]
You may have seen the headlines recently: “Social Security, Medicare to Run Short of Funds in 2023, Trustees Say.” Last year, the date was 2034, so doomsday is getting closer. However, beneath those headlines simmers a more chronic problem. Uncle Sam’s long-term diagnosis for the health of Social Security relies on a completely unreasonable assumption […]
“There’s no playbook” on how to move forward. This is what Chad Hartmann of Glenn Valley Foods told NBC News after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided his meat-packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska. ICE agents arrested 76 illegal immigrants at Hartmann’s plant alone, which he said was about half his entire workforce, and over 500 […]
Israel‘s preemptive strikes against arch-enemy Iran, and a tacit green light by the United States to continue, have capped years of aggressive international economic sanctions. Combined with diplomacy, with recent diplomatic efforts to head off Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, it’s all set the stage for the Iranian regime’s deep vulnerability. This would have been […]
In the opening pages of his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway recites the English writer John Donne’s famous poem from centuries past. “Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Both works warn about the dangers of hubris. On Friday the 13th, the bell began to […]
President Donald Trump ran in 2024 on enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. As he follows through on that promise, he has prompted widespread opposition from the progressive Left. Protesters have organized in major cities not only to object to his actions but also to impede federal law enforcement. In many instances, Democratic officeholders have joined […]
