Opinion

Lawmakers probe SBA loans linked to Minnesota’s $9B fraud scandal: ‘Reckless decision making’

House committee demands answers on alleged Minnesota pandemic fraud totaling up to $9 billion, targeting SBA relief programs under Gov. Tim Walz's watch.

Former GOP Sen. Ben Sasse reveals stage-4 cancer diagnosis: ‘It’s a death sentence’

Former Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican, disclosed his terminal cancer diagnosis, noting, "Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die."

Trump official freezes millions in SBA aid to Minnesota, slams Walz’s policies as breeding ‘endemic’ fraud

Trump official halts $5.5 million in Minnesota SBA aid, citing "endemic" fraud under Gov. Walz's leadership in 2025 federal crackdown on welfare abuse.

GOP lawmaker unveils WALZ Act after billions lost in Minnesota fraud scandal

Republican lawmaker introduces WALZ Act to prevent health program fraud after Minnesota scandal allegedly cost taxpayers up to $9 billion in federal funds.

Rand Paul’s ‘Festivus Report’ calls out cocaine dogs, COVID influencers and a mountain of debt

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., unveiled $1.6 trillion waste report as federal debt reaches $40 trillion, highlighting bizarre spending on animal experiments during the holiday season.

Newsom pushes California climate colonialism in Brazil

It’s hard to imagine a more fitting start to a global climate conference than the lights going out. But that is what happened during the opening ceremony of the United Nations COP30 talks in Brazil. The event sank further into chaos when indigenous protesters broke through the security perimeter and U.N. staff had to be […]

Margaret Atwood is the Left’s latest fake martyr

Western liberalism is evidently so free of real hardship that its otherwise comfortably spoiled adherents will fake martyrdom just to seem interesting. See: Stephen Colbert, whose cross to bear is that CBS will no longer pay him an estimated $15 million per year to host a failing show. See also author Margaret Atwood, whose book, […]

The ground beneath our feet: Review of ‘The Land Trap’ by Mike Bird

In The Land Trap, Mike Bird of The Economist has given us something a little unexpected. It’s a history of land ownership and its consequences that spans several centuries and multiple continents. Sure, readers encounter some trendy topics from the worlds of real estate and housing policy — bubbles, crashes, the failure of modern big […]

Battle for boxing supremacy: Review of ‘Dempseye and Tunney in the Roaring Twenties’

In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching power, and rarely lost. Their two titanic battles were highly anticipated events in the Roaring Twenties.   Even though nearly a century has passed since they fought, […]

An all too thrilling year: Review of ‘Cry Havoc’ by Jack Carr

In Jack Carr’s outstanding series of thrillers featuring the fictional former Navy SEAL and intelligence operative James Reece, there are several mentions of and passages about Reece’s father, Thomas Reece, a CIA officer and former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam. The latest entry, Cry Havoc, puts Tom Reece front and center in the action […]

Trump vs. the BBC

The BBC is a big part of why the United Kingdom is less free than the United States. If your chief exposure to Britain’s state broadcaster is through dramas (Dr Who) or documentaries (Planet Earth), you will have little idea of the pervasive and sedulous news bias of what is still Britain’s most watched TV […]

We need a Marshall Plan to tackle America’s housing crisis

Homeownership has long been part of the American dream, but that dream has been deferred.

College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone involved...

Trump is right to drop the ‘Housing First’ Rx for homelessness

It looks like Team Trump will soon officially ditch the failed “Housing First” answer to homelessness that has burned tens of billions of dollars...

Trump’s ‘hemp ban’ shut down backdoor legal weed — and the pot industry is howling

It’s a much-needed correction for states that had “farm-bill legalization” unwillingly thrust on them — and the many kids unwittingly harmed as a result.

How the GOP can push true health care ‘affordability’ — and win

Obamacare imposed massive regulations on the individual insurance market to cover the sick and lower costs, but it's failed on both counts. It's time...

President Xi’s freedom-stomping thugs are targeting speech in NYC

Chinese director Zhu Rikun was forced to cancel the NYC-based IndieChina Film Festival after the CCP harassed participants and their families over the inclusion...

Gov. Hochul’s $11B Micron economic-development gambit has run into major headwinds

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s big jobs-creating win is melting away just as her 2026 re-election bid gets underway, as the Micron chip factory fades into...

Here’s why America needs to win the AI war: Palantir CEO

This week, Dr. Alex Karp, the CEO of software giant Palantir received the Herman Kahn Award at the Hudson Institute’s annual gala.

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