Republican senators and House members raise objections about a draft budget blueprint, threatening the reconciliation timeline outlined by House GOP leaders.
“I’ve grown deeply concerned,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), a physician, told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a blistering Senate hearing earlier this month. The Wyoming senator warned that “safe, proven vaccines like measles, like hepatitis B, and others, could be in jeopardy.” Less than 200 days after Kennedy promised the Senate he wouldn’t touch vaccine access, he’s […]
I’m haunted, as many are, by the prospect that we may have lost our country for good this week. In his column on Friday, Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon contrasted the assassination of Charlie Kirk with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler last year. The latter sparked a MAGA renaissance, while Kirk’s […]
Teresa Ribera, a Spanish socialist who serves as executive vice president of the European Commission, threatened to throw out Europe’s trade deal with the United States in response to the Trump administration’s insistence that the European Union loosen its tech regulations. She even threatened to renege on Europe’s commitment to purchase $750 billion worth of American energy. […]
Lost in today’s noisy trade debates is a simple but powerful truth: There are only four ways to get what you want. You can receive a gift, steal it, make it, or trade for it. That’s it. Manna from heaven worked for the ancient Israelites, but in our vale of tears, scarcity implies we must […]
Charlie Kirk was shockingly assassinated on the Utah Valley University campus earlier this week. A giant among conservatives, he was also a man of great faith, husband, son, and father. I run my eyes over the word “assassinated,” but my mind still cannot catch up with what my eyes have processed. My heart is heavy. Like […]
The Nation’s Report Card, released last week, shows the K-12 school system as bad and getting worse. A record 32% of high school seniors cannot read proficiently, and almost half cannot do basic math. Fourth and eighth-grade math and reading scores also fell, continuing a collapse that began before the COVID-19 school closures. The new […]
As New York City‘s mayoral race ossifies, with the leading candidates all short of a clear majority, the city, despite its lackluster choices for leaders, is still thriving. In Central Park, trees tower, statues shine, and more than 400 species of birds sing. On Manhattan’s avenues, sidewalks teem, stores bustle, and towers rise, sentinels over […]
From all early signs, Tyler Robinson's "reasons" for taking Charlie Kirk's life came straight from the lefty disinformation machine that has been screaming about...
