This spring, we reluctantly decided to oppose Senate legislation intended to make housing more affordable, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. While the legislation included some small reforms that could have reduced the cost of housing, it also added new regulations that would have made housing more expensive, not less. But, pleasingly, the House […]
President Trump blasted Rep. Lauren Boebert on Truth Social and threatened to endorse a challenger against her after she joined Rep. Thomas Massie for a campaign event.
A new Trump executive order will slash federal regulations carrying criminal penalties — a category so vast and obscure that not even the government...
President Donald Trump defends his $400 million gift from Qatar’s government by saying only a fool would turn down something for free. The premise — that Qatar does not expect anything from this gift — is not a premise most critics share. And it’s not how Trump used to understand “gifts.” Taking gifts from other […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is playing master manipulator President Vladimir Putin at his own game. The big question: Will the Russian president go to Istanbul? Zelensky has challenged Russia’s president to personally attend talks with him in the Turkish city on Thursday. Putin first proposed talks between more junior Ukrainian and Russian officials as a […]
As Hamas continues to commit war crimes, “pro-Palestinian” Democrats who have wailed hysterically about fabricated Israeli war crimes remain conspicuously silent. On Tuesday, Israel launched strikes on a hospital complex in Khan Younis, reportedly targeting Mohammed Sinwar, the chief commander of Hamas’s “military wing” and brother of former chief terrorist Yahya Sinwar. Two weeks ago, Israel had again issued evacuation orders […]
After a marathon markup of the House Ways and Means Committee’s draft of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the signature legislative priority can finally be consolidated by the House Budget Committee, the penultimate step before the bill can be brought for a floor vote. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants the chamber to […]
Mississippi leads the nation. That’s not a typographical error. And it’s not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things. Once upon a time, that was true, and in some respects it still is. Mississippi has the lowest or nearly the lowest income […]
It’s impossible not to enjoy seeing legacy news figures scramble to downplay their role in the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline. The drama they’d spun and fancied themselves stars in, the one about intrepid journalists beating back the fascists with “facts” and moxie, has been exposed as a fairy tale for all […]
On Tuesday, despite an outpouring of taxpayer protest, all nine Fairfax County Democrat supervisors voted to enact numerous tax hikes, with only Republican Pat Herrity opposing. This bloated budget demanding yet more money from taxpayers comes at a time when federal employees around the county are losing their jobs, Virginia has the highest car tax […]
The Wall Street Journal’s lead letter on Tuesday, from a Canadian endocrinologist called Roy Eappen, praises the Trump administration’s humane acknowledgement in its report on gender medicine that transgender ideology harms “a particular kind of victim: children who are gay and lesbian.” Four in five gender-confused children grow up and out of their dysphoria naturally, […]
President Donald Trump’s election was greeted in Europe with outright fear by parties of the Left and wary apprehension by the center-right but with open elation by a resurgent sovereigntist Right. Now the Left and the center are regrouping and coming up with a strategy to rein in the surging populists. It should surprise no […]
President Donald Trump has made the elimination of government waste central to his second term. The Department of Government Efficiency has taken a chainsaw to legacy programs and institutional recipients of government welfare. Gone are entire institutions such as the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Institute for Peace. National Public Radio and […]
For years, the Democratic Party has attempted to portray itself as a stalwart defender of democracy, due process, and equality under the law. Its leaders warn constantly of rising authoritarianism, casting themselves as a bulwark against supposed fascism and tyranny. But the most insidious kind of authoritarianism is the kind that cloaks itself in democratic […]
