Sen. Bill Cassidy said his 2021 vote to convict President Trump on a House impeachment charge of inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol may have ended his political career, but he has no regrets.
The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the management of a quarter-billion acres of public lands on Monday, as the administration pushes ahead with more mining and drilling while reversing conservation plans.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Monday opened an investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over its alleged funding of extremist groups it claimed to oppose. Last month, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., indicted the SPLC on six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is urging his Senate Republican colleagues to delay action on a budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029, in part because he said a proposal to spend $1 billion on the White House ballroom is “a major policy problem.” He threatened to vote no on the budget reconciliation...
Democrat Roy Cooper has an 11-point lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the Senate race in North Carolina, according to a new poll from The Carolina Journal/Harper Polling. The survey, released last week, found that nearly half of 600 likely voters in North Carolina said they would either “definitely” or “probably” back Cooper, the former...
As campaigns gear up for the midterm elections next year, both Democrats and Republicans are claiming fundraising victories. In the open Senate seats in Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire, all currently under Democratic control, Democrats are off to a hot start. Much of the advantage is due to the fact that, while the seats are […]
Nine months before Rosa Parks became an American heroine over her refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus, another black woman was arrested for the exact same defiance. Claudette Colvin was far from the first black American to be arrested under the tyranny of Jim Crow. But by 1955, the NAACP […]
Democrats like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) may have called the Supreme Court “evil” after it held that the Clean Air Act didn’t empower the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate coal plants out of existence, but now Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is citing that very precedent in his new suit challenging President Donald Trump’s tariff regime. […]
Ivy League universities continue to be governed by far-left ideologies, and the result has been more discrimination on campus. Harvard University rejected a list of demands from the Trump administration that it must meet to maintain federal funding. The demands included rejecting merit-based admissions and hiring, increasing ideological diversity on campus, ending all diversity, equity, […]
DEMOCRATIC PASSIONS CATCH FIRE OVER DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. With all that has happened since January, one issue that has received less and less attention is the flow of illegal crossers over the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s because there no longer is a flow of illegal crossers over the U.S.-Mexico border. President Donald Trump stopped it in a […]
At a rally at Columbia University last week, faculty brandished placards that read “Defend Freedom of Speech” and “Defend Academic Freedom.” One faculty member waved a sign reading, “No appeasement. I’m German. I know where this leads.” Joseph Howley, an associate professor of classics, said that “attacks” on free speech result in a “chilling effect […]
It hardly qualifies as news anymore, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership declined from 2023 to 2024, going from 10% to 9.9% of wage and salary workers. Some 32% of public employees are union members compared to only 5.9% of private sector workers, down from 6.0% in 2023. This means 49% […]
Rezo Kiknadze, a 26-year-old detained during anti-government protests in Tbilisi in December, faces six years in prison. In a Georgian court, Kiknadze addressed the judge and quoted Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel The Feast of the Goat: “This book is about a tyrant’s end — in the end, everyone leaves the dictator and he dies alone.” […]
A startling report in New York Times Magazine has brought to light how the scientific consensus on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has changed. According to one of the scientists interviewed for the piece, the concept of ADHD is facing an “empirical crisis.” ADHD’s hallmark symptoms of inattentiveness and restlessness present in a variety of ways. Individuals are easily distracted, […]
As the various pursuits of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. generate pushback from the scientific Left, they draw out distinctions between the two camps’ aims, either to alter humans or to alter what they consume. The broad goal of any purportedly humanitarian organization, of course, is to alleviate afflictions of disease, […]
