This week, the largest British trade delegation ever to land on American soil, with leaders representing 230 companies, touches down in Los Angeles for “Greater Together LA,” a summit dedicated to growing trade and investment with America. ...
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...
Maybe the real Department of Government Efficiency is the friends we made along the way. Elon Musk’s DOGE came as a welcomed surprise to fiscal conservatives and everyone else who cares about the economic future of the nation. Even the most casual observers of the actions of the federal government understand that the books are rife with […]
It’s not always a popular thing to say, but marriage is a good thing that we need more of. Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN) is commemorating Tax Day with an executive order that aims to promote marriage in Indiana by getting the government out of the way. Defending marriage these days means making some enemies. When […]
President Donald Trump announced on Feb. 9 that he had instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to stop producing pennies. According to JM Bullion, the U.S. Mint lost $179 million in producing pennies in 2023. Producing nickels, however, leads to even more losses. According to GovMint, the cost to produce and distribute a penny was 3.69 […]
Crime in San Francisco hit record lows as the city hopefully moves toward closing the chapter on “reform” prosecutors once and for all. In January, crime in San Francisco hit a 23-year low, with violent and property crime dropping at a far more dramatic rate than the average of similarly sized cities. Over the first […]
The economists are having their day. They know with more certainty than anything else that free trade enriches both countries. President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, ranging from 10% to 50%, reeked of amateurism. The White House called them “reciprocal tariffs,” but they were nothing of the sort. The formula used to derive them was erroneous, two economists […]
Part of the reason for President Donald Trump’s deference to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is Trump’s belief that Erdoğan is strong and can be a useful partner who will impose order. If that means sacrificing the Kurds, sacrificing Armenian and Syrian Christians, or putting up with a little Erdoğan terrorist sponsorship in Gaza, Syria, […]
The Department of Agriculture has announced plans to close its mammoth headquarters in Washington, lay off thousands of its nearly 100,000 employees, and relocate offices and many remaining workers to hubs across the country. The decision follows President Donald Trump’s executive order to transform “the Federal bureaucracy” by eliminating “waste, bloat, and insularity.” This should come […]
California is home to high taxes, billion-dollar boondoggles, and a liberal agenda. Clearly, the folks there shouldn’t be calling the shots on anything, let alone our farms. Iowa’s dedicated producers rise before the rooster crows and toil in the fields long after dark to keep our great state No. 1 in corn, eggs, ethanol, and, of […]
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) stepped up to the podium to address the nation on Sunday afternoon, 12 hours after a man set fire to the governor’s residence while he and his family slept, forcing them to evacuate in the middle of the night. The damage behind him inside the governor’s residence along […]
Estimates for the total number of illegal immigrants living in the United States range from 11 million to 18 million, with Democrats often pushing the former number and Republicans the latter. For the sake of argument, let’s say the Center for Immigration Studies’s March study is correct, and the number is approximately 16 million. With […]
When he’s not busy ending wars, deporting illegal aliens, overhauling the federal bureaucracy and drastically reordering world trade, the president has big plans for...
A bombshell Politico investigation reveals that 1199 SEIU boss George Gresham has used the union as his personal “piggy bank” to benefit himself, his...
