President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs should take effect this week. The Heard Island and McDonald Islands, uninhabited territories of Australia, were among the countries and territories affected. Critics quickly said that the tariffs on the islands would be ineffective, as the islands don’t export to the United States. They mocked the policy as “penguin tariffs” […]
TIM WALZ AND THE BORDER CRISIS THAT WOULD STILL BE A CRISIS. You might not have noticed, but Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the losing 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, is on a national tour. He is holding town halls in congressional districts won by President Donald Trump in Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin, and more. Any time […]
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order attempting to end the practice of allowing transgender women, who are born biologically male, to compete in women’s sports. But, apparently, USA Fencing, the organization that governs competitive fencing in the United States, hasn’t gotten the memo. A female athlete and competitive fencer named Stephanie Turner was […]
President Donald Trump‘s unilateral tariffs, which have thrown the economy into chaos, and his efforts to keep Chinese spyware TikTok from operating in the United States beg the question: Does Congress even exist? Sadly, only a handful of congressional Republicans have voiced support for returning the tariff power to Congress, where it belongs. Starting in […]
In vitro fertilization has exploded in popularity despite concerns about the commodification of human life. IVF typically involves retrieving eggs from a woman’s ovaries, fertilizing the eggs with sperm, and inserting the resulting embryo into her uterus. Every year, about 2% of American babies are born from this technology. The New York Times recently ran a piece about embryo screening, a […]
Congressional Republicans keep dodging questions about cuts to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that covers nearly 80 million people. But they should not be shy about their plans to reform the entitlement. New polling shows that many of the GOP’s ideas for Medicaid aren’t just smart policy. They’re popular. A survey of registered voters conducted by Public […]
My name is Noga Weiss. I’m 18 years old. I survived 50 days as a Hamas hostage in Gaza. My father, Ilan Weiss, was murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, while defending our home in Kibbutz Be’eri. His body was taken into Gaza and is still being held there. I came back. He never had the […]
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance stood at the head of the table in the Roosevelt Room during one of the most significant moments of his life, joined by his mother, Beverly Aikins. Despite the presence of about 20 family members and friends, including his wife, Usha, and their three children, there was a brief […]
There has been much conversation regarding Elon Musk’s time as a “special government employee” in the Trump administration. The Left portrays him as an unelected bureaucrat abusing his power and engaging in illegal and unethical behavior. Many of his opponents have mentioned that as a SGE, he can only serve 130 days, meaning Musk would […]
The United States celebrates National Beer Day on Monday. While you may think this is just another arbitrarily made-up holiday, April 7 commemorates one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s earliest and most successful New Deal policies combating the Great Depression of the 1930s. Roosevelt promised “bold, persistent experimentation” and he followed through on that pledge. […]
Instead of tackling their crumbling public schools, Illinois lawmakers are pushing a bill to crack down on parents who escape the system through homeschooling. Passed in late March through the Illinois House Education Policy Committee in a party-line vote, the Illinois Homeschool Act would impose a bevy of new requirements and oversight for homeschool families. […]
