President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion settlement with his own Justice Department, creating a fund that can be distributed to the president’s allies, stinks to high heaven. But Democrats have little standing to complain. They wrote and for decades followed the “sue and settle” playbook with which they sluiced money nefariously to allies to shape policy […]
Andrew Cuomo's claim that his nursing-home directive followed federal standards is an insulting attempt to veil his failures during the COVID pandemic.
Until recently, Planned Parenthood has received the largest share of its income from government funding. Though the organization would argue otherwise, cutting even half of Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer-funded income would leave it operable. One step in doing so comes as the Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump administration will freeze Department of Health and […]
The Pentagon and intelligence community have continued to reel over the Trump administration‘s leak of deliberations, plans, and strike details pertaining to recent U.S. military action against the Yemen-based Houthi organization. The leak occurred when the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally included in a chat thread on the Signal messaging app. The thread involved […]
“Imagine boarding a train in the middle of a city,” former President Barack Obama rhapsodized in April 2009. “No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes. Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over a hundred miles an hour, walking […]
Wisconsin will hold an election for the state Supreme Court on April 1 that could influence the balance of power in the House of Representatives. Liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley is retiring from the court, which currently has a 4-3 liberal majority. Liberal Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford will face conservative Waukesha County Judge […]
The debate over impoundment, the president’s refusal to spend money appropriated by Congress, has become prominent in our political discourse. Critics call it a dangerous power grab, while supporters hail it as a necessary tool for fiscal discipline. One thing is certain: Impoundment isn’t new. Previous U.S. presidents exercised impoundment as a matter of course. Franklin D. […]
With every day that passes since former President Joe Biden exited the White House, new scandals are uncovered regarding egregious mismanagement and bad decision-making driven by leftist ideology. Biden was supposed to be a centrist, but he governed far more like a Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) acolyte. One bad decision that has gotten virtually no […]
Although President Donald Trump popularized calls to “drain the swamp,” his favorite policy tool, tariffs, has actually enlarged it and generated a massive financial windfall for K Street lobbyists while hardworking American families pick up the tab. It’s no secret that almost every industry in America hires lobbyists to represent their interests in Washington, D.C. With […]
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is one of the most toxic politicians on the political stage today, and it turns out Democrats love her for it. Crockett most recently made waves when she referred to Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) as “Governor Hot Wheels.” More specifically, Crockett said, “Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there, […]
