Stephen Colbert largely steered clear of politics or direct criticism of President Trump during his final broadcast of "The Late Show" on Thursday night. Colbert, who repeatedly thanked his staff and viewership for supporting him during his 11 years on CBS, read headlines of the day as part of his opening monologue but cracked light-hearted...
President Donald Trump took his first tentative step on Tuesday toward putting pressure on Russia to negotiate an ending to its war on Ukraine. The president did so via Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who secured Ukraine’s agreement to a 30-day ceasefire. Following talks in Saudi Arabia, Rubio said, “The ball is now in Russia’s […]
Los Angeles no longer has a pro-criminal ideologue serving as its district attorney. This means cold-blooded murderers like the Menendez brothers aren’t going to be given freedom as part of cynical election strategies. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman withdrew his predecessor’s recommendation that Erik and Lyle Menendez have their life sentences reduced. Hochman […]
Republicans are considering cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan that provides taxpayer-funded health coverage to 80 million adults and children. Many in the GOP would like to require able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries to work in exchange for coverage. That’s a good idea. The federal government and the states spent some $870 billion on Medicaid […]
President Donald Trump was elected to restore sanity and normalcy to the government and the country. Trump’s victory was a decisive mandate from the people seeking commonsense policies and an America First agenda. It was a sound rejection of the radical left-wing, neo-Marxist cultural revolution that Democrats tried to implement during the Biden administration. Despite […]
Who is funding the Council on American-Islamic Relations? It’s a question that has loomed large over CAIR since its scandal-shaded founding in 1994 by leaders of the Islamic Association for Palestine, an organization convicted of providing material support in the United States for Hamas terrorists abroad. CAIR has always kept its sources of financial support close to […]
In a double loss for pro-abortion interests, Wyoming has passed a law requiring ultrasounds before pregnant women may receive abortion pills. Oddly, the Wyoming governor’s poor argumentation against the law might be just as damaging to the abortion lobby as the physical restrictions themselves. It comes as an override of Gov. Mark Gordon’s (R-WY) initial […]
Since January, hostages held by the terrorist group Hamas have begun to return home to Israel. The images of these innocent people after 15 months of captivity in Hamas’s hands have been shocking, appalling, and beyond anything I’d ever imagined. We’ve seen images of people who look emaciated, having been held underground and tortured for months on end. President Donald […]
Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by federal research grants. They argue this change violates a long-standing post-World War II agreement, rooted in Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report “Science, The Endless Frontier.” That agreement was simple: The federal government would fund academic research in the public […]
President Donald Trump promised to win so much that conservatives would be tired of winning. But some conservatives seem eager to cry victory too soon. Last month, for example, conservatives vaunted the fact that Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, two major proxy advisory firms, seem to be stepping back from their diversity, equity, and inclusion […]
Congressional Republicans are struggling to figure out how to fit all of President Donald Trump’s new proposed tax cuts into their reconciliation bill while also extending the popular 2017 individual reductions. One of the stumbling blocks is his desire to eliminate income taxes on Social Security payments, a provision that raises nearly $51 billion a […]
Containing Iran’s Islamic theocracy, especially as it approaches nuclear weapons development, is rightly a top foreign policy priority for the second Trump administration. There’s a strong economic component to the White House’s plan for keeping Teheran on a short leash. While the Biden administration plied the mullahs with cash, Team Trump is returning to its […]
The United States is a debtor nation and the world’s largest debtor country. The Congressional Budget Office projected the debt-to-GDP ratio for the federal government would exceed 100% in the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, 2025. The CBO also predicted the debt would rise to 118% of GDP within a decade. This means […]
Some of humanity’s most stunning achievements are scientific, and science is rightly venerated for helping people live better, longer, more varied, and fulfilling lives. Science can do a lot. In the minds of cynical opportunists, it can even be used to end an argument: “Follow the science.” “I am the science.” “The science is settled.” […]
