A former adviser to President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic said Sunday that the U.S. is equipped to handle an Ebola outbreak. “The U.S. right now does not have a confirmed head of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], it does not have a confirmed head of the [Food and Drug Administration (FDA)],...
Secret Service Director Sean Curran said Sunday that his thoughts were with the bystander shot amid an exchange of gunfire between officers and a gunman near the White House on Saturday. "I want to recognize the quick and decisive response demonstrated by our Secret Service police officers last night in confronting an armed gunman. Their...
President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier last Sunday. One of the questions Baier asked was whether Trump viewed Vice President JD Vance as the 2028 Republican nominee for president. “No, but he’s very capable,” Trump replied. “I think that you have a lot of very capable people. So […]
TRUMP, INFLATION, AND ‘DAY ONE.’ Yesterday’s newsletter noted that the new inflation report to be released Wednesday would bring home the message that “Joe Biden brought inflation on but was unable to fully get rid of it.” And indeed, with the report came word from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that inflation increased 3% on an […]
BOYERS, Pennsylvania — People around here are used to the trucks that deliver paperwork to the old Pennsylvania limestone mine. Here, over 700 locals work as employees of the Office of Personnel Management processing the retirement papers of federal government workers. Everyone around here knows of its existence. In fact, a lot of people around […]
By insisting, despite all evidence, that it’s still journalism's unbiased gold standard, the Associated Press is burning its last shred of credibility.
“Nobody elected Elon Musk” has become Democrats’ “new rallying cry,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty, as if DOGE is “some sort of long-hidden trap...
One of the hopes from the 2024 elections is that major corporations such as Disney would reevaluate to whom they are trying to appeal. It appears that the House of Mouse is finally starting that self-reflection. In the aftermath of the election, Disney has changed course on some of its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. […]
As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties, and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state protections would spread across the globe, I naturally look back over the intervening long generation and ask what went wrong. In the 1990s, it seemed […]
President Donald Trump is standing firm on his plan to relocate “permanently” more than 2.1 million Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip to neighboring countries. Trump said the United States would take ownership of Gaza and redevelop the territory to serve as prized real estate on the Mediterranean Sea. Trump told Fox News’s Bret […]
At every turn, young people are told that if they want to change their God-given gender, they can do so with a snap of their fingers and with sweeping permission from our nation’s highest leaders. But it does not take policy expertise or a medical degree to know that sterilization and puberty-blocking drugs are not […]