Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won Tuesday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, edging out two sitting members of the U.S. House to advance to a November general election against Republican nominee Don Tracy, former state party chair.
The race to replace U.S. Sen Dick Durbin is shaping up in Illinois after Don Tracy won the Republican nomination in Tuesday's primary. The former chairman of the state Republican Party was among the best-known in the six-candidate race.
The Trump administration is opening a fraud probe in Florida as it expands its nationwide crackdown on state Medicaid programs, according to the Associated Press. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz appeared to confirm the move in a Tuesday post on the social platform X, claiming that the state had...
The city Health Department’s new Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group is, no surprise, another Israel-bashing outfit — and likely a sign of...
Do you remember that high-speed rail project in California that was supposed to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco and be completed in 2020? Well, it’s finally ready to begin laying track on a much shorter section on a ludicrously bigger budget. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) proudly announced that the high-speed rail has entered the […]
George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an upward blip in birth rates […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Feb. 4, 1776 Fielding Lewis, Gen. George Washington‘s brother-in-law, writes […]
In 1991, U.S. forces launched Operation Desert Storm from Saudi territory. Saudi Gen. Khalid bin Sultan, commander of the Joint Arab Forces, became famous in the Arab world. After Kuwait’s liberation, pundits inside and outside the Saudi kingdom even spoke about Khalid, a grandson of King Abdulaziz, as a future defense minister if not future king. That […]
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and India had reached a landmark trade agreement. While the precise language of the deal has not yet been released, the broad contours are unmistakably positive for both countries. Under the agreement, tariffs on Indian exports to the United States will be reduced dramatically, falling to roughly 18% from […]
“If you do with an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech,” Ricky Gervais advised the audience at the Golden Globes award ceremony in 2020. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time […]
The annual Census Bureau numbers released last week are just a snapshot of one moment, but they show blue states failing to reproduce themselves and their residents fleeing to red states, of which the strongest are growing not just because of blue-state refugees but also because they are successfully encouraging families to grow. The numbers […]
