Opinion

It seems grimly appropriate to be writing about the baleful legacy of the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein on Halloween because, like an unusually well-heeled Mike Myers, Epstein’s corrosive influence has not only survived his death in 2019, but continues to grow in new and unexpected ways. Earlier this year, Lord Mandelson, the British ambassador to […]

“The Department of Justice is charging [me] with federal crimes for exercising [my] First Amendment rights.” That’s how the left-wing influencer turned Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh is spinning things after getting hit with federal charges this week related to an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement Chicago-area protest she participated in on Sept. 26. ‘GOTTA CATCH […]

From the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement to MARPOL Annex VI, the United Nations has a troubling track record of advancing harmful climate frameworks that sideline American interests. The United States should not tolerate yet another radical agreement that puts global bureaucracy ahead of our economic security. Earlier this month, a group of unelected […]

For years, some of the loudest voices in the conservative-adjacent influencer class have been defiantly declaring that we are on the brink of a civil war. It now turns out that they were right, but instead of the civil war being of a political, cultural, or religious nature between the Right and the Left, we’re […]

In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus says, “There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who have no need of repentance.” Bill Gates’s recent Damascene conversion after 20 years of climate alarmism brought this to mind. He wrote that Earth’s mildly heating atmosphere “will not lead to humanity’s […]

It’s been an uncharacteristically slow news week for President Donald Trump’s second term. (It’s a very high bar) But we may soon view this week as among the most consequential of his presidency, especially as it relates to the future of the conservative movement.  WOKE RIGHT, BROKE RIGHT — LEARNING FROM THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF THE […]

Most Americans say restaurants are getting too expensive, and they’re not imagining things. “Following seven consecutive months of solid gains,” the National Restaurant Association noted, prices rose slightly in September, and now “menu prices have risen 3.7% since September 2024.” At full-service, sit-down restaurants, the hike is even higher, up 4.2% year-over-year, according to the […]

Remember a few years ago when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tried to pretend that California was the state that best represented freedom? Now would be a good time to revisit that sales pitch, as California is once again being sued for compelled speech. The lawsuit comes from Exxon Mobil, a massive oil and gas company […]

The breadth of the Biden administration‘s efforts to spy on its political opponents is only now coming into view, and the picture is alarming. The Justice Department must conduct a full investigation into how such invasive and improper steps were allowed to be taken to snoop on political actors, and those responsible must be held […]

President Ronald Reagan famously once said, “America has always been a land of optimism and opportunity — a grand combination that has seen us through trying times.” It’s a sentiment that has been widely embraced over the years, as it exemplifies America’s greatness. At the crux of Reagan’s quote is the significance of the American […]

If the federal government hasn’t reopened by the time you’re reading this column, then you’ve lived to witness the Democratic Party break a lamentable record of engineering the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history. It’s not as though the political pressure hasn’t been mounting. Democrats’ share of generic congressional polling has fallen since the […]