Gavin Newsom –– driven by narcissism or delusion or both –– would spend millions of tax dollars to honor a handful of former living governors. The soon-to-be-former gov (wink)...
After three terms in the U.S. House and two unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate, Colin Allred said he's heard plenty about voters' suspicions that politicians are just trying to make a buck in Washington.
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) on Monday said U.S. forces fired "defensive strikes" in southern Iran amid discussions to bring the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Tehran to an end. These strikes were intended "to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces," specifically boats attempting to lay mines and missile launch sites, Navy Captain Tim Hawkins,...
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance will return to East Palestine on Monday to mark the second anniversary of the disastrous train derailment. Vance will be joined by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and the congressional delegation representing the district. This will include the two new U.S. senators from Ohio, Bernie Moreno […]
The United States is unique in getting so much of its territory through peaceful purchases. Among other acquisitions, it bought Louisiana from France in 1803, Florida from Spain in 1845, and Alaska from Russia in 1867. Even when the expansion was not peaceful, money was often involved. Mexico received dollops of cash for the formal […]
The easiest way to push a point across is by an appeal to child welfare. The second easiest appeal is to numbers or mass suffering. It comes as a mystery, then, why unborn lives are a glaring exception to the rule. Their low status has been emphasized lately by very public uses of these appeals. […]
The midair collision between American Airlines flight 5342 and three soldiers aboard the Black Hawk Sikorsky H-60 was an unspeakable tragedy, as 67 people instantly died Wednesday night around 9 p.m. Yet, as the nation mourns this loss of life, some sought to cast blame for the accident immediately without having any knowledge as to […]
President Donald Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy” executive order directly attacks the chief reason for the nation’s inability to permit major projects expeditiously, including those seeking to develop domestically available energy and minerals: the National Environmental Policy Act. Signed on Inauguration Day, in a section titled “Unleashing Energy Dominance through Efficient Permitting,” the executive order revokes an […]
Donald Trump has started his second presidency with a bang, issuing hard-hitting policies faster than any president in history. But what’s even more impressive is that Trump has shattered the long-running competition between conservatism and liberalism in public life. He has given America a new approach to governing, one that’s fundamentally different from anything that […]
Returning to fundamental truths is already a theme of President Donald Trump’s second term. Last week, the president signed an executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” On Tuesday, he signed an executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.” In 2025, this almost seems bold. In […]
Few political clichés are more frequently invoked than “personnel is policy.” Like most aphorisms, it’s rooted in truth. Ideas aren’t self-executing, and the government is no better than the people who staff it. Washington received the latest reminder of this reality on Wednesday when news broke that the House Foreign Affairs Committee had hired a new staff […]
Democrats and their friends in corporate media have no idea how to handle Trump 2.0. The president’s first term saw a handful of major accomplishments, namely tax cuts and the Abraham Accords, but, by and large, Democrats and journalists were able to thwart large swaths of President Donald Trump’s agenda using an extremely effective combination of censorship and […]
This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure enough votes to pass the amendment. The reconstruction of slaveholding states conquered before the end of the Civil War — Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee […]
Then-President Joe Biden claimed victory in 2023 when egg prices fell by 22%, after tripling during his first two years in office. But Biden left his successor, President Donald Trump, a poultry price fiasco. The egg price spikes helped crack the chances of a Democratic victory in 2024. Egg prices became a symbol of stubbornly […]
Democrats have landed a few punches on President Donald Trump. But these may help him, not them. One was his withdrawal of a memo about his order to freeze some spending. Democrats diligently frightened the public by falsely suggesting this would cut Medicaid payments and other money flows mandated by law. Oppositional bureaucrats apparently also […]
If I could buttonhole you for a moment, fellow citizen, to lament a general concern that may seem rather secondary amid the shrill noise of other pressing concerns. Have you also noticed it, the painful degradation of our cultural standards? How awfully elite that sounds! How cheese-tastingly, pearl-clutchingly, museum-board precious. Especially in a time of […]
