A large part of the National Firearms Act is now unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, in a decision that could erase registration requirements for sales or transfer of silencers and short-barreled long guns.
The Trump administration has awarded a $150 million contract to give legal representation to migrant children traveling alone to the U.S. to a small Texas law firm with ties to the administration but little experience in immigration law, prompting legal aid groups who've long represented those children to warn that the move could make them vulnerable to deportation.
DOGE's digging reveals that many “non-governmental” entities are just fronts for government acts that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.
“Unused to having their authority challenged,” “deep staters” are attacking “the most populist president of our lifetimes as an authoritarian who threatens democratic norms,”...
Tariffs bring back manufacturing, jobs, and marriage and family prospects. So goes the reasoning, at least — and whatever the ultimate reality, one aspect is that it springs from a recognition of a few social trends on which the Left normally relies. The strict marriage narrative from the Left, when the decline is admitted as a bad thing, follows […]
EUROPE FEAR: CHINA WILL DO TO US WHAT IT DID TO THE UNITED STATES. Much of the public’s attention to the Trump tariff situation focuses on 1) each person’s individual loss, or possible loss, in the stock market and 2) whether tariffs will result in inflation going forward. But the tariff controversy has many parts. One […]
Maybe the real Department of Government Efficiency is the friends we made along the way. Elon Musk’s DOGE came as a welcomed surprise to fiscal conservatives and everyone else who cares about the economic future of the nation. Even the most casual observers of the actions of the federal government understand that the books are rife with […]
It’s not always a popular thing to say, but marriage is a good thing that we need more of. Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN) is commemorating Tax Day with an executive order that aims to promote marriage in Indiana by getting the government out of the way. Defending marriage these days means making some enemies. When […]
President Donald Trump announced on Feb. 9 that he had instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to stop producing pennies. According to JM Bullion, the U.S. Mint lost $179 million in producing pennies in 2023. Producing nickels, however, leads to even more losses. According to GovMint, the cost to produce and distribute a penny was 3.69 […]
Crime in San Francisco hit record lows as the city hopefully moves toward closing the chapter on “reform” prosecutors once and for all. In January, crime in San Francisco hit a 23-year low, with violent and property crime dropping at a far more dramatic rate than the average of similarly sized cities. Over the first […]
The economists are having their day. They know with more certainty than anything else that free trade enriches both countries. President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, ranging from 10% to 50%, reeked of amateurism. The White House called them “reciprocal tariffs,” but they were nothing of the sort. The formula used to derive them was erroneous, two economists […]
