When Daniel Moraff showed up on Graham Platner's doorstep last summer, the oyster farmer had a message for the young political operative who had traveled to the Maine coast...
Before July 13, almost nobody had heard of Darline Graham Nordone, but now she is a U.S. senator. How did she get the job? By being the sister of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who held the seat until his death on July 11. This reeks of nepotism. Critics say it looks like a hereditary monarchy, […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) again acquiesced to her socialist overlords this week when she issued the nation’s first statewide moratorium on data center construction. Hochul was immediately thanked by socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who is pushing her own national data center ban in Congress. Hochul’s infrastructure-development moratorium comes just weeks after she agreed to […]
The Trump administration’s latest firing of a U.S. attorney is intensifying the Justice Department’s assertion of presidential control over prosecutorial picks. Roger Rogoff was sacked Wednesday as the top federal prosecutor in Seattle after a panel of 17 judges appointed him. The firing made good on the warning from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that the...
House Republican leaders are already starting to float reconciliation 4.0 — even with a third party-line budget bill barely out of the gate and facing an uncertain future. The idea for a fourth bill that utilizes the special process that enables budget-related legislation to get through Congress with only Republican votes comes as many House...
Every American president hopes he will be the one to solve the Iran problem through diplomacy. So far, none has succeeded. Now, President Donald Trump appears to be considering another agreement with Tehran. Before Washington celebrates a diplomatic breakthrough, it should remember a simple lesson: The Islamic Republic has spent decades using negotiations not to […]
As the United States and Iran exchange strikes amid peace negotiations, recent economic disruptions caused by the conflict highlight how vulnerable key commodity markets are to geopolitical tensions. Aside from oil, domestic supply of commodities essential for our national security, such as steel and aluminum, has been put at risk, making self-reliance more necessary than […]
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason and adopted by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 12, 1776. Mason is often labeled “The Forgotten Founder” in books and even at his memorial, tucked away off the path between the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial on the […]
Graham Platner is the embodiment of performative left-wing populism, whose empty rhetoric makes former Vice President Kamala Harris sound weighty by comparison.
Globally, the tide has turned against sex changes for children, with multiple countries rolling back such policies. Even New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani can’t bring himself to transition children at his new taxpayer-funded gender clinic. City health officials under Mamdani are planning to open a “gender-affirming care clinic.” This state-run facility will use taxpayer money […]
