Democratic lawmakers push to restrict data centers over water use and electricity bills while Republicans highlight AI race benefits and local control.
President Donald Trump's $5,000 dividend check proposal drew sharp reactions from voters, with some calling it a publicity stunt unlikely to pass Congress.
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, issued vast fines against two U.S. tech giants on Wednesday. Apple has been told it must pay a $568 million fine, and Meta that it must pay a $227 million fine. The EU claims these penalties are about protecting consumer rights. That is a lie. These fines […]
Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second administration. After the president gleefully announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, stock market prices fell sharply, and the bond market became, as Trump put it, “yippy.” So after just […]
Los Angeles is such a poorly run city that Mayor Karen Bass has to weaken the city’s police department even further for budgetary purposes. Bass announced that her proposed budget would include around 1,650 layoffs and the elimination of another roughly 1,000 unfilled jobs as the city tries to make up a deficit of around […]
In the early days of the second Trump administration, while America focuses on domestic priorities and global challenges, Qatar is executing a calculated influence campaign within America’s power centers. Leveraging its immense wealth and strategic position, Qatari envoys and lobbyists are actively cultivating ties, shaping policy discussions, and seeking favor with key decision-makers throughout the […]
The Trump administration reportedly is preparing to halve the State Department’s budget and, in one of the most far-reaching reorganizations in the department’s history, both close nearly every U.S. Embassy in Africa and eliminate the State Department’s nearly 70-year-old Bureau of African Affairs. In its place, the State Department would empower a special envoy who […]
When I settled into my plush theater seat to view Warfare on its opening weekend, I had done no research about the film. I anticipated the standard Global War on Terrorism fare: good guys and bad ones in an epic struggle watered down for the palates of Americans desperate for a denouement, and maybe a […]
The idea of purging the homeless, through initiatives such as drug decriminalization, is no longer in fashion. That doesn’t stop the ideological pendulum from brushing against it on the other side. This arc is evident in California, where public policy is a mess of incompetence and overcorrection. That is expected in so blue and overgoverned […]
President Donald Trump escalated his fairly one-sided war of words this week with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he nominated for the position in 2017. “‘Preemptive Cuts’ in Interest Rates are being called for by many,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday. “With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden’s egg disaster!) substantially lower, and […]
“Be not afraid.” When Pope John Paul II uttered those words in 1979, they resonated far beyond his native Warsaw, Poland. His proclamation was not simply spiritual guidance, but a principled stance against Soviet tyranny. John Paul II gave voice to the oppressed and reminded us why moral clarity matters. Sadly, that clarity was sometimes […]
Tens of millions of Americans deal with differing levels of fraud every year, so many that, in Oregon, Attorney General Dan Rayfield has made consumer protection one of his top priorities. When Oregon Democrats introduced House Bill 3789 and called it the Workers’ Fraud Protection Act, proclaiming to protect public employees from bad actors falsely […]
