MICHIGAN RACE ENDS WITH ACRIMONY AND FUNKY POLLS — AGAIN. The contest to be the next senator from Michigan is ending with the Democratic Party consumed in anger and turmoil — and with the party’s nominee, Abdul el Sayed, increasing his lead in a poll that seems too good to be true for Democrats. The […]
According to recent intelligence from the U.S. intelligence community, the Islamic Republic of Iran plans to harm and physically eliminate President Donald Trump. Reports of intelligence received by the United States on the Islamic Republic’s escalating efforts to assassinate Trump are not merely alarming news about presidential security. They expose one of the most dangerous […]
Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed tried to argue on national television that transgender issues are not really a problem, except to the degree that Republican politicians “manufacture these social issues.” On one level, this is just a standard liberal line on social issues: Nobody actually objects to the latest liberal culture war cause, but […]
When the federal government pays for 100% of a program and lets states administer it, that shouldn’t include forcing federal taxpayers to pay for unlimited state payment errors. Republicans put that noncontroversial principle into practice in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by requiring states to pay for a portion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program […]
Tucker Carlson issued a dire warning on Sunday night, claiming that the United States could be only days away from launching a nuclear strike on Iran. It’s the latest meandering claim from the often-proven-wrong political commentator, who is seemingly obsessed with Israel and has made multiple incorrect predictions and assertions about conflict with Iran. His […]
The United States has always been a leader in energy development. Before we were even a country, North America’s vast timber reserves provided masts for sailing ships, logs for housing, and fuel for heating and manufacturing. Later, our mountains of coal (which are still nowhere near exhausted) and oceans of petroleum powered an industrial revolution […]
Abdul el Sayed was supposed to win the Michigan Democratic Senate primary by a comfortable margin this summer, but the polls missed what was really brewing on the ground. An expected 10-point romp turned into a nail-biter; he won by roughly 1 percentage point. That underperformance was driven by a coalition of relative moderates, Jewish […]