Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to follow in the footsteps of President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, announcing Monday he'll launch a commission to root out waste and inefficiency in the Sunshine State.
Businessman and former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will likely announce his candidacy for Ohio governor at a Cincinnati rally today. Ramaswamy, originally connected to President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk, left DOGE on Jan. 20, presumably to pursue elected office in Ohio. When the term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) appointed […]
The lax attitude toward crime in blue states hasn’t faded even as the country has shifted away from the crime-tolerant attitude of 2020 progressives. This means blue states are still putting residents at risk from dangerous people. Connecticut just released a man who killed someone with a hatchet and ate part of the victim’s brain […]
House Republicans are calling for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts next year. Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan established in 1965 to provide publicly funded health coverage to the poor and disabled, is reportedly where they’ll find much of that money. Eliminating so-called “provider taxes,” which allow states to game Medicaid’s rules to extract more […]
A story went viral Sunday about the Philadelphia Eagles skipping an invite to attend a special ceremony at the White House because of their Super Bowl victory in February. However, people should approach the story with extreme skepticism. As someone born and raised in Philadelphia, a stone’s throw from the stadium where the Eagles play, […]
There is an old Iraqi joke from the days of Saddam Hussein: A journalist asks Tariq Aziz, his deputy foreign minister, “Can elephants fly?” He answers, “Of course they can’t fly.” The journalist follows up: “But the president just said elephants can fly.” “Oh, yes,” Aziz says without missing a beat, “but only very slowly.” […]
The scenes surrounding the returns of Hamas-held hostages, or their remains, in Gaza have been disturbing and dehumanizing. The International Committee of the Red Cross remains concerned about the exploitation of hostages in these handovers, which we’ve been entrusted by Israel to facilitate eight times this year. We have been unequivocal: Every release of hostages from […]
President Donald Trump has begun his second term with an energetic flurry of action. As he continues his relentless pace, it is worth remembering that before his election last November, he expressed support for homeschooling as a great educational option. He’s right. The freedom to homeschool enjoyed by Americans is indeed a unique one that […]
During an intense national moment with much debate about the lack of success in public K-12 education and the extent of its reforms, the Heritage Foundation last week put forward the “Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” Heritage, flanked by a group of public officials, policy experts, and leading educators, unveiled the statement at […]