Among the executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one that established an end to the practice of birthright citizenship. “The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” the order said. “The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright […]
It was odd watching Senate Republicans trying their best to put an unhinged leftist like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into a position of power. Perhaps the only thing odder was watching Democrats doing their best to stop them. But nowadays, our principles hinge on the whims of one man. Kennedy, of course, would have garnered […]
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley undermined his position and the U.S. military by his partisan engagement with the media. Milley should have resigned. The performance of former U.S. Central Command commanding officer Gen. Kenneth McKenzie was similarly poor. Responsible for supervising the disastrous August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, McKenzie then […]
Move fast and break things. That’s the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and it seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his second term. That makes a certain sense. In a largely successful society, unrocked by revolution, institutions come to be […]
President Trump has signed an executive order freeing up federal funds for school choice programs and ordering the creation of guidance on how states can use federal money for K-12 scholarships. The signed order, previously confirmed by a White House official, says the Department of Education must prioritize school choice in discretionary grant programs....
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday seeking to fight antisemitism on college campuses and vowing action against "Hamas sympathizers" among student populations. Antisemitism has spiked on campuses after Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, and pro-Palestinian protests roiled campuses last spring, with more than 2,000 arrests at universities across the country. Trump is...
President Trump this week revoked a security detail for retired Gen. Mark Milley and announced an investigation into the former Joint Chiefs chair’s conduct, enacting promised retribution while also sending a chilling message to military brass. Trump, who also revoked Milley’s security clearance in orders to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has long clashed with Milley,...
Senate Republicans backed a Wednesday effort from Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Cruz has unsuccessfully tried to disassemble the agency in the past and is now working to reduce the amount of funding it receives from the Federal Reserve to zero. “The CFPB is an unelected, unaccountable...
A Houston man who was pardoned by President Trump over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is wanted in Texas on older solicitation charges, a district attorney's office confirmed this week. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office said Andrew Taake, 36, who was pardoned by Trump last week, is wanted...