Its practice of coercive power at home might assure its power at home, but the Chinese Communist Party’s practice of coercive power abroad often weakens its political interests abroad. Just as Xi Jinping places far too much confidence in Mao Zedong’s statist economic theories, so also does he place too much faith in Mao’s lesson […]
California Democrats are treating crime as a political game, not a serious issue that needs to be addressed. California Democrats are playing legislative games to try and tank the effort to allow voters to potentially repeal Proposition 47. Prop 47 prevented prosecutors from charging grand theft, shoplifting worth less than $950, and drug possession as […]
“Election denial” is supposedly a grave sin that places a public figure outside of the bounds of acceptability. Remember how the news media briefly convinced businesses that they had to stop funding “election-denying” lawmakers. But the case against former President Donald Trump eventually boiled down to weaponized election-denial. New York’s prosecutors and their defenders in […]
More than 30 shootings occurred over the weekend in Chicago, marking the third straight weekend with such high criminal activity. An 18-year-old woman was shot in the head while sitting in a parked car. She was pronounced dead upon being taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center. The same hospital listed a 16-year-old boy in […]
Despite years of propaganda from the Left and the media, people are increasingly rejecting radical gender ideology. According to a recent poll from the Pew Research Center, 65% of registered voters say that gender is determined by “sex assigned at birth.” In 2017, that number was just 53%. The rise in the belief that sex […]
The most important moment in Hunter Biden’s criminal trial came not when the verdict found him guilty on three counts of lying on a federal firearms application, but in the previous week, when President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice admitted in court and under oath that the laptop linking Hunter Biden to payments from foreign […]
The U.S.-Mexico border has essentially been porous for most of the last three years. Because of the prolonged and public nature of this border insecurity, foreign criminals, intelligence officers/agents, and terrorists have had the time, incentive, and means to infiltrate the United States. In 2024, the FBI’s key border concern has focused on the Central […]
Texas and Montana are suing the Biden administration over a new rule that would prohibit state Medicaid programs from banning gender affirming care. The lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R), filed Monday, asks a federal court to vacate a sweeping final rule aimed at bolstering health...
Survivors of two of the nation's most infamous mass school shootings are facing an emotional week as some graduate high school while others will watch the building where their tragedy took place be demolished. Sandy Hook Elementary survivors are walking across the stage Wednesday 12 years after the massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed...