School's out for summer, and '70s rocker Alice Cooper is running for president again, a shtick he's stuck with every four years since the release of his song "Elected" in 1972.
Three senior groups backed President Biden's reelection bid Wednesday based on his pledge to protect Social Security, but so far he has only offered vague promises to protect the program as insolvency looms.
Finally, the diversity, equity, and inclusion dominoes are starting to fall. Universities and corporations are waking from their slumbers and realizing that embracing DEI damages their reputations, ability to perform their missions, and sometimes their share prices. Instead of the harmless cloud of feel-good fluff that the anodyne DEI name seemed to promise, they found […]
“The far right made big gains in European elections,” reads the Associated Press’s headline on last week’s elections to the European Union parliament. Lest you wonder why you should dread gains by the “far right,” the lead sentence of the article notes that the EU has “roots in the defeat of Nazi Germany and fascist […]
New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman is currently positioned to lose his primary for reelection to a pro-Israel challenger. Bowman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has held his seat since 2021 and is an outspoken voice in the far-left “Squad.” However, numerous bad headlines caused by Bowman’s poor decisions have caused his […]
Democratic politicians want black people to think society is rigged against them so they must be dependent on the Democratic Party’s political success. Polling shows how that is playing out and what the party’s formula is for making that happen. Pew detailed how “most black Americans believe racial conspiracy theories about U.S. institutions” in a […]
Four Democratic campaign officials in Bridgeport, Connecticut, were arrested and charged with election fraud Tuesday in relation to the 2019 mayoral primary race in which incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim defeated state Sen. Marilyn Moore by only 270 votes. City Councilman Alfredo Castillo, Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee Vice Chairperson Wanda Geter-Pataky, and two other campaign workers […]
Former President Donald Trump’s choice of a running mate has ramifications far beyond short-term political advantage. Trump has not exactly established a clear vision for his second term in the Oval Office. His campaign has largely relied on criticism of President Joe Biden, but has few well-defined proposed solutions. Trump has contradicted himself numerous times on how […]
Citizens Against Government Waste, the organization dedicated to ending wasteful government spending with its mascot “Pigfoot,” released its Congressional Pig Book on Wednesday, a list of earmarks hidden in bills each fiscal year. Since its inception in fiscal 1991, CAGW has identified 132,434 earmarks costing taxpayers $460.3 billion. This year, it identified 8,222 earmarks costing […]
In its penultimate Summary of Economic Projections before this year’s Election Day, participating members of the Federal Open Market Committee announced they anticipate just one 25-basis point cut to the federal funds rate this year. A single cut, likely at the Federal Reserve‘s final FOMC meeting of the year, would mean interest rates would remain […]