The Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee will be holding its Third Plenum, a meeting that historically addresses economic matters. President Xi Jinping and the CCP are choosing a moderate response to the deflation the Chinese economy is facing. Their reaction signals a shift toward an economy focused on domestic technological innovation and high-end manufacturing. The […]
San Francisco has discovered a new way to “solve” crime: Force businesses to close. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously decided to forcibly close retail food and tobacco businesses, not including restaurants and bars, from midnight to 5 a.m. in a designated “high-crime area” in the Tenderloin neighborhood. This is a two-year “pilot” […]
Shortly after the death of his son Beau led him to heed the preference of Barack Obama and cede the 2016 race to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden underwent the sort of late-stage rebrand that a career politician could only dream of. The plagiarizing, pugnacious swamp monster with a chip on his shoulder was felled by […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s propensity to lie has reached new heights after she told a large crowd that former President Donald Trump would terminate the Constitution. What Harris doesn’t realize is that these brazen misrepresentations of the truth ironically weaken her anti-Trump arguments by impairing her credibility. The lie stems from something Trump said on […]
Former president Donald Trump wants voters to believe that he would be tough on Communist China if returned to the Oval Office. But is that really the case? Yes, as president, Trump took bold and important actions to address China’s threat. He bolstered the U.S. military’s capability and readiness, cracked down on Chinese espionage, and […]
More than two-thirds of voters see President Biden and former President Trump as “embarrassing,” according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. Among those surveyed, 63 percent described both presidential candidates as embarrassing; a substantial share of respondents — 37 percent of Biden supporters and 33 percent of Trump supporters — also said...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced a bill Thursday that would bar U.S. companies “appreciably” owned by foreign entities from donating or spending money in American elections. While foreign nationals are not legally allowed to spend in federal, state or local elections, companies registered in the U.S. that are partially owned...
The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday the GOP-controlled state Legislature was wrong to essentially bypass an independent redistricting commission created through a voter-approved ballot initiative and establish its own House maps instead. Utahns passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that established an independent redistricting commission, which would offer a set of maps to the state...
Two more House Democrats on Thursday joined the growing chorus of congressional lawmakers publicly calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, increasing pressure on the president hours ahead of his highly anticipated press conference. Reps. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii), in two separate statements Thursday, noted their public calls to...
President Biden will hold a highly-anticipated press conference in Washington on Thursday in which he is poised to face a barrage of questions from reporters about the calamity now surrounding his 2024 reelection campaign. The event is slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. ET and will close out this week’s NATO summit, in which the...