The most galling revelation from Tony Bobulinski’s congressional testimony is not that President Joe Biden was indeed complicit in Hunter Biden’s overseas influence-peddling-for-profit scheme. House Republicans have already amassed multiple bank statements, witness testimonies, and emails confirming that the president repeatedly appeared at the first son’s business dealings and that paychecks from the younger Biden’s […]
Like El Salvador, Ecuador has wielded political power to purge its crime, a basic responsibility of government too many elites have forgotten. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has been inspired by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s effective assertion of state power over crime syndicates. Both countries were once among the most dangerous in the world due to […]
What does America’s overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is “not much.” They think ordinary people’s splurging on natural resources is destroying the planet and needs to be cut back forcefully. And that the government needs to stamp down on ordinary people enjoying luxuries that, in their view, should be reserved […]
Despite a long filibuster by Republican Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), J.D. Vance (R-OH), and others, the Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill early Tuesday morning. Over $60 billion in aid would go to Ukraine, with the rest split between Taiwan and both sides of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Not that a nation $34 […]
PROSPERITY, Pennsylvania — If you make a fish fry dinner, people will come for miles around. They will even cross several state lines to get to your church basement if the fish sandwich is fresh and spilling out of both sides of the bun, the macaroni and cheese is homemade with just enough crisp on […]
Some people see the child tax credit as a special-interest giveaway to parents, but I argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week that it is just a basic fairness measure. I showed that without the child tax credit, a family of five would pay twice as much in federal income taxes as would […]
A group of Democratic and independent senators are calling on the Biden administration to change its policies to allow more Americans and their families to depart Gaza, as fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas rages on in the enclave. In a Feb. 13 letter to State Department Secretary Antony Blinken and Homeland Security...
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday made a surprise trip to Israel, where he met with fellow law enforcement and intelligence partners to discuss the ongoing threats facing both countries. In a readout of the trip, Wray reiterated the FBI’s support for Israel and pledged to “continue to be responsive” to Israeli requests for “support...
Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have introduced legislation that would connect Texas’s self-contained grid with the rest of the nation, three years after extreme winter weather knocked out the grid and killed hundreds of Texans. Casar and Ocasio-Cortez announced the legislation on Wednesday, the third anniversary of the winter storm. The Connect...