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One of the Left’s emotional weapons it uses to continue its open border agenda is unaccompanied alien children. A historic number of these children have crossed the southern border during the Biden administration—their parents were enticed by promises of entry into the U.S. and other immigration benefits for their children. But they are often brutally…

The concerted effort by the media and Democrats to delegitimize the Supreme Court is the most consequential attack on our institutions in memory. Make no mistake. The “Supreme Court Ethics Reform” hearing this week was meant to discredit the high court and slander justices with innuendo. Nothing else. Democrats are angry because the court happens…

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on “Supreme Court Ethics Reform.” The title implies that Supreme Court ethics need reform and that Congress can do the reforming. The hearing failed to make that case. Everyone agrees on the critical importance of public confidence in the judiciary’s impartiality and integrity, and that that confidence…

A little-known slush fund at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has become a go-to funding source for billions of dollars of abusive spending in the last few administrations, Democrat and Republican alike. Currently, the Biden administration is improperly using it to help carry out its climate agenda.  The 90-year-old program, called the Commodity Credit Corporation,…

Thirty years ago last month, on April 19, 1993, a 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a conflagration that claimed the lives of 76, including 25 children. Other accounts put those numbers at 82 and 28, respectively. Three decades later, the federal agencies and officials responsible for that tragedy…

The Left has intentionally chosen emotional weapons to achieve its open-borders agenda—asylum, unaccompanied alien children, “humanitarian parole,” and nongovernmental organizations, particularly faith-based groups. The Left made the correct calculation that the Right would be too afraid to criticize left-wing groups’ use of such weapons, let alone shut down the Left’s abuse of them. It’s that…

Senate Democrats are poised to target Justice Clarence Thomas in a public hearing Tuesday as they consider a bill to impose ethic reforms on the Supreme Court.  Democrats heavily criticized Thomas after news reports that the justice neglected to report “luxury” travel paid for by businessman and Republican donor Harlan Crow. Reporting the trips as…

The Senate voted overwhelmingly, and on a bipartisan basis, last week to repeal the obsolete 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorized Use of Military Force resolutions by a vote of 66-30. That is sound policy, as I previously wrote here. It’s time for the House of Representatives to debate the Senate-passed repeal, and while doing so, keep…

There is a fine line between stretched truth and outright lies. In a series of recent congressional hearings, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seems to have found that line and pitched his tent on it.  Mayorkas gave revealing testifimony Wednesday before both the Senate Appropriations Committee and a House Appropriations subcommittee. Such hearings tend to…