Political Commentary & Opinion

Chuck Todd pulled out a farewell speech of sorts on his last day as “Meet the Press” host on NBC, proclaiming, for example, “I’ve had the honor of helping to explain America to Washington and Washington to America.” Does anyone really think an inside-the-Beltway creature like Todd is “explaining America to Washington”? Or that “Washington”…

Corporate America is finally waking up to the fact that woke policies on crime are costing them billions.  Organized shoplifting efforts and flash mobs of robberies across the country caused businesses $100 billion in losses in 2021 and have only gotten worse since then, according to the National Retail Federation. As former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli…

Divorced from economic reality, the new leader of the United Auto Workers union has made exorbitant demands that, by roughly doubling the compensation of many workers, threaten the future of the Big Three U.S. automakers and their hundreds of thousands of employees. The UAW’s current contracts with the Big Three—General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (formerly…

The battleground that the radical Left has not conquered is “our children,” commentator and podcast host Liz Wheeler says, but make no mistake—the battle is raging.  “The Left has actually been trying to reengineer our society for nearly a century, and unfortunately, they have been very successful at it,” says Wheeler, host of “The Liz…

“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.” — Xunzi, ancient Chinese philosopher Walking along a street in Madrid in the 1970s after a late-night supper, I asked a local resident if there was much crime in the city….

The sudden appearance of communist apparatchik Angela Davis in the middle of former President Donald Trump’s prosecution saga in Atlanta is a testament not just to her stunning political durability. It’s also yet another reminder of how selective justice has been with prosecuting political violence. Davis, twice vice presidential candidate on the ticket of the Communist Party USA and…

Arkansas has a used tire problem. Despite a government program set up in 2017 meant to dispose of Arkansas’ used tires while being self-funding, these eyesores—and some argue, health hazards—are literally piling up around the state. This was completely predictable. Yet no amount of failure can convince even the best-intentioned politicians and bureaucrats that when…

Britain’s Prince Harry may have received “preferential treatment” when granted his U.S. visa, according to Nile Gardiner of The Heritage Foundation.  Harry, the Duke of Sussex, publicly admitted to drug use in his recent memoir “Spare,” but it’s not known whether the royal disclosed his drug use on his visa application, an admission that can…

Senators returned to a steamy Washington, D.C., this week with temperatures nearing 100 degrees. As warm as it was outside, things were also heated inside the Senate.  For six months, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has infuriated his Democratic colleagues by preventing the Senate from rubber-stamping the promotions of high-ranking military officers. The number is now…

This week, the Burning Man festival—a convocation of large groups of men and women seeking sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and other forms of hedonistic bliss—was flooded. It seems that a half-inch of rain swamped the event, which takes place in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, turning the dust to deep and sticky mud….

The Left has found its newest implausible scapegoat for a crime wave that began in 2020; namely, foreign car companies. A recent editorial column in The New York Times, “Kia and Hyundai Helped Enable a Crime Wave. They Should Pay for It,” has been part of a spate of national and local media stories blaming…

In 1960, the birthrate in America was 3.65, meaning most women had between three and four kids. Fast forward to 2000, and the birthrate had fallen to 2.06. As of 2020, the birthrate was 1.6, meaning women now have between one and two children.  Factors such as the economy, changes in cultural priorities, and political agendas…