Political Commentary & Opinion

President Ronald Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” Shock waves are rippling through the country after the announcement of the second-largest bank failure in the country’s history last week—Silicon Valley Bank. This just 15 years after the largest bank…

The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank—the bank that just went bust—was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors. Their primary concern was social activism—LGBTQIA+; diversity, equity, and inclusion; environmental, social, and governance; and climate change. In fact, for…

The nation’s capital has joined jurisdictions in at least five states across the country in allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections.  The District of Columbia’s law takes effect Tuesday amid bipartisan opposition in Congress.  As noted in my 2022 book “The Myth of Voter Suppression,” Democrats long have sought to change election laws to…

YUMA COUNTY, Ariz.—It was 3 a.m. and a line of about 40 illegal aliens stretched along a section of the border wall waiting to be transported to the local processing center. Behind the group stood another 50 people who had crossed the border illegally into Yuma County, Arizona.   A large white bus full of…

After reviewing some 41,000 hours of security camera videos, Tucker Carlson and his Fox News team this week refuted numerous lies that Democrats have trafficked since Jan. 6, 2021. The following are the five biggest: Democrats consider Jan. 6 a “deadly insurrection.” They call this Storming of the Bastille 2.0 a bloody attempted overthrow of the U.S. government….

Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a good Samaritan in Portland, Oregon, confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods. More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage—of the thieves! They pouted. They screamed. They resisted. How dare anyone stop them from stealing anything they wished. The criminals entertained no…

Jan. 6 was, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., explained that the riot of Jan. 6 was a “violent insurrection.” And in order to preserve democracy, Schumer stated, Fox News should take Tucker Carlson off the air….

About Scott Adams, the white male creator of the (once) popular “Dilbert” comic strip, The Washington Post wrote: “On his Feb. 22 episode of ‘Real Coffee With Scott Adams,’ the creator of the comic strip ‘Dilbert’ decided to riff on a much-criticized Rasmussen poll and promote a type of segregation. He declared that black Americans…

When Disney began lobbying against a parental rights bill in Florida that would prohibit public school teachers from discussing sex, sexual orientation, or so-called gender identity with prepubescent kids in kindergarten through third grade, Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed a special session of the Legislature to review Walt Disney World’s 50-year-old “independent special district” status to…

Belgian and Dutch farmers are protesting because they are losing their livelihoods in the name of fighting so-called climate change as European governments seek to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, necessary inputs of modern agriculture. Will American farmers and consumers soon face the same fate? European farmers are being told that because of…