Political Commentary & Opinion

“The Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to take the most aggressive action ever—ever, ever, ever—in confronting the climate crisis and strengthening our energy security,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday at the White House, just before signing the IRA into law. IRA goes far beyond the massive figure that Biden cited. This leviathan raises taxes…

Last Friday, I landed in beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to speak at a pro-life summit. The summit organizers had kindly dispatched a van to transport a number of us from the airport, and a U.S. congressman who happened to be on the same arriving flight hopped on to hitch a ride. The congressman, a conservative,…

Last week, a man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and stabbed British author Salman Rushdie in the neck as he was being introduced. The topic under discussion was “the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression.” Chances are exceptionally high…

The border has come to northern, blue cities—and Democrats aren’t handling it well. July’s border numbers are in, and the Biden administration again has set an all-time record for unlawful crossings, surpassing 2021’s historic numbers. Most legacy and corporate media dodged this historic crisis, which began almost immediately under President Joe Biden’s watch. It’s typically…

Since President Joe Biden’s unconscionable, disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan a year ago, Afghan girls and women have suffered most from a dysfunctional economy undermined by the brutal and chaotic governing force of the Taliban. As unambiguously pointed out by the agency known as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Afghanistan’s women and…

In June, Axios media reporter Sara Fischer implied CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter could be on the chopping block, as new CNN CEO Chris Licht promised to give the network a less partisan tone. From my distant perch, I dismissed that out of hand—and turned out to be wrong. NPR’s David Folkenflik reported Licht…

While younger people have been less affected by the COVID-19 virus and have even benefited from some of the pandemic’s effects on the economy, they haven’t been spared the costs of rising prices. And younger Americans will bear the greatest consequences of the government spending spree that’s propelling inflation. Destructive policies have hit all ages…

Conservative states have a warning for corporations that have “gone woke”: The consequences of political activism are no longer one-sided. This month, West Virginia declared it would no longer do business with five Wall Street banks over the companies’ anti-coal or anti-fossil fuel policies. “You have your right to be able to boycott the fossil…

“Conservatives need to get over their allergy to government action.” That was the headline on an opinion column by Henry Olsen last week in The Washington Post. Olsen is not alone among conservatives in thinking so. Across much of the right today, there’s more openness to having government do more in the economy. Olsen observes that there…

As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a supposed impending radical right-wing violent takeover. This time, the alleged threat is a Neanderthal desire for a “civil war.” The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the…

In a shocking report, the U.S. Census Bureau recently admitted that it overcounted the populations of eight states and undercounted the populations of six states in the 2020 census. All but one of the states overcounted is a blue state, and all but one of the undercounted states is red. Those costly errors will distort congressional representation…

A central pillar of the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act is $80 billion going to the IRS to hire some 87,000 new agents, doubling the current force, to chase down U.S. taxpayers who allegedly are not meeting their tax obligations. The rationale is we have a large national budget deficit—that is, government is bringing in less…

The school board for Wauwatosa, Wisconsin will consider a “Curriculum Revision proposal” to radically reshape its “Human Growth and Development” curriculum (essentially, sex ed) into a tool for radical, gender ideology indoctrination. A Human Growth and Development committee comprised of “parents, teachers, school administrators, pupils, health care professionals, members of the clergy, and other residents of the…

The Democrats continue to weaponize the administrative state, from the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago to the vast expansion of the Internal Revenue Service. Shortly after Congress voted, with no Republican support, to expand the IRS by 87,000 new employees, Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Judy Chu of California introduced a bill to use the IRS…

The shocking attempt to murder writer Salman Rushdie last Friday in New York wasn’t just a criminal attack on the author but probably also an Iranian-inspired (and possibly Iranian-directed) act of terrorism. Rushdie, after publishing the controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses,” was targeted for death in a fatwa (or Islamic edict) issued in February…