Political Commentary & Opinion

Editor’s note: This commentary, originally published March 23, has been updated to reflect Twitter’s suspensions of James Lindsay and the parents’ rights organization Moms for Liberty, as well as Twitter’s new policy surrounding the word “groomer.”  Of the many topics the radical left has sought to render verboten, there is none more contentious than gender ideology. At…

When political leaders can’t define what a woman is, society has a problem.  The radical left has detached sex and gender from “material reality,” says Abigail Favale, author of the book “The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory.” Removing fact and biological reality from sex has led to a “subtle denigration of … the female…

The president of the United States, equal parts senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. This week, a new Quinnipiac University survey found that a paltry 31% of Americans approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job. Among political independents, that number is, somehow, considerably lower: 23% approval, compared…

Every reasonably honest observer knows the corporate media has a liberal bias. That bias is displayed more often in the topics they choose to emphasize than in outright misinformation. We all know the major narratives that the media is trying to drive home. There is none bigger than the idea that Republicans have become extreme,…

The Army is falling far short of its 2022 target end strength, the maximum number of personnel permitted by Congress in each military service. A recent news report noted the Army will “fall about 10,000 soldiers short of its planned end strength for this fiscal year,” and has only achieved 50% of its recruiting goal…

In French, a “bidonville” is a shantytown. A “bidon” is a large container, like the giant yellow vegetable oil bottles used to carry drinking water in developing countries. I’ve seen plenty of shantytowns in cities from India to Togo; they are an unfortunate consequence of rapid urbanization. What surprised me when I came home to…

How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat? At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans, and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of Wendy’s outlets ran out of hamburgers. “How the hell can this be?” says Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., in my new video. “They [Wendy’s]…

Attention, seniors!   Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction. Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether…

Not content to ruin just one story from the “A Song of Ice and Fire” universe, HBO has decided it is going to take another piece of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy magnum opus and drive it into the ground. This time, by being racist.  Coming soon to a TV screen near you is “House of…

As negotiations on their tax and spending bill continue, Senate Democrats are working on a legislative proposal to have the government fix the prices of Medicare prescription medications. Though the details of the 190-page amendment differ in certain respects from earlier versions, the indisputable result would be the same: reduced patient access to prescription drugs. Like…

It’s not bad enough that Lia Thomas bested female competitors throughout this past swim season. Now, the University of Pennsylvania has nominated the transgender swimmer to be the NCAA’s “Woman of the Year.” As colleges and universities across the country were sending in their nominations to the NCAA for its annual Woman of the Year…

A group associated with far-left billionaire George Soros is taking over 18 Spanish-language radio stations, including the iconic conservative talk station Radio Mambi.  “It’s a stab in the heart of the community,” says Lourdes Ubieta, a former host at Radio Mambi.  Radio Mambi gained a reputation “as a station that serves the Cuban exile community,”…