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THE CENTER SQUARE—After the self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani won the Democrat primary for mayor in New York, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson invited New Yorkers and others to move to Dallas. Mamdani has vowed to implement a wide range of tax increases on corporations and property and to “shift the tax burden” to “richer and whiter…
A top leader in the Jewish community is sounding the alarm about rising security concerns for Jews and supporters of Israel in the United States. “You cannot have one faith group, one community, that has to be behind barricades, just to go practice our faith,” Eric Fingerhut, the president and CEO of the Jewish Federations…
The 2026 Senate race in Texas will be another dramatic showdown, with Democrats again eyeing a major pickup opportunity amid Republican infighting. On Tuesday, Democrat former Rep. Colin Allred launched his 2026 Senate campaign, a comeback bid after losing to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, by 8.5 points in 2024. The announcement followed a meeting between…
Former Presidents George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s farewell messages to staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development this week reinforce the perception that critics have called the “uniparty” culture in Washington. On Monday, the staff of USAID received video messages from the two former presidents, along with one from Bono, the ultraliberal Irish…
As some states struggle to display the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, recent surveys indicate that a majority of Americans support teachers leading students in prayer, specifically referencing Jesus Christ. Conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed 36,908 American adults about these key issues. The findings, released on Monday, revealed that…
In its last two working days, the Biden administration’s Energy Department signed off on nearly $42 billion for green energy projects—a sum that exceeded the total amount its Loan Programs Office had put out in the past decade. The frenzied activity on Jan. 16 and 17, 2025, capped a spending binge that saw the Loan Programs…
Florida Republican Rep. Randy Fine is a bit tired after the multi-day battle to pass the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill through the House of Representatives, but he thinks it was worth the all-nighters. “Snoozing on my couch isn’t my idea of a good time. But you know what, whatever we’ve got to do to…
The House of Representatives narrowly passed a massive 10-year budget framework, known as the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, on Thursday in a triumph for the agenda of President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. “If you’re for a secure border, safer communities, and a strong military—this bill is for you,” Speaker of the House…
Heritage Action, a Washington conservative advocacy group, is labeling the House’s passage of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill a “key vote.” For Heritage Action, a key vote is when the group urges a bill’s passage and use it as a way to score a lawmaker’s alignment with conservative policies. “In a historic move, the…
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up two cases in its next term on laws banning men from participating in girls and women’s sports, based on biological sex. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. The cases come out of Idaho and…
Hamas has placed bounties on the heads of American and local Gaza Humanitarian Foundation workers. But the Rev. Johnnie Moore, the group’s executive chairman, says, “If all of these threats are intended to shut us down, it’s just not going to work.” “Terrorists want to cause you to be afraid,” Moore said. “I’m a…
The House of Representatives passed a rule to bring a massive 10-year budget framework—known as the one big, beautiful bll—to the floor, as Republican leadership attempts to send it to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature by Independence Day. The bill would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and provide funding for border security and defense….
A Big Pharma lobbying group has stated that it is “aligned” with President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again” after a leaked document suggested the group schemed to oust Kennedy and separate him from Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. “It’s time to go to the Hill and…
Last Friday, the Supreme Court held in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton that states can require pornographic websites to verify that users are over 18. States now have much more leeway to ensure that children are protected from internet pornography. In 2023, Texas introduced the law challenged in Paxton. The law requires pornography websites to…
The top three Republicans on Virginia’s ballot rallied together for the first time Tuesday, presenting a united front ahead of the closely watched Nov. 4 election. Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP nominee for governor, joined Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and John Reid, the lieutenant governor nominee, at the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department in…
Border czar Tom Homan is praising the “Trump effect” after another drop in illegal-alien encounters at the southern border in June. “Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070,” Homan wrote on X. “That is less than a single day under [President Joe Biden]. As a matter of fact,…
Fallout continues in wake of the news that University of Virginia President James Ryan will be stepping down from his role as President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice investigates the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. Trump issued an executive order earlier this year telling federally funded entities to shut down DEI programs or they…
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it had reached an unprecedented settlement with the University of Pennsylvania over transgender-identifying males competing against females in women’s sports. The federal Department of Education was able to get the university to agree to restore female athletes to all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or other…
The FBI suppressed intelligence about Chinese meddling in the 2020 election, according to emails released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The FBI declassified and provided requested records to Grassley after the senator received whistleblower information about the matter. Emails show that on Sept. 25, 2020, the FBI’s field office in Albany, New…
After the Senate’s narrow 51-50 passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote, Republican senators celebrated finally getting the massive 10-year fiscal framework across the finish line there. The bill passed the Senate despite the “no” votes from Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins…