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Soon the government might shut down your car. President Joe Biden’s new “bipartisan infrastructure law” gives bureaucrats that power. You probably didn’t hear about that because when media covered it, few mentioned the requirement that by 2026, every American car must “monitor” the driver, determine if he is impaired, and, if so, “limit vehicle operation.”…
What does it take for a federal court to reach the outcome it wants—instead of the outcome that the law demands? Apparently, just some creative judicial gymnastics. That’s what happened Tuesday with a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit when it overturned a lower court decision and struck…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will make its own decision on how to respond to Iran’s missile and drone attack last weekend. Leaders from the U.K., Germany, France, and America have urged Israel to practice “restraint” in considering a response to the 300 drones and missiles fired by Iran. During a Cabinet meeting…
The Supreme Court will determine the fate of a major Jan. 6 Capitol riot-related case. The ruling could affect hundreds of people who were in the Capitol that day in 2021, and at the center of the case is the applicability of a federal statute. The Justice Department has been using a statute enacted in…
Where are our wise elders? Reality TV stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, who charmed Americans on “The Golden Bachelor,” announced Friday that their marriage was over, just three months after 7 million watched their emotional wedding. “I truly thought it was going to last forever,” Nist wrote of her marriage in an Instagram post…
The military is rightly understood as an apolitical institution, managed on the basis of merit, yet accountable at the highest level to democratically elected civilians. The Biden administration has demonstrated, however, the extent to which military affairs are enmeshed with politics, to the detriment of national security. Conservative groups and elected officials have caught on…
A low-profile case decided Wednesday by the Supreme Court could have big implications for employers’ diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Muldrow v. City of St. Louis was a case about a female police officer who alleged that she was transferred from one department to another because of her sex. She argued that the transfer violated…
National Public Radio senior editor Uri Berliner has been suspended for his unauthorized critique of the insular liberal bias of his network. NPR star and “Morning Edition” host Steve Inskeep took to his Substack blog to slam Berliner’s article as “filled with errors and omissions.” (Editor’s note: Berliner on Wednesday submitted his resignation from the…
Brussels authorities shuttered the National Conservatism Conference on Tuesday, sending police to block entry to the conference and announcing that those inside would be permitted to leave but not to return. However, the action was not the result of any public disturbances or threats. It was a political action by left-progressive politicians who do not like the…
A lot has happened since Dylan Mulvaney pranced around his yard in a Nike sports bra last April. Days after his face appeared on Bud Light cans—the controversy that launched a thousand boycotts—the sight of him doing jumping jacks in women’s workout gear was almost worst. And a stock chart that looks like a downhill ski slope proves it….
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers, and President Joe Biden is trying to help. Last month, Biden said, “I congratulate the Volkswagen autoworkers in Chattanooga who filed for a union election with the UAW.” The vote comes right after Tax Day, and union dues would represent another…
For decades, avowed atheist Richard Dawkins has built a small industry attacking biblical Christianity and Christians, authoring books such as “The God Delusion.” That’s why so many were surprised by his recent statement proclaiming himself “a cultural Christian.” “And so you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian…
This week, the Islamic Republic of Iran—a radical Shariah theocracy hellbent on the destruction of Israel and Saudi Arabia, among others—fired some 300 drones and missiles at the state of Israel. This is, definitionally, an act of war. Iran claimed that it had attacked Israel in response to Israel’s killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…
A new bill in Congress would stop illegal aliens from squatting in U.S. homes. “We’re trying to get out in front of it to protect American homeowners,” Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., says. Leonel Moreno, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, recently went viral on social media after a video post explaining how to take advantage of…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a challenge to the criminal prosecution of a Pennsylvania man, Joseph Fischer, for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Lurking in the background is the fact that the outcome of this case could affect the pending federal indictment against former President Donald Trump in U.S. District…
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union—like most communist parties—came to power as the great defender of workers. In reality, the Soviet Communist Party didn’t give a hoot about Russian workers. The party was nothing more than a totalitarian organization that used workers to gain power—and then suppressed the proletariat, just as it suppressed every…
Ever since losing control of the Supreme Court to a nominally conservative majority, many of the same liberals who have brazenly called for “packing the court” are now just as brazenly seeking to unpack it. If ever there was proof that the Left views the Supreme Court as just another legislative body to lobby for…
If you’re confused about President Joe Biden’s various student loan debt-cancellation schemes, who can blame you? And on Tuesday, the Biden administration unveiled its third attempt to make you pay for someone else’s life choices. First, some background. In August 2022, the Biden administration announced its initial plan for canceling student loan debt. Borrowers earning…
A California public school district that attempted to hide pro-Hamas course material from parents now faces legal action. The Deborah Project, which describes itself as “a public interest law firm that defends the civil rights of Jews in education,” filed suit April 8 against the Berkeley Unified School District, accusing it of “intentionally trying to…
Israeli leaders say the nation will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but what that response will entail remains unclear. “I can see a number of scenarios in which this does escalate to a regional and potentially even a global conflict,” says a former member of the National Security Council, Robert Greenway, adding, “I can see fewer…