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The accelerating pace at which the U.S. is falling apart is matched only by the increasing hope among those in power that all will be solved if they just get Donald Trump out of the way. That, of course, is wishful thinking of the highest order. More than half a decade after Trump first came…
President Joe Biden’s irresponsible budget policies are hurting America’s families. Inflation hit 8.5% in July, a rate not seen since 1981. Prices for things families need, such as gas, groceries, and household staples, have risen since Biden signed his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act inflationary spending bill into law in March 2021. There’s an…
There are estimated to be more than 360 million Christians facing persecution for their faith around the world today, according to Open Doors USA, an organization that advocates on behalf of the persecuted church. While persecution of Christians is severe in nations like North Korea, there are about “50 to 60 countries where there is…
A senior Justice Department official referred to a highly regarded religious liberty organization as a “hate group” in a recent LinkedIn post. Eric P. Bruskin, assistant director of the commercial litigation branch in the Justice Department’s Civil Division, used the term to describe Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group founded in 1993. The…
What’s missing from this report? The Washington Post tells us that Jorge Orozco-Sandoval, 35, dropped off more than $300,000 to an undercover U.S. agent at a Target parking lot 90 minutes’ drive from the White House. That he was a courier for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. That he had previously done time in a Maryland…
California has waged a decades-long war against sanity — and the laws of physics — in the name of saving the planet by dumping tons of intermittent renewables onto the grid. Well, after years of wrecking the grid and raising energy costs, sanity seems to have prevailed. California lawmakers last week approved legislation, backed by Gov. Gavin…
If a politician from Florida decides to run for president in 2024, his (or her) home state will be short two votes in the Electoral College, and when the new session of the U.S. House of Representatives convenes in January 2023, Florida will be missing two congressional seats to which it is entitled. Why? Because according…
When Americans consider Canada, they probably think of maple syrup and funny accents. They should start thinking about alarming amounts of authoritarianism. What has been jokingly referred to as “America’s hat” has been going through a rough patch recently when it comes to protecting its citizens’ fundamental liberties. And next on the chopping block…
To reduce inflation, battle climate change, reduce gas prices, stem rising crime, and protect our southern border, President Joe Biden has forgiven $10,000 in federal student loans and extended $20,000 in debt cancellation to Pell Grant recipients for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year. A study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found…
President Joe Biden acted as if he was being compassionate to people suffering economic hardships when he announced last week his plan for forgiving billions of dollars in student loans. “Using the authority Congress granted the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding federal student loans,” he said. “In addition, students who come…
Once upon a time, the intercom buzzed in the Oval Office. “Mark P. Mills is here, sir,” said America’s most powerful secretary. “He’s a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute.” Mills stepped into the Oval Office and approached the Resolute Desk. “Good morning, sir.” The president of the United States, gently tanned after a soothing fortnight…
When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID-19. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well over 1 million. Amid the tragedy, there initially was some hope that the pernicious effects of the disease would all disappear upon recovery…
A branch of COVID-19 fundamentalists has managed to get an extremist bill through the California Legislature that would put doctors’ free speech at risk. The legislation would require the state’s Osteopathic Medical Board to “take action” against doctors deemed to have “disseminate[d] misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the…
The border surge of the past 18 months is a crisis of the Biden administration’s own making. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from a video of a July 28 deposition by Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz. The video, which was part of discovery in a lawsuit by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, was obtained…
There’s good news, and there’s bad news. The good news is, the Major League Baseball Texas Rangers “have come under enormous fire from powerful LGBT groups for not giving in and having a Pride night,” National Review’s Nate Hochman said on “Washington Watch.” Wait a minute, you’re thinking, that sounds bad. How is that good…
On Thursday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt unveiled some very interesting documents that his office and the office of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry have received since the two states jointly filed a potentially pathbreaking lawsuit in May. Their lawsuit alleges that various high-ranking Biden administration officials have been colluding, in censorious fashion, with the…
There’s a lot of negative news surrounding the government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Mistakes by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health top that list. But there is also some rare good news on the COVID-19 front. Preliminary research has found that the Medicare Advantage program outperformed traditional Medicare…
The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way. Then again, Biden, who once alleged that the chaste Mitt Romney was harboring a desire to bring back…
President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday night that if you oppose him, you are an extremist who hates democracy. Flanked by two members of the military and illuminated on a podium in blood-red lighting, Biden spent half an hour blasting his political opponents in a prime-time address to the nation. Biden, who delivered his rant…
By my count, there are at least three lies behind President Joe Biden’s “student loan relief” plan: a bald-faced lie, a half-lie, and a lie of omission. First, in its Aug. 24 “fact sheet,” the White House advances the falsehood that college is the “ticket to a middle-class life.” That’s untrue. The ticket to a…