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After weeks of right-wing infighting, President Donald Trump on Thursday evening ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of grand jury testimony relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case in which the deceased mysterious billionaire was accused of sexually abusing scores of underage girls. The president’s post on Truth Social carried a begrudging tone: …
As climate lawsuits falter around the country, left-wing litigators are exploring a risible new legal strategy—trying energy companies and their executives for homicide and wrongful death, a climate change Nuremburg. Left-wing climate groups are mobilizing around a precedent-setting wrongful death lawsuit in Washington State, which contends that energy companies are directly responsible for…
Nine months after the 2024 election, we’ve been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10 years and one month ago. There’s wide agreement in the analyses of The Associated Press/Fox News Vote Cast, the Democrat firm Catalist’s What Happened, and the Pew Research Center analysis….
Democrat Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware introduced the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Act on Jan. 29, 2008, in what would later prove to be a sadly ironic moment. One element of this bill, according to its official summary, would authorize “the Attorney General to award a State and Local Law Enforcement Congressional Badge…
Environmental groups are now rich. In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations. $8 billion! “The environmental industrial complex actually has more money in the PR game, the lobbying game, than the real industry,” says physicist Mark Mills in my new video. “Insufficient attention is paid to following the money.” He’s…
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed lawsuits last week against Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, two shareholder voting advisory firms that together hold a virtual duopoly in that market. These firms advise institutional shareholders—typically asset and pension managers—how they should vote on corporate issues. These fund managers are in turn voting as proxies on behalf…
For some reason, Democrats are flocking to deep-red South Carolina. In recent weeks, California Gov. Gavin Newsom; Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear have all visited the Palmetto State, which favored President Donald Trump over Kamala Harris by almost 20 percentage points. In May, Tim Walz and Wes Moore, the governors of…
That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns terrorizes an unarmed population—see “Cuba, socialist state of.” But in a democracy, the maxim holds firmly. Which means that if the citizens of New York City vote in Zohran Mamdani as their mayor come…
In their attempts to thwart federal enforcement of our immigration laws, politicians like Democrat state Rep. James Hawkins of Massachusetts apparently want to make it even easier for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (and their families) to be doxed, harassed, and attacked. It’s hard to come to any other conclusion when, in the face of the open…
WASHINGTON—Who needs the U.S. Department of Education to stay just the way it is? Not Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who sees it as her mission to be “the last secretary” of a vast bureaucracy known more for its aspirations than its successes. In the meantime, McMahon wants to cut the behemoth down to size. So,…
Catching the tiger by the tail, like catching lightning in a bottle, is a difficult task. More difficult is letting go of the tiger’s tail. In 2015, President Donald Trump wove together a collection of grievances against the ruling elite in Washington, D.C., and rode into office intent on smashing established shibboleths. Leaving, ignominiously, in…
As the world of “public” broadcasting faces the rebuke of Congress rescinding its billions of dollars, it spurs a broader thought about the arrogance of liberal journalists at national media outlets. They’re not simply arrogant. They sound remarkably insincere. Start with a man named Michael Tribble, the chief content officer at WAMU, the NPR station…
It has been painfully obvious, ever since the presidential election last November, that the Democratic Party’s brand is in tatters. This week, a Quinnipiac University poll revealed that congressional Democrats have a minuscule 19% approval rating—an all-time low in the history of that particular poll. Earlier in the week, a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll similarly found…
Was President Joe Biden aware of who he was pardoning in the final days of his presidency? Or were White House staffers behind the unprecedented string of autopen signings? In recent weeks, evidence has been mounting that the former president may not have been in the loop, which is, to be charitable, problematic. Luckily for…
In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo. The unthinkable has become the banal. Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under former President Joe Biden? Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a…
On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to “Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” calling for a return to neoclassical architecture in federal construction. To some, this may seem like mere aesthetic preference. But a look back at the history of American architecture reveals that there is a lot more to modern art…
“Onward!” Along with a dozen other sayings, this was the signature of Edwin J. Feulner, who passed away Friday. There is not a week that goes by that I do not quote him. He was a giant of the conservative movement, but I got to work with him day to day as his chief of…
Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s voice still echoes loudly in Virginia and across the United States. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” But since 2019, the parents have been voting with their feet. According to projections from the National Center for Education Statistics, public K-12 enrollment peaked at 50.8 million…
The danger of changing campaign staff during an election cycle is that the press immediately covers it as a campaign in peril, not as one that should be lauded for noticing there may be a problem. When the Washington Nationals’ promising season hit the skids as soon as the temperatures started to reach the 90s,…
President Donald Trump seeks to restore America’s “gold standard science”—a science that’s rooted in transparency, peer review, reproducibility, and freedom from political pressure. It’s time to apply that sort of science to climate. “[W]here any type of ‘scientific evidence’ is used to support a government policy, a regulation, or legislation, the science behind it should…