Say this for Tim Walz – unlike Kamala Harris, he is at least doing what his running mate promised to do but hasn’t since the 2024 presidential election, namely “staying in the fight.” Of course, the problem is that, as he conducted a national town hall tour of Republican-controlled congressional districts this month, the Minnesota…
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Moves afoot to rein in judicial obstructionism. When almost every action taken by a new president is blocked by federal judges, it’s clear that this is about more than the rule of law. No other president in living memory has been hit with so many injunctions – more than a dozen – just two months…
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Can you say ‘oligarchy’? Sure, you can. Ever since their repudiation at the polls on Nov. 5, 2024, Democrats have been in search of a message that will capture the attention of the American people. Their hunt for a favorable touchstone that will speak to the heart and soul of the Democratic Party has turned…
History says the GOP will lose lower chamber seats next year. Current events indicate otherwise. In 20 of the last 22 midterm elections, the party of the president has lost an average of 28 House seats. This time, however, Republicans hope to break the trend. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has identified 26 House…
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Donald Trump is back in the Oval Office, and you know what that means. It’s another constitutional crisis – or maybe it’s a nonstop series of crises cascading one after the other. It’s hard to tell, really. In any case, it’s time for leftists to start foaming at the mouth again and throwing that phrase…
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The art of governance is equal parts policy and politics. You can’t govern effectively without both. As presidents or parties adopt positions they consider wise and palatable, a significant aspect of the equation is forcing the opposing party to take a stand, to either agree or embrace the opposite: policies that are unwise and unpalatable. Ordinarily,…
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Use the road? Pay the toll. Illinois Democrats hope to impose a “road usage charge” on Prairie State residents. If successful, the proposal would see drivers pay more the more miles they log. But tracking the miles requires universal vehicle surveillance – an affront to the fundamental liberties of privacy and free travel, and a…
President Donald Trump signed his long-anticipated Department of Education executive order (EO) on Thursday, March 20. It doesn’t close the department – that requires an act of Congress – but it does direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority…
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New York City has been torn apart by a protracted legal wrangle between President Donald Trump and New York Democrats over congestion pricing. Underlying the conflict is a tussle between equity and tax revenue, pitting progressive initiatives against the working class. The president has imposed a March 21 deadline to halt the practice of charging…
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America’s ultimate litmus test. As promised, President Donald Trump oversaw the release of thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Available now on the National Archive website, interested parties can inspect papers, reports, and interviews. Whether there is a proverbial “smoking gun” is very much in the…
All the signs say this isn’t what the media says it is. Several GOP officeholders have met with protests and vocal critics at recent town hall events, and the situation was bad enough for congressional Republican Party leadership to discourage the practice of hosting these gatherings. But are these town hall protests a sign that…
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You won’t read about it in the dominant media, but there was a Bay Area political scene in the 1990s and early 2000s that was influenced to a startling degree by China. What you also won’t read in the pages of most news outlets is that 2024 Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris and likely 2028…
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