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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/...Read more

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 us, the folks at ...Read more

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...Read more

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 ...Read more

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 Democratic firm Catalist's What Happened and the Pew Research Center analysis.

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Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. Originally, the federal government blamed Osama bin ...Read more

The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The posterchild case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

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The "Big Beautiful Bill" did a lot of things, not all of them good. One positive step was to repeal many of the Inflation Reduction Act's green energy subsidies. It's a little disappointing that Congress didn't repeal all of them, as President Donald Trump promised during the campaign. Yet it's also somewhat amazing to witness a genuine ...Read more

There is plenty of news about higher education these days, and not much of it is good.

By way of example, Siena Heights University, a small Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan, just announced that it will be closing at the end of the next academic year, after 105 years. Siena Heights -- whose enrollment has dropped 20% since 2008 -- follows ...Read more

On July 15, according to X (formerly Twitter), a reporter on the White House lawn asked, "Are you on Ukraine's side now?"

President Donald Trump replied: "I am on nobody's side. I am on humanity's side. I want to stop the killing."

I buy Trump's response. He's said that for about three decades. I've got published essays that support that ...Read more

Forget Miami Beach. A new Times Square billboard is wooing New Yorkers to move to Ohio to flee the threat of Mamdani-ism. It's put up by Vivek Ramaswamy, who's running for governor of the Buckeye State.

But New Yorkers can take a deep breath. We don't have to move to Ohio to escape the Mamdani threat.

The best remedy is to turn out to vote ...Read more

This week, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA's big event in Tampa, Florida. There -- without naming President Donald Trump -- he unleashed on the Trump administration, suggesting that they were covering up a child sex trafficking ring and denigrating Trump's victories thus far. "If you deny people what they actually want long enough ...Read more

Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans.

The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about pay and providing room and board and transportation to ...Read more

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. "Insufficient attention is paid to following the money." He's right. ...Read more

Democratic 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 of ...Read more

When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich can muster equal enthusiasm for radical leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and for PBS, that might help people locate precisely where PBS is on the political spectrum.

In a new video, Reich began by posing with an Elmo puppet. Doesn't every leftist begin their PBS argument with Elmo? Supposedly, ...Read more

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, in keeping with ...Read more