New York's City Council voted Thursday to launch a reparations task force, which could lead to calls for billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded payouts to compensate for the impact of slavery and past injustices. Gotham joins dozens of municipalities, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Evanston, Illinois, as well as three states – California…

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – In the days before Vice President Kamala Harris came here, on Friday the 13th, some Trump supporters in this northeastern Pennsylvania town speculated that she would have trouble attracting a big crowd to her rally. Even when attendees began to show up, the detractors said the number was small and perhaps…

So we've been through an entire debate, and Kamala Harris still hasn't explained any of her extraordinary policy flip-flops. I'm sorry, a person can't just wake up one morning and abandon their entire worldview without an explanation. I mean, they can try, but no sensible person would take them seriously. Sure, politicians have been calibrating and…

Who is leading the presidential race in the seven states considered most critical to victory in 2024: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada?  The answer is we don't really know. If you look at the RealClearPolitics average of state polls, you'll see that Pennsylvania is exactly tied between Vice President…

President Joe Biden’s shortsighted plan to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel puts politics above the long-term interests of steel workers, Pennsylvanians and United States national interest.  By opposing the $14.9 billion acquisition, the Biden administration also risks straining our important relationship with Japan…

In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper that social media companies "are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop." Does it? Every two-bit authoritarian in history has justified censoring its citizens as a way of protecting them from the menace…

It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over Donald Trump's appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing. Kamala Harris herself posted a statement on X using Trump's visit to mark the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate attack as an opportunity to revive the "suckers and losers" slur against…

Free speech is under attack across the globe. Last week, a Brazilian judge shut down X for refusing to obey government censorship demands, France arrested Pavel Durov, CEO of the unregulated app Telegram, and a Hong Kong court convicted two journalists of sedition for publishing material critical of the government. The U.S. is the next front in the…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s exit from the Democratic Party (or was he booted out?) is only the latest sign that there are no more JFK Democrats left in positions of power in the Democratic Party.  President John F. Kennedy was a staunch anti-communist who fought against union and government corruption. He was a pro-life Catholic. He was laser-focused…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) formally launched IP Protection Matters, a new podcast interview series examining notable issues related to the protection of and threats to intellectual property (IP).  IP Protection Matters is hosted by Renee Giachino, CFIF’s general counsel and longtime…

“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.”   In 2013, Barack Obama was awarded PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” for making that claim during his ObamaCare sales pitch.   Notably, it wasn’t just the PolitiFact staff who considered that dishonor appropriate.  In its reader poll of…

Have you heard about Tim Walz's folksiness? Surely you've noticed the "folksy demeanor" and "folksy manner" and "folksy appeal" and "folksy mannerisms" of this "folksy former soldier"? If you somehow missed it, the "folksy governor of Minnesota" exudes a "folksy ... informal vibe"…

It has now been more than two weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee. It's always hard to get a quick handle on public reaction to a huge event like that, but after a couple of weeks, the news has had time to sink in with voters, and it's time to start looking at some new…

President Joe Biden talked incessantly about his "from the middle class out" economic strategy. Given his record, it would have been more accurate to call it the "middle class down and out" plan. Inflation has eroded away any income gains under Biden's presidency. Now Vice President Kamala Harris has her own riff on this theme.…

A handful of Republicans have referred to Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, as a "DEI hire." They were essentially saying that President Joe Biden picked Harris to be his running mate in 2020 because she was a person of color. Democrats have, of course, pushed back, calling the phrase "…

Monday night, Vice President Kamala Harris boosters launched a "White Dudes for Harris" Zoom rally and fundraiser, rushing to plug a glaring hole in the candidate's support: men. Former President Donald Trump leads Harris 47 to 39 among male voters nationwide, in the latest Economist/You Gov poll. He's 16 points ahead with male voters in…

With some hard work, pluck, the right boyfriend and a bit of genetic luck, Kamala Harris has found her way onto the presidential ballot without having to secure a single primary vote. Don't tell me the American Dream is dead. Sure, Harris is a demagogue who speaks in cringy, swirling, impenetrable platitudes. And sure, according to President Joe Biden…

It wasn't really a surprise that President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will no longer be a candidate for a second term. After all, Biden was under crushing pressure from some of the most powerful forces in the Democratic Party – congressional leaders, fundraisers, former President Barack Obama, and especially former House Speaker…

President Joe Biden's time in the White House is mercifully coming to an end. He's now officially a lame duck with six months to go. Biden was a victim here of a corrupt Democratic machine (with a complicit media) that thought it could pull off a grand election-year deceit despite Biden's failing cognitive abilities. The establishment and a compliant…

The Left's efforts to push a fragile Joe Biden out of the presidential race are probably hitting an apex around now, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly showed up at the old man's house to "forcefully" ask him to pack it up. Many Democrats are now looking around for political saviors. I'm not sure it's going to be that easy…

Milwaukee – Former President Donald Trump once privately told associates that the problem he faced selecting a running mate was that the field of potential partners did not include a no-brainer – a candidate whose appeal was so strong, so obvious and so broad that he or she would have been a consensus pick that Trump…

Republicans are launching their presidential race with the wind at their backs, and it's not because of President Joe Biden's mental incapacity or even former President Donald Trump's courageous, fist-pumping response to an attempted assassination. Voters are switching allegiance out of disgust with the Democratic Party's pro-inflation, pro-criminal…

If Joe Biden is pushed out of the presidential race by elite Democrats, the most obvious replacement is Kamala Harris. Numerous pundits have noted that the vice president is already running ahead of Biden against Donald Trump – even before she's had the chance to make her case. Though I'm not in the predictions racket, I've been around…

President Joe Biden is incapable of governing. Americans can see it, and perilously our adversaries can too. The U.S. Constitution spells out a remedy in the 25th Amendment. But a constitution is just a piece of paper, only as good as the people who have taken an oath to live by it. For the 25th Amendment to work requires selfless patriotism &…

On June 4, the Wall Street Journal published a story headlined, "Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping." Based on interviews with 45 people, the article reported that associates described President Joe Biden as showing signs of age, "a president who appears slower now, someone who has both good moments and bad ones."…

The latest official employment report finds once again that the federal government and state-local hiring spree is still in full gear. Over the past year, health care and government hiring has outpaced every private sector industry. It isn't just the IRS bringing on thousands of new workers. The bloat is everywhere. So even though there are a lot…

Until a week ago, President Joe Biden seemingly had the age issue under control. Yes, he had senior moments, some of which were quite severe, such as the episode at the White House Juneteenth concert in which he weirdly froze for two minutes, silent, eyes fixed straight ahead, body absolutely motionless. But commentary on such moments was mostly confined…

Not long ago, Snopes, a left-wing "fact-checking" site, finally admitted that Donald Trump had never called the neo-Nazis who marched at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 "very fine people." For years, Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have repeated this false claim. Indeed, Biden, who's been running…

During and after this week's presidential debate, we must look beyond rhetoric and personality to the core issues shaping America's future. The most pressing is the unsustainable growth of government spending and ballooning national debt, which promises to rob Americans of wealth and living standards in the coming decades. Make no mistake, it's a genuine…

Former President Donald Trump knows he overdid it in his first debate with Joe Biden back in September 2020. In a recent conversation at Mar-a-Lago, I asked Trump, "A lot of people thought in the first debate with Biden, that you were somewhat overamped, that you just went after him too much -- " "That I interrupted him," said…