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From our friends at Unleash Prosperity, another fantastic visual aid to rebut the predictable default rationalization that climate change, rather than incompetent leadership, underlies wildfires in California or elsewhere:

 

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1 Democrats Are Learning: It's Not 2017 All Over Again

This week, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, raised the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump over the Justice Department's decision to withdraw the indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The Trump administration is engaged in "an attack on the Department of Justice for engaging in…

2 MAGA – Making the Army Great Again

President Theodore Roosevelt famously captured his foreign policy approach with the adage, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”   President Donald Trump, in stark contrast, pursues his foreign policy agenda by speaking loudly while also wielding a big stick.   Under either approach, an effective United States foreign…

3 The Upside, Risks and Limits of DOGE

America's debt crisis is no longer a distant concern; it's an immediate threat with immediate consequences. Some politicians – perhaps realizing that it's become more difficult to ignore the problem and avoid repercussions – are turning to executive action. This includes the Trump administration's embrace of Elon Musk…

4 Government Conceals Which Airports Are Most at Risk

Federal investigators have recovered the black boxes from the passenger jet that crashed into the Potomac River last week. These boxes – actually orange in color to improve the likelihood they can be found in wreckage – will help get to the truth behind the worst U.S. aviation disaster since 2001. But federal officials…

5 An Alarmingly Narrow House Majority

It's a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well over 218 seats to ensure it can win party-line votes. There will…

6 Trump Begins Draining the Swamp, and the Public Approves

Donald Trump isn’t just draining the swamp.  In some cases, he’s prosecuting it.   And the public is loving it.   So much for the longstanding tradition of “lame duck” second-term presidencies.   This week, the Trump administration began the process of downsizing our oversized and overpaid…

7 Disoriented Democrats Still Don't Know What Hit Them

On Feb. 1, the Democratic National Committee will gather in suburban Maryland to elect a new chair. Every indication suggests they still don't fully appreciate what happened to them in the 2024 election. The two main contenders are Ken Martin, who is head of the Minnesota state Democratic Party, which is actually known as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor…

8 How Biden's Pardons Normalize Abuse of Power

As expected, Joe Biden handed out 10-year blanket pardons to his corrupt family, which had profited in the millions from influence-peddling schemes.  The venality is breathtaking. The corruption is one thing. But pardons he gave government officials like Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney and others has create an unprecedented…

9 Trump Inaugurates a New Era

Breathtaking: There's no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump's second inaugural address. President Trump is back with all the confidence of a man delivered from death for a purpose. Voters save his political life and legacy, too, by reelecting him in the face of every accusation and criminal charge against him. Trump has…

10 Jack Smith, The Prosecutor Who Would Never Admit What He Was Doing

President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to its own investigation of Trump. The Department's hand-picked Trump prosecutor, Jack Smith, quit and released a report on the investigation that resulted in the…

11 Remember the Lessons of Biden’s Disastrous Presidency

This week marks the milestone end of the Biden/Harris administration, and for beleaguered Americans and our friends across the world, it arrives not a moment too soon.   As we dust our shoes of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and welcome Donald Trump’s return, that milestone offers an important opportunity to assess the lessons of the…

12 LA's Devastating Lesson for Blue Cities Everywhere

New Yorkers, Chicagoans, Denverites and other blue-city residents should feel scared as they watch Los Angeles neighborhoods obliterated by fire. These other cities could be next, victims of the same dysfunctional one-party government that puts woke priorities ahead of disaster prevention and readiness. It doesn't have to be a fire. Imagine floodwaters…

13 Why Javier Milei Matters

In the days leading up to the November 2023 presidential election in Argentina, a hundred "leading" economists from around the world, including progressive favorite Thomas Piketty, published an open letter warning that "radical right-wing economist" Javier Milei would inflict "devastation" and social chaos on his country…

14 Trump's Real Punishment

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan. The sentence was effectively nothing. Although Trump had been convicted of 34 felonies, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced him to what is called "unconditional discharge," which…

15 Where Did All the Fascism Talk Go?

On Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on X, "Is there a single person in DC or media acting as if Literal Adolf Hitler is about to assume power in 2 weeks in order to end American democracy, install fascism, and create a white supremacist dictatorship? Is it possible those who said this for years never believed it?" You can answer…

16 Why America Is in So Much Trouble

Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in San Francisco. The last question I asked him was: What are the three things we have to do to make America more prosperous? His answer I have never forgotten: "First, allow universal school choice; second, expand free trade; third and most importantly…

17 Another Biden Parting Outrage

On Monday morning, the White House announced that President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners, all murderers and some multiple murderers, on federal death row. (Yes, while most death penalty cases are handled by the states, the federal government has a death row for violators of federal crimes.) Biden commuted the federal prisoners…

18 Wishing for Santa-Like Efficiency in the USA

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Santa is done checking his list and deciding who's been naughty and nice. Of course, whenever he stops by the U.S. Capitol, he finds evidence of a lot of naughty fiscal irresponsibility that has given us a budget and government that overflow with inefficiency and waste. So my holiday wish is that, one way…

19 President Biden Should Follow the Rule of Law on U.S. Steel Deal

President Joe Biden recently declared that although he “[believes] in the justice system,” when “raw politics” infects the legal process, it can lead “to a miscarriage of justice.”   Fair enough, but Biden offered those words to rationalize his cynical decision to pardon his son for federal gun, tax and…

20 Trump's Popularity Is Rising – What Will The Resistance Do?

Dec. 6 was a historic day. It was the first time since July 2015 – since Donald Trump entered presidential politics – that more Americans have said they have a favorable impression of Trump than an unfavorable one. All that time, from Trump's first Republican primary campaign to the 2016 general election to his years…

21 It's Time For a National Conversation About Left-Wing Violence

Even before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were justifying, celebrating and rationalizing the shooting. There's a real debate going on in some quarters of the progressive Left over whether slaying CEOs is a bad thing. And it's unsurprising.  …

22 Don't Write Off DOGE

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want to cut $2 trillion and make the government more efficient. It's a high priority since the United States is barreling toward a fiscal crisis. Yet despite the mounting evidence of unsustainable spending and deficits, lots of people seem to believe that the goals of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are…

23 Trumpism Is Going Global

Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites. We are entering a brand-new era of rebellion – man against the self-serving, out-of-touch political machines that ignore the will of the governed. Everywhere. Look around. The world is a mess. Entrenched…

24 Can the Nation Wait Until Jan. 20?

Joe Biden has 42 more days to serve as president of the United States. But anyone watching events in Paris over the weekend would think President-elect Donald Trump has already taken office. The president-elect traveled to France ostensibly to celebrate the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral, but the visit turned into high-level diplomacy between European…

25 The Biden Crime Family Is Above the Law

President Joe Biden is right about one thing. Hunter Biden has always been "treated differently." If Hunter had a different last name, he would never have been able to launch a career in corrupt influence-peddling or launder millions through his "art" or write a self-serving memoir about crack-fueled whoremongering or dump a gun…

26 Democratic Anger About Biden Pardon Is All About Trump

You will probably agree that President Joe Biden's issuance of a broad pardon to his son Hunter Biden is the world's least surprising news. Many have predicted for quite a while that, whatever Biden said about pardoning his son – he vowed he would never do it – Biden would, in the end, pardon his son. And on the Sunday…

27 Trump Should Call for a New American Patriotism

Hard to believe it was just four years ago that Joe Biden was elected with a promise to unite the country. After the misery of COVID-19 deaths and lockdowns and the riots in the streets of major cities, Americans WANTED to be united by a unifying national purpose. Alas, it never happened. Instead, Biden and his leftist allies were drunk with power…

28 A Season of Self-Reflection Is Here. Will Congress Take Part?

America's greatness lies not in perfection but in her relentless pursuit of it. For nearly 250 years, this nation has strived to fully realize the revolutionary ideals laid out in its founding documents. While we have often fallen short, our capacity for self-reflection and renewal inspires hope and spurs improvement. Let us hope the efforts of Donald…

29 Schumer to GOP: Please Don't Do What We Were Going to Do to You

When the Democratic convention took place in August, with new nominee Kamala Harris rising in the polls, Democrats were giddy with a sense of impending victory. In Chicago for the convention, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer of New York visited with party officials and reporters to outline his plans for a glorious new age in Washington with Democrats…

30 Kamala's Defeat Ushers in New, Law-and-Order Future for Cities

A construction worker, a fisherman and a woman walking by the United Nations were knifed to death in Manhattan in separate, random attacks on Monday by a blood-covered lunatic with a long rap sheet who should not have been loose on the streets. Three lives lost. Three more reasons to rid this city of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Pundits…

 
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"The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of the American press and pundits was crushingly familiar. From CBS News to members of Congress, Vance (and anyone who supports his speech) was accused of using Nazi tactics. It is the demonization of dissent…[more]
 
 
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