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Fraud is just the beginning of the Tim Walz failure

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) ended his political career on Monday, announcing that he would abandon his reelection campaign in light of the fraud scandals ...

yesterday 20

Washington Examiner

Grok, can you stop putting women in bikinis?

Men could use artificial intelligence to help cure cancer. Instead, they turn everything into pornography. This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, of...

yesterday 10

Elisha Krauss

In reelection launch, Josh Shapiro admits violent attack almost drove him from race

COLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) launched his reelection bid in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, highlighting his...

previous day 10

Salena Zito

Linda McMahon hits the road: Promoting patriotism and dismantling the Education Department

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Linda McMahon is having fun. The education secretary, the 13th since the Cabinet department was founded during...

previous day 5

Salena Zito

Democratic anti-ICE rhetoric is getting people killed

The shooting death of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, could have been easily avoided. Instead of telling his constituents that the state...

previous day 6

Zachary Faria

A Real bust

The U.S. government saw a problem. The U.S. government spent 20 years creating a solution to that problem at a significant burden to the people. The...

previous day 5

Zachary Faria

Mayor Mamdani’s false choice

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged in his...

previous day 5

Zachary Faria

Taxpayer stadiums, paywalled games, and the loss of common culture

If you were hoping to watch the NFL Wild Card Weekend playoff game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, and you were not already a...

previous day 4

Conn Carroll

My part in the ayatollahs’ downfall

Iran’s clerical tyrants are as different from Mark Twain as it’s possible to imagine. But since they toppled the shah in 1979, they might often...

previous day 5

Hugo Gurdon

Trump administration strikes another hammer blow at Afghan allies

Following the Trump administration’s clampdown on Afghan immigrant visa processing, new developments may have left U.S. allies with no further hope...

previous day 5

Hugo Gurdon

Venezuela raid is about the oil — keeping it from Russia and China

While you were sleeping off your residual New Year’s hangovers the first wee Saturday hours of 2026, President Donald Trump started his military...

previous day 4

Hugo Gurdon

Seattle rings in the new year with more failed progressive policies

Seattle has a new socialist mayor and new progressive leadership, which means there will be a lot of well-meaning disasters and misplaced...

previous day 4

Zachary Faria

Trump’s Caligulan grab for Greenland

Twenty years ago, I spent a couple of weeks in Afghanistan with Britain’s Royal Marines. Operating largely under British command in Helmand was a...

previous day 4

Zachary Faria

Renee Good is a cautionary tale on the dangers of the Left’s cult of ideology

Renee Good should be alive today. It’s because of radical, far-left political ideology that she is not. The mother of three was killed during a...

previous day 4

Christopher Tremoglie

On This Day: Common Sense

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George...

previous day 4

Salena Zito

Washington’s echo: America and Europe at a crossroads once more

In the turbulent spring of 1793, the young United States confronted its first profound foreign policy crisis. Revolutionary France, having declared...

previous day 30

Daniel Ross Goodman

Exit Tim Walz, stage Biden: Another Democrat has clung to power past his expiration date

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) abandoned his ludicrous quest for a third term on Jan. 5. He has angrily refused to resign from office. Whenever he departs,...

previous day 7

Scott W. Johnson

Walz withdrawal doesn’t solve Minnesota’s scandals

Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) announcement that he will no longer seek reelection this fall was characteristically unimpressive. Yes, he recited a...

previous day 6

Guy Benson

Grifters and grafters

On Dec. 18, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson said as much as half of the roughly $18 billion allocated to 14 Minnesota-run aid programs...

previous day 4

Dominic Green

The dream of Song Sung Blue

The year is young, but you are not likely to encounter in 2026 at the cinema two people who love life more than Mike Sardina and Claire Stingl in...

previous day 5

Peter Tonguette

The first draft of cultural history: Review of ‘Blank Space’ by W. David Marx

Cheekily titled after one of Taylor Swift’s biggest hits, Blank Space is an attempt by culture writer W. David Marx to do something extremely...

previous day 5

Derek Robertson

Demanding truth in the new year

I understand that a man who sits at the bar opens himself to conversation with those sitting on nearby stools. So I wasn’t offended when this guy...

previous day 5

Trent Reedy

A decade without David Bowie

David Bowie personally appears on the cover of 24 of his solo albums, depicting himself as a bowl-cut heartthrob, an androgynous blond, a space...

previous day 1

Armin Rosen

A Nuke Hope: Review of ‘The Nuclear Age’ by Serhii Plokhy

“Nuclear… We can’t let people throw around that word. I call it the N-Word. There are two N-words, and you can’t use either of them. And,...

previous day 5

Andrew Fagal

A resolution for 2026: Energy that actually works

The start of a new year is when people take stock of what’s working and what isn’t. Families reassess budgets. Businesses review strategy....

previous day 4

Kevin D. Dayaratna

Can Mike Johnson thwart Trump on abortion?

Much of President Donald Trump‘s success is due to the fact that he is the least ideological man to occupy the Oval Office in generations. Aside...

previous day 4

Kevin D. Dayaratna

California is eliminating life without parole, even for serial rapists

Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to pretend he is willing to be tough on crime, but California under his leadership is effectively eliminating life without...

previous day 4

Kevin D. Dayaratna

Democrats and their media comrades want violence

Before Minneapolis became the epicenter of seemingly countless Somali scams, it was the epicenter of perhaps the most shameless and irresponsible...

previous day 4

Kevin D. Dayaratna

Seizing sanctioned ship, Trump shows how to break Russian brinkmanship

Alerted in late December to U.S. plans to seize the sanctioned Marinera/Bella 1 cargo ship as it transited the Atlantic Ocean, Moscow allowed that...

previous day 4

Kevin D. Dayaratna

Empowering growth and exceptionalism through limited government

In just 11 months, our nation has gone from stagnation and atrophy to experiencing over 4% growth in gross domestic product, with trillions of...

previous day 4

Rep. Beth Van Duyne

It’s time for NFL to retire the racist ‘Rooney Rule’

Antonio Pierce is a former Pro Bowl NFL linebacker and defensive captain for the New York Giants and Super Bowl champion from the 2011 team that...

previous day 6

Peter Laffin

California billionaire tax won’t stop union spending greed

The lynchpin of the Democratic Party’s control over California is not elected officials but the million-plus members of government unions who...

thursday 10

Washington Examiner

Here is how not to be shot by ICE officers

After a woman was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Democrats and liberal media are in...

thursday 10

Tom Rogan

Trump’s missed opportunity on housing affordability

It’s the first rule of economics. If you want lower prices, increase supply. After years of restrictive land-use regulations, exclusionary zoning,...

thursday 10

Tom Rogan

On This Day: Washington orders Lee to defend New York

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George...

thursday 1

Salena Zito

This ‘trans rights’ horror story is going to haunt the Democrats

Remember when prominent Democrats insisted that we should “believe women” when they complain about sexual harassment? Well, apparently, that goes...

thursday 1

Brad Polumbo

Hamnet is not your average Shakespeare biopic

If there is anything that years of experiments in the genre have taught us, it’s that it’s difficult to make a good film about a great man. The...

thursday 5

Brad Polumbo

When Democrats scream ‘cuts,’ immediately think ‘fraud’

New York isn’t the only major American city that just elected a far-left mayor. Seattle’s new chief executive is a hardcore radical named Katie...

thursday 5

Brad Polumbo

Maduro and Mamdani: two collectivists check into public housing

Welcome to 2026, the year we fight collectivism. And we’re already seeing early signs that we’ll have to wage this fight not just overseas but also...

thursday 2

Mike Gonzalez

Maduro gone, Congress missing.

The removal of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from power is a watershed moment for the United States, the Western Hemisphere, and a...

thursday 5

Mike Gonzalez

Investing in Venezuela? Caveat emptor

President Donald Trump is irrationally exuberant about rebuilding Venezuela’s economy and its oil industry. The reality on the ground is far less...

thursday 4

Mike Gonzalez

What will Trump do if Iran massacres protesters?

President Donald Trump is likely about to face a difficult choice: how to enforce his redline warning to Iran not to kill protesters who have taken...

thursday 10