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Amazon’s swift return journey on tariff surcharge listings - 4/29/25 by Noel S. Williams April 29, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Having thought the idea over, Amazon quickly rethought the idea, and backed down. More
Blue governor fat cats love regressive taxes - 4/29/25 by Jack Hellner April 29, 2025 by Jack Hellner No amount of seized wealth is ever enough. More
Background checks for gun barrels coming soon to California? - 4/29/25 by Olivia Murray April 29, 2025 by Olivia Murray This is exactly where we said it would go. More
A demagogue’s guide to exploiting common gullibility - 4/29/25 by Mark C. Ross April 29, 2025 by Mark C. Ross We all know that only some of the people can be fooled all of the time. But how do we find them, so they can be thoroughly exploited? More
Oh no, Canada! - 4/29/25 by Eric Utter April 29, 2025 by Eric Utter Canada has finished itself off with the results of last night's election. More
Golden State lawmaker wants to ‘decriminalize’ welfare fraud - 4/29/25 by Olivia Murray April 29, 2025 by Olivia Murray After essentially legalizing the theft of goods valued at $950 or less brought about total societal mayhem, California Democrats are again ready to fail spectacularly. More
Fifty years since the fall of Saigon, a Vietnam War refugee approaches the Capitol - 4/29/25 by Ed Timperlake April 29, 2025 by Ed Timperlake The Senate should clear Hung Cao to be undersecretary of the Navy. More
Nike’s ad seemingly dismissing the Holocaust is bad, no matter how you look at it - 4/29/25 by Andrea Widburg April 29, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Whether the ad arose from cultural and historical ignorance or malevolence, it’s very bad. More
The man behind the newest Articles of Impeachment against Trump - 4/29/25 by Andrea Widburg April 29, 2025 by Andrea Widburg He’s a colorful character, and I don’t mean that in a good way. More
‘Trump is Hitler!’ - 4/29/25 by J.A. Frascino April 29, 2025 by J.A. Frascino The Democrats need to look in their own back yard and air their dirty laundry. More
Déjà vu (again) - 4/29/25 by Bill Ponton April 29, 2025 by Bill Ponton Another fantastical story from the media about what really caused the catastrophic Spanish blackout sends my BS meter whirring. More
White House Correspondents' Association dinner exposes media's sea of hypocrites - 4/29/25 by Jim Davis April 29, 2025 by Jim Davis What happened at the annual WHCA awards dinner a few days ago was an exceptional show of chutzpah. More
Mississippi is rising -- But are lawmakers holding us back? - 4/29/25 by Douglas Carswell April 29, 2025 by Douglas Carswell Despite Mississippi’s strong conservative majority, we often fall short on basic conservative priorities like school choice.  More
JB wants to debate JD in 2028? - 4/29/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 29, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Who wants to be the 2028 Democrat nominee and face likely GOP candidate VP Vance?  More
Spain's big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity - 4/28/25 by Monica Showalter April 28, 2025 by Monica Showalter Spain went to net zero on Monday. It wasn't pretty. More
Illinois Governor Pritzker’s not-very-subtle encouragement of political violence - 4/28/25 by Andrea Widburg April 28, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The Democrat party’s Trump Derangement Syndrome is driving it directly to demanding a genuine insurrection. More
Biden set Trump up for the illegal immigrant version of ‘Sophie’s Choice’ - 4/28/25 by Andrea Widburg April 28, 2025 by Andrea Widburg There’s a connection between revelations about why Biden shipped illegal aliens inland and the allegedly “deported” two-year-old child. More
Scott Pelley goes drama-queen about Paramount pushing out a 60 Minutes editor, declares the man's brand of journalism 'accurate and fair' - 4/28/25 by Monica Showalter April 28, 2025 by Monica Showalter The man is getting embarrassing. More
A diaper-wearing pervert to get a new vagina, while keeping his penis, courtesy of the taxpayers - 4/28/25 by Olivia Murray April 28, 2025 by Olivia Murray “Deranged” doesn’t even begin to cover it anymore. More
George Santos never should have happened - 4/28/25 by Jim Davis April 28, 2025 by Jim Davis The red flags were all over, and the GOP dropped the ball. More
German government failed to properly screen a whopping 88% of Afghan migrants - 4/28/25 by Olivia Murray April 28, 2025 by Olivia Murray And the AfD’s popularity surges again. More
Time to post the rest of China’s dirty COVID-19 secret - 4/28/25 by James Zumwalt April 28, 2025 by James Zumwalt Twenty-two years ago, Chinese officials detailed an already-in-play concept to develop a genetically modified virus that would only infect certain people; was this the beginning of COVID? More
‘Made in America’ is a matter of national security and longevity - 4/28/25 by Jack Hellner April 28, 2025 by Jack Hellner There’s been a scheme to devalue vocational education and manufacturing jobs, but it’s beyond time to bring them back. More
Democrats are out of control on terrorism and immigration - 4/28/25 by Eric Utter April 28, 2025 by Eric Utter They're getting kind of  ... murderous. More
How to remove unruly leftists from Republican town halls - 4/28/25 by Noel S. Williams April 28, 2025 by Noel S. Williams When leftist agitators engage in atrocious behavior that warrants expulsion, let’s oblige them by entangling them in a net as twisted and knotted as their temperament; no point in a bunch of wasteful paperwork to arrest them and make them martyrs! More
Beyond idiocy - 4/28/25 by Bill Ponton April 28, 2025 by Bill Ponton Like Anheuser-Busch, British Petroleum is hoping that the world will forget its dalliance with wokeism. More
Does your pharmacy carry abortion drugs? - 4/28/25 by Patty Knap April 28, 2025 by Patty Knap A simple way we can speak out against stores willing to profit from abortion is by taking our business elsewhere. More
Let parents opt in instead of opt out - 4/28/25 by John Watson April 28, 2025 by John Watson Why should parents have to opt out of transgender events instead of opt in?  More
Judges acting like immigration activists - 4/28/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 28, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. From now on, judges who don’t enforce the law, including immigration, will be arrested for defying it More
It's not just inflation: Economist argues that fed policy also creates income inequality - 4/27/25 by Monica Showalter April 27, 2025 by Monica Showalter The Fed goosed the money supply and guess who benefited most? More
Maduro defends his TdA torturers - 4/27/25 by Monica Showalter April 27, 2025 by Monica Showalter Embracing the old leftist sob-story narrative, Maduro was in for a surprise when the Trump administration set the record straight. More
So it's true: DEI seems to have gotten 67 people killed over the Potomac -report - 4/27/25 by Monica Showalter April 27, 2025 by Monica Showalter The New York Times had a long piece on its front page, detailing how a female pilot kept ignoring warnings from her male instructor. More
The illegal alien raid in Colorado reveals a cancer in our military - 4/27/25 by Andrea Widburg April 27, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The whole story, from start to finish, is terrible, but the worst part is finding out what some of our troops have been doing. More
Forget Trump’s blue suit. What about those so-called ‘transgender’ mourners at the Pope’s funeral? - 4/27/25 by Andrea Widburg April 27, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The role given to these people in the funeral tells us a great deal about the modern Vatican. More
About those port explosions in Iran *UPDATED* - 4/27/25 by Andrea Widburg April 27, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The media aren’t paying much attention to those explosions, but they’ll be devastating to Iran’s economy. More
There goes the sun? - 4/27/25 by Eric Utter April 27, 2025 by Eric Utter In the U.K., scientists there are trying to geoengineer global cooling. More
When the center-fielder saved the flag - 4/27/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 27, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. How about a heartwarming story to take our minds off district judges and injunctions? More
Reflections on a papal visit - 4/27/25 by The Empirical Observer April 27, 2025 by The Empirical Observer More
What vote by mail gets you - 4/27/25 by John Woods April 27, 2025 by John Woods Maybe you find the convenience of not having to stand in line tempting. Take it from someone who knows: It’s not worth the cost. More
Shedeur Sander’s fall from grace - 4/27/25 by Will O'Toole April 27, 2025 by Will O'Toole The reason behind his unexpected draft debacle may have nothing to do with Shedeur himself. More
A real deterrent for violent criminals - 4/27/25 by Bob Kingsley April 27, 2025 by Bob Kingsley It seems to me that the incentives to commit crime rest mainly in a particular failure of our legal system. More
Recruiting mysteriously, dramatically, increases - 4/27/25 by Mike McDaniel April 27, 2025 by Mike McDaniel  Apparently, everything Dems said about and did to our military was a lie. More
Climate scientists want to shut off the sun - 4/27/25 by Mike McDaniel April 27, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Always wrong, but never in doubt. More
Trump’s 'come to Jesus’ moment on Ukraine, at Pope Francis’s funeral - 4/27/25 by Lynne Lechter April 27, 2025 by Lynne Lechter Is Trump altering his foreign policy lens? He always keeps us guessing. More
Drone footage shows Pacific Palisades reservoir still empty - 4/26/25 by Monica Showalter April 26, 2025 by Monica Showalter ... and Pacific Palisades still looks like a wasteland. So much for the state gaslighting about building back better. More
Biden pops up at the pope's funeral, looking lost - 4/26/25 by Monica Showalter April 26, 2025 by Monica Showalter What was he doing there? He never went to any papal funerals before. More
The mind-numbing, innovation-destroying DEI permeating Washington State government *UPDATED* - 4/26/25 by Noel S. Williams April 26, 2025 by Noel S. Williams I saw it from the inside, and it’s worse than you realize. More
Leftism is killing chocolate - 4/26/25 by Andrea Widburg April 26, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Sometimes, stories strike so close to home and are so horrific that it’s imperative to sound a warning. More
Susan Rice: The thing that wouldn't go away - 4/26/25 by Monica Showalter April 26, 2025 by Monica Showalter A pathetic powermonger unable to lift her hand from the lever of power. More
Rebutting the fallacy that ICE needs a warrant to grab illegal aliens - 4/26/25 by Andrea Widburg April 26, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Let’s stop this one in its tracks before it becomes “the narrative.” More
There’s been an official ‘War on Whiteness’ by groups such as HHS and others - 4/26/25 by M.B. Mathews April 26, 2025 by M.B. Mathews Elon Musk’s DOGE needs to track the money and pull the plug on this anti-American activity. More
The entire Democrat party says leftist judges are above the law - 4/26/25 by Andrea Widburg April 26, 2025 by Andrea Widburg If the allegations are accurate, Hannah Dugan blatantly, aggressively, and intentionally violated immigration law, but that’s what Democrats like about her. More
The real goal of Trump’s tariff war - 4/26/25 by Joseph Kulve April 26, 2025 by Joseph Kulve Yes, the focus is on China, but not in the way most people think. More
IRS firepower: Actions speak louder than words - 4/26/25 by Jim Davis April 26, 2025 by Jim Davis Why should the Internal Revenue Service have enough trained manpower, guns, and ammo to equip nine or ten infantry battalions? More
A new ‘spur-of-the-moment’ leftist protest planned for May Day! - 4/26/25 by D. Parker April 26, 2025 by D. Parker It’s always been a tradition for a nation’s socialists to celebrate May Day. More
Ugly details rolling out on just what the Milwaukee judge did hands hyperventilating Democrats another losing cause - 4/26/25 by Monica Showalter April 26, 2025 by Monica Showalter Democrats sure know how to pick 'em. More
How much due process is due illegals? - 4/26/25 by Mike McDaniel April 26, 2025 by Mike McDaniel It's now up to the Supreme Court and Congress to decide whether America is first and foremost for Americans. More
Maybe woke has been "berry berry bad" to me? - 4/26/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 26, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Watch the Democrats trying to clean up what took years to mess up. More
No Tesla or victim love in Minneapolis - 4/26/25 by Mike McDaniel April 26, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Among the worst burdens of any police officer’s job is dealing with non-prosecuting prosecutors.  More
This is what happens when you tell people the law doesn’t apply to them - 4/25/25 by Andrea Widburg April 25, 2025 by Andrea Widburg And what makes it worse is that we’ve also taught them that morality doesn’t apply either. More
As predicted, AOC is clearly running for president - 4/25/25 by Andrea Widburg April 25, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Her problem is that she’s running as a cut-rate Barack Obama, in a country that’s seen exactly how bad Obama’s policies have been. More
The big surprise about that judge arrested for allegedly helping an illegal alien escape from ICE - 4/25/25 by Andrea Widburg April 25, 2025 by Andrea Widburg I’ll give you a hint about the surprise: It’s not that she helped the illegal alien escape. More
Multiculturalism’s Marxist roots - 4/25/25 by Allan J. Feifer April 25, 2025 by Allan J. Feifer Both ideologies thrive on creating dissension as a way to control people and destroy Western societies. More
Washington State’s racist policies and infanticide dreams - 4/25/25 by Andrea Widburg April 25, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The state has morphed from merely Democrat to wildly unconstitutional and potentially completely immoral. More
The jig is up! Newsom busted for blowing state Medicaid dollars on homeless housing - 4/25/25 by Olivia Murray April 25, 2025 by Olivia Murray While media pundits and other high-profile Democrats continued to fearmonger on Trump’s plans to “gut” entitlement programs, Gavin Newsom was quietly doing exactly that. More
What a shame to see Elon Musk returning to the private sector - 4/25/25 by John Nehmer April 25, 2025 by John Nehmer He was barely able to make a dent in the vast federal behemoth of government spending. More
The almost-terrorist attack you didn’t hear about - 4/25/25 by Olivia Murray April 25, 2025 by Olivia Murray Where else but in Somaliland, MN? More
Trump’s unleashing of American energy is kneecapping China...and might just save Europe - 4/25/25 by Olivia Murray April 25, 2025 by Olivia Murray The Art of the Deal on steroids. More
With Trump's agenda in peril, America is in peril - 4/25/25 by Eric Utter April 25, 2025 by Eric Utter Republicans need to wake up and smell the proverbial coffee. More
How Republicans can score an immigration victory - 4/25/25 by Earick Ward April 25, 2025 by Earick Ward And put Democrats on their back foot for once. More
Time for Pam Bondi to get a move on - 4/25/25 by Todd Baumann April 25, 2025 by Todd Baumann The millions of Americans who elected Donald Trump are demanding justice beyond symbolic gestures. More
Protecting America’s rich Christian heritage - 4/25/25 by Josiah MacInnis April 25, 2025 by Josiah MacInnis The secular Left may trumpet their causes, but Christians must rise with equal resolve.  More
Europe then and now - 4/25/25 by Thomas Fix April 25, 2025 by Thomas Fix European culture has turned ugly. More
From 'Trump is Hitler' to dark woke? - 4/25/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 25, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. The good news is that the Democrats have finally figured out that calling Trump "Hitler" is a loser. The bad news is that they are switching to "dark woke," a new strategy based on throwing everything they have at the President. More
So Trump was right all along to use the Alien Enemies Act on Venezuela's state-linked Tren de Aragua - 4/24/25 by Monica Showalter April 24, 2025 by Monica Showalter A new FBI report on Tren de Aragua's links to the Venezuelan state -- as its death-squad -- lays out the problem. More
Leftist judges (again) went on a rampage today - 4/24/25 by Andrea Widburg April 24, 2025 by Andrea Widburg In his first term, and with increasing fury in this term, they have effectively nullified the President’s constitutional power to manage the government. More
Selfies with a corpse: Idiots take grinning cell phone photos with the body of Pope Francis, lying in state - 4/24/25 by Monica Showalter April 24, 2025 by Monica Showalter What has civilization come to? More
Buh-bye ActBlue! Trump set to sign memorandum targeting foreign dollars in American elections - 4/24/25 by Olivia Murray April 24, 2025 by Olivia Murray As expected, the Democrats cry foul. More
With the ‘Maryland father’ stunt failing, Democrats shift to the ‘disappeared’ Venezuelan - 4/24/25 by Andrea Widburg April 24, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The obvious goal is to make the Trump administration sound like a repeat of the murdered “desaparecidos” (“disappeared”) under Argentina’s military juntas. More
Gunfight at the Oregon corral - 4/24/25 by John Woods April 24, 2025 by John Woods Gun control is a constant issue in Oregon. More
President Trump must secure a Canadian tariff framework deal this week - 4/24/25 by Rovvy Lepor April 24, 2025 by Rovvy Lepor Canada is in the midst of a national election that will determine the future of Canada and of the Canadian-American alliance. More
Decentralized Capitalism: The future of free markets - 4/24/25 by Steve Beaman April 24, 2025 by Steve Beaman The age of ‘capitalism veresus socialism’ is over. The time has come for something new. More
Sunny Hostin shreds Trump’s $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ idea as racial politics - 4/24/25 by Olivia Murray April 24, 2025 by Olivia Murray The scary part is, these hags have an audience. More
Restoring our national monuments and resurrecting U.S. historical truth - 4/24/25 by Susan Quinn April 24, 2025 by Susan Quinn If we want to teach the truth about U.S. history, we need to ensure that we have our facts right. More
LA government sends out ‘brush clearance’ warnings to property owners…months after their homes and businesses burned down - 4/24/25 by Olivia Murray April 24, 2025 by Olivia Murray Only the government…. More
The Democrat party is flying apart - 4/24/25 by D. Parker April 24, 2025 by D. Parker How can pro-freedom Americans capitalize? More
To defuse the risk from unvetted illegal migrants, settle the Constitutional questions - 4/24/25 by Matthew G. Andersson April 24, 2025 by Matthew G. Andersson The experience of 9/11 should be a reminder. More
Want more babies? Get HR off our backs - 4/24/25 by Noel S. Williams April 24, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Despite a gradual decline in “no fraternization” policies, employee ethos in many organizations is sensibly distrustful of HR departments abusing “catch-all” codes of conduct. More
No Kristi on my TV channel - 4/24/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 24, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Mexico wants to censor television ads warning criminal migrants to stay out of America. More
EPA chief Lee Zeldin comes to see the Tijuana sewage fouling San Diego - 4/23/25 by Monica Showalter April 23, 2025 by Monica Showalter Once again, we didn't need new laws -- we needed new leaders. More
Pope Francis kicked an important can down the road - 4/23/25 by Ned Cosby April 23, 2025 by Ned Cosby His successor will still have to address it—or at least, he should address it. More
Media hypocrisy: Hegseth must go because he’ll get us all killed - 4/23/25 by Olivia Murray April 23, 2025 by Olivia Murray Yet, when troops actually died under Lloyd Austin, no one called for his resignation. More
Britain bans French philosopher who conceptualized the 'great replacement' theory, from entering country - 4/23/25 by Eric Utter April 23, 2025 by Eric Utter They ban a lot of people from that country, which, curiously enough, doesn't seem to protect them from anything. More
AOC versus visionary leadership - 4/23/25 by Pete Colan April 23, 2025 by Pete Colan Will the 2028 election be a contest between AOC and a conservative visionary? I hope so. More
The color revolution waged by our judiciary - 4/23/25 by Patricia McCarthy April 23, 2025 by Patricia McCarthy There are more than enough activist judges willing to undertake the job of stopping every move Trump makes to fulfill his campaign promises to the voters.  More
Why Democrats should become Republicans - 4/23/25 by M.B. Mathews April 23, 2025 by M.B. Mathews Disillusioned Democrats are welcome to continue voting Republican, realizing we are the party of sanity. More
Another insubordinate officer? - 4/23/25 by Mike McDaniel April 23, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Hegseth is successfully returning the military to a force dedicated to deterring and killing America’s enemies rather than a runaway social justice lab experiment.  More
Fredi Otto, the new Greta Thunberg - 4/23/25 by Bill Ponton April 23, 2025 by Bill Ponton With darling Greta Thunberg going off script, the Left needed a new poster child for their cause of climate change. More
Are we prepared for a new Chinese period of the warring states? - 4/23/25 by Joseph Somsel April 23, 2025 by Joseph Somsel Assuming Trump’s success in cornering China on trade, will there be an implosion or an explosion? More
Tim Walz: helping China colonize Minnesota? - 4/23/25 by Mike McDaniel April 23, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Perhaps under President Trump, we might thoroughly investigate Walz’s support for the CCP? More
Terrorism works? - 4/23/25 by Earick Ward April 23, 2025 by Earick Ward That’s certainly how it looks with regard to Elon Musk and DOGE. More
Trump challenges the Fed - 4/23/25 by William A. Owens, Barry W. Poulson April 23, 2025 by William A. Owens, Barry W. Poulson Trump’s creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund and Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve could undermine the Fed's independence. More
The last Austrian standing - 4/23/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 23, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. How much longer will Austria survive?   More
Keeping terrorists in America - 4/23/25 by Mike McDaniel April 23, 2025 by Mike McDaniel It's been often said the Constitution can’t be read as a suicide pact. More
Trump’s plan for Gaza vs. the New York Times - 4/22/25 by Walter E. Block April 22, 2025 by Walter E. Block Thomas Friedman sure has a lot to say. More
Minnesota state bureaucrat charged with vandalizing Teslas to the tune of $20,000 is let off scot-free - 4/22/25 by Monica Showalter April 22, 2025 by Monica Showalter Why does that guy still have a state job that gives him authority "to develop legislation" across multiple program areas? More
Celebrate Earth Day by not burning a Tesla - 4/22/25 by Anthony J. Sadar April 22, 2025 by Anthony J. Sadar Once again, self-proclaimed environmentalists have embarked on a course of action that is utterly at odds with their alleged principles. More
Summertime reality twisted into climate exasperation - 4/22/25 by Vijay Jayaraj April 22, 2025 by Vijay Jayaraj Summers are hot, and there is nothing the climate-industrial complex can, or should, do about it. More
Letitia James: it's either/or - 4/22/25 by Mike McDaniel April 22, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Justice may be coming for Letitia James, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving powerful, black woman. More
What’s next for Syria? - 4/22/25 by Joseph Puder April 22, 2025 by Joseph Puder A lot of squabbling lately in that bedeviled part of the world. More
The eight narrative fallacies that drive American politics - 4/22/25 by Allan J. Feifer April 22, 2025 by Allan J. Feifer Unless Trump and other conservatives can decisively end these narratives, America cannot regain its strength. More
Life discovered on a distant planet? - 4/22/25 by Thomas Fix April 22, 2025 by Thomas Fix A massive ocean planet 124 light-years from Earth might harbor primitive life.  More
Tulsi Gabbard's latest Biden revelation - 4/22/25 by Mike McDaniel April 22, 2025 by Mike McDaniel For now, Tulsi Gabbard is helping to show the way toward accountable government by and for the people. More
Harvard elitism meets Donald Trump - 4/22/25 by Mike McDaniel April 22, 2025 by Mike McDaniel With any luck, Harvard will soon have to get along without tax exempt status.  More
The GEC is finally more than mostly dead - 4/22/25 by Mike McDaniel April 22, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Perhaps fired, anti-American, GEC operatives can learn to code? More
Mexican ammo wranglers - 4/22/25 by Mike McDaniel April 22, 2025 by Mike McDaniel With the cartel’s major source of income now severely curtailed, they probably have revenge on their minds and Islamists are always plotting our destruction. More
The answer is not blowing in the wind - 4/22/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 22, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. When it comes to “The Climate™,” beginning with the very first Earth Day, the climate activists have gotten it wrong. More
Rep. Jamie 'Maryland Man' Raskin also threatens Trump supporters - 4/22/25 by Eric Utter April 22, 2025 by Eric Utter Nice country you have there, Trump voters. Be a shame if ... More
We're not the same - 4/22/25 by Mike McDaniel April 22, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Abrego Garcia is their immigration poster child, and they can’t understand why Normal Americans don’t agree with them or why their approval rating is so low.  More
Hillary ‘the Russia Hoaxer’ Clinton wants to imprison people for ‘propaganda’ - 4/21/25 by Andrea Widburg April 21, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Rumor has it that she graduated from law school, but I’m beginning to wonder whether that’s true. More
Rep. Jamie Raskin threatens foreign leaders who cooperate with President Trump, 'when we come back to power — and we will' - 4/21/25 by Monica Showalter April 21, 2025 by Monica Showalter Do we have a naked violation of the Logan Act which prohibits private citizens from carrying out their own 'diplomacy' to influence a foreign power? More
A female fencer's courage is partly rewarded - 4/21/25 by Mike McDaniel April 21, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Why should women be denied the opportunities for which they’ve worked and which they deserve in favor of the whims of a few mentally ill men and their Democrat enablers? More
Maybe we need more living versions of “Hillbilly Funerals” - 4/21/25 by Robin M. Itzler April 21, 2025 by Robin M. Itzler JD Vance introduced the U.S. to a great idea when he celebrated his mother’s sobriety and her birthday. More
Pope Francis, RIP - 4/21/25 by Monica Showalter April 21, 2025 by Monica Showalter Yes, many of us had differences with him but we can appreciate his good points, too. His intentions were good. RIP More
Oregon pushes trans track - 4/21/25 by Mike McDaniel April 21, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Fortunately, as Bob Dylan wrote: “the times, they are a’changing.” More
Democrats' Cloward-Piven default - 4/21/25 by Mike McDaniel April 21, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Worrying about bringing down America and western civilization isn’t on their radar. More
It’s not really about Abrego Garcia - 4/21/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 21, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Why have Democrats decided to die on another barren hill?  More
Post-election lawfare; legislating from the bench - 4/21/25 by Mike McDaniel April 21, 2025 by Mike McDaniel It’s time for the good guys to use the law to American’s advantage. More
The Starliner: worse than we thought - 4/21/25 by Mike McDaniel April 21, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Now we’re learning the problems with the Starliner were far worse than NASA has admitted. More
A New Mexico judge resigned over allegations that he kept a Tren de Aragua member in his home - 4/21/25 by Andrea Widburg April 21, 2025 by Andrea Widburg If he knew that the man was a gangbanger, and not just an illegal awaiting his hearing, it proves that, you can never underestimate the leftist rot. More
When Oregon became Bart Jason - 4/21/25 by John Woods April 21, 2025 by John Woods Oregon's supermajority Democrats are pushing for control of all water rights across Oregon. More
The Pope’s death is leading to yet more anti-Israel and anti-Trump propaganda - 4/21/25 by Andrea Widburg April 21, 2025 by Andrea Widburg It was inevitable that the passing of a very old, very sick man would be blamed on the Jews...but on JD Vance, too?! More
Professional sports leagues push gun control - 4/21/25 by Mike McDaniel April 21, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Perhaps our professional sports leagues aren’t quite as red, white and blue as they’d have us believe. More
Ivy League college invites antisemitic rapper onto campus - 4/21/25 by Ed Sherdlu April 21, 2025 by Ed Sherdlu Kehlani is rabidly antisemitic, so it looks as if this is another campus that needs to get the Bob Jones treatment for violating the Civil Rights Act. More
Bukele turns his troll power towards Maduro, offers him an exchange - 4/20/25 by Monica Showalter April 20, 2025 by Monica Showalter He's lays down a plan to expose Maduro's hypocrisy. More
So-called 'trans women' activists are getting increasingly dangerous - 4/20/25 by Andrea Widburg April 20, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Men who claim to be women have the aggression of men and the emotionalism of women, which is a very dangerous combination. More
The unintended message of ‘Adolescence’ - 4/20/25 by Chris Boland April 20, 2025 by Chris Boland The show is meant to attack “toxic masculinity” and social media, but actually, and quite brilliantly, exposes the moral emptiness of a post-virtue culture. More
Slaving over a hot keyboard - 4/20/25 by Mike McDaniel April 20, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Or there’s more to getting 21-plus American Thinker essays published every day than meets the eye. More
Easter Vigil observation: Thank goodness for immigrants - 4/20/25 by Monica Showalter April 20, 2025 by Monica Showalter The more immigrants, the more traditional the Church starts to look. More
The DOJ must block Justice Gorsuch’s textualist approach to Supreme Court reasoning - 4/20/25 by Andrea Widburg April 20, 2025 by Andrea Widburg We’re witnessing the transgender fallout from his textualist approach to the Civil Rights Act, and the DOJ has to act to protect against this happening again. More
Van Hollen backtracks even more, trying to shake his laughingstock status - 4/20/25 by Monica Showalter April 20, 2025 by Monica Showalter In multiple ways, he's trying not to look as though he's been played, and it's not working. More
President AOC? Yes, it’s a real possibility. - 4/20/25 by Andrea Widburg April 20, 2025 by Andrea Widburg She’s telegenic, has name recognition, and makes the same ideology that eventually killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century seem user-friendly. More
Democrats try re-casting DEI as nothing more than ADA - 4/20/25 by Andrea Widburg April 20, 2025 by Andrea Widburg They are going to die on the balkanized, illegal hill, and they’ll use subterfuge to do it. More
Investigate the DEMOVASION - 4/20/25 by Ned Cosby April 20, 2025 by Ned Cosby The flood of illegal aliens into our country wasn’t an accident; it was a plan, and that plan must be exposed before the next election. More
A new stage of uncertainty for the Ukraine war - 4/20/25 by Uldis Sprogis April 20, 2025 by Uldis Sprogis What even is going on over there anymore? More
DOGE savings suggestions - 4/20/25 by Noel S. Williams April 20, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Elon is seeking pointers from the public. Here are a few. More
Malicious compliance bedevils our military - 4/20/25 by Mike McDaniel April 20, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Any honest servicemember would know what they’re doing is insubordination.  More
Power to the parents - 4/20/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 20, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. In Texas, teachers’ unions are finally taking a backseat to students’ needs. More
The IRS boss flees DOGE - 4/20/25 by Mike McDaniel April 20, 2025 by Mike McDaniel It's reasonable to think Krause, like so many other federal bureaucrats, reacts to accountability like vampires react to sunlight.  More
Flip! Suddenly, radical leftwing Barbara Lee surges ahead to win Oakland's mayoral election after extended counting - 4/19/25 by Monica Showalter April 19, 2025 by Monica Showalter Ranked choice voting -- or outright fraud -- may be to blame. More
The Gates of Vienna have fallen - 4/19/25 by Andrea Widburg April 19, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Ordinary Europeans are beginning to realize that their end is near, but the reality is that there’s not much they can do. More
Mahmoud Khalil, a spokesman for an organization advocating killing Jews, likens himself to an Auschwitz victim - 4/19/25 by Andrea Widburg April 19, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The Washington Post, a former newspaper, has soiled itself badly with this one. More
Import the third world ... - 4/19/25 by Monica Showalter April 19, 2025 by Monica Showalter ... get the third world. The rise of the informal sector has provided opportunities for true criminals. More
A Massachusetts judge has blocked Trump’s effort to remove imaginary ‘genders’ from passports - 4/19/25 by Andrea Widburg April 19, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Sadly, it seems she has a legal leg to stand on, thanks to Justice Gorsuch’s utterly misbegotten decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. More
DOGE shows just how deep illegal immigration rot goes - 4/19/25 by William Davis April 19, 2025 by William Davis The scope of illegals on Medicaid, and illegals voting in U.S. elections is shocking.   More
How climatologists got it all so horribly wrong - 4/19/25 by Douglas J. Cotton April 19, 2025 by Douglas J. Cotton They were making up data to fit observable phenomena, while ignoring gravity’s role in our climate. More
Illinois’s insane leftism now propping up bordering states! - 4/19/25 by Nick Lopez April 19, 2025 by Nick Lopez It appears that bordering states are relying on Illinois’s sky-high taxes to maintain a boom in their own economies. More
It couldn’t be clearer, Democrats are pro-crime and anti-American - 4/19/25 by Eric Utter April 19, 2025 by Eric Utter Democrats are vowing to pile into an El Salvadoran hotel to lobby for the return of MS-13’s wife-beating human-trafficker, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. More
Woke fascism at Binghamton University - 4/19/25 by Bob Kingsley April 19, 2025 by Bob Kingsley An example of the kind of product our college campuses are producing: autocratic, authoritarian, and close-minded bullies.   More
The hollow people - 4/19/25 by Michael Smith April 19, 2025 by Michael Smith A significant portion of America’s political and cultural Left has lost its way, untethered from the principles that make a civilization function. More
The right choice in Texas - 4/19/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 19, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. School choice is coming to Texas. More
Illegals: The latest - 4/19/25 by Bruce Majors April 19, 2025 by Bruce Majors Only when it comes to importing illegal aliens to replace the misbehaving American voter are liberals concerned about due process.  More
Letitia James: Karma is a b***h - 4/19/25 by Mike McDaniel April 19, 2025 by Mike McDaniel It couldn’t happen to a worse woman. More
Another disloyal officer is fired - 4/19/25 by Mike McDaniel April 19, 2025 by Mike McDaniel That the Trump Administration is acting to retore military discipline and purpose, and is transparent, is as encouraging as the betrayal by so many high-ranking officers is not. More
The new conservatives - 4/18/25 by Andrea Widburg April 18, 2025 by Andrea Widburg A new poll shows that there’s cause for optimism about the younger generation. More
Another left-wing propaganda minion moves the goalposts - 4/18/25 by Jim Davis April 18, 2025 by Jim Davis When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was found to be not quite the loving father the press had portrayed him to be ... More
Austin Metcalf’s dad attends Anthony family press conference, gets ejected as his presence is ‘disrespectful’ - 4/18/25 by Olivia Murray April 18, 2025 by Olivia Murray A very, very painful lesson in how this is in fact about race. More
Hawaii Supreme Court finds it trumps the U.S. Supreme Court - 4/18/25 by Eric Utter April 18, 2025 by Eric Utter It's a fig leaf for leftist rule and dangerous to national unity. More
The Christian life in tandem with Christ: Good Friday - 4/18/25 by Susan D. Harris April 18, 2025 by Susan D. Harris Every year brings fresh insights into these events, prompting deeper contemplation and reflection. More
Don’t be fooled by another Iran deal - 4/18/25 by Harley Lippman April 18, 2025 by Harley Lippman President Trump has good diplomatic instincts, but Iran needs careful and exceptional treatment. More
After the quake, Myanmar prays - 4/18/25 by Peter Kauffner April 18, 2025 by Peter Kauffner More
Yes, they’re peasants. That’s exactly the problem. - 4/18/25 by Maureen Steele April 18, 2025 by Maureen Steele J.D. Vance wasn’t being crass. He was being honest. More
For democracies, Islam may provide the ultimate irony - 4/18/25 by James Zumwalt April 18, 2025 by James Zumwalt Western states’ greatest strengths—their freedom and democracy—are also their greatest weaknesses. More
Truman did it. Why can’t we let Musk try? - 4/18/25 by Randy White April 18, 2025 by Randy White Americans fuming over DOGE should remember an earlier, more bipartisan America. More
The U.K. gets it right: ‘Trans’ women are not women - 4/18/25 by Susan Quinn April 18, 2025 by Susan Quinn Reason prevails. More
The left cannot and will not stop itself - 4/18/25 by Patricia McCarthy April 18, 2025 by Patricia McCarthy It is evident to all Americans who have been paying attention, that the left is doubling down on stupid ... More
Please don’t lower the rim! - 4/18/25 by Ned Cosby April 18, 2025 by Ned Cosby We are a nation built upon excellence, but our educators want to bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator, whether in basketball or the classroom. More
Is there a moral imperative in trade? - 4/18/25 by Gary Schiff April 18, 2025 by Gary Schiff Once, American manufacturers and Democrats believed there was such an imperative, but until Trump came along, both political parties had abandoned that idea. More
Kilmar Angel, you're no angel to me - 4/18/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 18, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. As it turned out, Senator Chris Van Hollen did not meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.  More
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Two Powerful, Creative Ideas to Help President Trump With Mass Deportation Wayne Allyn Root Bringing illegal immigration home to the Democrat judges and politicians, and an “Illegal Alien Snitch Hotline,” should go a long way to solving the problem. More
The Great Decoupling: Apple, India, and the Strategic Migration of U.S. Manufacturing Bepi Pezzulli India offers significant advantages: a pliable workforce that is both young and tech-literate, and perhaps most importantly, a government eager to accommodate U.S. corporate interests. More
The Battle of the Russo-Ukraine War Narratives James Soriano With some wars, the immediate post-war narrative (e.g., WWII) never shifts, but with others, history has, or will have, a great deal to say. More
We’ve Been Here Before Allan J. Feifer Before WWII, America faced the same internal threats, but the law passed to address them is inadequate for the situation in which we find ourselves now. More
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Amazon’s swift return journey on tariff surcharge listings - 4/29/25 by Noel S. Williams April 29, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Having thought the idea over, Amazon quickly rethought the idea, and backed down. More
Blue governor fat cats love regressive taxes - 4/29/25 by Jack Hellner April 29, 2025 by Jack Hellner No amount of seized wealth is ever enough. More
Background checks for gun barrels coming soon to California? - 4/29/25 by Olivia Murray April 29, 2025 by Olivia Murray This is exactly where we said it would go. More
A demagogue’s guide to exploiting common gullibility - 4/29/25 by Mark C. Ross April 29, 2025 by Mark C. Ross We all know that only some of the people can be fooled all of the time. But how do we find them, so they can be thoroughly exploited? More
Oh no, Canada! - 4/29/25 by Eric Utter April 29, 2025 by Eric Utter Canada has finished itself off with the results of last night's election. More
Golden State lawmaker wants to ‘decriminalize’ welfare fraud - 4/29/25 by Olivia Murray April 29, 2025 by Olivia Murray After essentially legalizing the theft of goods valued at $950 or less brought about total societal mayhem, California Democrats are again ready to fail spectacularly. More
Fifty years since the fall of Saigon, a Vietnam War refugee approaches the Capitol - 4/29/25 by Ed Timperlake April 29, 2025 by Ed Timperlake The Senate should clear Hung Cao to be undersecretary of the Navy. More
Nike’s ad seemingly dismissing the Holocaust is bad, no matter how you look at it - 4/29/25 by Andrea Widburg April 29, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Whether the ad arose from cultural and historical ignorance or malevolence, it’s very bad. More
The man behind the newest Articles of Impeachment against Trump - 4/29/25 by Andrea Widburg April 29, 2025 by Andrea Widburg He’s a colorful character, and I don’t mean that in a good way. More
‘Trump is Hitler!’ - 4/29/25 by J.A. Frascino April 29, 2025 by J.A. Frascino The Democrats need to look in their own back yard and air their dirty laundry. More
Déjà vu (again) - 4/29/25 by Bill Ponton April 29, 2025 by Bill Ponton Another fantastical story from the media about what really caused the catastrophic Spanish blackout sends my BS meter whirring. More
White House Correspondents' Association dinner exposes media's sea of hypocrites - 4/29/25 by Jim Davis April 29, 2025 by Jim Davis What happened at the annual WHCA awards dinner a few days ago was an exceptional show of chutzpah. More
Mississippi is rising -- But are lawmakers holding us back? - 4/29/25 by Douglas Carswell April 29, 2025 by Douglas Carswell Despite Mississippi’s strong conservative majority, we often fall short on basic conservative priorities like school choice.  More
JB wants to debate JD in 2028? - 4/29/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. April 29, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Who wants to be the 2028 Democrat nominee and face likely GOP candidate VP Vance?  More
Spain's big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity - 4/28/25 by Monica Showalter April 28, 2025 by Monica Showalter Spain went to net zero on Monday. It wasn't pretty. More
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