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Commentary What would George Washington say? I can ask, even about modern politics, this July 4 because America’s first president was a man of such studious self-control that his answer, though furiously indignant, would be printable. As a Canadian I should also ask what Sir John A. Macdonald would say about our southern neighbour pondering a rematch between Donald Trump...

News Analysis While Democrats were still celebrating the success of their parliamentary move to keep embattled Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Administrator Meagan Wolfe on the job, the GOP-controlled Senate did some maneuvering of its own to get rid of her. The had WEC called a special meeting for June 27 for the sole purpose of reappointing Wolfe to another four-year...

AP Images Jair Bolsonaro No matter which continent leftists are on, they play according to the same handbook. The recent court ruling banning former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking public office for eight years has strong parallels to the strategy Democrats are currently using against Donald Trump, and should serve as a warning of what will happen if conservatives...

Former President Donald Trump, who made his fortune as a real-estate magnate, is tapping into that background to chart America’s future. While making his third run for the U.S. presidency, Trump released a proposal that fell outside of conventional campaign rhetoric. If elected, Trump says his plan would propel the nation into a new era of economic development, innovation and...

AP Images In an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, just hours after the Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) decision on affirmative action, President Joe Biden held firm to his stance against expanding the Court.   During the interview, Wallace asked Biden if he worried “that without court reform, this conservative majority, is too young, and too...

The conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court has been busy in the final days before its summer break, and the decisions it handed down this week have heartened and made Congressional Republicans mostly happy and left their colleagues on the other side of the aisle mostly unhappy and in many cases angry.   Following the court’s historic decisions on June 29, upending...

Huntington Beach councilors on June 26 unanimously approved a $5.4 million 2023-24 fiscal year budget—which begins July 1—after an hours-long discussion which attracted over 100 residents, many of whom were concerned about a proposal posted online the Friday before the special meeting that showed the possibility of some services being cut, including at the city’s libraries. After being alerted to...

A New York appeals court has dismissed all claims against former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump in a civil lawsuit brought by Attorney General Letitia James. The New York Appellate Division’s First Department ruled unanimously this week to dismiss claims against Ivanka Trump because they were filed too late and she was no longer part of the Trump Organization during the...

The United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union and major Democrat backer, has slammed the Biden administration for giving billions of dollars in funding for boosting electric vehicle (EV) production while traditional autoworkers would lose their jobs or be paid lower wages. “The federal government announced a massive $9.2 billion giveaway loan to Ford Motor Co. through the Department of...

Veronique de Rugy Election season is getting into gear, and that means politicians of all stripes making promises about what they’ll do for the American people if elected or reelected. I’d like to hear promises to get government out of the way and allow entrepreneurship and market competition to spur genuine and sustainable economic growth, including in the energy and...

Three retiring Republican senators—Roy Blunt of Missouri, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Richard Shelby of Alabama—received more than $1.5 billion in earmarks contained in the Omnibus Spending Bill of 2022, according to a new analysis by a nonprofit government watchdog. The Republican trio’s pork barrel projects were among the 7,506 in the bill, worth a total in excess of $16...

News Analysis Big-name politicians—such as former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and their rivals—are jockeying for positions amid a media landscape that looks a lot like the Wild West lately. High-profile shakeups have recently hit two major networks, Fox News and CNN, leaving candidates and viewers guessing the political direction each might take next. After firing conservative megastar host...

In the classified documents case, former President Donald Trump’s defense rests on a web of lies. His only lifeline is in the political arena. That’s it, Donald Trump will have to face federal criminal justice. The facts revealed in the indictment are unrelenting. Legally speaking, to quote his former Attorney General Bill Barr, Trump is “toast.” To get out of...

The U.S. Department of Transport (DOT) is awarding grants for new electric and low-emission buses in 46 U.S. states and territories for a total of about $1.7 billion. Funding for these zero- and low-emission buses comes through the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA); a $1.2 trillion bill that includes funding for public transit programs. President Joe Biden has...

LANCASTER, N.H.—As its motto suggests, the “Live Free or Die” state is already pretty friendly to liberty-minded Americans—enough that the Free State Project has enticed scads of libertarians to move there. It’s also one of the few places where a critical mass of Free Staters could influence politics. The population, though fast-growing, remains low, and its state legislature is a...

liveslow/iStock/Getty Images Plus The nation is celebrating a special anniversary today. One year ago, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal protections for abortion. SCOTUS handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, ending Roe’s 50-year reign of murder. The ruling stated, “The Constitution does not confer a right...

Luis Miguel Democrats may rail against the conservative stance on mass migration. But when forced to actually confront the realities of migration, some Democratic politicians find themselves mirroring their Republican counterparts. According to documents obtained by Politico through a public records request, New York Mayor Eric Adams has taken a page out of the books of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...

Even after being indicted in two separate criminal cases, former President Donald Trump has maintained a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in national polls of registered voters. But those same polls are showing that if Trump were to run head-to-head against the presumed 2024 Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, the two candidates would be in a statistical dead heat....

AP Images The torrent of new incriminating information against Joe Biden continues, even as his lackeys at the FBI and the Department of Justice continue to stonewall and protect him. The most incriminating new piece of evidence, which emerged on Thursday in a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, is a WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Chinese businessman and...

President Joe Biden attended an event on Friday with pro-abortion groups in Washington, marking the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 precedent that had largely legalized abortion in the United States. Speaking at the event, Biden pledged to fight to restore Roe v. Wade’s protections and make them “once again...