Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst. The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 100 people, including over two dozen children at a Read More…

Decent Americans are grieving the loss of so many lives, and so many young lives, in Friday’s Texas flooding — but unhinged lefties insist on politicizing the horror, working out their resentments or trying to blame President Donald Trump. A sick, racist former Houston mayoral appointee, Sade Perkins, called  Camp Mystic, one hard-hit site, a Read More…

At least Willie Sutton was being humble when he declared, “I rob banks because that’s where the money is”; Gov. Kathy Hochul is now boasting about her version of the same insight. That is, the gov’s congratulating herself for raking in big bucks from her “congestion” tolls — hundreds of millions as the scheme hits the Read More…

Elon Musk’s brain is grinding gears at high rev, doing no one any favors. Since stepping away from his DOGE work, he’s been in and out of public hysteria, even devolving into a full-on meltdown. His latest eruption centers on launching a third party — an idea that last worked in 1858 and only because Read More…

Uncharacteristically, Elon Musk is doing a dumb thing.  His threat this weekend to launch a third national party, based on his disappointment at President Donald Trump’s failure to eliminate the deficit, is likely to be a disaster — for him, and for America. To be sure, it’s risky to bet against Elon.  He’s a once-in-a-millennium Read More…

Want to report a case of child abuse? Better be prepared to give your name and phone number, too. The state Legislature last month passed a bill that would outlaw anonymous reports to the state’s central hotline for child abuse and neglect. The bill now awaits Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature.  But the governor should think Read More…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a massive package of tax relief, more funding for immigration enforcement, and savings from entitlement changes — is now law, and it’s a triumph not only for President Donald Trump but for the whole Republican Party. The GOP passed two make-or-break tests here: one of party discipline, the Read More…

The Issue: President Trump signing the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law upon congressional approval. The passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the eve of Independence Day is poetic justice (“A great ‘sign’ for America,” July 5). Slowly but surely, President Trump is steamrolling over the anti-American rhetoric of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Read More…

Libertarian: Zohran Just Played Colleges’ Game “If you want to be mad at someone” over news that Uganda-born Zohran Mamdani checked the box for “black or African American” on his 2009 Columbia application, “be mad at colleges that incentivize applicants to be misleading about their skin pigmentation because false value is assigned to it,” argues Read More…

So many brash and contradictory assertions have been hurled at the Democrat’s shiny new mayoral candidate for New York City, Zohran Mamdani, that his nickname should be “Notorious Z.” Is Mamdani the youthful, charismatic face of the future for the Democratic Party? Is he a gift to the Republicans? Is he, as some conservatives insist, Read More…

Zohran Mamdani may be a lightweight in his own right, but as mayor he’d bring an entire extremist movement along with him to City Hall, with dire consequences for the city. Mamdani can hedge and haw all he likes, but he’s the face of a truly radical movement, the Democratic Socialists of America — which Read More…

Forgive us for finding real comedy in how Zohran Mamdani’s rise is making the Democratic establishment squirm. Onetime “New Democrat” Bill Clinton, who won the White House by breaking with the party’s left, now has had to lead the parade of folks congratulating Mamdani on winning the Democratic primary — without actually endorsing him. Oh, Read More…

Liberal: Democrats Still Clueless In the “half a year since their catastrophic loss to their arch-nemesis Trump,” frets the Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, Democrats’ “favorability rating is still dreadful, they have only a modest lead in the generic congressional vote for 2026” and their chances of “taking back the Senate are slim.” The “drive to reinvent Read More…

Liberals and progressives are celebrating Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory as proof that New York City is ready for a “democratic socialist” revolution. They’re badly in need of a history lesson: Every socialist revolution has failed and set back the goals it meant to accomplish. Everywhere it has been tried, socialism has meant economic decay Read More…

A Manhattan courthouse became a crime scene last month when a man with multiple open criminal cases slashed two law enforcement officers in the neck and face — inside the very building where justice is supposed to be enforced. Not on the subway. Not in the street. In the courthouse itself. It’s hard to imagine a Read More…

Elon Musk has repeatedly achieved the impossible, but not even he and his Department of Government Efficiency could tame Washington, DC, and its massive federal bureaucracy.  Yet there’s still hope — and the need has never been more urgent. The Senate parliamentarian gutted major cost savings at the heart of the Republican reconciliation bill that President Read More…

The Issue: President Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center in the Everglades. Is that what Dems think a concentration camp is (“Peek into ‘Swamp cooler,’ ” July 2)? The main component of concentration camps were the gas chambers. Alligator Alcatraz has air conditioning. This is a good place for the ICE rioters to go. I love Read More…

A putrid plea dealI’m both disgusted and mystified by the plea deal offered to Bryan Kohberger (“Surprise plea deal in Idaho coed slays,” July 1).Although a plea deal in itself is understandable, as it spares the time and cost of a lengthy trial and eliminates any chances of appeal, what I don’t get is why Read More…

President Donald Trump last month got Canada to kill a blatantly unfair tax on US-based companies, but the fight against foreign meddling in America’s tech industry has a long way to go. Canada’s Digital Services Tax was set to slap companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Uber and Airbnb with a 3% levy on revenue from Read More…

For all his radicalism, Zohran Mamdani’s program is often as vaporous as steam wafting from a Midtown manhole. It’s a lot more about vibes than about delivering real change. His city-owned grocery store scheme, for starters, is almost entirely symbolic — not any real answer to the price-gouging he and his fans pretends is common Read More…