Lately, you may have come across articles from some members of the Legislature promoting the new property tax bills (now laws) that were passed this year. It appears they have been on a publicity tour highlighting the benefits of these new laws while criticizing those who opposed them. There were legislators, including myself, who opposed Read More…
In a political landscape often mired in hyperbole, President Donald J. Trump’s decisive actions to secure the southern border stand out as a rare and resounding success. Since taking office, Trump has delivered on his campaign promise to restore order and protect American sovereignty, transforming a chaotic border situation into one of unprecedented control. The Read More…
The 2025 Montana legislative session got off to a rocky start on day one in the Senate when a group of nine Republicans defected to collude with Democrats in a surprise maneuver to change the Senate’s rules and committee assignments giving themselves and Democrats more power. For the entire legislative session, the 9 censured Republicans joined with all Read More…
“Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.” – Marco Rubio The United States has long been a destination for freedom and opportunity for millions of men and women from around the globe. Immigration has been an essential element for the socioeconomic Read More…
Gov. Kathy Hochul finally admits the state’s “climate” goals are impossible to meet for now, but she offers no reason to trust she won’t continue to pursue them to appease green extremists, at huge cost to regular New Yorkers, if she wins re-election next year. The climate law demands the state achieve 100% zero-emission electricity Read More…
OPINION: A week after moving into the White House, President Joseph R. Biden ordered his minions at the Justice Department to arrest Hillary Clinton’s online antagonist. Douglass Mackey became the first American captured, prosecuted, convicted and nearly imprisoned over a funny picture circulated on what is now X. Count the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Read More…
New York City’s election system is badly broken — and the proposed “fixes” from Mayor Eric Adams’ Charter Revision Commission barely amount to putting new windshield wipers on a totaled wreck. Commission staffers flinch from facing the issues that skew politics far to the left, focusing instead on how low turnout in primaries lets small Read More…
Days before he turned 90 last week the Dalai Lama hurled a rhetorical hand grenade at the Chinese Communist Party. Having devoted almost the entirety of his life striving to preserve the imperiled culture and identity of Tibet — invaded and annexed by China in 1950 — the world’s most famous Buddhist monk finally confirmed Read More…
California is seeing a staggering increase in gasoline prices, and it’s all due to idiotic state policies that may also be coming to New York. On Tuesday, the campaign team of Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton posted a picture of the especially high prices at a Chevron station in Los Angeles. “Downtown L.A. – almost $8 Read More…
Last month, Fox News reported that more than 700 Iranian nationals — some flagged for terrorism concerns — had been admitted into the United States during the Biden years by US immigration authorities. Arrested while crossing our border with Mexico, they were later released by the administration into the sprawl of American life. But while Read More…
It should be this week’s biggest story: Violent assailants are targeting on-the-job federal law enforcement officials with murderous intent. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is bearing the brunt of these assaults, with aggression against ICE agents up 700% compared to the same time last year. Blame the Democrats — as their unhinged rhetoric turbocharges the Read More…
A full year (as of Sunday) after Matthew Thomas Crooks came within a hair of killing President Donald Trump, the nation still has no good answers as to the how or why of it. That is, no clear info on the would-be assassin’s motives — and no satisfactory explanation of how the Secret Service let him come so very Read More…
The Issue: Support for antisemitic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani has managed to insult multiple groups with long ties to New York City (“ ‘Zoh way he’s not a problem,’ ” July 10). Most recently, Italians were insulted by the “candidate of all the people.” This followed numerous insults against Israel and the Read More…
Democratic bigs hoping to blue-wash Zohran Mamdani’s anti-cop record are hinting that he might retain tough-on-crime NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch if he takes City Hall in November. File that under “Blowing Smoke Up Our Collective Rear Ends.” Tisch has made it clear that the drop in shootings and murders on her watch relies on tight Read More…
In 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre acidly penned the line “Hell is other people” without the benefit of ever having visited a water park. Nonetheless, “other people” are taking a beating these days. In an interview with the New York Times’ Ross Douthat last week, billionaire techno-futurist Peter Thiel struggled to answer whether he thinks humanity should continue to exist, as artificial Read More…
Even before a Russian attack drone murdered an innocent 1-year-old Wednesday and highlighted Vladimir Putin’s savagery, President Donald Trump seemed headed in the right direction on Ukraine. Moscow’s stubborn refusal to end its unprovoked war has increasingly frustrated the president, prompting him to send Kyiv much-needed arms and threatening tougher sanctions on Russia. Trump should Read More…
Eye on AI: Behind Grok’s Racist Debacle Racists and trolls smirked when Elon Musk’s Grok AI was caught “propagating antisemitic talking points, fantasizing about rape, and blaming Mossad for the death of Jeffrey Epstein,” notes Mary Harrington at UnHerd, but the tech-besotted fallacy here is the faith that “a big enough pattern-recognition engine will converge Read More…
Should a mayor have a foreign policy? It’s a curious thing to have. After all, a mayor might have some control over the police force. But they don’t have F-15s or B-2 bombers at their command. So why do certain candidates talk as though they do? This week the Democratic front-runner for mayor of this Read More…
The Issue: The National Education Association cuts ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The National Education Association’s outrageous decision to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League — the nation’s oldest civil-rights organization — is a triumph for anti-Jewish bigotry and hate (“NEA ax on ADL,” July 9). In the aftermath of the worst mass slaughter of Read More…
The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers’ union, enjoys a rare privilege: a federal charter, granted by Congress in 1906 — the only labor union to hold that distinction. But leaked resolutions from its 2025 annual meeting, shared with us by a dismayed union member, reveal an organization that has traded its educational mission for Read More…
The New York Times’ lead headline Thursday was outright, deceptive fearmongering: “Why 1.5 Million New Yorkers Could Lose Health Insurance Under Trump Bill.” Yet the story was little more than a rewrite of Democratic campaign releases. For starters, many of its figures come from health-care bosses and state officials ever eager to maximize their take Read More…
If you’ve signed up for Pilates recently, your fascism is showing through your cute matching leggings and sports bra set. And that jogging habit you picked up during the last election cycle? You need to look yourself in the mirror, you authoritarian scum. That’s the only takeaway from MaryBeth Monaco-Vavrik, a barre instructor and fitness Read More…
President Donald Trump is facing a pivotal decision: whether to ease national restrictions on marijuana, a policy shift he hinted at during his 2024 campaign. President Donald Trump is facing a pivotal decision: whether to ease national restrictions on marijuana, a policy shift he hinted at during his 2024 campaign. But a major federal bust Read More…
Masked protesters march down city streets, specifically in Jewish neighborhoods, chanting in support of Hamas: It’s intimidation as twisted as a Klan rally in a black area. That’s why Mayor Eric Adams wants a city ban on masked public demonstrations — and pretty obviously why the City Council is resisting. The same ban was statewide Read More…
Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This claim: “[ICE is] kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps.” — Tiffany Cross on CNN, Tuesday We say: No wonder even far-left MSNBC had to boot Cross. ICE doesn’t “kidnap” people: It arrests those who enter the country illegally; many have criminal records. More From Post Read More…
OPINION: More than 100 people died in the recent flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country. After hours of torrential downpours Friday, the waters of the Guadalupe River surged 30 feet in a torrent that swept away everything in its path, including a Christian summer camp located along the river and a nearby creek. Capitalizing Read More…
The national conversation around cannabis has shifted dramatically in the last few years. What was once a fringe issue is now a mainstream discussion, with a broad consensus emerging across the political spectrum: it’s time for federal cannabis policy to catch up with the reality on the ground in America. The proposed rescheduling of cannabis Read More…
OPINION: Defiance of court orders sets a bad precedent for the rule of law. Sometimes, however, following an order like the one issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani could lead to even worse outcomes. Without bothering to listen to the other side, the Boston-based magistrate, appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, Read More…
OPINION: The world’s richest man is annoyed at President Trump. Elon Musk says the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill’s excessive spending levels have compelled him to become a political spoiler. He’s forming the America Party as a “moderate” voice for fiscal sanity. It’s correct to say elected Democrats and many Republicans aren’t serious about Read More…
OPINION: Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only one engaged in dirty tricks against then candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. An analysis released last week by the Central Intelligence Agency admits the intelligence community’s December 2016 assessment of Russian interference in the election was the product of political manipulation. On Dec. 6 that year, Read More…
OPINION: Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only one engaged in dirty tricks against then candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. An analysis released last week by the Central Intelligence Agency admits the intelligence community’s December 2016 assessment of Russian interference in the election was the product of political manipulation. On Dec. 6 that year, Read More…
OPINION: Earlier this year, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders outlawed anti-competitive practices in the pharmacy industry, and lobbyists are hopping mad about it. There are many reasons drug prices are inflated, but she realized some of the biggest retailers have figured out how to game the system. “These massive corporations are attacking our state because Read More…
OPINION: One year from today, America will observe its semiquincentennial. That’s a milestone worth celebrating, as few forms of government have lasted 250 years. Our republic’s longevity is a testament to the truth of the propositions set forth in 1776. Donald Trump will rise to the occasion. When the Army knocked on his door, saying Read More…
OPINION: The judicial resistance sustained a major setback last week. Thanks to a long-overdue Supreme Court intervention, lone judges can no longer hold the nation hostage to their whims. In the 5½ months since President Trump’s second term began, Justice Amy Coney Barrett sat on the sidelines with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Their Read More…
OPINION: Sometimes the desert can turn into a swamp. It happened last week in Phoenix, when Arizona politicians gathered for the end of the legislative session to tell their constituents one thing before proceeding to do the opposite. There’s no better example of legislative legerdemain than the state House’s decision, by a 34-22 vote, to Read More…
OPINION: President Trump is on a roll. By Friday, the stock market had recaptured the value lost after traders sustained a severe case of tariff jitters. A successful strike against Iran’s nuclear development sites ended with a ceasefire. And the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cleared Senate procedural hurdles Sunday. These victories are precarious, as Read More…
OPINION: The Big Apple is one step closer to electing a radical leftist mayor. In the Democratic primary Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani won the byzantine ranked choice contest where an algorithm says he defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. That means the 33-year-old newcomer will face Mayor Eric Adams in November’s general election. “As mayor, I will Read More…
OPINION: Europe’s decline into authoritarianism was on display in Belgium last week as an appeals court condemned a former member of the Federal Parliament to a year in jail over internet memes. The politician, Dries Van Langenhove, wasn’t even the one who shared the offending content. As the appellate panel stated, “It is not the Read More…
OPINION: Following the law shouldn’t be a one-way street. Liberal pundits and politicians brand President Trump an “authoritarian” for his supposed disobedience to judicial rulings. Except, the president’s men have thus far scrupulously complied with the text of every federal court command, no matter how daft. A lower-level judge has devised a strategy to put Read More…
OPINION: An unelected functionary wields enormous influence over the fate of major legislation. Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian, is using her clout to veto key elements of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That needs to stop. Ms. MacDonough has advised the Senate on procedural matters since Majority Leader Harry Reid appointed her in Read More…
OPINION: President Trump is at his best when he is making peace, but he opted for war on Saturday. Operation Midnight Hammer slipped seven B-2 stealth bombers into Iranian airspace, where they dropped 400,000 pounds of bunker-busting munitions that leveled the Islamic republic’s most advanced military research facilities. “Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s Read More…
OPINION: President Trump’s brief quarrel with former ally Elon Musk was an unfortunate distraction. Disagreements are inevitable between strong-willed leaders with unique visions of who they are and what they want to accomplish. Democrats wish they had a clear idea of who they are. Party officials recently spent $20 million to run a focus group Read More…
OPINION: Senate squishes are watering down the president’s plan for America’s fiscal future. The Senate Finance Committee recently released its revision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed the House last month, and it’s not an improvement. Conservatives already underwhelmed by the net savings in the lower chamber’s reconciliation measure aren’t happy about Read More…
OPINION: Donald Trump’s election prompted a competition among liberal jurists. Each seeks to one-up the other in devising more outlandish proclamations that signal resistance to the 47th president’s authority. The latest such edict forces executive acceptance of “X” as a valid identifier of someone’s sex. If Tuesday’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Julia E. Read More…