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…
After yet another epic weekend of teen gun crime in Albany, local Democrats are implicitly admitting that longtime District Attorney David Soares was right after all — a year after the party machine ousted him for refusing to shut up about how state “reforms” fuel the violence. Amid generally slamming overbroad criminal-justice changes for New Read More…
Travelers rejoice: The TSA is finally nixing its stupid shoe rule. After forcing us all to remove roughly 100 million pieces of footwear these past 19 years. To no real point, except security theater. Period. The Transportation Security Administration geniuses only imposed the rule years after the “shoe bomber” failed, maybe simply to distract us all Read More…
President Donald Trump is resuming shipments of defensive weapons to Ukraine, just days after the Pentagon paused them. Smart move. Trump was “very disappointed” with Russia’s chief thugocrat, Vladimir Putin, after their call last week: “It just seems like he wants to . . . keep killing people.” Indeed, Putin on Friday followed the call Read More…
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The Issue: The cause of flash-flooding fatalities in Texas, with many on the left blaming President Trump. Democrats have become the scum of the earth (“Deranged Demonizers,” Editorial, July 8). Sen. Chuck Schumer and cohorts are blaming President Trump for the Texas flooding. They have no decency, and should all be removed from office. Bill 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OPINION: Donald Trump took the fateful escalator ride that changed the course of the world 10 years ago. As he descended with his wife, Melania, a supportive crowd lined the Trump Tower lobby and offered encouragement as he announced his presidential ambition. “Well, you need somebody, because politicians are all talk, no action. Nothing’s going Read More…
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…
OPINION: Democrats held a “No Kings” party Saturday, and no kings showed up. The highly organized, dark-money-funded protest movement made little impression because the general public realized we had discarded the remnants of Britain’s monarchy 250 years ago. The nationwide stunt was set up as a mean-spirited distraction from the grand parade President Trump arranged Read More…
OPINION: Israel leveled Iranian nuclear ambitions Thursday evening. Waves of airstrikes apparently left the Natanz Nuclear Facility a smoldering ruin while taking out the regime’s top scientists and military leaders. President Trump had warned the Islamic republic’s commanders to take a deal to avoid this fate. “I told them it would be much worse than Read More…