A White House staffer leaked President Donald Trump’s private schedules to Axios on Sunday, and the documents revealed some eye-opening details about the president’s day. For one, Trump spends the bulk of his workdays in “executive time” — unstructured blocks of time that make up 60% of his working hours. According to Axios, Trump spends Read More…
This week the governor gave an address in which he outlined his plan to tax and spend on the backs of working Montana families. He would like to cushion his state checkbook to the tune of $300 million by taking $150 million from Montanans’ checking accounts and putting it into his state checking account. Montanans Read More…
In November, Montana’s voters rejected renewal of the Medicaid-expansion welfare program (hereinafter “MedEx”), consigning its fate to the Legislature in the 2019 session. Even though the subject may sound boring, taxpayers should pay close attention these next few months, since big money is at stake and the program dis-incentivizes work and self-sufficiency. Medicaid itself Read More…
As former House Speakers and Senate Presidents of the Montana Legislature, we question the wisdom of making significant changes to the rules of operation in the Montana House. Currently, there is a group of legislators trying to change the House rules. One of the proposed changes would allow a simple majority (51 members) to “blast” Read More…
Will Jussie’s backers admit they were wrong? Police sources believe that, as many had suspected, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett perpetrated an enormous hoax on the American public by staging a phony hate crime. Now we’re waiting for apologies from the celebrities and top Democrats who not only expressed sympathy for the supposed victim of violent Read More…
Next Sunday’s Oscars marks two awards cycles since the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements, yet so much change in Hollywood seems not just cosmetic but self-serving. Take Elisabeth Moss, who last year won a Golden Globe for her work in the feminist dystopian drama “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Moss used her acceptance speech to thank the Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON — Is there a way for the United States and its allies to remain in northeastern Syria, even after President Trump’s pledged withdrawal of U.S. military forces there? Officials are struggling to devise such a “workaround” strategy, but it could carry more risks than keeping the existing advisory force. Read More…
| Posted: Feb 17, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Can we blame U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), really? Being ambitious and bold are not usually considered bad things. And her most ambitious, boldest proposal is not exactly without precedent. A decade of Read More…
| Posted: Feb 17, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. With the confirmation of William Barr as the new U.S. Attorney General, there is hope that the Department of Justice (DOJ) can regain some of its reputation that has been lost in Read More…
| Posted: Feb 17, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. There have been some people elected in Europe and South America who have been branded by the MSM not only as populists but harboring dangerous attitudes toward democracy despite being elected in Read More…
| Posted: Feb 17, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. A.O.C.: This week saw a twenty-nine-year-old Congressperson celebrate Queens, New York losing at least 25,000 future high paying jobs. She claimed credit for and celebrated the decision of Amazon not to move Read More…
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe will be on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, and you can expect to see stories on him and his new book for days. You can also expect McCabe to portray himself as an upright lawman who stood up to President Donald Trump out of fear that the Russians Read More…
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced he would declare the situation at the border to be a national emergency to enable him to move previously allocated money to fund a border wall. This was a long-telegraphed punch that had already sent leftists and some Republicans clutching their pearls since the idea was first floated weeks Read More…
Sioux County is probably the most Christian county in all of Iowa. “In a town of 7,000 people — 19 churches,” Jordan Helming, a local resident, tells me. The county has the highest portion of evangelicals in the state and an even higher rate of mainline Protestants, according to the Association of Religious Data Archives. Read More…
Congratulations, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! You just killed 25,000 jobs for urban Democrats in one of the most racially and ethnically diverse areas in the entire world! Congresswoman AOC, the thought leader of the Democratic party, was the loudest and feistiest political opponent when Amazon announced it would build (half of) its second headquarters in Long Island Read More…
A few years ago, a college sophomore in upstate New York learned that his father was in the ICU after suffering a heart attack. During a “gavel session,” a fraternity ritual during which members took turns sharing personal matters, he told his chapter the news. “Things weren’t looking good. At 19 and especially around a Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money. The justices agreed Friday to a speedy review of a Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” the young Karl Marx proclaimed, “[P]hilosophers have only hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it” (emphasis in original). Mission statements of several of our preeminent colleges and universities follow suit. The primary purpose of liberal education, according to these Read More…
Donald Trump has a lot of things going for him, a sense of humor, a willingness to say whatever is on his mind, but his best asset is his ability to turn his opponents into absolute idiots. There used to be something called the Monster Raving Loony Party in Britain, and that’s what the Democrats Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON — We have a national emergency, all right. Its name is Donald Trump, and it is a force of mindless, pointless disruption. The president’s decision to officially declare an emergency — to pretend to build an unbuildable border wall — is not only an act of constitutional vandalism. It Read More…
The story of capitalism since the 1980s has been that of a kind of cold war between capital and politics. Politics and capital have a relationship that is both adversarial and symbiotic. There are not very many anarcho-capitalists in America’s (or the world’s) boardrooms; access to such public goods as independent judiciaries and reliable infrastructure Read More…
The House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Trump administration’s policy toward Venezuela this week descended into farce when controversial freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) attempted to steer debate toward 30-year-old events elsewhere in Latin America. In a cheap attempt to discredit special envoy Elliott Abrams, a long-time foreign-policy practitioner who served in the Reagan Read More…
Sen. Cory Booker wants to wage war on . . . meat and dairy. The longtime vegan told VegNews, “We’ve seen this massive increase in consumption of meat produced by the industrial animal agriculture industry. The tragic reality is this planet simply can’t sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture.” Bull. When they Read More…
Amazon’s pullout Thursday wasn’t even the worst economic development news for Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week: Just two days earlier, his economic development czar basically admitted that the gov’s signature Buffalo Billion is a . . . Buffalo Bust. In testimony Tuesday, Empire State Development boss Howard Zemsky tried to put a positive spin on it, but Read More…
All the noise about President Trump triggering a “constitutional crisis” with Friday’s declaration of a national emergency on the border is beyond absurd: The move is completely legal, even if it is a grim sign of how dysfunctional America’s democracy has gotten. Presidents have declared about six “national emergencies” a term, going back to Jimmy Read More…
George Washington was lauded as “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” in the words of Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee. But even our nation’s first president couldn’t prevail over the desire for a three-day weekend. Washington’s birthday, which falls on Feb. 22, was celebrated for decades on the actual day. But Read More…
| Posted: Feb 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Back in November, I predicted all this. I wrote my most controversial column. After the GOP lost the House, I predicted the big winner of the November midterms would be … President Read More…
| Posted: Feb 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Congress and President Donald J. Trump are at odds over his power to use a declaration of an emergency to build a wall on the southern border of the United States. Many Read More…
| Posted: Feb 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. It’s no secret the federal government reigns supreme when it comes to wasting our taxpayer dollars. And we’re not talking about the “one man’s trash, another man’s treasure” sort of maxims here Read More…
| Posted: Feb 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Here is the problem for Trump critics. They began with the wrong premise. They believed that Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election. Then they deluded themselves by embracing the Read More…
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a Somalian-born Muslim, is plainly hostile to Israel. But her Twitter messages of Sunday evening, February 10, calling into question the legitimacy of Israel, a reliable U.S. ally, were way out of bounds. To their credit, Democratic Party leaders issued a written rebuke. They now should take action. The controversy revolves Read More…
| Posted: Feb 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. At least one good thing came from Amazon pulling a $2.5 billion plan for new headquarters—it was a good business decision for Amazon. It will likely be in Amazon’s best interest to Read More…
| Posted: Feb 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Since President Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States in 2015, and mentioned, for the first time, his intention to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, the wall Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON — President Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “red line” that people may have overlooked the outrageousness of his claim. But this self-declared immunity is about to change. We’re entering a new phase of the Trump-Russia investigation, where Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Both of America’s great national parties are coalitions. But it is the Democratic Party that never ceases to celebrate diversity — racial, religious, ethnic, cultural — as its own and as America’s “greatest strength.” Understandably so, for the party is home to a multitude of minorities. It is the domain Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles One of the more intriguing findings in how the media covered President Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this month was the way last year’s focus on “immigration” gave way to this year’s focus on “borders” and “walls.” This raises the question of just when the media conversation shifted Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles She tweeted that “men are not women,” and for that, Meghan Murphy, feminist journalist, was banned from Twitter. An anodyne statement of biological reality qualifies as “hate speech” for some of the gnomes at Twitter HQ. Murphy received a rote notification that “you may not promote violence against, threaten, or Read More…
Conservative: Trump Taking a Huge Risk on the Wall Declaring a national emergency to get the money for his border wall is “a huge gamble” for President Trump, declares Henry Olsen at The Washington Post. Though it will “surely delight his base,” it also risks “reinforcing negative views of him among the voters he needs Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles In 2016, I dissented. I said that, even though I had been an elected Republican, I could not support Donald Trump for president. I found him to be an amoral man and an unprincipled politician. I was and remain horrified by Christian voters who rally to the man as some Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles First they came for your wallet. Now Democrats want your car and your hamburgers — making summer cookouts a thing of the past. But those aren’t the only liberties the left wants to abolish in the name of fighting climate change. Radical liberals led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar — someone who had previously argued that Jews hypnotized the world regarding their “evil” deeds — recently claimed that Americans only support Israel because of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s “Benjamins” — and then retweeted a person pointing out that she Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Most Republicans saw it coming for weeks. After taking a beating from his base for losing his shutdown fight against Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Trump was determined to regain his footing. Building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was the singular promise that defined his 2016 campaign — and declaring Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON (AP) — What is happening to the Democrats? Captivated by a handful of liberal superstars, they are venturing where the party has long feared to tread: Steep taxes on the rich. Abolishing an immigration enforcement agency. Proposing “economic transformation” to combat climate change. Gleefully waving goodbye to a big Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant in the face of a stinging budget defeat, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Friday to get more federal dollars for his long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, relying on a broad interpretation of his powers that was certain to trigger stiff legal challenges. Bypassing Read More…