The tourism industry in Montana is booming and it’s easy to understand why. Montana is the best place to explore over a million acres of wilderness filled with glacier-carved terrain, crystal clear rivers, and 400-foot waterfalls all in between breathtaking mountain ranges. The sightseeing alone draws millions to the state every year. During the winter, Read More…
While California may have a population nearly forty times greater than Montana, utility consumers are still subject to the same vulnerabilities. With current technology, the best way to protect utility customers from an energy shortage is through an increase in available, reliable, baseload power. Out-of-state and foreign interests are applying increased pressure on lawmakers, Read More…
They said it couldn’t be done. A Liberian refugee who escaped a civil war could never be elected to office. And certainly couldn’t do it in Montana. They do not know Montana. They do not know America. Where if you dream, and if you work hard, anything is possible. I may not look or Read More…
There is little less unifying than our collective hate of robocalls. It’s a bipartisan issue, and unwanted calls, by far, elicit the most complaints to the Federal Communications Commission. I often receive as many robocalls over the course of a day as regular calls. And, in recent months, it has only gotten worse. For everyone. Read More…
Dina Titus and Brian Mast, Opinion contributor Published 3:15 a.m. ET July 16, 2019 CLOSE The VA has done these barbaric tests for decades with no discernible benefits in many years. It should stop hurting dogs and start helping veterans. Few members of the public are aware that the federal government uses taxpayer money to hurt Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Peter Meijer’s decision to run for Congress in Western Michigan was a surprise to no one who knows the 31-year-old Grand Rapids native. He is the great-grandson of Hendrik Meijer, who opened a tiny thrift store attached to his barbershop during the Great Depression, which has Read More…
So my favorite newspaper wants Gov. Andrew Cuomo to drag Mayor Bill de Blasio out of City Hall and drop him on the curb — and, man, wouldn’t that be glorious! Think Gov. Godzilla vs. Mayor Mothra, with ’Zilla ripping off ’Ra’s wings in the opening credits — then endlessly torturing the big fella just Read More…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority released a draft of its “transformation plan” Friday. On surface, the report isn’t transformative. An eighth-grade business class could have put it together. But it helps Gov. Andrew Cuomo further conquer the MTA to avoid dealing with the issues an independent MTA leader would force him to confront. The report, prepared Read More…
Thank goodness the woke police weren’t around when my Chinese-born wife and I traveled to her homeland in 2014 for our Chinese wedding — else I’d have been found guilty of “cultural appropriation” for dressing up in Chinese-style costumes for our wedding photos. Just ask Rihanna. The wokesters are ripping her for donning traditional Asian Read More…
Beto O’Rourke — the losing Texas candidate for the US Senate who bootstrapped his way into becoming a losing presidential candidate — had a message for refugees who had come to America: Your new country is a hellhole. The former congressman told a roundtable of refugees and immigrants in Nashville last week: “This country was Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Democrats dissatisfied with the contents of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election can’t seem to resist the temptation to pry off the lid of Pandora’s box. Craving the key to impeaching President Trump, they risk the danger of refusing to let bad enough alone. Their obstinacy could ultimately serve Read More…
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“Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake,” Napoleon said. It’s a lesson neither President Trump nor “The Squad” seems to have learned. Going into the weekend, the press was chock-full of stories about the Democratic civil war. Nancy Pelosi sniped at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, progressives disparaged “moderates.” Republicans were popping popcorn, watching Read More…
In blasting Con Ed for Saturday night’s blackout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is staying true to form — playing the tough guy riding to the rescue. “This is not the first time with Con Ed,” fumed the gov after the five-hour West Side outage. It “does not have a franchise granted by God”; it “could be Read More…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo tossed a few zingers Mayor Bill de Blasio’s way Monday but wouldn’t say more than that he “understands” our call for a firing. We certainly realize that it would be a bold step — but we can’t help but notice that having such a weak mayor serves the gov pretty nicely. Historically, Read More…
The Editorial Board, USA TODAY Published 8:01 p.m. ET July 15, 2019 | Updated 8:10 p.m. ET July 15, 2019 CLOSE The president has all but declared that he will redefine the Republican Party as one of white grievance against a changing America: Our view In the not so distant past, politicians would reach racist Read More…
Tyranny can arrive fast in the form of tanks and jackboots. Or it can come gradually, snuffing out liberty and replacing it with fear. The latter is what we’re facing today, as cultural Marxists advance their doctrines and silence any dissension. Each day brings new examples, but here are a few that show Read More…
| Posted: Jul 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Having been chosen by President Donald J. Trump as Representative of the United States to the General Assembly of the United Nations was the greatest honor of my life. His trust in Read More…
Let’s begin with some items that are not exactly news bulletins: President Donald Trump does not communicate conservatism in the fashion of a William F. Buckley or a Charles Krauthammer. He prefers the punches of a brawler to the scalpel of a surgeon as he takes aim at critics. This style is precisely why he Read More…
| Posted: Jul 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Peter Meijer’s decision to run for Congress in Western Michigan was a surprise to no one who knows the 31-year-old Grand Rapids native. He is the great-grandson of Read More…
| Posted: Jul 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. No one in the year 1870 could have guessed how wonderful it would be in America 150 years later. Who could have predicted there would be cars, jets, electric lights, air conditioning, Read More…
You had to be there 50 years ago, and I was. As a young reporter for a local TV station in Houston, I frequently visited NASA (“the space base,” we dubbed it), met many of the astronauts and reported on their exploits. Along with people from around the world, I watched the lunar landing on Read More…
| Posted: Jul 16, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever the sport, I have always rooted American. But if those who called into my radio show Read More…
President Donald Trump’s playground taunt Sunday that “the Squad” of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” dominated Monday morning’s headlines. Yet those headlines smothered the deeper story. The Democrats are today using language to describe Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Sen. Amy Klobuchar is the first Democrat to say she’ll be poised to nominate a full slate of qualified judges on the first day of her presidency, though she’s not naming names for the time being. The admission, which Klobuchar made Monday in an NPR podcast, comes after conservative and Read More…
From the right: Meet AOC’s Brain Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “cadre of far-left first-termers known as ‘the Squad’ ” have been at the center of “increasingly acrimonious infighting” among House Democrats, notes David Catron at The American Spectator. But the true “prime mover” behind the chaos is one Saikat Chakrabarti, the co-founder of Justice Read More…
CLOSE As an immigrant, I’ve heard the ‘go back’ drumbeat for years. How can conservatives stand idly by when Trump tweets as much? Are they just as racist? President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, on April 5, 2019, in Washington. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP) President Read More…
| Posted: Jul 15, 2019 5:00 PM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. First of two parts Toxic partisanship in the United States is not a new problem. In 1796, President George Washington was so distressed by the way America was splitting into two political Read More…
CLOSE I grew up among immigrants and their children and grandchildren. In some way, we ALL did. How does the president not grasp that? President Donald Trump waves to supporters at the 128th Refueling Wing in Milwaukee. (Photo: Colin Boyle / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) President Donald Trump managed in a single tweet storm to be racist, Read More…
| Posted: Jul 15, 2019 3:00 PM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. The congressional appropriations process is both complex and complicated. Of the 12 annual appropriations bills debated and negotiated in Congress, defense appropriations account for several hundred billion dollars of taxpayer spending each Read More…
| Posted: Jul 15, 2019 2:13 PM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Big Music has a lot of nerve. After donating millions to far-left Democrats and threatening to sue the Trump campaign for playing popular music despite its holding the necessary license, two of Read More…
CLOSE Opinion: I grew up among immigrants and their children and grandchildren. In some way, we ALL did. How does the president not grasp that? President Donald Trump waves to supporters at the 128th Refueling Wing in Milwaukee. (Photo: Colin Boyle / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) President Donald Trump managed in a single tweet storm to be Read More…
| Posted: Jul 15, 2019 2:03 PM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. President Trump schooled Democrats once again last month with the announcement by his Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, that the Obama-era Gainful Employment Rule (GER) is being scrapped. The decision was made late Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Amy McInerney at first saw Joe Biden as Democrats’ best hope to beat President Donald Trump — an experienced politician with the potential to peel off some of Trump’s working-class supporters. Then she heard Pete Buttigieg speak. “I felt like Pete more represented my generation,” said Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Joe Biden is taking an aggressive approach to defending the Affordable Care Act, challenging not just President Donald Trump but also some of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination who want to replace the current insurance system with a fully government-run model. The former vice president will spend much of the Read More…
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggested the president “knock it down a notch” and “aim higher” with his comments on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other progressive members of her squad in a Monday morning interview on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.” “Aim higher. We don’t need to know anything about them personally. Talk about Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Good morning, it’s Monday, July 15, 2019. Forty years ago today, as inflation raged, high interest rates choked the U.S. economy, and an oil embargo by OPEC generated record-high fuel prices, the president of the United States felt the need to address the American people. His popularity plummeting, Jimmy Carter wanted Read More…
| Posted: Jul 15, 2019 11:26 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. The 2020 presidential campaign has begun in earnest. President Trump has officially launched his campaign for re-election, and 20 Democrats running for their party’s nomination have participated in the first primary debate. Read More…
| Posted: Jul 15, 2019 10:25 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a massive blow to legislatures that fell under the influence of none other than Big Alcohol itself. The Bench struck down Tennessee’s two-year in-state Read More…
Everyone who flies has been through it. The long lines. Emptying pockets. Removing your belt and/or jewelry. Taking laptops and electronics out of your suitcases or bags. Having your bag randomly searched or, worse, being subjected to a “random” body patdown. If you’re at a large airport, maybe you’ll get lucky and a bomb-sniffing dog Read More…
There is a national outcry over the president’s tweets directed at “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all). . . .” From Hillary Clinton to rank and Read More…
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, is it crazy that men would try to avoid being alone with women they don’t know? Robert Foster, a state representative in Mississippi who is running for governor, got into hot water last week after he denied journalist Larrison Campbell’s request for a 15-hour “ride along” with his Read More…
Three months ago, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system that serves San Francisco and surrounding counties launched a “blitz” to deter morning rush-hour fare evasion at four stations. The results were startling: Proof-of-payment citations rose 13 percent, new ticket sales rose 10 percent, add-value transactions to existing tickets rose 29 percent and, most significantly, average Read More…