The biggest disappointment of the recent legislative session was the failure of lawmakers to pass a new tax to help fund education. Blame it all on the Senate. Rep. Jerry Obermueller (R-Casper) sponsored a corporate income tax and the House passed it by a wide margin. The upper chamber, however, was too intimidated by big Read More…
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox, who will be term-limited next year, ended speculation about his future a few weeks ago by announcing his candidacy for governor in 2020. What some are still wondering, however, is which party’s banner Fox will ultimately fly. Especially after yesterday. Fox ran as a Republican in his prior AG races Read More…
As speaker of the House, it is a goal of mine to have unity within the Republican Caucus and a positive working relationship with the minority party. At the halfway point of the 66th legislative session, we are hitting those marks. Another goal of this session, was to put the K-12 funding bill on the Read More…
For a decade or more, our Montana Legislature has grappled with the increasing need to renovate both Romney Hall on the Montana State campus in Bozeman and the Montana Historical Society museum facility in Helena. A compelling case has been made for both these projects, but they have repeatedly come up just short of Read More…
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Last weekend, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s transit riders and bridge and tunnel toll payers saw a fare hike — and drivers soon will have to pay a “congestion fee” to enter core Manhattan. Yet this new money barely makes a dent: The MTA still faces a half-billion budget deficit next year, doubling by 2022. Though Read More…
The Material Girl has run out of material. Madonna, now 60 and promoting her new album, “Madame X,” has done the unprecedented: Rather than conjure up a brand-new alter ego, she’s simply mashed up her most iconic looks and swanned out the door. Here’s the thing: They haven’t aged well. And neither has Madonna. Why Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Fifty-three percent of voters believe political corruption is a crisis in the United States, while another 36% believe it is a significant problem but not a crisis. That’s consistent with other ScottRasmussen.com polling data showing that 87% of voters nationwide believe corruption is widespread in the federal government. Solid majorities Read More…
New Yorkers awoke on April 15 to the alarming news that police had shot and killed a man in The Bronx who charged at the officers with a knife and a stick. They attempted to use a Taser on the charging man, Kawaski Trawick, but that didn’t stop his advances. As more details emerged about Read More…
No one enjoys getting impeached, and if it happens to him, President Trump will be no exception. On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine any potential target of impeachment in Anglo-American history relishing the fight more than Trump would. He would rather be done with the Mueller investigation in all its permutations, but there Read More…
Let’s set the record straight. Jesus was a Galilean Jew, not a Palestinian Muslim. He celebrated Passover, not Ramadan, and he was called “Rabbi” not “Imam.” His followers were named Yaakov and Yochanan and Yehudah, not Muhammad and Abdullah and Khalid. And he himself had one of the most common Jewish names of the day: Read More…
Even before launching his 2020 presidential bid, Joe Biden knelt at the altar of identity grievance. He will kneel and kneel some more through the campaign. None of it will be enough, and he is destined to be mauled by the modern left’s grievance-mongers. The “woke” social-justice movement rules today’s Democrats, and the party’s candidates Read More…
As cities around the world move to driverless trains, state Sen. Kevin Parker wants to require at least two workers aboard every New York train. In the city, most subway trains have two-man crews, as the Transport Workers Union has beaten back every effort to even experiment with cutting back to one — let alone Read More…
| Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:23 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. With Tax Day in the rearview mirror, any proposed legislation to reform the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is unlikely to attract much fanfare. But, the Taxpayer First Act of 2019, sponsored Read More…
| Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:19 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Last week it was reported that an “armed militia group” had detained a group of illegal migrants crossing the United States southern border. The story said the militia group held the illegal Read More…
Late Thursday, Team de Blasio backed off on pulling the plug on a 23-year tradition of flying foreign flags in city parks — but the reversal simply bolsters the charge that it was petty political payback. Since 1996, Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan has used a second flagpole, erected with city permission, to fly Read More…
Despite having surpassed the sixth month anniversary of Justice Kavanaugh being officially sworn onto the Supreme Court, Democrats are actively plotting, scheming and executing a ritual defamation campaign designed to undermine, and ultimately destroy, the Constitutionally- and liberty-minded Trump court. You see, one of the first lessons you learn after entering politics is that Democrats Read More…
WASHINGTON — When Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report, it included a key sentence about whether or not President Trump committed obstruction of justice. Barr wrote that Mueller set out “evidence on both sides of the question,” and then flatly stated that “while this report Read More…
If you think the left hasn’t taken over university life in America, you are probably not paying close enough attention or in denial. I’m not just talking about the liberalism of the professors and the core curriculum but about all of college life. There are glaring examples of leftist extremism everywhere you turn, and they’re Read More…
The conservative media world, along with all but a few Republican members of Congress, are in the process of handing Vladimir Putin his greatest victory yet. They are ignoring the copious evidence in the Mueller report that Russia interfered in our election — and continues to do so. Pace Jared Kushner, it was a whole Read More…
| Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. As I do every year, I wrote my Holy Week column about Easter. Major historians, even atheists, recognize that the execution of a man named Jesus around A.D. 33 is one of Read More…
President Donald Trump has decided to cease cooperating with what he sees, not incorrectly, as a Beltway conspiracy that is out to destroy him. “We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump said Wednesday. “These aren’t, like, impartial people. The Democrats are out to win in 2020.” Thus the Treasury Department just breezed by a deadline from Read More…
| Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Want to help the poor? Champion free enterprise. That flouts the conventional wisdom – at least as it’s presented by many politicians and “mainstream” media outlets. They would have us believe that Read More…
| Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. So Don McGahn is in the president’s crosshairs. Whose side are you on? I ask because this is perhaps the perfect test for a special subgroup of Donald Trump supporters. Call them Read More…
| Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. “The Mueller report makes Trump look vain, ignorant, inept, and astonishingly dishonest.” So writes my Washington Examiner colleague Quin Hillyer, never an enthusiast of President Donald Trump. He refers to many passages Read More…
| Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Identity politics revives sexist stereotypes, and like most stereotypes, they diminish us all to a multitude of prejudices. Generalizations seek the simplest common denominator and usually sink to the lowest. In conversations Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Democrats can dream of a 50-state strategy, per Howard Dean, but it’s only a dream. The South, once the exclusive preserve of Democrats and yellow dogs, is almost solid again, and this time Democrats and yellow dogs have been evicted and the region is red and safely Republican. The Rust Belt, once a Democratic Read More…
If the $92.5 billion budget Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out Thursday were as prudent as he paints it, New Yorkers could sleep well, knowing the city’s finances are sound. Alas, it’s not even close. De Blasio rightly fretted over the economic and fiscal “uncertainty” the city faces, not just because aid from DC is, Read More…
The Editorial Board, USA TODAY Published 6:32 p.m. ET April 25, 2019 | Updated 6:36 p.m. ET April 25, 2019 After the Mueller report, president’s fight against congressional subpoenas and inquiries has little basis in law: Our view Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency chafing at the restraints on his powers. With a fairly limited Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON — Our nation faces a constitutional conflagration, and President Trump is not the only actor willing to put personal and partisan interests above the preservation of our system of self-rule. Five conservative justices on the United States Supreme Court signaled clearly on Tuesday that they are willing to allow Read More…
2020 watch: Biden’s Sloppy Launch May Cost Him In launching his presidential campaign Thursday with an online video message, former Vice President Joe Biden “couldn’t have done it in a more awkward, authentically challenged way,” asserts Joe Concha at The Hill. Because “a video doesn’t connect with or inspire voters the way a live announcement Read More…
‘Trump’s lawsuit is an irresponsible attack on the American public’s legitimate interests in oversight,’ says Donald Sherman of CREW. President Donald Trump vowed he’s “fighting all” House subpoenas, and White House lawyers indicated this week that they would tell former officials not to comply with subpoenas for their testimony. Remember: Cummings has authority to investigate ‘any matter’ By Donald Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles In journalism, a “lede” is the introductory section of a news story, intended to entice the reader into reading the full story. Traditionally, the lede is the first (or “lead”) paragraph. But in today’s fast-paced news media, enticements include the story’s headline, subheading and a short summary that precedes the Read More…
CLOSE Clippers upset the Warriors in game 5, avoiding elimination. USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — Unless the most surprisingly fun of all the first round series in these NBA playoffs throws up the ultimate shock as its final act, it won’t be long before the league’s ultimate heavyweight clash will be upon us. The Golden Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles On this date in 1831, popular actor James Hackett strode across the stage at New York’s Park Theatre for the debut of “The Lion of the West,” a play that Hackett produced and supported financially. The “Lion” in the title was Col. Nimrod Wildfire, a thinly disguised version of Davy Read More…
Rosalynn Carter, Opinion contributor Published 6:00 a.m. ET April 23, 2019 | Updated 11:20 a.m. ET April 25, 2019 CLOSE Outbreaks across the U.S. have forced officials to declare emergencies. Why are we starting to see the rise of these outbreaks? It dates back to the anti-vax movement. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY We fought Read More…
COMMENTARY X Story Stream recent articles About the time that he was drafting his first inaugural address, President-elect Donald Trump, as he characteristically does, made a series of decisions at odds with all conventional political logic. Twenty-seven months later, as we review the most recent Federal Election Commission reports filed by the reelection campaign, I Read More…
| Posted: Apr 25, 2019 3:01 PM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. I did not expect to be surprised by the Joe Biden entry to the presidential race. If anything, it was supposed be like putting on a pair of comfortable old shoes. Read More…
| Posted: Apr 25, 2019 2:01 PM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Perhaps lawmakers should study the effects of New York City’s misguided taxes and restrictions on cigarettes. In Gotham City, a pack of cigarettes costs $13. Not surprisingly, these outrageous prices have led Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Good morning, it’s Thursday, April 25, 2019. On this date in 1831, popular actor James Hackett strode across the stage at New York’s Park Theatre for the debut of “The Lion of the West,” a play that Hackett produced and supported financially. The “Lion” in the title was Col. Nimrod Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, declaring the soul of the nation at stake if President Donald Trump wins re-election. In a video posted on Twitter, Biden focused on the 2017 deadly clash between white supremacists and counter protesters Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Foreign powers and domestic disruptors are already interfering in next year’s presidential and congressional elections and this week we learned what the likely response of the Trump re-election campaign will be: bring it on. Two prominent Trump associates — Rudy Giuliani and Jared Kushner — both dismissed the impact of Read More…