Homelessness

California doubles down on failed homeless policies

California policymakers wholeheartedly demonstrated they remain wedded to their homelessness narrative—that the sole answer to homelessness is life-long, subsidized housing—despite the fact that this one-size-fits-all policy, called “Housing First,” has epically failed the Golden State and the nation. Pre-COVID-19 data shows California’s experiment with Housing First resulted in a 47.1 percent rise in unsheltered homelessness. But...

May 17, 2022

K-12 Education

Conservatives Who Promise To Stop Leftist Racism Win Texas School Board Seats

Conservative candidates won a bunch of closely watched school board elections in Texas on Saturday. One of the higher-profile losses was suffered by Jim Rice, a member of the Fort Bend Independent School District (ISD) since 2010. He is also the immediate past president of the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) where he has served on...

May 10, 2022

Economy

California Is So Screwed Up, People Can’t Even Hold Festivals Any More

Gilroy, a town of 57,000 people in Northern California, is the southernmost city in the San Francisco Bay area. It’s long been known for its garlic crop. At certain times of the year, a drive through the area will bear aromatic witness to that fact — so much so that the town became well known...

April 29, 2022

Foreign Policy

War in Ukraine: Updates from Chuck DeVore

May 8: Russia’s Annual ‘Victory Day’ Celebration Takes On A Different Meaning This Year On Monday, May 9, Russia will hold its annual celebration marking the defeat of Germany in World War Two. Since 1945, Moscow has hosted a grand military parade in Red Square with dignitaries reviewing the troops from atop the mausoleum than contains...

March 17, 2022

Taxes & Spending

Why The Biden Admin’s Plan To Unionize The National Guard Is A Horrible Idea

America determined decades ago that unionizing the military was a terrible idea. Yet last month, the Biden administration’s Justice Department signaled in a court filing that National Guard troops on state active duty can organize as if they’re civilian first responders or civil servants, and members of the National Guard in Texas are now using...

February 22, 2022

Economy

Sarah Bloom Raskin Would Further Wreck The American Economy At The Fed

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to serve as Fed Vice Chair for Supervision represents a danger to American jobs and American energy. The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs should reject her nomination when it comes up for consideration next week. There are a few traditional reasons for turning Raskin...

February 16, 2022

Economy

Four big reasons not to confirm Biden’s Fed nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin

The Senate confirmation of President Biden’s nominee to be the Federal Reserve’s Vice Chairwoman for supervision of banks, Sarah Bloom Raskin, ran into some rough waters recently. The Senate Banking Committee should reject Raskin’s nomination this month for four reasons: swampy corruption, a lack of trust, wrongheaded policies, and strategic cluelessness. If confirmed by the...

February 16, 2022

Energy & Environment

How Green Energy Fantasies Can Amplify Civil Unrest

Policies that make energy scarce and expensive, promoted by wealthy elites, result in domestic unrest while diminishing a nation’s ability to vigorously pursue its national interests. Since 2011, this has been the case in Egypt, France, Kazakhstan, Germany, and others. Even California and Texas are grappling with similar problems. Texas is approaching the one-year anniversary...

February 4, 2022

Election Integrity

Is Texas next for granting noncitizens the vote?

As one of his first acts, newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams allowed a measure to become law that gives some 800,000 foreign nationals the right to vote in city elections, so long as they’ve lived in the city for more than 30 days. New York’s move follows San Francisco, where, in 2016, voters approved a...

January 26, 2022

Economy

Not Only Is Inflation Here To Stay, Joe Biden’s Going To Make It Worse

The dollar is buying less food, fuel, and other necessities these days. Inflation, something Americans who were around in the 1970s contended with, is making an unwelcome comeback. Contrary to the repeated assertions of the Biden administration and its allies, inflation may be with us for a while. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped by...

November 15, 2021

Economy

A National Divorce Wouldn’t Be As Easy Or Worthwhile As Advertised

When Donald Trump was president and filling the federal court system with conservative jurists, some leftists yearned for a “national divorce.” Richard Kreitner, in “Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union,” argues that a unified America does terrible things such as promoting slavery, instituting Jim Crow, starting wars, and incarcerating minorities....

November 12, 2021

Family

I Enlisted in the U.S. Army

I enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1983 at the age of 20. I was motivated to do so for two reasons. First, the draft had ended 10 years earlier. If America and our Constitution were to be defended, someone had to do it, and having been a high school athlete and avid sportsman,...

November 11, 2021