Taxes & Spending

If Fraud In Minnesota Looks Bad, Wait Till You See Gavin Newsom’s California

Newsom’s budget gimmicks ignore the core issue: expanding programs without safeguards, then begging for bailouts when the math implodes. As a former California state assemblyman who spent four years on the Budget Committee, I had a front-row seat to Sacramento’s obsession with “pulling down” federal dollars, turning welfare programs into a free-for-all. Then-state Auditor Elaine...

January 13, 2026

Border Security

Left seeks martyrs to fuel anti-Trump uprising as ICE enforcement operations ramp up nationwide

Radical groups are causing confrontations with federal agents to spark nationwide unrest and undermine Republicans. As the Trump administration ramps up enforcement against illegal immigration and cracks down on welfare fraud, the radical left is escalating its tactics in a calculated bid to create martyrs. We’ve seen this before, but today’s ideological fervor, backed by deep-pocketed donors...

January 12, 2026

Public Safety

How Special Courts Can Help Veterans Kick Their Substance Abuse

Veterans Treatment Courts are smart on justice, enhancing public safety by rehabilitating those who’ve already sacrificed so much. Many of America’s veterans have borne burdens few of us can understand. From the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan, they’ve faced trauma that doesn’t quickly fade away once they’re handed their discharge papers. Post-traumatic...

December 8, 2025

Energy & Environment

Biden’s green energy fiasco, not Trump’s reforms, is jacking up your electric bill

California’s 127% price surge since 2010 exposes costly reality behind wind and solar power. There’s a battle to define a narrative about what’s to blame for rising electricity prices. Some claim higher electricity prices are due to President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill,” which curtailed subsidies for “cheap” wind and solar installations. Others blame AI’s...

November 19, 2025

Health Care

Democrats’ Shutdown Surrender A Gift To Trump And Congressional Republicans

The longest government shutdown in American history, 40 days of furloughed feds and finger-pointing, whimpered to an end Sunday night. Eight Senate Democrats, weary of their own party’s lack of a credible path to victory, crossed the aisle to hand Republicans a clean win, invoking cloture on a House funding bill by the slimmest of...

November 11, 2025

Public Safety

A Dystopian Take On What Might Happen If The Shutdown Never Ends

Shutdown, Day 100 I’m walking through the haze of what still lays claim to be the capital city of the United States of America. The monuments still stand, though graffiti covers a few now. Weeds are starting to poke up in lawns that were once well-tended. Trees and bushes look a bit rangy. Leviathan bureaucracy...

November 7, 2025

Public Safety

Zohran Mamdani And Nicholas Fuentes Are Pushing The Poison Of Third-World Grievances

To counter insidious Third-Worldism — whether from Mamdani’s left or Fuentes’ right — conservatives must act decisively. Zohran Mamdani, Nicholas Fuentes, and others of their ilk feast on resentment. That America’s political soil is fertile for this effort isn’t surprising — globalism and fiscal profligacy put the American Dream out of reach for millions, while...

November 6, 2025

Election Integrity

Gavin Newsom: Nepo Baby

Editor’s note: Chuck DeVore’s essay, “Gavin Newsom: Nepo Baby,” was published in Newsmax’s print-only magazine. Here are some excerpts. California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, 58, is going to run for president. Newsom’s unique attribute is his ability to lie. Not just lie, but lie earnestly. Newsom’s lies are so bold, they’re the political equivalent of...

October 28, 2025

Economy

Leftists Overwhelm Small Farm With Death Threats For Hosting Conservative Think Tank

If Austin’s farm fiasco teaches us anything, it’s that the left’s words aren’t harmless — they’re harbingers of dehumanization and violence. In my Oct. 2 article for The Federalist, I detailed a chilling 2,500 percent spike in indexed internet content pairing “Trump” with “fascist” over the past 10 years, with the biggest surge happening since mid-2024. This...

October 21, 2025

K-12 Education

Let’s teach our kids why America is worth fighting for

Education chief meets with 40+ groups as polling shows 93% of Americans think citizens lack basic civic knowledge. On Sept. 17, in Washington, D.C., a coalition of more than 40 groups gathered with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to plan to upgrade civic and history education on the eve of America’s semiquincentennial — the 250th birthday...

October 1, 2025

Economy

Massive Downward Jobs Revision Reveals The Media Lied About Biden’s Economic Record

Media not only misled the public but may have delayed needed policy shifts, like Fed rate cuts. Americans deserve transparency, not gaslighting. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) delivered a body blow to the corporate media industrial complex’s narrative of a robust Biden economy. In its preliminary benchmark revision, the agency slashed its estimate...

September 22, 2025

Foreign Policy

Ukraine proves America’s secret weapon works — now we must double down on it

The OODA Loop has been a key advantage for Ukraine. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many experts predicted Kyiv’s quick fall. When Ukraine pushed back overextended Russian forces, the same experts confidently said that Russia’s mass — a population almost four times larger than Ukraine — would certainly grind Ukraine down. Triumph for Putin was...

September 8, 2025