Back when I served in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010, California ranked 7th or 8th in the nation for electricity costs. At the time, the Democratic majority in Sacramento was pushing bill after bill mandating greater reliance on renewable energy, assuring everyone that these policies would make us look like “geniuses” when the price...
Designating Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations is the first honest step Washington has taken on this issue in decades. On President Donald J. Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order designating human and drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). This week, the other shoe is expected to drop, as the State...
Greenland isn’t just an Arctic landmass — it’s a North American strategic economic and military asset that America cannot afford to ignore. The time to secure it is now. When President Donald Trump proposed that the United States purchase Greenland in 2019, the idea was met with ridicule from the media and establishment politicians. The...
The framers added the Fourteenth Amendment’s ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ clause for an important, specific reason. In his first hours in office, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order curtailing the practice of unlimited birthright citizenship. Many think the Fourteenth Amendment calls for citizenship for everyone born in America. Left-wing attorneys general in 18...
The solution to California’s wildfires, as many fire experts argue, lies in a simple, time-tested practice: prescribed burns. California finds itself in an all-too-familiar inferno, with devastating fires in Los Angeles County crying out for reevaluation of fuel and forest management policies as well as other fire mitigation measures. While modern firefighting techniques have improved...
Politicians are trying to shift the blame for California’s wildfires onto climate change, instead of their own policies. It’s fire season again in California and again, returning like the sunrise, politicians are blaming the extent of the fires on climate change. A representative example comes from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ X account, where he posts: “…Eight months since...
China’s military buildup and cognitive warfare strategy are clear indications of its intent to defeat the U.S. and its allies by any means necessary. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is undertaking an unprecedented military buildup aimed at challenging America and its allies, particularly in the Indo-Pacific. And, like Nazi Germany’s buildup in the 1930s,...
Illegal immigrants get nearly $9,000 a year each in subsidies from US taxpayers but Trump can change that. Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the incoming Senate majority leader, announced that defense and border security will be the Senate’s first order of business when the new Congress convenes in January. Using the reconciliation process, Thune aims to...
The prosecution of Daniel Penny fits a pattern that the Soviet-era Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would have recognized and detailed. American justice has become politicized — a weapon against enemies with hall passes for favored groups. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and dozens of big city, George Soros-funded leftist district attorneys...
The Left’s practices are less about counting every vote than about creating systems vulnerable to manipulation. They’re still counting ballots in Pennsylvania and California – or, more accurately, they’re still finding ballots. In Pennsylvania, three Democratic counties defy their liberal state Supreme Court by counting ineligible ballots. The pool of bad ballots isn’t enough to overturn the election for...
Hegseth is not only qualified but also uniquely positioned to lead in a time when bold, reform-minded leadership is desperately needed. President-Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense has sparked predictable criticism, largely centered on claims of inexperience and unpreparedness — entirely from the experts who have been wrong about everything...
Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally wasn’t simply a campaign stop in an unwinnable state. It was a bid to unify and rally a national coalition. Donald Trump’s rally in New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden was much more than a campaign event in symbolically hostile territory; it was part of a broader strategy aimed...