Economy

California Shows What Happens When Nobody Checks The Administrative State: Everything Burns Down

In California, the embarrassing disconnect between the state’s whole-of-government approach in the fight against climate change versus the smoking reality of spectacular failure is seen where it counts: in the real world. A Wall Street Journal editorial on Oct. 23 cited a University of California study finding that California’s 2020 wildfire emissions “were two times higher than...

October 26, 2022

Energy & Environment

Biden Shamelessly Depletes Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve To Buy Midterm Votes For Democrats

Gasoline prices will soar after the Democrats’ midterm shellacking. Why? Power. For many politicians, as well as parties, the point of power is power. Biden campaigned against American oil and gas, saying he would “end fossil fuels” with no more pipelines and “no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability...

October 19, 2022

Energy & Environment

Biden’s war on American energy will take its toll on Democrats in November

President Joe Biden’s war on American energy started the day he took office on Jan. 20, 2021 and hasn’t let up since. Voters pay the price. In the last 12 months, Biden’s policies have pushed prices higher by 8.3 percent; gasoline is up almost 26 percent, and food up 11.4 percent. America went from energy dominance under...

October 11, 2022

Immigration

Why Democrats’ illegal immigration views will haunt them in November

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and former Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke faced off Friday, September 30 for a one hour televised debate in the Rio Grande Valley—the epicenter of America’s illegal immigration crisis under President Joe Biden. It was no surprise that illegal immigration was the debate’s foremost topic. And the way the issue played...

October 5, 2022

Immigration

Biden’s border crisis: What’s the president’s real plan and his ultimate endgame?

What is the Biden administration’s official policy and endgame on the border and immigration? Simply put: overwhelm America with millions of illegal immigrants and force Republicans to the table to agree to grant citizenship to millions of people here illegally while promising to secure the border. Of course, Biden won’t admit that. Instead, we’re left...

October 3, 2022

Immigration

Biden’s border crisis is out of control. Here’s how local law enforcement can fight back

I just got back from another fact-finding trip to our disintegrating southern border, this time in Arizona where I was part of a group that met with scores of elected sheriffs at the Southwest Border Sheriff’s Coalition conference. What I discovered was terrifying. With Biden and Congress refusing to act to secure the border, what can be...

September 22, 2022

Taxes & Spending

No, Texans Don’t Pay More Taxes than Californians

Dredging up old, questionable data to score some election year points, Democrats and their allies in the media are now claiming that Texans pay more in taxes than do Californians—which is surely news to the thousands of families who have fled the Golden State for the Lone Star State (and its lower taxes) in recent...

September 12, 2022

Foreign Policy

As America Self-Destructs With Green Energy, China Preps For War With Coal

In Aug. 25, the California Air Resources Board, the state’s air quality regulator, announced a ban on the sales of new gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035. Less than a week later, a heat wave threatened California with seven days of power shortages. So the state’s grid operator asked electric vehicle owners not to recharge when they...

September 12, 2022

Energy & Environment

Electric vehicle subsidies take cash from ordinary Americans to benefit the rich

We heard a lot from Democrats, President Joe Biden, the media, and environmentalists about how great the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will be for climate change. Curiously, it was crickets over the new law’s central claim—that it will reduce inflation. It won’t. But one thing this massive tax-and-spend behemoth will do—aside from unleashing 85,000 new...

August 18, 2022

Election Integrity

U.S. Postal Service Just Institutionalized Election Interference With New Mail-In-Ballot Division

Starbucks recently asked the National Labor Relations Board to suspend all pending and ongoing votes to unionize at its U.S. stores due to concerns stemming from mail-in ballots. The franchise’s objections once again raise questions about the credibility of election systems that rely on mail-in ballots.  As with coffee companies, how much more with the...

August 16, 2022

Energy & Environment

Democrats’ Green Energy ‘Transition’ Costs You Way More And Gives You Way Less

Democrats and their leftist allies are celebrating the U.S. Senate’s passage of the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act.” Subject to a vote out of the Rules Committee mid-week, it’s expected that H.R. 5376 will be voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday or over the weekend at the latest.  The Democrats’ tax and spending bill...

August 11, 2022

Foreign Policy

Letting China Purchase U.S. Land Poses An Even Bigger National Security Risk Than You Think

Buyers from the People’s Republic of China purchased $6.1 billion in real estate last year, the most of any foreign buyer. Many of these purchases over the past few years have been of farmland or ranchland near U.S. military bases. Revelations from a groundbreaking exclusive CNN story published on July 23 about telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei installed in...

July 27, 2022