• A turbulent day for free speech at the Supreme Court

    When can the federal government use its coercive regulatory powers to silence ideas it doesn’t like on social media? That was the question presented to the Supreme Court on Monday, and while a majority seems ready to protect the First Amendment, too many justices seemed ready to give the government the benefit of the doubt. The key exchange […]

  • Lawmakers overcome impasse on border security to strike deal on final spending bills

    Congressional negotiators have struck a deal on appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, the final component of the annual spending legislation that must be passed before the shutdown deadline later this week. After days of lengthy negotiations and disagreements over border security policies, lawmakers have come to an agreement on how to allocate funds […]

  • Kevin O’Leary says there is ‘no chance’ TikTok will be sold for $100 billion without algorithm

    Billionaire and Shark Tank co-host Kevin O’Leary said there would be roadblocks related to a potential purchase of TikTok, which has been discussed as a possibility in recent weeks. The House of Representatives voted 352-65 last week to pass the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would require TikTok to either separate […]

  • House conservatives oppose government spending deal before negotiators can finalize deal

    Congressional leaders are dealing with a new headache after more than 40 House Republicans came out in opposition to any spending legislation that does not include core components of the party’s signature border security bill passed last summer. While no deal has been struck on the remaining six appropriation bills, Reps. Bob Good (R-VA) and […]

  • Biden’s LNG export embargo hurts farmers too

    LEBANON, Pennsylvania — You may not be aware that there’s a symmetry in Pennsylvania between farmers and the natural gas industry. But just walk into the Keystone Pork, Poultry Progress and Mid-Atlantic Manure Summit here at the expo center in Lebanon County, put your hands on the propane-shaped stress ball, and you’ll start to understand […]

  • What Cabrini’s conservative critics miss

    It is quite rare for a reactionary figure such as a Catholic saint to receive favorable biographical treatment from the film industry as Angel Studios recently afforded St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, a 19th century Italian nun who immigrated to the United States, in its new film Cabrini. With an obvious nod to the feminist movement, […]

  • Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-TikTok) is a social media-obsessed coward

    When Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) apologized for doing his job, he perfectly illustrated what happens when you allow social media to dominate your life and self-worth. Jackson voted in favor of a bill that would require TikTok to be sold by the Chinese company ByteDance in order to continue operating in the United States. TikTok […]

  • Wealthy GOP Senate candidate has an issue paying taxes on time

    Sandy Pensler, a wealthy Republican businessman running in the primary to be Michigan’s next senator, delivered what he thought was a straightforward message in a March television advertisement. “You’ve seen the invasion at our southern border,” Pensler, 67, said in the ad. “It’s worse than you think. Sleepy Joe [Biden] is using our tax dollars […]

  • Grit over glamour: The unvarnished reality of Land of Bad

    Among all the units and divisions in the Army, none are as revered and glamorized as the elite special forces. Often mythologized and likened to caped superheroes, they are the grand cru of the military, a depiction that occasionally glosses over the stark reality of their heightened danger and mortality. Land of Bad, written and co-directed […]

  • Chris Van Hollen is the kind of mark UNRWA’s scam profits off of

    The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is a terrorist-supporting scam running on tax dollars from naive countries run by people who think like Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). Van Hollen ripped into Israel’s accusations about UNRWA, declaring that Israel wants to destroy UNRWA because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views the agency “as a […]

  • Congress comes up short on shutdown spending deal as deadline looms

    Congress is poised to miss another self-imposed deadline to release legislative text for the final spending package to avoid a partial government shutdown this week, with disagreements on how to fund the Department of Homeland Security a top sticking point. Lawmakers had wanted to release the text of the deal on Sunday to give the House […]

  • This Arthur may be a dog, but Mark Wahlberg’s movie is filmic Camelot

    Arthur the King, with actor Mark Wahlberg and a mangy dog named Arthur leading an extreme-sports team across 400 miles of jungle, is the best movie I’ve seen in years. Graded on the curve of how greatly it exceeds the schlock Hollywood has extruded this decade, it ranks among history’s most exceptional films. I mean […]