Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections. Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of the ...
Is your business "needed"? Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is "needed." Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn't ...
Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked: "Health care companies only care about one thing: profits. Single-payer now." This is the same Tom Steyer who opposed single-payer when he ran for president in 2020. "Bernie Sanders was right," ...
One way you can appreciate that America is a free country is that the Left feels free to dump on the 250th anniversary of America's founding. The New Yorker can ask "How Problematic Is Patriotism?" Their answer is "very problematic." MS NOW host Ali Velshi channeled this spirit on May 31. He ...
Jaxson Dart, New York Giants quarterback, introduced President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in New York. Abdul Carter, New York Giants outside linebacker, called his quarterback out on social media posting, “What we doing man?” This led to a closed-door Giants team meeting, during which ...
It would be better for boys if society stopped expecting them to act like girls. A Texas mom recently shared a video of her son at his kindergarten graduation. The clip shows him squirming in his chair, playing with his hands and stretching over his seat. She captioned the video, "You're ...
My mind wanders, and sometimes I just follow behind it, seeing where it goes. Driving to the gym recently, I debated bringing in my water bottle before remembering there was a water fountain inside. I started thinking about the person who designed the fountain itself, about the mechanics of ...
The reported end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" marks more than the cancellation of a television franchise. It represents the collapse of an era in American media where political outrage replaced entertainment, ideology replaced humor, and audiences were expected to applaud lectures ...
Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a president who defrauded the U.S. military by fabricating "bone spurs" to evade ...
Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The Wealth of Nations." The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes ...
