Spending more than one can afford is business as usual for state officeholders. --- California's state government, which has run up $11,511 in debt per resident, is asking voters to approve more billions of dollars in bonds, to be paid back [...]

The national Republican Party has settled on a campaign against the Democrats, painting the opposition party as a bunch of economic socialists. “Across the nation, socialist policies are increasingly dominating Democratic politics,” Rep. Brian Steil (R-WI) complained last summer [...]

The court found the administration lacked standing to bring the suit. But there are also major substantive problems with Trump's position. --- Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska). (US Senate)   Today, in United States v. Alaska, federal district Judge Sharon Gleason ruled against [...]

Centralized databases and national ID systems make tempting targets. --- Like most of the rest of the world, the United States has been stumbling its way towards a "papers, please" society in which we must show identification to go about our [...]

America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions [...]

The Michigan Senate candidate once dissed Obama as "fairly centrist, middle-of-the-road." --- When Abdul El-Sayed ran for governor of Michigan in 2018, progressive media hailed him as the next Barack Obama. El-Sayed did not appreciate the comparison. "I get compared to [...]

What did Donald Trump understand about young men in 2024 that the Right still has not figured out about young women? Men under 30 backed Trump by 14 points. Women the same age backed Kamala Harris by 17. That [...]