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A bill under consideration by the Texas legislature, HB 574, makes election fraud in the state a second degree felony, rather than a class A misdemeanor. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the prevention of fraud in the conduct of an election. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF […]

“Green power” evangelists have roughed out a syllogism explaining what caused Texas’s power outages last month and what can prevent them henceforth: 1) A free market in electricity caused the blackouts, 2) fossil fuels accord with the free market, and therefore 3) the state’s regulatory response should boost renewable energy. Even if both premises were […]

When Senate Republicans rebuffed Merrick Garland’s 2016 Supreme Court nomination, the usual soreheads wailed. So did some unusual ones: The Washington Post’s George F. Will deemed the refusal to accord Garland a hearing “a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle.” Leon H. Wolf of RedStatecalled Barack Obama’s pick to replace the late Justice […]

Virginia will ban capital punishment. An act praised by USA Today and other Leftwing media – because “journalists” believe anti-capital punishment propaganda that claims the death penalty is cruel and, of course, racist. So too does Biden’s choice for Attorney General, who were it not for Sen. McConnell, would be on the Supreme Court today […]

The past several years have seen a trend of Leftwing lawyer-politicians elected to the offices of state Attorney General and District Attorney. These candidates bring to office an intrinsic hostility towards police and a similarly intrinsic sympathy towards criminals. The most recent manifestation of this inherent hostility towards police is New York State Attorney General […]

By the end of 2021, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office anticipates, the national debt will reach 102 percent of GDP. By 2031, it will swell to 107 percent. And now, the bad news. These catastrophic projections don’t include the $1.9 trillion “stimulus” President Biden plans to enact. He almost deserves credit for candor, as he […]

In the early 1990s Congress passed the Gun Free School Zones Act, designating all K-12 schools in America as “gun-free” zones. Since then, we’ve seen major mass school shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Santa Fe.   The lesson is clear: disarming law-abiding parents, teachers, and staff in K-12 schools doesn’t make our children safer, […]

An ugly, spine-chilling menace beleaguers American government, we’re told. The nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) says this horror ran “rampant” during Donald Trump’s tenure “despite his pledge to ‘drain the swamp.’” Even the seraphic Joe Biden can’t slay this devil without robust legislation, which congressional Democrats have blessedly drafted. This putative nightmare is called […]

Personally, I like the idea that a professional sports franchise owner, like Mark Cuban, will stop exploiting the Star Spangled Banner to sell his product. For decades, professional sports teams have used patriotism for profit. The owners and players wrapped themselves in the flag they now burn.  Let us be honest, corporations – especially multinational […]

If I represented my federal district ( PA- 4) in congress during the vote to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene, this is the speech I would have made from the House floor. Madame (Mister) Speaker, I too, like the Democrats in this House claim to be, against racism, anti-Semitism, mob violence, and conspiracy theories. I have […]

Fun fact: Energy Secretary nominee Jennifer Granholm has a bachelor’s degree in French. But as a Senate panel discovered last week, the Vancouver-born, California-raised Granholm has no such ease with her native tongue, at least not while answering a question that sets her on edge. At Granholm’s confirmation hearing, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) asked her […]

“Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss” -The Who 1970s An email from an organization called “Stand Up for America” breathlessly announces that the Republican Study Committee (RSC), led by Rep. Jim Banks, (R-IN), previewed its ‘Post-Trump agenda.’ The problem is that the RSC’s “conservative post-Trump agenda” sounds very much like the Republican […]

They are members of the Neo-Radical Chic. America’s well-to-do, high society  – who are found most often in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Hollywood, and DC. They are aware of, and donate to, social justice causes. We knew their predecessors in the 1970s – when they funded and provided the leadership for the Weathermen, […]

A British newspaper somehow came into possession of bodycam footage of the beginning of the police encounter between Minneapolis police officers and George Floyd. It reveals a man behaving irrationally from the moment the police arrive. He is uncooperative with the police. His erratic behavior caused the officers to wonder if he was under the […]

How do liberals explain their lynch mob? What is their reasoning behind the riots for justice? But most importantly how will the liberal media and civil libertarians vindicate their encouraging, either directly or indirectly, the denial of basic rights to Derek Chauvin. These institutions – the self-anointed, soi disant guardians of our civil liberties – […]