Isn’t it remarkable how often politicians arrive in Washington with modest means and somehow leave astonishingly wealthy? Congress, it seems, has a way of turning public service into a personal gold mine. Take Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05), whose district includes a large portion of Minneapolis — that increasingly troubled outpost some have dubbed the … Read more
One line uttered by newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani really caught my attention after he was sworn in last night: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” To be clear, that worldview is a wholesale rejection of America’s founding principles—where individual liberty, personal responsibility, and voluntary … Read more
A Tennessee police officer was involved in a heated confrontation with a state highway patrol trooper after attempting to conduct a traffic stop while the trooper was transporting a local elected official. The trooper was driving a black SUV carrying Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton when an officer with the Metro Nashville Police Department attempted … Read more
Co-hosts of the hit Fox News program ‘The Five’ took turns offering several predictions for 2026. Some of them were more serious than others, but one prediction would dramatically shake things up if it were to come true. During a segment on the show, co-host Jesse Watters joked that he was going to leave the … Read more
A new round of legal challenges involving Tim Mynett, the husband of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), has renewed public attention on the couple. Mynett, a political consultant turned venture capitalist, is named in a lawsuit alleging fraud and breach of contract related to eStCru, a California-based wine company in which he is a partner. … Read more
A Utah judge on Monday ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing held in October that addressed whether the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk should be shackled during court proceedings. State District Judge Tony Graf said public transparency is “foundational” to the judicial system before directing the release of … Read more
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who was sworn in at midnight and again publicly several hours later, used his first full day in office on Thursday to issue new executive orders focused on landlords and housing development. Mamdani said the city would also pursue what he described as “precedent-setting action” to intervene in a … Read more
President Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term issuing an unprecedented volume of executive orders aimed at rapidly advancing his policy agenda, including sweeping reductions to federal agencies, a hardline immigration crackdown, and the use of emergency authority to impose broad tariffs on U.S. trading partners. The pace of Trump’s executive actions … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a 5-4 ruling to uphold a California animal welfare law passed by state voters, which requires all pork sold in the state to meet certain humane standards. California voters passed the measure in 2018, which strengthened space requirements for egg-laying hens, breeding pigs, and calves raised for veal that were … Read more
A great deal of attention has rightly been focused on the massive fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota’s social services system. The scale alone has been impossible to ignore. But that’s no longer the only red flag. A report from Scott Presler, founder of Early Vote Action, has shifted some of the spotlight to another deeply troubling … Read more