Trump vice presidential short list: Pros and cons of nine hopefuls
Former President Donald Trump’s weekend donor retreat is being billed as a vice presidential audition as the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee weighs his running mate options. Trump has suggested in interviews he will be making a decision “closer to Wisconsin time,” meaning the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this July. While former Vice President Mike […]
Baseball is still an American game
On May 4, 1869, the Cincinnati Redstockings defeated the Great Western Base Ball Club, 45-9. It was the Redstockings’ first game as an all-professional team. They went on to a perfect season in 1869, going 57-0. Baseball was America’s game, and the Redstockings, for a brief time, were America’s team. Professional baseball clubs would become […]
Jim Jordan predicts crime will hobble Biden in November: ‘Still a big issue’
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sees urban crime as dangerous to President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects as homicide and theft continue to plague America’s largest cities. House Republicans have spent months highlighting the crisis at the southern border. Stubbornly low approval ratings on the economy have also weighed down the president. But Jordan, the chairman of […]
Democrat David Trone’s loans to own Senate campaign surpass $54 million
Rep. David Trone (D-MD) has lent over $54 million to his Maryland Senate campaign, Federal Election Commission filings show. The filings, which cover through April 24, are a window into how Trone, a wealthy businessman who founded and co-owns the retail company Total Wine & More, is hoping that his fortune will earn him a […]
Biden lets public health go up in smoke
Leftists demand that others “follow the science,” but when science and the facts reinforce arguments against their politics, they ignore it. That’s what President Joe Biden is doing with marijuana. He is dangerously sacrificing the facts on the ideological altar of pot pandering. The Drug Enforcement Administration, responding to Biden‘s signals, announced on April 30 that it would reclassify marijuana from a […]
Columbia president: Hamilton Hall occupation was a ‘violent act’ that ‘crossed a new line’
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik admitted on Friday that protesters who illegally occupied Hamilton Hall “crossed a new line.” Days after New York Police Department officers cleared the hall, Shafik addressed the chaos that has unfolded on her campus in a video on Friday. She described the past two weeks as being “among the most […]
Austin City Council at odds with Texas AG over transgender protections
The Austin City Council passed a resolution ensuring that transgender people may receive gender reassignment therapy and providing protections for healthcare providers as well. The resolution comes just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its changes to Title IX, which expanded sex-based discrimination in the federal […]
Trump slams Jack Smith for ‘jumbled’ Mar-a-Lago documents court says are out of order
Former President Donald Trump mocked special counsel Jack Smith for “mishandling” the classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. Trump reacted to Smith’s recent filing in the election subversion case against him in which the prosecutor admitted that “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.” In a post on […]
Warren Buffett to attend 60th Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting
Business magnate Warren Buffett is slated to sit in on his 60th Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffett, 93, will solicit questions during a five-hour meeting similar to the one he attended last year. While his successor, Vice Chairman Greg Abel, 61, will be there, this will be the first meeting without […]
First US diplomat to resign over Biden’s approach to Israel-Hamas war says she was silenced
For the past 18 years, Hala Rharrit has served in the State Department, and for the past year and a half, she served as an Arab language spokeswoman until announcing her resignation due to the Biden administration’s policy on the Israel-Hamas war. “I had full intentions of continuing on in my career until I reached […]