Republicans won’t ease inflation if they don’t cut spending

With House Republicans on a six-week recess, it’s a good time to look back on the worst Republican-controlled Congress in history. Even more ominously, they have refused to cut spending by a cent and have actually increased the budget from record levels during their term. Clearly, they have no appetite to cut spending even if […]

Don’t fine us — we just misused this one word!

Hunter Biden’s lawyers argue that he simply mixed up legal terminology when filing papers to dismiss tax evasion charges, and that he shouldn’t lose his case over a single word. This week, the lawyers were forced to explain their blunder after a California judge rebuked them and threatened sanctions as a result. Federal Judge Mark […]

Don’t give Trump another chance to bungle foreign policy and endanger America 

Donald Trump has portrayed himself as a skilled foreign policy maker who, as president, weakened our adversaries and increased America’s respect around the world — and he vows to do so again if elected in November. In fact, President Trump’s record is the exact opposite of what he claims, and his return to the White […]

Don’t expect too much from the Afghanistan War Commission 

Last week, a bipartisan Afghanistan War Committee At its first public hearing since its establishment in 2021, foreign policy thought leaders testified about the origins of the conflict and the importance of reexamination. It was a solemn and noble undertaking, based on George Santayana’s famous dictum that “those who cannot remember the past are doomed […]

‘Don’t Think’ That’s Her View, It’s ‘Out of Context’, She Has Same View

Asked on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Friday whether Vice President Kamala Harris, a potential 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, no longer maintained her past position of praising defunding police, Harris campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu said “I don’t think so,” claiming that footage of her doing so had been “taken out of context.” He added, “What […]

If You Don’t Build It, They Will Come: The BorderLine

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past 18 months, The Daily Signal’s Virginia Allen and I have visited the border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. What we saw in all our travels was the same: President Joe Biden’s deliberate abandonment of every measure that has worked in the past to reduce incentives for illegal […]