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The right’s warnings about Obamacare proved prescient, yet Democrats keep doubling down on a failing system they refuse to admit they broke. Just over 15 years ago, when the Democrat-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate were debating the healthcare proposals offered by the Democrat president, nearly everyone on the political right was unified in opposition. It may well have been the last time the right was united on anything, but it was indeed unified and resolute. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (MN) warned that “This monstrosity of a bill will not only destroy the private healthcare market, it will lead to massive...

Glenn Beck recently referred to an important point made by Joe Rogan, in that with the left celebrating political violence, we may have reached his step seven of nine in the lead-up to civil war. Note that each one of these builds on the previous step in breaking down our society. And we might as well dispense with the notion that 'both sides' are equally at fault. While that may sound magnanimous, it doesn't square with the present reality, because it should be obvious that most of one side would like to bring down our society, while the other would...

“The dawn of a better day” for New York City will not be what they imagined. Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City, quoted Eugene Debs in his acceptance speech last week. “The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’” The Debs quote is, to most people, obscure. It is deliberately so. Most Democrat voters have no idea who Eugene V. Debs was, what he did, or the ideology he espoused—but that ignorance is paving the way for hardcore socialism. Debs...

Having won a single election, we cannot rest on our laurels. Communism and its sister despotism, Islam, still have their sights set on America. We have been through a lot, and we are going through a lot. Getting President Trump elected was a great gift, and he has, as expected, done amazing things. But we are still in trouble. Most readers here already know this, but it still bears repeating. The American radical Left is dangerous—literally an existential threat to our existence as a constitutional republic (much of which has already been eroded over decades of effort by our internal...

Even in Bucharest, a Romanian freedom fighter’s warning proved clear: too many Americans have forgotten the price of liberty—and some no longer care to hear it. I am on vacation. I was planning on taking a timeout and not thinking or writing about politics for a few days, but somehow politics found me anyway. As a result, I feel compelled to write about what I just experienced. I think the things I witnessed are subtle yet quite important and highly worth sharing with anyone who supports liberty. I am in Bucharest, Romania, as I write this. Today I experienced a...

Following WFLX’s reporting on the so-called “Mamdani Migration”— New York City businesses leaving the city after the mayoral election — new data we obtained shows several companies filing to relocate to Florida. Mamdani, who was elected as New York City mayor Tuesday, has pledged to increase taxes for corporations and individuals making more than $1 million, a move that sent shock waves through the business community. The morning after Mamdani’s election victory, Florida business relocation attorney, Chad Cummings, told WPTV he received five to 10 times his usual number of calls from New York companies seeking to move to Florida....

After the 2024 election, there was a vast right-wing clamoring for an inevitable realignment favoring conservatives. Political gravity would force the pendulum of political history to the right, the liberal media would be shamed into something resembling unbiased fairness, and woke policies would shrivel and die on the vine. The results of the November 4 elections make it clear that the demise of the progressive-liberal nexus is greatly exaggerated. Democrats, socialists, and liberals of all stripes enjoyed good election results, but it would be a mistake to read this as anything more than a normal off-year election. Since 2000, the...

Another day, another Democrat found to be involved in some sort of fraud. I don't think there's a single member of that entire party who speaks the truth or plays by the rules. And the legacy media -- ever the loyal lapdogs of the Left -- fawns over these people, burying scandals or spinning them as virtues. From multi-million dollar fraud schemes tied to congressional insiders to impersonating lawyers to springing illegal aliens. From doctored court evidence to unconstitutional residency fraud, the evidence piles up like Kamala's campaign debts. We're witnessing a pattern of blatant lawbreaking enabled by a complicit...

The nightmare descent of New York City under Mamdani rule has begun. Defunding the police, “free” services, and antisemitism are the tip of the spear. Staffing, policies, and mandates will issue from the mayor daily, implemented by an administration of hardcore socialists. The outlook is far worse when measured in dollars and cents. Spending will soar from already unsustainable levels, even as the tax base exits. When the top 1% leave, along with major financial firms, they never return. The glory of New York will fade. The city will not even be able to sustainably pay its bills for basic...

Whatever the Founding Fathers had in mind, they surely did not intend for some Portland judge to usurp the president’s authority as commander in chief. Should America’s constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the “system” and have exhausted all available remedies to “fix” that “system,” they will feel wholly disconnected from the government that rules over them. A cascade of institutional crises will exacerbate public distrust in the “system” until the “system’s” legitimacy collapses. Should that foreboding and chaotic event come, a primary driver will have...

If you want to run for office as a Democrat, there is a new catchword that you need to make as your main promise: “Affordability.” As anybody paying attention knows, the cry of “affordability” was the central theme that carried the Democrats to victory in all the big races this year, most notably those of Zohran Mamdani for Mayor in New York City, Abigail Spanberger for Governor in Virginia, and Mikie Sherrill for Governor in New Jersey. The same theme also carried two Democrats to victory as Public Service Commissioners in Georgia — the first victories by Democrats in statewide...

California’s voters, blinded by hatred of Trump, keep empowering the corrupt coalition that’s driving the Golden State into decay, debt, and disorder. “Stick it to Trump.” That is the strategy of the Democratic Party in California, and it’s working. For 28 years, the Democrats have controlled both houses of the state legislature, and apart from Schwarzenegger’s interlude from 2004 to 2010, there’s been a Democrat governor since 1999. Nothing seems likely to change; this month, California’s voters approved a redistricting plan that is expected to reduce the number of Republican U.S. Congressmen to four out of 52. Democratic dominance in...

Universal Basic Income is a snare and a delusion that cedes all human liberty to the government. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. – George OrwellGeorge Orwell’s telescreen is no longer “suspend your disbelief”-level fiction. And the foot meting out the punishment may soon be the state’s, delivering your Universal Basic Income in UBI Dollars (UBIDs). I have recently written about AI and UBI, positing that AI will lead to sufficient disruption to make UBI a near-certainty. In this essay, I combine these threads in relation to a current political...

For the first time in decades, the Democrats have lost their bid to engineer a federal government shutdown, blame the Republicans for it, and win political concessions for doing so. Now that they’ve lost, they’re blaming moderates in their own party for the miscalculation. Let the blaming begin. As is often the case, CNN’s unflappable, lonely conservative, Scott Jennings, predicted the outcome of the shutdown last week after Democrats posted big wins in blue states in the off-year elections. “I’m sure the Democrats will be happy to open the government now, the election is over,” he said, even as the...

There’s an anti-Left storm brewing among the once conservative/libertarian Generation Z, which follows a predictable and dangerous path that’s left a trail of destruction throughout history. It came to light in the split between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson last week over Carlson’s platforming of Nick Fuentes, the virulent antisemitic, pro-Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler-adoring, Holocaust-denying influencer, who’s become the heroic voice of Gen Z’s heterosexual white Christian men who have been devastated the hardest by America’s decline. Shapiro called Carlson out for giving Fuentes an uncontested platform, leading to a bitter parting between two friends who had fought to preserve...

“We live in the dumbest of times and Democrats are truly led by the dumbest of all of us.” —Sean Davis, The Federalist. You can suppose the government will re-open this week, and then what? It could close back down in January when the latest funding patch runs out. And then what? Another shut-down and another continuing resolution? The nation hopscotches toward insolvency and breakdown. The sorrows of Mr. Trump mount as his enemies devise ever-novel punishments for the people of this land. The mutual animus of the two parties spirals upward like the vortex of a developing superstorm. It’s...

Democratic strategist James Carville predicted on his "Politics War Room" podcast that Democrats will win the 2028 presidential election and move to expand the Supreme Court. CARVILLE: So I want to talk to Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito, Justice Barrett, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Gorsuch. I might be forgetting one. I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. A Democrat is going to be elected in 2028. You know that, I know that. It's going to be a Democratic House. It's going to be a Democratic Senate. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on...

Peter Thiel tells Shawn Fisher at the Free Press that: Capitalism is not working for a lot of people in New York City. It’s not working for young people.Dear me. Here we have the whole world fainting because Tucker Carlson dared -- dared -- to interview Nick Fuentes, and Peter Thiel says something completely off-the-charts wacko. Capitalism not working? Capitalism works every minute, every hour, every day, for everyone, whether you like it or not. What is not working right now is the mountain of government programs and regulations and left-wing conceits that are piled high on capitalism like spices...

A war hero warns Brits — on live TV — that they are no longer free. For once, a video has gone “viral” on social media platforms that actually deserves to be seen by everyone. It involves hundred-year-old Royal Navy and Arctic Convoy veteran Alec Penstone in a live appearance on Friday’s episode of Good Morning Britain. Co-hosts Adil Ray and Kate Garraway intended to use Penstone as a pre–Armistice Day prop for conveying to the country’s viewing audience that corporate news reporters are just as patriotic as ordinary Brits who are thrown in jail for waving Union Jack flags...

Born in Los Angeles in 1960, Norm Eisen attended Harvard Law, where he received his J.D. in 1991. He was a classmate of Barack Obama and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Eisen clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, known for its ultra-leftwing jurisprudence. He then co-founded the Washington, D.C., law firm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, specializing in litigation, white-collar defense, and government investigations. Eisen later served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014 under Obama. Earlier, he was Special Counsel to...