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Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans.

The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about pay and providing room and board and transportation to ...Read more

Environmental groups are now rich.

In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations.

$8 billion!

"The environmental industrial complex actually has more money in the PR game, the lobbying game, than the real industry," says physicist Mark Mills in my new video. "Insufficient attention is paid to following the...Read more

Democratic Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware introduced the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Act on Jan. 29, 2008, in what would later prove to be a sadly ironic moment.

One element of this bill, according to its official summary, would authorize "the Attorney General to award a State and Local Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of ...Read more

When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich can muster equal enthusiasm for radical leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and for PBS, that might help people locate precisely where PBS is on the political spectrum.

In a new video, Reich began by posing with an Elmo puppet. Doesn't every leftist begin their PBS argument with Elmo? Supposedly, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Who needs the U.S. Department of Education to stay just the way it is?

Not Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who sees it as her mission to be "the last secretary" of a vast bureaucracy known more for its aspirations than its successes.

In the meantime, McMahon wants to cut the behemoth down to size. So, in keeping with ...Read more

Many Mexicans have similar complaints about American immigrants as Americans do about Mexican immigrants.

Earlier this month, a major city saw a xenophobic protest against immigrants. Those gathered hurled ethnic slurs at the foreigners. Someone spray-painted "not your home" on a wall. One sign read, "Respect my culture." Complaints included ...Read more

President Donald Trump should follow up on his historic "big, beautiful" tax bill with an extra booster shot for the economy by immediately indexing the capital gains taxes for inflation.

There is a reasonable chance he can do this without having to go through Congress. And our sources in the administration tell us Trump is interested in ...Read more

Big Bird deserves to lose this time.

In the past, whenever Republicans have tried to cut federal funding for public broadcasting, the eight-foot-two-inch-tall yellow bird has been trotted out as an exemplar of all that is good and necessary about public broadcasting, and the federal dollars have been preserved.

Perhaps our Jim Henson-created...Read more

There are two things I'm known for:

1. I'm the most fiery and loyal champion, celebrator and defender of President Donald J. Trump -- the greatest patriot and president of my lifetime.

2. Raw truth. I tell it like it is -- no matter who it offends. Exhibit A: I stuck my neck out and risked my career to play the role of Paul Revere to warn the ...Read more

A lot of people online have been very, very upset over the Trump Department of Justice's two-fold conclusion, announced last Sunday, that Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail in 2019 was a suicide and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had no "incriminating 'client list'" among its Epstein files.

The tremendous uproar against the Justice ...Read more

Former CIA Director John Brennan is one of the most contemptible and shady people in public life. Few people have abused their position, power and access with such impunity and hubris.

So, it was a pleasure to read a Fox News report that the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into Brennan, along with former FBI Director James Comey, for ...Read more

The "fact-checkers" at PolitiFact barely touch the talking heads on cable television anymore. They used to have a serious tilt against the Fox News hosts in prime time. So it's unsurprising that on July 9, they published their first attack on conservative CNN analyst Scott Jennings, who offered a few tough words about Medicaid beneficiaries.

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The gender gap, we're informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter.

That spurred political journalists to emit multiple articles examining just exactly what was on ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- It's open season on ICE agents and others in law enforcement who work with them. No wonder they're masking up.

On July 4, armed activists shot a local police officer in the neck during what authorities described as a "planned ambush" near an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. In Portland, Oregon, that same day, rioters and police ...Read more

"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy ...

She might become the dictatress of the world,

But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit."

-- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)

In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams requested permission to address a joint session ...Read more

In the early morning of July 4, a flash flood emergency was issued for Austin and San Antonio by the National Weather Service in Texas. According to the NWS, a flash flood emergency is "exceedingly rare" and is only used when "there is a severe threat to human life and catastrophic damage."

Less than two hours later, the Guadalupe River rose ...Read more

In a Congress addicted to bad ideas and bloated spending -- something we saw again last week -- it's rare to find a tax policy with broad, bipartisan support that also happens to be good policy. Health savings accounts are one of those rare gems. They promote individual responsibility, reduce health care costs and enjoy overwhelming support ...Read more

As we begin the countdown to the 250th anniversary of the formation of this nation, we should be thinking about the circumstances that made the foundation of the United States of America possible, what has undergirded the prosperity and relative peace we have enjoyed for almost two and a half centuries, and how best to ensure that the "...Read more