Environmental advocacy groups that take the Defense Department to court appear to operate as foreign agents working to help China and undermine the U.S. Navy and America’s military readiness in the Asia-Pacific region, congressional leaders suggest. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., chairman of […]
All but a relative few farmers and other rural residents have had electricity and telephone service for a generation, but the U.S. government devoted $10 million in the current budget to a duplicative Rural Utilities Service program designed to help pay for energy costs. Taxpayers continue to finance the program even though then-President Barack […]
Without blinking an eye I was proud to strain out a gnat and swallow a camel By Dr. Robert R. Owens I once had enough faith in myself to believe there was no God. I had enough of that self-centered faith to believe the entire universe sprang from a Big Bang. I could believe that Big […]
It will be easier to take wildlife off the endangered and threatened lists if Congress passes a bill introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. “The Endangered Species Act has been used as a sword instead of a shield,” Biggs told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. His bill would streamline the process of removing […]
Yesterday, I had the honor of welcoming Ambassador Nikki Haley to The Heritage Foundation. And as she spoke before a packed audience, I realized we were witnessing a true profile in courage. Ambassador Haley’s principles and tenacity have served her well all her life, first as a young businesswoman, then as South Carolina’s first Indian-American […]
Larry David, co-creator of the sitcom Seinfeld, once described a good compromise as “when both parties are dissatisfied.” A recent proposal from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on school discipline policy fits that description well—it’s a compromise, and it’ll leave all sides dissatisfied. But unlike some compromises, this is not one worth making. Here’s what’s […]
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, leading to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, has thrown progressives, the Democratic Party, and the news media into an out-and-out tizzy. The online magazine Slate declared, “Anthony Kennedy Just Destroyed His Legacy as a Gay Rights Hero.” The New York Times’ editorial board said […]
by Andrew Bieszad First it was gays and lesbians. Then it added bisexuals. Then it added transgender. Then it added a host of other letters and numbers including but not at all limited to Q (queer), 2 (two-spirit), I (intersex), A (asexual) and P (pansexual). Now another group is asking for inclusion into the LGBT […]
Is President Trump A Traitor Because He Wants Peace With Russia? The Democrats say he is Paul Craig Roberts The US Democratic Party is determined to take the world to thermo-nuclear war rather than to admit that Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election fair and square. The Democratic Party was totally corrupted by the Clinton […]
By Sher Zieve The vultures—or buzzards…take your pick—were circling wildly in search of a corpse yesterday, in Helsinki. They smelled blood and thought it came from the dead and decaying body of President Donald J. Trump. For those in the anti-Trump and badly educated media, their greatest hopes seemed to have finally been realized and […]
