If Pete Buttigieg is the key to winning more Black votes for Democrats in South Carolina, then Black voters should be very clear about what they really want. The former secretary of transportation is campaigning in South Carolina under the assumption that his influence can help Democrats shore up Black votes in the general election. But it also begs the question of what exactly do Democrat leaders think today's African American voters want?

Arizona teachers' unions just learned what every coach already knows: if you can’t put points on the board, the season ends early. Last week, the state Supreme Court ruled that their petition drive to gut the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program failed to gather enough valid signatures. The Protect Education Act, complete with its income caps and extra bureaucracy, will not appear on the November ballot.

Over the years, I had the privilege of leading several grassroots organizations including Chair of the Coryell County Republican Party as well as President of the Economic Development Board through some of the fastest growth Central Texas has ever seen. Core to the promise of conservatism is fair treatment of American citizens and businesses under the law. Right now, that promise is being broken by an obscure, decades-old provision buried in the federal tax code called Section 5010.

Asked recently on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he supports Medicare for All, Jeffries replied it is "not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support." In 2022, while seeking reelection, Jeffries wrote, "I have cosponsored the Medicare for All Act every Congress that I've been a Representative. So, what happened? Did Jeffries take a closer look at the health systems of Canada and Britain, which the Left insists America should emulate?

An August 17 ABC News report speaks volumes about the Senate race in Texas. It's headline, “Some Democrats trying to reclaim the issue of faith from the Republican Party,” raises a number of questions about what happens at the intersection of religion and politics. The first question is obvious: when and why did Democrats abandon faith in the first place? But a deeper question, one that is increasingly prominent in the Texas Senate campaign, is whether Democrats are trying to reclaim faith or redefine it. 

I have spent over three decades in wealth management and testifying as an expert witness on fiduciary duty, which boils down to one idea: when you are entrusted with someone else's well-being, you do not get to profit from betraying it. Doctors call their version of that rule “First, do no harm.” On August 13, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report suggesting a lot of doctors and hospitals forgot they ever took that oath.

It's worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close and, given the pre-primary polls, surprising results of recent Democrat primaries in the key swing Midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin, with a side look at Minnesota. In both Michigan's senatorial and Wisconsin's gubernatorial primaries, the results were so close that it's useful to express them in the usually supererogatory tenths of a percentage.

From the East Coast to the West Coast, "tax the rich" is the battle cry of radical-left Democrats. They claim that by attacking the rich, including celebs like Swift, they're saving democracy. Don't be fooled. Their new forms of taxation — including wealth taxes, mansion taxes and pied-a-terre taxes — are fueled by jealousy and hatred for our free-market system, working people and everything American. You're their next target. You may not consider yourself "rich," but these new forms of taxation will eventually hit you if you live in a blue state.

New inventions and technologies, from the lightbulb to the farm tractor to the automobile to the laptop computer to Uber drivers, cause serious job market disruptions. They also cause a backlash, as horse and buggy operators, cab drivers, video rental stores, and typewriter makers inevitably predicted chaos and job losses. Artificial intelligence will make life much better and healthier for most people, but it will bring massive disruptions, too.

The more the Democrat Party's growing list of Socialists claim they're not really "Socialists," the more they act like — and now even appear comfortable with being called — Communists. With every new policy they propose, the "Socialists" are dropping the pretense that they're not Marxists. Confiscate private property? Dismantle the U.S. Constitution? They are even now openly bragging that when they take over the Democrat Party and the Nation, they'll destroy the U.S. Senate, the Pentagon, prisons & the police – even our Nation's Borders.

Let's play a fun little game of "what does 'sign' actually mean," shall we? Because Dr. Anthony Fauci just spent a Senate hearing invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times — one hundred and eleven, an Olympic gold medal in constitutional dodging — and buried underneath that spectacle is a question that's far more interesting than anything Fauci actually said, which was, of course, nothing. Was his blanket pardon from Joe Biden even valid in the first place? And if it wasn't, does the Fifth Amendment even apply to a man who might not be pardoned at all?

As many of you may know, I was singled out by Anthony Fauci in his diary for trying to stop the lockdowns in early 2020.We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's doggedness and Anthony Fauci's supreme arrogance, which he freely expresses in his diary, that almost every decision made by the medical-industrial complex was exactly the wrong thing to do. COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools, and country. Understandably, people don't like thinking or talking about it. But we must.

These "mainstream" leftists are angry with the DSA because they are not hiding the fact that they are Marxists. They are overtly professing their allegiance to the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. These mainstream leftists are closet, covert Marxists and prefer to use deception to still attain their goals. As Vladimir Lenin said, "the goal of socialism is communism," the two economic and societal models of Marxism.

Anthony Fauci is 85; he’s not going to live forever. He knows this and isn’t counting on it; he’s counting on living long enough to see Democrats take back Congress. As the validity of his assertion of the 5th Amendment works its way through the legal system, there is an election coming up in November. If Democrats take the House and Senate, Fauci will never again face questioning under oath before Congress about anything of his previous lies. 

Through more than 1,000 pages, Dr. Anthony Fauci – who not long ago headed the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases – revels in a high regard for himself. Recall, he once said, "I represent science. I am science." That testimony of self-importance is also now reflected in his claim to be an "international celebrity." He loved having his picture taken with celebrities (like Barbra Streisand.) He claimed to have appeared before Congress more than anyone else. We all are born with an ego - most can control it. Some give it free rein.

I don’t know if social media created really horrible people blasting their insanity to the world, or if it simply provided the pathway for the insane to expose to the world that they were always there – but, neither answer is good. Just like it’s unclear if TDS actually broke people, or gave broken people the avenue they’d been seeking to purge their worlds of contrary or original thoughts. There's a disturbingly large percentage of our fellow Americans who are broken, possibly permanently. Maybe they always were and we just never noticed? 

President Trump has said from the beginning that preventing Iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon was the primary purpose. NATO Sect. Gen. Mark Rutte has publicly agreed, and said Iran's acquiring Nuclear & Ballistic-Missile Capability "is posing a threat not only to the Middle East – including posing an existential threat to Israel – but is also posing a huge threat to us in Europe." Americans cannot intelligently judge this war when Major News Organizations discuss its costs – while refusing to, or barely mentioning, the danger it was intended to prevent.

But now we can see what happens when governors really care about children and families, put learning as their priority, and let the marketplace work to give parents freedom to choose what they see as best for their kids. Under the leadership of Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas set up its Education Freedom Accounts program, establishing a platform through which parents have available scholarship funding to use to choose where to send their children to school.

He may be a New York Times "conservative," but on this one, Bret Stephens is right on target. On the ‘The Fifth Column’ podcast, Stephens skillfully shoots down the "Gaza is Genocide" war cry that’s been playing nonstop among Leftist Circles. It's one of the main drivers of the Socialist's anti-Jewish shift in the Democrat Party — and you already know this, but the flawed narrative that Israel is committing genocide is deeply ingrained in the minds of Democrats, especially the young ones.

I spent years chairing the House Agriculture Committee listening to farmers explain the same frustration in a dozen different ways: they owned the equipment, but they didn't control it. They'd bought the machine outright, sunk their own capital into it, and still had to ask someone else's permission just to open the hood. They needed someone else's permission to fix it and, given the current rules on the books, they often have no choice but to pay a dealership hundreds of miles away. On Wednesday, President Trump delivered.