Four payments of $25,000. That’s the amount California Gov. Gavin Newsom requested the now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank give his wife’s woke “gender equity” foundation, the California Partners Project, in 2021. The foundation doubles as a PR platform for Jennifer Siebel…
Welcome to our regime of political capitalism, where merit matters but political connections matter even more. In an unalloyed capitalist system, money flows to those who offer goods and services of value to consumers. In a political capitalism system, money…
What we know about our socialist superiors can be boiled down to one simple fact: both Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez died richer than Mitt Romney. Hell, by the time it’s over, it’s probably going to be true that Barack…
WASHINGTON — Politicians are rarely competent writers. In fact, they are rarely writers. That is why they have speechwriters. John F. Kennedy was supposed to be a great writer. He actually won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in…
America has been drifting toward a level of corruption incompatible with a free society and a free-market economy. Political and economic freedom depend on the presence of a level of honesty that makes it possible for people to interact with…
An elected official in Michigan with a “D” suffixing her name received no jail time as part of a plea agreement in which her lawyer admitted that she tampered with a ballot box after an especially close election in an…
Paul Bedard relays a hilarious story Mike Pompeo apparently tells in his book. As secretary of state, Pompeo made a request to the department’s inspector general. “I told them that my wife flies to foreign countries to give speeches for…
Leopard or Abrams? Ukrainian freedom fighters need tanks, these are the types they need, and the Free World dallies and bickers. The bickering is papered over with the announcement that the U.S. is sending 30 of these mighty war-making machines…
The latest outrage from Qatar, site of the 2022 World Cup, is not that beers will set you back $14 a pop. Which is outrageous indeed, even for a tall boy. Or that sales thereof may be limited to four…
