Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has done it again. In using already-appropriated government funds to fly 48 illegal alien Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to the tony blue enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, DeSantis has once again demonstrated his mastery…
Why is the Left in such a fit of pique over the transporting of illegal aliens from Arizona, Florida, and Texas to sanctuary cities? While sending illegals to places like New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Martha’s Vineyard must…
On Tuesday, the third U.S.-based National Conservatism Conference — “NatCon 3” — wrapped up here in Miami. It was the second straight National Conservatism Conference held in Florida and the largest NatCon conference yet; overall, there have now been three…
Amid the ceaseless cultural and political aggressions of America’s malign Left, occasionally there are moments of sublime entertainment. Perhaps not so much for the few acts, in themselves, of political recrimination and revenge the Right is able to summon up,…
When we (meaning the editors here at The American Spectator and yours truly) were discussing the topic of this column Tuesday afternoon, I groaned at the subject matter below — because there is no emerging unscathed from an attempt to…
Those looking for surprises in Tuesday’s Florida primaries were disappointed. Democrat voters chose St. Petersburg Congressman and former Florida governor Charlie Crist to run against Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Orlando Congresswoman and former Orlando police chief Val Demings to go…
On Wednesday, Elisabeth Zerofsky of the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy essay titled “How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right.” Zerofsky’s piece was well-researched, honest, and measured, but the same cannot necessarily be…
First, a caveat: this Trump versus DeSantis debate that pops up here and there really isn’t as big a thing as the legacy media and some of the old-school political trolls want to make it, because there is no rivalry…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom was vacationing in Montana, where he has family, on July 4 when his reelection campaign ran a 30-second spot on Fox News in Florida in which he called out Florida for “banning books, restricting speech, making…
