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Country poses new test for Western establishment

Could a Western nation ever be allowed to chart a genuinely independent course without getting side-eyed, nudged and eventually steamrolled by globalist central planners? We're about to watch this experiment unfold in real time. Enter Peter Magyar, the 45-year-old new Hungarian prime minister-elect, who just pulled off a landslide against longtime Trump-and-Putin favorite and 16-year mainstay, Viktor Orban. U.S. Vice President JD Vance even flew into Budapest to warn about "foreign interference." Vance's pitch was that the European Union would stop at nothing to push Orban out. The ...

Immigration amnesty by any other name

"Dignity" is just another word for "amnesty" in an ill-conceived law now being pushed by a Miami-area Republican congresswoman. Heading into the midterms, the last thing the GOP should be doing is alienating its core voters on immigration, but Rep. Maria Salazar's legislation does just that. In the Orwellian way proposed laws are labeled these days, this one is called the "Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act," or "DIGNIDAD Act" for short — Spanish for "dignity." President Donald Trump signed an executive order ...

Lawyers sue for higher prices

You aren't going to believe the latest lawsuit fad in America: suing companies as monopolistic for cutting prices to consumers. In legal mumbo jumbo, this is called "predatory pricing" — keeping prices lower than charged by competitors. The idea is to keep prices so low that rival firms can't compete. This is no joke. Recent news reports indicate that the so-called Main Street Competition Coalition, helmed by a former small and midsize grocery chain lobbyist, a Biden administration official and trial lawyers, is lobbying to outlaw volume discounts under a 1936 law called ...

Could Nevada become red state within decade?

Nevada has fewer registered Democrats today than in 2016. That's one reason Nevada could be a red state within a decade. Nevada Republicans currently have a voter registration edge of more than 7,000 out of 2 million registered voters. That may not sound like much, but it's their largest voter registration lead since 2006. Nevada has around 571,000 registered Republicans and a bit under 564,000 Democrats. This is a dramatic reversal. In the 2016 general election, Democrats had a voter registration advantage of nearly 89,000. Hillary Clinton won the state by around 27,000 ...

Getting older gives us more memories

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his back and she looked thrilled. They had been out on a stroll, and she'd asked for a ride: That was the story the image told me. Adorable, I thought, for a second. But wait. What was that look of resignation on the dad's face? Did I recognize that parental exhaustion myself, that ...

Yes, war can settle things

Countless protest signs have informed us over the years that "war is not the answer." We hear this message, with varying levels of sophistication and differing underlying worldviews, from institutions and people ranging from Code Pink to Pope LEO. "War does not solve problems," the pontiff said in an Angelus address last year. "On the contrary, it amplifies them and causes deep wounds in the history of peoples — wounds that take generations to heal." Now, there are many things that can be said about the tragedy of warfare without crediting the blatantly ahistorical cliche that ...