Hugh Hewitt: Trump’s Approval Numbers Rising

“President-elect Donald Trump’s popularity has reached a seven-year high and the majority of Americans approve of his handling of this transition process.” That’s a direct quote from a recent report in Forbes. 54 percent think Donald Trump is handling his transition well.  Let me insert a quick p…

Seth Leibsohn: Gorka and Trump 2.0

The great social philosopher and writer Irving Kristol once put it that foreign policy is not that difficult, all you need is a moral sense of right and wrong.  Of course, finding such people, especially as they are trained in today’s university, is increasingly difficult.  How refreshing, then, to…

Carol Platt Liebau: An Abuse of the Pardon Power

Last week, The White House announced Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost fifteen hundred criminals and pardon 39 others. It’s the most commutations and clemencies ever granted in a single day. It’s an abuse of the pardon power. Above all, many of Biden’s commutations look like an ugly,…

Ed Morrissey: Media Dreads Accountability For Its Lies

The era of Fake News may soon crash into accountability. ABC News stunned observers – and especially its colleagues in the mainstream media – by abruptly settling Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit for $16 million and an expression of “regret.” The move tacitly admits that George Stephanopoulos lied…

Hugh Hewitt: Go For The Win

Congressional Republicans have a narrow window for a huge win: if the House GOP can hang together and agree on a budget resolution with the Senate GOP and President-elect Trump, every employer and employee in America banks an enormous win by the end of February: Extension of the Trump tax cuts. Bu…

Carol Platt Liebau: America’s Had Enough

The Biden administration is reportedly considering preemptive pardons for political allies including Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and Mark Milley. Biden justifies the pardons on the grounds that some officials might be targeted by Donald Trump.  The president’s pardon power is absolute, but just bec…

Ed Morrissey: Israel Resets the Middle East

After October 7 last year—and the beginning of the war started by Hamas’s atrocities, Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to fight until victory rather than a return to the status quo. The Israeli prime minister declared that he would transform the region through the defeat of all enemies. And that applies …

Carol Platt Liebau: A Good Day at the High Court

Last week, in United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court heard a case with major implications for the protection of minors who are suffering from gender dysphoria. The lawsuit challenged Tennessee’s law banning medical gender transitions for children. The Biden administration argued Tennessee’s …

Albert Mohler: Major Shifts in the Media Marketplace

This past election cycle has given us a clear look at major shifts in the media marketplace. We’ve heard so much about how podcast and social media were a major factor in the electoral process, not to mention in the culture at large. I’ll admit it: I’m concerned about much that is posted on all of…

Carol Platt Liebau: The Money Squandered

In the wake of Kamala Harris’ defeat, Democrats are demanding an audit of the campaign. Influential party members are simply shocked the Harris campaign raised more than one billion dollars and still lost. Big donors are enraged by payouts to celebrities and gambits like advertising on the Las Vega…