Radicals keep shouting “Medicare for All” like it is a magic spell that delivers free, unlimited care. The reality of the current program is more complicated, and expanding it to everyone would be a different animal entirely. What Seniors Actually Pay Right Now Medicare is not free. It has four parts, and the costs add […]
10
Aug
Aug
Vice President JD Vance is running the Trump administration’s anti-fraud task force, and the early returns are already measured in the hundreds of billions. As of early August the group has identified roughly $230 billion in fraud—Vance called that the conservative estimate—and stopped about $56 billion in payments before they left the building. This is […]
10
Aug
Aug
White House Counsel David Warrington is leaving the administration to return to the private sector. President Trump announced the move over the weekend, praising Warrington for a “truly outstanding job” and naming Will Scharf, the current White House staff secretary, as his replacement effective September 1. It has been the honor of a lifetime to […]
10
Aug
Aug
Abdul El-Sayed just captured the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan. The progressive former public health official narrowly beat moderate Rep. Haley Stevens in a bitter, expensive primary that turned into a proxy fight over Israel, big money, and the direction of the Democratic Party. He is now the nominee in one of the most […]
10
Aug
Aug
The left cannot stop talking about Justice Samuel Alito’s retirement. Every rumor, every health scare, every birthday gets turned into breathless speculation that the author of the Dobbs decision is finally packing up. The latest round produced an actual false report from NPR in late June claiming he had stepped down. It was retracted within […]
09
Aug
Aug
Elon Musk does not do modest. Tesla and SpaceX have locked in plans for Terafab, a semiconductor megafactory in Grimes County, Texas, that will dwarf every building on the planet. Musk himself called it “the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far” and said the completed complex will be 50 times the size […]
09
Aug
Aug
President Trump’s first attempt to end birthright citizenship went down in flames at the Supreme Court. On June 30 the Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause covers children born in the United States to parents who are here illegally or on temporary visas. Chief Justice Roberts made it […]
09
Aug
Aug
Polls bounce. Partisans cherry-pick them. A better early thermometer is where the national party committees actually put their cash. When the DSCC or NRSC floods a race with staff, ads, and infrastructure, they are telling you they believe the seat is in play and worth defending or flipping. When they stay out or under-invest, they […]
09
Aug
Aug
Mark Warner has occupied a Senate seat from Virginia since 2009. He wants another six years. After nearly two decades in Washington, the same campaign themes keep resurfacing: affordable housing, technology leadership, economic competitiveness, national security. The obvious question is why a senator with that much seniority and committee power has not already delivered transformative […]
09
Aug
Aug
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There is more controversy surrounding the Women’s National Basketball Association. Remember, the WNBA is owned by the NBA, and for years it had not shown a profit, and it was a subsidy provided by the men’s National Basketball Association to the women’s. Editor’s note: This […]