Over the past two decades, the divergence in electricity rates among U.S. states has grown increasingly stark. While in 2004 the average residential electricity rate in the five most expensive states was only twice as high as in the five most affordable states, today it is 2.6 times higher. This widening gap reflects the growing…

Posted on Monday, October 28, 2024 | by Barry Casselman | 0 Comments | Print When the polls generally showed Kamala Harris ahead and surging after President Joe Biden withdrew from his re-election race a few months ago, Democrats embraced those numbers with relief and confidence, even as they continued…

Posted on Monday, October 28, 2024 | by Andrew Shirley | 1 Comments | Print A new poll from Newsweek has revealed that even a majority of voters who say they plan to back Kamala Harris on November 5 support former President Donald Trump’s immigration and border security agenda. According…

Interview with a brave woman who survived and thrives following breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Women experience many commonalities during their lifetimes, from wearing pigtails as kids to pursuing careers and/or raising families as adults. An unfortunate shared connection between women is the diagnosis of breast cancer, the most common form of cancer in the…

Posted on Sunday, October 27, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into the withholding of data from a government-funded study on the effects of gender-related medical treatments for minors, National Review has learned. “This is a clear example of the politicization of…

Joy comes in the morning, as the Psalmist says, but by late evening of an incompetent political campaign, the paranoid bitterness really takes over. That’s what we’re seeing in the late stages of the Democrats’ ill-conceived attempt to win with a deeply unpopular and incompetent candidate who never received any primary votes. The October Surprise…

Posted on Saturday, October 26, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Americans’ faith in the federal government remains historically low, partly because we simply can’t trust what it tells us.   That undermines the political left’s arrogant top-down model of micromanagement of our everyday lives by “expert” administrative…

Posted on Saturday, October 26, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print The New York Times yesterday revealed the simultaneously astonishing and unsurprising news that one of America’s most prominent gender-transition providers, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, has intentionally not published the results of her “multimillion-dollar federal project” on puberty blockers in minors —…

Pollsters and prognosticators have had a rough eight years. With the exception of Nate Silver, who faced blowback for daring to suggest Donald Trump was a standard deviation away from victory in the polls, the consensus was that Hillary Clinton would win comfortably in 2016. In 2018, while Democrats did well overall, pollsters badly overestimated…

Posted on Friday, October 25, 2024 | by Ben Solis | 26 Comments | Print No matter who wins the presidential election this November, one of the next administration’s most important tasks will be securing the release of Americans wrongfully detained abroad – particularly in communist China. According to a…