Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2025 | by Hunter Oswald | 26 Comments | Print In recent weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with several government watchdog groups have uncovered a growing mountain of waste, fraud, and abuse stemming from the unmitigated catastrophe at the U.S.-Mexico border during…

In early March 2020, I woke each morning to a flood of calls from reporters asking about school closures even as my wife and I anxiously speculated about whether our kindergartener’s school would be open that day. Every parent remembers that feeling of confusion and helplessness. It was a lost-at-sea moment. No one knew how…

Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print President Donald Trump has dropped a lawsuit Joe Biden filed attempting to force Idaho to allow abortions. Idaho’s Defense of Life Act protects the lives of women and their unborn children, preventing doctors from performing…

Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print “Fiddler on the Roof,” which opened in 1964 and became the first Broadway show to surpass 3,000 performances, is one of the most successful plays in the history of “The Great White Way” (or “The…

Maine was once a conservative state, notoriously so. The phrase “As Maine goes, so goes the nation” accurately predicted 23 of 29 presidential elections up to 1932. If Maine’s governor was Republican, so was the president that year. In the 1970s, Maine began slipping. Is Maine back? Arguably, the beginning of wisdom is knowing where…

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic is now more than a half decade in the rearview mirror, but trust in public health institutions remains at a historic low. By nominating Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a top skeptic of lockdown policies and mask mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), President Trump is taking an…

Step aside, Elon Musk, and make way for the “OG” of DOGE, James Madison.  This week in 1788, Madison’s Federalist No. 62 was published in The [New York] Independent Journal. The essays we know collectively today as The Federalist Papers, each authored under the pseudonym Publius by Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, have stood the test of time…

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 3 Comments | Print In 2024, the U.S. saw the largest spike in homelessness since the federal government began regularly collecting data in 2007. This wasn’t a fluke. U.S. homelessness has been on a steep and steady climb—and immigration…

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Democrats are upset about President Donald Trump renaming the former Gulf of Mexico but want to replace the word “mother” with “inseminated person.” You can’t make this up. The Left’s war on language has reached…

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print For years, the propaganda press has tried to dismiss concerns about legitimate fraud associated with mail-in ballots. “Yes, voter fraud happens,” The Associated Press’s Ali Swenson wrote in October. “But it’s rare, and election offices have safeguards…