Author: Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner
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What’s stopping Trump from using the Insurrection Act in Minnesota?
President Donald Trump recently flirted with invoking the Insurrection Act again. This time, it was over the anti-ICE protests and some unrest in Minnesota. However, a different act of Congress could stand in his way. “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the…
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Trump administration aims to prevent private equity from buying individual homes and driving up prices
To hear President Donald Trump tell it, he’s bringing back the American dream of mass home ownership. Unfortunately, at this moment, “because of the Record High Inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress,” the American dream is more of a pipe dream for many. “[E]specially younger Americans,” Trump wrote on Truth Social…
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Whitehouse vs. the White House: A Rhode Island Democrat emerges as a top Trump antagonist
When Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security facility in early August, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wanted to know why. Roughly one week after meetings with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell was “suddenly transferred from a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas,” Whitehouse wrote in a…
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A revolution left to soak: Celebrating the invention of the dishwasher
The dishwasher was made in America, though there is some dispute over who did it. That’s because there are two rival American inventors of the dishwasher, with dueling patents. Credit comes down to which model of creation you find more persuasive: genius or tinkering. The genius was a man named Joel Houghton, who invented and…
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The great supply chain robbery
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon, criminals have made off with tens of billions of dollars in precious cargo — every year. That’s the basic sales pitch by the supply chain lobby for the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025, or CORCA, introduced in the House and Senate in April. “Cargo…
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Trump tariff rollout flummoxes congressional Democrats
Many Democrats in Congress have been critical of President Donald Trump’s unilateral tariffs. At the same time, they have been unsure what to do about them. That’s because their party remains deeply conflicted over free trade. Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) declared himself a “proud son of the Rust Belt” in a video message that the House…
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Pope Francis, 1936-2025
“An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,” Pope Francis said in his recollections, which were published this year. As the head of the Catholic Church for a dozen years, Francis was known for carrying his own bags, settling his own bills, and making his own phone calls.…
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Trump makes gold great again
The global price of gold rose above $3,000 an ounce on March 14 and has stayed close to or even above that price ever since. That figure is relevant because of what it says about investors: they’re spooked. Gold can fluctuate in price but tends to hold its value better than most global commodities for…
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Something rotten in Denmark, Vance says in Greenland jab
Vice President JD Vance took a page out of Hamlet and charged that something is rotten in the state of Denmark in a short video announcing his visit to Greenland. “Unfortunately, leaders in both in America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long,” Vance said in a one-minute video posted to…