Category: Analysis

ANALYSIS: Trump Racks Up Congressional Endorsements While DeSantis Faces Trouble at Home

Former President Donald Trump is pushing deep into Gov. Ron DeSantis’s territory, notching several endorsements by Florida House lawmakers in recent days as the former commander-in-chief continues to hold a significant endorsement edge over the Republican governor. Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) became the 11th of the 20-member Florida Republican delegation to endorse Trump over DeSantis,…


The House GOP Effort to Defund—Not Police, but Wokeness

News Analysis Through executive orders and budget requests, the Biden administration has sought to embed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” principles across the entirety of the federal government—and in turn to touch the lives of every American. Now members of the Republican House majority, who see this whole-of-government effort as a woke assault on America and its core values, are…


Prepare for Full-Blown Recession to Hit in the Summer

Commentary My private theory is that we never really left the recession that began March 2020 with lockdowns. Real household income and labor participation still haven’t recovered. Productivity has crawled along but within the range of statistical error. No question that the U.S. economy has downshifted. Whatever pathetic growth we experience now barely registers as…


IN-DEPTH: Before the Suspected Wuhan Lab Leak, a Key Scientist Knew of the Risks

News Analysis Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group initiated by Peter Daszak was soliciting funding for a lab leak prevention and preparation program, a newly discovered document reveals. Daszak later became known as a leading figure in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s funding of gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Daszak…


Read the Label! It’s BioNTech’s Vaccine, Not Pfizer’s

News Analysis As COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandates gradually fade into the past, now is a time of reckoning, and for the overwhelming majority of the opponents of the COVID-19 measures there is no question who, above all, should be made to pay: namely, Pfizer, the manufacturer of the eponymous vaccine that became the standard…


ANALYSIS: Unlike Trump, Democrats Escaped Prosecution for Election Violations

News Analysis As radio host Mark Levin recently noted, when it comes to Democrats and real campaign violations, “there is no justice.” In contrast to the weak charges leveled against former President Donald Trump, Levin provided a series of concrete examples of Democrat campaign violations, including the $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996…


South Korea Won’t Break Away From US-Led Tech Alliance Despite Mounting Pressure From China, Expert Says

News Analysis Following the U.S. chip ban on China last October, South Korea, a member of the U.S.-led Chip 4 Alliance, has not followed Washington’s strategy as explicitly as other alliance members, Japan and Taiwan, as it appears to have been trying to strike a balance between the United States and China. However, analysts believe…


Information Leaks and Russia’s Lies

Commentary “We are at that stage of the war when the information war is sometimes even more important than the direct physical clashes at the front,” Lt. Col. Yurii Bereza, a battalion commander with Ukraine’s National Guard, said regarding the recent leak of top secret U.S. documents. On April 11, the FBI arrested Jack Teixeira,…


ANALYSIS: A Close Look at the Cases Against Trump (And Why They Don’t Amount to Much)

News Analysis Last week’s politicized indictment of former president Donald Trump was the latest in a yearslong effort to target him that began with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign’s fabricated Russia collusion plot in 2016. But it is not the only legal case Trump is dealing with. There are at least three additional ongoing investigations…


ANALYSIS: You’ve Heard of the Legal Cases Against Trump, But Do They Actually Have Merit?

News Analysis Last week’s politicized indictment of former president Donald Trump was the latest in a yearslong effort to target him that began with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign’s fabricated Russia collusion plot in 2016. But it is not the only legal case Trump is dealing with. There are at least three additional ongoing investigations…