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It seems impossible that a man like Tom Steyer could have a realistic chance at being one of the two top finishers in California’s June 2 jungle primary. But Steyer, like the other seven Democrats and two Republicans that are running viable campaigns in the crowded race, doesn’t have to appeal to a very large percentage of voters to come out in first or second place. He’s up against several politicians with durable constituencies, splitting the vote so thoroughly that it is conceivable that the top performer could win with only around 20 percent of the vote.
There are few things worse than someone who has had everything handed to them who acts like they’ve somehow earned all of it. We say these people “were born on 3rd base and act like they hit a triple.” I don’t have a problem with inherited wealth, but that, coupled with a sense of entitlement, is too much form. I call it the “Lucky Sperm Syndrome” – the people whose greatest, and often only, accomplishment in life is that they were the sperm that cracked the egg. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker comes to mind.
What’s So Great About Diversity?
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Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or just better outcomes is pervasive in today’s democracies that have committed themselves to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions of feminism. Sure,
As reliability concerns grow, Democrats
signal retreat from previous push to 100%
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signal retreat from previous push to 100%
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Since 2019, nearly two dozen states — most of them blue states — have vowed to transition their grids to run without generators powered by fossil fuels within the next 24 years.
While Democrats have often been vocal supporters of these efforts, President Donald Trump’s energy policies have produced a direct challenge to net-zero plans. Outside the political sphere, independent assessments find the nation’s grid is becoming increasingly fragile, primarily a direct result of an overreliance on weather-dependent renewables.
This has led to a rapid shift in the conversation on energy in America.
Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors’ energy infrastructure Thursday, setting Qatari liquified natural gas facilities ablaze as it hit back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation in the Mideast war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.
A ship burned off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and another was damaged off of Qatar, underscoring the ever-present danger facing vessels due to Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.
Qatar, a key source of natural gas for world markets, said firefighters had put out a blaze at a major LNG facility after it had been hit by Iranian missile attacks.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn released a draft framework for a national rulebook on artificial intelligence to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order.
The Republican senator from Tennessee previously told The Daily Signal that Trump asked her to introduce the framework to establish a national standard on artificial intelligence.
When asked by The Daily Signal if the White House supported the framework, a White House spokesperson said, “We continue to have productive conversations with legislators as we work with Congress towards delivering national AI legislation, as directed in the president’s Executive Order.”
A group of Florida county sheriffs on a state advisory council are calling on President Trump to ease up on his immigration policy and to create a “path to citizenship” for illegal migrants who are holding down jobs and who are not otherwise engaging in criminal activity. Despite that the sheriffs have been elected by Republicans and appointed to the State Immigration Enforcement Council by Republican Gov. Ron De Santis and Republicans, the council members are collaborating on a letter to President Trump calling for a more liberal focus on immigration policy.
For years, Americans turned off by Hollywood haughtiness, partisan taunting, and general wokeness have tuned out of celebrity awards shows. The 98th Academy Awards proved to be no exception. Sunday night’s Oscars only racked up 17.86 million viewers on ABC and Hulu combined.[snip] the first All-American Halftime Show, featuring artists such as Kid Rock and Lee Brice, garnered 25 million views across YouTube and Rumble. TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet noted shortly after the rival Super Bowl show wrapped that there were “a lot of large groups watching together, so the number of viewers is likely far higher.”
This is the kind of news you love to hear, when government seems to be doing something many Americans say they voted for when returning President Trump to another round in the White House: getting rid of the potential noxious collusion between far-leftist progressive nonprofit organizations and the homegrown terror entities like Antifa they bankroll.
Readers may remember during former Presiden Biden's administration, when Democrats insisted at length that rampant mob violence, and the riotous ransacking of businesses and burning of federal buildings,
Here's something I doubt many people had on their bingo card. A new poll released today shows two Republicans leading the California race for governor.
Despite a long, entrenched Democratic reign over California politics, a new poll shows two Republicans leading by slim margins in the state’s 2026 race for governor as the June primary election fast approaches.
The confounding results appear to be mostly due to the state’s left-leaning electorate feeling uninspired by any single candidate in the crowded field of eight top Democrats. Because of California’s top-two primary rule, that lethargy could lead to Democrats being shut out
Has the progressive Left finally hit its high-water mark? Even in deep-blue Illinois?
Yesterday, the state that launched Barack Obama's presidency and created Chicago's socialist decline went to the primary polls to nominate midterm candidates. As usual, progressives competed heavily for House and Senate seats, as well as in state legislative races. Most unusually, Axios reports, hard-Left candidates appear to have lost every competitive race in which they contended, running campaigns that featured attacks on Israel as well as Hakeem Jeffries:
The left suffered a virtually total collapse in the Illinois Democratic congressional primaries on Tuesday night — even in races where the AIPAC-backed candidate lost.
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten dismissed the narrative of a MAGA split Wednesday with polls showing President Trump is enjoying 100% support from his Republican base.
“Sometimes you look at the polling data and there are numbers that just jump off the screen at you – and this is one of those,” Enten said, as he highlighted an NBC News survey showing Trump’s 100% approval rating among Republicans who identify as “MAGA.”
“You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to know you can’t go higher than 100%,” Enten quipped.
“He is the 1972 Miami Dolphins,” the data expert marveled,
As the saying goes, elections have consequences, and so does campaigning as a far-left, Marxist dunnekin dweller. Mao-mao candidates around the nation are bombing like the Enola Gay, while President Donald Trump's MAGA movement continues to skyrocket. Finally, the lefty whistle-stoppers who espouse tovarish nonsense, like allowing dudes in pigtails to shower next to your daughter, are learning the hard way that We the People don't want their stinkin' cultural Marxism, and the latest Stalinista to fall is Comrade Jean Kaczmarek, a pinko stinko from Illinois: It seems Comrade Kaczmarek missed the memo, which stated that 71% of Democrats want voter ID
Democrats across the country were watching the primaries in Illinois on Tuesday, trying to read the tea leaves to see what might happen in other federal contests.
What happened was that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker impressively flexed his political muscle and brought several progressive candidates to victory, all of whom identified with the mainstream Democratic Party in Washington, D.C.
Candidates who railed against Israel and were backed by radical groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Justice Democrats were buried in what may presage a backlash against the crazies within the Democratic Party.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday attended the dignified transfer of the six servicemembers killed when a KC-135 refueling plane crashed in Iraq. The transfer was closed to media. The president departed the White House in the early afternoon en route to Dover Air Base in Maryland for the transfer of the six servicemembers: National Guard Capt. Curtis J. Angst of Ohio, Air Force Maj. John A. Klinner of Alabama, National Guard Capt. Seth R. Koval of Indiana, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt of Kentucky, Air Force Capt. Ariana G. Savino of Washington, National Guard Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons of Ohio
Easy Way Luxury is a Miami-based chauffeur company that offers the "pinnacle of luxury and sophistication" to VIP clients "who demand the very best." One of its top customers is indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D., Fla.), who has spent more than $200,000 in taxpayer funds with the firm and its owner since taking office in January 2022, House payment records show.
Cherfilus-McCormick is well-versed in using taxpayer funds to boost her own standard of living. Federal prosecutors charged her in November for the role she played in an alleged scheme that saw her family-owned health care company rake in more than $5 million from fraudulent COVID-related FEMA invoices, funds which she
In 2017, the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) conned its way into the Philadelphia school system in the name of “student safety and inclusion.”
CAIR then went into action and orchestrated a series of lesson plans, training sessions and workshops for students and educators that advocated the elimination of certain terms like “jihadists,” “Islamic terrorists,” or even “radical Islamic terrorists” when it came to teaching about September 11, 2001.
The plan was brilliant, and the Philadelphia School District bought it lock, stock, and barrel. The teaching mantra was this: A Muslim attack in the name of Allah was not to be named Muslim or Islamic.
In 2022, a state audit of California hospice licensure and oversight found that there were “numerous indicators” that “large-scale hospice fraud” was happening in Los Angeles County. The fix was for the legislature to set up a fraud and abuse task force. Renewed reporting from independent journalist Nick Shirley shows that the fraud is "frauding" at unprecedented levels. I have my gripes with blue-ribbon commissions and special task forces in the effort to look busy, but according to my MetaCrawler AI source, Perplexity, no commission was ever established to investigate and stop the fraud.
"No dedicated commission was created after the 2022 California State Auditor report on hospice fraud.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied California’s emergency request to modify a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a policy that allowed public schools to withhold information from parents about a student’s gender transition. California filed an emergency motion seeking to revise the language of a permanent injunction against the policy, citing the need to address situations involving parents who might engage in abuse. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the California policies violated the First and 14th Amendments. “Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence,..." the permanent injunction states.
In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.
At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to “complete the job within another $10 million,” before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.
Officials projected a 2025 completion date for the overpass, and estimated that the entire project — which includes the bridge and other ancillary developments — would cost $92 million, some of it coming from private philanthropists.
Oil dropped as Iraq signed a deal to resume exports via Turkey that avoid the Strait of Hormuz, and as the US stepped up efforts to force the reopening of the key waterway.
Brent fell below $101 a barrel, after adding more than 3% on Tuesday, while West Texas Intermediate was near $92. Iraq agreed with Kurdistan to resume oil exports through a pipeline in the semi-autonomous region that goes to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. The US said it had used penetrator munitions to hit Iranian anti-ship cruise missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz, the vital passage that President Donald Trump has been seeking to reopen.
Iranian leaders call the US the “Great Satan” and burn effigies of President Donald Trump in the streets — but that doesn’t stop them sending their kids over here to learn.
Children of regime leaders and bigwigs are at prestigious universities across the US, including University of Massachusetts, New York’s Union College and George Washington University, The Post can reveal.
Sources said allowing people linked to the regime to assume such influential positions could present a threat to US values. “I would think that there would be a security risk as Iranian academics have been critical in forming public opinion on the left
"We Can't Send This To DOJ:" New Doc Alleges
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A newly released document from Sen. Chuck Grassley adds a significant and troubling dimension to what was previously known about the conduct of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, a central figure in the surveillance of Trump campaign associates in the Russia Collusion investigation. (snip) The new information shows that his misconduct was not limited to a single target, but (snip) extended to another investigation against Trump adviser Walid Phares. (snip) it had become obvious that (snip) there was no case against him. (snip) Despite this, Clinesmith (snip) prevented these conclusions from being sent to the DOJ officials responsible for (snip) FISA renewal applications.
A program to provide health care for pregnant illegal immigrants in Colorado is costing the state over seven times its budget projections since it was enacted, the Colorado Sun reported.
The Covering All Coloradans program, which was enacted in 2022, gave health care benefits to illegal immigrants who would otherwise have qualified for Medicaid, according to the Sun. The program was expected to cost the state $14.7 million dollars but its cost has instead ballooned to over $104 million. The program’s launch was secured in 2025 when money was appropriated by the state legislature. The state is now facing a $1 billion budget shortfall, primarily due to programs like