Democrats thought they found their next political golden boy in Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, but they realized his campaign follows the same pattern as disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell—with an even worse résumé.
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Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Now Panicking Over Businesses Leaving
Seattle’s socialist-in-chief is no longer laughing about chasing away businesses and wealthy residents. But the attitude adjustment may be too little, too late. Just a few weeks ago, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson infamously giggled when asked if she was concerned about wealthy residents fleeing Seattle because of her policies.
California School District Spends $300K to Partner with LGBTQ Center
California’s Pomona Unified School District signed a memorandum of understanding for the 2024-2025 school year for a “mentoring program” with Pomona Valley Pride. The memo specified that the pride center was to provide “academic support, mentoring, and tutoring services to all students in middle and high school who identify themselves LGBTQ+ and their families to address their unique needs and challenges.”
Blue Cities Like Portland Prioritize the Antisocial Over the Law-Abiding
Like many of America’s once-great metropolises, Portland, Oregon, has seen better days. Drug-addled homeless continue to ravage the streets, and businesses have left for greener pastures. The reason Portland has become such a disaster is simple: It prioritizes the needs of its most destructive residents over those who follow the law.
The Intifada Comes to Brooklyn Under NY’s Socialist Mayor
Mamdani has made it clear he’s a committed socialist who is unlikely to deviate from the Left’s policy priorities. But a significant part of the coalition that brought him to office is also maniacally focused on creating an American intifada.
Today’s NFL Means Higher Prices and More Politics
The president speaks for tens of millions of Americans who are equally fed up with the NFL these days, as it moves to take more games off broadcast while still pushing more woke politics on and off the field.
Gender Ideology Is Bad for Missouri Women
If Missourians think the debate about gender-neutral bathrooms is isolated to states like California, they should pay attention to what recently happened at Kansas City International Airport. Just a few weeks ago, a man was accused of secretly filming at least 66 women inside the airport’s gender-neutral restrooms.
Trump White House Takes Transgender-Motivated Terror Threat Very Seriously
America’s counterterror forces can no longer ignore the threat of extremism motivated by transgender ideology, and President Donald Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy rightly addresses this threat.
Graham Platner and the Maine Election Scam
Platner went to Hotchkiss School. He’s the son of a famous architect. His father was a lawyer. His mother is a restaurateur. So, he’s among the elite, and yet he keeps yelling about millionaires. His parents are millionaires, no doubt. He grew up as a millionaire. So, there’s a problem with him
Is the Left’s Censorship Industrial Complex Pulling the Strings Behind AI?
Over the past decade, the Left has cultivated a censorship industrial complex of “experts” on “extremism” who try to bully Big Tech and corporate America into blacklisting conservatives over hot-button cultural issues such as LGBTQ+ orthodoxy and parental rights.
Nazi Tattoo? Hamas Fan? No Problem, Says Chuck Schumer
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general.
Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed Platner, proving that there’s virtually nothing a leftist can say or do that is disqualifying.
Iran Is Losing the War, and the Global Power Balance Is Shifting
We’re approaching 60 days of the so-called Iran war, and we’re still getting these loud voices that Donald Trump has failed, that the war’s not going well. It’s completely nonempirical. It’s antithetical to the evidence.
Biden Administration’s Anti-Christian Bias Was Even Worse Than You Think
The anti-Christian bias seeped into official policy across the federal government, from personnel matters—where Christians’ requests for time off around Easter Sunday were met with suspicion in the State Department—to the IRS investigating churches for traditional Christian values perceived to be aligned with the Republican Party.
Dems Beclown Themselves by Defending SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center makes its money by exaggerating “hate” to scare donors and by comparing conservatives to the KKK. Like a dog returns to its vomit, so Democrats return to the ridiculous claim that the SPLC is some sort of noble civil rights group and that to attack it is to attack America’s soul.
Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams Tour No Longer Welcomes All
Nearly 30 years “down the tracks,” Springsteen has launched his “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour.” Except now, instead of “all aboard,” it’s “No MAGA is welcome.”
Law and Order Works
Crime plummets in Washington after Trump takes action.
ICE Announces Arrests of Several Violent Criminals
ICE has arrested another round of violent criminals in the country illegally who have been convicted of heinous crimes in the U.S. Among those ICE arrested are five men from Mexico or Guatemala, some with sexual crime convictions, including crimes committed against children.
The California Exodus Grows
People don’t leave California for Texas for the better weather, they go because they can’t afford to stay in a state with high taxes (if you buy Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “low-tax state” spiel, you are a chump), an outrageous cost of living, and dysfunctional government to boot.
Mamdani Walks into a Passover Seder with Don Lemon and Drag Queen Rabbi
Zohran Mamdani is clearly aiming to convince the world that he isn’t antisemitic in the most lefty-coded theater-kid way possible. It didn’t quite go as he planned as he got heckled.
Mobile Billboards at Airports Blame Dems for Long Lines
“Democrats are willing to take the airlines hostage if it means showing their radical base they’re fighting on behalf of illegal aliens,” said Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, the group funding the billboards.
Unhappy 16th Birthday to Obamacare
What have Obama and Congressional Democrats wrought? After 16 years, they have imposed a complex health care law that is unaffordable and dysfunctional.
The Upcoming Moon Mission Transcends Anti-Scientific Climate Activism
By pressing ahead, NASA is allowing scientific evidence rather than speculation to guide their decisions. They are also making a clean break with a concept known as the “precautionary principle” that has deep roots in the United Nations climate conferences that date back to the early 1990s.
Upset in Virginia After Muslim Democrat Busted for Racist Tweets
Republican Jeannie LaCroix, won a special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat, defeating Democratic nominee Muhammed Sufiyan Casim a Muslim Pakistani immigrant, who in the 2010s made a series of online posts containing racist, misogynist and antisemitic content.
Mamdani’s NYC Flirts with Chaos
Assaulting police officers is not a prank. It is not political theater. It is a crime. Every individual captured on video throwing objects at officers should be identified, arrested, and charged accordingly.