Author: Zachary Faria Washington Examiner

Eat your heart out, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). The best-run state in the country is still Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Florida. For the third year in a row, CNBC ranked Florida as having the top economy in the country, based on factors such as GDP and job growth, credit ratings, spending, revenues, pension obligations, and the residential real estate market. Florida also ranks…

Former President Joe Biden and his team have a new defense regarding his autopen scandal: Just trust the man and the aides who lied to the country for four years. Biden has attempted to get out in front of the scandal revolving around the use of an autopen when it came to the mass pardons…

Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City are prominent examples of how Democrat-run jurisdictions distort the criminal justice system. Other Democrat-run areas typically fly under the radar, and Virginia’s Democratic counties, Fairfax and Loudoun, are among the worst offenders. The latest criminal saga in Fairfax County is that of Richard Cox. Cox is a man…

The Left’s obsession with illegal immigration is getting worse, and weirder, as it strains to resist any and all attempts to enforce immigration law. The immigration raids in and around Los Angeles have resulted in more violent actions from “protesters” and more ridiculous defenses from Democratic politicians. On the latter front, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called President Donald Trump “scum” for a raid…

Professional sports: Fun for the whole family, assuming the family is rich or just watching from home. The surge in ticket prices for live sports has made it costlier for fans to go to games in recent years, and especially costly for fans with families. From 1999 to 2020, the price of tickets to sporting events has grown more than twice…

California Democrats try to use the weight of the state’s economy to regulate how the entire country operates. This extends California’s inflationary policies to the rest of the nation. The Justice Department is suing California over several egg regulations that it contends have kept egg prices higher than they should be. Among the laws in…

Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) government in Minnesota plans to discriminate in hiring with a new policy next month that requires “hiring justifications” if someone from a “non-underrepresented” group is hired. The policy is live on the Minnesota Department of Human Services website, having been issued on July 1 and taking effect on Aug. 12. It reads as follows: “Hiring supervisors must provide a hiring…

Roe v. Wade may finally be gone, but liberal judges are continuing to prioritize abortion above all other aspects of the law, including the Constitution itself. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump included a provision blocking Medicaid dollars from being used to reimburse health providers who perform abortions.…

The Democratic Party’s monopoly on power in California is, apparently, not as invincible as it seems. That is the only conclusion one can reach from the events in Sacramento over the past month, as Democrats have been forced to balance their ideological commitment to destructive climate policies and their desire to avoid the looming political…

Palestinians lie about Israeli “war crimes” to serve their political agendas, and their liberal media allies play along and add a veneer of credibility to those lies so they can smear Israel. This has been going on for years, but it has grown far worse since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks. It is now…