George Washington Plunkitt was born into poverty in 1842 but rose through the ranks of the Democratic Party machine of New York the famed “Tammany Hall” to become a state legislator who also became quite wealthy along the way.

Now: We have a new sort of Democratic Party machine—with the latest grift exposed in Minnesota.

Boss Plunkitt would admit it brazenly, saying: “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.”

And today’s Democrats sure have “taken ’em” as well.

It’s not just Minnesota. California—and other blue states—are drowning in fraud.

The connecting thread are the various schemes associated with COVID—state government “initiatives” that were porous and loaded with fraud funded by the Feds.

The president should create and team and dig deep on all of it. We need a report—and we need it fast.

Give them a deadline: Maybe end of August next year. Voters deserve to know how their state governments worked during COVID—or how they didn’t—before they vote again.

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The Supreme Court heard a case just recently that all conservatives and, and all Christians should be paying very close attention to.

It comes out of New Jersey and First Choice Women’s Resource Center—which is a crisis pregnancy center.

New Jersey’s Attorney General issued a hostile subpoena against First Choice—demanding they give the Attorney General 10 years’ worth of documents, on abortion pill reversal, information it provided to clients and donors, documents identifying personnel, organizations that the pregnancy center works with and information on their donors.

It's chilling stuff—and a horrible precedent.

The details are downright Orwellian.

It is—quite simply—oppression from the state. It’s targeting this Crisis Pregnancy Center.

The center turned to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the ADF—and Erin Hawley from the group argued the case before the Supreme Court.

Justices seemed receptive to the arguments of the Crisis Pregnancy Center. They should be our arguments as well.

We’ll be watching closely.

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"The problem with socialism," Margaret Thatcher famously observed, "is that you eventually run out of other people's money." New data shows that France is on the verge of exhausting this resource – but the US is not far behind.

This week, Michael Arouet published what he calls "probably the scariest chart you'll see today," showing that only one-third of France’s population works in the private sector. “How are they supposed to feed the remaining two-thirds with their taxes?” Arouet wondered.

Well might we wonder, too. The most recent data in the US shows that only 40% of the population works in the private sector. Seven percent work for the government. More than half of the population does not work at all. In fact, the percentage of American adults classified as “not in the labor force” by retirement, disability, or other reasons comes to 37.6% – slightly higher than France.

Arouet highlights the unsustainability of France’s social state as workers dwindle. We need to start talking about that unsustainability in the US as well.

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