Year: 2026

Government making things worse

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – It’s almost a reflex reaction. Whenever someone sees a problem, they want a government program to fix it. Sadly, when governments get involved, things usually get worse, not better. Take, for example, healthcare. As the government has become more involved in the delivery and payment of healthcare services, quality has declined, and costs have risen…

Defensive Gun Uses Occur About Five Times More Often Than Criminals Use Gun in Crime

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates there were approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021. That same year there were estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses. That is defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more than firearms used in crime.

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Mamdani’s Tax Day Vid Backfires as Businesses Look to Escape New York

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already having success in redistributing wealth, right out of his city. It seems the socialist mayor’s creepy video celebrating Tax Day and directly calling out billionaire CEO Ken Griffin as a target for a new pied-à-terre tax may have backfired. While the slickly produced video—where he gleefully spoke about taxing…

Dispute erupts over California bill nicknamed ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’…

After Republican lawmakers in California’s Legislature nicknamed her immigration bill the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” Assemblymember Mia Bonta stressed the legislation aims to protect workers of immigrant service organizations, not silence journalists.
“Sharing the name and address of a front desk worker of a legal aid clinic to intimidate them out of doing their job isn’t journalism, no matter who does it,” Bonta, D-Oakland, told The Center Square through a spokesperson, who shared the lawmaker’s comments in a text.

The Federal government is still being weaponized under Trump

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – The Trump Department of Justice has it out for the State of New Jersey. They’re suing the state for using state dollars to provide in-state tuition for illegal immigrants who live in the state. The DOJ claims this denies in-state tuition for U.S. citizens, which is laughably false. The DOJ is also suing the State of New Jersey for a state law that requires law…

Obamacare Faces Major Shake-Up as Federal Subsidies Expire

The Obamacare marketplace is reportedly facing significant upheaval following the expiration of enhanced federal subsidies.
Cigna announced in late April that it will leave the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges in 2027, which could further shake up the individual marketplace. CVS’ Aetna ceased offering plans and overall enrollment has declined since Congress refused to renew ACA subsidies, The Hill reported.

FBI Probing Senate Intel Democrats for Possible Classified Leaks, Spurred by NSA Criminal Referral

The FBI has opened an investigation into possible leaks of classified information by Democrats or their staffs on the Senate Intelligence Committee, spurred in part by a criminal referral from the National Security Agency concerning the release of one of its overseas intercepts, sources told Just the News.
The NSA made the referral last summer concerning reports, including one in The New York Times, earlier that year during Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation process that quoted information from an intercept of two Hezbollah terrorist figures who claimed Gabbard, during a 2017 trip to Syria, had met with the “big guy.”

Federal Judge Rules DOGE Humanities Grants Terminations Unlawful

District Judge Colleen McMahon said that the department’s actions violated the Constitution and involved ‘blatant’ discrimination.