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Election Notebook: Guest Oped – Trenton government runs on paper. It doesn’t have to.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s Note: The Trentonian’s Election Notebook is a collection of local political announcements and opinion pieces courtesy of the respective campaigns.
Why tariffs can't hide a $77 billion reality check
In May, the U.S. goods and services trade deficit widened sharply to $77.6 billion. This represents a staggering 42.2% jump in just a single month. To put that in perspective, the trade gap is now significantly higher than the $70.1 billion monthly average seen during the Biden administration. But this is not alarming unless you were listening to the Trump administration's explanation for why we needed to start a global trade war .
Poisoning truth: The four lies in Rahm Emanuel’s case against Israel
Rahm Emanuel just proposed his preferred Democratic Party policy on Israel: Our strongest ally must forfeit its historic heartland for the creation of a 22nd Arab state or face sanctions and a severing of the American alliance. In doing so, he showcased his misunderstanding of reality. Emanuel’s remarks displayed a contrast in how to address failed ideas. President Donald Trump signed an awful ceasefire agreement with Iran just a few weeks ago.
Election Notebook: What Atlanta figured out — and what Trenton should do next
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s Note: The Trentonian’s Election Notebook is a collection of local political announcements courtesy of the respective campaigns. To submit press releases and photos, email the editor, John Berry, at jberry@Trentonian.com A forensic audit of Trenton’s Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture is now public.
The ROAD to Housing Act is a dead end for affordability
Joel Griffith and Marc Short, Washington Examiner American families are enduring the least affordable housing market in history . President Donald Trump and Congress rightly recognize the scale of the crisis. But the Republican Senate's 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is a dead-end. The legislation fuels more home-price inflation with an expansion of government subsidies. Meanwhile, its frontal assault on private investment will suppress the supply of new single-family rental homes.
The ROAD to Housing Act is a dead end for affordability
The bill compounds this problem by subsidizing housing supported by Section 8 vouchers. Suburban and rural areas that have built schools, infrastructure, and tax bases around their own preferred development patterns could find more voucher recipients pushed into concentrated subsidized housing in their neighborhoods. Federal bureaucrats should not be influencing decisions, whether by mandate or financial incentives, about what gets built where.
Now boarding Government Airlines
Denied the merger lifeline, Spirit filed for bankruptcy twice since 2024, and its stock collapsed from $33.50 to under $2, wiping out billions in shareholder wealth. (Washington Examiner illustration; Getty Images) The Biden administration always opposed market competition, and a dead company can’t be competitive.
Our Navy was built for this moment in the Strait of Hormuz
Now 232 years later, Iran is threatening to charge tolls from merchant vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, laying mines in the waterway, using selective passage to reward its friends as leverage against the United States and Israel, and has still projected that it is of the strait. After marathon peace talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, collapsed last weekend, Trump responded with a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Washington can’t become America’s bookie
Betting on elections and economic data may be the newest frontier in “finance,” but it is still gambling. And while Congress has the power under the commerce clause to regulate that interstate activity, it has not clearly handed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a blank check to bulldoze 50 states’ gambling regulatory regimes in the name of “exclusive jurisdiction” over prediction markets. Many prediction market platforms are functionally indistinguishable from sportsbooks.
Trentonian Election Notebook: Trenton homeowners who fall behind on property taxes deserve a monthly payment plan
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s Note: The Trentonian’s Election Notebook is a collection of local political announcements courtesy of the respective campaigns. To submit press releases and photos, email the editor, John Berry at jberry@Trentonian.com Every year, Trenton families fall behind on their property taxes.
Oct. 7 was the beginning of the end for Tehran
(March 12, 2026 / JNS) Iran stood at the peak of its power on Oct. 7, 2023. For decades, the Islamic Republic armed, trained and funded Hamas. On this day, the terrorist organization inflicted the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas gunned down young concert-goers in an open field, dragged children dragged from their beds and massacred residents in 21 communities dotting southern Israel.
Hormoz Shariat, Joel Griffith, Scott Turner, Albert Mohler
On today’s program: Casey Harper, Managing Editor for Broadcast at The Washington Stand and Host of the “Outstanding” podcast, provides an update on protests in Minnesota and other cities, and President Trump’s comments on Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. Dr. Hormoz Shariat, Iran Alive Ministries President, shares insights on tensions and protests in Iran and delves into the increasing persecution of Christians.
In Israel, sounds of war mingle with songs of life
The post In Israel, Sounds of War Mingle With Songs of Life appeared first on The Daily Signal. Bullet holes and toppled furniture bear witness to what happened in the home of one young couple living in Israel close to the border with Gaza on Oct. 7. Their home still partially stands, but they—and about 100 other members of their small community—are dead.
Big Box Retailers Seeking To Shift Their Costs and Handicap Small Competitors
Several states are considering proposals to exempt the sales tax portion of business transactions from credit-card processing fees. These fees—imposed by interchange platforms such as Visa, MasterCard, and American Express—typically amount to around 2% of the total transaction. Since 2006, 29 states have considered variations of this proposal. None have passed—for good cause.
Big box retailers seeking to shift their costs and handicap small competitors
Several states are considering proposals to exempt the sales tax portion of business transactions from credit-card processing fees. These fees-imposed by interchange platforms such as Visa, MasterCard, and American Express-typically amount to around 2% of the total transaction. Since 2006, 29 states have considered variations of this proposal. None have passed-for good cause.
Randy Weber, Joel Griffith, Chris Gacek, David Closson
On today’s program: Randy Weber, U.S. Representative for the 14th District of Texas, discusses the Biden administration’s mismanagement of the immigration crisis and the threat this poses to national security. Joel Griffith, The Heritage Foundation’s Research Fellow, reacts to President Biden’s recent “Bidenomics” speech and analyzes the latest economic trends.
Defund SJP and deport Hamas-supporting visitors
But on this so-called “Day of Resistance,” the SJP went far beyond just celebrating the odious massacre dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In the official information "toolkit" issued to coordinate these rallies, the SJP proclaimed: “Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.” In response to this overt admission of being “PART of” this Hamas movement to eradicate the Jewish state of Israel, Gov.
Defund SJP and deport Hamas-supporting visitors
When Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered more than 1,300 men, women and children dead, Students for Justice in Palestine promptly organized rallies across U.S. college campuses, heralding the murderers as "liberation fighters" showing the "creativity necessary" to accomplish their mission. But on this so-called "Day of Resistance," the SJP went far beyond just celebrating the odious massacre dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
The Biden administration must face it: Terrorism works
Secretary of State Antony Blinken ordered his Office of Palestinian Affairs to delete the statement as soon as journalists began calling. “Terror and violence solve nothing,” it read. It was the usual State Department pabulum. Most statements nowadays are empty and formulaic, as easily written by a computer algorithm as a diplomat. The notion that terrorism never works is a nice sentiment. The problem is it is not true.
Travis Weber, Joel Griffith, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Jonathan Cahn
On today’s program: Travis Weber, FRC's VP for Policy and Government Affairs, shares the latest from Capitol Hill on the budget debate. Joel Griffith, The Heritage Foundation’s research fellow, breaks down the latest inflation data. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ruth Institute Founder, shares her story on her organization getting de-banked. Jonathan Cahn, author of The Josiah Manifesto, previews what he will be sharing at this year’s Pray Vote Stand Summit.
Ron Estes, Joel Griffith, Michael Toscano, Meg Kilgannon, Arielle Del Turco
On today’s program: Ron Estes, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Kansas, shares the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations and reacts to the White House’s assertion that illegal immigration has dropped 90% during the Biden administration. Joel Griffith, Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, comments on the continuing fallout from the bank failure of First Republic. Michael Toscano, Institute for Family Studies Executive Director, breaks down Utah’s new age verification law.
Who's to blame for the priciest housing in history?
With so much attention fixed on soaring prices for gasoline and groceries, one can almost overlook the fact that we're also enduring an affordable housing crisis. The question is, why? Joel Griffith is a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies.
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