The following article, Cody Balmer – Suspect Arrested in Firebombing of Gov Josh Shapiro’s Home, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Cody Balmer, 38, was arrested by Pennsylvania authorities as a suspect in the firebombing of Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro’s home late Saturday night. Gov Shapiro and his family were asleep in the house when the attack took place. Balmer told the court that he would have beaten the Governor with his hammer if he was … Continue reading Cody Balmer – Suspect Arrested in Firebombing of Gov Josh Shapiro’s Home ...

President Donald Trump’s critics are right about one thing: The first few months of his second term have been a reckoning. Starting with the federal government’s pursuit of law firms and organizations that committed lawfare against the president to hobble his political comeback, Trump has now supercharged executive authority to stop the flood of ideologically based lawsuits targeting America’s energy providers.  In an executive order signed last week, Trump empowered Attorney General Pam Bondi to turn up the heat on local prosecutors and state attorneys general abusing the legal system with lawsuits against energy companies. He is right to do so. “Making America Great Again” has to include energy dominance and eradicating the barriers to innovation and growth at all levels of government, including courtrooms. Trump has directed Bondi to “expeditiously take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement of state laws and continuation of civil actions” that threaten American energy dominance, including restrictive rules and civil actions against oil, natural gas, hydroelectricity, and nuclear energy projects. What Trump is specifically targeting here is the well-resourced cadre of state attorneys general and liability “lawfare” firms that have deployed creative legal strategies to try to extract money from companies by claiming they’ve committed “climate” crimes. This genre of lawsuit relies on the alleged violation of state nuisance or consumer deception laws, and litigators argue that the energy companies actively strove to mislead the public about their products’ impact on the climate. A local lawsuit in North Carolina against Duke Energy, one of the largest nuclear energy utilities in the nation, provides the most baffling case. Officials in the small suburb town of Carrboro want the company to pay for the “climate-related harm” caused by its electricity generation, even though Duke Energy’s carbon-free nuclear energy fleet powers half the homes in North and South Carolina, and the region’s use of natural gas is one of the lowest per capita in the country. Climate lawfare has a direct impact on consumers who rely on affordable energy of all types by forcing these companies to beef up their legal departments rather than improving the delivery of their goods and services. The end result is higher prices for consumers who already live on tight budgets due to the rising cost of living in other areas of the economy. Most, if not all, of these cases are filed in blue states and launched by attorneys on behalf of city governments such as Honolulu; Boulder, Colorado; and San Francisco. The states of Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, Maine, New York, and California each have their own lawsuits aimed at recouping the “costs” of climate change on local communities and enforcing “net-zero” energy policies.  Net-zero policies seek to rapidly choke off fossil fuel use in order to reach zero carbon emissions by reducing them as well as removing them from the atmosphere and relying on renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and sometimes, nuclear power. Oil companies like Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP get hit hardest, but like in the case of Duke Energy in North Carolina, electricity utility companies get dragged into the mess as well.  But as far as messes go, it’s one carefully orchestrated by the climate litigation industry, armed with deep pockets and patience in its quest to pull the rug out from under Big Energy. That’s why Trump’s revamp of federalism to review many of these laws and statutes is not only legal but deeply necessary. Consumers who need affordable energy and who rely on continued innovation from the companies that power their lives should not have their standard of living cut by greedy environmental lawyers jamming up district courts where judges are ideologically inclined to their side.  In March, the Supreme Court declined to weigh in on the deluge of Democrat state-led climate lawsuits, denying the request by red states to put a halt to the lawfare. In their dissent, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito made clear that the court was punting on a vital constitutional case “for policy reasons.” When the Supreme Court refuses to address the obvious abuse of our litigation system for energy providers and the consumers that rely on them, the intervention of the executive branch becomes a necessity. The most likely unconstitutional state statutes that enable these costly lawsuits should meet the wrath of a president willing to exercise some federal authority. Trump has answered that call, and at least on this specific issue, he’s proved that our government’s unique balancing act between state and federal power does make it possible to get important things done for Americans.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump Is Right to Hammer Environmental Lawfare appeared first on The Daily Signal.

One of the most prominent defenders of the Trump agenda during the president’s second term has been the Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. A relative unknown on the national stage prior to being tapped for the post, Bessent, 62, has quickly become one of the president’s most effective communicators. A recent poll found him to be the most popular Cabinet member in the second Trump administration.  Bessent was born in Conway, South Carolina, to a real estate investor father and into a family that descended from the French Huguenots. Bessent’s pathway to success would take him for a time north although in time he would return to his native Palmetto State. After graduating from high school, Bessent attended Yale College, where he studied political science and earned the John Proctor Clarke Prize for outstanding service and leadership.  Indeed, the young South Carolinian’s career in finance was not always apparent. In college, Bessent served as the news editor of the Yale Daily News. It was only after losing the race to be editor-in-chief of the paper that he applied to intern for a well-known money manager and Yale alumnus named Jim Rogers. “A lot of what you do is the same kind of research you do in journalism. My approach is to start with an abstract concept and then look at the empirical data, as a good journalist would do,” Bessent explained to the Yale Alumni Magazine. After graduation, Bessent joined the investment advisory and private banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York City, starting a 40-year investment career. Throughout the years, Bessent worked for several firms, including Kynikos Associates and Protégé Partners, but he probably made a name for himself as a deputy for, of all people, leftist billionaire George Soros. From 1991 to 2000, Bessent led the London office of Soros Fund Management as managing partner. In that capacity, he was a key member of the team that made the firm more than $1 billion in 1992 based on the collapse of the British pound.  In 2000, Bessent started his own firm with money from Soros. The firm closed in 2005, and Bessent returned to Soros Fund Management as chief investment officer in 2011. He left again in 2015 with $2 billion from the Hungarian-American billionaire to start Key Square Capital Management.  Bessent has long been a prominent ally and prodigious fundraiser for Donald Trump. He donated $1 million to the president’s inaugural committee in 2017. He also co-hosted a fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, that raised more than $50 million for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Bessent has sought to clarify the president’s goals when it comes to his tariff policy. He told Tucker Carlson in a recent interview, “The Democrats had this strategy called ‘compensate the loser.’ So, first of all, the name of that strategy. I don’t think the bottom 50% of Americans are losers,” he said. “I think the system hasn’t worked for them. I think that they are winners. It’s just a bad system. So, we are going to fix the system. And look, they want good jobs. They want their kids to do better than they did. They want to own a home. They want to pay down their debt,” he explained. Bessent insists that the president’s tariff policies are designed to bring back prosperity for many Americans. “This administration cares. And this is the first step toward realigning that,” Bessent explained.  Bessent is known to have a high net worth with a personal financial disclosure estimating his assets at more than $500 million. While being fifth in line for the succession to the presidency no doubt has its prestige, it remains true that many wealthy Americans take pains to avoid the harsh spotlight of politics. So, in that sense, Bessent takes a page from the Trump playbook, risking criticism and forsaking further fortune for public service. Indeed, the two American leaders follow a long line of wealthy Americans in public service that began with President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.  As he was rising through the financial capital ranks, Bessent became active in philanthropy. Bessent funded the McLeod Rehabilitation Center at the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. He has served as trustee for Rockefeller University and was an adjunct professor of economic history. Bessent’s Yale connections are such that he was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who also went to the Ivy League college. Bessent taught a class about the Great Recession to undergraduates as the financial meltdown was happening. Bessent has said publicly that he was motivated to enter public life because of government overspending.  “The market and the economy have just become hooked, and we’ve become addicted to this government spending,” Bessent told CNBC. The post How Treasury’s Bessent Went From Soros Employee to One of Trump’s Top Lieutenants appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Sen. Bernie Sanders showed up at the Coachella music festival in California this past weekend to talk about the evils of capitalism… at one of the most capitalist, elite, influencer-packed festivals on the planet. You truly cannot make this stuff up. The irony is strong with this one and further proves that Donald Trump has modern democrats STUMPED on how to respond to his agenda. The post WATCH: Bernie Sanders’ Coachella Speech Proves the Democrats Are LOST appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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