U.S. taxpayers in so-called red states tend to get a better return on investment for their tax dollars, compared to high-tax blue states, according to a study for the 2023 tax season. WalletHub, a credit score site, released a report on March 21 titled, “2023’s States with the Best and Worst Taxpayer ROI,” which showed a clear…

Of all the businesses that are moving out of blue states, those in the gun industry lead the pack. Storied firearms manufacturers, some of them having operated in northern states for centuries, are now heading South. Remington, founded in 1816 and America’s oldest gun maker, announced in November it was moving its headquarters from New…

Amidst predictions of a political “red wave” in the upcoming mid-term elections, an economic wave has been building for years with no end in sight as companies flood out of blue states and into red states. And as a result of its political divisions, America appears to now be dividing itself into prosperous, high-growth states…

Commentary According to Clay Travis on Dec. 22’s Clay Travis-Buck Sexton Radio Show, the blue states are hemorrhaging people. From the transcript: “And they came out with the data on, the Census data for 2021, and—this is interesting—New York was the number one state to lose population. Around 320,000 New Yorkers bailed on the state….

Commentary Even if you’re watching Fox News, the former broadcast media of choice for conservatives, the absence of reporting on Nov. 3, 2020 feels like an alternate universe. In my world of national security, it is a similar and parallel alt reality. The theme of beltway-centric defense journals is to fawn over the current administration…

Commentary In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively—and peacefully—under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included much of modern-day Western Europe and northwest Africa. The Eastern half controlled Eastern Europe and parts of Asia and northeastern Africa. By 330 the Emperor Constantine institutionalized that split…

Red states, on the whole, recorded the lowest rates of unemployment in the United States in August, although blue states led the way in terms of the sharpest reduction in their rates of unemployment over the past year, new government data shows. The top seven states with the lowest unemployment rates in August were Alabama (3.1…

Commentary Congressional Democrats are a runaway train with a drunk-on-power conductor in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. No matter how much evidence pours in that the economy doesn’t need $1.9 trillion more in debt spending, the Pelosi locomotive keeps crashing down the track toward the financial cliff. Generations will have to pay for the joyride. One…

Commentary Last week, I visited South Florida for four days, and what a shock: Everything was open. The beaches, the hotels, the restaurants (with some sensible safety and social distancing restrictions). The classrooms are full. The other strange thing about being in Florida was that people were happy. They were playing tennis and golf. They…