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Scrambling to repair its mail-ballot boondoggle, the Maryland State Board of Elections began reprinting ballots Thursday, with plans to have more than 500,000 ballots resent to voters by next Friday. The elections board first announced last week that an undetermined number of mail ballots for the June 23 party primary were sent to the wrong voters, which it blamed on an error. While an undetermined number of voters will be voting a second ballot, the state’s top election official assured the public that only one ballot will be counted per voter for Maryland’s June party primary.

Iran's regime has been using two tactics. It says: "We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided." Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf, it says it does not know what it wants. "The Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go," Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; "they are also just a fractured country." That is exactly what the regime wants: that you are dumb enough to believe that. The Iranian regime knows precisely what it wants.

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Colleges are cutting tuition for MBA programs. But it’s not out of charity or because they got another taxpayer-funded subsidy to “fix” exploding higher education prices. Rather, and perhaps counterintuitively, it’s because Uncle Sam finally capped the previously unlimited federal loans for graduate students. At first blush, this sounds like it would make the problem worse. Fewer borrowing options for students seems like it would shift more of the cost of attendance to today, when students are young with relatively low incomes. But that assumes—unrealistically—that the cost of education is fixed, and that colleges don’t respond to changes in the market.

‘The exodus from California is real, troubling, and has become too large to ignore.” That was the message of “California Migrating,” the Pacific Research Institute’s report in 2021 on the mass migration of Californians to other states. The trend has not abated since. From 2020 to 2025, California lost nearly 1.7 million more people due to net domestic migration – meaning that more Americans moved out than in. And this exodus was widespread – 44 of California’s 58 counties were on the losing end. That is real, and troubling. But there is a tiny silver lining. Census data show that 14 of California’s counties—

As an initial matter, China's regime has no red lines and no principles. It moves its "lines" as a result of changing perceptions of its own bargaining position. At the moment, Xi's favored form of diplomacy is intimidation, so he tries to make it appear that he will never change his positions.... [E]verything, including Taiwan, is ultimately negotiable for him. The inability of the Chinese military gives the U.S. the cost-free opportunity to arm Taiwan. Taiwan...is not a "bargaining chip." Taiwan to American security. Taiwan prevents China's navy and air force from surging into the Pacific and threatening America and our democratic allies, such as Australia, Japan and the Philippines, close to home.

Decades ago, I remember reading an article in Newsday, a newspaper based on Long Island and at that time the eighth largest daily in the country. It was a first-person admission of the writer’s irresistible attraction to morbidly obese women. After several family members and friends encouraged him to figure out his obsession by going into therapy, he assented and entered not typical once- or twice-a-week therapy, but five-times-a-week psychoanalysis. In the article, he described the immense benefits he derived from his 20-year commitment to this form of therapy and how it helped his relationships with his parents, his job, and his self-confidence.

The massive social‑services fraud carried out in Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota has been one of the top stories of the year as “The Quality Learing Center” came into our national lexicon and people like Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) kept saying, “nothing to see here, folks.” Now the chickens have come home to roost for one of the masterminds, however, and she will be staring at concrete walls for many a year. Cry me a river: “It was never my goal to do this.” Say what? You defrauded the people for hundreds of millions of dollars, and it was an accident?

And so, the indictments on the fraud front just keep rolling in, and yes, this is what we voted for. In the latest, 15 people have been indicted in a fraud scheme in (where else) Minnesota, that may have seen the alleged perps defraud the American taxpayers to the tune of $90 million. That is, as someone once said, a big freakin' deal. Director Patel's post is on the long side for X, but it's worth the look: That's a good thing; these indictments should be followed by a swift trial and, if the accused are convicted, lengthy prison terms.

The DNC has finally released its 2024 election autopsy, and if you were hoping for a moment of genuine Democratic self-reflection, prepare to be disappointed. The report took forever to see the light of day, and DNC Chairman Ken Martin's explanation for the delay was something else. "When I received the report late last year, it wasn't ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over. I could not in good faith put the DNC's stamp of approval on the report that was produced,"

Is there something in the water right now? Yet another massive fraud scheme has been dragged into the sunlight, this one from Ohio, and the reported numbers are staggering. Possibly, in the billions. First, the Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak, earlier in May, blew the lid off what he describes as widespread fraud and abuse, posting the results of his investigation on X. Incentives matter. This particular program is not just asking for fraud; it's down on its knees begging for fraud, so we shouldn't be surprised when people answer the call. This may as well have been an engraved invitation. Here are just a few of the things Mr. Rosiak uncovered:

Five people in Greater Manchester have been arrested over allegations of fraud linked to the local elections in Tameside involving the alleged fielding of fake independent candidates to split the anti-Labour vote. The Telegraph has the story. It follows an investigation by the Manchester Mill website, which claimed fake independent candidates were put forward by the Tameside Labour group in a bid to split votes for opposition parties. Manchester Mill reported allegations that internal messages had been posted in WhatsApp groups connected to the party, discussing planting fake independent candidates on the ballot paper.