For two years, families have experienced the dire impact of massive government spending at the gas pump, the grocery store and in their everyday lives. Two years of the Democrats’ one-party control in Washington has caused this financial pain and made life more unaffordable for millions of hard-working Americans.

I attended the recent Beto rally. Beto ranted and raved about guns for about 10 minutes.

EDITOR’s NOTE: Michelle Malkin is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy this substitute column by Laura Hollis.

On Thursday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is also the Show Me State’s candidate for U.S. Senate this November, unveiled some very interesting documents that his office, along with the office of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, have received since the two states jointly filed a potentially pathbreaking lawsuit in May.

On Aug. 19, The New York Times published its latest op-ed calling for the end of the Constitution of the United States. The authors, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, teach law at Harvard and Yale, respectively. They argue that the Left’s progress has been stymied by constitutionalism itself. “The idea of constitutionalism,” they correctly write, “is that there needs to be some higher law that is more difficult to change than the rest of the legal order. Having a constitution is about setting more sacrosanct rules than the ones the legislature can pass day to day.”

josh hammer President Joe Biden’s new plan to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 annually is a dereliction of constitutional duty, a crass political gambit in the lead-up to a contested midterm election and a morally perverse value judgment that lavishes The Regime’s insular, well-heeled voting base at the expense of the median middle-class American. It is, to borrow a term in vogue in Democratic Party circles these days, a truly “deplorable” act.

marjorie jackson EDITOR ’S NO TE: Two recent news stories make the following commentary especially pertinent. The Hays school district in San Marcos has reported three student deaths this month, suspected to be fentanyl related.

Fewer young Americans affiliate with any organized religion than ever before in American history. This means, therefore, that the children -- and certainly the grandchildren -- of millions of faithful Christians have abandoned Christianity. The same holds true for Jews, but that decline began somewhat earlier.

Recently, I landed in beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to speak at a pro-life summit. The summit organizers had kindly dispatched a van to transport a number of us from the airport, and a U.S. congressman who happened to be on the same arriving flight hopped on to hitch a ride. The congressman, a conservative, was actually not in town for the pro-life summit; he was in town to campaign against his House colleague and Jan. 6-obsessed would-be martyr for “democracy,” Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-Wyoming). Turns out the campaigning congressman’s efforts were not in vain: Last Tuesday evening, Republican primary voters in Wyoming walloped Cheney and nominated her leading challenger, the Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman. In this sparsely populated deep-red state, the Republican primary doubles as the de facto general election. Hageman can thus book her ticket to Washington, come January.

Nine years ago, I warned readers about “eyelock biometric readers” adopted by Florida schools to track students on buses. Under the guise of fighting guns and vaping, countless schools this year are now installing surveillance sensors in bathrooms that can spy and record students’ alleged “aggression” and red-flag “spoken key words.”