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We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums.

This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and cooperate with Republicans to get a continuing resolution passed to fund our ...Read more

Few people lie awake at night worried about the federal debt. So the Republicans' plan to allow "temporary" COVID-19-era enhanced subsidies for Obamacare to expire because of their exorbitant cost won't win many votes.

It will save Uncle Sam money. A staggering 93% of premiums are currently paid directly by the federal government to the ...Read more

Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million.

Merrill Lynch paid $20 million.

Maryland taxpayers will have to pay $3 million to make a racial discrimination suit go away.

"This is ridiculous! Taxpayers should not be on the hook for this!" complains Heather Mac Donald, author of "When Race Trumps Merit."

In our new video, she argues...Read more

Former President Joe Biden's record as commander in chief will forever be defined by Aug. 26, 2021.

That was the catastrophic day in the American withdrawal from Afghanistan that Biden declared should be completed by Sept. 11, 2021 -- the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks that had triggered the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

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After some Trump supporters rioted at the Capitol in 2021, the national media aggressively reported on people who showed disrespect for the Capitol Police and for the rule of law itself. They touted groups like "Sedition Hunters" who aided Biden's Justice Department in prosecuting Trump backers inside the Capitol, the violent and the nonviolent....Read more

If the races were reversed, Bethany MaGee would be as well-known as George Floyd.

MaGee, 26, was recently riding on the L train in Chicago. As she was sitting there, police believe Lawrence Reed, 50, came up behind her and dumped gasoline on her. Despite her attempt to flee, Reed set her on fire. She rolled on the ground in a vain attempt to ...Read more

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania -- A highly anticipated Christmas display in Pennsylvania that is both delicious and whimsical is when the Omni Bedford Springs Hotel in Bedford County transforms one of its main entrances into a culinary delight whose aroma hits your sensory palate long before you walk through the nearly 200-year-old front door.

What ...Read more

Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z.

Why are they so financially stressed out? One reason things seem so unaffordable to young people is that too many aren't working hard -- they are hardly working.

The latest Labor Department data ...Read more

In a year marked by political vitriol in seemingly every conversation, a relentless scourge of political violence, and the highest-profile political assassination since 1968, Thanksgiving arrives just in time. Truthfully, it always does. And it always reminds us that long before Americans were addicted to constant clickbait-driven outrage, ...Read more

During a recent stop on her image rehab tour, Marjorie Taylor Greene told CNN's Dana Bash that she is sorry "for taking part in the toxic politics." It has been, she added, "bad for the country." A week later, Greene finally did something patriotic by announcing her retirement.

It's fair to say Greene is one of the most well-known GOP House ...Read more

The cultural stereotype of a Catholic nun is often very uptight -- as in unmercifully swatting a child's knuckles with a ruler -- but sometimes it's more violent. Nuns plot murders.

This happened on the CBS crime drama/dramedy "Elsbeth" on Nov. 20. The main character, Elsbeth Tascioni, is a Chicago lawyer sent to New York City to enforce a ...Read more

The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career, began improbably early in life and extended into years of repudiation by his fellow partisans, is "unintimidated."

He was unintimidated by his rise to become White House chief of staff at age 34...Read more

"Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people. Make believe that governors are the servants of the ...Read more

Before the House and Senate voted nearly unanimously -- with just one "nay" in the House -- to unseal the Epstein investigative records, the Epstein estate released 20,000 pages of unseen Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. Following that, Democrats began their tour of publicizing a handpicked set of documents from that newly ...Read more

Thanksgiving invites us to pause and consider the gifts we often overlook. This year, at a moment of rising political unease and ideological confusion, I am especially grateful for one extraordinary inheritance: a nation and its creed brought into being by the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

Why, in addition to family, ...Read more

In the contention over the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role -- carping from the sidelines.

Not only can the once-great European powers no longer dictate the fate of far-flung parts of the world, they can't even dictate the end of a war involving a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their ...Read more