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Every recreational golfer of my generation shares at least two things in common: We grew up revering Tiger Woods, and we know "Happy Gilmore," the 1996 Adam Sandler golf comedy, like the back of our hands. Which millennial, while lining up a putt on the green, hasn't told himself at some point to just "tap it in -- give it a little tappy, a ...Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced this week that their countries would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state.

The first problem with that is "Palestine" is a fictional place. There never was any such thing.

And diplomatic recognition of it no more changes this reality than if Israeli Prime ...Read more

A few weeks ago, press outlets globally ran a horrific story about Israel shooting at starving Palestinians trying to get food. The story was not true. Before the press began retracting it, a man in Colorado attacked several Jews, killing, among others, a Holocaust survivor.

Earlier this week, the New York Times, on its front page, showed a ...Read more

Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: "On Power." How do you boil that subject down to 208 pages?

In America, the founders and their current admirers have been all about limiting power, having the humility about human nature to understand that people lust for power.

Early on, Levin quotes C.S. Lewis observing, "It may be ...Read more

Here's a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president's party almost always loses the House and, slightly less often, Senate seats.

There are two structural reasons for this. One is that parties in power tend to do things or produce results that...Read more

This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- which sits right below the Supreme Court -- is hearing a case of profound constitutional importance. It is the government's appeal of a ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade, which found that President Donald Trump's unilateral imposition of tariffs on certain ...Read more

Moderation in all things is our deliverance from the strife and upheaval of extremism. The Aristotelian means recognizes that wisdom and truth are more chiaroscuro than prime colors. Drawing lines are the heartland of civilized law. It can be said without exaggeration that civilization was born when the first human reflected, "I could be wrong. ...Read more

Having extended most of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and added even more tax breaks, Congress is once again punting on the central fiscal question of our time: What kind of government do Americans want seriously enough to pay for?

Yes, the Big Beautiful Bill avoided a massive tax increase and includes pro-growth reforms. It also adds to the...Read more

Politicians have lusted after the "youth vote" for decades, but the "youth vote" is getting even younger these days. Great Britain, for example, has just dropped the voting age to 16, one of fewer than 10 nations where minors that young can vote.

Advocates for young teens voting tend to lean left politically, and for good reason: Children ...Read more

Timing of America's 250th anniversary next year, 2026, couldn't be better.

It will serve as a great encounter, for too many Americans for the first time, with the founding principles of our nation.

Too many have lost touch with the principles that created the miracle called the USA, and unfortunately, increasing numbers are hostile toward ...Read more

On Monday, July 28, during a trip to Britain, President Donald Trump dramatically reduced the time Russian President Vladimir Putin has to end the Russo-Ukraine War.

For some five months, Trump has tried to cajole, hustle and verbally compel a cessation of hostilities between Putin's regime and Ukraine. After a diplomatic scuffle, President ...Read more

The public is fed up with having to climb over drug-addled zombies and mumbling, mentally deranged vagrants on the streets and in the subways.

But New York City's far-left politicians insist the homeless should be catered to on their own terms, including providing them with clean needles to support their addictions, and medical care wherever ...Read more

Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer. We license drivers. We license dogs. But most government licensing is useless. Or harmful. It limits competition, raises costs, leaves consumers with fewer choices and blocks opportunity for people who want to work.

Michelle Freenor, a tour guide in Savannah, Georgia, gets good reviews ...Read more

In fiscal 2024, when President Joe Biden was still in office and the federal government was running a $1.8 trillion deficit, the Department of Education spent three times as much as the Department of Homeland Security and six times as much as the Department of Justice.

The Department of Homeland Security, according to the Treasury Department,...Read more

Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler announced on July 28 he's hanging up his Pinocchios and accepting a generous buyout after 27 years.

"Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss," he announced.

Kessler used a Pinocchio ...Read more

LIVINGSTON, MONTANA -- The American outdoorsman -- whether an angler floating through a canyon while fishing for brown trout, or a hunter looking for the rubs, fresh scat and tracks where their game of choice is feeding -- is often depicted by legacy media as a disparate collection of people spread all across the country.

Their preference to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- There's a reason why Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, cut a deal with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon last week.

Elite universities like to pose as protectors of free speech, but nobody believes that anymore.

For decades, they've served as taxpayer-subsidized echo chambers.

Then, in March, the ...Read more

Hamas started a war, rejected a ceasefire and stole and profited from humanitarian aid, and we are supposed to believe that it's all Israel's fault.

International attention is focused on food shortages in Gaza, with the blame and the pressure -- as always -- on Israel to do something about it.

It is always difficult to get to the ground ...Read more