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Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" states, authorizing his budget director to use ...Read more

In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing. The Memorandum, just like the federalization of troops in Oregon, completely ...Read more

Former President William Jefferson Clinton's 1996 State of the Union Address announced that "the era of big government is over." Federal expenditures for fiscal year 1996 were $1.5 trillion.

A President Donald Trump-backed continuing resolution to keep the government open after Oct. 1 projects annual federal spending for fiscal year 2025 at a ...Read more

The federal government just accumulated an additional $2 trillion in debt over the last 12 months. That's the kind of debt surge America usually racks up in wartime or during major national emergencies. But today, as Republicans and Democrats engage in another budget-driven shutdown drama, we are not at war. There is no pandemic. The economy ...Read more

England and Wales are preparing to legalize assisted suicide. The "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill" was passed by the House of Commons in June and now moves on to the House of Lords. The bill has plenty of detractors, including the former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who referred to it as the "license to kill Bill." May ...Read more

On Sept 30, President Donald Trump and Secretary of War (SecWar) Pete Hegseth held a most unusual convocation of "several hundred generals and admirals" at the Marine base and training area in Quantico, Virginia.

I couldn't find an open-source figure for the precise number of flag ranks present. This metaphor should work: Hegseth and Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The brutal Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, left some 1,200 dead. I never would have predicted that, two years later, Hamas would continue to imprison hostages, refuse to release the bodies of dead detainees and still be rewarded with increasing recognition of a Palestinian state.

Terrorists proudly documented their ...Read more

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The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same.

But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed by the same misguided sense of right and wrong that ...Read more

The truth about drug-resistant superbugs sickening hospital patients is even worse than what the headlines suggest. A report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces a "shocking" increase in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections -- which tripled from 2019 to 2023 and caused an estimated 1,100 deaths. ...Read more

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: "Young people today can't get ahead!" One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, "A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one income." "That's a fantasy," says economist Norbert Michel. "We are ...Read more

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, is planning at an event scheduled for Nov. 3 to give Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) a "Lifetime Achievement Award, for his work with immigrants."

Several other Catholic bishops, however, have spoken out against Cardinal Cupich's plan, citing Durbin's record on abortion.

"I was shocked to learn ...Read more

As we approach the second anniversary of Hamas mercilessly slaughtering 1,200 human beings on Oct. 7, 2023, our media remind us daily of the death toll of Palestinians, according to the "Gaza Health Ministry," which is run by Hamas.

It's outrageous that these media outlets are such receptive publicists for mass-murdering terrorists. But they ...Read more

No one likes insurance companies -- trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog's clenched teeth -- and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance lobby.

The giant insurance companies -- including ...Read more

Winning the war of ideas isn't enough.

Consider government-sanctioned racial discrimination. There's a reason the left hides behind acronyms like DEI. Judging people on their skin color, not their character, remains unpopular. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination in employment and education. In 2023, the Supreme Court ...Read more

The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: "In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025." It was one of dozens of images on Facebook feeds showing houses of worship honoring Kirk since he was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University.

On the steps of the Pittsburgh City-County building on Grant Street in the ...Read more

A miracle defies the laws of nature.

This is why "the Mississippi Miracle," the sobriquet for the extraordinary gains that students in the Gulf state have made in reading in recent years, is a misnomer.

There's nothing miraculous about a state that adopts phonics and that sets high standards for its kids getting better results in reading ...Read more