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Reading commentary about the recent elections, I thought of an observation of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."

That is, we must always be disciplined in looking at things as they are and not bend to the temptation to ...Read more

Homeowners vote red. Renters vote blue.

Will President Donald Trump's 50-year mortgage make a red voter out of you?

That is what the president hoped on Saturday, when he posted the idea of stretching out the customary 30-year repayment terms for home mortgages to 50 years.

Turns out, that idea is smoke and mirrors. But at least Trump is ...Read more

"America will never be a socialist country!" says President Donald Trump. I hope not. Trump rightly declared socialism "the wrecker of nations and destroyer of societies." But I fear he's confused about what socialism is. "Trump says he's against socialism, but he is having the government get involved in owning companies and directing companies,...Read more

Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of losing their federal food stamp benefits? None.

There was one good reason for this: There was no federal food stamp program at that time.

Now, America is a nation where politicians in both parties argued during this year's ...Read more

The self-appointed enforcers of "progressive" media indoctrination are satisfied that CBS hasn't yet changed the tone of "60 Minutes," which they call a crown jewel of the Dan Rather Network. Tom Jones at the Poynter Institute was pleased that Sunday's show still featured two fair and factual stories that criticized President Donald Trump.

That...Read more

In 1996, former President Bill Clinton declared, "The era of big government is over."

Three decades later, the left has a different message. In his victory speech, NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani declared, "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."

While that's a ...Read more

MEDORA, North Dakota -- Standing here this summer in the Badlands overlooking where the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is under construction, any person curious about the 26th president can be assured that this place will indeed capture the spirit and essence of the man.

I was left with the same sense after reading the new Bret ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani surged to an easy victory as the "democratic socialist" mayor of New York City, complete with media enthusiasm that carried echoes of silly Obama love songs. The badly named "mainstream media" earnestly promoted the most extreme candidate.

Andrew Cuomo must have felt so betrayed. In 2020, he was the media's pandemic prince. His ...Read more

Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald Trump by 52%-46% margins in 2024. Democrats ran significantly better in both states on Tuesday. One reason is that Trump Republicans, as an increasingly downscale party, see their turnout sag in off...Read more

Americans are going to get a little healthier.

President Trump cut deals with the drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to increase access to obesity drugs in a major benefit to American public health.

The agreements are a win-win-win -- good for consumers, good for the companies and good for Trump.

One of the most irrational superstitions ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani's win Tuesday should send tremors far beyond New York City. A Mamdani victory will ignite wholesale legislative attacks on property owners, charter schools, law enforcement and businesses all across New York state. From Buffalo to Amagansett, nothing will be spared.

In New York, the big decisions about criminal law, education, ...Read more

When there's crime, I blame the criminal, But Dallas politicians blamed a business. Dale Davenport owned Jim's Car Wash. But five years ago, after a shooting at the property, the city ordered him to shut it down. Why did they target his car wash? When I first investigated this story, Davenport told me he was a "model citizen," doing everything ...Read more

When the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act came up on the House floor on April 5, 2000, it had significant bipartisan support. Sixteen Democrats cosponsored the bill and 77 voted for it.

As explained in its official summary, this bill would prohibit "an abortion in which the person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally (1) ...Read more

The CBS News program "Sunday Morning" has been hailed as one of the "crown jewels" of the network -- which means it's larded with liberal bias. Last year, it was a conveyor belt of Democrats.

They aired puffball interviews with Pete Buttigieg, Doug Emhoff, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Kamala Harris. So it was typical when ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In case you hadn't noticed, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is a Black woman, as she repeatedly reminds readers in her memoir, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines."

Jean-Pierre also is "openly queer" -- her words, not mine, scattered like breadcrumbs throughout her 177-...Read more