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Everyone knows that the "big, beautiful" tax bill signed into law on the Fourth of July lowers tax burdens for families and businesses. It also averts a $4 trillion tax increase starting next year. That's enough reason to heartily celebrate.

But what isn't well known is that this new law doesn't just change tax policy. It includes dozens of ...Read more

Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst.

The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in Central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 80 people, including two dozen children at a Christian summer camp.

This is one of the...Read more

I've had an epiphany. President Donald Trump always aims for the stars. We need to do more than just defeat Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Democrat mayoral candidate.

President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ need to start the process to DEPORT HIM.

I've studied the topic of "denaturalization." This is when the U.S. government...Read more

It's the 249th birthday of the United States. And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation's grand semiquincentennial celebration next year, it is worth reengaging with the document whose enactment marks our national birthday: the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration is sometimes championed by right-libertarians and left-liberals ...Read more

I find it funny when people attack me as MAGA. Someone yesterday said I would do whatever "Dear Leader" demanded. They clearly do not know me. In fact, radio stations that air my show often get complaints from MAGA that I am not sufficiently deferential to President Donald Trump. I actually lost a station because the owner did not think I ...Read more

Democrats can say the wildest and craziest things and know that all those badly named "mainstream" media outlets and fact-checkers won't care in the slightest. Sen. Bernie Sanders can call the Republicans a Stalinist cult. Rep. Pramila Jayapal can call ICE a "terrorist force." It's all fair game.

Somehow I have ended up on several lists for ...Read more

Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel's victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been frustrated and puzzled at the lack of progress being made in Vietnam by the 448,000 U.S. troops stationed there, and the sudden and astonishing success of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "Diddy Gets Off," shouted a New York Post online headline Wednesday.

But hip-hop mogul Sean Combs didn't get off entirely. A Manhattan jury found Combs guilty of two of the five federal felonies he was charged with by the U.S. Southern District of New York -- the two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution -- but not...Read more

Major League Baseball is currently debating various rules changes to improve the game, when what it really needs is more players wearing capes and doing back flips.

That, at least, is the lesson of Savannah Bananas, the barnstorming team that has come up with a madcap version of baseball that is widely popular and selling out stadiums around ...Read more

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington?

Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away?

Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776?

When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of a foreign country ...Read more

There are many who will gather this Fourth of July under the guise of celebration -- barbecues, fireworks, flag-waving. But how many understand -- truly understand -- what they are celebrating?

In an era where grievance has replaced gratitude, the Fourth of July has become a hollow ritual for some. The danger is not just in forgetting our ...Read more

Here we go again. This week, the Senate unveiled, honed and passed its version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and it's a fiscal monstrosity. What was already an oversized mess in the House has been supersized into a $4 trillion ode to unseriousness.

This isn't tax reform. It's a bipartisan pinata stuffed with pork, gimmicks and -- of ...Read more

Trump administration "transactional diplomacy" envoys definitely tackle the tough wars -- but this time, the process has produced a bona fide peace deal.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda aren't high-tech Ukraine and Russia. Russian nuclear weapons and proximity to NATO nations give that war a deadly global relevance.

However, a ...Read more

As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America's 250th, Gallup serves up sobering data.

Per polling just released by Gallup, only 58% of Americans now say they are "extremely proud" or "very proud" to be an American.

When Gallup first asked this question in 2001, 87% ...Read more

New Yorkers are under the false impression that the taxpayer-funded New York City Campaign Finance Board is leveling the playing field to make voting for Gotham's next mayor and other elected officials fair.

Just the opposite is true. The CFB is doling out obscene amounts of our money to tilt the scales in favor of left-wing candidates.

The ...Read more

Friday is the Fourth of July. What will you celebrate? Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical idea: Rights don't come from kings or presidents. They come from being human. Government's job is to protect those rights. This ...Read more

When Jerry Garcia walked onto the stage that night in 1977 -- at Theatre 1839 in San Francisco -- the band he would play with was called the Jerry Garcia Band. Two years before that, his band had been called The Legion of Mary.

Garcia did not embrace the Catholic faith throughout his life. But in an interview published by Relix magazine ...Read more