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Envy is an ugly thing -- one of the seven deadly sins.

Europeans have long been dripping with jealousy that American firms dominate the tech sector -- cellphones, search engines, social media platforms, artificial intelligence and robotics. Our "magnificent seven" tech companies -- including Google, Nvidia, Apple and Amazon -- saw massive ...Read more

Wildfires are inevitable. The apocalyptic devastation seen in Los Angeles isn't.

The Palisades Fire started recently in west Los Angeles. Driven by intense Santa Ana Winds, the fire quickly spread into the residential area of Pacific Palisades. That fire, along with others in L.A., forced more than 175,000 residents to flee. The fire ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) took the threat of avian flu head-on at a town hall at the 109th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, saying that as highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads to dairy in other states, his administration would remain proactive and aggressive in establishing a nation-leading surveillance-testing ...Read more

Over the last devastating week of wildfires, there are many things that we've learned that the Los Angeles Fire Department needs -- and more women firefighters isn't one of them.

This isn't to slight the contribution of female LAFD personnel who are out there giving it their all in dangerous conditions, but to note that of all the phenomena ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post: "We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal ...Read more

I left Malibu, California, 23 years ago because of high taxes and liberal morons. I just couldn't take the liberals and their crazy, radical, extreme ideas anymore. I moved to Las Vegas. It was the best move of my life.

In Las Vegas, we have no taxes -- no income tax, no business tax, no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax and among the ...Read more

In the days leading up to the November 2023 presidential election in Argentina, a hundred "leading" economists from around the world, including progressive favorite Thomas Piketty, published an open letter warning that "radical right-wing economist" Javier Milei would inflict "devastation" and social chaos on his country.

They said it like it...Read more

The late, great Andrew Breitbart was one of the most quotable conservatives of his era. "Walk toward the fire," he exhorted his fellow activists. "Don't worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks." It was good advice when Breitbart said it during the contentious Barack ...Read more

"February was the wettest month in downtown Los Angeles since 1998. With over 12 inches of rain drenching the city, it was the fourth-wettest February -- and the seventh-wettest month overall -- in the city's nearly 150-year recorded history," said Judson Jones' report on Los Angeles' weather on March 2, 2024, in The New York Times. Just under...Read more

It's important in a democracy that the losing side grapple with its defeat and learn the right lessons for next time. A certain amount of reflection and self-criticism is healthy, but we've blown past that point and are in danger of over-interpreting the 2024 results. Despite headlines proclaiming the GOP won in a "rout" or declaring that "This ...Read more

In all the somber coverage of Jimmy Carter's death, the audience could and should expect the tone of kindness that wafts over wakes and funerals. Each president served as leader of our nation, shouldering a great burden over a large country with an ever-enlarging government.

But sometimes the tributes grow a little too treacly. CBS reporter ...Read more

The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly, even wildly, with the former losing and the latter gaining clout.

That's been most visible in the series of announcements and selfies emanating from the gaudy precincts of Mar-a-Lago. The experts like ...Read more

In business, Donald Trump was a real-estate guy. In the presidency, he might be one, too.

The prospective foreign policy of his second term has taken an unexpected turn, with his recent talk of annexing Canada, buying Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal. Rather than the neo-isolationist that he's often accused of being, Trump is ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Embrace the chaos -- that's my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage.

If you thought that the second time around President-elect Donald Trump was going to be more congenial toward our allies in the international community, Tuesday you got your wake-up call.

During a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump...Read more

When British kings wanted to dispose of troublesome enemies -- real or imagined -- they often had them or their colleagues arrested on pretextual charges and then brutally tortured until confessions were extracted. The confessions were then read aloud during so-called trials; and, of course, the defendant was convicted of whatever crime was the ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's second tour in the White House can be a glorious last hurrah or the last flicker of a dying comet. The choice is his.

Mr. Trump will enter the White House on Jan. 20 free from customary political obligations or ambitions. He has no political debts to pay. He defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris decisively ...Read more

The arrival of a new presidential administration invokes new beginnings and a break from the past. Still, realities from previous administrations remain, such as a fiscal challenge that demands immediate attention. It may weigh on the newcomers even more than they realize today. We can only hope they take it more seriously than their ...Read more

As President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration approaches, people in this country and throughout the rest of the world are celebrating. To those who voted for him (as well as those cheering for him abroad), his victory in the 2024 presidential election signifies a revolution by Americans who have long felt compromised, betrayed and sold out by...Read more