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The government is "shut down." Media call this a "crisis." A "crisis (with) no deal in sight," says Fox News. Reuters says it's a "key risk to US stability." But when I look around, I see business as usual -- families raise children, workers work, people play music ... The media act like government is the most important part of life. It isn't. ...Read more

The "fact-checkers" who pick apart Donald Trump on a daily basis took exception to this recent presidential overstatement: "Portland is burning to the ground, it's insurrectionists all over the place." PolitiFact instructed that there's a few arson convictions, but all the protests are "largely confined to a two-block area" outside the ...Read more

Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law.

This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on ...Read more

Americans don't just disagree on policies. In three key areas, they disagree on the principles that lead to the creation of those policies.

The first is truth. Some people believe that absolute truth exists -- a shared reality outside of ourselves. We may not like the truth, but attempting to deny it will only cause confusion, frustration and...Read more

BALDWIN, Pennsylvania -- Collin Arthrell sat at a table filled with young people at a luncheon in a middle-class suburban Pittsburgh borough, dressed neatly in a suit with his curly hair neatly cropped.

Four years ago, you would not have seen this many young people psyched about voting in an off-year cycle. But a lot of things have changed ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The knives are out for CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded.

Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock.

What's more, Weiss owes this windfall in part to liberal bias.

The one-time New York Times ...Read more

Donald Trump has held many rallies, but never one in the parliament of a foreign nation.

President Trump's speech to the Knesset on Monday was a raucous, celebratory affair with the audience of Israeli lawmakers showering him with adulation.

Trump's reception made it a little like a State of the Union address with no Democrats in attendance ...Read more

If one were dead set on dividing President Donald Trump's MAGA coalition at the seams, how would one proceed? Trying to drive a wedge through the immigration issue doesn't necessarily make sense: Tightening and securing America's borders is so core to the nationalist-populist MAGA project that there can be little room in the coalition for much...Read more

Everyone understands that slogans such as "Free Palestine!" and "Ceasefire Now!" are just euphemisms for a Hamas victory. Never has that been more evident than today.

Take New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the new darling of the American left. He has publicly demanded a "ceasefire" in Gaza scores of times since the Oct....Read more

In 2017, in a special Senate election in Alabama to replace Jeff Sessions, Alabama's electorate sent Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate after a series of disturbing allegations about Republican candidate Roy Moore. In 2022, Georgia voters elected every statewide Republican candidate for office except Herschel Walker, after a series of ...Read more

One way you can demonstrate how the liberal networks run on dunking Republicans is how they cover congressional hearings. For weeks, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer has been probing how the Biden White House staff covered up former President Joe Biden's mental decline, and all the liberal TV networks can't locate it.

But on Tuesday,...Read more

Why are so many Democrats fond of wishing death on their opponents? That's a question raised by two astonishing developments early this month. On Oct. 3, National Review's Audrey Fahlberg revealed texts Jay Jones had sent, perhaps mistakenly, to Virginia state Del. Carrie Coyner, bemoaning the cordial remarks then-Virginia House Speaker Todd ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In a better world, Democrats would be running at full speed away from Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee in the Virginia attorney general race. As the National Review reported Oct. 3, in 2022, Jones, a former lawmaker, actually fantasized about killing Todd Gilbert, the then-Republican Speaker of Virginia's House of Delegates, ...Read more

During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the United States. The president revealed that the attacks were conducted without warning, were intended not to stop but to kill all persons on the boats, and succeeded in their missions.

Trump ...Read more

Every election season, mayors and governors step before cameras to boast that crime is down. Charts are waved, statistics cited, and carefully crafted talking points deployed to assure anxious citizens that their streets are safer than ever. Yet when you leave the press conference and walk the sidewalks of Baltimore, Chicago or Los Angeles, the ...Read more

At the heart of the budget standoff that has the government shut down is Democrats' insistence on extracting a laundry list of policy changes, including locking in the supposedly temporary, COVID-19-era expansion of Obamacare premium tax credits (or "Biden COVID-19 credits"). In essence, Democrats think the best way to lower health care costs ...Read more

Jay Jones is the current Democratic Party candidate for attorney general for the Commonwealth of Virginia. His candidacy has become a national scandal since it was revealed that he, through texts to and a phone conversation with Virginia Republican state legislator Carrie Coyner in 2022, said horrific things about Todd Gilbert, then the ...Read more