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While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" and directs federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings and those of its supporters.

The ...Read more

In a recent interview, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared in unequivocal terms that President Donald Trump was "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." You heard that right. Not a threat to democracy, not a danger to civility, the worst thing on the face of the Earth. It was a statement so hyperbolic that it felt less like political...Read more

The Nov. 4 election results are a reality check for the Trump administration. Democrats didn't just run up the score in deep-blue enclaves. With power prices soaring, they flipped two Georgia utility-regulator seats in rare statewide victories. In New York City, more than half of voters told exit pollsters that their top worry is the cost of ...Read more

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass index of 30 or higher); nearly 10% are morbidly obese. It's shocking how these numbers have increased over the years; in the 1960s, only 13% of ...Read more

To ask the question why Trump-era disruptive peace-manhandling has replaced United Nations peacekeeping operations basically answers the question, with a little useful give and take.

Bottom Line Honest Answer: For some 65 years, U.N. peacekeeping adventures have, at best, slowed the bloodletting.

As a soldier, I know that eventually rates as...Read more

Affordability. It's the word on everybody's lips.

Ever since self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani became the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral election by saying the word "affordability" with talismanic regularity, we have been told that the key to modern politics is that word's repetition. Say "affordability," and watch your polls ...Read more

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