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Uncharacteristically for him, Donald Trump is being too modest in asserting his power over the Federal Reserve.

He's fired Lisa Cook "for cause," citing a clearly pretextual alleged mortgage infraction, when as a constitutional matter, he should be able to fire her, or Chairman Jerome Powell, for any reason he deems appropriate.

The ...Read more

"It is (my) intention to ... demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government." -- President Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural ...Read more

An epidemic of juvenile violent crimes endures. Why? The law presumes juveniles are intellectually and psychologically too immature to appreciate the wrongfulness of their violent ways and deserve leniency. But to borrow from Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist," "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass -- a idiot."

Violent juveniles have what ...Read more

Concerns about the Federal Reserve's independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this week's decision to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations. But this debate is too narrowly focused on the president's political pressure, ignoring a growing danger in our system.

It is true that ...Read more

The Cracker Barrel chain of restaurants has backed off the disastrous plan they had to revamp their classic logo, which had featured an elderly white man in overalls ("Old Timer" or "Uncle Herschel") leaning on a barrel. The new logo was a bland shape in the same orangey-brown color with just the words "Cracker Barrel" on it.

The public did <...Read more

A crowd gathered around New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday as he lay on his back, struggling to bench press 135 pounds as part of the annual Men's Day event in Brooklyn. New York City Mayor Eric Adams derided him as "Mamscrawny," but almost no one else seemed to care. Weightlifting isn't a requirement for being mayor.

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This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed "redefinition" of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled "Inside Trump's American identity project," Axios posited that "President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American." What would this new ...Read more

The much-publicized exchange between Bed Bath & Beyond chairman Marcus Lemonis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a lesson for the whole country.

We shoppers look back fondly on the marketing acumen that, starting with one store in 1971, built Bed Bath & Beyond into a retail giant that once had 365 stores nationwide.

The shopping experience...Read more

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender.

The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event -- as in Hollywood documentary news reels, visual mass media of the time.

Over 300 U.S. and allied ships crowded Tokyo Bay, wall-to-wall naval power, with the battleship USS...Read more

Some parents abuse their kids.

Child welfare workers are supposed to stop that to protect the kids. But bad things often happen while they watch.

"Children have a right to safety," says Tim Keller. "If home is a danger, we as a society have to step in and protect those children." Keller, legal director of the Center for the Rights of Abused ...Read more

Three months after he delivered perhaps the most famous pep talk in the history of American football, Coach Knute Rockne traveled to Washington, D.C. -- where he spoke to a gathering of Studebaker executives and then at a luncheon hosted by the Notre Dame Alumni Association.

On Nov. 10, 1928, the Fighting Irish had played Army at Yankee ...Read more

One reason that many Republican voters took a shine to Donald Trump in 2016 was the way he showed no respect to the national chattering classes of the Democrat-media complex. George W. Bush was a kinder, gentler Republican -- and they compared him to Hitler. No matter which flavor of Republican was elected, the "objective" media savaged...Read more

The left is willing to admit it has made mistakes. It isn't willing to admit that it has been mistaken.

The bad news keeps coming for the Democratic Party. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the party "faces a voter registration crisis." Among the 30 states and Washington, D.C., that register voters by party, Democrats dropped 2.1 ...Read more

CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania -- Richard Lattanzi started his morning on Aug. 11 getting ready to take his father to his doctor's appointment at Jefferson Hospital on Coal Valley Road in nearby Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania.

Within hours, the hospital would receive trauma victims from a series of explosions at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works. The...Read more

Let's start with a very simple truism: You can't have prosperity without people.

Human beings are the most valuable resource, because it is human ingenuity that creates, captures and cultivates all other resources. We as human beings are the custodians and protectors of the planet, not the destroyers of the planet (as the radical ...Read more

Donald Trump's alleged fascist crackdown is finally here -- federal troops are on the streets of major U.S. cities with almost certainly more on the way.

First, they came for Los Angeles, then, for Washington, D.C., and next, if reports are to be believed, Chicago.

There's no doubt that Trump loves the optics and sense of strength that comes...Read more