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WASHINGTON -- The partial government shutdown hit its 23rd day Thursday, yet much of Washington has been consumed with rage because President Donald Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House to make way for his dream Big Beautiful Ballroom.

The timing is so convenient for the 47th president that you have to wonder if Trump decided to ...Read more

I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the sights I see and the conversations I hear are all underscored by a similar haunting concern: Will there even be a Europe, in any cognizable ...Read more

Is it "Islamophobic" to wonder if NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has a soft spot for Islamic terrorists? Hardly.

"God forbid, another 9/11 -- can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo told WABC's "Sid and Friends in the Morning" this week.

"He'd be cheering," host Sid Rosenberg replied.

"That's ...Read more

For over a week, Democrats have attacked the Young Republicans for a leaked group chat that had lots of offensive comments in it. Some were very sarcastic and taken out of context to score points. Others were sincere. All were offensive. None of the Young Republicans are running for office. Most have lost their jobs.

A Democratic Senate ...Read more

Every once in a while, the "fact-checkers" at PolitiFact publish reader comments, and this one stuck out: "Your site seems to be mostly about Trump all the time," read one comment. "How about a little less Trump, and write more about any other falsehood subjects?"

PolitiFact's audience chief Ellen Hine acknowledged they've published over 1,000 ...Read more

No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year's presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year: New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia voted 51.8% for Harris and 46.1% for Trump. Aside from the...Read more

President Donald Trump's use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations -- all 1,500 miles from the U.S. -- has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution's guarantee of due process requires it for every person, not just Americans. The ...Read more

Amazon Web Services is the backbone of much of the economy and the government. AWS is a cloud computing platform that enables companies to do a number of things, such as store data and increase their computing power.

Today, AWS underpins a significant portion of global internet infrastructure. Over 90% of Fortune 100 companies use AWS ...Read more

When House Speaker Mike Johnson lashed out at last weekend's "No Kings" rallies soon to arrive on Washington's National Mall, he reached for an old conservative refrain: "They hate capitalism. They hate our free enterprise system."

I am sure he's correct about some of the protesters. But the message rings hollow coming from a party leader ...Read more

On Oct. 21, news sources reported roughly 15% of the entire U.S. Navy's warships were deployed in the Caribbean Sea. The exact type and number of warships was not revealed. Still, the fleet and aircraft deployed off South America had muy macho offensive and defensive firepower, enough to support a major air campaign and possibly an ...Read more

Three weeks ago, The New York Times released a poll of Americans on the question of whether America's political system could still solve the nation's problems. The overwhelming response: no. In September 2020, 51% of Americans believed that America's system could still address America's problems; by September 2025, that number had declined to ...Read more

Few speak the truth as clearly and succinctly as House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Appearing on ABC's "This Week" last Sunday, co-host Jonathan Karl challenged the speaker's calling the recent No King rallies "Hate America Rallies," calling them "the modern Democratic Party."

Johnson responded that "there is a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party...Read more

If Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor and implements the changes he is promising, expect the city's financial condition and public safety to deteriorate rapidly. Think criminal bedlam, antisemitic rioters allowed full rein, and cutbacks to basic city services.

In such a crisis, desperate New Yorkers will look to Albany, where the governor has ...Read more

The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason. If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate. I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!" Good for him. Free speech is crucial to freedom. Democrats, by ...Read more

When Notre Dame des Victoires Catholic school celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, a famous former student taped a video presentation in honor of that moment. This was California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In a press release about its anniversary, the school said: "Located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, NDV remains dedicated to its ...Read more

One of the more tiresome mantras of leftist media coverage is Trump allegedly paging through his "authoritarian playbook." The media have their own protest playbook, as you could tell when leftists organized another mass protest titled "No Kings," as if we've ever had a king.

The network newscasts slobbered all over this Saturday event, using ...Read more

"The stakes couldn't be higher," Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrat running for state attorney general, said Monday in an X post. It was an ironic post, coming 10 days after National Review reported numerous violent text messages Jones sent to a colleague in the legislature about a Republican lawmaker. Jones fantasized about urinating on the ...Read more

The following column is coauthored by Stephen Moore and David M. Simon.

The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsize continually skyrocketing Obamacare health insurance premiums. The Wall Street Journal ...Read more