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Vice President JD Vance's speech Feb. 14 at the Munich Security Conference was not merely the most important speech the precocious young second-in-command has delivered in his political career. It was also a speech that encapsulates an entire geopolitical era -- that of a return to prudence, sobriety and nationalism as the hallmarks of ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spread many detestable theories in his life, but none is more detestable than his scaremongering over autism and vaccines.

It's not merely that the new Health and Human Services secretary has convinced thousands of Americans that they're partially responsible for their children's autism -- a trend he once compared to...Read more

Chelsea Milburn is a disabled veteran of the United States Navy who, until recently, worked for the United States Department of Education. As part of cuts from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, she has lost her job. On Wednesday, she appeared on the news and lamented, "They don't care about how this impacts me or people ...Read more

At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute.

On the morning of Feb. 20, NPR anchor Korva Coleman promoted an anti-Trump lawsuit, and notice there are no ...Read more

If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable to speak any further while reflecting on Vice President JD Vance's speech there. This breakdown is remarkable because the chairman, Christoph Heusgen, is not a minor apparatchik but a sophisticated and ...Read more

As I watched election returns on the evening of Nov. 5, 2024, I was struck by the sense that Americans had missed the memo. Across the nation, in blue states as well as red, county after county showed a marked rightward shift. It was so seemingly normal. What do you do when groceries are much more expensive than four years ago, the border is ...Read more

President Donald Trump's creation of a Department of Government Efficiency on Day One of his second presidency, and delegation of responsibility for its oversight to Elon Musk, has resulted in revelations of extraordinary waste and fiscal irresponsibility not only within aid agencies but within government departments. Among the more ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The number of border apprehensions was down in January -- 29,116 illegal aliens were apprehended along the border, the lowest number since May 2020.

In January 2022, the number of southwest border encounters exceeded 150,000.

The White House calls it "the Trump effect."

With the whole world listening, President Donald Trump's ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- To deflect from his own misdeeds, mistakes and mayhem, President Donald Trump likes to accuse the mainstream media of ginning up "fake news."

But one thing that the folks in the Fourth Estate can't fake -- and no longer even bother trying to hide -- is their dislike and disrespect for Trump. Those negative feelings also carry ...Read more

Normally, when the government asks a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a defendant, the judge will happily do so. This does not occur frequently, but occasionally, the government will reevaluate the strength of its own case and conclude it cannot prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty.

What happens when the ...Read more

Elon Musk is a force of nature. He has assembled the greatest fortune (more than $450 billion) in the history of mankind with a maniacal work ethic and fearlessness in challenging orthodoxies or tradition. He is a one-man show at SpaceX, Tesla and X (formerly twitter), and is poised to dominate artificial intelligence. Mr. Musk is a marvelous ...Read more

Serious problems should be met with serious solutions. We have serious problems, namely a fast-growing debt and a need to extend some tax cuts in an unforgiving environment where interest rates are high and inflation is rising again. Unfortunately, despite a new mandate, House Republicans have yet to rise to the occasion. Their latest budget ...Read more

This week, the world was reminded of the deep and abiding evil that has wormed its way to the center of Palestinian nationalistic culture by the news that the Bibas family -- a mother, Shiri; a 4-year-old boy, Ariel; and his 9-month-old brother, Kfir -- who had been kidnapped back to Gaza on Oct. 7 had in fact been murdered. Their bodies are ...Read more

S.E. Cupp is not filing this week. We have subbed Cal Thomas, for release on Thursday, Feb. 20.

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The left is screaming that President Donald Trump is on some kind of ideological crusade.

Some recent headlines: "Trump and Musk's Purge Isn't Cost Cutting -- It's a Coup"; "Doge is About Ideology and Mindless Budget Cutting"; "Elon Musk's Indiscriminate Carnage"; "Dems Must Stand Up Against the Bully in the White House."

It's sort of like ...Read more

The political hacks opposing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are laughable -- until you realize these hysterics present a serious threat to U.S. national security.

President Dwight Eisenhower's no longer with us, but we have his National Security Council 162/2 report, dated Oct. 30, 1953. Once top secret, it's now on the ...Read more

New York is already getting sued by the Trump administration for prioritizing illegal aliens over the safety of Americans. Get ready for New York City to be slammed with similar suits.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blusters that the legal action is a "worthless, publicity-driven lawsuit" that will "be a total failure." Hochul insists "New York ...Read more