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Few things in Washington, D.C., generate as much as excitement and intrigue as a Supreme Court confirmation showdown. For decades, since the eponymous "borking" of then-Supreme Court nominee Bob Bork in 1987, political battles surrounding the membership of the nation's high court have been among the most contentious and raucous of Beltway ...Read more

In a recent interview with "No Lie" podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, former President Barack Obama claimed that conservatives do "the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together."

This is a jaw-dropping contention coming from a man who began his presidential aspirations accusing ...Read more

When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When Thompson ran for President in 2008, NBC stopped aired re...Read more

The people who call themselves the "mainstream media" have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. House Republicans have passed the SAVE Act, while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed it.

But the American people do not. Gallup pollsters ...Read more

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the audience at Munich took Vance's comments as insults. In February...Read more

"Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war." -- James Madison (1751-1836)

Last week, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ruled that the problem of undocumented immigrants in ...Read more

America is tired. Not tired of debate. Not tired of conviction. Americans can handle disagreement. What they are weary of is perpetual combat. They are weary of the temperature always being set at boiling. They are weary of economic anxiety, cultural distrust and political trench warfare that seems to reward outrage more than results.

If ...Read more

Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year's extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that the Congressional Budget Office's latest 10-year outlook ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio created quite a stir at the Munich Security Conference last week. Rubio's speech emphasized the shared heritage, history and culture of Europe and the United States -- described broadly as "Western civilization" -- and called upon the nations of Europe to defend and be proud of that heritage and to preserve ...Read more

Everyone who witnessed it remembers where they were. The victory of the gold-medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team over the Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, was the greatest American sporting event of the 20th century, featuring the greatest call of all time -- broadcaster Al Michaels indelibly counting down the final...Read more

During a Feb. 15 press conference with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio concisely framed the problem ayatollah Iran's nuke weapon-seeking dictatorship presents the sane world: "We're dealing with radical Shia (Islam) clerics ... with people who make political -- geopolitical decisions on the basis of pure ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that stood out not for its bombast but for its clarity. In a room filled with political figures from across the Atlantic -- and from both parties at home -- Rubio was unmistakably the adult in the room.

Within the Trump administration, Rubio is ...Read more

Within the last six months, two friends, both pioneers and giants in the world of ideas in Washington, D.C., passed from this world.

One, Ed Feulner, was the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, which became the nation's defining policy institute for conservative ideas.

Now, last week, Ed Crane, the co-founder of the Cato Institute, passed...Read more

The collapse of young Ilia Malinin -- the U.S. figure skater known as the Quad God -- on Olympic ice last Friday is the moment in this year's games most watchers will remember. Few of us can imagine performing the feats of these athletes, but we can all relate to blowing a high-stakes moment. It's part of the human experience.

Why does it ...Read more

Trigger warning: The following discusses themes of race, gender, "hate" speech. Author Heather Mac Donald takes a lot of heat. She writes about race, crime, diversity, gender, merit -- and says things that got her shouted down on college campuses. She points out the absurdity of the left's attack on Western civilization. "For the left to claim ...Read more

The trip that former President Ronald Reagan took to Europe in June of 1987 culminated in one of the greatest speeches of the last century -- but its first major moment was a visit to the Vatican.

On June 3, 1987, Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan flew to Venice, Italy. Shortly before midnight, they arrived at the Villa Condulmer, where they...Read more

When President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan held a press conference on Feb. 12 to announce a drawdown in federal enforcement in Minnesota, he reported that during their surge, ICE agents "located 3,364 missing unaccompanied alien children -- children that the last administration lost and weren't even looking for."

Speaking separately on...Read more

The Seattle Seahawks held up the Lombardi trophy, but the biggest winner on Super Bowl Sunday was Turning Point USA.

The Super Bowl halftime show is one of the most-viewed television events of the year. But conservatives felt alienated when the NFL announced the headliner would be Bad Bunny. The singer is an outspoken critic of President ...Read more