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Here's a scenario from California that would be hard for even a Hollywood screenwriter to come up with.

This is a state generally seen to lean heavily to the political left.

Its congressional delegation -- the largest in the country -- stands at 52 House members, of whom 46 are Democrats, and two senators, both Democrats.

The state ...Read more

Child care got expensive -- more than $13,000 per child, per year.

So many people want government to pay for it.

My state just agreed. New York will fund free child care. Yay!

But wait ... what government does isn't free.

Taxpayers pay.

And taxpayers pay more because "government rules have unintended consequences," says Carrie ...Read more

If you doubt that our elitist media are a powerful component in the Democrat Party messaging machine, see what happened to Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. His career collapsed. Within about 48 hours, he went from the leading Democrat in a very fragmented field for governor of the Golden State to an exit ramp out of Congress.

It was a ...Read more

There's a famous scene in the movie "The Graduate" in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: "plastics."

He wasn't talking about credit cards, but he might as well have been. Back in the 1960s only about half of Americans had credit cards. Today about 90% of us do. It's what I call the ...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- FBI Director Kash Patel joined a roundtable hosted by Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.) earlier this month to discuss the work the Trump administration, Congress, local law enforcement and area prosecutors have done to curb the fentanyl trade in Pennsylvania over the past 13 months.

McCormick led the packed event at the Edward N....Read more

Retail stores locking up items is the symptom of a much larger problem.

I recently went to Walmart and had ibuprofen on my shopping list. I went to the medicine section and -- groan -- saw this $5 item locked behind glass. There were a couple of other people already waiting, so I looked around for a call button. That's when one of the people ...Read more

In 2023, over 100 leading economists from around the world, including progressive darling Thomas Piketty, signed a letter warning that "far-right" Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei's policies, which were "rooted in laissez-faire economics," would cause "devastation," spike inflation, expand poverty and worsen unemployment.

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National confidence, unfortunately, is in short supply these days. In this season of springtime renewal, Americans would do well to look up -- literally. Artemis II, NASA's first meaningful manned space mission in over a half-century, has taken the nation by storm this month. In so doing, it has provided a timely reminder of what a great ...Read more

In Western Civilization, Christian ethics still, in some ways, dominate society. Murder is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Lying is wrong. Iran is dominated by Shiite Muslims who, at heart, embrace Taqiyya, or religious dissimulation, in ways Sunni Muslims tend to reject. It is why more must be done to Iran.

Taqiyya, in practice, means lying to the...Read more

News consumer, beware: journalists are trying to redefine what "objective" means. They think objectivity is for losers who don't have the guts to stand up for "the right side of history."

Take CNN, which brands itself as an anti-Trump outfit. In an interview with CNN host Dana Bash for Modern Luxury magazine, writer Michael McCarthy summarized:...Read more

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025?

The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump's ceasefire announcement and, hours later, so were European markets. U.S. markets had ...Read more

San Francisco, a city long associated with exotic ideas, has been experimenting with a radical notion -- cracking down on car thieves.

Unlike some of the city's other adventures, this one is actually working out.

Car break-ins are down 85% from 2023, and are down 50% the first three months of 2026, compared to the first three months of 2025....Read more

Is personal freedom a reality or a myth? Does the government execute the will of the governed or the will of those who finance its officials? Does the Bill of Rights restrain the government? Are the levers of government power pulled by those the governed have elected or those we don't see? Do elections change anything?

Can the president kill ...Read more

There is a difference between confidence and comfort, between projecting strength and actually possessing it. In today's American economy, that difference is becoming harder to ignore.

President Donald Trump speaks often of resilience, growth and dominance. The language is bold, the tone unwavering. But beneath that optimism lies a more fragile...Read more

The president's fiscal 2027 budget is out, and I have two reactions. The first will sound familiar: Like so many budgets before it, this is not a serious effort to put America's government on a sustainable path. The second is more important: It would be a mistake to dismiss it as just another unserious document. That is exactly how we got here...Read more

On one of his recent shows, Bill Maher stated (and later posted on X), "Democrats are not going to win the midterms. Republicans are going to lose it."

In response, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked on X, "(1) Is he right? (2) Why?"

OK, Senator, I'll give this a shot.

If Maher is right, it's because:

1. Each day's news brings more evidence of ...Read more

America is living through a moment difficult to describe without sounding a little unhinged.

But here goes: We are watching the United States do things that only the United States can do.

In the span of a few days, Americans have watched astronauts push farther into space than any human beings in history, while U.S. forces execute military ...Read more