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In a scene in Robert Bolt's famous play "A Man for All Seasons," about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he'd cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws were written to protect us from those who'd cut them down, ...Read more

Let's dispense with the convenient fiction: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not the primary threat to our communities. The real danger lies in the growing normalization of disorder, intimidation and lawlessness -- often wrapped in the language of "justice" but driven by something far less noble. What we are witnessing is not spontaneous ...Read more

"The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify nearly all government interventions, from tariffs to minimum-wage hikes to massive spending to income redistribution. But before we accept its validity, we should ask a simple question: shrinking how?

Is the number of ...Read more

Why pay taxes when so much of your hard-earned money goes to fraudsters instead of doing good?

Government bureaucrats and elected politicians, mostly Democrats, scream in outrage when any effort is made to crack down on fraud by requiring proof of where the money is actually going. They wring their hands that safeguards will delay the funds ...Read more

There is still chaos surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and nowhere is the anger more palpable than in cities like Minneapolis. Protesters insist they are exercising their rights, even as some cross legal lines. The distinction matters. Observing ICE is lawful. Obstructing ICE is not. And when citizens interfere with a...Read more

Last year we went through the longest government shutdown in history.

The point of contention was the extension of what were supposed to be temporary additional Obamacare subsidies enacted during COVID-19.

"Temporary" in Washington means forever. This is what must change.

The "temporary" subsidies were supposed to expire last year. But ...Read more

The Trump administration's grand policy goal is reordering and resetting the world political and economic system to protect the U.S. militarily and benefit American citizens economically.

The ballpark historical frame for this huge effort (YUGE in Trump lingo): President Trump wants to replace the fossilized post-World War II/Cold War global ...Read more

"Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism!" says my new socialist mayor. Sounds so nice. No more greedy capitalists hoarding wealth. People share. It's the socialist dream. What will replace capitalism and individualism? One model is the commune - that socialist system where people share, rather than greedily...Read more

The aspect of life that has the most potential to bring Americans together may be the one that is currently dividing them the most.

It is the relationship that people have with the traditional family -- consisting of a mother and a father and children.

The Census Bureau recently released a report about the living arrangements American ...Read more

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a very special category: black, Muslim and a refugee from Somalia. It's a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It's a born-on-third-base situation in national politics and media.

So when Omar submits herself to ...Read more

Here's a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit "educational" entity. Uh-huh.

Northwestern -- an "institution of higher learning" located outside of Chicago -- is flush with cash...Read more

COLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania -- Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) launched his reelection bid in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, highlighting his accomplishments since taking office in 2023 and outlining his goals for a second term.

Despite noting that Republicans and independents were present in the packed carpenters union hall, the only boos ...Read more

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era.

A longtime ally that the U.S. depended on as a pillar of regional security, the shah, gave way to a theocratic regime based on hostility to America.

The revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and seized our diplomatic personnel in November 1979. If ...Read more

Keeping men out of women's sports is smart policy and smart politics. Just look at what happened recently in Nevada.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo recently rolled out the Protect Girls' Sports initiative. As the name implies, he wants to amend the Nevada Constitution to keep biological boys and men from participating in girls' and women's sports. ...Read more

In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the "ravages of mob law" throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant "mobocratic spirit" threatened to sever the "attachment of the People" to their fellow countrymen and their nation. ...Read more

Renee Good died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She had been attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents engaged in federal law enforcement activities. Along with other protestors, Good involved herself in what federal agents were doing and used her car to block them. Confronted by federal agents, Good accelerated with an agent...Read more

What is going on in the People's Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their language about immigration-enforcement cops are eyebrow-raising in the same week the elitist media ...Read more