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The United States must be growing and prosperous at home and strong and secure in the face of the many security threats facing us abroad.

The former can only be achieved with free markets and limited government domestically and the latter through a robust defense budget.

On both fronts, Democrats would take the country in the exact opposite ...Read more

Apparently, President Donald Trump's Easter weekend threats of economic obliteration by military bombardment (and perhaps the occupation of key oil export facilities) can forward diplomacy with homicidal zealots -- or whoever is left in the scattered leadership of Iran's ayatollah regime.

In Trumpian "art of the deal" terminology, the threats...Read more

"Tax the rich!" shout progressives.

Why not?

America's richest people are ridiculously rich.

"Five bucks to you is like $6 million to billionaire Jeff Bezos!" shrieks Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Taking more from billionaires and millionaires just seems fair.

That's why Washington state passed a new "millionaire's tax," California will soon ...Read more

When Winston Churchill -- whose mother was an American -- visited the United States in 1946, he gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he defined the international conflict that had arisen in the wake of World War II.

"The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power," he said. "It is a solemn ...Read more

Pundits are already putting pencils to paper about who might be the Democrats' nominee for president in 2028 and how each might fare in media coverage. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore might be the next Obama model in the race, much like previous campaigns featured people posing like the new JFK, from Gary Hart to John Edwards.

Maxwell Tani, an ...Read more

Democrats keep attacking President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 as a tax cut for the rich. But the data show that the average family gained roughly $2,000 on their lower tax bill for this year. Every Democrat in Congress voted no, even as they complain of a "middle-class affordability crisis." Maybe that's because ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Last September, Pastor Jason Howard of the Sanctuary Church in Pittsburgh saw a surge of young people flocking to his Christian congregation, the week after Charlie Kirk was murdered.

Howard knew that something had shifted. Yes, their congregation had always been predominantly youth-driven, but this was different. Lines began to...Read more

Society has done a terrible job guiding teenage boys as they grow into men.

Local communities and society more broadly have something important to offer teenagers -- guidance. A 15-year-old has never been 35 or 45. Swamped with hormones and a still-developing brain, he has a poor understanding of what he'll want in the future.

This is why ...Read more

California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer says that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, "is a dark money organization that should have no place in our politics."

In other words, Steyer believes supporters of the Israel-United States alliance, which includes many Jewish Americans, should be barred from participating in ...Read more

One month into Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a long-overdue conversation has finally broken into the open: What, exactly, is the enduring rationale for NATO? For decades, this question has been treated in Washington foreign policy circles as heretical. But it isn't. And to their credit, President Donald Trump and ...Read more

Two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem on a Sunday with crowds cheering on the arrival of a king. Riding on a white donkey, the crowd laid palm branches on the ground for him. Before the week was out, Jesus would be dead. Many of those who heralded his arrival would, by Friday, be cheering for Barabbas, a murderer and ...Read more

Don't look now, but FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Jim Acosta agree on something: President Donald Trump is "winning" his effort to reshape the media landscape in his second term.

Appearing on the "Power Lines" podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed, "I don't think it takes a rocket ...Read more

"White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner's website in the early hours of April 1, the third month of U.S. military operations against Iran, which have been taking place since Feb. 28.

That prominence was overtaken as it was announced that ...Read more

So much for journalistic objectivity.

The BBC science editor covering the launch of Artemis II couldn't contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread out from the launch pad. "Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness!" she exclaimed, clapping like a schoolgirl.

As the rocket lifted off, she got visibly emotional: "It's not just what ...Read more

"That God, which ever lives and loves,

One God, one law, one element,

And one far-off divine event

To which the whole creation moves."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials and sermons was not "safety" or "taxes"; it ...Read more

We are living through a quiet but consequential redefinition of manhood -- one shaped not by wisdom, responsibility or lived experience but increasingly by noise, performance and profit.

A growing segment of voices, amplified across social media, promotes a hollow version of masculinity rooted in indulgence, detachment and what can only be ...Read more

The World Bank recently published a 276-page report supporting the idea that industrial policy belongs "in the national policy toolkit of all countries." This is a significant reversal for an institution that spent decades pushing developing nations toward fiscal discipline, open trade and market liberalization. When the World Bank seems more ...Read more