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CNN's Brian Stelter exemplifies the media pattern of constantly claiming Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy that must be curbed. The comedy never ends. Trump was supposedly going to end democracy throughout his first term, and the fact that democracy never ended never slows Stelter & Co. down.

On March 18, Stelter played up a ...Read more

Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number -- 1,486 days altogether -- is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number -- just 20 days -- is the number of days since U.S. and Israeli forces on Feb. 28 ...Read more

Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the same reasons. This followed by one day a ...Read more

In times of war, leaders often project the outcome they hope to achieve. Confidence can rally a nation, strengthen morale, and signal resolve to adversaries. Yet history reminds us that war rarely unfolds according to the plans or predictions of any single leader. The gap between projected outcomes and the complex, often obscured reality on ...Read more

I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez -- the famous UC Berkeley economist who's considered an architect of California's proposed billionaire wealth tax -- is someone I read carefully, even when I find his income-inequality work unconvincing. So, when I say that his arguments for the wealth tax are not just biased or ...Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims that the city budget has a $5.4 billion shortfall, and one of the ways he proposes to close that gap is by changing the state's estate tax laws.

At present, New York imposes a death tax of 16% on estates worth more than $7 million. Mamdani wants to lower that threshold to estates worth only $750,000, ...Read more

In retrospect, removing Venezuela's socialist-drug thug dictatorship was Domino One -- the first criminal regime to topple in the Trump administration's calculated campaign to give China a harsh and instructive taste of Beijing's own grand strategy of resource deprivation and denial.

As I write this column, Iranian threats to oil tankers ...Read more

Don't fall for the propaganda. Iran is not holding its own in this conflict. It is being systematically dismantled.

One by one, the senior figures of the Islamic Republic have been eliminated: generals, security chiefs and regime power brokers. The country's leadership has been decapitated at the highest levels, leaving behind a hollowed-out ...Read more

At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, "What's a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?"

The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, understand that, although they could care less what their ...Read more

If New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work a lifetime for -- including their homes, their businesses or farms and their savings -- could be stripped away on their deathbeds.

No more Empire State; he'd make it the Expropriation State.

Only one thing in life is certain: We all die.

Mamdani is ...Read more

Do you eat steak?

You're killing the planet!

So say climate activists.

Silly media agree:

Vox warns that beef is the "worst thing we eat when it comes to global warming."

The World Economic Forum, which says it's "committed to improving the state of the world," released a video promoting a future where "you'll own nothing and you'll be ...Read more

When former President Barack Obama was in office, his administration fought all the way to the Supreme Court in an attempt to force Americans to act against their consciences by providing insurance coverage for contraceptives -- including abortifacients -- through a federal regulation issued under the so-called Affordable Care Act.

The ...Read more

The concept of freedom of the press isn't ruined by criticism of the press. But when liberal TV hosts roll out their lectures, they sound a little like the president they routinely attack. Any criticism of their work must be Fake News.

MS NOW host Ana Cabrera expressed indignation on March 16 after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tweeted that ...Read more

Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history.

My friends on the left of the political spectrum have been fuming about this story as the ultimate example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting crumbs.

When I appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" not long ago, Bill questioned me about ...Read more

On Tuesday, TMZ published a story with a dramatic all-caps headline, "PETE HEGSETH BLEW BILLION$ ON FRUIT BASKETS, LOBSTER," that was accompanied by a manufactured photo of the secretary of war surrounded by a bunch of plastic lobsters. The initial story was followed by several other "news" organizations repeating the claims.

If you've never ...Read more

The reason why we have the Fifth Fleet, one of the most awesome naval forces ever assembled in the history of mankind, is to protect the sea lanes in the Middle East.

That the Strait of Hormuz is now effectively closed is not just a blow to the global economy and a key point of leverage for the Iranian regime, it is an assault against one of ...Read more

Importing people who hate America didn't end well.

See if you can spot any similarities in these four events.

During the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked Iran, Ndiaga Diagne opened fire at a bar in Austin. He wore a "Property of Allah" sweatshirt on top of an Iranian flag shirt. He killed three people and injured more than a dozen ...Read more