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One of the most embarrassing moments of the extremely embarrassing Barack Obama presidency came in the context of the Syrian civil war. In August 2012, Obama vowed that "a red line for us," which would thereby necessitate some sort of American intervention, "is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized."...Read more

There are no flotillas on the way to save Iran. No Soros-funded "democracy" groups pressuring Western governments to intervene on behalf of civilians who are being arrested and murdered. No astroturfing movement demanding economic boycotts.

When college students returned from winter break last week, they didn't find a single encampment ...Read more

Renee Good should be alive. The activist, killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, met her end in tragedy. What has happened since, predictably, saw people rush to their tribal corners. ICE "murdered" Good. Good was the villain. Your politics positioned your stance. What got left behind were the facts and a press corps that ...Read more

Global warming has gone cold as an issue. Despite decades of panicked predictions of doom, it's never been a high priority for voters, and Trump's bold expressions of "climate denial" went unpunished by voters.

The media still sound allied with the Green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone. Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS and NBC ...Read more

Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what's going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was settled largely by people of Scandinavian and German ancestry.

In survey after survey, Minnesota has ranked No. 1 or No. 2 among states, often just behind neighboring and much ...Read more

If Minnesota officials don't like President Trump's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe they should do more to tamp down the insurrectionary activity in their state.

After an ICE officer was violently attacked by two illegal immigrants while making an arrest and shot one assailant in the leg in self-defense, anti-ICE activists -- ...Read more

Just five days before the election of 2008, which would catapult him into the presidency, candidate Barack Obama gave a speech in which he made what is now one of his infamous statements: "We are just five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

In typical fashion, the press was too busy making goo-goo eyes at...Read more

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