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When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child's cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it "For your Christmas wish list," it understandably caused an uproar.

Should the secretary of defense be mocking the people his ...Read more

The political landscape heading into the 2026 midterms is far more volatile than many Republicans want to admit. On paper, the GOP holds the advantage: the House majority, a favorable national mood on issues like immigration and crime, and an opposition party internally split between moderates and an increasingly aggressive progressive wing. ...Read more

Spend five minutes listening to the American Left's most theatrical tribunes -- Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- and you'll probably hear tales of a country on the verge of collapse, crushed by a rigged system that can be fixed only through a radical redesign of government. Then spend five minutes with the New ...Read more

A few weeks ago, commentator Peggy Tierney wrote a Substack piece in which she referenced a long article -- a profile piece -- written about Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 by well-known author and journalist Michael Wolff. According to Tierney, although the article was intended to polish Epstein's public image, it was never picked up by any ...Read more

President Donald Trump has given Venezuelan dictator and cartel kingpin Nicolas Maduro a harsh warning: Resign Venezuela's sham presidency and vacate the country, or face U.S. military might.

Trump's usual critics fume and cry foul. Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth argue they are fighting a 21st-century ...Read more

Democrats appear to have settled on a dual strategy heading into the 2028 election: Sow doubt within the military ranks, and present a slate of candidates who project moderation.

The first prong centers on an emerging talking point -- one that suggests members of the armed forces should question whether orders coming from the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Somali immigrants living in Minnesota effectively stole more than $1 billion in taxpayer money over the last five years, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called "a new bombshell report from The New York Times," the Gray Lady reported on what law enforcement cited as fraud ...Read more

We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums.

This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and cooperate with Republicans to get a continuing resolution passed to fund our ...Read more

Few people lie awake at night worried about the federal debt. So the Republicans' plan to allow "temporary" COVID-19-era enhanced subsidies for Obamacare to expire because of their exorbitant cost won't win many votes.

It will save Uncle Sam money. A staggering 93% of premiums are currently paid directly by the federal government to the ...Read more

Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million. Merrill Lynch paid $20 million. Maryland taxpayers will have to pay $3 million to make a racial discrimination suit go away. "This is ridiculous! Taxpayers should not be on the hook for this!" complains Heather Mac Donald, author of "When Race Trumps Merit." She argues that companies and ...Read more

Former President Joe Biden's record as commander in chief will forever be defined by Aug. 26, 2021.

That was the catastrophic day in the American withdrawal from Afghanistan that Biden declared should be completed by Sept. 11, 2021 -- the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks that had triggered the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

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After some Trump supporters rioted at the Capitol in 2021, the national media aggressively reported on people who showed disrespect for the Capitol Police and for the rule of law itself. They touted groups like "Sedition Hunters" who aided Biden's Justice Department in prosecuting Trump backers inside the Capitol, the violent and the nonviolent....Read more

If the races were reversed, Bethany MaGee would be as well-known as George Floyd.

MaGee, 26, was recently riding on the L train in Chicago. As she was sitting there, police believe Lawrence Reed, 50, came up behind her and dumped gasoline on her. Despite her attempt to flee, Reed set her on fire. She rolled on the ground in a vain attempt to ...Read more

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania -- A highly anticipated Christmas display in Pennsylvania that is both delicious and whimsical is when the Omni Bedford Springs Hotel in Bedford County transforms one of its main entrances into a culinary delight whose aroma hits your sensory palate long before you walk through the nearly 200-year-old front door.

What ...Read more

Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z.

Why are they so financially stressed out? One reason things seem so unaffordable to young people is that too many aren't working hard -- they are hardly working.

The latest Labor Department data ...Read more

In a year marked by political vitriol in seemingly every conversation, a relentless scourge of political violence, and the highest-profile political assassination since 1968, Thanksgiving arrives just in time. Truthfully, it always does. And it always reminds us that long before Americans were addicted to constant clickbait-driven outrage, ...Read more