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The 21st century may well be the new age of privateers -- armed commercial sailors fighting pirates, terrorists and cartel criminals threatening offshore oil rigs.

Why hire private naval security? Because national navies and coast guards are stretched thin by lack of funding or threat of war. Or, in the case of the USA, vexed by short-sighted...Read more

President Donald Trump has entered his second term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. In the first month of his presidency, he signed 73 executive orders; he unleashed his Department of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by Elon Musk, to identify waste, fraud and abuse across executive branch agencies; he deployed his foreign...Read more

President Donald Trump's proposal to transfer the few million Palestinian Arabs in Gaza to other Arab countries and then rebuild and redevelop Gaza was met with some surprise and pushback.

Isn't this unfair? Doesn't this violate rights of Palestinians in Gaza?

Usually when we think about those who see a world with rights and without ...Read more

How good are voters' memories? The outcome of the New York City mayoral election may hinge on how much they remember of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's corruption-filled past.

Cuomo is hoping to rewrite his own history and run for mayor. He got a boost Monday when a key Democrat, Rep. Ritchie Torres, called on Cuomo to join the race. "The city is ...Read more

Socialism is popular. A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively. How is this possible? Little has brought more misery -- first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela ... One reason young people support socialism is because their social media feeds show videos made by popular but ...Read more

The number of human beings living in freezers in the United States now outnumbers the population of Dallas, Texas.

"Estimates place the number of frozen embryos at greater than 1.5 million," reported the March 2022 edition of Fertility and Sterility, a journal published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

According to the ...Read more

When Democrats switch parties and become Republicans or vote for Republicans, no one expects the liberal media to keep describing them with words like "liberal" or "Democrat." But somehow, after former conservatives and ex-Republicans campaigned for staunchly leftist Kamala Harris for president, journalists just keep calling them "conservatives....Read more

All in Washington are acting like their hair is on fire in response to the Department of Government Efficiency requirement that federal employees list what they accomplished last week. Many are acting like they can't think of anything, like they may need to "phone a friend" to get an answer.

But the deeper problem with the federal workforce is ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A madness swept the nation during President Joe Biden's term in office: the unfettered promotion of gender transitioning, even among children and, oddly, in the wide world of sports.

President Donald Trump quickly put an end to that. On his first day back in the White House, Trump signed an executive order, "Defending women from...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The Trump administration's petulant war on DEI -- and its subsequent purge of women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community from high-level government jobs -- puts me in a frame of mind where I'm thinking about the afterlife.

My wife believes in reincarnation, and she's convinced me that there might be something to ...Read more

The best thing modern feminists could do for women is tell them to reject feminism.

The Institute for Family Studies recently analyzed findings from the annual American Family Survey. It found 37% of conservative women ages 18-40 said they were completely satisfied with life. But only 12% of liberal women that age were. That's a shocking ...Read more

CAMPBELL, Ohio -- Sept. 19 marked 47 years since thousands of workers, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River for the early shift.

Within an hour of the workers' shift, Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 of ...Read more

We've been robbed. Our tax money has been looted, stolen and wasted. Beyond the imagination of most Americans.

But not beyond my imagination.

Muhammad Ali once said, "It ain't bragging if you can back it up." Well, I can back it up.

I've spent the past decade on my TV and radio shows reporting, warning and screaming from the highest ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Kudos to President Donald Trump for moving to cut off the spigot of federal funds for the California High-Speed Rail project during the first month of his second term.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that $4 billion in funding, slated for projects that are part of a promised bullet train from Merced to ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance's speech Feb. 14 at the Munich Security Conference was not merely the most important speech the precocious young second-in-command has delivered in his political career. It was also a speech that encapsulates an entire geopolitical era -- that of a return to prudence, sobriety and nationalism as the hallmarks of ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spread many detestable theories in his life, but none is more detestable than his scaremongering over autism and vaccines.

It's not merely that the new Health and Human Services secretary has convinced thousands of Americans that they're partially responsible for their children's autism -- a trend he once compared to a...Read more

Chelsea Milburn is a disabled veteran of the United States Navy who, until recently, worked for the United States Department of Education. As part of cuts from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, she has lost her job. On Wednesday, she appeared on the news and lamented, "They don't care about how this impacts me or people ...Read more