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A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress -- also known as the nation's report card.

The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation's children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels.

AEI characterizes the ...Read more

A deadly fungus is spreading like crazy across the U.S., sickening and killing hospital patients, and the federal response has been ineffectual at best.

It's in half the states, including New York, with soaring annual increases in the number of patients sickened, per the American Journal of Infection Control.

The Centers for Disease Control ...Read more

It's finally spring.

Better mow your lawn.

If you don't, your town government may fine you thousands of dollars a day.

Worse, if you can't pay the fine, they may confiscate your home.

Six years ago, in Dunedin, Florida, Jim Ficken let his grass grow.

His mom had died, and he'd left town to take care of her estate. He asked a friend to cut...Read more

When President George Washington was in his second term, there was nothing in the Constitution that prevented him from seeking a third.

But he did not.

In his Farewell Address in 1796, Washington explained why he was not seeking another term.

"The period for a new election of a Citizen, to Administer the Executive government of the United ...Read more

At the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) asked PBS boss Paula Kerger, "Would you believe that PBS is fair and objective and nonpartisan?"

Kerger said, "Yes."

Fallon then noted that on "Washington Week with The Atlantic" in 2023, host and Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg pronounced ...Read more

If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and inefficiency of our federal government, I urge you to do so.

It will infuriate you -- and that's what we need right now.

These Department of Government Efficiency ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I occasionally find myself speaking to Latino immigrants, legal and otherwise.

I don't waste time telling those folks about their rights. That information is important, but they can get it from immigration lawyers or Spanish-language media.

Instead, I tell the migrants about something they're not likely to hear much about while ...Read more

Even Chicken Little would be exhausted trying to keep up with what Democrats claim President Donald Trump wants to do.

Just look at the news. On Tuesday, Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., said that Republican cuts to SNAP "are the difference between life and death for the many in the communities that we serve." SNAP is the rebranded food stamps ...Read more

HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania -- On March 22 at 7 a.m., Shawn Steffee stood on a hill overlooking the Homer City Generating Station with his family and the community he grew up with. They were all looking at Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant for the last time -- the plant he and his father, uncles, brother and the union he had guided ...Read more

Is it worth it to the United States to enforce freedom of navigation on the seas?

That question was a subplot in the instantly famous leaked Signal chat over an operation to hit Houthi targets in Yemen.

Vice President J.D. Vance expressed skepticism, noting that more European than U.S. trade passes through the Suez Canal. Defense Secretary ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- It's not what DOGE is doing; it's how DOGE is doing it. That's been the Beltway take on the dream child of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency. Or, "the so-called Department of Government Efficiency," as The New York Times put it.

That's probably why Musk and DOGE lieutenants sat down ...Read more

Remember the movie "City Slickers"?

Billy Crystal asked for the secret to life. Jack Palance said, "One thing."

President Donald Trump is the G.O.A.T. (the greatest of all time). His first two months have been a work of art. My fans love him. But one thing is missing. One thing that matters above all else:

WHERE ARE THE ARRESTS?

Because I ...Read more

When I first came across Jonathan Chait's new Atlantic piece, "Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided," I assumed the answer would be that Democrats had been the ones relentlessly and tragically wrong about virtually everything during the pandemic. No such luck.

In Chait's telling, the Left remains uncannily open-minded, always striving for ...Read more

Much has been written about the Trump team's assault on civil society, universities, public health, the judiciary and our global alliances, and rightly so -- but there is one danger that deserves more attention because our ability to thwart this attempted revolution, this upending of our constitutional system, depends upon truth itself.

We ...Read more

The venerable logical principle known as "Occam's razor," attributed to the 14th-century English philosopher and theologian William of Ockham, asserts that when confronted with multiple possible explanations for a causal phenomenon, the simplest explanation is -- absent persuasive evidence to the contrary -- usually correct.

Although hardly ...Read more

Two wrongs do not make a right. There's really no argument on that point. But morality, morals, right, wrong and politics are easy to grapple with from the sidelines when you are inclined to think both political parties have lost their minds. Thus we arrive at the group chat from hell.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz created a Signal ...Read more

Down in the basement of the Capitol on March 26, I witnessed in person an episode of government accountability that upset liberal journalists. That's because it was conservatives holding leftist "public" media networks accountable.

The House DOGE subcommittee questioned PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher about their daily deluge ...Read more

"Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city," former President Barack Obama rhapsodized in April 2009. "No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes. Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 miles an hour, walking only a few steps to public ...Read more