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The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by ...Read more

There are moments in political life when rhetoric stops being merely provocative and begins to test the boundaries of institutional respect. President Donald J. Trump's attack on a sitting pope invites comparison to one of the most consequential overreaches in modern American history: when former Sen. Joseph McCarthy turned his fire on the ...Read more

Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the basis of several common myths. Here are the five most consequential.

Myth No. 1: The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share

This is the most repeated claim in American tax politics and one of the least ...Read more

Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who was -- until a few days ago -- running for governor of California, has had to end his campaign amid a swirling morass of sexual scandal. According to CNN, it was apparently an "open secret" in Washington, D.C., that Swalwell was rambunctiously unfaithful to his wife. But within the past week, several ...Read more

The Israeli government sent an "Urgent Warning to Residents of Southern Lebanon" on March 4. It told them they must leave their homes and evacuate the region where they lived.

"Hezbollah's terrorist activities are forcing the Defense Army to act against it with force," said the English translation of the message Israel posted on X in Arabic. ...Read more

We now know something the Biden administration spent years denying: It wasn't merely enforcing the law around abortion clinics -- it was allegedly partnering with abortion activists to identify, track and ultimately prosecute pro-life Americans.

And that should stop every honest person in their tracks.

Because if we're going to have a ...Read more

Here's a scenario from California that would be hard for even a Hollywood screenwriter to come up with.

This is a state generally seen to lean heavily to the political left.

Its congressional delegation -- the largest in the country -- stands at 52 House members, of whom 46 are Democrats, and two senators, both Democrats.

The state ...Read more

Child care got expensive -- more than $13,000 per child, per year.

So many people want government to pay for it.

My state just agreed. New York will fund free child care. Yay!

But wait ... what government does isn't free.

Taxpayers pay.

And taxpayers pay more because "government rules have unintended consequences," says Carrie ...Read more

If you doubt that our elitist media are a powerful component in the Democrat Party messaging machine, see what happened to Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. His career collapsed. Within about 48 hours, he went from the leading Democrat in a very fragmented field for governor of the Golden State to an exit ramp out of Congress.

It was a ...Read more

There's a famous scene in the movie "The Graduate" in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: "plastics."

He wasn't talking about credit cards, but he might as well have been. Back in the 1960s only about half of Americans had credit cards. Today about 90% of us do. It's what I call the ...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- FBI Director Kash Patel joined a roundtable hosted by Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.) earlier this month to discuss the work the Trump administration, Congress, local law enforcement and area prosecutors have done to curb the fentanyl trade in Pennsylvania over the past 13 months.

McCormick led the packed event at the Edward N....Read more

Retail stores locking up items is the symptom of a much larger problem.

I recently went to Walmart and had ibuprofen on my shopping list. I went to the medicine section and -- groan -- saw this $5 item locked behind glass. There were a couple of other people already waiting, so I looked around for a call button. That's when one of the people ...Read more

In 2023, over 100 leading economists from around the world, including progressive darling Thomas Piketty, signed a letter warning that "far-right" Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei's policies, which were "rooted in laissez-faire economics," would cause "devastation," spike inflation, expand poverty and worsen unemployment.

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National confidence, unfortunately, is in short supply these days. In this season of springtime renewal, Americans would do well to look up -- literally. Artemis II, NASA's first meaningful manned space mission in over a half-century, has taken the nation by storm this month. In so doing, it has provided a timely reminder of what a great ...Read more

In Western Civilization, Christian ethics still, in some ways, dominate society. Murder is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Lying is wrong. Iran is dominated by Shiite Muslims who, at heart, embrace Taqiyya, or religious dissimulation, in ways Sunni Muslims tend to reject. It is why more must be done to Iran.

Taqiyya, in practice, means lying to the...Read more

News consumer, beware: journalists are trying to redefine what "objective" means. They think objectivity is for losers who don't have the guts to stand up for "the right side of history."

Take CNN, which brands itself as an anti-Trump outfit. In an interview with CNN host Dana Bash for Modern Luxury magazine, writer Michael McCarthy summarized:...Read more

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025?

The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump's ceasefire announcement and, hours later, so were European markets. U.S. markets had ...Read more