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"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."

--First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

When James Madison agreed to be the scrivener at the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, he could not have known that just four years later he'd be the chair of the House of Representatives ...Read more

The role of the media, once hailed as the "Fourth Estate" of democracy, is increasingly suspected of partisanship. Fewer and fewer believe journalism is trustworthy as opposed to a neutral platform for competing truths. Many outlets today are seen as proxies for candidates or political parties, and even cheerlead at political fundraising ...Read more

While the gap may be closing, polls tend to show that more Americans trust former President Donald Trump than Vice President Kamala Harris on economic issues. This sentiment is understandable, given the strong pre-pandemic economy during Trump's first term and the challenges of inflation and declining real wages under the Biden-Harris ...Read more

As the November election approaches, Americans are paying increasing attention to the Biden-Harris administration's open borders policies and the costs of those policies to our country. Historically, it was border states where the impact of illegal immigration was most keenly felt. Not anymore. Today, the crises are everywhere.

Springfield, ...Read more

It's not news that young people are further on the left of the political spectrum than older generations.

Of unique interest now is that the movement to the left is more disproportionate among young women than young men.

As a nation we should know this is happening and try to understand why.

Women, traditionally, have been the stabilizing ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Public opinion on the Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200 in Israel has flipped among Gazans, according to a recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. A majority of Gazans now believe the Hamas terror spree was incorrect, Reuters reported last week. That's a first.

And yet, last week the United Nations ...Read more

Reuters reports the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has begun inspecting all its equipment for "evidence of explosives." If accurate, that's a fascinating but understandable reaction -- scrutinizing not just communication equipment and other electronic devices but all equipment, including vehicles and, I suspect, ammunition stocks.

Why the ...Read more

From New York to Chicago and the Denver suburbs, migrant gangs are mugging, raping, robbing stores, running brothels next door to elementary schools, and threatening apartment dwellers with guns to take over residential buildings, all without fear of being deported. The gangs are turning neighborhoods into hellholes.

Blame insane "sanctuary" ...Read more

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich now makes videos, like I do. In fact, his channel, Inequality Media, is very much like Stossel TV. He also reaches people via social media platforms, gets millions of views and covers economic topics. Reich does almost exactly what I do, except Reich is repeatedly wrong. It's understandable. Despite being ...Read more

When Brian Buescher, whom then-President Donald Trump had nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, appeared at his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 28, 2018, then-Sen. Kamala Harris did not ask him any questions.

A week later, however, she did submit written questions she wanted him to ...Read more

A little over eight weeks ago, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, despite being the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee and only true primary vote recipient. He was forced out by the party elite, who watched his debate with Donald Trump and saw what most of America already knew: that Biden is senile. Biden was ...Read more

In their relentless effort to make their candidate seem warm and relatable, the Kamala Harris partisans have touted her assorted cooking videos on YouTube. But that spin can be taken too far.

Indian American TV host Padma Lakshmi penned an op-ed for The New York Times titled "As a Cook, Here's What I See in Kamala Harris." The Times Opinion ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Twelve years ago, I returned from a life-changing trip to Israel with a priceless souvenir: an epiphany that Jewish Americans and Mexican Americans have a lot in common.

Both have proud immigrant histories and a culture that some see as so foreign as to be threatening. Both have endured discrimination in the United States and ...Read more

Supporting the First Amendment is now a partisan issue.

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills targeting AI-generated political ads. Among other provisions, one bill bans election-related deepfakes months before and after Election Day. Deepfakes are AI-generated videos or other content that can be stunningly realistic. ...Read more

Ahead of Election Day, a new national survey shows most voters know little about the personal impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which is set to expire at the end of 2025.

The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies on behalf of Stand Together, shows that 76% of voters, an overwhelming majority, say now is a bad time to increase ...Read more

Julie Hartman, a 24-year-old woman with whom I do a weekly podcast ("Dennis & Julie"), described the anti-Israel world perfectly: A vast number of people suffer from Israel Derangement Syndrome.

The description is, of course, based on the widely cited "Trump Derangement Syndrome," which supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris and the ...Read more