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Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that stood out not for its bombast but for its clarity. In a room filled with political figures from across the Atlantic -- and from both parties at home -- Rubio was unmistakably the adult in the room.

Within the Trump administration, Rubio is ...Read more

Within the last six months, two friends, both pioneers and giants in the world of ideas in Washington, D.C., passed from this world.

One, Ed Feulner, was the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, which became the nation's defining policy institute for conservative ideas.

Now, last week, Ed Crane, the co-founder of the Cato Institute, passed...Read more

The collapse of young Ilia Malinin -- the U.S. figure skater known as the Quad God -- on Olympic ice last Friday is the moment in this year's games most watchers will remember. Few of us can imagine performing the feats of these athletes, but we can all relate to blowing a high-stakes moment. It's part of the human experience.

Why does it ...Read more

Trigger warning: The following discusses themes of race, gender, "hate" speech. Author Heather Mac Donald takes a lot of heat. She writes about race, crime, diversity, gender, merit -- and says things that got her shouted down on college campuses. She points out the absurdity of the left's attack on Western civilization. "For the left to claim ...Read more

The trip that former President Ronald Reagan took to Europe in June of 1987 culminated in one of the greatest speeches of the last century -- but its first major moment was a visit to the Vatican.

On June 3, 1987, Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan flew to Venice, Italy. Shortly before midnight, they arrived at the Villa Condulmer, where they...Read more

When President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan held a press conference on Feb. 12 to announce a drawdown in federal enforcement in Minnesota, he reported that during their surge, ICE agents "located 3,364 missing unaccompanied alien children -- children that the last administration lost and weren't even looking for."

Speaking separately on...Read more

The Seattle Seahawks held up the Lombardi trophy, but the biggest winner on Super Bowl Sunday was Turning Point USA.

The Super Bowl halftime show is one of the most-viewed television events of the year. But conservatives felt alienated when the NFL announced the headliner would be Bad Bunny. The singer is an outspoken critic of President ...Read more

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.

And for what?

Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels ...Read more

OIL CITY, Pennsylvania -- The Derrick will be no more.

Derrick Publishing Company, publisher of The Derrick and The News-Herald, announced on Feb. 5 that it will cease publication. Employees were told the decision was driven by the long-term decline in support for newspapers, along with regional losses in employment, retail activity, ...Read more

On Wednesday evening, I attended the third annual RealClearMedia Samizdat Prize Gala in Palm Beach, Florida. RealClear, whose brands include its flagship RealClearPolitics website, is best known as a content and polling aggregator, and as an advocate of political and ideological diversity. Pursuant to that mission, the Samizdat Prize ...Read more

Does anyone really believe the international media cares what Olympic snowboarders and curlers think about President Donald Trump's ICE raids, or whatever panic de jour is on the menu this week? Of course not. They want U.S. athletes to bash the American government on the world stage.

Nothing stops athletes from speaking their mind about ...Read more

On the night of Sept. 21, 1788, Austrian hussars scouting for the Ottoman Army stumbled upon gypsies who offered them schnapps. The Austrians got drunk, encountered part of their infantry, refused to share the alcohol and a fight broke out. One soldier fired his gun; the rest of the army presumed the Ottomans were attacking and the Austrian ...Read more

"Do you think you're going to Hell?" This is apparently considered a highly newsworthy question by the Bari Weiss-led "CBS Evening News."

The theological questioner was radical Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who wants to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The target was acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. CBS not only aired McIver's ...Read more

As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign for his appointment of Epstein-tied Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, one is struck by the sudden instability of British governments. In the 28 years between 1979 and 2007, Britain had only three prime ministers, while in the 19 years since 2007, it has had seven, and...Read more

Last fall during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge. We chatted and I asked him what he was doing. He told me he worked for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE. I asked what ICE has to do with the U.N....Read more

Every career begins with a defining moment, an instant when preparation meets courage and the future quietly changes course.

For me, that moment came in 1983, when, at just 21 years old, I brought Richard Pryor to speak before more than 1,500 employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. I was young, untested and ...Read more

Your representatives may finally grab the feared "third rail" of U.S. politics. When the Social Security and Medicare trust funds run out in the early 2030s, the law is clear: Benefits must be slashed. That would mean a roughly 24% cut to Social Security checks and an 11% cut to Medicare benefits. But Congress almost certainly won't let that ...Read more

Unless you work – or used to work given the layoffs and closings of so many newspapers – in the declining profession of journalism, you may not be aware of the problems at The Washington Post.

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