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In late summer 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab denounced his boss, dictator Bashar al-Assad, and fled to Jordan. Hijab also pledged allegiance to what diplomats called "the anti-Assad rebellion," a jumble of ethnic, religious and political groups that actually reflected the fragmented Levantine demographics that breed friction when Syria...Read more

Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway. Kamala Harris declared that our government would "build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!" This "Broadband Connectivity Agenda" was supported by "every House Republican on Energy and Commerce," write Republican representatives. Three years later, not...Read more

It started with a suicide bomber.

On Sept. 4, 2013, a terrorist group launched an attack on a profoundly symbolic Syrian village.

"The dawn assault on the predominantly Christian village of Maaloula," reported the Associated Press, "was carried out by rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group, according to a Syrian government ...Read more

The Trump-loathing media hates the notion of mass deportations. They are upset that voters support it. After the election, a CBS News poll found 57% of Americans are ready to put the brakes on illegal immigration.

On Dec. 8, ABC "This Week" moderator Martha Raddatz pressed conservative Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on the cost: "A recent analysis...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Even as a Mexican American who supports immigrants and opposes President-elect Donald Trump, I'm eager to see the incoming administration deliver on mass deportations.

During a recent appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump was asked by host Kristen Welker if he planned, over the next four years, to deport everyone who is in ...Read more

Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites. We are entering a brand-new era of rebellion -- man against the self-serving, out-of-touch political machines that ignore the will of the governed. Everywhere. Look around.

The world is a mess. Entrenched political ...Read more

President Joe Biden is the authoritarian threat the left claims Trump will be. Just look at his pardon of Hunter Biden.

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Biden gave his son, who was facing sentencing for gun and tax charges, a "get out of jail free" card. Joe Biden didn't just pardon Hunter Biden for those crimes. It was a blanket immunity for any ...Read more

LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the government has sought to tax and sometimes even ban both activities.

Two hundred thirty years ago, William Findley, a Revolutionary War hero, ...Read more

Jack Smith is on his way out, and we don't need another one.

While serving in Joe Biden's Justice Department, the special counsel concocted a novel legal case against Biden's foremost political opponent, and would have been happy to try Donald Trump in the midst of the presidential election campaign.

This was an outrageous abuse of the legal...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "Washington is still operating as if it's March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned," Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote in a report released Thursday that paints a dystopian picture of the federal workforce inside the vaunted beltway.

It's been nearly five years since COVID knocked on America's door. ...Read more

I keep reading and seeing stories in the media explaining how Donald Trump won the 2024 election. As usual, they're all wrong.

The media credits Joe Rogan, hip podcasters, influencers, rappers and the young American males who they convinced to vote for Trump.

They're partly right. Those votes certainly helped put Trump over the top. So did a ...Read more

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in this term's marquee case, United States v. Skrmetti.

The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a state law banning minors' use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for purposes of so-called gender-affirming care -- which, stripped of all euphemism, means genital mutilation and ...Read more

President Joe Biden is right about one thing. Hunter Biden has always been "treated differently."

If Hunter had a different last name, he would never have been able to launch a career in corrupt influence-peddling or launder millions through his "art" or write a self-serving memoir about crack-fueled whoremongering or dump a gun next to a high ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. Hegseth left a well-paid Wall Street job to deploy with the Army National Guard to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, and then to Iraq shortly afterward. He then worked for military nonprofits before joining Fox in 2014.

There are some real problems with ...Read more

At a New York rally in October, Donald Trump promised the crowd that if elected, he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "go wild" on health, food and medicines. It delighted the crowd, who imagined they were cheering for better health and better medicine. They're in for a bitter surprise.

Some who should know better are offering cautious approval...Read more

The anti-Trump media have already congratulated themselves for destroying the Matt Gaetz nomination for attorney general and are now attempting to destroy the Pete Hegseth nomination for secretary of defense.

Vetting the records of cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function. It is not a legitimate journalistic function to kill a ...Read more

Whatever happened to the Democrats' reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man?

Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala Harris' decisive, but not landslide, loss to President-...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump's pick to serve as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is in the hot seat.

I fear Hegseth, a combat veteran and "Fox & Friends" weekend anchor, is not up to the job. I'd rather see someone like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who successfully has run the Sunshine State.

But the campaign to slime Hegseth ...Read more