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SAN DIEGO -- More evidence has just rolled in proving once again that the American people and the two major political parties that claim to represent them really do live on completely different planets.

At a time of deep political acrimony, when American voters have divided themselves into teams -- one blue, one red -- it is increasingly ...Read more

My initial reaction to the issuance of a full pardon by President Joe Biden to his son Hunter was emotional. What father wouldn't pardon his own son, if he could?

I suspect that the president has harbored these paternal thoughts even while he denied numerous times that he was planning on doing so. We have come to expect lying in politicians. ...Read more

The way America thinks about health care is terribly wrong. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that a staggering 74% of adults in America are obese or overweight. Don't search for a scapegoat like McDonald's or Kentucky Fried Chicken. The problem is that we ignore prevention and fixate on cures, defying the wisdom that an ...Read more

The new year will bring a new administration, and I'll be watching to see if President-elect Donald Trump's team finally puts an end to the worldwide taxation of individual Americans' income. Fixing this is imperative. It would not only be sound fiscal policy but could keep millions of law-abiding Americans living overseas from being treated ...Read more

During its Baltic Sea transit, the Chinese merchant ship Yi Peng 3 dropped an anchor -- or at least dragged an anchor-like device with slicing effectiveness.

According to Reuters, the Chinese bulk carrier left a Russian seaport on Nov. 15 and "was responsible for severing the two undersea cables in Swedish economic waters between Nov. 17 and ...Read more

This week, I visited Buenos Aires, Argentina, to speak about free markets and socialism at the Conservative Political Action Conference. It was a fitting location: Argentina is now Ground Zero for the revitalization of capitalism in the West. In a time when the right often laments "late stage capitalism" in terms reminiscent of Noam Chomsky, ...Read more

Dean of the nation's political analysts, Michael Barone, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the 2024 election.

The headline that emerged from that discussion was "Donald Trump's Rainbow Coalition," noting that the monopoly of the Democratic Party over the nation's Black vote seems to be over.

If this is true, and it indeed ...Read more

There are over 660,000 illegal migrants already convicted of felonies or facing charges who have come across the southern border and been released into the U.S., according to newly released federal data provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some are in jail -- on the taxpayers' tab, of course -- having been nabbed for committing ...Read more

Union leaders, some of them, are self-destructive idiots! America's ports have fallen behind! Not a single one ranks in the top 50 worldwide! A big reason is that dock unions stop innovation! This fall, the International Longshoremen's Association shut down East and Gulf coast ports, striking for a raise and a ban on automation. They got the ...Read more

When President George W. Bush stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2005, and gave his second inaugural address, as this column has noted before, he argued that maintaining freedom in the United States would require spreading freedom all around the world.

"We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion," Bush declared. "...Read more

No one should be surprised that President Joe Biden lied when he said he would not pardon his corrupt son Hunter before wandering out of office. As much as journalists want to pretend this is just a Dear Old Dad rescue scenario, Hunter Biden enriched most of the Biden clan in his foreign influence-peddling projects, including Joe and Jill.

No ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- What a strange time.

Americans are embroiled in a heated national conversation about whether the phrase "rule of law" actually means anything as long as there are presidential pardons. And the major political parties -- both of which have corrupted the pardon process for their benefit -- are pretending their hands are clean and ...Read more

It's amazing how controversial common sense is these days. Look at the reaction to Pete Hegseth's comments about women in combat roles.

President-elect Donald Trump wants Hegseth to be his secretary of defense. He served in the Army National Guard, deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. He's talked repeatedly about the problems he sees in today's...Read more

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania -- On any given day, walking into the main entrance of the Omni Bedford Springs, the grande dame of American historic hotels, is always a welcoming and breathtaking embrace of the past. Walking in during the Christmas season is even more extraordinary, as you are immediately dazzled by the nostalgic and warm scent of ...Read more

Hard to believe it was just four years ago that Joe Biden was elected with a promise to unite the country. After the misery of COVID-19 deaths and lockdowns and the riots in the streets of major cities, Americans WANTED to be united by a unifying national purpose.

Alas, it never happened. Instead, Biden and his leftist allies were drunk with ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- I am glad President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter. I don't think it would be good for the country if a president's son were put behind bars for a nonviolent crime.

Besides, I never believed Biden when he said he wouldn't pardon his son. I don't take the president at his word. In 2019, Biden said he had "never spoken" to ...Read more