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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

This is a message for President Donald Trump, Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan and the entire Trump Homeland Security team.

I know you already have your plan. And I'm sure it's brilliant. But two heads are better than one, and I have some creative ideas to add to the mix.

First, I'm on record on my TV and radio shows supporting and pushing for ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- There's been a change in Washington since Donald Trump won the election. Democrats have begun to wonder about some of their more extreme messages.

The New York Times reported Tuesday on regrets among transgender activists who now question the movement's confrontational approach -- as they realize their overboard rhetoric helped ...Read more

Growing up, Thanksgiving was always -- by far -- my favorite holiday on the American civic calendar. It still is today. And while I have fond memories of playing football on Thanksgiving Day with childhood friends and eating turkey legs smothered in gravy, it was obvious to me at a fairly young age that Thanksgiving is about far more than that...Read more

Postmortems of the Democratic Party's loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), are starting to come in from some of the party's most perceptive thinkers.

And it was a loss across the board, not just this year. As RealClearPolitics' Sean Trende has argued, 2024's voting patterns were a "...Read more

Democratic attorneys waged legal war on former President Donald Trump on every level of government: federal, state, county and city. Now that he's been reelected, all that legal wrangling is going to be curtailed. Biden-appointed special counsel Jack Smith had to fold his tent, and on Nov. 25, the networks offered live "breaking news" that just ...Read more

How is everybody coping with the decline of America? I'll tell you how I'm doing in a bit, but first I have a few observations about Thanksgiving.

I wish I had a dime for every time I've heard someone declare that Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday. I used to say it myself, before I realized that it's so commonplace. What makes it so ...Read more

"Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people. Make believe that governors are the servants of the ...Read more

Count your blessings on Thanksgiving. Be grateful for what you enjoy. Do not dwell on grievances. Be inspired by the sacrifices of the Pilgrims at our first Thanksgiving, overcoming hardships that would be unthinkable today. Half their number perished in their maiden winter.

Look on the sunny side of life -- endless opportunities to flourish ...Read more

America's greatness lies not in perfection but in her relentless pursuit of it. For nearly 250 years, this nation has strived to fully realize the revolutionary ideals laid out in its founding documents. While we have often fallen short, our capacity for self-reflection and renewal inspires hope and spurs improvement.

Let us hope the efforts ...Read more

Years ago, I read a book by the historian Barbara Tuchman called "Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour." It's worth a read for anyone wondering about the origins of the present-day conflicts in the Middle East.

Like so many other contemporary catastrophes, the ongoing wars between Israel and Arab nations are ...Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy -- at the request of President-Elect Donald Trump -- are looking for high-IQ Americans to address the strategic security threat of Big Debt.

The EV dynamic duo can start with Dwight Eisenhower -- former president of the U.S.

EV: Forget electric vehicle. Elon-Vivek. Far more energy and economically efficient.

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The public health establishment and left-wing media are rushing to discredit President-elect Donald Trump's picks to lead health agencies. The New York Time smears them as "outside the medical mainstream."

Circling the wagons, Dr. Paul Offit, a current adviser to the Food and Drug Administration, lamely observes, "What they're saying when ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump understands, better than any recent American president, one simple rule when it comes to dealing with the world: Leverage matters and ought to be applied to those who oppose American interests. Trump believes, for example, that tariffs ought to be used to threaten those who would close their markets to American ...Read more