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Poor Anthony Fauci -- the man who became an overnight celebrity when deadly COVID-19 hit these shores. As time has gone on, and the catastrophic consequences of Fauci's advice have become more apparent, Fauci's hero status has faded. And now with the publication of his "diaries" during the COVID-19 year of 2020, it looks as though this ...Read more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana -- Until recently, Lanyia Brooks worked as a custodian in a data center, where she spent her days maintaining the facility while watching tech professionals build the infrastructure around her.

Brooks said that perspective changed completely when a data center technician noticed her work ethic and remarked that she "...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Even colleges can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Just 38% of Americans have high confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll. That's down from 57% in 2015. Gallup found the three main reasons for this lack of confidence are political agenda, cost and not preparing students for a future career.

This is a stunning...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

A significant majority of Americans support voter identification laws. According to polls, not only Republicans but Democrats believe a voter should show ID before participating in an election.

If you believe the country needs more secure elections, I hear you. But the popular contention that Republicans are going to lose their congressional ...Read more

The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment. In fact, they're having a season. DSA candidates are winning nationwide in Democratic Party primaries, knocking off incumbents while running on some of the most deformed and deranged platforms in recent political memory. Zohran Mamdani, the charismatic young socialist in Gracie Mansion,...Read more

In tribal politics, we are not supposed to raise this. Someone should, and the truth does not care about your feelings.

Republicans built a decade-long movement on two promises: drain the swamp, and expose the Biden Crime Family. That investigation established Biden relatives took more than $10 million from foreign sources but never tied a ...Read more

Democrats winning congressional primaries in this midterm cycle include a wave of radical-left candidates not just allying with socialists like Bernie Sanders but with communists like Hasan Piker. In Michigan, Abdul el-Sayed campaigned with Piker, a man who says America deserved 9/11 and insists mass-murdering communist dictator Mao Zedong was a...Read more

Wars remake war. New weaponry, new tactics, new strategy time and again produce results no one predicted or thought possible.

Revolutionary France's levee en masse and Napoleon's bold attacks prevailed over staid 18th-century siege warfare and subdued all Europe. The aggressive assaults produced horrendous casualties but were unable to move the...Read more

One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress's constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress -- not the president -- the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it.

Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have ...Read more

Every time questions arise about the advanced age of America's elected leaders, Washington responds with the same familiar refrain: Experience matters.

Republicans say it. Democrats say it. Editorial writers repeat it. Longevity in office, we're told, produces wisdom, steadier judgment and better public policy.

It's an appealing argument. It ...Read more

Somewhere in Los Angeles this year, someone will get home who otherwise wouldn't have. You'll never learn her name. There will be no headline, no celebration, no council resolution -- only an unremarkable Tuesday that ends the way Tuesdays are supposed to end. The same nonstory will eventually play out in more than a dozen other metro areas ...Read more

The ideological excesses of the American Left are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Political commentator Hasan Piker recently appeared in a Mao jacket -- a conspicuous tribute to the Chinese dictator whose regime was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people -- before addressing college students. Around the same time,...Read more

Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions.

"Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup.

Of 14 core institutions -- banks, big business, labor, the presidency, Congress, schools, health care, etc. -- only...Read more