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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -- Voltaire (1694-1778)

A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling claim about the nature of ...Read more

The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent automatically amounts to trust in itself.

The economy is...Read more

The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released last Thursday. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These enormous budget deficits are the new normal.

The usual ...Read more

Within the next week, a former Ukrainian military officer will go on trial in German court. The Associated Press identifies the accused as Serhii Kuznetsov. German prosecutors charge Kuznetsov with "causing an explosion" and "being an 'accomplice to war crimes' by attacking civilian infrastructure."

That's legalese for the September 2022 ...Read more

Upstate New Yorkers have to be suicidal or divorced from reality to support Kathy Hochul for another term as governor. The upstate counties are mired in deep poverty, struggling with some of the most tragic child poverty rates in the entire nation.

This poverty is not due to weather or an act of God. The cause is cynically bad decisions made ...Read more

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Americans lose billions of dollars every year to online scams, and the problem is getting worse.

A recent report from the Consumer Federation of America found that Americans lost an estimated $148 billion to "online scams and crimes" in 2025, an increase of nearly 26% from the year before.

These are not just numbers on a page. They represent...Read more

Imagine getting a bill from your local government for $900,000 because they see a greenhouse on your property and just assume you're growing marijuana without a permit.

Imagine government demanding $400,000 because you didn't know to fill out a single-page form.

Or you get slapped with a $100,000 fine for parking your car ... on your own ...Read more

When former President Barack Obama was in office in 2014, Democrats controlled the Senate, and Republicans controlled the House of Representatives.

Then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who chaired the House Budget Committee that year, sponsored a budget resolution that had no chance of passing in the Democrat-controlled Senate or securing the ...Read more

Twenty years ago, Democrat politicians had a reason to be queasy over making an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." Back then, host Tim Russert asked pointed questions, often relying on research to bring up potentially embarrassing statements and actions. Even Barack Obama knew he was going to get a serious probe of his past statements and ...Read more

Political pros will remember that a dozen or so years ago, the Democrats produced a famous (or infamous) TV ad showing a man wheeling an elderly lady in a wheelchair up a path to an overlook on a mountain. At the end of the ad, the man pushes the woman out of her chair and off the cliff.

The person pushing the wheelchair was a lookalike of ...Read more

WYTHEVILLE, Virginia -- Most people meet this town zooming past it at 70 mph.

Interstate 77 comes up out of North Carolina. Interstate 81 runs down the Great Valley toward Bristol. They cross here, share a few miles of pavement, and then split again. Truckers stop for diesel. Families stop for a bathroom. Then they are gone.

They miss the ...Read more

Much of Ilhan Omar's family story is a black box, but we are presumably about to learn more about it.

Federal authorities raided her Washington, D.C., residence in what's reportedly a probe related to her immigration paperwork.

The congresswoman has alleged an effort to weaponize federal law enforcement and silence her. The Trump ...Read more

When college students live out the ideals of modern feminism, the results are horrifying.

Last month, a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit alleging that she had been gang raped by Cornell University students. "Cornell 7" refers to the number of men she has accused of inappropriate behavior, although not all are accused of rape. The incident occurred in...Read more

"Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia," wrote Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a 2015 concurring opinion, so the Constitution's Framers "handled it the same way they handled many other controversial issues: they left it to the People to decide."

The ...Read more

Pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil was asked by CNN the other day if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question "silly" and "disingenuous." It is not "black and white," he whined.

Even if you oppose Israel's reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a ...Read more

CNN's data analyst Harry Enten said something interesting last week. He said Republicans have a stubborn habit of outperforming their September polling in the states that decide control of the Senate. He is right, and reiterated a point I have been making for some time that leads me to believe all might not be lost for the GOP in the Senate.

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