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Former Vice President Mike Pence is now promoting his new book, "What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the American Conscience."

Distinct from most stuff appearing now for the nation's 250th birthday, Pence's book is targeted not at the nation as whole, but at the Republican Party in particular.

Pence's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal ...Read more

I think the time has come to revisit a column of mine published Feb. 18, 2026.

Titled "Some Hard Choices For Iran's Ayatollah Theologians," the essay sketched a military operation to attack, seize and, possibly, occupy the Iranian Persian Gulf port of Bandar Abbas.

In mid-February, the Pentagon increased the size and power of U.S. forces in ...Read more

Politicians promise they'll "help" us.

President Donald Trump says he'll "create the jobs and future you deserve."

President Joe Biden liked to say, "Help is on the way."

I prefer President Ronald Reagan's: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

An economy runs best ...Read more

Two weeks after the 2014 midterm elections, then-President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the issue of illegal immigration. Part of this address -- delivered from the White House -- actually focused on the negative aspects of people illegally entering and staying in the United States.

"But today, our immigration system is broken -- and ...Read more

President Donald Trump's outbursts at the end of his "Meet the Press" interview, where he called Kristen Welker "crooked" and "stupid," were treated as rude, even unglued. Somehow the offended Trump haters never seem to realize that they call Trump "crooked," "stupid" and worse about twice an hour on news programs.

One reason for Trump's anger ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Western Pennsylvania's leadership in AI, robotics and cyber intelligence companies that work with the Department of War was reinforced recently. Qintel was selected for an $84 million contract with the United States Cyber Command to deliver a threat intelligence solution in support of full-spectrum cyber operations.

Qintel also ...Read more

Last week's blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the left who throughout Donald Trump's now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong.

Just a few months ago ...Read more

The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza.

It's nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker -- radical influencers on the right and left respectively -- say that the moral offense is the same as the ...Read more

Rep. Mark Amodei appears to be trying out for a reality TV show titled "How to Fail in Politics Without Really Trying."

Amodei currently represents Nevada's Congressional District 2, which includes Reno and much of rural Nevada. He is retiring at the end of his term and has endorsed former state Sen. James Settelmeyer to fill his seat. That ...Read more

It turns out that the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was likely the Southern Poverty Law Center.

At least that's what the Department of Justice's superseding indictment against the SPLC alleges. The organization secretly paid informants to engage in the active promotion and funding of racist groups while...Read more

On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on "CBS Mornings" to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "The Message." Coates' argument echoed many standard left-wing tropes about the intractable conflict, framing it as an intersectional battle between an illegitimate ...Read more

The Democratic Socialists of America has a class problem that its own rhetoric is designed to obscure. Its rising stars -- Zohran Mamdani, son of a Columbia professor and an acclaimed filmmaker; the Ivy-credentialed activists staffing progressive nonprofits; the heirs animating the movement's core -- reveal a pattern the movement cannot ...Read more

Journalists love to proclaim that they bring transparency to democracy, but it's far too often the exact opposite. They try to run our democracy by exploiting anonymous sources.

So when Trump is president, "senior administration officials" say "he's coming seriously unglued." When Biden was president, "senior administration officials" say "he's...Read more

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections.

Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of the 24 months in the two-year congressional election ...Read more

In 2016, the conservative writer Mike Anton made a galvanizing case for Donald Trump in his famous "Flight 93" essay, arguing that the stakes in the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were existential.

His contention that a Clinton win would cement Democratic electoral dominance forever, such that Republicans needed to charge ...Read more

In the leadup to the country's 250th birthday celebration, America has been riveted by two elections in the state of California: the race for governor and for the mayor of Los Angeles. Ever since Democrat and former congressman Eric Swalwell was forced to withdraw because of sex scandals, Republican Steve Hilton has been a surprise favorite to...Read more

America's longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date.

The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Originally, the feds ...Read more