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As the federal government entered fiscal year 2027 on Oct. 1, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment's application to federal appropriations for Medicaid and other health programs in order to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund elective abortions.

When the late Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., first proposed his amendment ...Read more

If the investigation of the Cornell Seven results in indictments, they will be tried in a court of law where they are entitled to a fair trial. Sadly, that's not true for the hundreds of college students each year accused of sexual assault who fall into the clutches of college disciplinary panels. Students and their parents need to know these ...Read more

How much money should any one person have?

When Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, people got mad.

"He will own everything!" claims a popular YouTuber. "He will own your house ... your country ... your government."

Comedian Bill Maher, lately a voice of reason, asked, "Would it be crazy to have a law that said, 'You can't go ...Read more

In the late 1960s, one of my younger brothers and I shared at least one goal. We both wanted to send a ball over the wall at San Quentin State Prison.

If you managed to do that, one of the prisoners there would paint your name on the wall at the place where the ball had passed.

The San Rafael Little League, as this column has noted before, ...Read more

The radical rock 'n' roll leftists threw a concert in Maryland titled -- what else? -- the "Power to the People Festival." The organizer was Tom Morello, the guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine. The most celebrated guest, as it leaked out on social media, was former Biden-appointed special counsel Jack Smith, who just days earlier ...Read more

EDGEWOOD, Pennsylvania -- The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine Fisher told WPXI, the local NBC affiliate, that she remembers "tons of people and kids" there. She also remembers the first time she met Idris Evans: He helped carry her groceries from down the street to her house...Read more

In nearly every way, Americans have more material wealth, better health, better housing and more of just about everything than ever before. Not just the rich, but nearly everyone.

Americans' standard of living is roughly 50% higher, after inflation, than it was 50 years ago.

The median family income is now close to $90,000. That's an income ...Read more

Make sure you don't read the news like you read a history book. You can shape the outcome of the trends shaping today's top stories.

Over the last several weeks, we've dug deeply into the topic of liberty. We've seen how rare freedom is both historically and globally. We've examined America's Christian roots. We've discussed why liberty ...Read more

Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace.

It's why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations.

The response to such terrorism isn't to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright heroism.

The world just saw precisely such heroism in the ...Read more

One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs.

The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees. Not since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society vastly ...Read more

Iran's strategy in this war was never complicated. The mullahs believed that if they choked the Strait of Hormuz long enough, Americans would feel it at the gas pump and Washington would lose its nerve before the midterms. Brent crude spiked past $107 a barrel this month, and Iranian-aligned militias sent drones into Saudi Arabia's East-West ...Read more

For months, ideological enforcer journalists who intensely labor to keep left-wing elitist media outlets as leftist and anti-Trump as possible have been panicking over the Ellisons getting their hands on CNN and turning it into -- cue siren noises -- another CBS News.

Paramount has been cleared to take over Warner Bros.-Discovery and CNN. ...Read more

Haven't we seen this movie before? Voters, weary of a Republican president whose foreign or domestic policies don't seem to be delivering as promised, seem on the verge of a massive rejection of his party.

Polls show Democrats surging. The generic ballot -- which party's candidates would you favor for the House of Representatives? -- shows ...Read more

Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office -- one of whom was St. Thomas More -- and even the king's second wife, Queen Anne.

When Cromwell's son Gregory, who became ...Read more

Many Americans are wrestling with a political dilemma they may not discuss openly. They are concerned about progressive policies they associate with socialism, expanding government, DEI mandates, gender-affirming policies, anti-American sentiment in higher education, and rising lawlessness. Yet they may also have reservations about Donald ...Read more

Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way.

Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy -- and is growing. Yet investors continue buying Treasury securities. No government bond sale has really failed, no...Read more

Any time spent on social media -- X in particular -- makes it very clear that conservative Americans are utterly fed up with congressional Republicans. And with good reason. The current (119th) Congress has set records for what The Washington Post called "low legislative output" -- second only to the 118th.

To be fair, Speaker Mike Johnson ...Read more