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As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America's 250th, Gallup serves up sobering data.

Per polling just released by Gallup, only 58% of Americans now say they are "extremely proud" or "very proud" to be an American.

When Gallup first asked this question in 2001, 87% ...Read more

New Yorkers are under the false impression that the taxpayer-funded New York City Campaign Finance Board is leveling the playing field to make voting for Gotham's next mayor and other elected officials fair.

Just the opposite is true. The CFB is doling out obscene amounts of our money to tilt the scales in favor of left-wing candidates.

The ...Read more

Friday is the Fourth of July. What will you celebrate? Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical idea: Rights don't come from kings or presidents. They come from being human. Government's job is to protect those rights. This ...Read more

When Jerry Garcia walked onto the stage that night in 1977 -- at Theatre 1839 in San Francisco -- the band he would play with was called the Jerry Garcia Band. Two years before that, his band had been called The Legion of Mary.

Garcia did not embrace the Catholic faith throughout his life. But in an interview published by Relix magazine ...Read more

Liberal journalists dumped a barrel of glorifying adjectives upon the news Bill Moyers died at age 91. The Washington Post headline was "Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91."

AP's Frazier Moore gushed, "the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, masterfully using ...Read more

When the active-duty Air Force and Missouri Air National Guard bomber crews who attacked the Fordow uranium enrichment plant in Iran went to work last Friday, they kissed their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd be home. That's when their families became aware something was happening.

"When those jets returned from Whiteman on ...Read more

If you blinked, you just missed World War III.

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. That came two days after Trump sent B-2 stealth bombers to drop 14 bunker-buster bombs on the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant. Only the United States had the capability to obliterate the deeply buried site. U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- I start with a salute to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

On Friday, the nation's top court released a 6-3 majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas that rightly upheld a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify that users are 18 or older before providing access.

Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion for...Read more

I was born and raised a Jewish New Yorker. I graduated from New York's Columbia University. I spent my 20s in Manhattan. I loved New York City.

But now the unthinkable has happened. A politician with a combination that I'd never thought possible in America is in position to run New York City. Here's the unthinkable combination:

A radical ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "This bill is like yogurt, not wine," one senator said, describing the One Big Beautiful Bill to Semafor. It was an apt description for legislation that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by Independence Day.

Because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by Trump in 2017 sunsets this year, Congress has to pass a new measure to ...Read more

My young family and I were in Israel when the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad began their offensive operations against Iran on June 13, commencing what President Donald Trump has since called the "12-Day War." Although the Mossad's intelligence and the IDF's rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than ...Read more

President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War.

With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, the U.S. made the world a safer place in the long run. But the attack, and subsequent ceasefire between Israel and Iran, also represents a reset of American foreign policy. ...Read more

On Tuesday, in what it labeled an "exclusive," CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set back a couple of months in its quest for a nuclear weapon. The report's lead reporter was Natasha Bertrand. In 2020, Bertrand played a lead role in attempting to discredit reports of Hunter Biden's ...Read more

Here's how it's so easy to identify the national media as liberal Democrats: They hate "moderate" Democrats. They love moderate Republicans. They despise disunity in their party, and love to fester disunity in the Other Party.

This week, we've witnessed an outpouring of love for Sen. Lisa Murkowski of (R-Alaska), whom the Institute for ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani's lead in first choices in New York City's ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he'll be the Democratic nominee for mayor of the nation's largest city and the likely winner of the ...Read more

There's a reason God created dynamite.

The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation's capital is finally beginning to move on from these concrete monstrosities.

The Department of Housing and Urban and Development just announced ...Read more

We have seen this before.

A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil liberties -- and this shrinkage will somehow keep us all safe.

The premise of this...Read more

After decades of the Iranian terrorist dictatorship voicing grave threats to global security, Israel and the United States have ultimately resolved to take decisive action to mitigate the threat posed by Iran's nuclear weapons program. What was once perceived as a suicidal scenario for our world, a circumstance that could incite a nuclear ...Read more