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PITTSBURGH -- When former President Barack Obama comes to Pittsburgh on Thursday to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in the home stretch for next month's election, he will be returning to a very different western Pennsylvania from the one he won robustly in 2008 and less so in 2012.

In 2008, Obama ran on a message of aspiration, ...Read more

Why is it that the politicians keep referring to America as a "democracy"? How many times have we heard that former President Donald Trump is "threat to democracy"?

Well, yes, we are a democracy. We vote in and out of office our politicians.

But more importantly, we are a republic. This is basic civics: Our forefathers set up myriad checks and...Read more

Let's start with the obvious: I thought JD Vance did a very good job. He was a master debater, but with "Midwest Nice." He killed "Tampon Tim" with kindness. A fantastic victory for Trump-Vance. That's why I urged President Donald Trump to pick JD Vance for VP on my TV show and in my commentary way back on June 17.

Vance was my choice because ...Read more

A few days ago, Iran launched approximately 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Some of Iran's missiles were hypersonic missiles traveling 10,000 miles an hour. Israel, the United States and other allies were mostly able to stop the missiles. A few days before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Iran was within weeks of producing enough...Read more

It's late in the campaign, so the network "news" programs often seem indistinguishable from the cascade of negative campaign ads that air around the harrumphing anchormen and anchorwomen.

Rich Noyes at NewsBusters reported that the tone of coverage about the Trump-Vance ticket (excluding statements by politicians) from July 21 to Sept. 27 was ...Read more

Vice presidential debates don't matter, we have been assured over and over. No one votes for vice president or a presidential nominee for her or his choice of running mate. You can go back and look at snap polls taken after past vice presidential debates and find basically zero correlation with the final election results.

All that said, the ...Read more

When a natural disaster strikes anywhere in the United States, Americans spring into action to help. I live in Virginia, which was mostly spared from Helene's wrath, but within hours, I was seeing messages that teams of rescuers from Maryland, Virginia and other jurisdictions were rushing aid to western North Carolina (some by mule!). People ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- This time the oddsmakers got it wrong. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was their betting favorite going into Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, but Ohio Sen. JD Vance did the better job of talking to the American people on immigration, housing and the economy.

For months now, Big Media have put all their eggs in the Vance-is-an-...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- And so we arrive at the first anniversary of the hideous Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by thousands of Hamas terrorists on the state of Israel and the Jewish people.

Let's run through the three acts of this tragedy.

Act I was the acts of barbarism themselves, which left at least 1,200 people dead and hundreds more injured. About 240 ...Read more

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive."
--Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

The case of the Gitmo plea agreement keeps getting curiouser and curiouser.

A few weeks ago, we learned that a plea agreement had been entered into by way of a signed contract between the retired general in the Pentagon who is...Read more

Like millions of Americans each year, you order a package, food or valuables. Delivery day arrives. You open the door. You discover the product was damaged. Or it was stolen. Or it is missing.

Why are the mishaps growing by leaps and bounds?

Food delivery apps such as DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, and mail carriers such as the U.S. Postal...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a law banning legacy and donor considerations in admissions at all private colleges and universities in the state. California is the fifth state to do so, following Colorado, Illinois, Maryland and Virginia. Newsom praised the law, saying, "The California Dream shouldn't be accessible to just a lucky ...Read more

Successfully recruiting and retaining skilled uniformed military personnel is absolutely essential to America's defense.

Superior military technology matters -- witness Israel's air and space defense systems smashing Iran's Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack. However, testing, controlling, repairing and employing the hi-tech gear and weapons in ...Read more

It was seven-story building that sat along the Mediterranean and looked out over the sea.

That was the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983. On April 18 of that year, it was targeted by a recently formed Iranian-backed terrorist group.

"Lebanese police and witnesses said the front of the embassy was blown out by 500 pounds of explosives ...Read more

On Oct. 1, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched some 181 ballistic missiles at the state of Israel. Most were shot down; those that weren't fell largely in uninhabited areas. Thanks to the technological and intelligence superiority of Israel and her allies, the Iranian attack -- the second such attack in six months -- was foiled. As of this ...Read more

I reported last week about the decided move of young women to the political left and away from the religious affiliation of their childhood.

But these measures, at least in the short run, do not appear to be relevant to the success young women are having in day-to-day living in America.

By measures such as work and academic achievement, ...Read more

Politically incorrect words don't kill, but Venezuelan gangs do.

On Saturday, former President Donald Trump warned rallygoers in a small Wisconsin town that if Vice President Kamal Harris "is reelected, your town and every town ... will be transformed into a Third World hell-hole. "

Trump repeatedly warns that Biden-Harris open borders are ...Read more

Sometimes politicians steal people's homes. Really. If homeowners miss property tax payments, even if they never received the bills, some towns grab the whole house and keep the proceeds. All the proceeds. Even if the total is much more than the property tax owed. I reported on this (mal)practice a couple years ago. Since then, there's been good...Read more