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Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion ...Read more

The reported end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" marks more than the cancellation of a television franchise. It represents the collapse of an era in American media where political outrage replaced entertainment, ideology replaced humor, and audiences were expected to applaud lectures disguised as comedy.

For decades, late-night ...Read more

Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a onetime, 5% levy on the accumulated net worth of the state's richest residents. Lesser known is the Retirement and Personal Savings Protection Act, which would draw constitutional lines around what Sacramento can and cannot tax, prohibiting...Read more

Now that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has roundly defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican runoff primary for Cornyn's U.S. Senate seat (Paxton won by 25 percentage points), the real battle begins.

Paxton's opponent on the Democrat Party ticket is James Talarico, a former teacher and member of the Texas House of ...Read more

On May 26, during a Fox News television interview, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla called U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio a liar.

Rodriguez argued Rubio falsely accuses Cuba of being a threat to the U.S. Rubio spins a deceitful narrative designed to justify a U.S. military assault on harmless Cuba.

Rodriguez suggested the...Read more

For years, much of the American media has operated under a peculiar assumption: that the best way to confront adversaries such as China and Iran is to accommodate them. If the United States applies pressure, the narrative quickly becomes that America is overextended, losing leverage, or somehow empowering its enemies.

That narrative has ...Read more

Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The TheNations."

The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."

One might say that in that ...Read more

When the accusation is sexual assault or rape, the rights of the accused go out the window. Prosecutors and plaintiffs' lawyers in civil cases drag in character assassins who know nothing about the alleged assault but instead make their own claims -- without proof -- that they too were victims of the accused, often decades earlier.

That's ...Read more

This summer, the United States celebrates its 250th birthday.

In 1776, few people believed this new version of self-government would last.

After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government the Founding Fathers had created.

"A republic," he replied, "if you can keep it."

If ...

It's rare that a ...Read more

If you lived in America in 1843 and wanted to communicate with someone in a distant state, you would have to send that person a written message delivered by land.

But that year, as noted on the official website of the House of Representatives, Congress approved $30,000 in spending "to test the feasibility of creating a telegraph system."

In ...Read more

Bonchie of RedState.com asked an interesting question on X: Has a single late-night comic told a single joke about Graham Platner? That question shouldn't have to be asked about the radical-left Democrat Senate nominee in Maine, the one who had the Totenkopf symbol tattooed on his chest, which symbolizes the SS who ran the death camps. OK, that ...Read more

MONONGAHELA, Pennsylvania -- Downballot primary results for seats in the Pennsylvania legislature and Congress had both parties heading into very different directions for November's midterm election cycle. The Democrats are marching far left, and Republicans are beating back challengers from their far-right flanks.

In Washington County, in a ...Read more

Billionaires are getting a bad name. "Eat the rich" is the new mantra of the Left's greed and envy lobby.

Once upon a time, we saluted and celebrated America's empire builders who got rich but created great industries that built the richest nation on earth. Now the Left in America demonizes them.

We see the assault on wealth every day: wealth ...Read more

President Donald Trump isn't manipulating Republican voters. He's empowering them to do something they've long wanted -- elect strong conservatives, not fake ones.

On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed candidate, Ed Gallrein. In recent years, Massie morphed from a principled, limited-government advocate ...Read more

Socialism will always find an audience because it appeals to base envy and resentment. Ginning up a mob to be mad at "oligarchs," "Wall Street barons," "kulaks" or "billionaires" is cheap and easy.

So, it was refreshing to hear Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the fourth richest man on the planet, offer unadulterated praise of the moral and ...Read more

Donald Trump is the undisputed king of the Republican Party. Earlier this month, Trump exacted revenge on Indiana state senators who had opposed his call to redistrict the Hoosier State; his endorsees won a majority of races against incumbents. Last weekend, Trump successfully nuked Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) from political life, relegating the...Read more