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Communism is an evil philosophy. Communist regimes have killed hundreds of millions of people and made millions more live in a police state. But somehow, speaking ill of communism alarms the same journalists who constantly suggest democracy is in peril under President Donald Trump. Authoritarianism is bad -- unless it's communist.

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JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump's vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he's favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders.

That's why his latest deep-dive interview on his views on the economy is highly disturbing.

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If you stand on the banks of the Monongahela River just south of Pittsburgh, you can still hear the echoes of an America that used to build things. It is a quiet testament to a bygone era, the kind of place where the skeletal remains of old factories, once giant sentinels along the rivers, serve as a backdrop to everyday life.

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What sports league, handed a generational talent who has played brilliantly and delivered massive commercial dividends, would make this very same player seem unwelcome and an object of scorn?

The WNBA.

Caitlin Clark arrived in the league three seasons ago already a superstar considered one of the greatest college players in the history of ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently pointed out the problems with mass immigration. Just don't expect him to realize it.

In late June, Newsom came out in support of a national billionaires' tax. In contrast, he's opposed to the billionaires' tax that will be on the California ballot this year. Set aside the political implications of this ...Read more

The Supreme Court has committed a grievous moral and legal error in Trump v. Barbara, the landmark case on birthright citizenship. In holding that the 14th Amendment confers automatic citizenship on virtually all children born on American soil, the court has severely vitiated the sanctity of American citizenship -- in this "America 250" ...Read more

One of the most popular complaints of the younger Americans is that the United States has been bogged down in endless war and interventionism virtually their entire lifetimes.

Welcome to history. As much as we may not like it, the United States has engaged in conflict and meddling more or less since its inception. The U.S. was born in war. It...Read more

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is a relic of a bygone era of revolution. The Founders could not have contemplated that it would apply to semiautomatic handguns. The Founders absolutely could not have contemplated that it would apply to machine guns. The Founders could not have foreseen mass shootings. It is silly, therefore, to think ...Read more

Journalists love to boast that they are "Facts First" people, that they are the brave souls seeking out "truth." But when it comes to transgenderism, facts go out the window, and truth is triggering.

When the Supreme Court upheld state bans on boys in girls' sports, NBC anchor Craig Melvin sounded apologetic in live coverage. "The terms that we...Read more

The welcoming reception that so many European soccer fans have received as they have crossed the nation in pursuit of World Cup games has struck many as a happy surprise of the summer of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

"The World Cup is at our shores, and all these people are doing us a great service," comedian Bill ...Read more

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels weren't right about much, but they made some astute observations about America while trying to explain its resistance to socialism.

According to Marx's theory, as the world's most advanced capitalist country, and one that was industrializing at a rapid clip, the United States was supposed to be closest to the ...Read more

"Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?" -- Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788)

Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known ...Read more

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, we will rightly remember the familiar names and places. We will speak of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Valley Forge and the birth of a republic unlike any the world had ever seen.

Those stories deserve their place.

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Congress loves to wrap legislation in the language of the public interest. This year's surface transportation reauthorization bill is no exception. Supporters describe the House Transportation Committee-passed package as a major safety bill designed to make America's transportation system more secure and efficient.

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This week has brought more news that contains powerful warnings about the trajectory of the country.

First, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Watson v. Republican National Committee. In Watson, the court upheld a Mississippi law that counts ballots received up to five days after Election Day as long as they were postmarked on or before that day....Read more

The Supreme Court has now settled, at least for the foreseeable future, one of the most contentious questions in American immigration law: A child born in the United States is a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the child's parents entered the country legally or came solely to give birth. That remains the law after the court's 6-3 decision ...Read more