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America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars have consistently failed to achieve the objectives ...Read more

A president's influence is not measured only by how many candidates accept his endorsement. It is measured by whether his leadership makes his party stronger. By that measure, Donald Trump's political choices are putting Republican control of the Senate and the House at risk.

The warning signs are visible in Texas, South Carolina and ...Read more

No matter what happens in Tuesday's elections, support for wealth taxes keeps growing. Its justification is based on the idea that the very rich owe all of us something, and taxing their fortunes is collecting on that debt. We're told their success fuels inequality and that it's selfish of them to keep so much, especially if they don't ...Read more

Runoffs in Brazil's presidential elections took place this past Sunday, Oct. 25, and the socialist candidate -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ("Lula") -- won after some procedural funny business. Among other things, Lula's campaign claimed that traffic congestion prevented some voters on city buses from getting to the polls before they closed at 5...Read more

Can looming foul weather encourage a ceasefire, specifically the curious local ceasefire in the war-devastated Ukraine Donbas town of Oleshky? Or is the Oleshky back-channel diplomacy an indication that exhausted warring parties want an end to combat?

My first reaction to the short ceasefire: A humanitarian pause in combat -- especially a ...Read more

"I love America," Michigan's U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed insists. Saturday, he rallied a crowd in Detroit, interjecting "y'all" frequently as he spoke, putting on an African American accent to suit his audience.

All pols claim to love America, but when El-Sayed says it, he's lying. And that's only one of his lies.

His long paper ...Read more

As Americans see chaos and rioting on the streets of Paris, we are not immune to that happening on streets across America.

For decades, France has provided "free" healthcare, paid family leave, free childcare, free preschool, generous unemployment and housing benefits and heavily subsidized higher education. This has bred a culture of ...Read more

"We will always protect Social Security, Medicare!" says President Donald Trump.

That would be nice.

But when I look at these programs' balance sheets, I don't see how he's protected anything. Both Social Security and Medicare are on track to run out of money.

Politicians mostly ignore the problem. Worse, progressives like Sen. Bernie ...Read more

Seven years ago, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is now the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, signed on as cosponsor to a bill that would have prohibited preventing biological males from using women's restrooms and locker rooms.

Titled the "Equality Act," it stated that "an individual shall not be denied access to a shared...Read more

The most obnoxious lie that erupts routinely in the "independent media" is that Trump's Department of Justice is weaponized in a way that no Democrat has ever contemplated. It's like they all observed everything that the Biden Justice Department did to put Trump and his allies in jail and considered it to be the most nonpartisan thing ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington. They called themselves Coxey's Army. It was a protest march of jobless workers led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, and they were marching on the Capitol. The country was in the second year of a four-year depression...Read more

Democrats can't seem to decide whether they want higher or lower gas prices. On the one hand, they're promising that if they win a majority in Congress, they will work to bring down prices at the pump. On the other hand, they can't bring down prices in their own blue states.

We at Unleash Prosperity recently analyzed gas and diesel prices in ...Read more

How many "Dan Sullivans" does an election need?

One would seem plenty, but Alaska is going to the polls with two "Dan Sullivans" on the ballot -- one the sitting Republican U.S. senator in a nip-and-tuck battle to save his seat, and the other a random guy whose only discernible purpose in the race is to divert precious votes from the real Dan...Read more

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, thinks he's another JFK, not in terms of charm or wit, but as a fellow victim of religious bigotry.

When he ran for president in 1960, Jack Kennedy indeed encountered anti-Catholic prejudice, including the preposterous claim that he'd take orders as president from the Vatican. This ...Read more

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, economic necessity, ...Read more