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Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the government has become totalitarian while individuals have become...Read more

There are elections that deliver a warning, and elections that make the warning impossible to ignore. The 2026 midterms were the latter. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, and Republicans lost Senate seats in states they had every reason to believe were secure. South Carolina's Darline Graham and Texas Attorney General Ken ...Read more

The U.S. midterm elections definitely settled one political question: The Democratic Party has deep political divisions that clever rhetoric can no longer hide.

Moreover, these divisions are ripe for exploitation by foreign and domestic enemies, destructive actors who don't give a damn about the price of eggs, diesel fuel and housing in New ...Read more

The headline item from Tuesday's elections is that Democrats wiped out Republicans in the House and the Senate. Congratulations. But do our newly minted senators, with their terms ending in January 2033, realize that they will be the cohort of legislators who face the exhaustion of Social Security's retirement trust fund in 2032?

Each ...Read more

Where to start? There are plenty of lessons to be learned from this week's slaughter of the Republican Party. Here goes:

1. It's the economy, stupid.

How many times do we have to see this movie? The inflation caused by COVID-19 spending plus Biden-era policies has created real economic hardship for Americans. President Donald Trump promised ...Read more

American voters have spoken. And in our 250th anniversary year, it's encouraging to know that our Constitutional order has survived another election.

Yes, we finalize our political battles in the private voting booth.

It appears yet again that the majority of American voters prefer a divided government to coerce political consensus.

As ...Read more

Colorado politicians promised the state's families universal pre-K programs -- but snatched the promise back from Catholic parents who want to choose a school that supports their religious beliefs.

Parents fought them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Tuesday the justices heard oral arguments in St. Mary Catholic Parish vs. Roy, a ...Read more

"There is an epidemic of suffering!" says New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

"A mental health crisis!" says Vice President JD Vance.

Alarmist media agree: "Mental health crisis among U.S. teens," reports The New York Times.

The Wall Street Journal: "America's mental health is worsening."

As usual, when the media and politicians agree, the ...Read more

When President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress on April 2, 1917, to call for a declaration of war against Germany, there was a just and reasonable cause for Congress to authorize that war. German submarines had been sinking boats in the Atlantic Ocean and killing Americans on board.

But Wilson had a grander vision of why ...Read more

The average American independent voter has a "pox on both houses" bias, but the average "mainstream" journalist doesn't think that way. They will always see the Republicans as more negative than the Democrats. That's because they enjoy attacks on their conservative adversaries and empathize when their Democrat friends are targeted.

On Nov. 1,...Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- On a recent afternoon, April Polk was driving to a doctor's appointment when her assistant flagged something in her business inbox: a grant application, the kind of funding opportunity a small retailer cannot afford to miss.

The assistant offered to fill it out while she drove.

"She's like, 'Hey, I can go on there and I can...Read more

Altruism is, of course, a virtue.

Yes, we have a moral duty to help our fellow man and strive to leave the world a better place. By definition, rich and successful people can have a much bigger influence on improving the state of the planet ... because they have more money and influence. But there are exceptions. One of the greatest altruists...Read more

Capitalism comes from freedom. Socialism requires coercion.

Regardless of Tuesday's election results, one thing is certain. Along with welcoming the Democratic Socialists of America into their party, Democrats are rapidly embracing socialism. Several DSA candidates are going to win in deep-blue congressional districts. Democratic House leader...Read more

President Donald Trump recently accused Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of being "on the side of the terrorists." The accusation triggers fits of indignation from the Left. The Washington Post and other major outlets assured voters "there is no evidence" to claim that El-Sayed supports groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

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America's left-wing fringe, which is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party mainstream, absolutely hates our nation. You'd have to be blind not to see it.

Take the latest example: Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, the punk who just desecrated the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool in downtown Manhattan.

Earlier this week, Tijerina was ...Read more

In August, Mary Peltola told Alaskans, "It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!" Her campaign might have wanted to check its own text messages before she said it.

According to a New York Times investigation published Wednesday, top Peltola aides in the summer of 2025 told a staffer to find as many people named ...Read more