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Many speeches will be delivered this year about the Declaration of Independence as we celebrate its 250th birthday.

However, I think the greatest was just delivered by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on April 15 at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas, Austin.

The force of Thomas' words does not just result from his deep ...Read more

The April 21 seizure of the oil tanker M/T Tifani in the Bay of Bengal signals the obvious. The U.S. has the military and economic power -- and a president with the political will -- to globalize its remarkable war to denuclearize ayatollah Iran.

Media reported Navy SEALs boarded the Indian tanker, which was carrying a 1.8-million-barrel ...Read more

Prices rise. People blame capitalism.

Politicians promise "solutions."

President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates.

My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents.

Elizabeth Warren wants politicians to decide what prices are "excessive."

So I was surprised to see economist Donald J. Boudreaux's new book titled "The Triumph of...Read more

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who has served as the Senate's Democratic Whip for more than 20 years, went down to the Senate floor on Jan. 21, 2025, to speak about a bill aimed at protecting the lives of certain newborn babies.

He was against it.

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, as described in its official summary, would ...Read more

On Monday, CNN host Jake Tapper became the latest dancer in a conga line of Stephen Colbert cheek-smoochers as his CBS late-night "comedy" show winds down. Liberals get together on television sets to pose as today's equivalent of the Founding Fathers.

In this case, Tapper displayed a pocket square with the First Amendment language that "...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Despite having moved away for nearly 20 years, when you've called Pittsburgh home for any length of time, two things often happen: You want to come back to raise your children, and you want to be part of something, big or small, that makes it better.

Bill Demchak wanted to do both, and as CEO of PNC Financial Services, he had ...Read more

You aren't going to believe the latest lawsuit fad in America: suing companies as monopolistic for cutting prices to consumers. In legal mumbo jumbo, this is called "predatory pricing" -- keeping prices lower than charged by competitors. The idea is to keep prices so low that rival firms can't compete. Quick, throw Walmart, Home ...Read more

Michigan Democrats had to choose between a Hezbollah-sympathizing radical and a perfectly respectable former Barack Obama attorney.

Given the drift of the party, it wasn't a difficult choice -- it was the virulently anti-Israel extremist all the way.

At their convention over the weekend, Democrats selected Amir Makled as their nominee for a ...Read more

Nevada has fewer registered Democrats today than in 2016. That's one reason Nevada could be a red state within a decade.

Nevada Republicans currently have a voter registration edge of more than 7,000 out of 2 million registered voters. That may not sound like much, but it's their largest voter registration lead since 2006. Nevada has around ...Read more

There are at least 76,000 supermarkets in the United States. Most of us probably have a dozen within 10 miles of home.

Nevertheless, leftists are constantly trying to convince us that we need government-run grocery stores. The latest person is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has promised to open five city-run markets to combat "out-of...Read more

Tucker Carlson, the onetime cable news darling of the Right, lost his mind around the time he was fired by Fox News on April 24, 2023. He has evinced this in countless ways -- including his now-infamous fight with a demon, which he seems to have lost. But perhaps the most obvious symptom of Carlson's brain rot is his yearslong soft jihad, now ...Read more

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, podcaster Candace Owens turned her wrath on Mr. Kirk's widow, Erika. Owens began perpetuating conspiracy theories about Mrs. Kirk with a heavy implication that Mrs. Kirk was somehow tied to Israel, which itself was tied to Mr. Kirk's assassination.

Meanwhile, in Utah, Tyler Robinson is standing trial ...Read more

When "60 Minutes" lined up three American Catholic Cardinals who had been dropping angry "open letters" on President Donald Trump, CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell mustered the audacity to claim, "their candor surprised us." No, they knew precisely what they were orchestrating -- another carefully edited hit job on Trump.

Modern liberals, by their ...Read more

What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people -- slightly less in population and area than the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. But it's been the subject of more care, attention and debate in America than any other country in Europe or the Western Hemisphere.

Vice President JD Vance was in Budapest the ...Read more

Countless protest signs have informed us over the years that "war is not the answer."

We hear this message, with varying levels of sophistication and differing underlying worldviews, from institutions and people ranging from Code Pink to Pope LEO.

"War does not solve problems," the pontiff said in an Angelus address last year. "On the ...Read more

The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by ...Read more

There are moments in political life when rhetoric stops being merely provocative and begins to test the boundaries of institutional respect. President Donald J. Trump's attack on a sitting pope invites comparison to one of the most consequential overreaches in modern American history: when former Sen. Joseph McCarthy turned his fire on the ...Read more

Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the basis of several common myths. Here are the five most consequential.

Myth No. 1: The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share

This is the most repeated claim in American tax politics and one of the least ...Read more