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"That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also one of the most important tests of the rule of law: What do you do when you believe a crime occurred, and you believe you know who ...Read more

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said something out loud this weekend that many in Washington have long understood: Sen. Chuck Schumer, he argued, lives in fear of the far-left wing of his party. Thune pointed to Democrats blocking debate on military funding and a defense authorization bill, as well as resistance around the Foreign ...Read more

Most Americans apparently agree on at least one thing. Unfortunately, it's something dangerous: price controls.

A new Wall Street Journal poll finds remarkable bipartisan support for government limits on prices, with 93% of Democrats and 83% of Republicans supporting capping prescription drug prices. Nearly four in five voters support capping...Read more

If you have been following the news from Cornell University, you'll know that a former student -- identified only as "Jane Doe" -- is claiming that she was gang-raped at a Chi Phi fraternity party in 2024 and that seven men were involved. As horrific as that accusation is, the story gets even more twisted as more facts come to light.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is demanding Moscow provide all the details on Darya Shipilova's death.

Background: 28-year-old Shipilova, Russia's latest patient zero, worked in the "Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East." Check the map. Irkutsk appears to be a long way from everywhere.

Except it's not.

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As the federal government entered fiscal year 2027 on Oct. 1, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment's application to federal appropriations for Medicaid and other health programs in order to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund elective abortions.

When the late Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., first proposed his amendment ...Read more

If the investigation of the Cornell Seven results in indictments, they will be tried in a court of law where they are entitled to a fair trial. Sadly, that's not true for the hundreds of college students each year accused of sexual assault who fall into the clutches of college disciplinary panels. Students and their parents need to know these ...Read more

How much money should any one person have?

When Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, people got mad.

"He will own everything!" claims a popular YouTuber. "He will own your house ... your country ... your government."

Comedian Bill Maher, lately a voice of reason, asked, "Would it be crazy to have a law that said, 'You can't go ...Read more

In the late 1960s, one of my younger brothers and I shared at least one goal. We both wanted to send a ball over the wall at San Quentin State Prison.

If you managed to do that, one of the prisoners there would paint your name on the wall at the place where the ball had passed.

The San Rafael Little League, as this column has noted before, ...Read more

The radical rock 'n' roll leftists threw a concert in Maryland titled -- what else? -- the "Power to the People Festival." The organizer was Tom Morello, the guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine. The most celebrated guest, as it leaked out on social media, was former Biden-appointed special counsel Jack Smith, who just days earlier ...Read more

EDGEWOOD, Pennsylvania -- The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine Fisher told WPXI, the local NBC affiliate, that she remembers "tons of people and kids" there. She also remembers the first time she met Idris Evans: He helped carry her groceries from down the street to her house...Read more

In nearly every way, Americans have more material wealth, better health, better housing and more of just about everything than ever before. Not just the rich, but nearly everyone.

Americans' standard of living is roughly 50% higher, after inflation, than it was 50 years ago.

The median family income is now close to $90,000. That's an income ...Read more

Make sure you don't read the news like you read a history book. You can shape the outcome of the trends shaping today's top stories.

Over the last several weeks, we've dug deeply into the topic of liberty. We've seen how rare freedom is both historically and globally. We've examined America's Christian roots. We've discussed why liberty ...Read more

Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace.

It's why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations.

The response to such terrorism isn't to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright heroism.

The world just saw precisely such heroism in the ...Read more

One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs.

The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees. Not since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society vastly ...Read more

Iran's strategy in this war was never complicated. The mullahs believed that if they choked the Strait of Hormuz long enough, Americans would feel it at the gas pump and Washington would lose its nerve before the midterms. Brent crude spiked past $107 a barrel this month, and Iranian-aligned militias sent drones into Saudi Arabia's East-West ...Read more

For months, ideological enforcer journalists who intensely labor to keep left-wing elitist media outlets as leftist and anti-Trump as possible have been panicking over the Ellisons getting their hands on CNN and turning it into -- cue siren noises -- another CBS News.

Paramount has been cleared to take over Warner Bros.-Discovery and CNN. ...Read more