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When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of the umbrella agency that gathers intelligence from ...Read more

Something important is happening in Washington that many political observers did not expect to see this early in President Donald Trump's second term.

For the first time since Republicans regained unified control of Washington, significant numbers of Republican senators and House members are openly pushing back against the White House not on ...Read more

Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in "The Fountainhead" would scheme to seize the global economy's commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don't just appear in cartoons or in Rand's novels.

Enter Thomas ...Read more

Long after Election Day, the ballots comin' down

No IDs or postmarks wherever they are found

The laws make cheating legal, and Democrats applaud

And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the fraud?

Fed up Angelinos, having watched their city burn

Voted for a newcomer, then saw the tallies turn

The loser makes the runoff, no one thinks...Read more

New York is in an economic death spiral. Companies and taxpayers are fleeing the state, taking their money with them.

Gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman needs to go bold and offer New Yorkers real change.

Roll out a concrete plan to phase out the state income tax. It's an economy killer.

The Albany spendaholics and taxaholics in both ...Read more

One of the more revealing political developments of recent years has been the Democratic Party's growing concern about its declining support among male voters. After years of watching men drift toward the political right, many Democrats have begun asking a simple question: Why are men leaving?

The answer may be simpler than party strategists ...Read more

Former Vice President Mike Pence is now promoting his new book, "What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the American Conscience."

Distinct from most stuff appearing now for the nation's 250th birthday, Pence's book is targeted not at the nation as whole, but at the Republican Party in particular.

Pence's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal ...Read more

I think the time has come to revisit a column of mine published Feb. 18, 2026.

Titled "Some Hard Choices For Iran's Ayatollah Theologians," the essay sketched a military operation to attack, seize and, possibly, occupy the Iranian Persian Gulf port of Bandar Abbas.

In mid-February, the Pentagon increased the size and power of U.S. forces in ...Read more

Politicians promise they'll "help" us.

President Donald Trump says he'll "create the jobs and future you deserve."

President Joe Biden liked to say, "Help is on the way."

I prefer President Ronald Reagan's: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

An economy runs best when ...Read more

Two weeks after the 2014 midterm elections, then-President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the issue of illegal immigration. Part of this address -- delivered from the White House -- actually focused on the negative aspects of people illegally entering and staying in the United States.

"But today, our immigration system is broken -- and ...Read more

President Donald Trump's outbursts at the end of his "Meet the Press" interview, where he called Kristen Welker "crooked" and "stupid," were treated as rude, even unglued. Somehow the offended Trump haters never seem to realize that they call Trump "crooked," "stupid" and worse about twice an hour on news programs.

One reason for Trump's anger ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Western Pennsylvania's leadership in AI, robotics and cyber intelligence companies that work with the Department of War was reinforced recently. Qintel was selected for an $84 million contract with the United States Cyber Command to deliver a threat intelligence solution in support of full-spectrum cyber operations.

Qintel also ...Read more

Last week's blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the left who throughout Donald Trump's now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong.

Just a few months ago ...Read more

The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza.

It's nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker -- radical influencers on the right and left respectively -- say that the moral offense is the same as the ...Read more

Rep. Mark Amodei appears to be trying out for a reality TV show titled "How to Fail in Politics Without Really Trying."

Amodei currently represents Nevada's Congressional District 2, which includes Reno and much of rural Nevada. He is retiring at the end of his term and has endorsed former state Sen. James Settelmeyer to fill his seat. That ...Read more

It turns out that the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was likely the Southern Poverty Law Center.

At least that's what the Department of Justice's superseding indictment against the SPLC alleges. The organization secretly paid informants to engage in the active promotion and funding of racist groups while...Read more

On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on "CBS Mornings" to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "The Message." Coates' argument echoed many standard left-wing tropes about the intractable conflict, framing it as an intersectional battle between an illegitimate ...Read more