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How 9/11 almost killed me — and changed America forever
PARIS — A word about Sept. 11, 2001 — 25 years later. And the day that launched my career. My first ever column was written about 9/11 and the heroes who emerged from its ashes. It was also the place where I thought I was literally going to die, just a few years later, as a result of the fallout.
In 2006, I moved into an apartment not far ...Read more
The Marriage Deficit Is an Economic Catastrophe
The Beatles told us: "All you need is love."
They were right, but along with love must come marriage.
But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men.
A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement.
-- In 2025, nearly twice...Read more
Steelers and Faith: The Foundation Behind the Grit of the Gridiron
LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- The late afternoon sun catches the twin spires of the Archabbey Basilica at St. Vincent College, casting a long shadow across the pristine practice fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp.
For 60 years, this rural patch of Westmoreland County has played host to an annual cross-cultural pilgrimage. Here, the ...Read more
Cal Thomas: Mother’s milk gone sour
“Money is the mother’s milk of politics,” said Jesse M. Unruh, who in the ’60s was a powerful Democratic politician and speaker of the California State Assembly. It is a disgrace, if much is disgraceful these days, that we spend so much on...Read more
The Difference Between Liberty and License
The Founding Fathers who fought for liberty wouldn't recognize how people define the word today.
A recently released survey from the Indispensable Institute for Family Studies shows vice has a vice grip on young men. Among men 18 to 29 years old, 27% view pornography daily and another 16% do so several times a week. Young men who view ...Read more
Economic Populism Is a Dead End for the GOP
It was probably inevitable that the Right's economic populism would degenerate into promises of more government checks.
Early in the week, the administration floated the idea of redirecting federal childcare aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy per child for daycare.
The policy, reportedly hatched by Vice...Read more
America Has Not Learned the Right Lessons From Charlie Kirk's Murder
It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk.
I remember every detail vividly.
Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour.
I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first stop, at Utah Valley University.
Less than 24 hours ...Read more
Diet Coke Socialism
The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would let married couples with a stay-at-home spouse collect federal welfare benefits. The money comes from a 1990s Health and Human Services fund meant to cover daycare so low-income parents could work or go to school. About 870,000 families draw on it now, roughly 80% headed by a single ...Read more
When Leftists Pounced on the Unity of 9/11
Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the Arabs and the Muslims.
"I know many of you in the Muslim American community or the ...Read more
Hey, Germany. It's Legitimate to Limit Immigration.
Just weeks after far-left candidates have won surprising victories in Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York City for the Senate and House in the United States, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a widely predicted victory in the election last Sunday for the legislature of Sachsen-Anhalt, ...Read more
Will Ai Destroy Humanity?
In the "Terminator" movie series, the artificial-intelligence system known as Skynet is given control of the nation's nuclear weapons and uses it to try to destroy humanity.
One reason that apocalyptic scenarios involving AI are implausible is that, having seen how that particular movie ends, we are unlikely to be foolish enough to give AI ...Read more
When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning
A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere.
The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the ...Read more
Trump at the Midpoint: Power, Progress and the Price of Chaos
As America approaches the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump's second administration can be described in one word: consequential. Whether one considers those consequences beneficial or dangerous depends largely on where one stands politically. But even Trump's fiercest critics must concede that he has never confused the presidency ...Read more
A Convoluted Scheme to Pay Parents to Stay at Home
Vice President JD Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford day care. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may prove popular, the proposal fails every test we should apply to government subsidies.
That's because the proposal ...Read more
It's the Legal System That's Insane
Watching the Lindsay Clancy trial, as well as its aftermath, play out has made me fear, seriously, for the future of this country. A functioning 21st-century society requires a sensible and reliable legal system, and ours seems to be going off the rails.
Clancy sent her husband, Patrick, on errands, and while he was gone, she strangled their ...Read more
Cal Thomas: Once again it will be about turnout
Republicans are holding a unique midterm combination rally, get-out-the-vote convention in Dallas this week. The politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-4295026">Read more
S.E. Cupp: For Trump, even 9/11 is an opportunity
There was a reason organizers of the 9/11 ceremony in Manhattan told President Trump he could not speak at this year’s memorial service.
A good one, it turns out.
Because in a speech he gave on Tuesday in Washington, he did exactly what they were presumably worried about — he made it about himself.
According to politics/fromtheright/secupp/s-4295027">Read more
SAVE America Act v. Packing Supreme Court: Devil in the Details
In February 2026, the U.S. House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act to require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections and an approved form of government photo ID to cast a ballot.
Every House Republican voted for the SAVE America Act, but every Democrat except one voted against this ...Read more
Golden Dome Is Worth a Trillion
Critics of the Trump administration's proposed Golden Dome strategic defense system fall into two camps. Camp One I'll call "The Perpetual Rejects." Label Camp Two "The Nervous Debtors."
In the 1980s, The Perpetual Rejects ridiculed President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, calling it "Star Wars." Perpetual Rejects argued SDI ...Read more
Call in the Feds to Investigate Lawless Mamdani
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is weaponizing the apparatus of city government to crush landlords and seize their property, violating state law, the U.S. Constitution and fundamental fairness.
If you're not a landlord, you may think this doesn't affect you -- but think again.
Landlords are just the first: Anyone who owns anything is in ...Read more

















































