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The "independent fact checkers" at PolitiFact did something truly shocking on July 2. They tagged a Democrat with their harshest judgment, "Pants On Fire." It's shocking because it's been almost two years since the last time they lit pants for a Democrat. On July 31, 2024, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was flagged for suggesting J.D. Vance had sex...Read more

It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable and, without resort to the usual rules or democratic procedure, designating a replacement. It's the process that came fairly close to giving Americans President Kamala Harris in 2024.

It's happening ...Read more

The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful and respected tribunal in world history. It commands the power of judicial review to invalidate acts of the president or Congress. Its relative impartiality, compared with the legislative and executive branches, finds expression in consistently higher public confidence ratings. The number of...Read more

There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Allegory of Good and Bad Government," I had one of those moments.

Nearly 700 years old, the series of fresco paintings includes a depiction of a bustling city that ...Read more

It's been a busy week news-wise. Here are a few of my observations (not likely to be popular) on some of the most notable headlines.

1. The U.S. men's soccer team should have declined the red card reversal. During the World Cup game between the USA and Bosnia-Herzegovina, star scorer Folarin Balogun got a "red card" for "serious foul play" ...Read more

The United States nation faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans. Increasingly, two ideological movements -- one on the far left, one emerging on the populist right -- share a willingness to undermine the principles that have long defined the American experiment.

On one side stands the Democratic...Read more

Included in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, up to $1,700, for contributions to "Scholarship Granting Organizations" that parents can access and use toward paying for private school tuition and fees and other educational expenses.

The provision is constructed such that states must choose to opt in to the ...Read more

During a press conference following his July 7 meeting with Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump calmly raised a military technology issue that eight years ago triggered a major NATO alliance political quarrel.

Trump told the press gaggle his administration just might sell NATO member and reliable U.S. ally Turkey the...Read more

To conquer a nation, first rob it of its history and heroes. That's a quick summary of Marxist strategy.

President Donald Trump used the 250th-anniversary celebration of our nation's independence to call out communism as the gravest threat we face, and to warn that Marxists are trying to cancel our heroic founders and attack our longstanding ...Read more

More young people vote for socialists.

They believe socialism is good for the poor, and "pro-working class."

But is it?

Leyla Taghiyeva interviewed psychologist Rob Henderson, who points out that few poor people want socialism:

"When you actually see who supports socialism, these are people who are relatively well off," he says.

Henderson ...Read more

When the Center for American Progress held an event last month to highlight the release of its report on religious liberty in the United States, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) was the keynote speaker.

"Authoritarianism seeks to compel, seeks to repress, seeks to prevent free thought, free worship, free expression," Coons said in his address.

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Communism is an evil philosophy. Communist regimes have killed hundreds of millions of people and made millions more live in a police state. But somehow, speaking ill of communism alarms the same journalists who constantly suggest democracy is in peril under President Donald Trump. Authoritarianism is bad -- unless it's communist.

Trump ...Read more

JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump's vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he's favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders.

That's why his latest deep-dive interview on his views on the economy is highly disturbing.

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If you stand on the banks of the Monongahela River just south of Pittsburgh, you can still hear the echoes of an America that used to build things. It is a quiet testament to a bygone era, the kind of place where the skeletal remains of old factories, once giant sentinels along the rivers, serve as a backdrop to everyday life.

For decades, ...Read more

What sports league, handed a generational talent who has played brilliantly and delivered massive commercial dividends, would make this very same player seem unwelcome and an object of scorn?

The WNBA.

Caitlin Clark arrived in the league three seasons ago already a superstar considered one of the greatest college players in the history of ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently pointed out the problems with mass immigration. Just don't expect him to realize it.

In late June, Newsom came out in support of a national billionaires' tax. In contrast, he's opposed to the billionaires' tax that will be on the California ballot this year. Set aside the political implications of this ...Read more