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ERIE, Pennsylvania -- Long before the furthest-left corner of the Commonwealth began welcoming millions of sunbathers, Presque Isle State Park served as a critical shield for a young nation.

During the War of 1812, the peninsula's natural, 5.8-square-mile harbor provided the perfect sanctuary. Master mariner Daniel Dobbins recognized that a ...Read more

It was only a few years ago when the climate change alarms and green energy fad were all the rage at the White House and corporate board rooms. Former President Joe Biden's policies were all tilted to ending fossil fuels, and many of America's biggest corporations embraced the concept of net-zero fossil fuels. This was the movement during the ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

Even famous and successful women can't avoid the reality of trade-offs.

Earlier this month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on Instagram that she is freezing her eggs. The 36-year-old congresswoman even gave herself an injection on camera. AOC told her followers that she would have to give herself another round of shots before her ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

...Read more

More than any political cycle in memory, the 2026 primary campaign season has been marked by frequent, and often hysterical, condemnations of the influence of the so-called "Israel lobby."

After the conspiratorial anti-Trump gadfly Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his Republican congressional primary in northern Kentucky in May, he quipped ...Read more

Hey, remember that unhinged cultural revolution we launched a few years back? That was insane -- amirite?

That's essentially what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told ABC News host Jonathan Karl recently, quoting a New York City Council member who describes socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong's past tweets about ...Read more

Advocates for transgenderism consistently present opposition to their agenda as not just incorrect but dangerous.

We're used to the Trevor Project folks asserting that resisting someone's urge to identify as the opposite of their actual biology creates a risk of suicide. Sadly for them, last December, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio had to admit ...Read more

It's worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close and, given the pre-primary polls, surprising results of recent Democratic primaries in the key swing Midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin, with a side look at Minnesota.

These results highlight a basic split between the constituencies that have suddenly come...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

...Read more

"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone -- most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

The rapid spread of public surveillance cameras ...Read more

There is a question increasingly worth asking: Why do some of America's most privileged young people seem to have become among its harshest critics, not merely challenging policies but speaking as though America itself is fundamentally corrupt, oppressive or unworthy of their loyalty?

This is certainly not true of every young white American. ...Read more

Since March, America has been running an accidental experiment and glimpsing what the country might look like without one of its dumbest statutes. The results are in, and they embarrass a century's worth of U.S. lawmakers and defenders.

The statute is the Jones Act, passed in 1920 to rebuild and protect the U.S. merchant marine fleet after ...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

...Read more

How can anyone escape the irony that in this year, as we celebrate 250 years since the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, the principles of that declaration are being widely challenged?

When Americans should be basking in the light of our hard-fought-for freedoms, standing guard on our God-given rights noted in that ...Read more

In the last four months, several powerful actors have emerged on the U.S. political landscape. Their agendas could affect the November U.S. midterm elections and undermine America's war on Iran's terror regime.

Most notable, and undeniable, is the Islamist-Communist-Socialist Bund (ICSB).

ICSB stalwarts worship Hamas, the Palestinian terror ...Read more