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The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. After 250 years, neither value has survived, and the opposite of each currently prevails in America.

Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in three days while staying at a rooming house in Philadelphia....Read more

History is filled with political movements born from noble promises. Few have been more appealing in theory than socialism. At its heart, socialism promises greater equality, economic fairness and protection for those who struggle in a competitive marketplace. It speaks to the desire for justice and the belief that no person should be left ...Read more

The new "Global Justice Report" by the World Inequality Lab in France -- which calls for caps on economic growth in rich countries, top income-tax rates of 90% and a World Sovereign Fund to redistribute wealth to the Global South -- has reignited one of the oldest debates in economics: How do we actually lift people out of poverty?

The data ...Read more

Psalm 23:5, one of the best-known biblical passages, says, "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup overflows."

It would be hard to find a passage that better reflects this year's World Cup soccer (OK, OK -- "football") championship, which the U.S. is hosting for the first time...Read more

Why didn't President Donald Trump initially want to share the full text of the framework agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran?

The first reason is obvious: The memorandum of understanding is a capitulation to the clerics of the regime.

The second reason is also a scandal.

"I don't, frankly, fully understand it,...Read more

Swiss voters went to the polls Sunday and resoundingly rejected capping the country's rapidly growing population at 10 million by limiting immigration. Congratulations to the Swiss for staging a national conversation over immigration -- something the United States urgently needs to do.

The Swiss have seen their population soar by more than 25...Read more

The Trump administration is promoting a new agreement with Iran as a diplomatic breakthrough. White House talking points emphasize Iranian commitments to forgo nuclear weapons, international verification, regional stability and economic incentives tied to compliance. Yet many of the details that have emerged so far raise more questions than ...Read more

Trustees of the Social Security program just issued their annual report.

Each year, the picture of the program's solvency is dismal. But this year it's even worse.

Rather than falling short in 2033, as reported last year, this year the shortfall is projected to be in late 2032.

That's six years from now.

Without action taken, benefits, per...Read more

Understand Iran's ayatollah regime cannot change its behavior -- at least it can't change and remain the regime founded by the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Here's why. Since 1979, the regime has declared it will ultimately rule the world -- oh, yes. Iran's Islamic revolutionary regime will also play a central role in human history's final days.

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People are excited about peptides.

The internet is filled with claims: Peptides raise your energy, boost metabolism, clear your skin, slow down aging, build more muscle, repair injuries ...

I want some!

But there's a problem: The FDA bans most of them.

Why?

Dr. Anita Gupta, an anesthesiologist and pharmacist who was on the FDA committee ...Read more

My mother -- a doctor of medicine who had 11 children -- made my brothers and sisters the lunches we carried each day to school in brown paper bags. The standard menu was a sandwich and some kind of fruit -- an apple, an orange, a banana or, maybe, a peach or a pear.

There were 72 students enrolled in my grade level at St. Raphael's School in...Read more

Anyone could have predicted that the elitist snobs would lose their minds over the White House hosting a UFC event on President Donald Trump's birthday, led by Lawrence O'Donnell wailing about the "despicable vulgarity" of the whole thing.

But the Hollywood Left attempted despicably vulgar counterprogramming in Manhattan, a "star-studded event"...Read more

What cruel irony that we learned last week that Social Security is going broke even sooner than we thought. The Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in 2032, according to the latest Trustees Report. How odd that it is even referred to as a "trust fund," because there is no trust, and there is no fund.

Because of the Ponzi scheme ...Read more

Mike Rowe has been on a lonely mission. For two decades, he has been raising the alarm.

Rowe has been warning anyone who would listen that our skills gap in the trades was widening to a chasm so large that the economic effect on U.S. manufacturing companies, in particular auto and steel industries but also defense, construction and energy ...Read more

Democrats take great offense at being accused of being unpatriotic, but the data doesn't lie.

A new NBC News poll captured the partisan gap over pride in America. Overall, 56% of Americans are extremely or very proud of the country, but only 29% of Democrats, compared to 90% of Republicans.

That's a yawning gap, and about a matter that ...Read more

If you want to find out why our country has been so successful, you should study the people who built it.

America is about to turn 250 years old. It should be easy to celebrate America. Aside from the healthy patriotic pride anyone should feel, we are the greatest country in the history of the world. We enjoy freedoms most people could only ...Read more

Nearly three decades after the end of the Troubles, Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, is once again on fire.

On Monday, June 8, a Sudanese "asylum" seeker attacked a local man on the street with a kitchen knife, slashing him across the face and neck. Graphic video of the attack, which blinded the victim in one eye, rapidly spread ...Read more