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I pull the following directly from the summary of the 2024 annual reports of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees:

"The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund (that is, Social Security) will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until 2033, unchanged from last year's report. At that time, the fund's ...Read more

A construction worker, a fisherman and a woman walking by the United Nations were knifed to death in Manhattan in separate, random attacks on Monday by a blood-covered lunatic with a long rap sheet who should not have been loose on the streets.

Three lives lost. Three more reasons to rid this city of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets. It claims it uses law "to confront the climate crisis." What it really does is pay lawyers to torture people who try to do useful things. Example: America needs minerals like copper and silver to make things. Even President ...Read more

President Joe Biden met last week for the third time with Chinese President Xi Jinping -- the leader of a regime Biden's own administration has repeatedly declared is engaging in genocide.

No White House statement about any of these three meetings has indicated that Biden specifically made this genocide an issue with Xi.

The day before Biden...Read more

Last month, ABC anchor Martha Raddatz was mocked by J.D. Vance when she tried to minimize the threat of gangs in Colorado taking over apartment buildings by force. "The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes," she said. It's too bad for you if you lived in one of those buildings.

"Do you hear yourself?" Vance asked.

That's ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work.

In interview after interview, waitresses, welders, rank-and-file...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I knew this moment would come. But somehow, I thought it would feel bigger. And happier.

As it is, I just feel sad. I'm like a disillusioned Michael Corleone tightly hugging his brother Fredo in "The Godfather."

Only, for me, it's an ambitious but rudderless 53-year-old Cuban American senator from Florida who has disappointed me...Read more

Earlier this year, in one of the most absurd court rulings in modern times, federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated U.S. antitrust law by gaining a monopoly in the search engine markets.

In the days or weeks ahead, the courts will decide whether to break up one of America's most iconic companies or to sell off some of its activities...Read more

Illegal immigration activists are already panicked that Donald Trump will keep one of his biggest campaign promises.

Trump recently announced that Tom Homan will be his "border czar." Homan isn't a household name, but he's had a long career in government. Homan was the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first ...Read more

We live in an age of whispered conversations.

There are aspects of American life that everyone, or nearly everyone, knows are absurd but is too afraid to speak out against and feels powerless to reverse.

It used to be said that if someone looked over his shoulder, he was about to tell an insensitive joke. Now people are worried about being ...Read more

No Republican has ever done what Donald J. Trump has done. Not even close.

Simply because no Republican has ever won three presidential elections, just to officially win two!

Yes, Trump won the presidency three times.

And he did it up against the entire world! Trump had to beat the entire Democratic Party, the entire deep state and D.C. swamp...Read more

When one considers Donald Trump's Cabinet selections announced thus far, there are a few themes that emerge.

One discernible theme, which has been the subject of constant teeth-gnashing all week, is the unorthodox or perhaps outright surprising nature of some of the picks. Tulsi Gabbard, tapped as our next director of national intelligence, ...Read more

A lot of you people sound nuts.

It is unsurprising that a Donald Trump campaign ad featuring the tagline "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you" was effective in the 2024 presidential campaign. Indeed, a pro-Kamala Harris PAC says the spot, which featured a clip of Harris endorsing state-funded sex-change operations for prisoners,...Read more

It is going to be OK. It really will. You'll have the midterms in two years. There'll be another presidential election in four years. Those of you reading this insisting there will be no more elections are no better than the idiots on my side who think 2020 was stolen and that if Kamala Harris had won, there would be no more elections.

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After the decisive Republican victory on Election Day, one question bouncing around in conservative circles was: Will this lead the liberal media to change their ways? Will they reflect on how they are not in any way the "mainstream" media?

It's unlikely. They believe all their own bravado about being on the front lines against incoming "...Read more

In 1994, Republicans won a sweeping victory that cost Democrats control of the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. Republicans took an eye-popping 54 seats, leading many to conclude that this was a permanent political realignment.

Two years later, Bill Clinton won reelection with 379 electoral college votes to Bob Dole's 159.

A ...Read more

Here's another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It's the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. Going back through history, it's hard to find a time when a party's leadership was so far along in years. The founder presidents retired in their mid-sixties. Andrew Jackson retired at 69, ...Read more

In the aftermath of its loss on Nov. 5, the Left has turned its lonely eyes to Joe Rogan.

The irreverent, world-conquering podcaster -- 14.5 million Spotify followers and counting -- is considered a symbol of Donald Trump's ability to use unconventional media outlets to reach disaffected voters, especially young males aka "bros."

Trump's ...Read more