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Revisiting a Romanian regime even more paranoid than Alex Jones.
Vice President J.D. Vance denounced European politicians for blighting democracy with brazen censorship in a February speech in Munich. Vance warned:...
Last Tuesday, President Trump denounced the New York Times in a Truth Social post as a “serious threat to the
Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week after a recent...
Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week after a recent flight. Writing on X,...
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave the world “Dilbert,” is suffering mightily in the final throes of cancer. After he departs this vale of...
Is the affordability issue making President Trump schizophrenic? “I don’t want to hear about the affordability!” Trump declared in a Fox News...
The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...
DOGE is done. Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a...
Despite being charged with no crime, more than half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation’s sidewalks, highways...
During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically
The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump...
Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true. I have
The Trump administration has warred against such truth-tellers since its first week in office. On January 24, President Trump fired 17 inspector...
President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of
President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan...
The Trump administration has slashed federal spending for democracy promotion efforts around the globe. That rollback of U.S. meddling is
George Washington refused to allow his image on the nation’s coins because it would be too “monarchical.” But will the Trump administration rise...
In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly
In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our...
Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe. The Transportation Security Administration in 2021...
Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay
New York City is on the verge of electing a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” Zohran Mamdani, as mayor. How did so many New Yorkers become...
On July 7, the Justice Department and FBI announced that billionaire Jeffrey “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” – mostly young
Epstein’s case exemplifies how federal law doesn’t apply to the financial elite. In 1970, Congress enacted the Bank Secrecy Act, making it a crime...
JPMorgan helped Jeffrey Epstein commit thousands of federal banking-law violations, per a bombshell New York Times report. Federal regulators...
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker recently signed a bill to compel all Illinois schools to offer students mental-health screenings. Pritzker proclaimed the...
According to Canada’s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is “mischief.”
By Jake Scott A welcome and significant change has come to European politics: an admission that the European Union (EU) has relied
How many atrocities can the federal government get away with? Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to
On January 24, President Trump fired 17 inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. Trump’s action jolted
“Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it
As Americans celebrate the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should also toast the 250th anniversary of a savvy...
“He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon. His...
On Friday, the Supreme Court clobbered perhaps America’s most aggressive and intolerant LGBTQ school indoctrination program. By a vote of 6
As a stampede of weasels seeks to con America into supporting another Mideast war, it is time remember America’s most
Biden administration policy-makers hated you more than you knew. From the start of the Covid pandemic, I warned that the
How would people react if, on the third time their broken-down car was towed to the same repair shop for
Americans are raised to revere idealism, the civic religion of contemporary democracy. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, idealism may...
They won’t end the income tax, bring back jobs, or stop China. They will make you poorer. By Douglas Carswell
Folks who believe the current political atmosphere is uniquely hateful have forgotten the boundless vitriol prevailing a few decades ago.
Late in the last century, theater goers were jolted when a character in the X-Files movie declared that the Federal
By Jonathan Power The European Union is not going to face a break-up; however, the Ukraine/Russian conflict goes. Big crises
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained last week that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are suffering from “mission
April 19 was the 250th anniversary of American militiamen routing the best army in the world. Seven hundred British troops
“If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek
“For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe