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Trump’s DOJ Seeks Justice for Victims of Benghazi

It happened exactly 11 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was visiting the...

11.02.2026 2

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Trump Is Securing the Border—and America

Twenty years ago, then-President George W. Bush was serving his second term in office when Mario Ramiro Aragon, a Guatemalan national, was first...

05.02.2026 10

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Democrats Celebrate Their Earmarks

In the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, which ended on New Year’s Eve, the federal government spent $1,827,134,000,000—and, according to the...

26.01.2026 20

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Traditional Families and American Prosperity

The aspect of life that has the most potential to bring Americans together may be the one that is currently dividing them the most. It... Read More...

18.01.2026 40

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Maduro Is Getting What He Deserved

It was almost six years ago—during the COVID-19 pandemic—that then-Attorney General Bill Barr called a “virtual press conference” to announce...

08.01.2026 6

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How Many Terrorists Came From Afghanistan to America?

Former President Joe Biden’s record as commander in chief will forever be defined by Aug. 26, 2021. That was the catastrophic day in the American......

04.12.2025 5

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This Welfare Program Has a Bigger Population Than California

Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of losing their federal... Read...

18.11.2025 10

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As Pelosi Exits Stage Left, She Will Leave Behind a Losing Legacy

When the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act came up on the House floor on April 5, 2000, it had significant bipartisan support. Sixteen Democrats...

07.11.2025 7

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Grotesque: Newsom Signs Law Allowing Abortion Drug to Be Distributed Anonymously and Nationally

When Notre Dame des Victoires Catholic school celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, a famous former student taped a video presentation in honor...

26.10.2025 3

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Some of the Government Should Shut Down for Good

When Chuck Schumer first took federal office as a member of the House of Representatives in January 1981, the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt......

18.10.2025 3

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What the 15 Wealthiest Congressional Districts Have in Common

Each of the 15 wealthiest congressional districts in the United States in 2024—when measured by median household income—had at least one thing in...

28.09.2025 10

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The Very, Very Troubled Sen. Tim Kaine

President Donald Trump has nominated Riley Barnes to serve as the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor,...

11.09.2025 10

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What Knute Knew: High School, College Football Is a Great Character-Building Game

Three months after he delivered perhaps the most famous pep talk in the history of American football, coach Knute Rockne traveled to Washington, D.C.,...

30.08.2025 10

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Trump Is Right to Keep Ukraine Out of NATO

After he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and before he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House,...

22.08.2025 8

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Education Department’s Return on Investment? Zero. Shut It Down.

In fiscal 2024, when President Joe Biden was still in office and the federal government was running a $1.8 trillion deficit, the Department of...

31.07.2025 6

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Trump and Huckabee Took the Right Stand for Christians in the Holy Land

At the White House press briefing on July 17, EWTN White House Correspondent Owen Jenson asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt about the...

24.07.2025 8

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This Convicted Criminal Recrossed Biden’s Border

Democrat Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware introduced the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Act on Jan. 29, 2008, in what would later prove...

21.07.2025 10

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Sorry, Planned Parenthood. Congress Doesn’t Have to Give You a Dime.

When the Founders wrote the Constitution, they unambiguously gave Congress control over federal spending. But Planned Parenthood is now suing the...

10.07.2025 6

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Posting the Ten Commandments Does Not Establish a Religion

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state’s attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v.... Read...

29.06.2025 7

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Mike Lee’s Land Plan Is a Good Plan

Should parts of Yellowstone National Park—or any national park or monument—be sold so private homes can be built there? Absolutely not. But what...

19.06.2025 9

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Rand Paul Is Right About the Debt

“Let’s talk about the deficit.” That is what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor on Monday, June 2. “For...

06.06.2025 9

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2 Good Things in One ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

The House of Representatives completed an overnight session on May 22 with a vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It passed by one... Read More The...

30.05.2025 10

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Pope Leo XIII Rejected Socialism, Defended Private Property. Will Leo XIV Follow Suit?

When Pope Leo XIV addressed the College of Cardinals two days after he was elected to the papacy, he explained why he took the name... Read More The...

15.05.2025 10

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Alcatraz: Should Congress Turn Part of a National Park Back Into a Prison?

President Richard Nixon, a native Californian, promoted an idea in 1972 to turn an iconic stretch of California’s coastline into a national park. It...

11.05.2025 6

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America’s Immigration Laws Are Just

This story—that sadly has a tragic ending—began 15 years ago when an immigration court looked at the case of a Guatemalan national named Jose...

01.05.2025 10

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What Democrat Leaders Did Not Say About Pope Francis

When Pope Francis spoke in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 10, 2018, he was not talking about gangsters when he spoke about a “hit man.”... Read More...

24.04.2025 10

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Our Worst Trading Partner

When Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was in the midst of his record 25-plus hours of speaking on the Senate floor on April 1, he yielded... Read More The...

10.04.2025 10

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China Deserves the Trump Tariffs

This January, when President Joe Biden was serving his last weeks in office and turning over the presidency to Donald Trump, the United States ran......

30.03.2025 10

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How Some Drugs Got to Pelosi’s District

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lives in one of San Francisco’s poshest neighborhoods—that nonetheless sits only about 2 miles from the...

22.03.2025 7

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What Zelenskyy Can Learn From Ben Franklin

After the United States declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776, this nation sent diplomats to France—seeking an alliance with a...

06.03.2025 9

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Humans Must Not Be Sex-Selected, Frozen, or Discarded

The number of human beings living in freezers in the United States now outnumbers the population of Dallas, Texas. “Estimates place the number of...

02.03.2025 5

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Trump Takes a Solid Step Toward Peace in Ukraine

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Belgium last week to participate in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group—a gathering of officials from...

20.02.2025 20

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Democrats Desert Abortion-Survivor Babies

The day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term, Senate Democratic leaders went to the floor to attack a bill that...

02.02.2025 20

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