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Terence P. JeffreyThe Daily Caller |
When President George W. Bush stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2005, and gave his second inaugural address, as this column has noted...
When the first Congress met at Federal Hall in New York City in 1789, there were three days in September that saw a telling sequence of events. On...
'Rubio has the opportunity to lead U.S. policy on China in the right direction'
With the November election approaching, much attention is focused on the presidential contest — but at least as significant are the contests that...
The state of Florida had a population of 22,610,726 as of July 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That ranked third among all states —...
It was a seven-story building that sat along the Mediterranean and looked out over the sea. That was the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983. On...
When Brian Buescher, whom then-President Donald Trump had nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, appeared at his...
The median age in the United States in 2023 was 39.1 years, according to the Census Bureau. That means that approximately half the people in this...
Are there babies who are born alive after surviving an attempted abortion? Yes. Did Vice President Kamala Harris agree to legislation aimed at...
When an unnamed “senior administration official” briefed reporters last Friday about National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s trip to the...
When Vice President Joe Biden met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing in 2011, the two men joked about their age. “I note that we were born...
When can you deliberately kill an innocent human being? Answer: Never. But that is not what the Republican Party says in the new platform it approved...
Since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the federal debt has increased by more than $7 trillion. On Jan. 20, 2021, the day of Biden’s...
When the 69-year-old former governor of California ran for president in 1980, his political adversaries and the establishment media often focused on...
The baby boom generation — born in the years from 1946 through 1964 — grew up without cellphones or personal computers. Whatever they read in...
There is good reason for Americans to be concerned about individuals from Afghanistan coming across our southern border. When Gen. Michael Kurilla,...
“This is the question: Are we working for a culture of life or for a culture of death?” That is how Pope Francis characterized the central issue...
Suppose Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping made an agreement: All their personnel stationed in Washington, D.C., would...
'Opinions that could make other humans cry'
For Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi — who died in a helicopter crash — the question was not whether terrorism was good or evil, but who...
Is Biden serious?
The public schools in the state of New York doled out $29,284 per pupil in “current expenditures” in fiscal year 2022, said a report published...
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference last week to announce that the State Department was releasing its 2023 country reports...
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives last Saturday voted 311 to 112 to approve a bill to spend $60.89 billion on aid for Ukraine. Among...
Back on May 30, 2023, after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend any limit on the federal debt through all of...
Utah, Idaho and Wyoming all share common borders and something else that matters more. According to data the Census Bureau gathered in 2020, these...
I saw it by accident. I was sitting in the kitchen at my family’s ranch in the high foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains — not far from...
Just as predicted, Judge Scott McAfee tried to cut the baby in half, but the baby died, because his split-the-difference opinion makes absolutely no...
There is one competition where Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia are not beating other major locations in this country. It is in...
'Delivering real results'
There seems to be at least one impenetrable barrier connected to this country’s southwest border. It is the one that stands between Homeland...
From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal...
The United States in 2023 imported $427.2 billion in merchandise from the People’s Republic of China, a nation that the U.S. government reports is...
When I was a freshman and sophomore in high school — before I was old enough to drive — every weekday after football or track practice I would...
President Joe Biden seemed a little confused when he gave a speech at a church in South Carolina on Sunday. First, he mistook the Declaration of...
When John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability...
President Joe Biden — wearing a brown leather jacket and a black baseball hat — walked out onto the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday...
A very happy Chuck Schumer went down to the Senate floor on Monday to brag about the deal he had cut on federal spending with Republican House Speaker...
A few minutes before the ball came down on Times Square on New Year’s Eve, Paul Anka sang a song that has become a tradition for this event. It was...
At first glance, the price of attending college may seem astounding. “In 2023-24,” reports the College Board, “average estimated budgets...
'The government has no business funding these procedures on the taxpayer's dime'