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As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar -- and possibly billion-dollar -- fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota's Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one year's end and the next one's beginning to take a longer look at America's experience with immigration, and to seek the guidance of the first and ...Read more

Listening to the usual legacy media suspects, one might think 2025 was an apocalyptic wasteland of sorts -- an authoritarian fever dream brought on by the return of Donald J. Trump to the Oval Office. The reality looked very different. This past year was, in many ways, a pretty great and clarifying one. Let's take stock of what happened when ...Read more

Nick Fuentes is often described as dangerous not because he is merely provocative but because his rhetoric and worldview actively undermine the moral foundations of a pluralistic democracy and the credibility of any political movement that tolerates him. His record of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic statements -- particularly when aimed at ...Read more

There is something emotionally satisfying about watching a wealthy person call for higher taxes on people like himself. It feels civic-minded, even noble. A recent commentary by former Utah senator, Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney fits squarely into this tradition. Faced with a looming fiscal cliff, ...Read more

1. On Jan. 1, 2027, Joe Biden will be
a. A criminal defendant in a case brought by the Trump DOJ.
b. Generally regarded as smarter than he appears to be today.
c. Gone from this vail of tears.
d. In hospice.

2. On Jan. 1, 2027, Donald Trump will still be
a. Blaming JD Vance for something.
b. Appealing the ...Read more

Over the last 25 years, I've written several New Year's columns discussing global strategic challenges. The essay typically sketched ongoing violence, potential violence or the very rare instance of peaceful settlement.

Five years ago, "strategic challenges" became an annual event with one to five or six type lists. In the initial columns, U....Read more

Red states have low electric rates. Blue states gouge residents and businesses with exorbitant rates. But even worse are the bald-faced lies blue-state politicians tell you to defend the gouging.

Instead of admitting that expensive electricity is a choice they're deliberately making -- your budget be damned -- they lie, claiming wind and ...Read more

I recall a saying from my youth that went, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

This comes to mind reading reports of the mind-boggling welfare fraud megascandal that has been exposed in Minnesota.

For perspective on the scope of the scandal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson estimates fraud losses in Minnesota since ...Read more

While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, "We're a nation in decline." Now that he's president, the left agrees. "We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire," says Cornell West. Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us?

If we don't learn from history, says ...Read more

In which jurisdiction does the federal government own a higher percentage of the land? Is it in the District of Columbia, which sits on the East Coast and serves as the nation's capital, or is it in California, which sits on the West Coast and is one of the 50 states?

The answer is California.

According to a Congressional Research Service ...Read more

Nancy Pelosi may be retiring from Congress, but no one should expect the DNC media to stop treating her as a most glorious political figure. She draws deep bows wherever she goes. She's always the Best Ever.

On CBS's "Sunday Morning" in early 2024, substitute host Tracy Smith announced Pelosi "has a new book out, 'The Art of Power' -- an art ...Read more

Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, said in an interview about his newest book, "I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land," that despite being convicted and ...Read more

Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both counts.

As you've probably heard, the GDP growth for Q3 came in at a red-hot 4.3%, following 3.5% ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has plenty of unsubstantiated theories, but his latest controversy involves following the science.

HHS is pushing back against so-called gender-affirming care for children under age 18, undertaking a number of regulatory actions to discourage doctors and hospitals from continuing the ...Read more

If you want to develop human intelligence, you can't let students rely on artificial intelligence.

Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs that create new content based on prompts or questions submitted by a user.

You can imagine the ...Read more

While Mr. Barone is away, Terence P. Jerrrey is filling in - Editor

After Christmas is over, and the sunrises start getting earlier and the sunsets later in the Northern Hemisphere, there are still two months of scarce daylight and lowering skies ahead. Here's a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours with uplift: read.

Read some ...Read more

Years of bickering over the meaning of American conservatism and the identity of the American Right, which had already escalated in the conspiracy-filled aftermath of coalition lynchpin Charlie Kirk's horrific assassination, reached a fever pitch at Turning Point USA's recent AmericaFest conference in Phoenix. The question conservative leaders...Read more