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In the United Nations, the United States sided with Russia, Belarus and North Korea -- three authoritarian regimes currently rampaging through parts of Ukraine -- against a General Assembly resolution that noted Russia as the aggressor in the Ukrainian invasion. China and Iran would not side with Russia on that resolution. It is a bad look for...Read more

CNN host Jake Tapper announced that he and Axios reporter (and CNN analyst) Alex Thompson have a book coming out in May titled "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again." They promise "an unflinching and explosive reckoning."

Conservative reaction was fierce. CNN was part of the cover-up. ...Read more

Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft?

Honest, clean government doesn't follow automatically from democracy. Before civil service reform, the wealthy or well-connected were...Read more

Sooner or later, The New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news it has caught up with is that mass immigration, legal and illegal, from less-developed countries is politically toxic.

That news was relayed in a Feb. 24 article and thread on X by reporter David Leonhardt, a writer of center-left sympathies ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sent a wake-up call to Big Media Wednesday when he announced on X "a change coming to our opinion pages."

"We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," Bezos explained. "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- U.S. politicians tend to overuse the word "crisis." Some insist there is a crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border. Public health advocates warn of a health care crisis. Through executive overreach, President Donald Trump might be forcing a constitutional crisis. And we've long been told there's a crisis in our schools.

You know what...Read more

I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty.

With the exception of Lincoln's dictatorship -- during which the federal government used violence to crush the states' natural right to secede from a union they ...Read more

Elon Musk prefers to move hard and fast. He likes to break things and bend them to his will. He is an experienced entrepreneur. In 1999, he sold his first business, Zip2, for over $300 million. In 2002, he sold PayPal for $1.5 billion. Today, he owns Tesla, one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the nation. He also owns Twitter, now ...Read more

If President Donald Trump was elected with a specific mandate, it was to lower prices. Poll after poll reveals that inflation is a top worry for Americans. So the administration should be worried that it's ticking back up. Further, the president -- who seems to think he can solve all problems unilaterally with executive branch orders -- will ...Read more

Alas, poor Europe, I knew it well. A continent of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment?

With apologies to William Shakespeare, Europe is faring only a little better than the dead court jester, Yorick, whose skull Prince Hamlet holds when he recites the correct ...Read more

The 21st century may well be the new age of privateers -- armed commercial sailors fighting pirates, terrorists and cartel criminals threatening offshore oil rigs.

Why hire private naval security? Because national navies and coast guards are stretched thin by lack of funding or threat of war. Or, in the case of the USA, vexed by short-sighted...Read more

President Donald Trump has entered his second term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. In the first month of his presidency, he signed 73 executive orders; he unleashed his Department of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by Elon Musk, to identify waste, fraud and abuse across executive branch agencies; he deployed his foreign...Read more

President Donald Trump's proposal to transfer the few million Palestinian Arabs in Gaza to other Arab countries and then rebuild and redevelop Gaza was met with some surprise and pushback.

Isn't this unfair? Doesn't this violate rights of Palestinians in Gaza?

Usually when we think about those who see a world with rights and without ...Read more

How good are voters' memories? The outcome of the New York City mayoral election may hinge on how much they remember of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's corruption-filled past.

Cuomo is hoping to rewrite his own history and run for mayor. He got a boost Monday when a key Democrat, Rep. Ritchie Torres, called on Cuomo to join the race. "The city is ...Read more

Socialism is popular. A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively. How is this possible? Little has brought more misery -- first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela ... One reason young people support socialism is because their social media feeds show videos made by popular but ...Read more

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

"Estimates place the number of frozen embryos at greater than 1.5 million," reported the March 2022 edition of Fertility and Sterility, a journal published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

According to the ...Read more

When Democrats switch parties and become Republicans or vote for Republicans, no one expects the liberal media to keep describing them with words like "liberal" or "Democrat." But somehow, after former conservatives and ex-Republicans campaigned for staunchly leftist Kamala Harris for president, journalists just keep calling them "conservatives....Read more

All in Washington are acting like their hair is on fire in response to the Department of Government Efficiency requirement that federal employees list what they accomplished last week. Many are acting like they can't think of anything, like they may need to "phone a friend" to get an answer.

But the deeper problem with the federal workforce is ...Read more