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WASHINGTON -- Sunday night, President Joe Biden welcomed new Democratic members of Congress at the White House. By the time his remarks were over -- he talked for just under a half-hour -- there was little doubt that with two weeks to go until Jan. 20, the U.S. president is living in the long-ago past, not the present.

Remember how Team Biden...Read more

Donald Trump won. What a great New Year's gift! God saved America. God blessed America.

But what if Kamala Harris had won? What would this New Year's week be like?

It would be like a modern-day version of "It's a Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart. I'm here to show you how bad it could have been.

First, that Trump rally on Wall Street after ...Read more

As woke illiberalism replaced live-and-let-live liberalism as the animating ideology of the American Left, the state of Israel has increasingly found itself on the outs. Never mind that modern Israel was founded by, and for three decades politically dominated by, a bunch of left-wing socialists. Never mind that Harry Truman, an iconic liberal ...Read more

The Romans set January as the first month of the year. Originally, March had been the start of the new year. But the early Roman kings, before the republic, moved it to coincide with Janus, a two-faced god who looked backward with an old face and forward with a young face. Julius Caesar realigned Roman governance around January being the start...Read more

Point and laugh at The Hollywood Reporter. After four years of Team Biden pressuring Big Tech to crush dissent on social media, not to mention Team Biden pressuring the news media to crush any word of President Joe Biden's mental decline, they're going to warn the world about Donald Trump and censorship.

The silly headline on this silly ...Read more

New Year's Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics analyst Sean Trende's 2012 book "The Lost Majority," whose bold thesis was unduly neglected by political scientists spinning tales of a permanent New Deal Democratic majority.

Trende's thesis instead was ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Why did President-elect Donald Trump pick then Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be the next attorney general back in November?

Gaetz is no legal heavyweight. He's never run an organization with thousands of workers, like the Department of Justice. And he's not exactly big on respecting the law.

Nonetheless, Trump went with Gaetz ...Read more

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- I try not to criticize my country, or my countrymen, while standing on foreign soil. But I'll make an exception.

A lot of Americans have an annoying habit of feeling really passionate about subjects they don't really understand. What we lack in knowledge and wisdom, we make up for in ego and self-confidence.

In that ...Read more

The year 2024 will be remembered for three marvels: Donald Trump, Donald Trump and Donald Trump. He is Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Even Harry Houdini would be jealous.

The facts speak for themselves. President-elect Trump outfoxed and steamrolled four felony prosecutions in New York, Georgia, Washington, D.C., and Florida. The New ...Read more

You can say what you want about Elon Musk, but he is able to pinpoint in a single tweet some of the most dysfunctional aspects of our federal government. For instance, he recently noted that "Simplifying the tax code will increase productivity, instead of incentivizing bizarre tax-avoidance behavior."

He's correct. If President-elect Donald ...Read more

1. On Jan. 1, 2026, 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 vale of tears.

d. In hospice.

2. On Jan. 1, 2026, Donald Trump will still be

a. Blaming JD Vance for something.

b. Appealing the civil judgments against him.

c. ...Read more

Following defeat in the presidential election, Democratic Party leadership is doing much needed soul searching.

Those not in denial know there is something wrong.

Per Gallup, in the 10 months in 2024 prior to the election, January to October, the Democrat partisan advantage -- the percentage identifying as Democrat or lean Democrat minus the...Read more

In January 2022, I wrote my first formal annual Strategic Challenges column -- a quick assessment of what I called "strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order." That column listed four Strategic Challenges (big problems). 2023's essay listed five. 2024's added a sixth.

About a month after I wrote the 2022 column, I ...Read more

Media scream, "Too many people have guns!" Second Amendment activist Maj Toure says more people should carry guns. "Everybody should be walking around," he says, "like, 'Oh man, I left my gun in the house. Let me go back and get it.' It should be as normal as a cellphone." Activists and some politicians want gun control. Toure says, "All ...Read more

Many millions of Americans will be united over the next three weeks while engaging in a profoundly American experience: watching the college football playoffs.

Yet an even more profoundly American experience is not watching football -- but playing it.

This fall, the National Federation of State High School Associations released the results ...Read more

He held an important position -- U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia -- but Matthew Graves has been nearly invisible in the national media over the last four years as a Biden appointee. They didn't seriously cover what he's done, and what he's failed to do.

What he's done is hyperactively prosecute Jan. 6 protesters -- whether violent or...Read more

Many Democrats want to rip off Lady Justice's blindfold. Just look at events in New York City this past month.

In December, an NYC jury found Daniel Penny "not guilty" in the death of Jordan Neely. In May 2023, Neely was in a subway car, threatening passengers. He even screamed, "Someone is going to die today." Penny heroically placed himself...Read more

It is just after 9 p.m. on election night in an oversized suite on the 24th floor of downtown Pittsburgh's Fairmont Hotel. All the couches and cushioned chairs have been placed along the wall and replaced by around a half dozen campaign staffers working at desks, or makeshift desks, watching data start to pour in from across Pennsylvania. In ...Read more