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Undermining the principles that made America wealthy is no way to fix poverty.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently participated in a CNN Town Hall. Sanders appears to be passing the socialist leadership torch to AOC. Don't expect her to support collective ownership of that prize.

You shouldn't discount her ability ...Read more

DONEGAL, Pennsylvania -- It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You're hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go, mostly uphill, before you are out of the deep forest and in the clearing.

The ...Read more

Politicians in Washington have the shortest memories.

Maybe that's why they so seldom learn from their sometimes catastrophic mistakes.

It was less than 20 years ago that the U.S. economy was flattened by the mortgage and banking crisis. Anyone remember?

The experts said that the odds were tiny that the housing market could crash; that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump and Canada are at war again -- or should I say, Trump is in a tariff war with Canada?

Indeed, on Friday he announced he was cutting off trade negotiations with America's neighbor to the north.

The cause? It feels more like a soap opera than high-stakes international trade.

This tiff began with an ad ...Read more