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No one likes insurance companies -- trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog's clenched teeth -- and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance lobby.

The giant insurance companies -- including ...Read more

Winning the war of ideas isn't enough.

Consider government-sanctioned racial discrimination. There's a reason the left hides behind acronyms like DEI. Judging people on their skin color, not their character, remains unpopular. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination in employment and education. In 2023, the Supreme Court ...Read more

The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: "In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025." It was one of dozens of images on Facebook feeds showing houses of worship honoring Kirk since he was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University.

On the steps of the Pittsburgh City-County building on Grant Street in the ...Read more

A miracle defies the laws of nature.

This is why "the Mississippi Miracle," the sobriquet for the extraordinary gains that students in the Gulf state have made in reading in recent years, is a misnomer.

There's nothing miraculous about a state that adopts phonics and that sets high standards for its kids getting better results in reading ...Read more

Four of America's nominally closest allies -- Britain, Australia, France and Canada -- disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn't merely betray the broader Western civilizational inheritance to which they lay claim. They also rewarded terrorism, strengthened the genocidal ...Read more

In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to understand "the fundamentals of the history, and of the principles and form of government, of the United States."

Do they? According to studies, over 40% of new immigrants aren't proficient in even ...Read more

A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other media outlets downplaying or excusing progressive ...Read more

We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked.

One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in mid-September 2024. The news appeared on page A24 of the print ...Read more

Donald Trump's second term has been met with a sustained, low-level campaign of domestic terrorism.

It has mostly involved relatively minor property damage amid much more consequential acts, but the pattern of violence meant to achieve anti-Trump political goals has been unmistakable.

I thought Trump's second election would be met with ...Read more

"It does me no injury for my neighbor
to say there are 20 gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor
breaks my leg."

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Congress shall make no law ...
abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press ... "

-- First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The modern concept ...Read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's flirtation with a presidential run is the latest warning sign of just how far the Democratic Party's leadership has careened off the rails. After crushing defeats in the latest election, moderate Democrats have failed to take matters into their own hands, continuing to kneel to the strength of the far-left wing of ...Read more

Last week -- just days after Charlie Kirk's assassination -- I wrote a column in which I warned that inflammatory rhetoric and violence erupting from the Left would not be going away anytime soon:

"Anyone thinking that a spate of firings or nationwide prayer vigils are going to deter the American Left had better open their eyes and gird their...Read more

Let's start with Vladimir Putin's recent one-two military-political pokes that Vlad bet would shatter NATO -- but didn't.

That assessment addressed, we will assess Donald Trump's international spotlight United Nations mega-denunciation of Vlad's mass murder war and Trump's indictment of Vlad's oil buying financiers, specifically China and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The escalator stopped working as President Donald Trump and the first lady entered the United Nations on Tuesday. Then, as Trump began to deliver his speech to the General Assembly, the teleprompter didn't work.

Whether the glitches were engineered or not, Trump saw the stumbles as proof that the U.N. is not up to his standards....Read more

Climate activists from all over are pouring into Gotham for Climate Week. They are abuzz over the likelihood of electing a climate mayor -- Zohran Mamdani. Some sipped cocktails at a fundraiser Wednesday night to benefit several climate groups and a newly launched PAC backing Mamdani called New Yorkers for Lower Costs.

That name -- New ...Read more

Eight years ago, I left network TV behind. I worried that moving to social media wouldn't work -- that not enough people wanted news alongside cat videos. I also worried that not enough of you would donate to pay for it. Unlike most of what you find on Fox News, CNN, etc., we at Stossel TV do weeks of research. Before we post, seven people fact-...Read more