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The 1950s were apparently the "Golden Age of Flying." My mother loves to recall a time when airlines served full-course meals on china, with actual silverware and linen napkins. Until I was in high school, I thought you had to be dressed up to get on an airplane, because my mother insisted that we be in our Sunday best to travel.

That era is ...Read more

When Chuck Schumer first took federal office as a member of the House of Representatives in January 1981, the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt for December 1980 reported that the federal debt at the end of that year was $930.21 billion.

As of Oct. 10 of this year, according to the U.S. Treasury, it was $37.885 trillion.

During Schumer's ...Read more

This week, I had the opportunity to visit the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, to hear President Donald Trump speak. Trump, who had just brokered a ceasefire deal involving the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages from Hamas -- without a full Israeli withdrawal, and with a stated commitment by Hamas, backed by erstwhile allies like Qatar ...Read more

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At this writing 20 remaining living Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas. Thank God.

Twenty-four dead remain still to be released.

These of the 251 taken hostages on that infamous Oct. 7, 2023, day.

President Donald Trump is taking legitimate credit, thanks to his insurmountable will and prodigious negotiating skills, for this ...Read more

How fortunate for peace and stability to have an American president who knows how to use American power to achieve positive change in supposedly intractable international problems.

Aside 1: Thank the U.S. Air Force, its B-2 bombers and Operation Midnight Hammer for destroying the Iranian nutcase ayatollahs' nuclear weapons threat. U.S. ...Read more

What does it take to get locked up?

Two men allegedly stole a Dodge Charger muscle car and led cops on a wild chase through Harlem streets, driving up on sidewalks, endangering pedestrians and slamming into other vehicles. When the cops finally grabbed them, one of the men had a loaded, unlicensed pistol in his waistband. All of this was ...Read more

The government is "shut down." Media call this a "crisis." A "crisis (with) no deal in sight," says Fox News. Reuters says it's a "key risk to US stability." But when I look around, I see business as usual -- families raise children, workers work, people play music ... The media act like government is the most important part of life. It isn't. ...Read more

The "fact-checkers" who pick apart Donald Trump on a daily basis took exception to this recent presidential overstatement: "Portland is burning to the ground, it's insurrectionists all over the place." PolitiFact instructed that there's a few arson convictions, but all the protests are "largely confined to a two-block area" outside the ...Read more

Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law.

This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on ...Read more

Americans don't just disagree on policies. In three key areas, they disagree on the principles that lead to the creation of those policies.

The first is truth. Some people believe that absolute truth exists -- a shared reality outside of ourselves. We may not like the truth, but attempting to deny it will only cause confusion, frustration and...Read more

BALDWIN, Pennsylvania -- Collin Arthrell sat at a table filled with young people at a luncheon in a middle-class suburban Pittsburgh borough, dressed neatly in a suit with his curly hair neatly cropped.

Four years ago, you would not have seen this many young people psyched about voting in an off-year cycle. But a lot of things have changed ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The knives are out for CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded.

Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock.

What's more, Weiss owes this windfall in part to liberal bias.

The one-time New York Times ...Read more

If one were dead set on dividing President Donald Trump's MAGA coalition at the seams, how would one proceed? Trying to drive a wedge through the immigration issue doesn't necessarily make sense: Tightening and securing America's borders is so core to the nationalist-populist MAGA project that there can be little room in the coalition for much...Read more

Everyone understands that slogans such as "Free Palestine!" and "Ceasefire Now!" are just euphemisms for a Hamas victory. Never has that been more evident than today.

Take New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the new darling of the American left. He has publicly demanded a "ceasefire" in Gaza scores of times since the Oct....Read more

In 2017, in a special Senate election in Alabama to replace Jeff Sessions, Alabama's electorate sent Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate after a series of disturbing allegations about Republican candidate Roy Moore. In 2022, Georgia voters elected every statewide Republican candidate for office except Herschel Walker, after a series of ...Read more

One way you can demonstrate how the liberal networks run on dunking Republicans is how they cover congressional hearings. For weeks, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer has been probing how the Biden White House staff covered up former President Joe Biden's mental decline, and all the liberal TV networks can't locate it.

But on Tuesday,...Read more