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WASHINGTON -- "When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity."

Charlie Kirk said that. I'm not sure when. It was a remark Vice President JD Vance aired during a two-hour tribute to the slain conservative icon on Rumble ...Read more

As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he's moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out plans for massive tax hikes, and refusing to share ...Read more

When I was a kid, childhood meant playing on the street, riding my bike, hanging out with friends. Most kids now experience a different childhood. Jonathan Haidt's bestselling book, "The Anxious Generation," talks about that. He calls it "a tragedy in two acts."

"Act One, we lose the play-based childhood. We stop letting kids run around outside...Read more

When I was a boy, my brothers and I walked more than 2 miles every weekday. This was because we lived a little bit more than a mile from the school we attended.

Our home was in the Dominican neighborhood of San Rafael, California, which was named for Dominican College, the then-all-girls Catholic college that was located there. Our school was...Read more

Once the shock of Charlie Kirk's murder began to wear off, it became easier to notice how today's "news" media routinely fail to live up to their own pompous prattle about their work. They don't "hold people accountable," they don't "uphold democracy," and they aren't "independent" or "objective." They don't produce "news" as much as narrative...Read more

Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future rate increases.

This was the tax cut that saved ...Read more

Something changes when you watch hordes of your political opponents gleefully celebrate the assassination of a man because he believed what you believe.

On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk visited Utah Valley University. He was talking to a crowd of thousands, engaging in civil debate, when he was shot to death.

Even though I didn't know Kirk ...Read more

SAVANNAH, Georgia -- Tyler Merritt understands the power of community, belonging and purpose. It's what drew him toward the military as a high school senior, not long after the Sept. 11 attacks. This service eventually led him to become an Apache helicopter pilot in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, one of the most heavily ...Read more

It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more difficult to do so when the victim was a personal friend. The pain is profound. Charlie Kirk and I had gotten close, and we had spoken less than 24 ...Read more

Israel's precise strike at Hamas headquarters in the petrostate sheikdom of Qatar happened about 23 months too late.

Every one of the reported targets has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for terrorist activities. Each one of them, by any moral or legal understanding, was engaged in war crimes.

Not only did they orchestrate and manage an...Read more

"You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children ... I'm trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry," Charlie Kirk said last week. Now he is dead, assassinated on a college campus.

I started my radio ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a clear view of the "Free Palestine" movement. Speaking at Duke University on Tuesday, he said "'Free Palestine' is, to me, just -- you're free to say you don't like Jews. Just say you don't like Jews," he said, according to the Duke school newspaper, The Chronicle.

And: "By saying 'Free Palestine,' ...Read more

The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah looked like the opposite of the Washington Post motto. It's "Democracy Dies in Sunlight." Thousands of people gathered joyfully to hear freedom of speech and saw it end with a bullet to the neck.

The dominant media reaction was horror, as it should be. When the Biden-...Read more

What a difference half a decade makes. This summer's prevailing ethos, zeitgeist, vibe -- call it any fancy name you want -- was sharply different from the summer, just five years ago, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.

Such sudden changes in the moral atmosphere seem to occur every so often. The year 1776, the 250th anniversary of which we ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Sept. 8 headline in The New York Times said it all: "A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right."

The Gray Lady leaped over the warm body of victim Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, and led with its usual blame-the-right politics.

The story's subhead: "Security footage capturing...Read more

Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S.

Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a "narco-terrorist gang" and were delivering illegal drugs to ...Read more