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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished

unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

-- Voltaire (1694-1778)

Last week, when the Pentagon resumed its attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the media barely noticed. The U.S. military has now destroyed 56 vessels ...Read more

President Donald Trump's visit to China this week arrives at one of the most dangerous and morally complicated moments in modern geopolitical history. The optics will be carefully choreographed: towering skylines, ceremonial handshakes, military precision, economic pledges and polished displays of state power. Beijing understands spectacle. The ...Read more

Something strange is happening in Washington. A generation of investors and entrepreneurs who built careers championing private capital and intuitively understood the power of market discipline and limited government have joined the Trump administration, taking charge of hundreds of billions of dollars of other people's money. They assure us ...Read more

It's challenging enough to pay attention to political races in our home states, much less those in other states. But recent headlines make clear that it's more important than ever that the klieg lights shine on these offices, and that those who occupy them face national as well as regional scrutiny.

Remember Tiffany Henyard, the self-...Read more

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James Blair's Victory

When White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair decided to push mid-decade congressional redistricting, Republicans had reason to be nervous. Redistricting battles are messy, procedurally arcane and easy to ...Read more

On May 12, 58-year-old Ms. Eileen Wang resigned as mayor of Arcadia, California. Wang admitted to federal charges that she had spied for the Chinese Communist Party and spread its propaganda while in office.

According to her plea deal, from 2020 to 2022, Wang and a co-conspirator "worked at the direction and control of (People's Republic of ...Read more

China is not merely America's geopolitical opponent. It is America's geopolitical enemy -- and has been since the establishment of the Chinese communist regime in 1949.

For decades, American leaders and elites indulged the fantasy that this reality could be softened or reversed. Richard Nixon opened relations with China in part to split ...Read more

Major kudos to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

During his testimony before Senate Armed Forces Committee, Hegseth was asked by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal if he will support the Major Richard Star Act. Hegseth affirmed his support.

The act was first introduced in 2023 but has not moved forward because of Republican opposition.

Now, ...Read more

On April 1, 114 guests and 61 crew members, unaware of the presence of a killer virus among them, boarded the MV Hondius. That ship has earned the moniker "Ship of Fools." Because of the top brass's reckless disregard of infection control principles, the ship's passengers and thousands of people around the world have been exposed to the rare ...Read more

Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change.

They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, "Capitalism ... is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable system."

Give me a break.

Yes, capitalism is often ugly. It brings ...Read more

Among the $308.37 billion in goods that the United States imported from the People's Republic of China in 2025, the No. 1 category was described by the Census Bureau as "cell phones and other household goods." Americans last year purchased $39,246,893,116 worth of these items manufactured in that communist regime.

Not surprisingly, Tim Cook, ...Read more

One of the games in scandal politics is about "optics" -- when a public official does something that just looks bad. Barack Obama fans pretend that his only scandal was wearing a tan suit to a press conference in the summer of 2014.

The latest example is Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy filming a video series for YouTube with his ...Read more

INDIANA -- Tuesday evening's primary race here in the Hoosier State once again proved that the press, both local and national, still does not understand the impact that President Donald Trump has on the electorate. Nor do they understand his enduring appeal, as Indiana Republican voters unequivocally sided with the challengers over those who ...Read more

The new consumer prices report showing a 3.8% price rise in April confirms what Americans have been complaining about for months: Inflation is continuing to squeeze family budgets.

It's indisputable that oil and fertilizer supply disruptions in the Middle East are driving up prices here at home.

But that's only part of the inflation story. ...Read more

America loves to celebrate mothers while doing little to inspire young women to become them.

The biggest news this Mother's Day is how few new moms there are. The U.S. fertility rate hit another record low, according to CDC data released last month. There were 53.1 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age. That was a 1% drop from 2024 and a...Read more

President Donald Trump recently announced that he was reducing U.S. military presence in Germany by at least 5,000 troops, with plans to "cut way down" the 70,000 active-duty military personnel in Europe.

The move comes on the heels of Western European nations rejecting Trump's request for help in opening the Strait of Hormuz after the ...Read more