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I've argued for years that the open border was an intentional plan to destroy America by welcoming in millions of foreign invaders. The goal was to create a welfare state and get them all to vote Democrat, so eventually, no Republican could ever be elected again.

I've also argued for years that the Democrat politicians who supported this plan ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- After reading in Monday's New York Times story about actor Mel Gibson's failure to have his gun rights restored, I asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the press briefing that afternoon about the administration's take on restoring gun rights for offenders who have served their sentences.

The story interested me ...Read more

At his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts famously invoked America's national pastime in describing his view of the judicial role in our constitutional order: "Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical....Read more

This week, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released tens of thousands of documents related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, I'm one of those naive Americans who believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in 1963 when he assassinated Kennedy in Dallas....Read more

Tens of thousands of pages related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released this week. Not to spoil it, but he dies in the end. In the process of reviewing the documents, it is apparent that the government kept a lot private because the names of CIA agents in the field, their sources and methods of collecting data...Read more

Conservatives love to joke that the Democrats should keep supporting outrageous Democrats that will hurt their image, from Jasmine Crockett to David Hogg to Tim Walz. What they fear is Democrats figuring out why they lost and fixing it.

On Ezra Klein's podcast for The New York Times, they turned to Democrat consultant David Shor, who analyzed ...Read more

Now they tell us.

"We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives." So reads the headline on Princeton professor Zeynep Tufekci's March 16 article in The New York Times. The event was, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bad misleading came from scientists who purposefully discredited the now widely accepted theory that the...Read more

Alfred Thayer Mahan would be appalled.

The great 19th-century strategist and navalist surely would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are most likely to fight a devastating war -- and a traditional land power, no less -- to dominate global shipbuilding.

Starting from a minor position two decades ago, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The topic of immigration law is in the news a lot lately as a result of President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement blitz.

With immigration, as with life in general, it's good to be aware of what you know but also what you don't know.

I'm an expert on the immigration debate. At least that's what people tell me when I'm ...Read more

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and ...Read more

The United States offers foreign nationals numerous uncomplicated pathways for lawful entry and extended residency. While these foreigners reside in the United States, they receive all of its benefits, ones which are typically unavailable or denied in their home countries: fundamental rights such as free speech, local benefits like a police ...Read more

If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we're in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education -- which has long exemplified the sunk-cost fallacy with past investments motivating continued spending -- may face a ...Read more

On the morning of March 16, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Fox News the latest U.S. airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi terrorists is a campaign "about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence. The minute the Houthis say, 'We'll stop shooting at your ships, we'll stop shooting at your (U.S. recon) drones,' this campaign will end. ...Read more

This week, the Trump administration released tens of thousands of documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Speculation about the "real explanation" for JFK's assassination has been an enormous cottage industry for decades; as of November 2023, a Gallup poll showed that 65% of Americans believe that people other than ...Read more

Confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has been held up in the Senate. Word now is that hearings will be held next week.

What's holding things up? Pressure from Democrats, of course.

If anyone is qualified to be America's ambassador to Israel, it is Mike Huckabee. As the former two-...Read more

The vast majority of New Yorkers believe their city is in crisis.

Electing a new mayor won't solve it. The crisis is largely due to the lunatic-left policies enacted by the City Council -- even over the opposition of the mayor. Truth is, the council treats the mayor like a pinata. New Yorkers need to go into the coming election with a new ...Read more

President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants -- 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump's removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I definitely want immigrant criminals deported. Trump says migrant crime is "happening at levels that nobody thought possible!" But ...Read more

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lives in one of San Francisco's poshest neighborhoods -- that nonetheless sits only about 2 miles from the Tenderloin, one of the most drug-infested corners of the city.

In 2019, when President Donald Trump was in his first term and Bill Barr was serving as attorney general, David Anderson, who was then the U...Read more