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A basic truth is that nothing stays the same. This is true for any individual or any nation.

Each day you are not the same person you were yesterday. Either you are moving forward or backward. Either you are improving or deteriorating.

I often quote historian Arnold Toynbee that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to the Windy City, calling mob violence against immigration officials a "flimsy pretext."

Follow this closely, New Yorkers and residents of crime-ridden blue cities everywhere. This isn't just ...Read more

When Mike Ricci wanted to buy his daughter a puppy, he discovered that in his state, "There were pet stores but none that sell puppies (or kittens)." Ricci (he president of Stossel TV!) investigated. He discovered that eight states now ban retail sales of dogs, cats and rabbits. Animal activists want the bans extended to all states. This is ...Read more

When the Boise State Broncos played the Notre Dame Fighting Irish last Saturday, the lightest lineman listed on their roster weighed 278 pounds. In fact, most of the linemen on the Boise State roster weighed 300 pounds or more.

Should these same young men be allowed to play on women's teams at Boise State? A case the Supreme Court should hear...Read more

The aerobic freakout has begun inside the liberal media over the new owners of CBS News appointing "anti-woke" Bari Weiss to the new post of editor-in-chief. None of the CBS veterans want a new boss with a new ideology. They like pretending they don't have an ideology. They call themselves courageously "independent."

Paramount Chief Executive ...Read more

Israel's battlefield victories haven't kept it from losing support among Americans.

The New York Times recently released some jaw-dropping poll results on U.S. support for Israel -- more accurately, the lack thereof. Forty percent believe Israel is intentionally killing civilians. Just 25% say Israel is taking enough precautions to avoid ...Read more

WINCHESTER, Virginia -- The one thing that has been consistent in covering Virginia's off-year statewide elections since as far back as the year Republicans George Allen and Jim Gilmore ran for governor and attorney general, respectively, in 1993 is that the races really don't start moving until September.

And when they do, they move fast.

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A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions.

Selling this additional 600 to 800 megahertz of bandwidth to the private sector will enable the U.S. to expand 5G and even 6G ...Read more

Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it's a good time to remind everyone that the law has been a wide-ranging and expensive fiasco.

Virtually every promise made by Democrats regarding the Affordable Care Act has failed to come true.

Sure, Barack Obama infamously ...Read more

On Twitter, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted, "Let me be perfectly clear: Undocumented people CANNOT AND WILL NOT receive ACA premium tax credits BY LAW. PERIOD. This is a LIE from Republicans to divert attention from their shutdown. Republicans are refusing to lower healthcare costs for the American people." The capitalization was...Read more

If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it's a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down?

Even before the shutdown occurred, NPR and PBS issued ...Read more

Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" states, authorizing his budget director to use ...Read more

Doesn't Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth realize that push-ups are passe?

His speech to an audience of generals he'd summoned to Washington, D.C., has mystified and outraged critics who think his obsession with physical fitness is out-of-date at best and ridiculous at worst.

"Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really ...Read more

In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing. The Memorandum, just like the federalization of troops in Oregon, completely ...Read more

Former President William Jefferson Clinton's 1996 State of the Union Address announced that "the era of big government is over." Federal expenditures for fiscal year 1996 were $1.5 trillion.

A President Donald Trump-backed continuing resolution to keep the government open after Oct. 1 projects annual federal spending for fiscal year 2025 at a ...Read more

The federal government just accumulated an additional $2 trillion in debt over the last 12 months. That's the kind of debt surge America usually racks up in wartime or during major national emergencies. But today, as Republicans and Democrats engage in another budget-driven shutdown drama, we are not at war. There is no pandemic. The economy ...Read more

England and Wales are preparing to legalize assisted suicide. The "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill" was passed by the House of Commons in June and now moves on to the House of Lords. The bill has plenty of detractors, including the former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who referred to it as the "license to kill Bill." May ...Read more