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A few years ago, things looked pretty bleak for skeptics of transgenderism -- those of us who have great compassion for those afflicted by what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders long referred to as the "disorder" of gender dysphoria, but who refuse to accept the lie that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a ...Read more

In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat.

This was serious stuff. President Barack Obama, the paper ominously noted, was concerned that Moscow might also "disrupt the counting of votes on Election Day, ...Read more

Speaking at The New York Times, their actually conservative columnist Ross Douthat said, "I want to tell you a secret. One that most conservatives on the internet don't want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country." You might not want to hear this, but Douthat is right.

Perhaps he is not right on the ...Read more

The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to "hold government accountable" when the governing comes from Democrats, Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

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George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago -- the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an upward blip in birth rates during the war, "the general...Read more

Virginia is the new Illinois.

The practice of drawing partisan districts is named after Elbridge Gerry, the 19th century Massachusetts governor. Even he might blush at the extreme gerrymander that Democrats in the commonwealth are pushing.

They want to go from a congressional delegation with 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans -- broadly ...Read more

Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government. But most of what lawyers have studied is theory -- how the Constitution is supposed to work, as opposed to how it actually does work. This "supposed ...Read more

Americans are often warned about the dangers of overreaction, hysteria or xenophobia, and rightly so. But there is an equal danger in denial. What the country has witnessed over the past several years is not a series of disconnected curiosities, nor the product of political imagination. It is a pattern of incursions, violations and ...Read more

When government grows to dominate ever-larger shares of the economy, and when politicians refuse to be responsible about what they spend, there's a predictable next move: Insist that the problem is "the rich" not paying enough. Never mind that high earners already shoulder a disproportionate share of the tax burden. Never mind that relying on ...Read more

The Bible is filled with accounts of powerful people being brought low by those whom they deemed to be of lower status. In Paul's first Letter to the Corinthians, he states that this is all part of God's plan:

"Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were ...Read more

Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently shifted 14 points toward Democrats -- a staggering 31-point swing.

That race is not an anomaly. ...Read more

It may seem that it's impossible to get anything done in Washington these days.

Nevertheless, the free spirit of Americans cannot be suppressed.

Americans are voting with their feet.

Per the Census Bureau's just released annual report on population growth and migration in the U.S., Americans are packing up and moving from anti-growth blue ...Read more

When you go to an urgent care center or the emergency room for help, you might not actually be seen by a doctor. The person examining you is wearing a white coat or scrubs and a stethoscope but could be a physician assistant. That's OK if you have a minor ailment; otherwise it could cost you your life.

George Trovato, 39, went to an urgent ...Read more

Am I sexist? I think there are differences between men and women -- traits beyond obvious physical ones. But when I was young, feminist leaders said there were no differences. The only reason men ran most things was sexism. There was plenty of that. One example people forget: Until 1974, women couldn't get a credit card without their ...Read more

Twenty years ago, former President George W. Bush was serving his second term in office when Mario Ramiro Aragon, a Guatemalan national, was first removed from the United States.

"On or about August 10, 2006, United States Border Patrol ('USBP') encountered ARAGON, using the name Jose Juana-Zapata, in Sasabe, Arizona," said an affidavit filed...Read more

The entertainment awards shows used to be wildly popular on TV before the audience shattered into a thousand pieces. When a celebrity decided to make a pompous political statement, it was memorable -- like in 1973, when Marlon Brando sent an Indian activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his Oscar for "The Godfather" in protest.

Brando ...Read more

The Democrats circa 2026 have almost become tax-and-spend parodies of themselves.

They used to pretend that raising taxes was a last resort. Now, the leftwing base regards raising taxes as a badge of honor.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared last week that he has no other choice but to raise taxes on the rich and corporations ...Read more