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The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill by a margin of one vote.

Well-deserved kudos have been conveyed to the masterful leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson, who navigated through a minefield to get done what needed to get done.

Now it's up to the Senate.

It's impossible not to think now of the admonition to not let the "perfect be the ...Read more

What does Russian dictator Vladimir Putin value?

My question's immediate frame of reference: Donald Trump says Ukraine war-waging, ceasefire-dawdling Putin is insane. Moreover, if Putin evades sincere peace negotiations, the Kremlin leader confronts "really bad things" and, ultimately, is "playing with fire."

"Really bad things" is a ...Read more

Bizarrely, 62% of young Americans hold a "favorable view" of socialism.

How can they be so ignorant?

Socialism has been tried by lots of countries. It's failed. It always fails.

China prospered somewhat only after they legalized some private enterprise.

Perhaps today's kids are ignorant because they're too young to remember the fall of the...Read more

The House of Representatives completed an overnight session on May 22 with a vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It passed by one very small margin -- 215 to 214.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer immediately condemned it -- and expressed anger that it would restrict federal funding of abortion.

"A few hours ago, while most Americans ...Read more

MSNBC host and PBS pundit Jonathan Capehart has a new memoir out. It's titled "Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home." It sounds like the first lesson is this: a "Black Man" gets to dictate history, and no one is allowed to offer a "reality check" or else they're "robbing his humanity."

Capehart is still a Washington Post ...Read more

Republicans need to explain the Medicaid reforms in President Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill, not run away from them.

Early Thursday morning, House Republicans passed their version of Trump's big, beautiful bill. It contains tax cuts, money for immigration enforcement and a partial rollback of handouts for green energy projects. It also ...Read more

WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania -- Local steelworkers, community leaders and economic experts said President Donald Trump's announcement Friday that a deal was struck between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel will go down in American history as the most enduring economic "big, beautiful deal" the 47th president has made.

It is a deal robustly supported ...Read more

There are only a few possible explanations for the announcement we heard days ago about Joe Biden having aggressive Stage 4 prostate cancer.

All of them are bad.

First, let me say how sad, tragic and devastating it is to hear anyone has cancer. No one understands that better than me -- my wonderful parents David and Stella Root died 28 days ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Almost everything the Democrats and big media told the country about the vaunted character of former President Joe Biden is collapsing.

Biden framed his run for the White House in 2020 as "a fight for the soul of the nation." A smitten chattering class was all on board.

In October 2020, New York Times columnist David Brooks ...Read more

Actions, we know, have consequences. And a committed Marxist's cold-blooded murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night was the natural and inevitable consequence of a conscientious, yearslong campaign to dehumanize Jews and otherize all supporters of the world's only Jewish state.

Seriously, what did you think ...Read more

Now we know what "globalize the intifada" means.

After a pro-Palestinian Marxist was arrested after shooting and killing Yaron Lischinsky, a German-born evangelical Christian, and his American girlfriend, Sarah Milgrim, in front of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., he chanted, "Free, free Palestine."

The murderer, who reportedly ...Read more

President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act has passed the House of Representatives. There were times it looked like it would die. But, in the end, all but two Republicans voted for it. It passed by just a single vote. The vote went so late into the early morning hours that Congressman Andrew Garbarino of New York fell asleep and ...Read more

When Donald Trump is president, it's considered dangerously authoritarian if he accuses someone of treason -- and it's considered heroic "truth-telling" when you accuse Trump of being a treasonous authoritarian.

The latest exhibit is leftist rock star/first-rate tax evader Bruce Springsteen. On a concert stage in Manchester, England, Bruce went...Read more

How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just about everything across the board?

The Biden ...Read more

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement.

The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the private property of anyone against that person's will was a significant ...Read more

News broke recently that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of metastatic prostate cancer. The disease, which has now spread to his bones, is life-threatening and deeply serious.

Let me say this clearly: Whether you love him or hate him, whether you voted for him or not -- this kind of news should stop us ...Read more

America's debt-addicted government just lost its triple-A credit rating from Moody's, as it previously had from fellow rating agencies S&P and Fitch. Many in Washington shrugged the move off as minor or as unfair treatment of the Trump administration. The truth is more sobering: a flashing red signal that the United States is no longer seen as...Read more