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I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn't think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, "The era of global boiling has arrived!"

Global boiling?

Give me a break.

Yes, the climate is warming.

We can deal with that.

What annoys me is politicians, activists and media pushing...Read more

A week before Christmas in 2018, both Democratic and Republican senators went down to the Senate floor to congratulate each other for backing a bipartisan piece of legislation that they knew President Donald Trump was going to sign.

"This bill, with strong bipartisan support, should pass this afternoon with strong bipartisan majorities," said...Read more

Liberals love to claim conservatives don't have a firm grip on "reality," but they also insist reality has a liberal bias -- "facts" and "science" are always on their side.

In the last election, voters responded to advertisements pointing out that Kamala Harris was firmly committed to using taxpayer money to pay for gender-bending amputations...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- President Donald Trump is giving deportations a bad name. In fact -- in a workaround intended to defy the Supreme Court -- Trump has turned one case into an international incident.

Trump is getting help from Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. The enablers are twisting the law into ...Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — I’ve been back on Canada’s west coast for roughly five minutes, and already I’m trapped in the same boomer-induced fever dream that haunts American airports and Whole Foods checkout lines. It’s just endless, unsolicited Trump rants.

How many times do innocent people minding their own business while ...Read more

What is it about politicians in Washington that they just can't stand progress or the thought of anyone getting rich?

That's the attitude of many Democrats in Congress as they try to cripple the private equity and venture capital industries with higher tax rates. These financers are some of the most dynamic risk-takers on the economic playing ...Read more

If you think politicians make outlandish claims, consider what Christians celebrate at Easter. They believe a man named Jesus was brutally tortured, murdered and buried for three days before rising from the dead. Furthermore, they assert this man was also fully God and that your belief or lack of belief in him determines your eternal destiny. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Vice President JD Vance stood at the head of the table in the Roosevelt Room during one of the most significant moments of his life, joined by his mother, Beverly Aikins. Despite the presence of about 20 family members and friends, including his wife, Usha, and their three children, there was a brief moment when it felt like only...Read more

Judging by the results, the United States should be the last country that wants to reorder the world economy.

We've thrived in recent decades, while other advanced democracies have fallen behind.

If we've gotten "ripped off," as President Trump and supporters of the trade war like to say, the supposed thieves have gained little and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's ties to Nevada penetrate beyond the high-brow donor class.

The latest moment showcasing his connections to the Silver State came during Thursday's Cabinet meeting. A reporter asked Trump about the release of Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina in a prisoner swap with Russia. Trump revealed that he...Read more

Believe it or not, I still have Democrat friends -- just a handful out of the 6,000 names in my cellphone address book. But those few Democrats keep texting me to say, "We finally got him. Your friend Trump has finally done it. He screwed up. He's destroyed the economy. He's destroyed the Republican Party."

And I just smile and laugh.

I've ...Read more

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump abruptly announced a 90-day pause on most of his planned country-specific "reciprocal" tariffs -- with the notable exception of the People's Republic of China. In so strikingly singling out China as the focus of America's economic and geopolitical ire, Trump was not merely clarifying that the United States ...Read more

The case for protectionism revolves around a host of doom-and-gloom myths that we should not accept.

"We don't make anything anymore!"

I don't know how many times I've heard defenders of President Donald Trump's new tariff regime bleakly note that the U.S. economy is a mere husk of its glorious old self.

Is our manufacturing base perfect? No,...Read more

We don't grow much coffee within the United States. Only Hawaii and Puerto Rico are really capable of it and even if we started up tomorrow, American consumers demand so much that we would still need to import it.

Tariffs will cause the price of coffee to go up. Profit margins are so low in the coffee business, most of the 10% tariff will go ...Read more

Journalists are terrible at hiding their desire to run our democracy, using their platforms to direct history to the "right side." That badly disguised lust for power creates an audience problem, where the people resent the media's imperious lectures about which side they are supposed to favor -- and if they don't, they are uneducated, racist ...Read more

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries' trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different words -- say, "buyer-dominant" countries and "...Read more

President Trump likes big round numbers, and he's endorsed one -- $1 trillion -- for the U.S. defense budget.

This is the right idea, and we'll need even more soon enough.

It is the president's wont to declare national emergencies, whether a given situation warrants it or not, but the state of our defenses is a true crisis. While the Pentagon ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "A nuclear Iran isn't just a threat, it's the threat," Mark Dubowitz of The Foundation for Defense of Democracies warned in the new podcast, "The Iran Breakdown."

Ahead of arms talks Saturday in Oman, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed Wednesday that his country is "not after a nuclear bomb."

Who believes that? ...Read more