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When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. She consistently opposed permitting federal agents to spy on Americans without search warrants, and she consistently voted against the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence ...Read more

Members of Congress get a number of generous benefits from their positions. They earn $174,000 annually (nearly three times the salary of the average American), they are provided with a sizable per diem for lodging and meals during their travels across the nation and abroad, they have the best health insurance that money can buy, and many will...Read more

The Federal Reserve's premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the predicament we still find ourselves in. Unprecedented government spending and debt, combined with mounting fears that the debt can't (or won't) be repaid, played a misunderstood role in inflation's rise several years ago. As such, fiscal ...Read more

Fires continue to destroy parts of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. At this writing, more than 40,000 acres have burned. Twelve thousand-plus structures -- mostly homes but also businesses, churches and schools -- have burned to the ground. Pacific Palisades is virtually gone, as are parts of Malibu and much of Altadena. Almost 200,000 ...Read more

The Japanese called their intercontinental weapons "fusen bakudan" -- trans-Pacific balloon-delivered firebombs riding the trans-Pacific jet stream and targeting the U.S. West Coast in late 1944 and 1945.

That the "Fu-Go" offensive occurred and that it failed to do any significant damage are historical facts.

However, 2025's Los Angeles ...Read more

This week, President-elect Donald Trump's nominees began their Senate confirmation hearings. After four years of the administrative malaise of the Biden administration, the nominees proved to be a breath of fresh air. They completely reject the failed philosophies of the Biden years -- and the contrast is absolutely stunning.

Secretary of ...Read more

Luck, the saying goes, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

That's good luck. What about bad luck? It's the opposite.

Bad luck is what happens when lack of preparation meets an ongoing threat.

We're watching this play out now as fires tragically turn large swaths of Los Angeles' most valuable real estate to ashes, with a ...Read more

New Yorkers, Chicagoans, Denverites and other blue-city residents should feel scared as they watch Los Angeles neighborhoods obliterated by fire. These other cities could be next, victims of the same dysfunctional one-party government that puts woke priorities ahead of disaster prevention and readiness.

It doesn't have to be a fire. Imagine ...Read more

"Donald Trump will be a tyrant!" So my neighbors claim. I live in Manhattan. Feel for me. Yes, Trump says wild things, like riffing about "terminating" parts of the U.S. Constitution. But I don't think he means it. As Joe Rogan said to Trump when candidate Trump came on his show, "You say a lot of wild s---!"

In any case, podcaster Michael ...Read more

It was 5:12 a.m. on a Wednesday and the sun had not yet risen over the East Bay hills when a 7.9 earthquake struck -- its epicenter just 2 miles west of San Francisco's Ocean Beach.

This was April 18, 1906.

The next day, three San Francisco newspapers -- the Call, the Chronicle and the Examiner -- published a joint edition. Its front page ...Read more

If you're a late-night host with an affinity for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, you're probably going to love being the target of a Donald Trump Truth Social tirade, uncorked in the middle of the night.

Seth Meyers is a millionaire socialist who preaches on TV about how Trump won with a "fake woke boogeyman," so "anyone suggesting...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Hyperbolic conservatives have long claimed that Mexico is staging an "invasion" of the United States.

For more than three decades, I've mocked these fools for their ignorance. But now I stand corrected. It's really happening. The Mexicans are actually invading, and they're starting by reclaiming the stolen parcel of land known as...Read more

Envy is an ugly thing -- one of the seven deadly sins.

Europeans have long been dripping with jealousy that American firms dominate the tech sector -- cellphones, search engines, social media platforms, artificial intelligence and robotics. Our "magnificent seven" tech companies -- including Google, Nvidia, Apple and Amazon -- saw massive ...Read more

Wildfires are inevitable. The apocalyptic devastation seen in Los Angeles isn't.

The Palisades Fire started recently in west Los Angeles. Driven by intense Santa Ana Winds, the fire quickly spread into the residential area of Pacific Palisades. That fire, along with others in L.A., forced more than 175,000 residents to flee. The fire ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) took the threat of avian flu head-on at a town hall at the 109th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, saying that as highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads to dairy in other states, his administration would remain proactive and aggressive in establishing a nation-leading surveillance-testing ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post: "We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal ...Read more