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Scott Turner, former state legislator, NFL player and pastor from Plano, Texas, will take over as the new Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Given that the history of HUD is about everything that Donald Trump wants to change in Washington, Turner has a great challenge and opportunity.

That is, HUD is all about ...Read more

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship -- the idea that all children born in the United States have the same rights, regardless of where their parents came from. Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, this is not a slam dunk for the president's ...Read more

Politicians bash businesses. "Stop the greed!" shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders. Many Republicans are equally ignorant. When some Florida businesses raised prices in response to sudden demand during a crisis (a useful signaling device in a free market), Attorney General Pam Bondi called that "sickening ... disgusting ... unacceptable!" Now she's U.S. ...Read more

On the day that President Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did two remarkable things. He spoke in favor of a proposition Trump had made -- and voted for it.

It was the nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of state.

"Sen. Rubio is an example of a qualified nominee we think should ...Read more

The entire media-Democrat complex spent years building panic over President Donald Trump being a dire threat to democracy, only to be embarrassed by the electorate who decisively chose the Terrible Threat over Kamala Harris.

Now Trump is displaying the highest approval ratings of his political career, and voters are satisfied he's acting on his...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Fonzie is about to jump the shark.

Presidents are not kings. It's amazing how many chief executives from both parties tend to forget that -- often at their own peril. The minute presidents start acting like royalty, their presidency is done.

President Donald Trump seems poised to go to war against an institution that chief ...Read more

If they don't already, Democrats will soon wish that President Donald Trump had won reelection in 2020.

It's staggering what Trump has already accomplished. Border crossings have plummeted. Trump ended DEI in the federal government. He reversed a 1965 executive order that required companies with federal contracts to put affirmative-action-style...Read more

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- Vice President JD Vance said his return to the village of East Palestine on the second anniversary of the explosive train derailment was about more than just showing up.

"I think showing up is important, but there is action behind it," he said in an interview with the Washington Examiner after a roundtable with local ...Read more

President Donald Trump is winning so fast, I can't even write columns fast enough to keep up with all his winning!

Yet there are still many among us with little faith. Trump proves them wrong every hour of every day.

This past Sunday night, I saw the stock markets, crypto markets and gold markets around the world crashing. All because Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission pulled a "60 Minutes" on "60 Minutes."

In a complaint filed against CBS, the FCC charged that "60 Minutes" and "Face the Nation" last year engaged in "news distortion" that involves "significant and substantial news alteration made in the middle of a heated presidential campaign." The FCC ...Read more

Days after shocking the world with his upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump espoused his hope of negotiating the "ultimate deal" between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs to resolve the "war that never ends." As Trump told The Wall Street Journal at the time: "As a deal maker, I'd like to do ... the deal that can't be ...Read more

Celebrity Selena Gomez recently posted, and then quickly deleted, a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the treatment of illegal immigrants being expelled by the Trump administration.

Gomez was, of course, mercilessly mocked by conservatives across social media. And there's really nothing wrong with sympathizing with those trying to ...Read more

Republicans have never met a government program outside the Defense Department that they wanted to save. Democrats, outside the Defense Department, have never met a government program they wanted to close. With Donald Trump's election, the discrete niceties of Washington, D.C., have been pushed aside in favor of a Republican effort to shutter ...Read more

A "special government employee," wealthy beyond the dreams of Croesus, chose as his first target the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth. On Sunday evening, Elon Musk and his peach-fuzz goons locked employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development out of their email accounts, shut down the agency website, announced that nearly ...Read more

The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a left-wing hive of activists badly disguised as journalists. They run the very biased "fact checker" PolitiFact, and one of their executives, Kelly McBride, moonlights as the baldly boosterish "public editor" making excuses for National Public Radio.

Tom Jones -- not the hip-swaying Welsh pop singer -...Read more

After a flurry of activity -- the president's tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the policy changes obtained by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's trips to Panama and El Salvador, the release of arrested Americans in Venezuela -- it seemed clear that the focus of Donald Trump's foreign ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- As a Mexican American journalist who had to struggle and work extra hard for the last 35 years to succeed in an industry that was built for others, I can't swallow white whine. It's way too bitter. Maybe that's because it is made from sour grapes.

Of course, that particular blend does have a fanbase. It is the official beverage ...Read more

The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts" of the federal government. Indeed, in order to emphasize the location of this power in the Congress, the Constitution also requires that all ...Read more