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WASHINGTON -- The brutal Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, left some 1,200 dead. I never would have predicted that, two years later, Hamas would continue to imprison hostages, refuse to release the bodies of dead detainees and still be rewarded with increasing recognition of a Palestinian state.

Terrorists proudly documented their ...Read more

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The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same.

But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed by the same misguided sense of right and wrong that ...Read more

The truth about drug-resistant superbugs sickening hospital patients is even worse than what the headlines suggest. A report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces a "shocking" increase in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections -- which tripled from 2019 to 2023 and caused an estimated 1,100 deaths. ...Read more

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: "Young people today can't get ahead!" One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, "A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one income." "That's a fantasy," says economist Norbert Michel. "We are ...Read more

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, is planning at an event scheduled for Nov. 3 to give Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) a "Lifetime Achievement Award, for his work with immigrants."

Several other Catholic bishops, however, have spoken out against Cardinal Cupich's plan, citing Durbin's record on abortion.

"I was shocked to learn ...Read more

As we approach the second anniversary of Hamas mercilessly slaughtering 1,200 human beings on Oct. 7, 2023, our media remind us daily of the death toll of Palestinians, according to the "Gaza Health Ministry," which is run by Hamas.

It's outrageous that these media outlets are such receptive publicists for mass-murdering terrorists. But they ...Read more

No one likes insurance companies -- trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog's clenched teeth -- and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance lobby.

The giant insurance companies -- including ...Read more

Winning the war of ideas isn't enough.

Consider government-sanctioned racial discrimination. There's a reason the left hides behind acronyms like DEI. Judging people on their skin color, not their character, remains unpopular. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination in employment and education. In 2023, the Supreme Court ...Read more

The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: "In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025." It was one of dozens of images on Facebook feeds showing houses of worship honoring Kirk since he was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University.

On the steps of the Pittsburgh City-County building on Grant Street in the ...Read more

A miracle defies the laws of nature.

This is why "the Mississippi Miracle," the sobriquet for the extraordinary gains that students in the Gulf state have made in reading in recent years, is a misnomer.

There's nothing miraculous about a state that adopts phonics and that sets high standards for its kids getting better results in reading ...Read more

Four of America's nominally closest allies -- Britain, Australia, France and Canada -- disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn't merely betray the broader Western civilizational inheritance to which they lay claim. They also rewarded terrorism, strengthened the genocidal ...Read more

In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to understand "the fundamentals of the history, and of the principles and form of government, of the United States."

Do they? According to studies, over 40% of new immigrants aren't proficient in even ...Read more

A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other media outlets downplaying or excusing progressive ...Read more

We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked.

One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in mid-September 2024. The news appeared on page A24 of the print ...Read more

Donald Trump's second term has been met with a sustained, low-level campaign of domestic terrorism.

It has mostly involved relatively minor property damage amid much more consequential acts, but the pattern of violence meant to achieve anti-Trump political goals has been unmistakable.

I thought Trump's second election would be met with ...Read more

"It does me no injury for my neighbor
to say there are 20 gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor
breaks my leg."

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Congress shall make no law ...
abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press ... "

-- First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The modern concept ...Read more