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President Trump downplayed potentially empty store shelves at his recent cabinet meeting.

He said of goods from China that might go missing, "Much of it we don't need."

Then he elaborated the point: "Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I've been wrestling with the story of the Wisconsin judge who went quickly from "your honor" to "the defendant."

The more I hear about this case, the less certain I am that Hannah Dugan -- a Milwaukee circuit court judge -- did anything wrong.

Of course, you'll never convince President Donald Trump and MAGA of that. But what do ...Read more

Last week the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media -- but not the judge -- to this event, and they arrived and recorded the arrest.

The standard and preferred practice when arresting a nonviolent person who is a public official with deep roots in the ...Read more

The right to privacy -- the right to be let alone -- is the most cherished right among civilized peoples. It was the right that gave birth to the American Revolution in opposition to British writs of assistance authoring petty officials to rummage through homes in search of contraband goods. Anonymous speech is scrupulously protected by the ...Read more

When Donald Trump reentered office in 2025, he inherited a strong economy partly fueled by the possibility of lower taxes on capital, fewer overbearing regulations, energy abundance and the rise of AI. Instead of stewarding that prosperity and optimism, Trump quickly upended it through a reckless love affair with tariffs and a flair for ...Read more

A writer on X named Yehuda Teitelbaum posted a long thread earlier this week about the recently released report by the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias at Harvard University. Teitelbaum was shocked at the incidents described in the report, as were many of those who commented on the thread.

The problem at ...Read more

On April 28, a critical "instability" disrupted electrical power grids in Spain, Portugal and parts of France. Extensive blackouts lasted for hours.

Initial reports speculated over-reliance on intermittent wind and solar electrical technologies share part of the blame.

Whatever the cause, the widespread power loss in three first-world ...Read more

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old.

Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged and fired from the company he founded and built by the professional management he helped recruit.

Eleven years later, after that management brought the firm to the edge of bankruptcy, Jobs returned to the helm and saved the company.

In 1997, ...Read more

New Yorkers are getting robbed blind.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state's two legislative leaders announced a budget deal Monday night on how much to tax New Yorkers and how much the state government will spend in the coming fiscal year, which starts June 1.

From the smattering of information available, it's likely this deal will necessitate ...Read more

Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs. Both had good intentions, but their "wars" do more harm than good. I believed the War on Poverty would lift people out of poverty. At the time I was a naive Princeton student who believed my professors when they said, "It's wrong that in ...Read more

This story -- that sadly has a tragic ending -- began 15 years ago when an immigration court looked at the case of a Guatemalan national named Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj.

He was arrested in Oklahoma in 2023 -- 13 years after he had been deported.

"A check of records confirmed Paxtor's identity and confirmed he is an alien who was ordered removed by ...Read more

At the 100-day mark, it's an obvious fact that the border is now secure. Illegal immigration is now a trickle. The network "news" folks hate to mention it. But they are eager to cite polls that find Trump's immigration approval number is declining. Forget the successes, and drive the notion that he's losing juice in the polls.

To troll the anti...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Losing a presidential election is bad enough. But still not understanding why you lost several months later? Well, that's even worse. You don't want to end up there.

In politics, a little introspection can go a long way. After all, if you don't know what's broken, how can you fix it? And if you can't identify mistakes, ...Read more

President Donald Trump's record as the deregulation president is nearly unparalleled. In his first 100 days in office, he has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars of potential deregulation savings in the areas of energy, education and housing.

Hooray.

But some of his new regulators in the Justice Department and at the Federal ...Read more

If you break a system, you can't be upset when fixing that system requires a solution that's outside the normal operation of the system.

Congressional Democrats continue to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to America. In March, the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador. Congressional Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van ...Read more

Dana Perino has a superpower.

It is a special gift that has nothing to do with her position as a Fox News anchor or her former role as press secretary for former President George W. Bush. Instead, it has everything to do with her ability to guide young people as they navigate the minefields of their professional and personal lives.

In short,...Read more