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WASHINGTON -- "Decency. Decency. Decency," President Joe Biden responded when a reporter asked him about late President Jimmy Carter's legacy Sunday hours after the former president passed away.

It was a self-serving summation on Biden's part, as the barely-there chief executive seized the moment to trash President-elect Donald Trump.

"Can ...Read more

S.E. Cupp is not filing this week. We have subbed Cal Thomas, for release on Tuesday, 12/31.

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Over Christmas, Elon Musk and his tech allies started a yeasty intra-MAGA debate over recruiting top immigrant talent to the United States and the role of the so-called H1B visa program.

Musk is right that we should want to get exceptionally gifted people into the country, and the immigration hawks are right that the H1B program, which awards...Read more

Trump just announced a lawsuit for "consumer fraud and election interference" versus the Des Moines Register newspaper and pollster Ann Selzer.

Why is this important?

It's HUGE. It's the biggest news of the year. It may be the biggest news of the decade (since Trump came down that escalator at Trump Tower in 2015). Here's why:

First, this ...Read more

For the past few days, certain highly visible elements of the MAGA coalition have been sparring with one another. Specifically, X users have been privy to an extensive immigration policy flame war between two competing MAGA coalition camps: the pro-immigration "tech bros," on the one hand, and the nationalist-populist immigration ...Read more

The week before Christmas in 2006, on the same day I lost my job, doctors gave my wife six months to live. I had to be the one to break the news to her. I sat in her recovery room following a lung biopsy surgery, waited for her to be awake and aware, and told her the doctors discovered she had an aggressive form of cancer that had spread to ...Read more

Joe Biden may still hold the office of President of the United States, but the media are treating him like he's anything but a newsmaker. For much of Biden's presidency, reporters were much more energized to cover the apparent menace of Donald Trump than agitate the officials that were always hiding Biden. Now he seems invisible.

On Dec. 15, ...Read more

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough.

Start with the specious lawsuits brought against President-elect Donald Trump, to the great glee of many of his "Never Trump" and Democratic detractors. Some of them, especially Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's March 2023 ...Read more

On this Christmas Day, 2024, we in America have much to be grateful for:

For a country where liberty is still valued and where prosperity is still possible.

For our families, friends, loved ones, colleagues and coworkers.

For the kindness of strangers.

For those whose inspiration, talent and craft have provided the stories, books, music, ...Read more

We all know that God works in mysterious ways.

Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late ...Read more

Dear Jesus,

We commonly communicate, but communication reaches a new level in sacredly celebrating your birthday -- Christmas Day. Times passes swiftly. But it comes to a halt on Christmas. We pay homage and gratitude to you for your wisdom and sacrifice that we strive in vain to imitate.

Your Sermon on the Mount is our light to happiness and ...Read more

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Santa is done checking his list and deciding who's been naughty and nice. Of course, whenever he stops by the U.S. Capitol, he finds evidence of a lot of naughty fiscal irresponsibility that has given us a budget and government that overflow with inefficiency and waste. So my holiday wish is that, ...Read more

It is proof of the power of our faith that the spirit of Christmas prevails over all the reasons for cynicism.

I'm thinking now of Psalm 40:4 where we read: Fortunate is the man who has puts his trust in God and has not turned to the arrogant and to those who stray after falsehood.

Regarding "the arrogant and those who stray after falsehood,...Read more

The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York -- with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights -- flickering, hovering, then disappearing.

Airplanes, helicopters and/or authorized drones flying in the night sky?

The WhatEverTheyAre -- these lights and noises...Read more

'Tis the season for giving. For me, that mostly means supporting charities. One organization I donate to is SSP, Student Sponsor Partners, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to kids from low-income families. SSP helps children escape bad public schools by providing grants to students so they can pay the cheaper tuition at mostly Catholic ...Read more

Even after The Wall Street Journal published a four-byline bombshell detailing how President Joe Biden's staff energetically hid his ongoing cognitive decline from the public, there wasn't a single question at the White House briefing. No reporters demanded answers about how they were misled, or complained they were pressured into silence.

They...Read more

When Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was serving his first term in 2018, he warned his colleagues and the American people about something he perceived to be "immoral" and "unsustainable."

"For years, Congress has spent irresponsibly and with what seems to be little or no thought for how it might affect future generations," Johnson ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- There are three things you need to know about the media and how they approach anything that is complicated.

First, as storytellers, we're drawn to the complicated.

Second, as journalists, we're paid to simplify the complicated.

Third, as mostly linear thinkers, we often struggle to break down and explain whatever is complicated...Read more