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The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason. If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate. I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!" Good for him. Free speech is crucial to freedom. Democrats, by ...Read more

When Notre Dame des Victoires Catholic school celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, a famous former student taped a video presentation in honor of that moment. This was California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In a press release about its anniversary, the school said: "Located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, NDV remains dedicated to its ...Read more

One of the more tiresome mantras of leftist media coverage is Trump allegedly paging through his "authoritarian playbook." The media have their own protest playbook, as you could tell when leftists organized another mass protest titled "No Kings," as if we've ever had a king.

The network newscasts slobbered all over this Saturday event, using ...Read more

"The stakes couldn't be higher," Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrat running for state attorney general, said Monday in an X post. It was an ironic post, coming 10 days after National Review reported numerous violent text messages Jones sent to a colleague in the legislature about a Republican lawmaker. Jones fantasized about urinating on the ...Read more

The following column is coauthored by Stephen Moore and David M. Simon.

The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsize continually skyrocketing Obamacare health insurance premiums. The Wall Street Journal ...Read more

A New York real estate developer and TV star just outsmarted America's highly credentialed foreign policy establishment.

Hamas recently returned its last 20 living hostages to Israel. That was part of a stunning Gaza peace plan announced earlier by President Donald Trump. Israel and Hamas both agreed to it. Hamas signed on even though it hadn...Read more

On Thursday, Senate Democrats voted for the 10th time to prolong the federal government shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) defended his caucus's ...Read more

The president is still riding on global goodwill for the release of hostages from Hamas. On stage in Egypt, the president of Pakistan praised President Donald Trump for bringing peace to what could have become a nuclear war between Pakistan and India. The Israeli people love him more than they do their own leaders. But here at home, Democrats ...Read more

"What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass." That was the mordant comment of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first prime minister, on the failure of a liberal reform to achieve the results promised with great assurance by the articulate liberal eminences of the day.

With ...Read more

Liberals always present themselves as smarter than conservatives. But even their attempts to "own" the conservatives can mangle the facts. On CNN's "NewsNight," 22-year-old MeidasTouch Democrat Adam Mockler compared President Donald Trump to Hamas terrorists because they were both "elected democratically."

Earth to Mockler: Hamas had one ...Read more

What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to establish and to limit the federal government? What if Congress's 16 enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limit Congress but are actually used as a justification to extend Congress's authority over nearly every aspect of human life? What if Congress bribes the states with cash, the ...Read more

Amid discussions about furloughs and firings of federal employees, we often forget that most are ordinary citizens trying to make ends meet. Some hold these jobs for the benefits they provide, and others because they genuinely enjoy helping people and take pride in where they work. We must not lose sight of the people behind these jobs, nor ...Read more

With yet another round of tariffs taking effect this week -- this time on cabinets and other furniture, timber and lumber -- the White House insists that its policies are about "fairness" and "reciprocity." The evidence now tells a different story of higher prices for Americans, lower margins for U.S. firms, collapsing exports in flagship ...Read more

The 1950s were apparently the "Golden Age of Flying." My mother loves to recall a time when airlines served full-course meals on china, with actual silverware and linen napkins. Until I was in high school, I thought you had to be dressed up to get on an airplane, because my mother insisted that we be in our Sunday best to travel.

That era is ...Read more

When Chuck Schumer first took federal office as a member of the House of Representatives in January 1981, the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt for December 1980 reported that the federal debt at the end of that year was $930.21 billion.

As of Oct. 10 of this year, according to the U.S. Treasury, it was $37.885 trillion.

During Schumer's ...Read more

This week, I had the opportunity to visit the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, to hear President Donald Trump speak. Trump, who had just brokered a ceasefire deal involving the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages from Hamas -- without a full Israeli withdrawal, and with a stated commitment by Hamas, backed by erstwhile allies like Qatar ...Read more