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As I child I hated the word.

"Wait," my mother would say.

"Just wait," my father would echo.

"Put the present back," my grandmother would tell me. "You have to learn to wait for Christmas, sonny boy."

And I would reluctantly place the present back beneath the Christmas tree, eyeing my slight, careful, minimal but oh so ...Read more

EXCLUSIVE -- In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump was doing nonstop rallies, many of them outdoors despite an assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him bloodied after a bullet struck his ear.

The rallies felt more like festivals than political events, with crowds ...Read more

I've been shocked that Americans are in such a grumpy mood as reflected in all the public opinion polls.

What a paradox: At the same time, we have peace and prosperity, including more income, more wealth, more of almost everything that we want to buy (yes, except for housing), Americans seem to think we have an "affordability crisis." In 2025 ...Read more

For elements of the anti-Israel right, it's a time when everything old is becoming new again.

So, a half-century-old theory that the Jewish state deliberately attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War has renewed currency.

Conspiratorial-minded influencers hostile to Israel like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have promoted the notion...Read more

If you aren't a Christian, the Christmas story can seem as far-fetched as Santa Claus.

Billions of people will celebrate Christmas this Thursday. It's much more than a reason to decorate and spoil your kids or grandkids. It celebrates the birth of Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem to Mary and his earthly father, Joseph.

Jesus was no ordinary ...Read more

Of all the holidays on the Jewish calendar, Chanukah, which began last Sunday evening, has always been one of my favorites. Even when I was younger and far less observant, I appreciated the holiday's well-known rituals and customs: lighting the menorah, spinning the dreidel, eating potato latkes, and so forth. My given Hebrew name -- "Maccabee...Read more

On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, Charles, not to join the Union Army. On Christmas Day, Longfellow learned his beloved son had been critically wounded at the Battle of New Hope ...Read more

As a leftist Muslim immigrant from Somalia, radical Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is wonderfully blessed with a DEI press. She is perennially assumed to be a victim of racism, sexism and xenophobia whenever she is criticized, and especially when she's verbally targeted by President Donald Trump.

At the end of a typically syrupy interview with Esme ...Read more

It's been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America's 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It's gotten to the point that "polar vortex" is a phrase on just about everyone...Read more

Most people welcome economic growth, but Bernie Sanders hates it. As they say, there's no accounting for taste.

The Vermont socialist has come out against data centers, the mass computing facilities essential to the development of artificial intelligence.

There are all sorts of NIMBY-type reasons for local residents to oppose data centers --...Read more

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest on ...Read more

Life in America doesn't feel like life right now. It feels like triage.

People get up, commute, grind through work, juggle kids and side hustles, scroll through their phones in bed until their eyes burn, then do it again tomorrow. They are surviving, but they are not living.

The numbers explain why. The average American now carries around $...Read more

For years, pointing out the obvious was considered impolite: America's biggest, most distortionary transfer of wealth does not flow from elites to the working class. Nor does it show up as corporate welfare. It flows from the relatively young and poor to the relatively old and wealthy. It's the defining injustice of our fiscal regime, the ...Read more

The past week has brought an unusual amount of bad news; so much that it's been difficult to focus on any one item before you're buffeted by the next horrific headline. Here are a few of my personal observations on some of these recent events.

1. Murder of Rob and Michele Reiner, and President Donald Trump's response

I still cannot grasp ...Read more

On Dec. 6, Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein announced that, sometime in 2028, the U.S. Space Force intends to deliver a Golden Dome "operational capability" to defend America against advanced enemy air and space threats.

Guetlein manages the complex "Golden Dome for America" program. The name Golden Dome derives from Israel's successful Iron...Read more

"Affordability" is the Democrats' battle cry to win elections these days. But Republicans are ready to flip the script to woo homeowners, who make up the majority (65%) of American households.

Across the nation, these homeowners are angry and ready to fight against soaring property taxes. Their homes have appreciated, but they don't have more...Read more