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Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently shifted 14 points toward Democrats -- a staggering 31-point swing.

That race is not an anomaly. ...Read more

It may seem that it's impossible to get anything done in Washington these days.

Nevertheless, the free spirit of Americans cannot be suppressed.

Americans are voting with their feet.

Per the Census Bureau's just released annual report on population growth and migration in the U.S., Americans are packing up and moving from anti-growth blue ...Read more

When you go to an urgent care center or the emergency room for help, you might not actually be seen by a doctor. The person examining you is wearing a white coat or scrubs and a stethoscope but could be a physician assistant. That's OK if you have a minor ailment; otherwise it could cost you your life.

George Trovato, 39, went to an urgent ...Read more

Am I sexist? I think there are differences between men and women -- traits beyond obvious physical ones. But when I was young, feminist leaders said there were no differences. The only reason men ran most things was sexism. There was plenty of that. One example people forget: Until 1974, women couldn't get a credit card without their ...Read more

Twenty years ago, former President George W. Bush was serving his second term in office when Mario Ramiro Aragon, a Guatemalan national, was first removed from the United States.

"On or about August 10, 2006, United States Border Patrol ('USBP') encountered ARAGON, using the name Jose Juana-Zapata, in Sasabe, Arizona," said an affidavit filed...Read more

The entertainment awards shows used to be wildly popular on TV before the audience shattered into a thousand pieces. When a celebrity decided to make a pompous political statement, it was memorable -- like in 1973, when Marlon Brando sent an Indian activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his Oscar for "The Godfather" in protest.

Brando ...Read more

The Democrats circa 2026 have almost become tax-and-spend parodies of themselves.

They used to pretend that raising taxes was a last resort. Now, the leftwing base regards raising taxes as a badge of honor.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared last week that he has no other choice but to raise taxes on the rich and corporations ...Read more

WHEELING, West Virginia -- West Virginia is the only state in the United States that is located entirely within the 13-state, 423-county Appalachian region. Much of the beauty, sorrow and challenges we think of when it comes to the region originated here, where isolation, a strong work ethic and an ability to spin a good story are well-...Read more

When you think about recent events in the Middle East, it's easier to understand what's happening in Minnesota.

There are significant parallels between the tactics of Hamas and pro-illegal immigrant agitators. Start with this. Both have no realistic way to achieve their objective through conventional means.

Despite the brutality of the Oct. ...Read more

"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun," King Solomon famously observed in the Koheleth (Book of Ecclesiastes). Truer words have never been written. Look no further than the present anarchic tumult in Minnesota.

On Jan. 12, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison ...Read more

Demonizing greedy bankers and landlords is the last refuge of the poorly polling politician.

And, as affordability remains a leading issue among voters, the Trump administration has regularly used rhetoric and ideas that mirror those of progressive Democrats like Zohran Mamdani.

Take the president's recent idea for capping credit card interest...Read more

Last Saturday, federal border patrol agents shot and killed progressive protestor Alex Pretti in Minnesota. After his death, a video surfaced from a week earlier where Pretti had spat on border patrol agents and violently kicked an agent's car.

Some on the right are, through implication, suggesting Pretti got what he deserved. Some on the ...Read more

Conservatives could look at today's incredibly fractured media environment and wonder why anyone would need to worry about the elite media, considering their trust numbers are in the basement (except among liberals) and their audiences keep eroding.

But just breathe the media air any day, and what we used to call the "dominant media" still ...Read more

About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025.

It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the decade of the 2020s and one-quarter of the way ...Read more

Alex Pretti wasn't killed while "protesting."

This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street the fateful morning when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting.

But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he'd very likely be alive today.

Now that we've seen videos of an earlier ...Read more

Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by spraying pepper spray into his eyes, pushing him to the ground, stealing his lawfully owned and carried handgun, and then shooting him nine times in the back.

The thugs from ICE whom the federal ...Read more

As I read the commentary across social media, legacy media and the broader public discourse surrounding the latest deadly shooting in Minnesota, I see something deeper than disagreement over facts or law. I see a nation struggling to reconcile rights, authority, fear and accountability in moments when events move faster than judgment.

Let's ...Read more