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Each spring, as tassels are turned and degrees are conferred, college graduates across the country celebrate the culmination of years of study, sacrifice and -- inevitably for many -- debt. Against this backdrop, the idea of student loan forgiveness is touted by many as a compassionate and progressive policy, a generous gift to the newest ...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

Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often divided between Patriots -- pushing for American independence from Great Britain -- and Loyalists. But there was only one Benedict Arnold. No Loyalists fought alongside the British at Lexington and Concord.

President ...Read more

Is Congress fulfilling its constitutional duty? I fear not. And so the well-being of our republic is at risk.

The Constitution is clear: Congress is the preeminent branch of the federal government. The powers of the legislative branch are listed in Article One of the Constitution, while the powers of the president and the executive branch are...Read more

Millions of Americans know the frustration of dealing with the Social Security Administration -- endless hold music on the phone, months of waiting for a simple benefit decision, and confusing paperwork. Even before the latest reforms, the SSA's customer service -- in an agency delivering checks to 70 million Americans -- was a mess. The ...Read more

Civil disobedience practiced by the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one thing. Crimes against people or property for political ends are quite another. The latter risks return to the law of the jungle, a cure worse than the disease.

That provides the framework to assess the proliferation of criminal attacks on ...Read more

What would you call an organization that collects money from the public and distributes it to organizations that fund riots that result in billions of dollars in damages, that transfer the money to bail out criminals who ultimately kill and victimize innocent Americans, that support terrorist organizations and that pay for people that engage ...Read more

The United States offers foreign nationals numerous uncomplicated pathways for lawful entry and extended residency. While these foreigners reside in the United States, they receive all of its benefits, ones which are typically unavailable or denied in their home countries: fundamental rights such as free speech, local benefits like a police ...Read more

President Donald Trump pulled a staggering $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University, one of many hotbeds of antisemitism and pro-terror protests that have sprung up in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel by Hamas.

The campus was, for weeks, occupied by rioters who took control of Columbia's core areas and even, at ...Read more

The evidence has been conclusive from time immemorial.

Economic systems flourish with private incentives that gratify the innate craving for material acquisitions. Adam Smith called it an "invisible hand" in his landmark "Wealth of Nations," gospel for the nation's founders. Merchants or professionals can become rich only by satisfying the ...Read more

Elon Musk prefers to move hard and fast. He likes to break things and bend them to his will. He is an experienced entrepreneur. In 1999, he sold his first business, Zip2, for over $300 million. In 2002, he sold PayPal for $1.5 billion. Today, he owns Tesla, one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the nation. He also owns Twitter, now ...Read more

Elon Musk is a force of nature. He has assembled the greatest fortune (more than $450 billion) in the history of mankind with a maniacal work ethic and fearlessness in challenging orthodoxies or tradition. He is a one-man show at SpaceX, Tesla and X (formerly twitter), and is poised to dominate artificial intelligence. Mr. Musk is a marvelous ...Read more

The NFL has yet again decided to desecrate the sacred American sport of football, a sport that has united Americans for decades, by playing the divisive Black national anthem before the Super Bowl.

The idea of their being a Black national anthem shouldn't rub anyone the wrong way. The song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was first performed in ...Read more