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California's $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers went into effect this month, and the early results are negative. Companies affected by the law are laying off workers, putting off needed capital improvements and raising prices. Some are closing their doors altogether or opening new restaurants only in other states. Keep in mind that ...Read more

As I often do over the Easter holiday, I watched a film that has the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ central to the story. This year, it was "Risen," a film about a Roman soldier named Clavius (played by Joseph Fiennes), an attache to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea. The crucifixion of Christ has already taken place as...Read more

It is becoming increasingly clear that some of America's most serious problems can be traced back to our colleges and universities -- or at least the ones educating the country's most powerful people.

The Vietnam War era aside, it has traditionally been uncommon for events at universities to make national headlines. Absent something ...Read more

If it is possible to watch a society -- an entire civilization -- go insane, we are watching that phenomenon in real time. Across all forms of media, the headlines bring fresh evidence daily.

Western civilization -- that aggregation of cultural, political, social and religious traditions that has formed the basis for European societies and ...Read more

For those of you who do not know her, Bari Weiss is the journalist who had the courage and intellectual honesty not only to leave her gig as an opinion writer at The New York Times in 2020 but to pen a public resignation letter that exposed the oppressive culture there that prompted her departure.

Weiss thereafter launched The Free Press, a ...Read more

The authors of a new book titled "White Rural Rage" appeared on MSNBC last week, accusing rural Americans of being the "most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay" demographic, people who "don't believe in democracy" or "free speech" and (in keeping with the Left's latest slur) are likely to be "Christian nationalists." Former MSNBC ...Read more

In a paroxysm of panic about Americans' rejection of the Biden administration's policies of open borders, rampant crime, runaway inflation and profligate spending on foreign wars, the Left has decided that the real cause of the widespread dissatisfaction and demand for policies that place Americans first is "Christian nationalism."

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Last week, Russian political activist and dissident Alexei Navalny died in a Siberian prison camp, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for what most observers agree were specious, purely politically motivated convictions.

Navalny had been an opponent of Vladimir Putin, the country's current president, and one of Putin's most vehement ...Read more

American journalist Tucker Carlson was interviewed as part of the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this week, and if people were outraged by his recent interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, they were likely apoplectic after his remarks in Dubai about America's cities:

"[W]hat was radicalizing, very shocking and very ...Read more

Everywhere we turn, the country looks like it is falling apart. Crime is out of control. Millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders. Our schools are more interested in cultivating gender dysphoria and a proclivity for porn in our children than in educating them. The press routinely censors the truth at the behest of the ...Read more

In Nashville this week, six pro-life activists were convicted in federal court of conspiracy to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act when they peacefully prayed and sang at the entrance to an abortion clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, in March 2021. Those convicted now face a possible prison sentence of 10 and 1/2 years and up ...Read more

Republican presidential candidate (and now presumptive nominee) Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary in the past week, breaking records in both contests. In Iowa, Trump received an unprecedented 51% of votes cast -- more than 30 percentage points ahead of the runner-up, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has since left ...Read more

On Monday, former president -- and current Republican frontrunner -- Donald Trump garnered a record-breaking 51% of the votes in Iowa's GOP presidential caucus. Trump's percentage was greater than those of his next two competitors' -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley -- combined.

Notably, Trump won among ...Read more