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"Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?" -- Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788)

Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known ...Read more

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, we will rightly remember the familiar names and places. We will speak of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Valley Forge and the birth of a republic unlike any the world had ever seen.

Those stories deserve their place.

But a ...Read more

Congress loves to wrap legislation in the language of the public interest. This year's surface transportation reauthorization bill is no exception. Supporters describe the House Transportation Committee-passed package as a major safety bill designed to make America's transportation system more secure and efficient.

Beneath their rhetoric lies...Read more

This week has brought more news that contains powerful warnings about the trajectory of the country.

First, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Watson v. Republican National Committee. In Watson, the court upheld a Mississippi law that counts ballots received up to five days after Election Day as long as they were postmarked on or before that day....Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has chalked up more notable victories.

His candidates won three crucial Democratic primaries -- candidates who are supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America, as is Mamdani -- defeating three Democratic Party establishment candidates, two of whom are sitting members of Congress.

Discussing with ABC'...Read more

The 250th anniversary of America's Declaration of Independence coinciding with North America hosting the World Cup competition takes me back to a column I wrote in June 2002 featuring my soccer-loving landlord -- 24 years ago, the day after the U.S. team defeated Mexico's powerful World Cup squad.

Now my first sentence contains an ...Read more

Tenants' groups and leftwing activists are cheering New York City's newly announced multiyear rent freeze. But Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rent scheme is headed for a judicial smackdown at the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2023 and twice in 2024, a hesitant Supreme Court declined to hear challenges by building owners to New York state's rent regulations....Read more

Car accidents kill 100 Americans every day.

But now an amazing solution is available: self-driving cars.

Robotaxis like Google-owned Waymo, for example.

Passengers who try them, like them.

Wherever robotaxis are allowed, ridership increases fast.

Two years ago, there were 50,000 trips per week -- today 500,000.

"The car did a better job ...Read more

This year Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which declared the "self-evident" truth that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," including the rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The leaders of the Democratic Party, ...Read more

There's no longer much foreign reporting on television with the exception of natural disasters, or countries where Americans are engaged in military action. That's certainly true of Europe -- except for Britain. The networks, surely focused on ratings, display a fascination with the Royal Family.

On Monday, NBC's "Today" featured a four-minute ...Read more

AVERY COUNTY, North Carolina -- If there is such a thing as the classic Appalachian success story, the rise in popularity of the outside-the-box band Cigarettes @ Sunset would be that story.

But nothing comes easy in Appalachia.

The five-member band, which includes Garrett Dellinger, Ryland Bagbey, Sarah Vann, Wells Whitman and Ethan Moore, ...Read more

If you want to see modern-day socialism in action, look no further than to the other side of the pond at not-so-jolly old England. The story of Britain's decline is a warning signal to those here in the States who are thrilled by the warm embrace of socialism.

Right now, the Brits are having the same debate about the merits of socialism as we ...Read more

The pages of tomorrow's history are written by today's decisions.

History is littered with failed republics and democracies. The Roman Republic became the Roman Empire. Democracy in ancient Greece turned into an aristocracy. This didn't just happen in ancient history. In 1961, a new constitution in Venezuela divided the government into three ...Read more

The next mayor of Washington, D.C. is likely to be a Marxist. In Los Angeles, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks are battling it out for control. New York City has already fallen to a champion of Third Worldism.

And, for the first time in American history, a significant bloc of Congress will openly hate the country they represent. We aren't talking ...Read more

Americans are routinely told that our nation is hopelessly divided, irredeemably flawed and perhaps even in terminal decline. Public polling reflects this pervasive frustration, pessimism and anomie. If someone halfway around the world only followed the polls, he might be forgiven for believing our republic is all but over.

But something ...Read more

There is a coherent worldview behind the vice president's foreign policy and that is exactly the problem. J.D. Vance does not stumble into the outcomes he produces. He believes in them. He sees a tripartite world with America secured in its own hemisphere, Russia dominant across its near abroad and China supreme in Asia. He appears willing to ...Read more