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It's been a busy week news-wise. Here are a few of my observations (not likely to be popular) on some of the most notable headlines.

1. The U.S. men's soccer team should have declined the red card reversal. During the World Cup game between the USA and Bosnia-Herzegovina, star scorer Folarin Balogun got a "red card" for "serious foul play" ...Read more

Included in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, up to $1,700, for contributions to "Scholarship Granting Organizations" that parents can access and use toward paying for private school tuition and fees and other educational expenses.

The provision is constructed such that states must choose to opt in to the ...Read more

During a press conference following his July 7 meeting with Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump calmly raised a military technology issue that eight years ago triggered a major NATO alliance political quarrel.

Trump told the press gaggle his administration just might sell NATO member and reliable U.S. ally Turkey the...Read more

To conquer a nation, first rob it of its history and heroes. That's a quick summary of Marxist strategy.

President Donald Trump used the 250th-anniversary celebration of our nation's independence to call out communism as the gravest threat we face, and to warn that Marxists are trying to cancel our heroic founders and attack our longstanding ...Read more

More young people vote for socialists.

They believe socialism is good for the poor, and "pro-working class."

But is it?

Leyla Taghiyeva interviewed psychologist Rob Henderson, who points out that few poor people want socialism:

"When you actually see who supports socialism, these are people who are relatively well off," he says.

Henderson ...Read more

When the Center for American Progress held an event last month to highlight the release of its report on religious liberty in the United States, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) was the keynote speaker.

"Authoritarianism seeks to compel, seeks to repress, seeks to prevent free thought, free worship, free expression," Coons said in his address.

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Communism is an evil philosophy. Communist regimes have killed hundreds of millions of people and made millions more live in a police state. But somehow, speaking ill of communism alarms the same journalists who constantly suggest democracy is in peril under President Donald Trump. Authoritarianism is bad -- unless it's communist.

Trump ...Read more

JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump's vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he's favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders.

That's why his latest deep-dive interview on his views on the economy is highly disturbing.

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If you stand on the banks of the Monongahela River just south of Pittsburgh, you can still hear the echoes of an America that used to build things. It is a quiet testament to a bygone era, the kind of place where the skeletal remains of old factories, once giant sentinels along the rivers, serve as a backdrop to everyday life.

For decades, ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently pointed out the problems with mass immigration. Just don't expect him to realize it.

In late June, Newsom came out in support of a national billionaires' tax. In contrast, he's opposed to the billionaires' tax that will be on the California ballot this year. Set aside the political implications of this ...Read more

The Supreme Court has committed a grievous moral and legal error in Trump v. Barbara, the landmark case on birthright citizenship. In holding that the 14th Amendment confers automatic citizenship on virtually all children born on American soil, the court has severely vitiated the sanctity of American citizenship -- in this "America 250" ...Read more

One of the most popular complaints of the younger Americans is that the United States has been bogged down in endless war and interventionism virtually their entire lifetimes.

Welcome to history. As much as we may not like it, the United States has engaged in conflict and meddling more or less since its inception. The U.S. was born in war. It...Read more

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is a relic of a bygone era of revolution. The Founders could not have contemplated that it would apply to semiautomatic handguns. The Founders absolutely could not have contemplated that it would apply to machine guns. The Founders could not have foreseen mass shootings. It is silly, therefore, to think ...Read more

Journalists love to boast that they are "Facts First" people, that they are the brave souls seeking out "truth." But when it comes to transgenderism, facts go out the window, and truth is triggering.

When the Supreme Court upheld state bans on boys in girls' sports, NBC anchor Craig Melvin sounded apologetic in live coverage. "The terms that we...Read more

The welcoming reception that so many European soccer fans have received as they have crossed the nation in pursuit of World Cup games has struck many as a happy surprise of the summer of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

"The World Cup is at our shores, and all these people are doing us a great service," comedian Bill ...Read more

"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