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"Money is ammo."

In Baghdad 2004, that military maxim reminded troops on patrol that spending $3 to buy Fanta sodas for Iraqi kids could produce more than photo smiles. GI largesse can encourage life-saving tips. The rattle-trap car around that corner there? Little man left it an hour ago. No. He's not from our neighborhood!

It isn't news ...Read more

Muslim Americans are increasingly getting involved in American politics.

Most prominent are members of Congress Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.).

Most prominent among several mayors is Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, now running for the ...Read more

New Yorkers, hold onto your wallets, and brace yourselves for financial chaos.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's minions, also known as the Democratic Socialists of America, are preparing to radicalize the state Legislature when they take their newly won seats in Albany at the end of the year.

How crazy will it get? One warning sign ...Read more

Just two years ago, the United Nations secretary general announced, "Global warming has ended ... The era of global boiling has arrived!"

"(We were) warned about this," said a "Daily Show" host, "by every scientist for the last 50 years!"

His audience applauded.

Wow. Every scientist agreed!

But here's the thing. They didn't.

My new ...Read more

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) took to the podium at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 23, where she was joined by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

They announced they were reintroducing the Right to IVF Act. This is a bill that promotes and subsidizes in vitro fertilization. It is sponsored ...Read more

The Left's perennial scolds of CBS News churned out barrels of umbrage over hiring conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as part of the new team of correspondents at "60 Minutes." They suggested this was some sort of "desperate" lurch to the right, an obstreperous overthrow of Pelleyesque arrogance on 57th Street.

But that created ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- The rise of the Democratic left in Pittsburgh did not happen overnight. It was built over years through patient organizing, disciplined recruiting and a clear-eyed focus on the races that mattered most: low-turnout primaries where entrenched power was vulnerable.

Mik Pappas' 2017 race for Pennsylvania's 31st Magisterial District...Read more

COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools and country. Understandably, people don't like thinking or talking about it. But we must. We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's doggedness and Anthony Fauci's supreme arrogance that he freely expresses in his diary, almost every decision made by the medical ...Read more

Don't assume socialism's inevitable failures will stop it from spreading.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently announced that his government-run grocery stores will offer products at a 30% discount. The appeal of this plan is obvious. Everyone would like to pay less for milk, eggs and meat.

That this plan won't work is equally obvious...Read more