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Four years after Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched his blitzkrieg "special operation" to seize and annex every square kilometer of Ukraine, the former KGB colonel finds his corrupt, ineffectual but relentlessly murderous regime in a 21st-century military, economic and political quagmire.

Putin told his oligarch devotees the special ...Read more

During his State of the Union, President Donald Trump declared himself wonderful.

My new video takes a closer look, scoring his fifth year as president.

He deserves an "A" for his willingness to take questions. It's a relief after President Joe Biden, who hid from reporters.

But Trump deserves an "F" for childish bragging. Ignorant, too.

He ...Read more

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who chairs the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, has a page on her official Senate website titled "Families and Children."

"Ultimately, our national well-being -- our economic prosperity and our quality of life -- depends on the strength of our families," she says on this page. "We must support ...Read more

In October, the new owners of CBS appointed Bari Weiss to the new position of editor-in-chief, which has made her far more controversial than the actual content of CBS News would suggest. Weiss quickly became a scandalous figure out of all proportion to the actual content of CBS News under her watch. She was tumbling "the dominoes of ...Read more

Veteran journalist Jon Ralston, founder and CEO of The Nevada Independent, has written a detailed, page-turning biography of the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, "The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight," offering political junkies and the politically indifferent alike an expansive look at one...Read more

Here's a depressing but all too predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: "Detroit's EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion."

Yikes. That's a lot of money for the American auto industry to lose. Once again, we have confirmation of an iron law of economics: If you want to kill an industry, subsidize it.

The best recent example of...Read more

The Winter Olympics had its thrills and spills -- and a deep philosophical divide represented by two American, or American-born, athletes.

Jack Hughes, the gold medal-winning American hockey player for the U.S. team, gave voice to a patriotic reflex in his heartfelt expressions of love of his country.

Eileen Gu, the gold medal-winning ...Read more

Just because someone is wearing a black robe doesn't mean they're upholding the rule of law. Consider some recent judicial rulings.

Last November, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem published a notice ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Leave aside the merits of that decision. The law is clear that this decision...Read more

Few things in Washington, D.C., generate as much as excitement and intrigue as a Supreme Court confirmation showdown. For decades, since the eponymous "borking" of then-Supreme Court nominee Bob Bork in 1987, political battles surrounding the membership of the nation's high court have been among the most contentious and raucous of Beltway ...Read more

In a recent interview with "No Lie" podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, former President Barack Obama claimed that conservatives do "the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together."

This is a jaw-dropping contention coming from a man who began his presidential aspirations accusing ...Read more

When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When Thompson ran for President in 2008, NBC stopped aired re...Read more

The people who call themselves the "mainstream media" have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. House Republicans have passed the SAVE Act, while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed it.

But the American people do not. Gallup pollsters ...Read more

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the audience at Munich took Vance's comments as insults. In February...Read more

"Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war." -- James Madison (1751-1836)

Last week, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ruled that the problem of undocumented immigrants in ...Read more

America is tired. Not tired of debate. Not tired of conviction. Americans can handle disagreement. What they are weary of is perpetual combat. They are weary of the temperature always being set at boiling. They are weary of economic anxiety, cultural distrust and political trench warfare that seems to reward outrage more than results.

If ...Read more

Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year's extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that the Congressional Budget Office's latest 10-year outlook ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio created quite a stir at the Munich Security Conference last week. Rubio's speech emphasized the shared heritage, history and culture of Europe and the United States -- described broadly as "Western civilization" -- and called upon the nations of Europe to defend and be proud of that heritage and to preserve ...Read more