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During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link.

When FBI Director Christopher ...Read more

Will President Donald Trump's war against Iran, undertaken in alignment with Israel, prove to be an electoral albatross for Republicans in November? Could Democrats, salivating at the prospect of impeaching and removing Trump from office in 2027, regain control of the House and Senate, fueled by the political repercussions of this war?

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Wherever you look in American politics right now, you'll find legislators saying the government still doesn't tax enough -- especially when it comes to the wealthy. California progressives are pursuing a wealth tax on billionaires, advertised as a method to raise $100 billion in a single stroke. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pushing ...Read more

The University of Notre Dame generated plenty of headlines recently -- most of them critical -- when it named political science professor Susan Ostermann to lead the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs. While no one challenged Ostermann's scholarly bona fides, Catholics around the country were ...Read more

Ten days ago, the Trump administration decided to win a 47-year-long war waged by Ayatollah Iran against America and -- at various times -- two dozen other nations.

In 1979, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's radical minions toppled the Shah and seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding American diplomats hostage for 444 days.

Seizing an ...Read more

If you've been following coverage of the Trump administration's military action against Iran, you've probably noticed something: A lot of people are determined to convince you that the United States is losing.

They're wrong.

Even worse, many of them know they're wrong. Critics across the political spectrum -- from Democrats to elements of ...Read more

In 2024, for the first time in almost a century, the United States spent more financing its national debt than it did, as a percentage of GDP, on national defense. In 2024, interest on our national debt expenditures came in at 3.1% of GDP and defense spending at 2.9%.

This has been the case through this year, although it's too soon to say ...Read more

It's not just California and New York. All across the nation, blue states are committing political and economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this misguided, ideologically driven push to punish the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor.

Leftist Democratic pols calling for states to tax the rich are ...Read more

"My child can't read!"

That's become a common complaint from parents.

Why? It might be because kids are distracted by social media and video games.

But I think it's also because reading instruction became lazy and political.

"Progressives" at teachers' colleges pushed a reading technique called "Balanced Literacy."

Instead of memorizing ...Read more

Department of Homeland Security deportation officer Terrell Dillard presented an affidavit this month in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Part of it described what Miguel Abrajan-Morales, a Mexican national, did in 2016 -- when then-President Barack Obama was responsible for securing our borders.

"On or about ...Read more

When Republicans have strong majorities in a state legislature, our national media often find their actions nationally controversial on issues like guns or transgender advocacy or DEI. When Democrats are dominant, the national media are fine with it. That's just comforting business as usual.

In Virginia, with a Democrat majority in both houses ...Read more

Given the energy disruptions in the Middle East and the topsy-turvy fluctuation in the price of crude oil in recent weeks, here are a few facts about the energy scene.

First, "drill, baby, drill" is working. America today is producing more oil and gas than ever. Over the past six years, we've produced more than any other nation, including Saudi...Read more

Paul Skenes is smiling from ear to ear, draped in red, white and blue, along with the rest of his teammates, as they begin the first exhibition game representing Team USA at the World Baseball Classic at Papago Sports Complex in Phoenix. Skenes told the MLB Network why it means so much to represent his country in the games.

"First and ...Read more

In 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared, "The east is rising, and the west is declining."

It certainly looked that way during former President Joe Biden's term. In August 2021, Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban. During the chaotic pullout, a suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. troops. Medieval barbarians humbled the mighty United ...Read more

If one of your national slogans is "Death to America," you should be living in persistent and paralyzing fear of the United States.

Say what you will about President Donald Trump, America's enemies aren't making any more demands after Operation Epic Fury. Not after the president shattered nearly five decades of Washington foreign policy ...Read more

Most students of history have likely pondered the question: Is it the times that make the man, or is it the man that makes the times? The question, though superficially intriguing, seems to have an easy enough answer: Sometimes it is the times that makes the man, and sometimes it is the man that makes the times. Rarest of all is the man who is...Read more