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Three years ago, Jason Rivera wrote a letter to the New York City Police Academy, explaining why he wanted to be a police officer.

"When I applied to become a police officer, I knew this was the career for me," he said.

"I would be the first person in my family to become a police officer," Rivera wrote, as reported by the Daily Mail. "Coming ...Read more

When then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, he told the crowd at that party's convention, "Abortion should be safe, legal and rare."

That was in July. The following January -- two days after his inauguration -- Clinton made promoting abortion a central focus of his new administration.

"Mr. ...Read more

"This bill is simple in its purpose."

So stated Republican Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, who served as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam, when he introduced the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act on March 25, 2003.

"It extends the specific waiver authority within title IV of the Higher Education Act for the Secretary of ...Read more

A ship that arrived in Dover, England, on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1793, brought some bloody news from France.

The Wednesday edition of the London Evening Mail told the story in detail. It carried a simple headline: "Execution of Louis XVI."

"At six o'clock on Monday morning, the King went to take a farewell of the Queen and Royal ...Read more

Americans spent more money in 2022 buying imports from a country governed by a genocidal, communist regime than they spent on imports from any other nation on Earth.

Specifically, U.S. imports from China last year equaled $536,754,100,000, according to data published by the Census Bureau.

That was more than the $534,507,900,000 that Americans ...Read more

Secretary of State Antony Blinken -- who was planning to leave last Friday on a trip to the People's Republic of China -- gave an address last Monday at the International Religious Freedom Summit where he happened to mention that the Chinese leaders he was preparing to visit were at that moment engaging in genocide.

"This past November," said ...Read more

The 40 congressional districts in the 116th Congress that had the highest median values for their owner-occupied homes were all represented by Democrats.

In fact, during that Congress, only 10 of the 100 congressional districts with the highest median owner-occupied home values were represented by Republicans.

The U.S. Census Bureau released ...Read more

When the Massachusetts Ratification Convention was debating whether to approve the U.S. Constitution in January 1788, Dr. John Taylor, a delegate from Worcester County, asked a pointed question about the language in the draft that called for creating a new and independent city to house the federal government.

"Dr. Taylor asked, why it need be ...Read more

When President Joe Biden sent Congress his budget proposal for fiscal 2023 last March, he tried to sound as if he were a fiscal conservative.

"My Budget details the next steps forward on our journey to execute a new economic vision, reduce costs for families, reduce the deficit, and build a better America," Biden said in the budget message that...Read more

Americans do not have tremendous respect for the honesty and ethical standards of car salesmen or journalists, but they still give people in these professions a higher rating for these characteristics than they give to members of Congress.

This week, as first reported Tuesday by the New York Post, Gallup released the results of a survey it ...Read more

President Joe Biden, working with a Democrat-controlled Congress, increased the federal debt in 2022 by approximately $11,374 per every American worker.

On Dec. 31, 2021, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal debt was $29,617,214,856,051.75. By Dec. 30, 2022, it was $31,419,689,421,557.90. So, in calendar year 2022, the federal debt ...Read more

The train was on its way west to Los Angeles when it stopped in the small Arizona town of Williams and detached a special car it had been carrying.

Twenty-two young men got out and headed north.

This was the 1922 Penn State football team. They were on their way to Pasadena to play the first-ever Rose Bowl game to actually be played in the ...Read more