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How Many Mountain Lions Are Too Many?

I saw it by accident.

I was sitting in the kitchen at my family's ranch in the high foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains -- not far from Yosemite National Park.

I got up to refill my water glass and looked out the window behind the kitchen sink. About a hundred yards away -- across an upward-sloping field of yellowed grass -- stood a ...Read more

Americans Are Leaving Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Chicago and Philadelphia

There is one competition where Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia are not beating other major locations in this country. It is in persuading people to stay there.

The Census Bureau this month released its estimates on the populations that each American county had as of July 1, 2023. In a release about this data, it included a ...Read more

Biden's 'Fiscally Responsible Ways'

President Joe Biden -- in his State of the Union address -- once again tried to present himself as a "fiscally responsible" president.

"And, by the way, the first couple of years, we cut the deficit," he said, according to the White House transcript of his speech.

"I've been delivering real results in fiscally responsible ways," he said. "We...Read more

Mayorkas, Biden and Our Unsecured Border

There seems to be at least one impenetrable barrier connected to this country's southwest border. It is the one that stands between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and an accurate assessment of what is actually happening there.

In September 2020, the last month of that fiscal year, the Border Patrol encountered 54,771 aliens ...Read more

Where Public Schools Never Beat Catholic Schools

There is one area of competition where Catholic schools always beat public schools.

It is not in track and field. It is not in football or basketball. It is in the average scores for national reading and math assessment tests.

The National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education, published a ...Read more

$113.6 Billion: Congress Appropriated 3 Times as Much in Response to Ukraine as Spent on Customs and Border Protection

From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal government spent on Customs and Border Protection.

Congress approved approximately $113.4 billion in spending related to the Ukraine conflict during this period, while the government spent only ...Read more

US Imported $427.2 Billion in Merchandise From Country Ruled by Genocidal, Communist Regime

The United States in 2023 imported $427.2 billion in merchandise from the People's Republic of China, a nation that the U.S. government reports is ruled by a communist regime that is engaging in genocide.

Because the United States exported only $147.8 billion in merchandise to China in 2023, according to the numbers published by the U.S. ...Read more

When the 49ers -- and Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the Grateful Dead -- Played on a High School Field

When I was a freshman and sophomore in high school -- before I was old enough to drive -- every weekday after football or track practice I would take a San Francisco municipal transit bus from my high school in the Sunset District to the corner of Haight and Stanyan streets.

That corner was the closest bus stop to St. Mary's Hospital, where ...Read more

Biden Declares All 'Endowed by Their Creator' With Right to Life -- And Abortion Must Be Legal

President Joe Biden seemed a little confused when he gave a speech at a church in South Carolina on Sunday.

First, he mistook the Declaration of Independence for the Constitution.

"The Bible teaches that we shall know the truth, and the truth shall set us free," Biden said, according to a White House transcript of his remarks. "Well, I think...Read more

Federal Civilian Employees in Kentucky Outnumber Border Patrol at US-Mexico Border

When John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Feb. 7, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asked him a straightforward question.

"How many agents roughly do you guys think that the Border Patrol needs right now?" she said.

"So, the Border Patrol is ...Read more

Biden Says There Is No Crisis at the Border

President Joe Biden -- wearing a brown leather jacket and a black baseball hat -- walked out onto the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday morning on his way to Marine One.

He was flying to Camp David for the weekend. But first he stopped to talk to some reporters.

"Mr. President," one of them asked, "would you call the situation on the...Read more

Spending and Debt Must Be an Issue in 2024

A very happy Chuck Schumer went down to the Senate floor on Monday to brag about the deal he had cut on federal spending with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson.

"First, I have excellent news on government funding," Schumer said.

"Yesterday, I announced with Speaker Johnson that congressional leaders have reached a top-line agreement for ...Read more

John Lennon vs. John Adams and George Washington

A few minutes before the ball came down on Times Square on New Year's Eve, Paul Anka sang a song that has become a tradition for this event. It was "Imagine," a 1971 song that John Lennon co-authored with his wife, Yoko Ono.

The song has also become something of a controversy -- for the anti-religious point of view it expresses.

"Imagine ...Read more

 

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