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Second Amendment groups applauded last week after a federal judge in Texas ruled that several national firearm regulations were unconstitutional. But the decision did not hinge on gun rights. Rather, it affirmed a broader principle: The federal government's powers are limited to those explicitly granted by the Constitution.

The case involved ...Read more

American entrepreneurs are beginning to flourish again.

According to Dictionary.com, an entrepreneur is a “person who starts, organizes and operates a business, taking on financial risks in the hope of making a profit.”

What’s good for the American entrepreneur is good for America.

The Engine of American Prosperity

Entrepreneurs and ...Read more

For the past several years, I have enjoyed viewing friends' photos on Facebook of their children heading back to school. Many now have children in college, while some still have kids in high school. My friends often post their kindergarten or elementary school pictures next to the current photos to proudly show how much their children have ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Who's afraid of the big, bad word? If that word happens to be "socialist" or "socialism," the answer seems to be fewer and fewer Americans.

Demographic profiles count for a lot. If you're white, conservative and over the age of 50, you probably hear "democratic socialism" and think it means higher taxes, more government control ...Read more

Note to editors: A version of this column was distributed by Cagle in 2024.

I can’t imagine such a thing happening today: In the early ‘70s, when I was 10, my family left my baby sister Mary behind at the drive-in theater.

Typical ‘70s Drive-in Experience

As I explain in my humorous memoir, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” the ...Read more

At a press conference on July 2, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said she had "tremendous evidence" proving that David Hearn had deliberately caused more than $1,000 in damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, making him guilty of a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. That was not true, Pirro ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- As spelled out by former President Thomas Jefferson in our republic, all men are created equal. All states, not so much.

Conservatives like to say that the Kremlin on the Coast is in decline. But to paraphrase Mark Twain -- a Missouri native who migrated to the Northern California gold country in the 1860's to launch a writing ...Read more

Helicopter parents are getting worse.

The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of Gen Z parents are actively intervening in their children’s job searches, interviews, hiring processes and even early career issues.

According to the Journal, parents are calling companies about their adult children’s performance reviews, benefits...Read more

In a display of Stockholm Syndrome, the White House Correspondents' Association invited Donald Trump to be the keynote speaker at their annual festival of self-appreciation. Because he is who he is, he did not take the opportunity to do the kind of gentle press ribbing that past presidents have engaged in, and he certainly declined to engage in ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The ICE raids are about race. They're fueled by racism. And they're supported by racists.

Pro-MAGA Americans can deny these ugly truths all they want, but it won't make them any less true.

By the way, the last thing the immigration crackdown is about is law and order. The Trump administration isn't even on speaking terms with ...Read more

Note to Editors Only: A version of this column was distributed by Cagle in 2024.

According to Cosmopolitan, the shag haircut of the 1970s has become all the rage in 2026.

That makes me grumpy because I’m still upset about the David Cassidy shag haircut my sisters made me get in 1973, when I was 11.

Mimicking a Teen Idol

As I explain more ...Read more

When you start with a predetermined policy and then go looking for a legal pretext to justify it, you are building on shaky ground. President Donald Trump illustrated that point once again last week, when he announced a third round of broad tariffs after his first two attempts were rejected by federal courts.

Shortly after taking office last ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- It's not exactly breaking news that Americans dislike politics, distrust politicians and doubt their government.

' Twas always thus.

Thomas Jefferson saw it coming. In his book "Notes on the State of Virginia," which was published in 1782, the Father of the Declaration of Independence warned: "In every government on earth is ...Read more

When I lived in the Washington, D.C., region, I enjoyed occasional Saturday morning visits to Lafayette Square to see what the protesters were up to.

Lafayette Square sits directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The park is often packed with people exercising their right to free speech.

The Saturday morning I visited, a large...Read more

As we approach the forthcoming college fall semester, much discussion has centered on the difficulties a lot of Gen Z students are having with reading and critical thinking. One Chronicle of Higher Education article that many of my colleagues at Ohio State University's Lima campus recently read delves into students' struggles with literacy. ...Read more

Should those of us who want to defeat the proto-fascists in charge of the Republican Party be worried about a few blue districts that have recently indulged their ids and voted for members of the Democratic Socialists of America? Yes. If their victories become a trend, it could sabotage the Democratic Party.

In a way, Democrats should be ...Read more

Imagine how Republicans would react if a Democratic president reflexively threatened to yank the broadcast licenses of TV stations because he did not like their news coverage or programming decisions. President Donald Trump has been doing that since his first term, and he did it again last week after ABC and NBC declined to offer live coverage...Read more