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WASHINGTON -- As he sat in the hot seat during a Senate hearing Thursday morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recognized that he was in the center of a religious debate -- on vaccines.

On one side were finance committee Democrats and a couple of Republicans who are staunchly pro-vaccine. (I support COVID-19 ...Read more

Donald Trump's recent floated proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is simply the latest evidence of Trump's "authoritarianism." But such specious analysis and ...Read more

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As a member in good standing of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, I am simply appalled by our beloved organization's resolution declaring the conflict in Gaza a "genocide." This elite group of academics, researchers and complete randos -- I mean, I paid $125 to join this very week -- has allowed our once-sterling ...Read more

Wealthy white progressives are generally the most paternalistically racist people you will ever encounter on planet earth. Overwhelmed by the soft bigotry of low expectations, what they can't really say out loud, but what they think, is that you can't get rid of crime in poor and non-white neighborhoods. Like the white racist redneck Klansman ...Read more

While artificial intelligence may make the student research paper obsolete, if today a student does their own research and writing, it's quite possible they will use Google to search their topic, and Google will invariably send the searcher to a Wikipedia article.

If they were to write about cable news, the Wikipedia results are as biased as ...Read more

When the Irish comedian Graham Linehan arrived at London Heathrow Airport this past weekend, he was greeted by five armed British police officers who arrested him for -- get this -- three rude tweets.

Or, as Linehan wrote on his Substack, "I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because...Read more

Tim Kaine needs to report to a remedial civics class as soon as possible.

The Virginia senator and former vice presidential candidate expressed outrage at a congressional hearing that a Trump nominee said that our rights come from God, not government.

Kaine suspected incipient theocracy, warning that the Iranian regime persecutes religious ...Read more

While the public's attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without warrants, presidentially imposed sales taxes on goods emanating from foreign countries that have been invalidated by three federal courts, and the fruitless Kabuki dance between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in ...Read more

He who lives in glass houses should not throw stones. How many times in our lifetimes have we heard that admonition to watch our words, especially our criticisms, of those around us? The same could be said of American foreign policy in general, and more specifically of President Donald Trump and his new doctrine of diplomacy around the globe. ...Read more

When President Donald Trump announced in August that the federal government took an equity stake in Intel, he bragged that taxpayers had "paid zero" for part of a company now "worth $11 billion." In reality, taxpayers paid plenty: $8.9 billion in subsidies with potentially more to come. The government simply dressed up the giveaway as an ...Read more

The lovely ladies over at Twitchy.com brought to their readers' attention this week a complaint from Canadian citizen Glen McGregor, who posted on X that he injured his knee playing softball and will need an MRI, but the province of Ontario requires that he get an ultrasound first.

OK, fair enough. Except that McGregor was told by the local ...Read more

On Aug. 24, Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov threatened Norway with nuclear annihilation.

I do not exaggerate. The Barents Observer (via arctictoday.com) reported that Solovyov, on his "Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" program said Russia should "destroy" Norway, with nukes.

From the article: "Are they all ready to die for it? (...Read more

This week, anti-American and pro-Hamas advocates gathered in Detroit at a "People's Conference for Palestine." There, they expressed radical solidarity with terrorism, celebrated the achievements of Hamas and denigrated the United States. "The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In his own fashion, President Donald Trump helped CBS News join the transparency bandwagon.

You could see it after White House correspondent Ed O'Keefe interviewed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on "Face the Nation" Sunday.

Guest host O'Keefe was fine -- better than the usual host, Margaret Brennan.

It's...Read more

Over the years, our government has expanded dramatically, all with the objective of improving our lives.

Yet, with all of this, confidence that Americans express in our country and its major institutions has plummeted.

Of 18 of the nation's major institutions, per a recent Gallup survey, there are only three in which 50% or more now express ...Read more

"Tenants are a majority, it's time we had a mayor who acted like it," says Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race.

When Mamdani says it, believe him. If he wins, tenants will be favored, and homeowners will be in his crosshairs.

They already are. Mamdani is vowing to fully enforce Local Law 97, a law that clobbers ...Read more

"Mental health is declining," says psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This week his book, "The Anxious Generation," is number one on The New York Times bestseller list. His book has been a bestseller for more than a year. Haidt argues that smartphones and social media have "rewired childhood" and made kids more anxious and depressed. My son agrees. He...Read more

When the State Department issued its annual country reports on human rights last month, the report on the People's Republic of China, which covers calendar year 2024, started with this statement: "Genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year in China against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and ...Read more