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We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington?

Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away?

Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776?

When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of a foreign country ...Read more

There are many who will gather this Fourth of July under the guise of celebration -- barbecues, fireworks, flag-waving. But how many understand -- truly understand -- what they are celebrating?

In an era where grievance has replaced gratitude, the Fourth of July has become a hollow ritual for some. The danger is not just in forgetting our ...Read more

Here we go again. This week, the Senate unveiled, honed and passed its version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and it's a fiscal monstrosity. What was already an oversized mess in the House has been supersized into a $4 trillion ode to unseriousness.

This isn't tax reform. It's a bipartisan pinata stuffed with pork, gimmicks and -- of ...Read more

Trump administration "transactional diplomacy" envoys definitely tackle the tough wars -- but this time, the process has produced a bona fide peace deal.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda aren't high-tech Ukraine and Russia. Russian nuclear weapons and proximity to NATO nations give that war a deadly global relevance.

However, a ...Read more

As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America's 250th, Gallup serves up sobering data.

Per polling just released by Gallup, only 58% of Americans now say they are "extremely proud" or "very proud" to be an American.

When Gallup first asked this question in 2001, 87% ...Read more

New Yorkers are under the false impression that the taxpayer-funded New York City Campaign Finance Board is leveling the playing field to make voting for Gotham's next mayor and other elected officials fair.

Just the opposite is true. The CFB is doling out obscene amounts of our money to tilt the scales in favor of left-wing candidates.

The ...Read more

Friday is the Fourth of July. What will you celebrate? Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical idea: Rights don't come from kings or presidents. They come from being human. Government's job is to protect those rights. This ...Read more

When Jerry Garcia walked onto the stage that night in 1977 -- at Theatre 1839 in San Francisco -- the band he would play with was called the Jerry Garcia Band. Two years before that, his band had been called The Legion of Mary.

Garcia did not embrace the Catholic faith throughout his life. But in an interview published by Relix magazine ...Read more

Liberal journalists dumped a barrel of glorifying adjectives upon the news Bill Moyers died at age 91. The Washington Post headline was "Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91."

AP's Frazier Moore gushed, "the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, masterfully using ...Read more

When the active-duty Air Force and Missouri Air National Guard bomber crews who attacked the Fordow uranium enrichment plant in Iran went to work last Friday, they kissed their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd be home. That's when their families became aware something was happening.

"When those jets returned from Whiteman on ...Read more

If you blinked, you just missed World War III.

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. That came two days after Trump sent B-2 stealth bombers to drop 14 bunker-buster bombs on the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant. Only the United States had the capability to obliterate the deeply buried site. U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- I start with a salute to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

On Friday, the nation's top court released a 6-3 majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas that rightly upheld a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify that users are 18 or older before providing access.

Kagan wrote the dissenting opinion for...Read more

I was born and raised a Jewish New Yorker. I graduated from New York's Columbia University. I spent my 20s in Manhattan. I loved New York City.

But now the unthinkable has happened. A politician with a combination that I'd never thought possible in America is in position to run New York City. Here's the unthinkable combination:

A radical ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "This bill is like yogurt, not wine," one senator said, describing the One Big Beautiful Bill to Semafor. It was an apt description for legislation that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by Independence Day.

Because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by Trump in 2017 sunsets this year, Congress has to pass a new measure to ...Read more

My young family and I were in Israel when the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad began their offensive operations against Iran on June 13, commencing what President Donald Trump has since called the "12-Day War." Although the Mossad's intelligence and the IDF's rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than ...Read more

President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War.

With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, the U.S. made the world a safer place in the long run. But the attack, and subsequent ceasefire between Israel and Iran, also represents a reset of American foreign policy. ...Read more