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I recall a saying from my youth that went, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

This comes to mind reading reports of the mind-boggling welfare fraud megascandal that has been exposed in Minnesota.

For perspective on the scope of the scandal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson estimates fraud losses in Minnesota since ...Read more

While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, "We're a nation in decline."

Now that he's president, the left agrees.

"We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire," says Cornell West.

Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us?

If we don't learn from history, says...Read more

In which jurisdiction does the federal government own a higher percentage of the land? Is it in the District of Columbia, which sits on the East Coast and serves as the nation's capital, or is it in California, which sits on the West Coast and is one of the 50 states?

The answer is California.

According to a Congressional Research Service ...Read more

Nancy Pelosi may be retiring from Congress, but no one should expect the DNC media to stop treating her as a most glorious political figure. She draws deep bows wherever she goes. She's always the Best Ever.

On CBS's "Sunday Morning" in early 2024, substitute host Tracy Smith announced Pelosi "has a new book out, 'The Art of Power' -- an art ...Read more

Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, said in an interview about his newest book, "I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land," that despite being convicted and ...Read more

Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both counts.

As you've probably heard, the GDP growth for Q3 came in at a red-hot 4.3%, following 3.5% ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has plenty of unsubstantiated theories, but his latest controversy involves following the science.

HHS is pushing back against so-called gender-affirming care for children under age 18, undertaking a number of regulatory actions to discourage doctors and hospitals from continuing the ...Read more

If you want to develop human intelligence, you can't let students rely on artificial intelligence.

Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs that create new content based on prompts or questions submitted by a user.

You can imagine the ...Read more

While Mr. Barone is away, Terence P. Jerrrey is filling in - Editor

After Christmas is over, and the sunrises start getting earlier and the sunsets later in the Northern Hemisphere, there are still two months of scarce daylight and lowering skies ahead. Here's a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours with uplift: read.

Read some ...Read more

Years of bickering over the meaning of American conservatism and the identity of the American Right, which had already escalated in the conspiracy-filled aftermath of coalition lynchpin Charlie Kirk's horrific assassination, reached a fever pitch at Turning Point USA's recent AmericaFest conference in Phoenix. The question conservative leaders...Read more

"I didn't bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform," Vice President JD Vance told the crowd at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest conference in Phoenix this week.

This was a dig at Ben Shapiro, who warned earlier in the week about "charlatan" podcasters like Candace Owens and Vance's good friend Tucker Carlson, "who claim to ...Read more

Hunter Biden is a shameless liar. It's just as true today as it was in the midst of his binges on crack and hookers. It's also true that the elitist media have long shown a deep desire to ignore him entirely, and when they couldn't, it was a sad family tragedy, so head for the handkerchiefs.

The Daily Caller reports that Hunter went on "The ...Read more

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once expressed great confidence about his eternal destiny, remarking that he had earned his place in heaven. That sentiment is not uncommon in public life. Achievement, influence, philanthropy or power can quietly become the measuring sticks by which we assess ourselves -- and others -- when we ...Read more

The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what we have, which includes the kind of society that has made countless blessings possible. The warmth, security and generosity that many Americans experience during the holidays are not accidents or pure gifts of nature. In their tangible sense, they are the products of a long and extraordinary ...Read more

There is a doctrine in Catholicism that not all souls are prepared for heaven at death, and that some must undergo a spiritual purification in a state or location that the Catholic Church calls "Purgatory."

There are a number of biblical references that undergird the notion of Purgatory, including in the Old Testament. In 2 Maccabees 12:46, ...Read more

"Let there be light," said the voice opening scripture eons before he cried out, pushed out of his mother's womb. The light bringer brought light into the world in the middle of the dark of night and on the day he died, in the middle of the day, the world went dark. The light left, but returned in glory.

Former Sen. Ben Sasse and I have ...Read more

We all know that God works in mysterious ways.

Recently, I was deeply moved at a theatrical production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late in life, becomes determined to ...Read more