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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

There's something darkly funny about liberal journalists insisting any new focus on the Russiagate frenzy of 2017-19 is a "distraction" from their current obsession over Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. One can argue that their entire Russiagate obsession back then was a massive distraction from the actual business of America. Call it The ...Read more

ERIE, Pennsylvania -- Few outside of those who live there understand what the county of Erie's future holds for its economic future. Is it rural? A port? A city? A college town? A beach town? A faded Rust Belt hub for industrialization?

Drive around the county and you'll soon find that it is all those things. And while the bulk of the ...Read more

Those who denigrate prayer after mass shootings reveal their own ignorance.

On Wednesday, a man fired more than 100 rounds into a Catholic church in Minneapolis. He was targeting students attending a back-to-school Mass. Tragically, he killed two children and injured 18 others. He then killed himself.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rushed to ...Read more

The Elizabeth Warrens of the world have long complained about how the rules in Washington and on Wall Street are rigged in favor of the rich.

Well, there is one federal policy that absolutely does benefit those with higher incomes over working-class Americans.

The wealthy have long had access to many of the most lucrative investment funds, ...Read more

On Monday, President Donald Trump moved to fire Lisa Cook, a Biden-nominated member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. He moved to fire Cook for "cause," and that cause is clear enough: According to William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Cook allegedly committed mortgage fraud by lying about her principal ...Read more

"If it were up to me," Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously told a group of students in 2015, "I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king."

The late justice was referring to the majority opinion in Texas v. Johnson, the 1989 decision he joined that found flag ...Read more

Everything has a political angle now. The left gets worked up by a jeans ad. The right gets worked up by Cracker Barrel removing both the cracker and the barrel from their logo. Red and blue, colors on the light spectrum and in nature, are now political. A 23-year-old transgender gunman killing children is political. The prayers offered are ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of the public shootings of strangers, especially when innocent children are the victims, there are lies that we tell ourselves and true things some dare not say.

Two children were killed, and 18 other people were injured in the Wednesday mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. A Minnesota ...Read more

More than 400 elected Democrat Party officials from all 50 states and seven territories huddled in Minneapolis this week before the horrible mass shooting at nearby Annunciation Catholic Church. The proceedings demonstrated a party in the wilderness, and the Democrats in the national media mostly steered clear.

For starters, losing vice-...Read more

The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788.

There have been exceptions, of course. Abraham Lincoln took extraordinary steps to quell the rebellion of 11 Southern states. Franklin ...Read more

Uncharacteristically for him, Donald Trump is being too modest in asserting his power over the Federal Reserve.

He's fired Lisa Cook "for cause," citing a clearly pretextual alleged mortgage infraction, when as a constitutional matter, he should be able to fire her, or Chairman Jerome Powell, for any reason he deems appropriate.

The ...Read more

"It is (my) intention to ... demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government." -- President Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural ...Read more

An epidemic of juvenile violent crimes endures. Why? The law presumes juveniles are intellectually and psychologically too immature to appreciate the wrongfulness of their violent ways and deserve leniency. But to borrow from Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist," "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass -- a idiot."

Violent juveniles have what ...Read more

Concerns about the Federal Reserve's independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this week's decision to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations. But this debate is too narrowly focused on the president's political pressure, ignoring a growing danger in our system.

It is true that ...Read more