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These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results.

The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation predict what will happen with spending, tax revenues and deficits...Read more

For a while, the favored moniker for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the media was "Maryland father."

Abrego Garcia was indeed living in Maryland and was indeed a father, but this wasn't what was the most distinctive thing about him. There are hundreds of thousands of fathers living in the state who aren't illegal immigrants and don't have ties to ...Read more

Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democratic candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP challenger John McCain...Read more

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colo., who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman's victims was a Holocaust survivor.

Soliman and his family had come to the United States on a tourist ...Read more

The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been "misinformation research," in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods.

In the Biden years, "misinformation" experts at ...Read more

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France's most recent national election and in Germany's. In Canada's election last month. And maybe in Poland and South Korea last...Read more

Now it's all coming out.

Not only was President Joe Biden in serious decline, Karine Jean-Pierre -- celebrated in numerous fawning media profiles -- was a rotten White House press secretary.

In an interview with Axios, a former White House official called her "one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I've ever worked with."

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "Democracy is in peril" is the warning bubbling up all over popular culture.

President Donald Trump is enjoying his second term, one made sweeter after wins in both the Electoral College and the popular vote. I don't think the warnings about authoritarian rule are coincidental.

Take the new Max (better known as HBO) movie, "...Read more

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies.

Here is the backstory.

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of ...Read more

During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump correctly assailed elite universities like Harvard as controlled by "Marxist maniacs and lunatics." He received a popular mandate to take them down. They deserve it.

The bill of indictment against Harvard is long. It is teaching students to hate America, to become modern-day Benedict Arnolds. ...Read more

When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China's rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue-collar communities devastated. Known now as the "China shock," that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in protectionism, culminating in sweeping tariffs including Trump's ...Read more

Opposition to President Donald Trump has become a mainstay of American daily life. If Trump advocates for something -- anything -- you can bet your life savings (if you still have any) that Democrats and Republicans in name only, or "RINOs" -- as well as the national anti-Trump media machine -- will come out against it.

Four-plus ...Read more

In the latest column titled "Trump just can’t deliver on any of his promises," we have revised one word in graf 9. The word "contend" has been changed to "concern" in the first sentence. Please use revised version.

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This week, the Department of Defense made an unprecedented move: They renamed a ship, originally christened the USNS Harvey Milk. According to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's memo, the goal was to ensure "alignment with president and SECDEF objectives and SECNAV priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture."

And predictably, the radical ...Read more

Bravo to Ukraine for its "New Model Trojan Horse."

Homer's Greek warriors slipped from a wooden horse to open Troy's gates and start the bloodbath that ended a 10-year war.

Ukraine cleverly and stealthily shipped wooden crates deep inside Russian territory, 1,500 kilometers into Siberia. The truck-borne crates were finally positioned a short...Read more

Across the U.S., Democrats are waging war to crush a lifestyle they abhor. Call it small-town America: single-family neighborhoods, quiet streets, town centers stamped with their own historic character, and almost no signs of the vagrancy and homeless encampments that plague cities.

Democrats want you to have none of this. If you've worked ...Read more

Why does Uber make videos where people say, "I'm non-binary or genderqueer"?

And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at Pride parades?

Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign's "Corporate Equality Index."

Equality is a good thing. I support human rights. But the Human Rights Campaign? That's something else.

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