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"Let's talk about the deficit."

That is what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor on Monday, June 2.

"For years, Republicans screamed about fiscal responsibility. But now Republicans are backing a bill that could add over $50 trillion to the national debt over 30 years," Schumer claimed -- without citing a ...Read more

Jack Blanchard at Politico's Playbook newsletter made the leftists angry by praising President Donald Trump's energetic availability to the press. While CBS star Scott Pelley wailed at a college commencement that they are "the fierce defenders of democracy," "the seekers of truth" and "the vanguard against ignorance," Trump grants them access.

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WASHINGTON -- The nightmare stories aren't going away. The latest outrage is the firebombing of a group of activists who were participating in a peace march in Boulder, Colorado, Sunday to bring attention to the 58 hostages still remaining in Gaza.

"We have to end Zionists," said the illegal immigrant who has been charged in the attack that ...Read more

In one of the most convoluted lawsuits of all time, a cabal of state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission are now accusing financial firms BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard of monopolistic behavior. The complaint asserts that these firms bought coal stocks and then helped impose radical environmental restrictions on the ...Read more

Ideas have consequences. The ideas pushed on many college campuses have deadly consequences.

Elias Rodriguez stands accused of murdering two Israeli Embassy staffers. The shooting happened recently outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The victims were Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a young couple who were about to be engaged. ...Read more

WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania -- Flanked by a sea of steelworkers dressed in their orange safety jackets and hard hats, President Donald Trump was given a hero's welcome at the Mon Valley Irvin Works to mark the signing of the U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel deal, the largest investment in state history.

"With the help from patriots like you, we are ...Read more

Ideas have consequences. The ideas pushed on many college campuses have deadly consequences.

Elias Rodriguez stands accused of murdering two Israeli Embassy staffers. The shooting happened recently outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The victims were Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a young couple who were about to be engaged. The ...Read more

Ukraine may not have "the cards," as President Trump put it, but it does have drones.

They were used to great effect over the weekend in an audacious attack within Russia that has focused the world's attention on a revolution in warfare.

A badly outmanned and outgunned country just reached far inside its adversary's territory to destroy or ...Read more

It's a funny thing. I had almost forgotten about the interview I did with my Columbia University professor 12 years ago.

Professor Henry Graff.

Graff was perhaps the most well-known Columbia professor of modern times. He was chairman of Columbia's prestigious history department, and he served as the Columbia historian. Graff kept a record of...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Vice President JD Vance spoke the language of love to cryptocurrency investors Wednesday when he proclaimed at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, "We reject regulators."

As the veep sees it, Bitcoin is not just a good investment; it's also good for the country. Crypto, he argued, "is a hedge against bad policymaking in Washington."

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On Wednesday evening, the world's wealthiest man announced that his sojourn in the nation's capital is almost over. "As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President (Donald Trump) for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending," Elon Musk posted to X, the social media platform he owns.

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Do taxpayers have a constitutional duty to bankroll Harvard University?

On MSNBC, David French argued that the Trump administration's defunding of Harvard is little more than "political retaliation." In the United States, we don't sentence people before hearing the verdict, the New York Times columnist said. Ignoring due process is "directly ...Read more

The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that President Donald Trump had exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law, to impose tariffs on other nations. The decision was unanimous. One of the judges had been appointed by Trump in his first term. Another is a former President Ronald Reagan ...Read more

CBS News thinks the crown jewel of its news division is "60 Minutes," the alleged gold standard of investigative journalism on television. But when it comes to politics, their coverage isn't just slanted. It's more like a wrecked bus laying on its side, wheels spinning in the air.

Their stilted editing of a Kamala Harris interview weeks before ...Read more

"I'm not happy with what Putin is doing. He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin," said Donald Trump on Truth Social over the holiday weekend.

"I've always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a...Read more

ChatGPT is coming for your job.

That's the fear about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence.

In a headline the other day, Axios warned of a "white-collar bloodbath." The CEO of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic told the publication that AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years ...Read more

American institutions are suffering from a collapse in public support. Among the institutions worst affected are government, the press and education. One could be forgiven for believing that government must be the most important, given its pervasiveness in our lives and its law enforcement powers; followed by the media, which -- of late -- ...Read more

All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom.

During the past three months, the Trump administration has sought to withhold the delivery of ...Read more