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Every election season, mayors and governors step before cameras to boast that crime is down. Charts are waved, statistics cited, and carefully crafted talking points deployed to assure anxious citizens that their streets are safer than ever. Yet when you leave the press conference and walk the sidewalks of Baltimore, Chicago or Los Angeles, the ...Read more

Former President William Jefferson Clinton's 1996 State of the Union Address announced that "the era of big government is over." Federal expenditures for fiscal year 1996 were $1.5 trillion.

A President Donald Trump-backed continuing resolution to keep the government open after Oct. 1 projects annual federal spending for fiscal year 2025 at a ...Read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's flirtation with a presidential run is the latest warning sign of just how far the Democratic Party's leadership has careened off the rails. After crushing defeats in the latest election, moderate Democrats have failed to take matters into their own hands, continuing to kneel to the strength of the far-left wing of ...Read more

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just revealed the depths of her political cowardice and lack of care for her constituents.

As the governor of a state with a city characterized by the most contentious and internationally recognized mayoral race in the United States, she appeared pressured to make an impossible decision: Endorse the frontrunner in ...Read more

Last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it became a bipartisan spectacle of scorn aimed squarely at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republicans and Democrats alike...Read more

He who lives in glass houses should not throw stones. How many times in our lifetimes have we heard that admonition to watch our words, especially our criticisms, of those around us? The same could be said of American foreign policy in general, and more specifically of President Donald Trump and his new doctrine of diplomacy around the globe. ...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

President Donald Trump is declaring war on mail-in voting. In a recent announcement, the president stated that an executive order to end mail-in voting in federal elections is currently being drafted.

There's been a lot of talk over the past two presidential cycles over mail-in voting and whether or not it contributes to voter fraud. And no ...Read more

The silent majority in Washington, D.C., and across our nation is applauding. Even one crime is one crime too many.

On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump, invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act passed by the United States Congress, declared a "crime emergency in the District of Columbia" and ordered the deployment of 800 ...Read more

Following the tragic mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that resulted in the deaths of four individuals, including a New York City Police Department officer, we must confront a vital question: Where were the heroes?

Reports indicate that the shooter walked from the curb to the entrance of 345 Park Avenue, a distance estimated at...Read more

Moderation in all things is our deliverance from the strife and upheaval of extremism. The Aristotelian means recognizes that wisdom and truth are more chiaroscuro than prime colors. Drawing lines are the heartland of civilized law. It can be said without exaggeration that civilization was born when the first human reflected, "I could be wrong. ...Read more

Did former President Barack Obama play a role in the fabrication of the Russia collusion narrative? According to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard -- once a rising star within the Democratic Party and now a gadfly for political truth -- the answer is unequivocally yes. More than that, Gabbard suggests the Obama administration ...Read more

The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The posterchild case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

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