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A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions.

Selling this additional 600 to 800 megahertz of bandwidth to the private sector will enable the U.S. to expand 5G and even 6G ...Read more

Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it's a good time to remind everyone that the law has been a wide-ranging and expensive fiasco.

Virtually every promise made by Democrats regarding the Affordable Care Act has failed to come true.

Sure, Barack Obama infamously ...Read more

On Twitter, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted, "Let me be perfectly clear: Undocumented people CANNOT AND WILL NOT receive ACA premium tax credits BY LAW. PERIOD. This is a LIE from Republicans to divert attention from their shutdown. Republicans are refusing to lower healthcare costs for the American people." The capitalization was...Read more

If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it's a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down?

Even before the shutdown occurred, NPR and PBS issued ...Read more

Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" states, authorizing his budget director to use ...Read more

Doesn't Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth realize that push-ups are passe?

His speech to an audience of generals he'd summoned to Washington, D.C., has mystified and outraged critics who think his obsession with physical fitness is out-of-date at best and ridiculous at worst.

"Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really ...Read more

In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing. The Memorandum, just like the federalization of troops in Oregon, completely ...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

The federal government just accumulated an additional $2 trillion in debt over the last 12 months. That's the kind of debt surge America usually racks up in wartime or during major national emergencies. But today, as Republicans and Democrats engage in another budget-driven shutdown drama, we are not at war. There is no pandemic. The economy ...Read more

England and Wales are preparing to legalize assisted suicide. The "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill" was passed by the House of Commons in June and now moves on to the House of Lords. The bill has plenty of detractors, including the former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who referred to it as the "license to kill Bill." May ...Read more

On Sept 30, President Donald Trump and Secretary of War (SecWar) Pete Hegseth held a most unusual convocation of "several hundred generals and admirals" at the Marine base and training area in Quantico, Virginia.

I couldn't find an open-source figure for the precise number of flag ranks present. This metaphor should work: Hegseth and Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The brutal Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, left some 1,200 dead. I never would have predicted that, two years later, Hamas would continue to imprison hostages, refuse to release the bodies of dead detainees and still be rewarded with increasing recognition of a Palestinian state.

Terrorists proudly documented their ...Read more

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The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same.

But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed by the same misguided sense of right and wrong that ...Read more

The truth about drug-resistant superbugs sickening hospital patients is even worse than what the headlines suggest. A report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces a "shocking" increase in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections -- which tripled from 2019 to 2023 and caused an estimated 1,100 deaths. ...Read more

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: "Young people today can't get ahead!" One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, "A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one income." "That's a fantasy," says economist Norbert Michel. "We are ...Read more

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, is planning at an event scheduled for Nov. 3 to give Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) a "Lifetime Achievement Award, for his work with immigrants."

Several other Catholic bishops, however, have spoken out against Cardinal Cupich's plan, citing Durbin's record on abortion.

"I was shocked to learn ...Read more

As we approach the second anniversary of Hamas mercilessly slaughtering 1,200 human beings on Oct. 7, 2023, our media remind us daily of the death toll of Palestinians, according to the "Gaza Health Ministry," which is run by Hamas.

It's outrageous that these media outlets are such receptive publicists for mass-murdering terrorists. But they ...Read more