Each time one thinks President Trump has reached the lowest level possible in insulting his enemies, he finds new depths to plunge. Following a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court, which included three conservative justices he appointed, the president called the justices "fools," a "disgrace to ...

Having covered the late Rev. Jesse Jackson off and on since the 1960s, I am still amused to receive an email from one of my many critics who wants me to know that you don't have to be white to find something to criticize about Black people, as if I didn't know. In fact, I've made an impressive ...

By VERONIQUE de RUGY Syndicated columnist Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year’s extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America ...

A poster depicting an enormous face gazed from the wall. The caption ran, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." So wrote George Orwell at the open of his dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Big Brother's image was everywhere, on printed material and on telescreens blasting state propaganda in ...

"Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war." — James Madison (1751-1836) Last week, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ...

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the audience at ...