Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a video message at the Defender of Freedom Gala in Virginia's Pentagon City last week, fondly recalled his cold morning in Minnesota years ago when he delivered joy to a veteran and his family.
These days, we’re talking an awful lot about fraud. To be fair, it does feel as though fraud is everywhere. There are the Minneapolis daycare centers, complete with misspelled signs, raking in public funds while providing no daycare services. There is the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is apparently throwing money at anyone with a […]
The United Nations is continuing to demand that President Donald Trump hand over American taxpayer dollars, even as the organization is infested with terrorists and terrorist supporters. Trump should treat the U.N. with the contempt it deserves. The United States Agency for International Development Office of Inspector General identified “four additional current or former staff” from the […]
Following a declassification directive from President Donald Trump, the Department of War released numerous reports and videos related to unidentified flying objects on Friday. Referred to by the government as “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” UFOs have been a growing subject of public interest in recent years. Predictably, Friday’s file release didn’t significantly move the ball in […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. President Donald Trump recently announced that he was reducing U.S. military presence […]
The Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democratic Party’s partisan gerrymander of the state’s congressional map Friday, holding that because Virginia’s lengthy voting process had begun well before the General Assembly approved the new map, the constitutionally required intervening election between amendment proposals had not occurred. The ruling is a huge win for Virginia Republicans […]
In her recent New York Times essay, Hillary Clinton claimed Republicans have “no answers” on the question of family affordability and were ignoring “the financial burdens crushing parents who are trying to provide a safe, healthy, middle-class life for their kids.” She is right to recognize the concerns families have, but she is wrong about […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. May 8, 1776 Gen. George Washington confirms sentences from a […]
The Left’s message to wealth creators has hardened into, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass!” Once upon a time, radicals who achieved or aspired to elected office concealed their fiscal militancy behind a screen of social conscience. They dressed it up as the unavoidable if regrettable consequence of a virtuous desire to […]
There is a particular kind of government betrayal that arrives not with a bang, but with an obscure bureaucratic memo. No dramatic announcement, no press conference, no honest accounting to the public. Just a directive, handed down through internal channels, telling scientists to withdraw publication of their work — work they spent years producing; that […]
Graham Platner, a phony populist, rebranded rich kid, and self-described communist, is now the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. Barring unforeseen events, he will face centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in November’s general election. He currently leads her in the polling average (though it’s always worth noting that Collins famously trailed in every […]
Tacitus never saw the Teutonic forests, but in his first-century bestseller Germania, he told Romans that the German tribes who lived there had an “inherent love of liberty” and a rude kind of self-government. The men kept their women “fenced-in and chaste, without seductive display,” and if they caught a woman jumping the fence in […]
Our age is an extremely individualistic one. This may sound wrong to the observer who sees collectivism on the rise, but collectivism and individualism are not opposites, as philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt explained — they are two sides of the same coin. The less you trust and depend on your fellow man, […]
