Opinion

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. June 19, 1776 Gen. George Washington is keenly aware that […]

The U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end the war with Iran is as feeble for U.S. and allied interests as the war was foolish. The MOU provides Iran immediate, significant financial benefits and defers the instrumental question of Iran’s nuclear program to future talks. As the U.S. intelligence community has assessed, it is highly […]

“Well, a guy is on a mountain in southwest Colorado, where I bought this 1950 Chevrolet sight unseen. It doesn’t run, and it’s been off the road for 20 years. I am going to try to get it fired up and drive it 1,400 miles back home.” That is Derek Bieri of the YouTube channel […]

People have spent a lifetime paying taxes in exchange for the promise of Medicare coverage once they reach 65. In return, seniors expect to receive the highest quality care and access to innovative, impactful treatments and therapies they need to maintain their health. The “most favored nation” drug pricing policy being considered by the Trump […]

When the Pentagon designated Tencent as a Chinese military company in early 2025, the response in Silicon Valley was a collective shrug. Tencent’s stakes in American gaming firms had been public for years. The Justice Department forced Tencent to give up two board seats at Epic Games and its director appointment rights. The conversation focused […]

As we approach the fourth anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the landmark ruling that overturned 1973’s Roe v. Wade and restored to the states their constitutional authority to protect unborn children, the mifepristone litigation in Louisiana v. FDA continues. On May 14, the Supreme Court stayed the Fifth Circuit’s order, preserving the […]

Taiwan matters because it fuses American credibility, semiconductor supremacy, and Indo-Pacific power into one vulnerability. Beijing gains ground whenever Washington confuses meetings and policy papers with strategy. The United States requires a Special Envoy for Taiwan Strait Deterrence who reports directly to the president and has authority to fuse military posture, economic statecraft, and alliance […]

President Donald Trump is the first president in decades to make fighting fraud across the entire government a pillar of his domestic agenda. Though rarely a point of discussion in years past, fraud has remained in the political spotlight following a series of high-profile incidents that made the issue impossible to ignore.  Late last year, […]

In our recent comparison of New York and Florida, written in response to left-wing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s strange trolling of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, we briefly touched on how the Sunshine State is eating the Empire State’s lunch on education. Florida isn’t alone in this respect. Much has been made of the extraordinary “Mississippi […]

You’ve grinded your way to achieving your dream of becoming a Major League Baseball player. But are you wearing your politically-approved hat to promote the LGBT political movement? No? Then you must be shamed and punished. It’s “LGBT Pride Month,” which means corporations are pandering to rabid LGBT activists for their approval and trying to […]

In his May 13 essay, Delano Squires asserts that “The family is the foundation of civilization, and marriage — the union of one man and one woman — is its cornerstone. It is the seedbed of self-government.”  True enough.  But what happens when the government plants the seeds of dependency inside that seedbed? And what […]