The Dow “crossed 50,000 for the first time on February 6, 2026 — fittingly on the 115th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth,” cheers Michael Toth at Civitas Outlook.
Like almost everything else in Havana, the old Tropicana hotel and casino seems frozen in time. When I visited Cuba two years ago, the hotel was undergoing renovations, but its façade and interior lobby had not changed much since mobsters such as Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante Jr. hung […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new 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. Jan. 5, 1776 Albany, New York Gen. George Washington received […]
“How dare you?” Remember that fiery 2019 United Nations speech, when a 16-year-old Greta Thunberg stared down world leaders and accused the adults in...
Vice President J.D. Vance denounced European politicians for blighting democracy with brazen censorship in a February speech in Munich. Vance warned: “If you’re running...
Every January, Americans swear this will be the year they finally change. Lose weight. Fix a relationship. Stop procrastinating. Drink less. Show up more....
Almost a full year after a fire in the Pacific Palisades burned more than 6,000 homes and killed 12 people, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) still has not released his administration’s report on the disaster, and last week, we learned that the Los Angeles Fire Department’s report was so altered by city officials that the author […]
President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the United States would come to the rescue of peaceful protesters if Iranian security forces killed them. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Iranian officials responded with their own counter-threats. This latest tension follows the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear […]
VENEZUELA: IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘RUN.’ There have been two parts to the political world’s reaction to the American operation that deposed and captured Nicolas Maduro. The first part was to marvel at what Brit Hume called the “extraordinary level of skill, technology and daring” on the part of American forces […]
Wow: Gov. Kathy Hochul is embracing Mayor Zohran Mamdani's universal-child-care scheme even as the Minnesota scandals expose how readily unscrupulous operators can abuse such...
Debate over the Democratic Party’s direction pits those favoring “democratic socialism” against those supporting “the neoliberal framework that helped destroy America’s middle class, weakened...