The Department of Homeland Security has requested 20,000 National Guard troops to assist its efforts to secure the southern U.S. border, a move the media has declared “unprecedented.” It’s not. In 1916, after Pancho Villa’s deadly raid on Columbus, New Mexico, President Woodrow Wilson mobilized nearly 110,000 National Guard troops to the southern border. Their […]
The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference in Hungary begins in Budapest on Thursday. While organizers claim it will celebrate the “Age of Patriots,” the conference’s main effect will be to lend powerful political cover to Communist China’s favored European collaborator, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Prominent American conservative commentators are attending the conservative conference. American […]
Debate about the House’s “big, beautiful” tax bill has focused on big-ticket entitlement items such as Medicaid and food stamps. But the sprawling legislation includes consequential changes affecting one of America’s most distinctive characteristics: charitable giving. The United States has long been the world leader in charitable giving as a percentage of GDP, but, more […]
History has shown us how government-imposed prices end badly for consumers. We rarely see the intended results last for long, while their side effects have enormous consequences. President Donald Trump is now discussing foreign reference pricing, paying little mind to a chorus of economic experts, innovators, and seniors who are concerned that those policies will […]
There’s more to the story than numbers of men, money and materiel. Leadership, morale, tactics, strategy, quality of weapons and other unquantifiable factors play an important, and perhaps even decisive, role.
FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed criticism from one of his predecessors, James Comey, who recently suggested he was ill equipped to run the bureau. In an exclusive interview Wednesday on Fox News’s “Special Report," host Bret Baier asked Patel about Comey’s recent Instagram post of shells arranged to form “8647,” in what many supporters of...
The Five and Dime tax proposal would raise $6.8 trillion over ten years and discourage unproductive financial behaviors, leading to a more dynamic and efficient system.