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Conservative groups warn against deficit commission as a ‘tax trap’

A coalition of conservative and free-market organizations have released a letter opposing the Fiscal Commission Act. According to the bill's text, the legislation would "establish a commission on fiscal responsibility and reform" and require both the House and the Senate to address the $34 trillion national debt.

House GOP opens probe into Biden administration’s ‘leniency’ toward Trump tax leaker

House Republicans announced a probe Thursday into what they said was the Justice Department's lenient treatment of the man who leaked then-President Trump's taxes.

Christie says he wouldn’t vote for Trump ‘under any circumstances’

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie maintained his stance that he will not vote for former President Donald Trump if he is the Republican nominee.

Longtime GOP Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state says she will not seek reelection

Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state says she will not seek reelection after two decades in Congress.

Hawaii ruling cites ‘The Wire’ in rebuking Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights

A ruling by Hawaii's high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit cites crime-drama TV series "The Wire" and invokes the "spirit of Aloha" in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide.

No criminal charges for Biden despite willfully retaining classified documents, special counsel says

Special counsel Robert Hur released a scathing report Thursday saying President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified military and national security documents but did not recommend criminal charges.

The puppet in the White House

“He ran two or three times, he never got above 1%,” Donald Trump said of Joe Biden in 2019. “And then Obama came along and took him off the trash heap, and he became the vice president.” It was an amusing way to insult the former vice president at the time — perhaps less so […]

Dead from New York, it’s Saturday night!

There are many things to dread about the 2024 election. The primary reason is that fully 70% of the public agrees it does not want a race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. But another problem with the 2024 race seems likely to be the absence of good comedy. Sure, there are […]

Making history with Winston Churchill

“Winston Churchill appeared to me,” Charles De Gaulle wrote in 1959, “from one end of the drama to the other, as the great champion of a great enterprise and the great artist of a great history.” Churchill was not only the author, both literally and figuratively, of a great history, but he has also been […]

A 21st-century explorer’s reflections on T.E. Lawrence

Lawrence of Arabia: My Journey in Search of T.E. Lawrence is the first biography I’ve read in which the author explains what it’s like to kill a man: “I had often shot at people hundreds of yards away — vague shapes behind rocks who were busy firing back — but never before had I seen […]

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