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Capitalism gets a lot of hate. I expect it from the left. They blame free markets for racism, "horrifying inequality" and even, according to Economist Joseph Stiglitz, "accelerating climate change." People on the right generally defend capitalism, but today, a growing number agree with the left. Author James Lindsay says, "They make the exact ...Read more

At the White House press briefing on July 17, EWTN White House Correspondent Owen Jenson asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the Catholic church in Gaza that had been struck that day by an artillery shell.

"In Gaza today, Holy Family Catholic Church was struck by an Israeli shell," Jenson said.

"Yes," said Leavitt.

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Anyone who's followed the dissolute life and times of Hunter Biden knows that no one wanted the Biden presidency to end less than Hunter. His father's power was a cash cow, giving him millions he wasted on crack cocaine and hookers. So when he tried to mount a moral high horse in a three-hour podcast interview, that's news.

The Associated Press...Read more

Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled -- no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions were accomplished.

Even Ronald Reagan, who called for the cancelation of ...Read more

The devastating loss of Grand Canyon Lodge isn't a reason to put new restrictions on good fire.

The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is a marvel. A few summers ago, a friend and I took our sons there and drank in the remarkable views. Personally, I found it more breathtaking than the heavily trafficked South Rim. The historic Grand ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- President Donald Trump last week fulfilled his pledge to protect America's national security and grow prosperity in the middle of the country when he announced a staggering $90 billion-plus had been secured to build artificial intelligence data power centers, all fueled by the region's abundant natural gas, nuclear and coal power...Read more

No, I'm not telling you to not be upset or disappointed about the Epstein decision. I am, too.

No, I'm not telling you not to complain, not to vent your anger.

I disagree with the decision, too. I urged President Donald Trump to reconsider and either release the Epstein files or name a special counselor.

And the good news is, he has responded...Read more

WASHINGTON -- One of the things Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought likes about working for President Donald Trump is that there's no item that's "too small" to rate the president's attention.

It was an important point to make in a town that scoffs at conservatives' calls for cuts to programs that are too progressive or ...Read more

It has been painfully obvious, ever since the presidential election last November, that the Democratic Party's brand is in tatters.

This week, a Quinnipiac University poll revealed that congressional Democrats have a minuscule 19% approval rating -- an all-time low in the history of that particular poll. Earlier in the week, a Harvard CAPS/...Read more

Was President Joe Biden aware of who he was pardoning in the final days of his presidency? Or were White House staffers behind the unprecedented string of autopen signings?

In recent weeks, evidence has been mounting that the former president may not have been in the loop, which is, to be charitable, problematic.

Luckily for us, the folks at ...Read more

Catching the tiger by the tail, like catching lightning in a bottle, is a difficult task. More difficult is letting go of the tiger's tail. In 2015, President Donald Trump wove together a collection of grievances against the ruling elite in Washington, D.C. and rode into office intent on smashing established shibboleths. Leaving, ignominiously...Read more

As the world of "public" broadcasting faces the rebuke of Congress rescinding its billions of dollars, it spurs a broader thought about the arrogance of liberal journalists at national media outlets. They're not simply arrogant. They sound remarkably insincere.

Start with a man named Michael Tribble, the chief content officer at WAMU, the NPR ...Read more

Nine months after the 2024 election, we've been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10 years and one month ago. There's wide agreement in the analyses of the Associated Press/Fox News Vote Cast, the Democratic firm Catalist's What Happened and the Pew Research Center analysis.

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We're a long way from the transcontinental railroad.

We built the iconic American infrastructure project in the 1860s in about six years, putting down 1,776 miles of track and blasting 15 tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Granted, working conditions back then didn't exactly meet OSHA standards. Yet, if today's rules and practices ...Read more

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. Originally, the federal government blamed Osama bin ...Read more

The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The posterchild case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

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The "Big Beautiful Bill" did a lot of things, not all of them good. One positive step was to repeal many of the Inflation Reduction Act's green energy subsidies. It's a little disappointing that Congress didn't repeal all of them, as President Donald Trump promised during the campaign. Yet it's also somewhat amazing to witness a genuine ...Read more

There is plenty of news about higher education these days, and not much of it is good.

By way of example, Siena Heights University, a small Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan, just announced that it will be closing at the end of the next academic year, after 105 years. Siena Heights -- whose enrollment has dropped 20% since 2008 -- follows ...Read more