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The Democrats circa 2026 have almost become tax-and-spend parodies of themselves.

They used to pretend that raising taxes was a last resort. Now, the leftwing base regards raising taxes as a badge of honor.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared last week that he has no other choice but to raise taxes on the rich and corporations ...Read more

WHEELING, West Virginia -- West Virginia is the only state in the United States that is located entirely within the 13-state, 423-county Appalachian region. Much of the beauty, sorrow and challenges we think of when it comes to the region originated here, where isolation, a strong work ethic and an ability to spin a good story are well-...Read more

When you think about recent events in the Middle East, it's easier to understand what's happening in Minnesota.

There are significant parallels between the tactics of Hamas and pro-illegal immigrant agitators. Start with this. Both have no realistic way to achieve their objective through conventional means.

Despite the brutality of the Oct. ...Read more

"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun," King Solomon famously observed in the Koheleth (Book of Ecclesiastes). Truer words have never been written. Look no further than the present anarchic tumult in Minnesota.

On Jan. 12, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison ...Read more

Demonizing greedy bankers and landlords is the last refuge of the poorly polling politician.

And, as affordability remains a leading issue among voters, the Trump administration has regularly used rhetoric and ideas that mirror those of progressive Democrats like Zohran Mamdani.

Take the president's recent idea for capping credit card interest...Read more

Last Saturday, federal border patrol agents shot and killed progressive protestor Alex Pretti in Minnesota. After his death, a video surfaced from a week earlier where Pretti had spat on border patrol agents and violently kicked an agent's car.

Some on the right are, through implication, suggesting Pretti got what he deserved. Some on the ...Read more

Conservatives could look at today's incredibly fractured media environment and wonder why anyone would need to worry about the elite media, considering their trust numbers are in the basement (except among liberals) and their audiences keep eroding.

But just breathe the media air any day, and what we used to call the "dominant media" still ...Read more

About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025.

It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the decade of the 2020s and one-quarter of the way ...Read more

Alex Pretti wasn't killed while "protesting."

This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street the fateful morning when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting.

But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he'd very likely be alive today.

Now that we've seen videos of an earlier ...Read more

Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by spraying pepper spray into his eyes, pushing him to the ground, stealing his lawfully owned and carried handgun, and then shooting him nine times in the back.

The thugs from ICE whom the federal ...Read more

As I read the commentary across social media, legacy media and the broader public discourse surrounding the latest deadly shooting in Minnesota, I see something deeper than disagreement over facts or law. I see a nation struggling to reconcile rights, authority, fear and accountability in moments when events move faster than judgment.

Let's ...Read more

Industrial policy is failing, and not just in Washington. Across America, officials promise to engineer the right economic outcomes by intervening in the market in just the right ways. Most people know that under Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the idea has exploded. Less appreciated is how enthusiastically governors and state ...Read more

Virtually everything the Democratic Party does these days is grounded in some sort of deceit. That's true of a lot of politics generally, and Republicans have their own cowardly versions of it, but the Democrats have made it their modus operandi.

First, the use of mobs.

The violent protests taking place in Minnesota right now purport to be ...Read more

The unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis did not arise by accident. It is the product of a combustible mix: deliberate obstruction by Democratic officials, wall-to-wall legacy media coverage and two tragic incidents that were mishandled by senior figures inside the Trump administration. Together, these forces have ...Read more

Sorting through what exactly Alex Pretti did or did not do to provoke his death in Minneapolis at the hands of ICE agents is not enough to understand this tragedy.

Pretti had a permit for his concealed weapon. But does the Second Amendment cover carrying it at an incendiary anti-ICE demonstration with motivation to do something?

All this ...Read more

Theft and cunning sabotage are ancient weapons. Alone or in tandem, they damage an adversary. The Trojan horse was a cunning stratagem to circumvent Troy's massive walls, but once circumvented, Troy collapsed.

In the 21st century, cunning saboteurs add mob violence, street terror and digital propaganda to theft -- massive, billion-dollar ...Read more