Elon Musk and his DOGE team have been taking a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy over the past couple of months with a remarkable degree of success. DOGE deserves high praise for identifying vast government waste, but the savings generated...
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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:30:11 +0000When Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, he directly appealed to disenfranchised middle-and working-class Americans — voters who had long been the backbone of the Democratic Party. For decades, the party’s reputation as a defender of the working...
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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:30:09 +0000As a young Jewish American, I have always been proud of my family’s history and perseverance: some members of my family survived the Holocaust, others escaped Soviet oppression, and almost all rebuilt a life in America with little other than...
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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:20:27 +0000Recently, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were in the process of apprehending three illegal aliens from Guatemala at a traffic stop in Rochester, New York. A scuffle broke out, and the ICE officers called for back-up. Ten Rochester...
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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:20:26 +0000Thanks primarily to the renewal of President Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign, Iran’s economy is again in the dumpster. Last week the Iranian rial was trading at a new low — more than one million rials to the U.S. dollar. When...
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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:20:24 +0000Contrary to popular belief, the Dark Ages weren’t so dark. As much as secular historians hate to admit it, Christianity held Western Civilization together from the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 AD to the start of the Renaissance...
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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:20:23 +0000Anyone foolish enough to take seriously the rhetoric of the Democrats concerning the reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump on “Liberation Day” will experience two sensations — dread and confusion. This unpleasant combination was inevitable due to the strident denunciation...
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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:20:21 +0000Rabbles, Riots and Ruins By Mike Aquilina (Ignatius Press, 206 pages, $16) I think I have by now read ten or so of Mr. Aquilina’s books, and find myself ever putting down his latest with a combination of satisfaction and...
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Sun, 06 Apr 2025 02:30:17 +0000The Trump administration has officially commenced its war on illicit drugs with the release of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)’s Drug Policy Priorities. These priorities lay out the administration’s one year plan of attack on...
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Sun, 06 Apr 2025 02:30:16 +0000In March of this year, a case in Rotherham once again forced the United Kingdom to confront a reality it has long preferred to bracket. Two men, Romulad Stefan Houphouet and Absolom Sigiyo, were convicted of repeatedly raping teenage girls...
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