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Border walls have a long tradition
OPINION Border walls have a history of thousands of years, at least as far back as the Great Wall of China. Numerous countries have constructed border walls to protect the people and defend the nation. President Donald ...
New Missile Defense Review is a well-considered response to a changing global threat landscape
Amid reports that Russia is developing new cruise and ballistic missiles—including one that violates the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty—and assessments that North Korea now has a missile that can reach the United States, President Donald Trump visited ...
The left’s extremism will continue to drive support for Trump
Opinion What are Donald Trump’s chances for re-election in 2020? If history is any guide, pretty good. In early 1994, Bill Clinton’s approval rating after two years in office hovered around a dismal 40 percent. The first midterm ...
Pelosi’s petulance is wearing thin
Opinion We expected all sorts of fits and furies when Democrats took control of the House, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unprecedented threat to disinvite President Donald Trump to the State of the Union sets the bar surprisingly low. And ...
Multiple motives in Pelosi’s request to delay State of the Union Address
OPINION Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to President Donald Trump Wednesday that asks him to postpone his Jan. 29 State of the Union Address, or submit it to Congress in writing. The partial ...
The Left, the Wall, and the Truth
Opinion Democrats and others on the left offer three reasons for their opposition to building a wall on America’s southern border. A wall is ineffective. A wall is too expensive. A wall is immoral. Each one is false, so false ...
Most young adults disagree with Democrats on abortion
The Democrats’ national platform doesn’t just lack common decency when it comes to unborn life—it lacks common ground. For the last three years, the party of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has been fighting to ...
Democrats say they want border security?
This week, Democratic leaders exposed their indifference and denial when they called the humanitarian and security crisis at our border “a manufactured crisis.” It turns out many Democrats, including President Obama, don’t agree. The stories of ...
These 2 Democrats are finally standing up to anti-Christian bigotry in their party
Democrats pride themselves on “diversity.” With the new Congress, they’ve hailed two new Muslim House members, made accomodations for religious headwear on the House floor, and celebrated record numbers of minorities in their freshman class. This penchant ...
The ironies of illegal immigration
Estimates suggest that there are 11 million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are now U.S. citizens. A recent poll revealed that one-third of Mexicans ...
Border wall first big government-funded infrastructure project Liberals don’t like
Profligate politicians have never met a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project they didn’t like—except when it comes to President Donald Trump’s border wall. Think about it. Boston’s Big Dig black hole, the nation’s most expensive highway project, burned through ...
Fact check: Do 98 percent of unaccompanied minors from Central America ‘never leave’?
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that 98 percent of alien minors from Central America “never leave” the U.S. “Right now, we have 11,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America; 98 percent ...
Nancy Pelosi wants to talk morality. Here are 3 questions she won’t answer
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has cited her moral values as reasons to oppose President Donald Trump’s planned border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Pelosi won’t fund a border wall because it would be “immoral” to do so, ...
Trump’s tax cuts have been a win for small business
As the co-owner of a rock climbing gym, Andrew Kratz is always reaching for even higher goals. This year he and his partners opened Triangle Rock Club’s fourth location, the first outside their home state ...
The Left will make 2019 a dark year
I rarely make predictions–whether of election results or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be done, not what will be done. I am making an exception with regard to America in 2019. 2019 will ...
Liberals’ telling silence on the death of police officer Ronil Singh
In the still of the last night of 2018, the silence of California Democrats chilled the air and airwaves. Border wall opponent Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., tweeted three times between Christmas and New Year’s Eve bemoaning ...
WH: President Trump is honoring his promise on Syria
Five years ago, ISIS was a powerful, destructive force in the Middle East. By late May 2015, the terrorist group would control half of Syria—including all of the country’s border crossings with Iraq. The American people ...
What magazine stared at Trump’s Christmas portrait: ‘Not fully joining in’
The White House has released the official Christmas portrait of President Trump and first lady Melania Trump, who wears a stunning white dress. The photo was taken during a Congressional party on Saturday evening and ...
Left embraces Trump’s ex-lawyer despite history of deception
The left has a new hero: former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. In recent days, Democrat politicians and the media have latched onto Cohen, who has turned quickly into a harsh critic of President Donald Trump. Cohen recently pleaded ...
Just because we can create genetically modified babies doesn’t mean we should
Two remarkable things took place last month in the world of biotechnology: A Chinese doctor claimed to have created two genetically modified human embryos who were successfully nurtured to birth, and the worldwide scientific community roundly rejected this ...
