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Trump Must Embrace His Venezuela Policy in Iran, Globally
The First Amendment does not grant universities a right to create a new generation of violent revolutionaries. The federal government must use extreme measures to combat extremism. Rogue university presidents must be deposed.
How to Destroy a Thriving Republic, Step-By-Step
We were an industrial powerhouse, the center of finance, the masters of invention, a beacon of liberty. America was the world’s "can do" nation. Recently we've become a nation in decline.
Stop Pretending Colleges Are Nonprofits
When will Congress stop buying into this mythology that colleges are nonprofit organizations? Why should donations from millionaires and billionaires be IRS tax write-offs? It's farcical.
Venezuelans Can Bring Mamdani's Voters to Reality
For evidence of America's success and fairness, you don't have to look any further than the migration pattern from socialist Venezuela and Cuba to the United States.
Iranians Determined to Regain Liberty, They May Well Succeed
he Iranian people are determined to take back their liberty from decades of repression—and that this time, it looks increasingly likely that they will succeed.
Unified Global Strategy Must Address a Weakening Iran
Pressure applied from outside Iran is now having effects inside the country, allowing military action aimed at incapacitation to go beyond deterrence.
High Court Must Clarify If Boys Can Crash Girls' Sports
The fact that a commonsensical understanding of human nature has to be articulated before the Supreme Court shows how ideologically corrupt we've been become. It's not the ordinary American who is the problem, it's elite decision makers.
Mamdani's Election Exposes Hochul's Antisemitism Hypocrisy
Far from being a check on the new Mayor's frightening platform, Kathy Hochul is leaning into his extremist orthodoxy and proving that she may be the shrewdest buffer Mamdani could ever have hoped for.
Renee Good Endangered Her Life - and Yours
The only way to prevent more deaths like Renee Good's, and more mayhem like that unleashed by the exploitation of George Floyd's killing, is to stop giving in to activists who think they have a right to resist and obstruct law enforcement.
Incivility Will Destroy Your Workplace: How to Retain Talent
Across professions, incivility in the workplace can cause productive employees to become discouraged, disengaged, and disinterested in professional development.
We're Playing Vaccine Politics, Healthcare Roulette
We're taking away health insurance from millions, eliminating the subsidies that make incomplete plans at least partly affordable, then telling parents to go have a conversation with the doctor they don't have about whether their child should have a flu shot?
Moral Clarity the Result of Challenging Maduro
The effort by President Trump to decisively confront and neutralize Nicolás Maduro’s regime should be understood not as a narrow foreign policy maneuver, but as a signal flare in the larger civilizational struggle of our time.
Public Assistance Fraud More Than  a Minnesota Story
Federal prosecutors now suggest that up to half of the $18 billion spent on 14 Medicaid-funded Minnesota programs since 2018 may have been tied to fraud. Even if those estimates are revised downward, the pattern is unmistakable. Fraud became routine.
Can UN Security Council Reset the Mideast Toward Peace?
Hamas and other factions are not to have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly or in any form. All military, terror and offensive infrastructure, including, tunnels, and weapon production facilities are to be destroyed and not rebuilt.
In Venezuela, Trump Avoids Neocon Pitfalls
Imposing "regime change," installing pro-American leaders, and engaging in democratic "nation building" in any country are, as history has cruelly taught us, fraught and uncertain processes with outcomes usually incurring significant expense in blood and treasure.
Ruddy: Michael Reagan Passed the Torch to Us
When Michael Reagan’s wife, Colleen, shared the heartbreaking news this week of her husband’s passing, my first feeling was a deep sadness mixed with regret.
Activist Left Leads Us Down Road to Death, Despair, and Mobocracy
The left now engage in threats as a matter of course. In 2020, their monthslong rioting following the death of George Floyd led to upward of $2 billion in insurance claims. They threatened rioting unless Derek Chauvin, the officer from the Floyd traffic stop, was found guilty.
Should Joe Biden Consider a Virtual Presidential Library?
Although nearly everybody has resumed in-person meetings, the increase in virtual meetings during the Biden administration has had continuing consequences, many of them beneficial.
Trump Ending Era of Looking Other Way on Cartels
The political class continues to miss an uncomfortable truth: a strong majority of Americans with Mexican roots support aggressive action against Mexican drug cartels. This isn’t about politics. It’s about survival.
Is RFK, Jr. Breaking With Trump's Pro-Vaccine Legacy?
By encouraging and supporting vaccinations for everyone without forcing them on anyone, Trump is trying to deliver on his promise to Make America Healthy Again.
Mexico Should Be Next for Trump in Narcoterrorism War
President Trump is updating the Monroe Doctrine. He said, "The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot." Under President Trump's doctrine, the goal is to prevent "hostile actors, foreign-backed criminal networks . . . from gaining footholds . . . "
Trump Must Strike Against Iran's Butchers in Clerical Robes
The Iranian people took you at your word. Now they’re waiting to see if America's 47th commander in chief is a man of action, or just another politician making promises he won’t keep. I believe you meant what you said.
'HOT' Tax Would Let Liberals Pay More, Sparing Everyone Else
This "tax me more" phenomenon is fueled by ignorance and neo-Marxists. They insist that "the rich" do not pay their “fair share” of taxes. They never say what that "fair share" is — other than "More!"
50-Yr. Mortgage Prolongs Term, Doesn't Solve Affordability
The 50-year mortgage doesn't address housing affordability. It merely prolongs the mortgage term; offers little in the way of monthly payment relief. Government planners would do better to focus on restrictive zoning practices that reduce housing density, increasing costs.
Recent Events Expose Left's Contrived Outrage
We could see indoctrinated and appallingly ill-informed marchers, denouncing the removal of Maduro, purportedly "in solidarity" with the Venezuelan people. A quick change of the channel revealed throngs of actual Venezuelans weeping with joy that Maduro was gone.
Time for a Total Ban on Stock Trading by Members of Congress
Lawmakers have information and influence other stock traders don't have. Lawmakers know when a bill will be voted on or a regulation adopted, and they have the clout to influence the timing.
'Thank You for Your Service' Still Matters
The culture of the United States military reflects a deep understanding of mission and honor. That understanding is rooted in purpose and moral clarity. When military service is guided by principle, it unites. When it is misused or shaped by dictatorship, it breeds fear and division.
Antisemitic Incidents Plunged in '25 Under President Trump
In the run-up to the congressional and gubernatorial elections in November, the Trump administration and the GOP must relentlessly highlight their many successes in battling antisemitism during the last tumultuous decade, compared to the Democrats’ failures.
Trump, Hegseth are Transforming the Pentagon
Change has been felt. It was for this reason that the left didn't want Secretary Hegseth on the job, with nearly the same hatred as they feel towards President Trump.
Maduro Is Getting What He Deserved
According to data published by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, the U.S. experienced a total of 172,960 overdose deaths from cocaine from 2013, the year Maduro became the president of Venezuela, through 2023.
LA Chokes on Red Tape, Inaction and Fails
Mayor Karen Bass claims her administration is "pro-housing," yet she has opposed legislation to encourage multi-family housing near transit stops and has backtracked on her own Executive Directive 1, which was intended to fast-track approvals for apartment units.
UN Condemns Maduro Capture, Waltz Ready With Strong Rebuttal
It was rich to hear Russia and China complain about the U.S. violating international law to arrest an indicted narco-terrorist in light of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and China's escalating military threats to Taiwan.
Comer's Made-for-TV Walz, Somalia Inquiry Can't Be Serious
Many view the Somali Scandals in Minnesota as an outrage that should result in jail sentences, deportations, citizenship revocation, and legislative reform. Our comb-over conservative elected officials view the scandal as a hook that will get them on TV.
By Michael Reagan with Michael R. Shannon
Why Is U.S. Health Insurance So Expensive?
For years, the U.S. has paid high prices to subsidize other wealthy countries that have drug price controls in place. Although drug companies should profit from life-saving drugs, the costs of this should be shared by the world, not shouldered by the United States.
Accountability Isn't Aggression, It's Deterrence
For decades, state sovereignty, originally conceived to protect nations from external domination, has been systematically distorted into a shield for criminal regimes, failed states, and authoritarian rulers. Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint. It's abdication.
Azerbaijan Should Join the Abraham Accords
Azerbaijan's presence matters in part because geography has placed it at the center of what is increasingly called the Middle Corridor.
Saudi Arabia a Fluent Capital, Logistics, and Economic Force
Riyadh Season is not a party. It is a message. And the message is that Saudi Arabia is no longer asking the world to imagine its future. It is inviting the world to participate.
Trump's Doctrine for Venezuela: Transition, Justice, and Order
Venezuela transformed from authoritarian governance into an organized criminal enterprise operating behind sovereignty’s facade.
I Let AI Mimic My Voice, Not Speak My Mind
Yes, I've determined that lending my voice is perfectly OK with me so long as it doesn't change my meaning or allow algorithmic imitators to pretend to make up my mind.
The Trojan Horse Within: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood's Global Ambitions
The Muslim Brotherhood has never hidden its ambitions. In 2011, its leader, Mohammed Badie, vowedto crush "Zio-American arrogance" and impose Islam's "mastership of the world" through a global caliphate under Sharia law.
 Center of Power Shifting in Iran From State to Society
Why are some analysts warning that if Iran's political system fails to align itself with ongoing social transformations, in intellectual, security, judicial, and executive dimensions, it may struggle to navigate the Iranian year 1405 (beginning March 21, 2026)?
Avoiding Socialism Means Staying Awake
The only difference between a socialist and a Democrat is that the Democrat says, "Your earnings don't belong to you. Your earnings belong to the government. Now hand over half of your earnings."
Assisted Suicide: Gov. Hochul at Odds With Church
During the Christmas season, Christians of every faith celebrate life - specifically the life of their savior, Jesus Christ. The exception this year is New York's governor, Kathy Hochul.
New Documentary Exposes Corruption in Caucasus
While hope abounds for the future of the South Caucasus region following a United States-brokered peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia earlier this year, Washington must continue recalibrating its broader approach to Eurasia.At the center of that recalibration is a...
Gov't May Not Abridge or Chill Freedom of Speech
Whatever the government takes and whatever it negates, it may not abridge the freedom of speech, directly or indirectly, by taxes or threats or commands or prohibitions or praises or chilling. If it could, then we'd have not even the semblance of a representative democracy.
Antisemitism Stirring in Sectors of Republican Right
Surprisingly, the specter of antisemitism has begun stirring in the sectors of the Republican Right, until recently staunchly pro-Israel.
Terrible Effects of Medicare Price Controls Are Here
Medicare will impose price controls on prescription drugs for the first time when the calendar flips to January. Even before those controls formally take effect, the damage is already being done.
Justice Must Prevail, Override Celebrity Aspects of Reiner Case
The high-profile nature of the case serves to remind us all that murder is murder, regardless of where it takes place or the societal ranking of the individuals involved.
McLaughlin Poll: Trump Must Bypass Big Media to Win Midterms
Winning the 2026 midterms will require President Trump and Republicans to speak directly to the American people, bypassing hostile media filters, repeating clear economic facts, and relentlessly contrasting results with Democratic misinformation.
Democrats Arsenal: Lies, Hysteria - Trump's Is Results
Recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent out breathless warnings on social media and television that Trump is going to cut Social Security offices and make it harder for Americans to receive benefits.
 Hope Finds Its Way Back at Christmas in Bethlehem
Sure, Germany is a winter wonderland of celebrations, and New York City has Times Square. But, there is no doubt that the Holy City of Bethlehem is the epicenter of Christmas.
First Amendment Our Superpower in Battle to End Abortion
We can't overlook the fact that President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his first term, giving the Court an ideological balance tipped in favor of life, and of our Constitution.
America Often Rejects Messenger Before Adopting the Message
In American politics, the scoreboard is rarely the final word. The conversation is. And sometimes the man who loses the election walks away with the only prize that endures: the future.
Is GOP Up to Bringing Back the American Dream?
Our voters, especially younger ones, want what their parents and grandparents have: A spouse, a house, a well-paying job, two kids, a dog, a safe community, good schools and, maybe, even a white picket fence.
Be Smart, Save Money
Saving, in many ways, is life or death in this world. Go for it. You will be a happier human being if you have money, and saving is the way to make it happen even unto old age.
Obamacare's Roof Leaks, Patching Won't Fix It
Some issues in Washington are like that proverbial leaking roof: everyone knows it needs fixing, and every storm reminds us of the problem. But instead of grabbing a ladder and repairing it, the buckets just get moved around.
EU Plays a Dangerous Game, Romania Defies U.S. Courts
When a government loses an arbitration case in a neutral tribunal, it pays the award. That predictability is what allows U.S. companies to invest abroad with confidence. Romania is now threatening that foundation.
Small Rate Cuts a Sign of Cleanup, Not Confidence
Until we restore transparency in economic data, until we stop manipulating the narrative to score political points, and until we replace volatility with consistency, small moves from the Fed will remain: gestures.
America's Longest War Returns - And It's on Christmas
This year's opening front? Military families at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, who found themselves on the receiving end of the Grinch. In mid-November, families were ordered to take down Christmas decorations from their private residences.
Wars of Ideology Coming? They're Here, Getting Worse
The intellectualism of John F. Kennedy, patriotic, aspirational, grounded in faith and freedom, is all but forgotten, having been replaced by a grievance-obsessed ideology dividing the nation into oppressors and victims.
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