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The "fact-checkers" who pick apart Donald Trump on a daily basis took exception to this recent presidential overstatement: "Portland is burning to the ground, it's insurrectionists all over the place." PolitiFact instructed that there's a few arson ...

After eight months in office, almost all of the Trump administration's aggressive trade agenda has come into focus. Sectoral tariffs have been applied to industries deemed important to national security. A fresh review of the USMCA, negotiated and ...

This week, I had the opportunity to visit the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, to hear President Donald Trump speak. Trump, who had just brokered a ceasefire deal involving the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages from Hamas -- without a full ...

Longstanding precedent suggests that the Democrats' banishment to the political wilderness may be short-lived. Democratic nominees enjoy healthy leads in the off-year gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, and most political experts believe ...

BALDWIN, Pennsylvania -- Collin Arthrell sat at a table filled with young people at a luncheon in a middle-class suburban Pittsburgh borough, dressed neatly in a suit with his curly hair neatly cropped. Four years ago, you would not have seen this ...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology. It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males. DEI makes no allowance for the class ...

The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative. Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump's latest policy. Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to ...

Two weeks ago, Israel confronted Iran, the longtime sponsor of proxy terror, to defend itself from an existential threat. While intentional and deliberate violence from Iran is no longer an immediate danger for Israel, Jews in America still face the ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a very special category: black, Muslim and a refugee from Somalia. It's a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It's a born ...

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 ...