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Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have been given an historic mandate to "Make America Great Again." Their mandate for change is especially strong among rural voters, evangelicals, blue-collar workers and those without college degrees. But what exactly ...

A tyrannical foreign regime is doing everything in its power to place its favored candidate in the White House. But in 2024, this is no fantasy scenario about Russia making Donald Trump president. Instead, it's a deadly serious effort by Iran to help ...

Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News' Bret Baier a day before Nate Silver's poll aggregation website showed her chances of winning the election slipping below 50%?

Democrats have proven that they are no fans of the democratic process and consider many of the pillars of our constitutional republic to be threats to their agenda. Consider their plans to stack the Supreme Court, eliminate the Senate filibuster, and ...

We don't need to wait for January. I say a new year has just started. The sweltering days of summer are gone. Memories of the visit to the beach, to Disney World and to grandmother's house are fading fast. The last morsel of leftover potato salad ...

For the past four years, inflation has rattled local small businesses across the country. The inflation rate peaked in 2022, but of course the cost of goods never went back down. In fact, the prices just kept rising, just not at the same clip they ...

It seems that as more and more time goes by, my appreciation for the ingeniousness of our Founding Fathers elevates. I write this before knowing the outcome of the election. I sit behind a "veil of ignorance," with no advance knowledge of who will ...

There's a tug-of-war going on right now between two factions in the GOP over President Trump's cabinet picks. On one side, there's Trump and nominees like Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel. On the other, there are a few GOP holdouts in the Senate. The ...

A preliminary report by the House Task Force on the attempted assassination attempt of Donald Trump provides new detail about the lack of coordination between the Secret Service and state and local law enforcement officers that contributed to Trump ...

Last week, the Biden administration passed a rule allowing for the government healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid coverage of a class of weight-loss drugs that promises to help millions of people lose weight and become healthier. This decision ...