By: Jack Butler – nationalreview.com – December 22, 2024 The case for letting Governor Sanders of Arkansas determine how her state administers food stamps. It is my intention,” President Ronald Reagan said in 1981 in his first inaugural address, “to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – December 22, 2024 The only thing worse than a villain is an unrepentant one. PolitiFact’s attempt to present the Trump-Vance Springfield pet-eating story as 2024’s chief fabrication is absurd on its face. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for instance, is one such case — not just because of the railroading it gave Richard Jewell when it...

By: Conrad Black – nysun.com – December 17, 2024 That’s something to celebrate given how close America came to careering through the guardrails of its constitutional democracy. As the Christmas holidays and the year end approach, I respectfully take it upon myself to recommend that thoughtful Americans reflect upon how close the United States came in recent years to roaring...

Drone swarms over American cities spark frustration as a distrustful public suspects the Biden administration knows more than it admits. New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports and military bases.

By: Roger Kimball – thespectator.com – December 19, 2024 It operates by subverting legislative responsibility for the sake of pork, on the one hand, and partisan interdiction, on the other. In the 1870s, Gustave Flaubert assembled Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues, a humorous collection of “received ideas” and clichés then current in French society. A new version needs to be produced...

Top officials gathered in Washington suggested an openness to backing the vice president again next time.

ABC News will pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” in a settlement reached with President-elect Donald Trump in his defamation suit against the network and anchor George Stephanopoulos.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism is getting outsized attention in his bid to become Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary — but his views on agriculture and abortion are shaping up as the bigger concerns in the Republican Senate.

Radiation levels have spiked in New York amid the ongoing drone mystery – and an expert has warned Americans to “prepare for the worst” as the authorities fail to provide answers.

Some famous atheists have now adopted the term “cultural Christian” to describe themselves. What does it mean, and how is that playing out in an increasingly secular America?