Americans over the age of 65 are dying in numbers and at rates far in excess of what data from recent pre-COVID years would predict.

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – September 5, 2023 Our editorial last week called for Mitch McConnell to follow Nancy Pelosi’s lead and step down from leading his caucus in light of his age and visible difficulties speaking in public on a few recent occasions. McConnell is 81, and he was in robust health until a fall in March. Pelosi...

By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – September 5, 2023 Yes, this is another September “back to school” column. My apologies. But someone needs to keep pointing out that our national debate over which books to allow in classrooms, or how to teach slavery to middle-schoolers, is far less consequential than the continuing inability of most youngsters to read or...

By: Luther Ray Abel – nationalreview.com – September 4, 2023  There are few things more damaging to individuals and their interconnections, few things that more endanger community, than crime. And there’s little else more exhausting than the left-wing rediscovery of seemingly self-evident truths. German Lopez reports for Vox: Last year, the US’s murder rate spiked by almost 30 percent. So far in...

By Victor Davis Hanson – amgreatness.com – August 24, 2023 Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden—and ultimately Joe Biden himself. As Vice President, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had...

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – August 24, 2023 Native New Yorkers who’ve lived in Manhattan for decades say recent migrant arrivals are bringing lawlessness into their formerly peaceful Upper West Side neighborhood and disrupting a residential building that’s home to elderly people with special needs. The Stratford Arms hotel on W. 70th Street used to function as a student...

By: Bonchie – redstate.com – August 23, 2023 It won’t be long before the seasons change and Fall is ushered in. That usually means cooler weather, football, and the leaves changing color. This is 2023, though, so it also means it’s time for yet another round of COVID-19 panic, and sure enough, the latest iteration of a “Winter of severe illness and...

The resounding defeat of Issue 1 in a statewide vote in Ohio is rightly seen as a repudiation of pro-life forces and cause for soul-searching in the movement.

It’s August. Many young people head off to college. This year, fortunately, fewer will go.

President Biden gave the unsympathetic non-answer as the Maui wildfire death toll climbed to 96 — making it the deadliest US wildfire since 1918.