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"Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia," wrote Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a 2015 concurring opinion, so the Constitution's Framers "handled it the same way they handled many other controversial issues: they left it to the People to decide."

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Pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil was asked by CNN the other day if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question "silly" and "disingenuous." It is not "black and white," he whined.

Even if you oppose Israel's reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a ...Read more

CNN's data analyst Harry Enten said something interesting last week. He said Republicans have a stubborn habit of outperforming their September polling in the states that decide control of the Senate. He is right, and reiterated a point I have been making for some time that leads me to believe all might not be lost for the GOP in the Senate.

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Our elitist media love spreading the buzz when First Lady Melania Trump goes "missing" for a few weeks, but they haven't noticed Texas Democrat James Talarico vanishing for 12 days in the closing weeks of his Senate campaign. As of this writing, Talarico has no campaign events scheduled before Election Day (save a CNN town hall).

To be fair, ...Read more

Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump's Republican Party is poised to lose one or both houses of Congress in the United States?

The troubles Trump's Republicans face are not a mystery. It was always unlikely that Republicans would maintain ...Read more

Churchill said that "wars are not won by evacuations," and sometimes, he might have added, they are simply embarrassing.

The U.S. hastily flew its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford in the U.K. for fear of a potential Iranian drone attack, the latest in a series of successful Iranian operations to crimp U.S. bases, this time more than 2,000 ...Read more

"That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also one of the most important tests of the rule of law: What do you do when you believe a crime occurred, and you believe you know who ...Read more

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said something out loud this weekend that many in Washington have long understood: Sen. Chuck Schumer, he argued, lives in fear of the far-left wing of his party. Thune pointed to Democrats blocking debate on military funding and a defense authorization bill, as well as resistance around the Foreign ...Read more

Most Americans apparently agree on at least one thing. Unfortunately, it's something dangerous: price controls.

A new Wall Street Journal poll finds remarkable bipartisan support for government limits on prices, with 93% of Democrats and 83% of Republicans supporting capping prescription drug prices. Nearly four in five voters support capping...Read more

If you have been following the news from Cornell University, you'll know that a former student -- identified only as "Jane Doe" -- is claiming that she was gang-raped at a Chi Phi fraternity party in 2024 and that seven men were involved. As horrific as that accusation is, the story gets even more twisted as more facts come to light.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is demanding Moscow provide all the details on Darya Shipilova's death.

Background: 28-year-old Shipilova, Russia's latest patient zero, worked in the "Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East." Check the map. Irkutsk appears to be a long way from everywhere.

Except it's not.

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As the federal government entered fiscal year 2027 on Oct. 1, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment's application to federal appropriations for Medicaid and other health programs in order to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund elective abortions.

When the late Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., first proposed his amendment ...Read more

If the investigation of the Cornell Seven results in indictments, they will be tried in a court of law where they are entitled to a fair trial. Sadly, that's not true for the hundreds of college students each year accused of sexual assault who fall into the clutches of college disciplinary panels. Students and their parents need to know these ...Read more

How much money should any one person have?

When Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, people got mad.

"He will own everything!" claims a popular YouTuber. "He will own your house ... your country ... your government."

Comedian Bill Maher, lately a voice of reason, asked, "Would it be crazy to have a law that said, 'You can't go ...Read more

In the late 1960s, one of my younger brothers and I shared at least one goal. We both wanted to send a ball over the wall at San Quentin State Prison.

If you managed to do that, one of the prisoners there would paint your name on the wall at the place where the ball had passed.

The San Rafael Little League, as this column has noted before, ...Read more

The radical rock 'n' roll leftists threw a concert in Maryland titled -- what else? -- the "Power to the People Festival." The organizer was Tom Morello, the guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine. The most celebrated guest, as it leaked out on social media, was former Biden-appointed special counsel Jack Smith, who just days earlier ...Read more

EDGEWOOD, Pennsylvania -- The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine Fisher told WPXI, the local NBC affiliate, that she remembers "tons of people and kids" there. She also remembers the first time she met Idris Evans: He helped carry her groceries from down the street to her house...Read more