What matters is not just the sum by which presidents jack up the deficit. It’s what the money is spent on. Franklin D. Roosevelt added more to the national debt by percentage than any other president. America needed that borrowing to dig itself out of the Great Depression and then win World ...

In Nashville this week, six pro-life activists were convicted in federal court of conspiracy to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act when they peacefully prayed and sang at the entrance to an abortion clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, in March 2021. Those convicted now face a ...

In his novel “1984,” George Orwell created a term “Newspeak,” a language that was imposed by Big Brother for the purpose of diminishing the range of thought. That perfectly describes what recently happened in Canada to the popular - and to some controversial psychologist - Jordan ...

These are the dog days of winter. Oh, I know, technically it’s the “dog days of summer,” and we have those, too, but nothing compares to late winter in the Midwest for really draining the joy from every moment you spend outdoors. Recently here, it’s been cycling through the winter ...

You have undoubtedly heard that crime is down in a lot of places. One trick often employed in places like San Francisco is not to report crimes. Shoplifting is no longer pursued, and employees of businesses can be fired for preventing shoplifting. So property theft crimes drop not because theft ...

We all saw it. A genocidal government launched a staggeringly savage massacre against civilians. Now, the International Court of Justice in the Hague has taken notice — but in a twist worthy of Kafka, the party in the dock is not the perpetrator but the victim. The decision by South Africa ...