As Thomas Jefferson once noted, the "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"

Cheating Notre Dame by manipulating rankings is shameful. Covering it up with transparently specious justifications just makes it worse. All of it sends a terrible message to college athletes.

The clubs we built and frequented like NATO and eventually the European Union (EU) were the envy of the global commons. Even the U.K. called the relationship special.

The only true endangerment to public health and welfare has resulted from rising tides of bad government energy policies based upon a polluted atmosphere of unsupportable climate and weather alarmism which have flooded the American economy, drowning budgets.

When voters feel their government is taking away the tools that keep them functional, productive, and alive, they do not sit by quietly. They organize. They vote. And they punish politicians who ignore them.

One Biden error, one that Trump and his successors are powerless to reverse, that has the ability to adversely affect every American. Justice Jackson's appointment to the Supreme Court, it's a lifetime appointment. She wasn't nominated because of her keen legal mind and knowledge.

The illegal immigrants who murdered their children were inside the country, past the border. The solution to preventing future crimes by all classes of illegals is the mass deportations we were promised by President Trump.

Even when the president was visibly failing, liberals in the media dismissed what was right before their eyes. A conservative columnist at another of the nation's major metropolitan newspapers told me the one subject he was forbidden to write about was Biden's infirmity.

Secretary Kennedy, the MAHA promise was about rebuilding institutions that serve the people. You now have the opportunity to steady the FDA, restore integrity at the highest levels, and ensure that public health is driven by science, not ego.

Argentina's tragic detour into the dead end of socialism drove the nation into a half-century-long economic ditch, with poverty rates skyrocketing.

President Trump and his administration care about and want the best for Europe, despite ludicrous claims by the European elite that it proves President Trump views Europe as an "enemy."

A study a few years ago found that 22% of millennials weren’t sure if they knew what the Holocaust was. And 67% had not heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where more than one million Jews and others were murdered.

Americans are paying the price of corporate greed, and it is time to demand a healthcare system that values people over profits. Patients deserve innovation, affordability, and accountability, and they need it now more than ever.

Once the public understands who is filing the lawsuits, who is training the judges, and who is funding it all, then voters should pressure lawmakers to fix the legal system that climate advocates are abusing.

It takes brass to go after bad actors at a time when America is experiencing a trucker shortage. That's probably why the Biden administration did not make compliance a top priority.

Every day of hesitation strengthens extremists and weakens America’s allies.

Robert Kennedy Jr. I care that he's cutting clinical trials and scientific research and pandemic preparation, that I can't trust him to cure any diseases or advance any research because he's too busy playing politics with kids' lives.

It is unfair to blame successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople for society's problems and demanding they assume further fiscal responsibilities is barely a Band-Aid for our government’s excessive spending.

Even though he got so many details wrong, we should give Donald Trump some credit for bringing public attention to this approach for wiping out some of the bad side effects of high tariffs.

When political forces tried to cripple Donald Trump through legal harassment rather than defeating him at the ballot box, that effort failed politically, even when it tied him down legally. And it was never going to work in reverse either. It actually emboldened him, and he won another term.

Climate Catastrophism Meets Its Demise, and Not Soon Enough

What's the antidote to moral relativism? Well, for starters, cooler heads, clearer thinking, and caring attitudes.

Common-sense bills align lawmakers' incentives with those of citizens who are negatively impacted by shutdowns. The recent meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani was a refreshing reminder that dialogue is better than rhetoric.

An annual tradition on our "Ringside Politics" TV and radio programs to award a "Turkey of the Year" during Thanksgiving week.

The populist poles of the left and right are now linked in what political scientists call the "horseshoe." As each gets further from the center, it bends closer toward its counterpart on the other side.

The roaring back of our economy in my first term due to tax cuts and deregulation will be repeated in the years to come so long as we don't elect the same culprits that put us near the brink during the last four years.

Jewish lawyers were at the forefront of legal strategies which ended segregation and that held rogue police officers accountable for unlawful shootings of Black citizens. Yet the organization Black Lives Matter circulated material praising the Hamas murderers of Oct. 7, 2023.

How many more terrorists are among the more than 79,000 Afghans Biden brought into the United States after the Taliban regained control of that country? That is a question the Biden administration couldn't answer.

Germany has a reputation as an appeaser of Russia and most EU countries do not want to be represented by them, especially in area as sensitive as national security.

The United States refused to export depleted uranium armor and ammunition because of the risk that Russia could capture an Abrams and reverse engineer the technology. As a result, Ukraine received tanks missing the very feature that defines the Abrams’ edge.

The claim that Nigeria is a place where the state sponsors systematic persecution of Christians is emotionally powerful and politically charged. It collapses when weighed against history, evidence, and the lived reality of Nigerians.

Peace must be pursued with clear eyes, anchored in both biblical truth and historical reality. Over the last 53 years, roughly a dozen major peace proposals have not only failed but have, tragically, helped cultivate the violent ideology which erupted on Oct. 7, 2023.

World peace, global policy and relations, as well as financial matters all appear to take precedence over the new buzzword deployed by Trump critics, "Affordability."

In New York City, voters just elected socialist Zoran Mamdani. He campaigned on affordability but offered the same big-government playbook that has failed everywhere.

As National Guardsmen deploy among us across our nation for various purposes, we should be thankful that our Bill of Rights protects us from tyrannical abuse by King George: "quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us."

Hitting up the rich to pay for health care for low-income people may sound like a just cause. Wealth taxes have been tried before, and have failed to deliver. How much does California stand to lose should the state's billionaires make for the exits?

New Yorkers sometimes find themselves with no option but to walk into a city agency. They should get the same courteous treatment as customers with options. A civility campaign could help dispel the skepticism and dread New Yorkers feel about the incoming Mamdani.

In the Epstein fiasco, Congress finally stepped in, producing results Americans have long demanded. Republicans shouldn't be afraid to demand the same kind of transparency between the president's policy initiatives and his family's business deals.

The formal educational system in America is clearly broken. It's up to parents to save their children's minds. Art education will go a long way to achieving that worthy goal.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s decisions and his appointees thus far, indicate he is positioning his administration to destroy the City’s economic and tax base.

If Republicans need around 60 million votes in 2026 to retake the House, there are more than enough Trump voters to do it — but as of 2025, the 75 million Harris voters appear more energized. That must change. And there is time to change it.

A collapsing regime armed with nuclear ambitions is the worst possible outcome. Empowering the Iranian people and supporting their demand for freedom is the only sustainable path toward regional stability, U.S. security, and global peace.

New Yorkers should not have been made to be the guinea pig for a repeat demonstration of socialism's ravages, on this side of the Atlantic.

A contemporary Thanksgiving "makeover" should absolutely be comprised of gratitude, as well as a commitment to developing the faith to hold on to a vision of a "promised land," in the face of all adversity.

A durable alliance requires reciprocity. If Kuwait wants deeper military integration, it must realign its economic behavior with its security claims, not with Beijing’s strategic ambitions.

What began as a push to streamline bureaucracy and empower innovators has instead exposed deep structural weaknesses inside one of America’s most important health agencies.

Not only is anti-abortion Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., to be succeeded by a strident pro-abortion-rights advocate, Abigail Spanberger, but Democrats' beefed-up majority in the House of Delegates makes it inevitable that a pro-abortion-rights amendment will appear.

According to a report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (InterSociety), a non-governmental organization (NGO) which monitors and tracks human rights abuses in Nigeria, over 125,000 Christians have been killed since 2009.

Unlike sanctions that harm ordinary Venezuelans while leaving the regime's true power structure intact, targeting drug trafficking strikes at the heart of what keeps Maduro's cronies loyal and his security apparatus operational.

Now, Democrats like Andrew Cuomo seem like Ronald Reagan compared to what's coming. But America is hopelessly divided. Not by race so much as by where you live, urban versus rural.

Combined with affirmative verbal and nonverbal engagement in the proceedings, judges can maximize positive influence in seeking justice for all.

The 18th commissioner of the Social Security Administration, who was confirmed by the Senate in May, was named earlier this month the chief executive officer of the IRS, serving directly under Treasury Secretary Bessent. Bisignano said his path had a humble beginning.

The fusion between MAGA (Make America Great Again) and MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) was perceived to be helpful in the campaign and a way to draw more independents to the conservative movement.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has warned about rising antisemitism on the right and left. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has condemned the normalization of rhetoric demonizing Israel and its supporters. These voices matter. America needs more of them.

If all it takes is "love" to justify marriage, then Sam and Sally, brother and sister, can tie the knot. This is what happens when imagination governs thought, substituting make-believe for reality, when those who subvert Christianity are heroes.

Clearly, the Trump haters were way more enthusiastic than the Trump supporters.

Christian villages are wiped out overnight. Churches are torched. Priests are executed for their faith. Over 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed since 2000, an atrocity the mainstream media barely acknowledges.

Most folks are specifically focused on behavior and not the meaning behind it. If we stay focused on behavior, there is no room for understanding and compassion; there is only room for misunderstanding, rage, and hurt feelings.

Weakening Iran's ruling clerics and supporting a viable democratic alternative would deal a significant blow to the Iran-Russia-China alignment, disrupt Tehran’s proxy architecture, and reduce the long-term cost of containing a hostile regime with nuclear ambitions.

New York has nearly 150 neighborhoods, a mere 16 spearheaded Zohran Mamdani's narrow victory in the city’s mayoral election on Nov. 4. Only one in five registered voters chose Mamdani.