Trust is not built by telling stories that are easy. It's built by telling stories that matter, especially when they are complex, uncomfortable, or politically inconvenient.

Sec'y Rubio received a standing ovation from the audience in Munich. But applauding a message and acting on it are two different things. Restoring the strength of western civilization depends upon having the courage to demand that truth return.

We've only seen attacks from transgender people within the last dozen years or so, suggesting that something had changed, and it did.

Making everybody heirs of everyone could create new problems or intensify old ones. Entering the U.S. illegally would become even more attractive. We might need to require a few years of residence before immigrants can inherit. And one way or another, we would need to get control of the borders.

United by the values Reagan articulated at the Brandenburg Gate, the United States and its NATO allies defeated Soviet communism.

At some point, we have to stop confusing activity with effectiveness. We built a response infrastructure designed for antisemitism as it existed a generation ago. But the virus has mutated. Today's antisemitism is not confined.

Running to the cameras and trashing President Trump and his team will always get you face time on the legacy media.

Does anyone think there would be such a national outcry against ICE by these and other noted Democrats, their left-wing comrades and mainstream media bedfellows if most of the protesters and the criminals they were defending were Black?

The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside. We've reached peak global warming craziness in the U.S. Even Europe seems to have turned its back on its economically masochistic net zero fossil fuels obsession.

In order to generate chemistry and compatibility, consider the significance of small talk in any setting as an enjoyable method of engagement, as well as an investment in a future relationship. Your conversation partners will all remember you, fondly.

We spent four years going backwards in every imaginable way during the Biden years. Although not every problem has yet been fixed, President Trump has the ship turned around and headed in the right direction.

A network of 30 to 40 volunteer editors has made over 850,000 edits on Israel-related pages, distorting thousands of articles. Their pattern: amplify every alleged Israeli misdeed while sanitizing Palestinian eliminationist ideology. Wikipedia's self-policing has failed.

In conclusion, with less than nine months until the Congressional Midterm Elections, this writer's predictions are that Republicans will strengthen control of the Senate and House.

Secretary Rubio repeatedly stressed America's emotional ties and shared history with Europe, and called the U.S. "a child of Europe." He also said “America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity."

Sadly, the days of collaborative Democrats working with Republicans to pass legislation are over. One major reason is that the Democratic Party has become radicalized by the far left.

Democrats created the conditions under which the mayor of America's most important city can pay homage in his victory speech to a region's diversity by revering the "Yemeni Bodega" owner, and "Mexican Abuela," while omitting any mention of America.

Whether the scene is Minneapolis, or Seattle, what's happening in America's cities is an attempt to establish different laws, different borders and a different kind of government, not through a democratic electoral process but by directly seizing power in the streets.

The strange confluence of radical left Islamic extremism forging partnerships with groups that should be enemies is as confusing as it is frightening. They unite over only one agenda item, their joint hatred of Jews.

The Republican majorities in the Senate and particularly the House are at risk in the upcoming midterm elections if the base of the Republican Party is not motivated to vote. Historically, the president’s party generally loses seats in the midterms, particularly in the U.S. House.

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Extradition law is widely abused already. INTERPOL's Red Notices are international arrest warrants scandalously used by America’s enemies like Russia, China, and Iran to harass dissidents, freeze assets and force political opponents to return to be persecuted.

Raising taxes risks a costly backlash. California just lost Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page last year, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just bought a riverside mansion in Miami from the founder of the Jersey Mike's sandwich shop chain.

Public officials should not be allowed to wipe their hands clean of responsibility for enabling courts to provide government with billions of dollars, with companies passing along the costs to consumers via higher prices, all based on old, old claims.

Free speech is one of the most important principles undergirding the American way of life. But we have other worthy principles as well. And our collective lodestar must always remain the pursuit of the common good and the truth.

After identifying those active engagements, the president and his team had to learn the issues and identify the pulse points.; places where each side was vulnerable, the soft underbellies; not just militarily but economically, as well.

Munich, Germany – I am proud to stand here at the opening of the Munich Security Conference, surrounded by heads of state, generals, diplomats, intelligence officials, and policy thinkers from across the globe.

Jimmy Lai became a human rights advocate after the Communists squashed the pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. Appeals are now being made by influential heads of state to void his sentence. The Holy See should do the same.

The Grammy Awards aired live from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles before 12,000 attendees and millions of viewers globally. One speech that has resonated most centered on faith and redemption: delivered by "Jelly Roll."

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), offshore wind is already the most expensive primary type of energy available, more than twice the cost per megawatt hour of onshore wind and 3.4 times more expensive than power produced by natural gas.

Wealth taxes are also a uniquely blunt and damaging instrument. Across advanced economies, they have repeatedly been narrowed or even repealed after delivering disappointing revenue, tax avoidance, capital flight and costly administrative battles.

Perhaps it's time for some changes. Driving the division at the FDA: Someone on the far-left who, it can be argued, can't be described as supportive of the president's agenda. Perceptible chaos is emergent.

Congress and every incoming and outgoing administration is spending like their political careers depend on it. There are real costs to unreal ignorance.

Consumer confidence in how companies handle data has eroded, leaving some demanding transparency and control while others feel helpless, hopeless, and resigned.

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The anti-abortion movement should interpret the president's order, coupled with his expansion of the policy that protects Americans from funding abortion overseas, as a loud signal that we will not take part in any endeavor framing abortion as a human right.

Maye is in no way imposing his choices on others. He is sharing his own experience as evidence that commitment early in life can lead to profound good, and is a quiet affirmation of the leadership that inspires without lecturing.

In the past five years, New York's population has declined by 200,000. And it is not just rich people who are leaving. Young people, many burdened with education debt and unable to afford the high cost of living, are also packing their bags and skipping town.

As Washington races to invest in AI, it should remember that financial power is not just about speed and sophistication. It is about resilience. Gold provides that resilience.

The fighting is in Ukraine, but a move toward peace will come only when the Russian government sees the war as being more costly politically than continuing the fighting.

AI will define the next era of global power. If people who are embarrassed by power are allowed to write the rules, America won’t lose because it moved too fast. We’ll lose because we were convinced to stand still.

Here's the wording of the First Amendment. Note the prominence of religion, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . " The first freedom is religion. That freedom was clearly violated in Minnesota.

Multiple pathways exist for action, by NATO, by the United States and Israel, or by Israel alone. What is beyond doubt, however, is this: for the sake of the Iranian people, regional stability, and global security, the Iranian regime must come to an end.

Minnesota isn't an outlier; it's a case study of what happens when institutions that once fostered moral restraint abandon that role. The fruits of the long march, lawlessness and chaos, are now undeniable.

Peppering people with questions is what journalists do. It's never been more important than it is right now.

Middle-class voters don't vote on rhetoric. They vote on reality. Global leadership matters, but affordability, stability, and economic relief are what decide elections. This is not an argument against international strength. It's an argument for domestic follow-through.

If Congress is serious about restoring trust and preserving the Federal Reserve's independence, it must make clear that emergency powers are temporary, exceptional, and reversible.

Bill Parcells has been called one of the greatest coaches in the history of the NFL and was fond of telling people, "If you get your feelings hurt that's too bad."

The story of the Indiana Hoosiers football team under the leadership of Curt Cignetti is a story that exemplifies what can be achieved in America if we work hard, work together, and believe the impossible is possible.

We're not totally in a dictatorship. We are not yet jailed for our views. The Biden regime began that process, and it’s already underway in places like the UK and Australia; but for now, thankfully, the second Trump administration has halted it.

Too much of Minneapolis’s anti-ICE activism looks nothing like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Selma, with civil-rights activists wielding nothing tougher than locked arms and the sounds of spirituals. Minneapolis mirrors the darkest days in Belfast.

Despite a barrage of hostile media coverage and relentless attacks from the left, President Donald Trump's standing with voters remains remarkably steady-especially on the issue of border security.

My barber says it's so bad that he feels suicidal. He can't afford his rent. He's supposed to buy tires for his daughters. Six months ago, a set of four was $550. Now, the same set, with the same warranty, is exactly $1,000. Tears came to his eyes.

Employers and other organizations relied on the "science" and their governments to give them honest information and make reliable public health assessments which caused many to require vaccinations against COVID-19.

When hospital systems spend lavishly at the top while pressing insurers and patients to pay more and more every year, it's hard to not reach the conclusion that keeping prices low for patients is not the priority.

Looking around, you will see more failures of the UN system than legitimate contributions, especially recently.

The E-7 Wedgetail is an investment in deterrence, alliance cohesion, and the European supply chain. By choosing an interoperable, proven platform, Europe can join an allied force that can see clearly, act decisively, and operate across borders.

The MAHA movement had one massive advantage: Americans wanted it to succeed. People were ready for transparency, for honesty, for a clean break from decades of political rot. But movements don’t survive on promises

Coal is not just something you burn. It's one of the most abundant on Earth, rich in fuels, chemicals, and industrial inputs essential to modern life. Advanced processing techniques allow coal to be converted into cleaner fuels. Coal didn't fail. Washington failed it.

In truth, allowing disorder is the cruelty. It punishes the elderly afraid to walk outside, the working poor whose stores close, and the children raised in chaos and then blamed for failing to thrive in it. Order is not oppression. Order is mercy.

Young Iranians are beaten, imprisoned, and killed for demanding freedom. They are not confronting a foreign enemy. They are confronting their own government. Yet while their courage appears in parts of the western media, it has not generated widespread outrage.