Republicans must make the case for their brand of healthcare reform, and advance legislation that would nudge the U.S. healthcare system in a market-oriented, patient-centered direction in the new year.

The high-profile nature of the case serves to remind us all that murder is murder, regardless of where it takes place or the societal ranking of the individuals involved.

Winning the 2026 midterms will require President Trump and Republicans to speak directly to the American people, bypassing hostile media filters, repeating clear economic facts, and relentlessly contrasting results with Democratic misinformation.

Recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent out breathless warnings on social media and television that Trump is going to cut Social Security offices and make it harder for Americans to receive benefits.

Rather than trying to fix the estate tax, abolish it. Eliminate the stepped up basis for inherited stock, and make inherited money and other gifts received taxable income for the recipients.

CMC was founded in 1946 as Claremont Men's College by World War II veterans, charging it with a mission to prepare future leaders of private and public enterprise through a distinctive liberal arts curriculum.

There is no question that because of President Trump’s Gaza peace efforts, there is hope for peace in the Mideast. Our peacemaker president also brought Christmas back to the town of Bethlehem this year.

It's amazing what a difference a president who puts America first can make. Yet young people are grim in their outlook. They're oblivious to how blessed they are to be in America at this unique moment of peace and unprecedented prosperity. They don't get it.

Sure, Germany is a winter wonderland of celebrations, and New York City has Times Square. But, there is no doubt that the Holy City of Bethlehem is the epicenter of Christmas.

We can't overlook the fact that President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his first term, giving the Court an ideological balance tipped in favor of life, and of our Constitution.

In American politics, the scoreboard is rarely the final word. The conversation is. And sometimes the man who loses the election walks away with the only prize that endures: the future.

The United States Supreme Court, in a majority opinion upholding the Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for youth, pointed to the debate as to what medical treatment, if any, is best for transgender youth as a reason to leave the issue to the democratic process.

Although Sharia law is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and statutory law, we're seeing efforts to introduce it. Being a Christian or a Jew is not a crime or even a character flaw.

On Dec. 5, the Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress published an analysis of rapidly growing federal debt. "Relative to one year ago, total gross national debt is $2.23 trillion higher; relative to five years ago, it is $11.00 trillion higher."

Our voters, especially younger ones, want what their parents and grandparents have: A spouse, a house, a well-paying job, two kids, a dog, a safe community, good schools and, maybe, even a white picket fence.

Treating every elderly person, no matter how well-off, as a member of a protected class entitled to increasingly unaffordable benefits will eventually destroy a system that progressives in particular cherish.

We see people committing egregious crimes. It's impossible to overstate the damage this is doing. There needs to be arrests, prosecutions, convictions and serious sentences imposed for all this corruption. Otherwise, we're hurtling headlong toward a future as a failed state.

Saving, in many ways, is life or death in this world. Go for it. You will be a happier human being if you have money, and saving is the way to make it happen even unto old age.

Would you be comfortable with a police force filled with officers who shoplift? How about a fire department retaining arsonists? Or a sanitation department with employees who threw trash into your yard, rather than pick it up?

Some issues in Washington are like that proverbial leaking roof: everyone knows it needs fixing, and every storm reminds us of the problem. But instead of grabbing a ladder and repairing it, the buckets just get moved around.

When a government loses an arbitration case in a neutral tribunal, it pays the award. That predictability is what allows U.S. companies to invest abroad with confidence. Romania is now threatening that foundation.

Until we restore transparency in economic data, until we stop manipulating the narrative to score political points, and until we replace volatility with consistency, small moves from the Fed will remain: gestures.

Liberal politicians have taken pains to invoke the imagery of the Hannukah menorah's light in order to pontificate about abstract universalist principles. Sometimes they even get the most basic facts of the Hannukah story egregiously wrong, as Doug Emhoff did.

This year's opening front? Military families at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, who found themselves on the receiving end of the Grinch. In mid-November, families were ordered to take down Christmas decorations from their private residences.

Fentanyl pours across borders and overdoses ravage communities. The sharp divide couldn't be clearer. One party is focused on dismantling the global narcotics machine killing Americans. The other is offering sympathy, and political cover, to criminals.

The intellectualism of John F. Kennedy, patriotic, aspirational, grounded in faith and freedom, is all but forgotten, having been replaced by a grievance-obsessed ideology dividing the nation into oppressors and victims.

Connecticut needs a cap on property tax hikes, limiting them to the rate of inflation. But most of the voices in the state capitol push for more revenue to keep the government gravy train running. Homeowners be damned.

Affordability is a "feeling" issue, and history always weighs against an incumbent when he must defend himself on that basis. President Trump needs to move the discussion away from "affordability," as he's doing already;

Hopefully, students will read in the history books about the Trump administration's historic accomplishment of closing the U.S. Department of Education. That will be a clue that conservatives finally got our education system back to the task of preparing future leaders.

Former President Biden’s "autopen administration" left President Trump with huge budget, illegal immigration, crime and national security messes.

Trump inherited a debilitated economy from Biden; voters will make some allowance for that. They won't give the GOP another chance if it makes inflation worse. If they wind up with Biden's economy anyway, there's going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.

Our nation's 47th chief executive understands how the exchange of goods and services leads to prosperity and peace.

Ultimately, a Palestinian state cannot be built in opposition to Israel's fundamental security needs. Israel does not need to embrace every step of the process, but it must have confidence that the emerging state will not become a new platform for violence.

Egypt is where the Brotherhood was founded in 1928, with the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime regularly cracking down on Brotherhood activities there.

Sen. Charles Schumer is this year’s top loser in this writer's home state because he has capitulated to political upstarts whose ideology is out of sync with the nation and New York.

There is reason for hope. The region has already witnessed a transformation that experts once deemed impossible. The Abraham Accords proved that when illusions are discarded, progress is attainable.

The first year of Trump's first term was chaotic: The turnover of his "A-Team" hit 35%, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution visiting fellow Kathryn Dunn Tenpas.

Safe, smart dating includes meeting in public not private, but also noting that spending time together permits perception of a prospective paramour beyond what is immediately visible. Smart, healthy, wholesome relationships are formed over time, at a reasonable pace.

Russia tried to destroy Ukraine's drone makers from the air. It would be a bitter irony if, in the end, the real damage came from inside law-enforcement buildings that never fully left the old ways behind.

The Jews who come to pray in our synagogue are not just "Jews. We stand out. The men wear kippot. While most people up and down the block are dressed for jogging or for a stroll, we are dressed in what was once called our "Sunday's best." Our formal Saturday Sabbath attire. We are targets.

President Donald Trump is racing against the political clock, working to fortify the razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. House before the 2026 midterms threaten to upend his legislative momentum.

A simple solution to all this: Those who prefer not to get obliterated in narcotics boats or wind up clutching wreckage should spend their days in more worthwhile ways. If you want to stay alive and well, don't smuggle deadly drugs into the United States of America.

As the late, great Rush Limbaugh reminded us, the military's job is to "kill people and break things." Nowhere is this return to normal more justified than in the obliteration of Venezuelan drug boats.

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?"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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."