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What a spectacle.As the Trump defense team summed up its case in downtown Manhattan, the Biden administration sent an actor — Robert De Niro — outside the courthouse to play political surrogate in a street press conference.In one of De Niro’s better recent performances, the actor morphed from politicized thespian to Manhattan street crazy before our eyes.All that was missing …

Memorial Day brings the official start of summer, the time in the calendar when schools let out, vacations begin and families hit the road in search of adventure. It’s a joyous time, but this year the Biden administration is doing their best to throw a damper on the season. Here are five policies from the White House aimed at your …

Radical progressive Democrats aren’t even trying to hide it anymore – they’re publicly admitting their intention to leverage open borders and the tens of millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. to fundamentally remake America by cementing one-party rule. For years, Democrats decried so-called “foreign interference” in American elections, all while engineering a foreign influence scheme of their own. In …

Earlier in May, two starkly different fiscal news items highlighted the divergent paths taken by North Carolina and California. While North Carolina celebrated news of projected revenue surpluses in 2024 and 2025, California is grappling with a $44.9 billion budget deficit. How did these two states end up in wildly different places? The contrast is emblematic of the philosophies governing …

Around the world, America is in retreat. Recognizing weakness, our enemies are emboldened and taking advantage of the vacuum of leadership in the Oval Office. The Russia-China-Iran axis seeks to undermine U.S.-led alliances and weaken American security. These regimes seek to collapse the confidence of societies that value freedom and national self-determination. Ukraine is in a fight for its survival …

Once again, our Illinois politicians believe they have the magic that will cure the crime that riddles our city of Chicago. I recently learned that our state’s Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce House Bill 4409 to amend the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009 in order to rename “offenders” as “justice-impacted individuals.” That is right — with the magic of …

Can Democrat women leave men alone? Isn’t that what we men want really? Just to do our jobs, help when we can, but get out of the way when we’re no longer needed, like an airport wheelchair or an Iranian helicopter. But on “The View” recently, a collection of angry female Dems pounced on a guy like he was the …

High above the clouds on January 31, 1944, Second Lieutenant James Galliher was seated in the cramped front of his B-24 Liberator as it approached Udine, Italy. A 27-year-old assigned to the 717th Bomb Squadron of the 449th Bombardment Group, his unit’s target was the German airbase at Aviano. Galliher’s mission was part of the Army Air Force’s strategic bombing …

Our new grandson, Henry Joseph Hernandez, made his appearance in the world several months ago. He is named Henry, after his great-grandfather, and Joseph for his grandfather, my husband Joe. There are so many things we want little Henry to learn: love for his family, his friends, and his community; love for his country; what honor means; perseverance in times …

This weekend, Americans set aside a day to honor the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in defense of their country: Memorial Day. The federal holiday only became official in 1968, but this national day of remembrance traces its origins to over 160 years ago, to the Civil War, when a grieving country sought to honor the many brave …