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For too long, Americans have woken up to headlines about another elected official under investigation for corruption – homes and offices raided, indictments announced, and more. The most recent headline-grabber? Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, for almost cartoonish corruption allegations involving gold bars and the government of Egypt. While people shake their heads at another politician doing another crime, …

Over the weekend, NBC News, which stands for Nothing But Crap, published a story titled, “They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.” And it’s a masterpiece of cherry-picking — or orange-picking, since it is Florida — which means it’s time for: GUTFELD! SONG: Reporters are coming around, and Dem narratives is what …

Editor’s note: The following is an exclusively adapted excerpt from Cliff Sims’s“The Darkness Has Not Overcome: Lessons on Faith & Politics from Inside the Halls of Power.” The Office of the Director of National Intelligence justsparked outrageby publishing an op-ed by a current intelligence officer claiming his experience as a crossdresser somehow makes him better at his job. Blowback over …

Comedy. Culture. Art. Literature. The great Scottish enlightenment. A historic role in the Reformation of the Church. All attributes listed on tourist brochures of Scotland. But as from this week, Scotland’s new law will crack down on the free speech that enabled all of this to flourish in the land in which William Wallace fought for “freedom.” OnApril 1, our …

At President Joe Biden’s recent celebrity-studded fundraiser in New York, former President Barack Obama spoke glowingly about Lunch Pail Joe’s deep empathy for the Little Guy. Obama rhetorically asked the room, “At the end of the day, who do you think is actually going to look out for you? Who do you think is going to fight on your behalf? …

Here in New York, police arrested eight illegal aliens on charges of attempted murder, drugs, theft, trespassing and child endangerment, and while that sounds like the usual big city mayhem or a typical flight on Spirit Air, what happened after shows you why you get a whole lot of crime when you take away the punishment. Cops on a gun …

The failed state of Haiti is once again spiraling into anarchy and possibly civil war. Some in Haiti and here in America have suggested a U.S. intervention to save lives and restore order. But military intervention in Haiti would be the height of folly. Aside from the potential need to evacuate American citizens, under no circumstances should American troops be …

Do you know what you are talking about when you opine on Israel’s war of survival?“Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook,” the late Billy Graham remarked, “and I will tell you where their heart is.”That famous dictum is no longer true because… who uses checkbooks? But a modern corollary is now applicable: “Show me the podcasts you follow …

California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes again. Effective April 1, the minimum wage for fast food workers increased to $20 an hour, making California the highest minimum wage in the United States. Recently, the price of a Big Mac meal at a McDonald’s location in the wealthy town of Darien, Conn., hit $18, and it’s quite possible that across California it …

The Biden administration is poised to complete its radical rewrite of the U.S. Department of Education’s regulations on Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. To label the administration’s proposed changes as highly controversial would be an understatement. One seismic change would expand Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination in education to …