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It is a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem -- meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel.

Of the two, Jerusalem's contribution was the more enduring. Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato. Virtually every citizen of the West -- even the illiterate...Read more

Here is something no one in the media is reporting as Vice President Kamala Harris continues to duck and weave like Muhammad Ali in the ring to avoid any questions about her economic plan.

The American Business Defense Foundation reports that under the Harris tax plan, the number of Americans subject to the hated death tax would double or ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- It's been a little over a week since the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget sent a letter to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump suggesting they get serious about "skyrocketing" national debt, which now exceeds $35 trillion.

Washington is spending $1.8 trillion more than it collects annually.

"Our publicly held debt will ...Read more

Remember when a Republican president (Gerald Ford) refused to give money to a bankrupt New York City? The newspaper headlines the next day said:

"Ford to City: DROP DEAD."

But that was a Republican president's message to a bankrupt, crime-ridden, Democratic city that spent like a drunken sailor and wasted all their money on welfare.

Today, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Mark Memmott, senior director of standards and practices at CBS News, advised his team not to refer to Jerusalem "as being in Israel," The Free Press reported Wednesday.

The warning was included in an email sent to network news staff in late August that directed employees to be "careful with some terms when we talk or write ...Read more

Within minutes of Hamas jihadists breaching the Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, and commencing the largest slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Western leftists and other defenders of the genocidal Palestinian-Arab cause rallied around a talking point: "This did not occur in a vacuum." The claim, blithely offered by armchair ...Read more

The greatest moral hazard in American life is politics.

Many of you probably remember 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney being secretly recorded by a Democratic operative telling donors that "47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what" because they are "dependent upon government ... believe that they are victims ......Read more

With only about 25 days until this damnably necessary act of democracy descends into recriminations and conversations about 2028, Donald Trump is barnstorming across the nation while Kamala Harris sits for interviews designed to generate turnout from her base.

Where are Barack and Michelle Obama? Does democracy not matter? Where is Hillary ...Read more

It never ends. The press still does not know how to handle the avalanche of lies that is MAGA's chief contribution to our national life. I understand, sort of. It's dull and time-consuming to bird-dog every false accusation, wild assertion or factual misstatement that comes out of Trumpland. "They're controlling the weather" is just the latest ...Read more

Bob Woodward is the most overpraised journalist in modern American history. He's an "icon" because he took out Richard Nixon. Every book should be titled "Democrats Pounce" because that's how these books succeed.

Back in October 2006, when Woodward's Bush-bashing book "State of Denial" came out, NBC's Tim Russert proclaimed: "Mr. Woodward will ...Read more

Jonathan Draeger, reporter for RealClearPolitics, wrote Tuesday that "the 2024 presidential contest couldn't be tighter." Unless, of course, it turns out not to be nearly as close as this season's run of polls suggests it is.

One indication that it might not be was a New York Times-Siena poll released this week showing Donald Trump leading ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I'm Team Tony Dokoupil. And anyone in my profession who cannot say the same thing has forfeited the right to call themselves "journalists."

In 35 years on the job -- working at newspapers, but also on television and radio -- you pick up a few things.

Like the fact that it's the duty of those of us in the Fourth Estate to get in ...Read more

When Congress enacted the Stored Communications Act of 1986 (SCA), it claimed the statute would guarantee the privacy of digital data that service providers were retaining in storage. The act prohibited the providers from sharing the stored data, and it prohibited unauthorized access to the data, commonly called computer hacking -- except, of ...Read more

It has been a full year, one full year, since the tragic events of Oct. 7, 2023, took place in Israel. On that fateful day, over a thousand Israelis, as well as people from countries like the Philippines, United States and Canada, were killed or taken hostage. Since then, a bloody struggle has consumed the region, with Israel firing missile ...Read more

No matter the result of next month's election, President Joe Biden will soon leave the White House. That makes it a good time for a nearly final assessment of his and Vice President Kamala Harris' first-term legacy on federal spending and debt -- a tragedy of epic proportion. Unfortunately, neither Harris nor her rival on the campaign trail ...Read more

One of the most frequent complaints about contemporary American politics is how contentious and divisive our political discourse has become. For years, we've read articles about how disagreements over politics are dividing colleagues at work, poisoning friendships, weakening familial ties, spoiling holidays and even ending marriages.

A 2021 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Asking Kamala Harris about the historic surge at the southern border during most of President Joe Biden's tenure, "60 Minutes" anchor Bill Whitaker wondered if it was "a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as you did."

Harris has this way of talking when she knows she can't say what she really thinks. So when Whitaker ...Read more