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National Columnists

It’s time to crack down on welfare fraud

Why pay taxes when so much of your hard-earned money goes to fraudsters instead of doing good? Government bureaucrats and elected politicians scream in outrage when any effort is made to crack down on fraud by requiring proof of where the money is actually going. They wring their hands that ...

Private ownership, capitalism make life better

“Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism!” says my new socialist mayor. Sounds so nice ... No more greedy capitalists hoarding wealth. People share. It’s the socialist dream. What will replace capitalism and individualism? One model is the ...

2026 Iranian revolution could reverse ‘79 debacle

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the U.S. depended on as a pillar of regional security, the shah, gave way to a theocratic regime based on hostility to America. The revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and ...

$1.5 trillion defense budget is needed

Finally, the United States will follow through on its NATO commitments. That’d be the cheeky interpretation of President Donald Trump’s announcement, via Truth Social, that he wants the U.S. defense budget to be $1.5 trillion. This would represent a stunning 50% increase over the current ...

Protecting girls remains political winner

Keeping men out of women’s sports is smart policy and smart politics. Just look at what happened recently in Nevada. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo recently rolled out the Protect Girls’ Sports initiative. As the name implies, he wants to amend the Nevada Constitution to keep biological boys ...

What you see, hear depends on where you stand

“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” - C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew Let’s start with the shooting of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent while attempting to drive away from ...