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On Monday, President Donald Trump moved to fire Lisa Cook, a Biden-nominated member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. He moved to fire Cook for "cause," and that cause is clear enough: According to William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Cook allegedly committed mortgage fraud by lying about her principal ...Read more

"If it were up to me," Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously told a group of students in 2015, "I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king."

The late justice was referring to the majority opinion in Texas v. Johnson, the 1989 decision he joined that found flag ...Read more

Everything has a political angle now. The left gets worked up by a jeans ad. The right gets worked up by Cracker Barrel removing both the cracker and the barrel from their logo. Red and blue, colors on the light spectrum and in nature, are now political. A 23-year-old transgender gunman killing children is political. The prayers offered are ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of the public shootings of strangers, especially when innocent children are the victims, there are lies that we tell ourselves and true things some dare not say.

Two children were killed, and 18 other people were injured in the Wednesday mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. A Minnesota ...Read more

More than 400 elected Democrat Party officials from all 50 states and seven territories huddled in Minneapolis this week before the horrible mass shooting at nearby Annunciation Catholic Church. The proceedings demonstrated a party in the wilderness, and the Democrats in the national media mostly steered clear.

For starters, losing vice-...Read more

The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788.

There have been exceptions, of course. Abraham Lincoln took extraordinary steps to quell the rebellion of 11 Southern states. Franklin ...Read more

"It is (my) intention to ... demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government." -- President Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural ...Read more

An epidemic of juvenile violent crimes endures. Why? The law presumes juveniles are intellectually and psychologically too immature to appreciate the wrongfulness of their violent ways and deserve leniency. But to borrow from Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist," "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass -- a idiot."

Violent juveniles have what ...Read more

Concerns about the Federal Reserve's independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this week's decision to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations. But this debate is too narrowly focused on the president's political pressure, ignoring a growing danger in our system.

It is true that ...Read more

The Cracker Barrel chain of restaurants has backed off the disastrous plan they had to revamp their classic logo, which had featured an elderly white man in overalls ("Old Timer" or "Uncle Herschel") leaning on a barrel. The new logo was a bland shape in the same orangey-brown color with just the words "Cracker Barrel" on it.

The public did <...Read more

A crowd gathered around New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday as he lay on his back, struggling to bench press 135 pounds as part of the annual Men's Day event in Brooklyn. New York City Mayor Eric Adams derided him as "Mamscrawny," but almost no one else seemed to care. Weightlifting isn't a requirement for being mayor.

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This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed "redefinition" of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled "Inside Trump's American identity project," Axios posited that "President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American." What would this new ...Read more

The much-publicized exchange between Bed Bath & Beyond chairman Marcus Lemonis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a lesson for the whole country.

We shoppers look back fondly on the marketing acumen that, starting with one store in 1971, built Bed Bath & Beyond into a retail giant that once had 365 stores nationwide.

The shopping experience...Read more

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender.

The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event -- as in Hollywood documentary news reels, visual mass media of the time.

Over 300 U.S. and allied ships crowded Tokyo Bay, wall-to-wall naval power, with the battleship USS...Read more

Some parents abuse their kids.

Child welfare workers are supposed to stop that to protect the kids. But bad things often happen while they watch.

"Children have a right to safety," says Tim Keller. "If home is a danger, we as a society have to step in and protect those children." Keller, legal director of the Center for the Rights of Abused ...Read more

Three months after he delivered perhaps the most famous pep talk in the history of American football, Coach Knute Rockne traveled to Washington, D.C. -- where he spoke to a gathering of Studebaker executives and then at a luncheon hosted by the Notre Dame Alumni Association.

On Nov. 10, 1928, the Fighting Irish had played Army at Yankee ...Read more

One reason that many Republican voters took a shine to Donald Trump in 2016 was the way he showed no respect to the national chattering classes of the Democrat-media complex. George W. Bush was a kinder, gentler Republican -- and they compared him to Hitler. No matter which flavor of Republican was elected, the "objective" media savaged...Read more