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Welcome to 2024 – the year that Americans will reject the woke and dysfunctional policies of the progressive left. The year in which the pendulum, thank heavens, will continue to swing towards common sense and sanity. How do we know? Because Joe Biden’s approval ratings are in the gutter and …

The damning evidence is in on two fronts: Housing continues to collapse to unimaginable levels. — The latest numbers are in from December, showing that home prices fell in 18 of 20 markets. The statistics prove this housing collapse is now worse than the Great Depression. Also, just days ago, …

President Obama is bowing to political reality today in delivering his balanced budget speech. In so doing, the president is taking steps to address the confidence gap among independent voters evident in the data from most recent Pew Center for People & the Press poll, which found that the president …

According to the Wall Street Journal, the last serious attempt to count the number of federal criminal laws appears to have been made in 1982 by a retired Justice Department official named Ronald Gainer. He failed, but the estimate then was “…50 titles and 23,000 pages of federal law.” Many …

When I ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2006, I thought the mudslinging and negative campaigning had reached epic proportions, and couldn’t get much worse. Boy was I naïve. Judging from today’s campaign commercials, you’d think the candidates were a pack of degenerates, bigots, crooks and incompetents …

Enough already. Americans are tired of giving assistance and spilling American blood and spending American treasure on countries that don’t matter and people who don’t like us. Saving Afghanistan from the Taliban, preventing a civil war in Afghanistan, having Afghanistan as an American ally might be nice, but they are …

The upcoming 70th anniversary of V-J Day,August 14, brings to mind the challenge my father, Lt. Col. Wilber E. Bradt, faced in the days preceding that date in 1945. He was the acting commander — and later the commander — of the 172nd Infantry Regiment, a Vermont National Guard unit. …

The rapid growth and expansion of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) presence inside Afghanistan (commonly referred to as “Khorasan state”) is viewed by leaders in Afghanistan and the countries of the region as a serious threat. Seddiq Seddiqi, the spokesperson to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs recently said that ISIS …

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni is scratching his head over Donald Trump’s growing popularity with Evangelical Christians—and for good reason. How does one explain that a candidate like The Donald who has been married three times, runs casinos, discounts the need for asking God’s forgiveness, and has difficulty citing …

Few things in American life have felt as trapped in the amber of history as Cracker Barrel restaurants, with their recipe of comfort food served up in cozy confines that evoke a bygone era. It’s little wonder Americans routinely wait for an hour to get a table after church or …