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After Islamist terrorists killed 17 people in and around Paris in January, the trend was to drone on about how the attacks pointed to France’s failure to integrate Muslims. But our latest attack at home, at a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tenn., highlights the insanity of blaming ourselves. The …

It is that time of year. Having fudged or forgotten our New Year’s Resolutions from the previous year, we open up our spiffy new planners and list the same idealistic goals all over again. It’s amazing how we Americans spend our lives making new goals each January (with the enthusiasm …

Back when I was in school, I performed a scientific experiment in which I poured a liquid of one color into a beaker that contained liquid of a different color. At first the liquid in the beaker was diluted, but as I kept pouring, the poured liquid eventually overtook the …

It’s said you should never meet your heroes. Whoever said that is very wrong. I was proud to meet one of mine — William Shatner, better known to many as Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. Yes, I know, Shatner is just an actor, accomplished enough to have …

Monday marksthe100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth – an occasion that brings together leadersandsupporters from acrosstheAtlantic to pay tribute to her life. We attheRonaldReaganPresidentialFoundation&Instituteare honored to participate inthecelebration, an occasion that also invites us to reflect on her legacyandconnection withRonaldReaganinthecontext of our modern era. Namely, what made her partnership with …

As someone whose life’s work is helping small businesses navigate our nation’s complex tax system, I have witnessed firsthand how the Internal Revenue Service has become an outsized force that too often targets those least equipped to fight back. While the agency has long maintained that its enforcement efforts are …

“God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here.” The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The man then sat down on an overturned milk crate, …

Any person who can survive captivity under extreme conditions is a hero in anyone’s book. Yes, there are variations in the degree of starvation, torture, mental anguish and deprivation; the degree of exposure to respiratory and gastrointestinal infections; not to mention the compounded torment for those who have been injured, …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recentlydeclaredthat President Donald Trump’s administration is considering declaring an emergency situation forhousing.He pointedouttheweakest summer home sales in a decade, withmore than 15%of transactions falling through in July,thehighest cancellation rate since record-keeping commencedin 2017. Prices, though below pandemic levels,arestill too lofty for working- and middle-class Americans. Bessent …

On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …