Treating every elderly person, no matter how well-off, as a member of a protected class entitled to increasingly unaffordable benefits will eventually destroy a system that progressives in particular cherish.

Saving, in many ways, is life or death in this world. Go for it. You will be a happier human being if you have money, and saving is the way to make it happen even unto old age.

Would you be comfortable with a police force filled with officers who shoplift? How about a fire department retaining arsonists? Or a sanitation department with employees who threw trash into your yard, rather than pick it up?

Some issues in Washington are like that proverbial leaking roof: everyone knows it needs fixing, and every storm reminds us of the problem. But instead of grabbing a ladder and repairing it, the buckets just get moved around.

When a government loses an arbitration case in a neutral tribunal, it pays the award. That predictability is what allows U.S. companies to invest abroad with confidence. Romania is now threatening that foundation.

Until we restore transparency in economic data, until we stop manipulating the narrative to score political points, and until we replace volatility with consistency, small moves from the Fed will remain: gestures.

Al Gore's true "Inconvenient Truth" turned out to be, at best, an untested theory that didn't pan out and at worst, a hoax intended to acquire wealth and fame.

Liberal politicians have taken pains to invoke the imagery of the Hannukah menorah's light in order to pontificate about abstract universalist principles. Sometimes they even get the most basic facts of the Hannukah story egregiously wrong, as Doug Emhoff did.

This year's opening front? Military families at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, who found themselves on the receiving end of the Grinch. In mid-November, families were ordered to take down Christmas decorations from their private residences.

Fentanyl pours across borders and overdoses ravage communities. The sharp divide couldn't be clearer. One party is focused on dismantling the global narcotics machine killing Americans. The other is offering sympathy, and political cover, to criminals.

The intellectualism of John F. Kennedy, patriotic, aspirational, grounded in faith and freedom, is all but forgotten, having been replaced by a grievance-obsessed ideology dividing the nation into oppressors and victims.

Connecticut needs a cap on property tax hikes, limiting them to the rate of inflation. But most of the voices in the state capitol push for more revenue to keep the government gravy train running. Homeowners be damned.

Affordability is a "feeling" issue, and history always weighs against an incumbent when he must defend himself on that basis. President Trump needs to move the discussion away from "affordability," as he's doing already;

Hopefully, students will read in the history books about the Trump administration's historic accomplishment of closing the U.S. Department of Education. That will be a clue that conservatives finally got our education system back to the task of preparing future leaders.

Former President Biden’s "autopen administration" left President Trump with huge budget, illegal immigration, crime and national security messes.

I hope that China doesn't attack anyone, and that its leaders will agree to cut way back on their military expenditures if other powers do likewise. Technology would allow everybody to live comfortable lives if the huge amounts were diverted into positive investments.

Huh? How is it better for reading proficiency and knowledge-gathering for a student to read sections of "Huckleberry Finn" or "To Kill a Mockingbird" but not the whole book?

Trump inherited a debilitated economy from Biden; voters will make some allowance for that. They won't give the GOP another chance if it makes inflation worse. If they wind up with Biden's economy anyway, there's going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.

Our nation's 47th chief executive understands how the exchange of goods and services leads to prosperity and peace.

Ultimately, a Palestinian state cannot be built in opposition to Israel's fundamental security needs. Israel does not need to embrace every step of the process, but it must have confidence that the emerging state will not become a new platform for violence.

Egypt is where the Brotherhood was founded in 1928, with the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime regularly cracking down on Brotherhood activities there.

Sen. Charles Schumer is this year’s top loser in this writer's home state because he has capitulated to political upstarts whose ideology is out of sync with the nation and New York.

There is reason for hope. The region has already witnessed a transformation that experts once deemed impossible. The Abraham Accords proved that when illusions are discarded, progress is attainable.

My friends on the left have neatly embroidered the fine distinctions between criticizing Israel, being anti-Zionist and being anti-Semitic. There can be no doubt that these debates have cost us dearly.

The first year of Trump's first term was chaotic: The turnover of his "A-Team" hit 35%, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution visiting fellow Kathryn Dunn Tenpas.

Safe, smart dating includes meeting in public not private, but also noting that spending time together permits perception of a prospective paramour beyond what is immediately visible. Smart, healthy, wholesome relationships are formed over time, at a reasonable pace.

Expanding Medicare's price controls into the private market would make the business of drug discovery all but impossible in the United States, and mark the end of America's reign as the world's leading source of life-saving medicines.

Russia tried to destroy Ukraine's drone makers from the air. It would be a bitter irony if, in the end, the real damage came from inside law-enforcement buildings that never fully left the old ways behind.

The Jews who come to pray in our synagogue are not just "Jews. We stand out. The men wear kippot. While most people up and down the block are dressed for jogging or for a stroll, we are dressed in what was once called our "Sunday's best." Our formal Saturday Sabbath attire. We are targets.

President Donald Trump is racing against the political clock, working to fortify the razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. House before the 2026 midterms threaten to upend his legislative momentum.

A simple solution to all this: Those who prefer not to get obliterated in narcotics boats or wind up clutching wreckage should spend their days in more worthwhile ways. If you want to stay alive and well, don't smuggle deadly drugs into the United States of America.

As the late, great Rush Limbaugh reminded us, the military's job is to "kill people and break things." Nowhere is this return to normal more justified than in the obliteration of Venezuelan drug boats.

As Thomas Jefferson once noted, the "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"

Cheating Notre Dame by manipulating rankings is shameful. Covering it up with transparently specious justifications just makes it worse. All of it sends a terrible message to college athletes.

The clubs we built and frequented like NATO and eventually the European Union (EU) were the envy of the global commons. Even the U.K. called the relationship special.

When voters feel their government is taking away the tools that keep them functional, productive, and alive, they do not sit by quietly. They organize. They vote. And they punish politicians who ignore them.

Secretary Kennedy, the MAHA promise was about rebuilding institutions that serve the people. You now have the opportunity to steady the FDA, restore integrity at the highest levels, and ensure that public health is driven by science, not ego.

President Trump and his administration care about and want the best for Europe, despite ludicrous claims by the European elite that it proves President Trump views Europe as an "enemy."

A study a few years ago found that 22% of millennials weren’t sure if they knew what the Holocaust was. And 67% had not heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where more than one million Jews and others were murdered.

Americans are paying the price of corporate greed, and it is time to demand a healthcare system that values people over profits. Patients deserve innovation, affordability, and accountability, and they need it now more than ever.

Once the public understands who is filing the lawsuits, who is training the judges, and who is funding it all, then voters should pressure lawmakers to fix the legal system that climate advocates are abusing.

Every day of hesitation strengthens extremists and weakens America’s allies.

It is unfair to blame successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople for society's problems and demanding they assume further fiscal responsibilities is barely a Band-Aid for our government’s excessive spending.

What's the antidote to moral relativism? Well, for starters, cooler heads, clearer thinking, and caring attitudes.

Common-sense bills align lawmakers' incentives with those of citizens who are negatively impacted by shutdowns. The recent meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani was a refreshing reminder that dialogue is better than rhetoric.

An annual tradition on our "Ringside Politics" TV and radio programs to award a "Turkey of the Year" during Thanksgiving week.

The roaring back of our economy in my first term due to tax cuts and deregulation will be repeated in the years to come so long as we don't elect the same culprits that put us near the brink during the last four years.

Jewish lawyers were at the forefront of legal strategies which ended segregation and that held rogue police officers accountable for unlawful shootings of Black citizens. Yet the organization Black Lives Matter circulated material praising the Hamas murderers of Oct. 7, 2023.

How many more terrorists are among the more than 79,000 Afghans Biden brought into the United States after the Taliban regained control of that country? That is a question the Biden administration couldn't answer.

Germany has a reputation as an appeaser of Russia and most EU countries do not want to be represented by them, especially in area as sensitive as national security.

The United States refused to export depleted uranium armor and ammunition because of the risk that Russia could capture an Abrams and reverse engineer the technology. As a result, Ukraine received tanks missing the very feature that defines the Abrams’ edge.

The claim that Nigeria is a place where the state sponsors systematic persecution of Christians is emotionally powerful and politically charged. It collapses when weighed against history, evidence, and the lived reality of Nigerians.

World peace, global policy and relations, as well as financial matters all appear to take precedence over the new buzzword deployed by Trump critics, "Affordability."

In New York City, voters just elected socialist Zoran Mamdani. He campaigned on affordability but offered the same big-government playbook that has failed everywhere.

As National Guardsmen deploy among us across our nation for various purposes, we should be thankful that our Bill of Rights protects us from tyrannical abuse by King George: "quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us."

The formal educational system in America is clearly broken. It's up to parents to save their children's minds. Art education will go a long way to achieving that worthy goal.

If Republicans need around 60 million votes in 2026 to retake the House, there are more than enough Trump voters to do it — but as of 2025, the 75 million Harris voters appear more energized. That must change. And there is time to change it.

A collapsing regime armed with nuclear ambitions is the worst possible outcome. Empowering the Iranian people and supporting their demand for freedom is the only sustainable path toward regional stability, U.S. security, and global peace.

A contemporary Thanksgiving "makeover" should absolutely be comprised of gratitude, as well as a commitment to developing the faith to hold on to a vision of a "promised land," in the face of all adversity.

A durable alliance requires reciprocity. If Kuwait wants deeper military integration, it must realign its economic behavior with its security claims, not with Beijing’s strategic ambitions.