Terence P. Jeffrey is investigative editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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John Adams, who would soon surrender the presidency to Thomas Jefferson, ventured up to Capitol Hill on Nov. 22, 1800, to deliver the first-ever in-person… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has developed a habit of invoking her Catholic faith—and often describing herself as a devout Catholic—whenever she is called upon to… Read More
EducationCommentary
In the 2018-2019 school year, the government-run schools in Washington, D.C., beat the government-run schools in every state in the union in at least one… Read More
InternationalCommentary
At the White House press briefing last Dec. 6, press secretary Jen Psaki made it clear that President Joe Biden wanted the People’s Republic of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Speaker Nancy Pelosi went to the House floor Sept. 24, 2021, to express her support for a bill that would enshrine a “right” to abortion… Read More
LawCommentary
When the House of Representatives convened for a three-minute session on Monday, the proceedings opened with a written statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “I… Read More
EconomyCommentary
As Americans filed their federal tax returns this Monday, President Joe Biden’s White House put out a statement promoting his plan to increase taxes. It… Read More
EconomyCommentary
“Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” When releasing his fiscal year 2023 budget proposal on Monday, President Joe Biden said… Read More
LawCommentary
When Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Patrick… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
On April 14, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that, in keeping with an agreement former President Donald Trump had made with the Taliban, he would… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When lawyer Sarah Weddington stood up in the Supreme Court on Oct. 11, 1972, to present the pro-abortion argument in the case of Roe v…. Read More
LawCommentary
A woman walks up to you on a sidewalk in front of a department store—as you are headed into that store—and says she hopes you… Read More
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There are four minutes left in the third quarter of a public high school football game in the state of Washington. A player tries to… Read More
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In 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II, there were 2,515,427 babies born in this country. Of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
When Ohio State played Utah at the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day, 87,842 people packed into that stadium to watch the game. On New… Read More
LawCommentary
A young man who looks like a teenager walks into a liquor store and pulls a bottle of cheap whiskey off a shelf. He puts… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Can President Joe Biden order your employer to make sure you are sterilized? Or can he order your employer to make sure you have been… Read More
SocietyCommentary
As of July 1, 2020, there were 331,501,080 people living in the United States of America, according to the Census Bureau’s estimate. A year later,… Read More
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation honored Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., three years ago with what it calls its “Emperor Has No Clothes Award,” named after… Read More
LawCommentary
After President Richard Nixon appointed then-Appellate Court Judge Harry Blackmun to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1970, Blackmun somehow convinced members of the U.S. Senate… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Since February, President Joe Biden’s first full month in office, 23 aliens who had previously been convicted of homicide in the United States were charged… Read More
LawCommentary
Dustin Honken was convicted of murdering five people, including two children, and was sentenced to death in a federal court in 2004. Sixteen years later,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The activities of the Biden administration this past Friday featured two remarkable and profoundly contradictory events. In Rome, President Joe Biden met with Pope Francis…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
A Catholic American president traveled to Rome on Friday to meet with Pope Francis. There is a very profound and obvious issue they could discuss:… Read More
EducationCommentary
Thirteen-year-old children in American public schools were not quite as good at math and reading in 2019 and 2020 as they were in 2012. This… Read More
SocietyCommentary
During the first four years that Nancy Pelosi served as speaker of the House of Representatives (2007 through 2010), approximately 4,676,300 unborn babies were aborted… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday put a bright spotlight on President Joe Biden’s imprudent withdrawal from Afghanistan. At one point, Sen. Joni Ernst,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Is President Joe Biden bringing terrorists from Afghanistan to the United States? The answer: Even Biden himself cannot know for sure. The Biden administration is… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The basic path to financial health in this country has been revealed once again by the Census Bureau’s annual report on income and poverty, which… Read More
SecurityCommentary
“Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history,” President Joe Biden said in… Read More
