Political Commentary & Opinion

Today, America has a choice of two paths. We can embrace the foundational principles that created this nation of limited government and individual liberty. Or we can veer down the path of bigger, more intrusive government that promises to solve all our problems if we just turn over more of our freedom and our paychecks. …

Riots have rocked Portland, Oregon, nightly for almost two straight months. Other U.S. cities have suffered similar violence, albeit more sporadically.   The rioting has nothing to do with free speech and peaceful protest. Peaceful protesters don’t loot. They don’t try to burn buildings while barricading the exits. And they don’t aim blinding lasers at police officers’…

Remember the case of Joe Kennedy, the Marine Corps veteran-turned-high school football coach who was suspended, then fired, halfway through the season a few years ago for thanking God in silent prayer for his ability to be a coach? Well, he’s back in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, pleading again for his right…

Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx’s life and have never read his three-volume “Das Kapital.” Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx’s death in 1883. Volumes II and III were later edited and published in his name by his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels….

The two biggest events of 2020 have exposed a frightening fact: A passing grade in civics class wasn’t a prerequisite for many of our political leaders to get elected to public office. Their embarrassing ignorance about the roles of state and local governments versus the federal government when it comes to handling riots and pandemics…

You know there’s something wrong if companies can’t do the right thing without potentially destroying their entire business model. In fact, many of the ways that gig companies would like to help their partners—which is what gig companies consider people who use the companies’ platforms to earn income—operate safely during the pandemic could be used…

The first and most important duty of our government is to keep our country safe. No country should allow a militant attack on its courthouses and federal property. And no American president should turn a blind eye to the mass carnage in Chicago and other cities. The president is both authorized and honor bound to…

The House of Representatives has unanimously approved the creation of another Smithsonian institution, a National Latino Museum. It was one more sign that political leaders are desperately reacting to a time of crisis with policies we will regret for decades. There is every indication, judging from our “woke” times, that this museum will become yet…

The Heritage Foundation announced that two of the nation’s leading academics will join the think tank as visiting scholars in the Feulner Institute. Their work will focus on highlighting American conservative values and free market principles. The two scholars, Wilfred McClay and Samuel Gregg, will join the Simon Center for American Studies, a department within…

A battle is raging for the future of our nation as “extremists and criminals literally try to rip out [statues and other monuments] to destroy the history of America,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says. Bernhardt joins the podcast to explain how he is working alongside President Donald Trump to protect monuments that tell the story…

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This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9. Each year, Americans argue about our supposed moral shortcomings for being the only nation to have used an atomic weapon in war. Given the current cultural revolution that topples statues,…

Washington’s foreign policy community lost one of its most notable members this week. Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, died on Aug. 6 at the age of 95 at his home in Falls Church, Virginia. Scowcroft leaves a distinguished legacy and will be greatly missed. Scowcroft…