Today marks the 242nd birthday of the United States. We’re certainly looking forward to the parades, ballgames, barbecues and other celebrations of our peculiar experiment in self-governance.We’re also looking forward to the fireworks displays, albeit with some trepidation. After a ...

Three years ago this past week, the Supreme Court threw out the laws of most states and declared gay marriage to be the law of the land in the name of happiness. Since then, people of faith have been under a sustained assault by leftwing activists. Progressives have attacked florists, bakers, ...

Whether you believe the involvement of the federal government in our everyday lives is a good thing or a bad thing, I'm betting we can all agree on one thing: Lawmakers in Washington continue to misspend our money. Big time. There ought to be a law, but there isn't.Pork barrel politics is still ...

The late-night hosts hate President Donald Trump, so the idea that they would make friendly alliances shouldn't be shocking. But as we've come to understand, in today's world anything that reflects negatively on this president becomes "news." So when Stephen Colbert at CBS called up Jimmy ...

Concerned about expansion of executive power? You'd better vote.A president who wields power like few before him has received a stunning — and disconcerting — affirmation from the U.S. Supreme Court of just how expansive his reach is, at least as regards immigration.It is a ruling that ...

Amid President Trump's war on American mainstream journalism as "fake news," an offended reader of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., shot and killed five editorial workers in its newsroom Thursday, with no indication that anything Trump had said had anything to do with the tragedy.The ...