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DE RUGY: Big Beautiful Bill delivers win for HSAs

In a Congress addicted to bad ideas and bloated spending — something we saw again last week — it's rare to find a tax policy with broad, bipartisan support that also happens to be good policy. Health savings accounts are one of those rare gems. They promote individual responsibility, ...

BARONE: The gender gap grows wider and wider

The gender gap, we're informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter. That spurred political journalists to emit ...

PARKER: Give the House Freedom Caucus the credit it deserves

Hardline Republicans — specifically those members of the House Freedom Caucus — are being derided in the press, as if they've been playing some kind of a game. That is, threatening to not vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill, when, supposedly, everyone knew, in the end, they would cave and ...

ZITO: 1775 – A very good year for a little revolution

KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish and Scottish settlers. ...

GARVEY: Only suckers try to make magical childhood memories for their kids

I refuse to try to build any more precious childhood memories for my kids. I'm just giving them fuel for the therapist's office (and I'm sure they already have enough of that). The camel's back-breaking straw came the other day, when my husband and I took our kids to an open-air concert at a ...

SHAPIRO: The end of patriotism?

America has a major problem: Nearly half of Americans — 42% — don't believe in America. According to Gallup, just 58% of adults say they are either "extremely" or "somewhat" proud to be American. That number has been in steep decline for a decade: In 2004, that number was 91%, and was still ...