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On August 4 I told you about Harry Vincent — a conservative Texas Christian University student who was suspended and severely punished for posting a series of online messages that insulted the Islamic State, the Baltimore rioters and Mexicans. On August 5 the private university had a change of heart …

Editor’s note: The following column first appeared in the Washington Times. The now-consumed 2014 has been perfectly described by some commentators as the year when facts died. Politicians, mobs in the streets and their willing accomplices in the media swamped us with lies, obfuscations or riots manifest because, as author …

Can you banish the labels “date rape,” “victims” and “poor people” from your vocabulary in 2015? Labels can diminish and demean or to uplift and affirm people. 2015 will be a year of hope and dignity by redefining or banishing these toxic and harmful labels.In their place a more generous, …

Have Americans totally lost their minds when it comes to remembering history? I know I certainly remember President Ronald Reagan telling Russian President Gorbachev to “tear down that wall”. Yes. That was the Cold War. I for one have been astounded at the number of Americans who are fine with …

Last Friday in Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve ChairmanJayPowellfinally – and grudgingly – admitted what theTrumpteam has been saying all along:tariffs don’t fuel inflation. At most,tariffs create aone-time adjustment in prices, not the kind of runaway spiral that demands punishing rate hikes. And even thatone-time bump may be negligible if, as …

As Cracker Barrel’s doomed $700 million rebrand plunged into its death spiral, I decided to visit seven of the iconic stores in a part of the country where it thrives, and I can report that the natives are getting restless. I also now have a working hypothesis of why the …

Monday marksthe100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth – an occasion that brings together leadersandsupporters from acrosstheAtlantic to pay tribute to her life. We attheRonaldReaganPresidentialFoundation&Instituteare honored to participate inthecelebration, an occasion that also invites us to reflect on her legacyandconnection withRonaldReaganinthecontext of our modern era. Namely, what made her partnership with …

As someone whose life’s work is helping small businesses navigate our nation’s complex tax system, I have witnessed firsthand how the Internal Revenue Service has become an outsized force that too often targets those least equipped to fight back. While the agency has long maintained that its enforcement efforts are …

“God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here.” The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The man then sat down on an overturned milk crate, …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recentlydeclaredthat President Donald Trump’s administration is considering declaring an emergency situation forhousing.He pointedouttheweakest summer home sales in a decade, withmore than 15%of transactions falling through in July,thehighest cancellation rate since record-keeping commencedin 2017. Prices, though below pandemic levels,arestill too lofty for working- and middle-class Americans. Bessent …