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Opinion

No one’s property is safe when governments, developers collude

Is your home your castle? Not when eminent domain law lets politicians confiscate your property if they claim it’s for “public use.” Politicians say they need the power to take property to build public projects like roads and railroad tracks. OK. Seems reasonable. But now, developers ...

Tucker Carlson versus Mark Levin on Iran

Per the U.S. State Department, in a statement issued in April 2025, “Iran remains the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world and has financed and directed numerous terrorist attacks and activities globally, through its IRGC-Qods Force and proxies such as Hizballah and Hamas.” On ...

Understand Juneteenth, then celebrate

America’s newest national holiday today also rises as America’s most misunderstood federal holiday. Part of that misunderstanding may come from its novelty to the masses. After all, Juneteenth has been recognized as one of our nation’s and our state’s official holidays for a ...

Political violence all the rage

Scene 1: There I sat in the Senate chamber, waiting for a Republican to decry the use of force against one of their own. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was knocked to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents in a conference room where Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...

Woke right is mirror image of woke left

In 2018, some activists, appalled by woke nonsense being published by academic journals, submitted nonsensical research. One paper claimed researchers “closely and respectfully examined the genitals of ... ten thousand dogs” to learn about “rape culture and queer performativity at ...

Big loser in Vietnam: freedom

NHA TRANG, Vietnam — Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left — May 28, 1970. He served at the hospital for two years where he treated wounded American ...