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Do you stick to principle even when it doesn't suit your interest?
A House of 435 might have been workable during the Hoover administration. It makes no sense now.
The effect has been documented ever since Congress passed the first federal minimum wage law in 1938.
Because the FAA is an arm of the government, its operations, including air traffic control, are inevitably politicized.
A camera can record a concert. Only attention can make it unforgettable.
The Human Genome Project confirmed in 2003 that the genetic makeup of all human beings is 99.9 percent identical.
For all the radical chic they inspired, and despite the swooning of countless useful idiots, Castro and Guevara were not liberators.
The end of the shoes-off rule is long overdue. But the TSA remains fixated on creating the illusion of security rather than actually providing it.
The First Amendment doesn't exist to guarantee wisdom, and liberty is not the government's to bestow or deny.
The clergy-penitent relationship is deemed so important to society that the law has traditionally shielded it from governmental intrusion.
If today's leaders continue to scorn compromise and civility, ours may be the generation that brings it crashing back to earth.
Zohran Mamdani's proposal for government-owned grocery stores is an idea with a long record of failure.
Only in Massachusetts do House and Senate leaders pat themselves on the back for deigning to allow a little basic accountability.
Pope Leo's statement reflects a peace-at-any-price mindset that appeals more to emotion than experience.
It isn't only Israel that has an overwhelming justification to act against Iran. The United States does, too.
Without sending a single platoon across the border or dispatching a single jet into enemy airspace, Ukraine struck a stunning blow deep inside Russian territory.
In a democratic society with a cherished tradition of an independent press, the very idea of government-underwritten media should be anathema.
The suffering in that photograph was real. But the myth that the image changed history is not.
American foreign policy is most truly realistic when it is rooted in the ideals that have made America such a land of hope and inspiration.
For all the turmoil DOGE has engendered since Jan. 20, it has done nothing to improve the fiscal outlook of the US government.
