RealClearInvestigations observed days of immigration court proceedings to gain insight into the current state of a system with a backlog of more than 3.6 million people, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks immigration court figures through monthly Freedom of Information Act requests.

Federal Reserve kingpin Jerome Powell is busy doing what he does best: sabotaging a prosperous economy so that President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans lose popularity. He’s also ignoring Trump, whom voters will judge for the economy’s performance and whom the Constitution says runs the executive branch of which the Fed is a part.

The battle over Medicaid reform comes when the federal debt exceeds $36 trillion, and after Moody’s downgraded the U.S. sovereign debt rating, and as interest payments to service that debt exceed federal spending on national defense.

It was God's eternal plan for you to be with Him in Heaven even before you existed. Please don't do anything bad to mess this up. I jokingly told a parishioner, "When I get to Heaven, I want a big mansion with a Pittsburgh Steelers banner hanging from the roof." He replied, "Father, that's not Heaven. That's hell."

When someone like Morning Doofus or Fake Trapper insists that 2024 Joe Biden was the sharpest Joe Biden they've ever witnessed, they know full well they are lying to their audience. Still, they are gambling that their audience (those few believers) is willfully ignorant and easily led astray all the way to the ballot box. I suspect they often laugh about the extensive gullibility of their own audience. 

Among the collection of buildings in the McNary farmyard, there was a small granary. Most old farmsteads had one of these, usually built upon stone piers so the floor was as high as a wagon bed.  

Madison understood that in the critical moment of the nascent republic, compromise was necessary to move the country forward. His example of moderation amid hostile rhetoric on both sides is a timely reminder in our present moment of division.

Curly always follows Larry's lead. She will stand right beside him as Larry and I kiss nose to nose, but if I bend over for a Curly kiss, she ducks her head and quickly backs away.

The group Citizens for Property Tax Reform is pushing a constitutional amendment to repeal the state’s property tax. Earlier this month, the Ohio Ballot Board signed off on a portion of the effort, saying that the amendment deals with a specific issue. It is still far from becoming reality. Hundreds of thousands of registered voters have to sign verified petitions to get it on the ballot and then voters have to approve it.

As night fell across California’s Southland, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell held a press conference pleading with rioters to stop the violence. The LAPD had made only 39 arrests on Saturday and Sunday but pledged to step up arrests in the hours and days ahead.

The American Left doesn’t have a messaging problem with men – it has a contempt problem. Until Democrats stop ridiculing the values, interests and instincts that define healthy masculinity, they’ll keep losing the very voters they’re now spending millions to understand.

A dozen years ago in these pages I wrote a column with the hypothetical scenario of small drones being set up near a sporting event, flown into that sporting event, and exploded. The Ukranians just did that in Russia.

This Pentecost is an invitation to renew and/or partake in a higher calling: an opportunity to shed our old selves and imbibe in this “new wine.” Will we partake?

Early last week, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that he was re-opening the investigation into the cocaine found in the White House, as well as the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the discovery of a pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we ever took the beach at all. For some of our units it was easy, but in this special sector where I am now our troops faced such odds that our getting ashore was like my whipping Joe Louis down to a pulp.