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Accountability matters when in the public eye

For over a week, Democrats have attacked the Young Republicans for a leaked group chat that had lots of offensive comments in it. Some were very sarcastic and taken out of context to score points. Others were sincere. All were offensive. None of the Young Republicans are running for office. Most have lost their jobs. A Democratic Senate candidate in Maine has a tattoo on his chest of a Nazi SS skull and crossbones, the symbol used by the troops who initiated and carried out the Holocaust. Politico says the tattoo “appears similar to a Nazi symbol.” The Associated Press and other ...

Let’s legalize catastrophic health insurance for all

The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsize continually skyrocketing Obamacare health insurance premiums. The Wall Street Journal reports that regardless of how that fiscal tug-of- war turns out, health insurance premiums paid by Americans are expected to rise another 8% or 9% next year. One reason health care costs are rising at two to three times the cost of everything else is that the entire insurance market is dysfunctional. Most ...

Here’s how to make the Americas great again and help everyone

President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas. Will Central and South America be free and aligned with the United States — or will half the Western Hemisphere be forever plagued by cartels, communists and Chinese influence? The Cold War in Europe ended more than 30 years ago, but it never really ended in our own backyard. Cuba remains communist, and a little more than a decade after the Soviet Union collapsed, Venezuela joined the ranks of socialist dictatorships under Hugo Chavez and then Nicolas Maduro. Whenever left-wing leaders come to power in the ...

A look inside New Jersey’s wind-powered energy debacle

In one of his classic New Jersey ballads, Bruce Springsteen sings of the sun “rising over them refinery towers.” If New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had gotten his way, the Boss would need to update the lyric to rhapsodize about enormous wind turbines looming on the horizon instead. Murphy’s obsession with wind power is one of the reasons that the state’s gubernatorial race is competitive and Republican Jack Ciattrelli has a chance to upset Murphy’s potential Democratic successor Mikie Sherrill in a much-watched off-year election. Gov. Murphy brought a European-style ...

Finding ways to protect your inner peace

The first week of October was Mental Illness Awareness Week, a designation by Congress since 1990 in recognition of the ongoing work of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. To help bring more understanding of the seriousness of emotional challenges that many people face, the American Behavioral Clinics shared on their website that the number of U.S. adults suffering from “a diagnosable mental illness every year” exceeds 25% and that “45% of these diagnosable adults” could also have more than two mental health disorders. The website includes links where people can schedule ...

Mamdani thinks he has integrity: He doesn’t

Zohran Mamdani’s alleged zinger in last week’s New York mayoral debate was a claim that he had “integrity” and his chief opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did not. The people know Cuomo’s glories and missteps. But many have been TikTok-ed out of recognizing Mamdani’s two-faced candidacy displaying more calculation than conviction. Start with the New York City Police Department. In June 2020, Mamdani tweeted: “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.” He tweeted, ...