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Home prices keep rising. One reason is that today's houses are bigger. Buyers now want more rooms, washers and dryers and air-conditioning. But even if you adjust for the improvements, houses cost more today. Why? Politicians blame big companies like Blackstone, Invitation Homes and JPMorgan because they've been buying thousands of homes.

"It's...Read more

When the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots take the field in this year's Super Bowl, there is one thing you will not see. Neither team will put a biological female on the field to play in the game.

Is this because the NFL is sexist? No.

In fact, there is no formal NFL rule that prohibits biological females from playing in the ...Read more

The leftist media cabal constantly imagine themselves as the grand embodiment of Democracy and Freedom of Speech, even as they seek to put Republicans in jail and hope to censor them out of speaking on social media. They don't live up to their First Amendment boasting.

For example, there's "CNN International" host Christiane Amanpour, whose ...Read more

LIGONIER, Pennsylvania -- All that remained of Ruthie's Diner on Jan. 21 was charred, ice-encased rubble -- the aftermath of firefighters' desperate efforts to extinguish the blaze that ultimately consumed the modest eatery, which for more than 70 years had served locals and the travelers, anglers and hunters heading east along the Lincoln ...Read more

A political prisoner who has been locked behind bars for nearly eight years, Caleb Bailey has been serving a term of 16 years and eight months. Why is he in prison? Judge for yourself.

In April 2016, Caleb and his father were elected as Trump delegates to the Republican National Committee from Maryland. Maryland is, of course, one of America's ...Read more

Thomas Jefferson doesn't have much in common with Tim Walz, but in his more radical moments, the Sage of Monticello might have appreciated the spirit of the Minnesota governor's campaign to resist federal immigration enforcement.

In 1798, Jefferson authored a first draft of the Kentucky Resolutions outlining a purported right of states to ...Read more

Vice President J.D. Vance is putting his own spin on MAGA -- Make America Grow Again.

Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance recently announced that she is pregnant. Their fourth child, a boy, is due in June. Usha isn't the only woman connected to the White House who is expecting. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, wife of Deputy ...Read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) likes to argue that the "whole point" of protesting is to make people "uncomfortable."

Debate. Dissent. Running highly misleading political ads on TV. These are all part of our great tradition of political discourse. In this as in so much else, the Democratic darling is incorrect. Taking to the streets to ...Read more

On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial case that is all but guaranteed to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The predictable controversy surrounding the litigation, which involves similar but distinct mandatory Ten Commandments display laws arising out of Texas ...Read more

The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United States must own Greenland and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it all back for the framework of a deal.

The reality is, ...Read more

The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as "CBS Newsmax," like it's lurched dramatically to the right. But if you're monitoring CBS in real life, there's plenty of evidence that "classic CBS" is still operating. In recent days, CBS has proven to be worse than ABC and NBC in its tilt...Read more

Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the international press would have no difficulty finding appalled foreign ...Read more

The walls are closing in -- on Bill Clinton.

The former president and practiced political escape artist is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress.

This time, the Democrat party, which stuck with him during his scandal-plagued 1992 campaign and during his 1998 impeachment, isn't rallying to him in unison.

The Republican-...Read more

In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout history, it has sought to silence the speech it hates and fears. But most authoritarians did not have a Constitution that was written as an intentional obstacle to them.

In Miami last week, Raquel ...Read more

The debate over children and social media is often framed as a question of parental control or technological inevitability. It should not be. At its core, this is a moral question about what kind of society we are shaping, what we choose to protect, and what we are willing to sacrifice in the name of convenience, profit and false notions of ...Read more

For some years now, conservatives who believe in free markets and limited government have been labeled RINOs -- "Republicans in name only" -- as GOP liberals or moderates have historically been known. The MAGA movement flings this term as an insult and a signal that respecting the realities of supply and demand instead of endorsing price ...Read more

Hoo, hoo, hoo, Hoosiers!

Seeing the Indiana University Hoosiers win the College Football Playoff National Championship Monday night was the culmination of a season filled with notable lessons. Here are a few from my perspective:

1. In sports -- as in many other matters -- the experts are often wrong. The same people who tried to justify the ...Read more