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This wasn’t supposed to happen. At the end of February, after the $787 billion stimulus was approved, the Obama administration predicted that unemployment would average only 8.1 percent this year. Indeed, in February the unemployment rate stood at 8.1 percent. Yet, unemployment now stands at 10.2 percent and keeps rising. …

In my most recent book, The Kind of Man Every Man Should Be: Taking a Stand for True Masculinity, I devoted an entire chapter to the issue of men behaving with dignity, especially when in front of the eyes of the nation, their family, or their children. I understand how …

Billionaire Elon Musk andOpenAI CEO Sam Altman are engaged in a raging battle over how much access the public should have to the technology behind artificial intelligence or AI. The most influential player in this space, however, is not Musk or Altman. A careful dusting for fingerprints reveals that it …

Set your clocks and start your engines. We’re counting down for a conflict in the Middle East. It’s not clear how it will start, or what will happen once it does. But it’s likely to begin in that narrow window of time between three countdown clocks sitting on Israeli Prime …

Hillary Clinton does no favors to her presidential campaign and her credibility bydeclaringthat, “I want to be the small business president — somebody who makes it easier for [small businesses] to get started, to grow… to try to optimize the opportunity side of the equation.” Neither the facts nor even …

The Senate Judiciary Committee recently held a hearing into so-called “book bans.” My message to Congress was simple: books aren’t being banned, and it’s good that they are. For years now, the left has been having a field day crying foul over parents who are concerned about what they’re finding …

Marriage in the United States is at a record low, according to a just released analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center. Compared to earlier eras, more people marry later in life, or not at all. Consequently, barely half of adults in the United States are married. The …

General Stanley McChrystal and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele have something in common. Both men took a lot of heat recently for their comments on Afghanistan. Though many seek to chastise them for their off-putting rhetoric and poor word choice they should be thanked for one thing: getting our …

With the usual Beltway fanfare, President Obama released his FY 2011 budget this morning. What does it say about where the country is going under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid leadership? What’s going to happen with taxes? Has the president learned any lessons from his party’s electoral defeats in November and January? Let’s …

In the dark of night on Sunday, May 9, 2010, vandals stole through 1.6 million acres of desert and tore down the seven-foot-tall Mojave Desert War Memorial Cross, which has stood for more than 75 years honoring our nation’s war dead. Erected by WWI veterans in 1934, the monument was …