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The lead Aug 21, 2026 17

America Just Experienced a Record Decrease in Violent Crime

New FBI figures show violent crime fell about 10% in 2025, the biggest yearly drop since recordkeeping began in 1936, with murder down 18% and robbery down 19%.

Timothy H. Lee

Aug 21, 2026 26

Those Who Build and the Politicians Who Take

Rep. Ro Khanna's Proposition 40 would slap California billionaires with a 5% wealth tax, leaving a founder worth $2 billion on paper facing a $100 million bill with no cash to…

Veronique de Rugy

Aug 21, 2026 10

ECHOES OF EXCEPTIONALISM: Refusing to Live by Lies

In Moscow, Russia, on August 19, 1991, history arrived on a gray morning in a steady late-summer rain in the form of a column of tanks moving through ordinary Moscow traffic.

Phill Kline

Aug 21, 2026 42

“Nixonmaxxing” – Did Trump Revive 37th President’s Legacy?

Fifty years after Watergate, Richard Nixon is surging in popularity with an unlikely audience - online Gen-Z conservatives.

W. J. Lee

Aug 20, 2026 20

Did Hakeem Jeffries Discover the Price of 'Free' Healthcare?

After cosponsoring Medicare for All every term since 2013, Jeffries now backs off a plan the CRFB says could take a 32% payroll tax or double the national debt.

Larry Elder

Aug 20, 2026 76

Vindman’s Humiliating Defeat Is Bad News for Anti-Trump “Resistance”

Vindman raised over $16 million to less than $1 million for Nixon - but it still wasn't enough. Could this be a sign that Democrat voters are moving on from their anti-Trump absolutism?

Shane Harris

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