If the United States, without blinking an eye, can squander over $3 trillion on fool’s errands in Afghanistan and Iraq, if the United States can shower billionaire Elon Musk with billions in tax subsidies, if the United States can invest tens of billions in overpaid defense contractors; if the United States can bail out super rich Silicon Valley bank depositors, then the United States can more than amply afford to pay for the urgent health care needs of rural Americans. We ar

What’s needed now is not more moral theater, but moral restraint. The true statesman knows that words can either cool or ignite the passions of the age. The responsible politician, whatever their party, should speak as if the nation’s peace depends on it because it does.

When someone can post a public assassination bounty and expect followers before federal agents, deterrence is gone.

The fundamental question ultimately becomes the following: Should we prefer that 42 million Americans require food assistance, or would we want that figure to be as close to zero as possible? To any rational individual, the latter should be the answer.

What we’re facing now is not just a budgetary challenge — it’s a moral one. A country that refuses to live within its means has lost something fundamental: its discipline, its honesty, its sense of responsibility to future generations. The national debt is not an abstract figure; it is the accumulated record of our moral failure to govern ourselves.

America must acknowledge that gambling is increasingly infiltrating all facets of life. There are so many people who will happily take your money as they promise you riches beyond belief.

So as we look at where we are, and where we could have been, the conclusion is stark but simple: leadership matters. Weakness invites danger; strength restores order. The past few years have shown us both paths. Only one leads toward renewal.

The United States, and indeed the Western world, has just shown its adversaries its exact weak spot. And who would have thought — it’s Amazon.

Baltimore is seeing the greatest decline in violent crime and homicides it has witnessed in well over 50 years.

The very people these leaders claim to champion — the poor, the working class, the vulnerable — are the ones most harmed by policies that leave them defenseless.

Government shutdowns hit everyone. That's why our elected officials must compromise, even if it may cost them politically. Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of livelihoods are at stake, and not just federal workers'. This isn't about them; it's about the people they serve.

Why? Because fear is profitable. Networks, influencers and political campaigns have discovered that outrage converts into engagement, and engagement converts into money. The algorithm rewards anger, not reason. The more you hate, the more you scroll. The more you share, the more they earn. The villains we see on our screens are not reflections of reality, but of the market.

This is not just a policing issue — it’s a governance issue. A political class eager to tout success selectively leans on crime statistics that do not represent reality. Meanwhile, communities drowning in fear feel gaslit. That disconnect breeds cynicism, disengagement and eventually rage. It is one reason why “law and order” rhetoric resonates so powerfully in American politics. People know something is wrong, even if official numbers deny it.

Some view this as political payback for Comey’s handling of Trump-related investigations. That said, there’s little doubt that his overall actions with respect to the Clinton emails and Russian collusion investigation may have benefited both Trump and Clinton with parity.

This is news. We kept it quiet for the summer. Operation Summer Heat was a 3-month surge by the FBI with our state and local partners. We started at the end of June and just wrapped up at the end of September.

Before they signaled their acceptance, Netanyahu said that if Hamas rejected the offer, then Israel would “finish the job.” Trump, for his part, stated categorically that in such an eventuality, “Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.”

President Trump proclaimed on July 23, 2019, “Then I have Article 2, where I have the right to do anything I want as president.” This Supreme Court term will test that assertion.


The truth is this: Peace will never be achieved by rewarding terrorism. Peace will never be achieved by pretending that both sides are equally at fault when one side builds schools and hospitals while the other side builds tunnels and stockpiles rockets. There is no moral equivalence whatsoever.

The truth is this: Peace will never be achieved by rewarding terrorism. Peace will never be achieved by pretending that both sides are equally at fault when one side builds schools and hospitals while the other side builds tunnels and stockpiles rockets. There is no moral equivalence whatsoever.

You also heard President Trump’s announcement yesterday about Tylenol and his cautionary message. Given your background as a former pediatric neurosurgeon, this is your field, and you probably know more about it than just about anyone on the planet. Please share with us your thoughts.