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At the 100-day mark, it's an obvious fact that the border is now secure. Illegal immigration is now a trickle. The network "news" folks hate to mention it. But they are eager to cite polls that find Trump's immigration approval number is declining. Forget the successes, and drive the notion that he's losing juice in the polls.

To troll the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Losing a presidential election is bad enough. But still not understanding why you lost several months later? Well, that's even worse. You don't want to end up there.

In politics, a little introspection can go a long way. After all, if you don't know what's broken, how can you fix it? And if you can't identify mistakes, ...Read more

President Donald Trump's record as the deregulation president is nearly unparalleled. In his first 100 days in office, he has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars of potential deregulation savings in the areas of energy, education and housing.

Hooray.

But some of his new regulators in the Justice Department and at the Federal ...Read more

If you break a system, you can't be upset when fixing that system requires a solution that's outside the normal operation of the system.

Congressional Democrats continue to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to America. In March, the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador. Congressional Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van ...Read more

Dana Perino has a superpower.

It is a special gift that has nothing to do with her position as a Fox News anchor or her former role as press secretary for former President George W. Bush. Instead, it has everything to do with her ability to guide young people as they navigate the minefields of their professional and personal lives.

In short,...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In all my years of covering immigration politics, I've never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home.

If you don't, he explained, we'll find you, we'll prosecute you and...Read more

If Joe Biden effectuated his immigration policy without due process, why can't Donald Trump do the same with his?

That's the question raised by Joe Biden's effortlessly permitting millions of people to enter the country illegally and Donald Trump's having to go through extensive exertions to remove (or keep removed) one illegal immigrant, ...Read more

I have the most important question in history.

The question is ...

Why are Democrat politicians and judges so hysterical and desperate to protect illegal alien thugs, gangsters, gangbangers and terrorists?

Here's another one ...

Why do Democrat politicians and judges care more about foreign criminals who have illegally invaded our country ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Bryan Riley is not a fan of President Donald Trump's tariffs -- and that's painful for him. "I want him to succeed," Riley told me. "I work at the National Taxpayers Union."

The NTU is hardly an anti-Trump institution. But as director of NTU's Free Trade Initiative, Riley fears the Trump tariffs are "undermining his prospects ...Read more

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finds himself under fire again -- this time from political skeptics or foes across the political spectrum. But just as the case was during the recent presidential transition period, when Trump opponents resuscitated the discredited 2018 Brett Kavanaugh/Christine Blasey Ford playbook in an attempt to derail ...Read more

During oral arguments in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unintentionally made a practical and convincing case for universal school choice.

A few years back, the Montgomery County, Maryland, school board instituted an "LGBTQ-inclusive" curriculum that included storybooks for kids as young as ...Read more

President Donald Trump supporters think the President always strategizes ahead of others -- like multidimensional chess. Trump critics think the man who beat Democrats twice is too stupid to think, much less strategize. Those closest to Mr. Trump say he is doing what he does best -- going with his gut, letting others fight it out in front of ...Read more

The New York Times recently published a hissy fit about the White House allowing reporters into the Briefing Room who didn't vote for Kamala Harris. Here was the amazing protest sentence: "Longtime White House reporters say the result has been an erosion of their independence."

The presence of a reporter who didn't vote Democrat doesn't "erode"...Read more

The animating beliefs of this administration range from dangerously wrong to head-spinningly crazy. Tariffs are in the first tranche, along with the myth that NATO has been ripping off the United States for decades, that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans and that "He who saves his country commits no crime" (just to name ...Read more

Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second administration.

After the president gleefully announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, stock market prices fell sharply, and the bond market became, as Trump put it, "yippy." So after just one week, on ...Read more

The vibe around President Trump's second term has shifted, and it's all his doing.

The president entered office with a bit of a wind at his back. His polling was better than the first time around, protestors weren't in the streets, and federal investigators weren't after him. The GOP was more united than in 2016, and business leaders wanted ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The U.S. presidency is like a high-stakes poker game. And for President Donald Trump, immigration is his ace in the hole.

Even when he doesn't have the cards, or when his chip stacks are short, the public's animosity toward the foreign-born keeps him in the game.

According to a new poll by Pew Research Center, Americans have ...Read more

A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a university-like organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last year, the Academy addressed the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas on the 750th anniversary of his death.

This...Read more