You Tell Me Texas by Paul Gleiser

Unlike a prior generation of Dems, today's Democrats are fighting from the lopsidedly losing side of some very basic and straightforward issues.

Cracker Barrel just got a lesson that the Democratic Party also needs to learn.

If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had accomplished what Donald Trump just accomplished, the partisan hacks that populate the legacy media newsrooms would be in full swoon.

Elites in government, almost all Democrats, have committed outrageous acts against the American people and have done so secure in their belief that they would never be punished.

"Russiagate" isn't really about Trump. It's about the fact that with respect to deciding who should be president, a tiny cabal of political elites in very powerful positions arrogated to themselves the presumptive right and power to substitute their judgement ahead of the expressed will of the American people.

Though the American Declaration of Independence was published in 1776 and the Bastille was stormed 13 years later in 1789, on the scale of the grand sweep of history, the events are essentially concurrent. But there the similarity ends.

The "Art of the Deal" may be more than just a book title.

Cities like Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia have been under the total control of Democrats for decades.

It's easy for the chattering classes and agenda-driven politicos to say they have it figured out.

If your total news intake comes only from the rabidly ideological, fact-averse legacy media, you likely believe things that are demonstrably untrue.

These once revered organizations have devolved into predictable, boring, monolithically left-wing propaganda organs where agenda has taken the place of mission.

It looks increasingly as if the swamp has drained DOGE.

I'm off to Rome to cover, for the third time in 20 years, the ancient process of selecting a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

Our dependence on Chinese manufacturing is a latter-day Sword of Damocles of our own making.

The American economy is now yoked to a corrupt, tyrannical country that has the aim - and is gaining the means - to relegate the whole of the U.S.A. to second-class status.

Tariffs may be the only practical method for dealing with a problem that has been festering since World War II.

Stay the course Trump has mapped and one can imagine a country that regains its success ethic and its cultural health.

If you have heard any prominent Democrat publicly denounce the violence being committed upon Tesla vehicles and dealerships, please drop me a line.

America ranks fourth in the world in education spending per pupil yet ranks a dismal 31st in student achievement.

In the big picture - the picture that includes the long-term health of the republic - I'm one who looks upon the Democrats and wishes they'd get better.

I was standing on a rain-soaked St. Peter's Square on March 13, 2013, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio was introduced to the world as Pope Francis.

The waste and fraud is orders of magnitude worse than we imagined.

It's astonishing how little of what USAID does is tied to disaster relief, poverty relief or indeed anything connected to American national interest.

It is undeniable that a small group of elitists living mostly on the coasts have been very successful at advancing hard left policies that defy majority opinion.

Rather than properly leveraging their incumbency, the legacy networks have consciously substituted political activism in place of traditional journalism