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Mediocre U.S. rankings in infant mortality and life expectancy have little to do with health-care quality.

Those who objected to the 'believe women' standard did so not because they hated women, but because they discerned its potential for abuse.

Conservative titan and longtime talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 70-years-old. The announcement of his death was made on his radio

He’s just not up to the job of being president.

The Southern Poverty Law Center may want to look a little closer to home in its quest to expose violent extremism.

The nation’s foremost culture warrior is President Donald J. Trump. He wouldn’t, at first blush, seem well suited to the part. Trump once appeared on the cover of Playboy. He has been married three times. He ran beauty pageants and was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio show. His “locker-room talk” captured on the infamous Access Hollywood tape didn’t, shall we say, demonstrate a well-honed sense of propriety. There is no way Trump could be a credible combatant in the culture war as it existed for the past 40 years. But he has reoriented the main lines of battle away from issues related to religion and sexual morality onto the grounds of populism and nationalism. Trump’s culture war is fundamentally the people versus the elite, national sovereignty versus cosmopolitanism, and patriotism versus multiculturalism. It’s the difference, in a nutshell, between fighting over gay rights or immigration, over the breakdown in marriage or Black Lives Matter. The new war is just as emotionally charged as the old one. It, too, involves fundamental questions about who we are as a people, which are always more fraught than the debate over the appropriate tax rate or whether or not we should have a defense sequester. The participants are, by and large, the same as well. The old culture war featured Middle America on one side, and coastal elites, academia, and Hollywood on the other. So does the new war. And while Trump has no interest in fighting over gay marriage or engaging in the bathroom wars, his staunch pro-life position is a notable holdover from the old war. Yet any of his detractors who is warning, out of reflex more than anything else, of an attempt to control women’s bodies or establish a theocracy is badly out of date. Donald Trump has many ambitions, but imposing his morality on anyone clearly isn’t one of them. Instead, he wants to topple a corrupt establishment that he believes has put both its selfish interests and a misbegotten, fuzzy-headed altruism above the well-being of the American people. This isn’t just a governing program, but a culture crusade that includes a significant regional and class element. It channels the concerns of the Jacksonian America that is Trump’s base and, as Walter Russell Mead writes in an essay in Foreign Affairs, “felt itself to be under siege, with its values under attack and its future under threat.” The revolt of the Jacksonians as exemplified in Trump’s presidency sets up a cultural conflict as embittered as any we’ve experienced in the post–Roe v. Wade era. “If the cosmopolitans see Jacksonians as backward and chauvinistic,” Mead writes, “Jacksonians return the favor by seeing the cosmopolitan elite as near treasonous — people who think it is morally questionable to put their own country, and its citizens, first.” His emphasis on borders, cultural coherence, law and order, and national pride will engender a particular fear and loathing. This backdrop will add intensity to almost every fight in the Trump years. Consider the president’s war with the media. Almost all Republicans have testy relationships with the press. For Trump, though, the media are something more than a collection of biased outlets; they are a particularly noxious, high-profile expression of exactly the Northeastern elite that he seeks to dethrone. On the other side of the ledger, it’s nothing new for those occupying the commanding heights of our culture to accuse Republicans of being narrow-minded and bigoted, but the level of vitriol will be elevated to meet Trump’s frontal challenge. His emphasis on borders, cultural coherence, law and order, and national pride will engender a particular fear and loathing. It is an article of faith among the cultural elite that these priorities — despite what they consider the aberration of November’s election — are the relics of a rapidly disappearing America that can’t possibly represent the country’s future. Trump and his supporters beg to differ. The culture war is dead; long live the culture war. — Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: [email protected]. © 2017 King Features Syndicate

"Call it the Walmart approach: If I needed to get 30 different items for my shopping list, I could go to 15 different stores or I could go to the one that has everything."

'One should not attack and insult those who have chosen not to wear a mask'

Andrew Cuomo may have swapped civil court orders for criminal sentences as the possible outcome of his nursing homes debacle.

Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing government software and databases.

As a pro-life student activist, I spend every day being glared at on my way to class, going through hate messages on social media, and sometimes even being physically attacked all because I’m against killing babies. Sue me for my humanity, right? Yet, despite all this, I wake up every day with a burning passion […]

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Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized after a fall at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night and is receiving treatment for a concussion.

The best the Times can do is enlist the Trump-hating children of the deceased doctor in a straining attempt to insinuate that the podiatrist committed an act of fraud in the hopes of receiving better rental treatment from Trump’s landlord father, Fred:

The Daily Beast has an appropriate name. It sometimes reads like a vicious, foam-flecked beast that needs a rabies shot. One of their latest articles was headlined "It’s Official: Laura Ingraham Wants Your Grandmother to Die. Testing and tracing are just a Democratic conspiracy. Go out. Go to bars. Spread disease. Sorry, grandma, you've had a good run".

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What would you say about a firefighter who speeds through town every day with sirens shrieking and horns blaring for cars to move over as he blows through traffic lights,

Jennifer Hawkins, 45, was taken into custody on second-degree rape and sexual battery charges on Wednesday after her alleged five-year sexual relationship with the teen came to light.

Evangelist Franklin Graham was banned from posting on Facebook for 24 hours last week, a spokesperson for the social media giant confirmed to The Charlotte Observer

Democracy dies in derpness.

Becerra lacks the experience and credibility needed to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

Satire For The Right. And The Wrong.

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed spectacularly on Friday. Then yesterday, down went Signature Bank in New York. And the big three regulators – the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC – had to work all weekend (poor things) to come up with a solution that would hopefully stop widespread bank runs leading to America's banking system collapsing like the Jenga tower in "The Big Short."